Army of the Dead

First up, I got my copy direct from the author's website so this will not show up as verified. That said, on with the review. I read the original version (just Edo Van Belkom) years ago, wasn't too impressed to be honest. Christopher D. Schmitz has since become the writer for DragonDice/Esfah fiction and has done a good job making the few previous books more harmonious and expanding upon the world of Esfah in a grand fashion. While the basic plot remains the same, there are a lot of details and small additions that really improved on the original. In many ways just the addition of some backstory for our chief undead antagonists improved thier characterization. Renata is still a fairly scary but ineffective leader, while Peregrine became less comical and slightly more sympathetic. The heroes of the tale are mostly unchanged and the focus remains on the Vagha (dwarves) but it did feel like there was a bit of an expansion on the Selumari (Coral Elves) as well. In addition Schmitz managed to turn this otherwise disconnected story into a bit of a prequel for villains that show up in other of his Esfah books. My only complaint is there appear to be frequent typos with words running together or being split up in wierd ways...though they may actually be printing errors. They make it feel like this may have been rushed to get it out by Halloween.