The Morrowind Prophecies: Game of the Year Edition Official Strategy Guide

As most gamers know, most stategy guides that are printed in paperback form are a mixed blessing. While the benefit of having a solid physical book to use when playing is a tangible boon, the content contained in them has typically been of poor quality. Oftentimes, content is missiQng (at best) or incorrect (at worst). Most serious gamers tend to instead look at online gaming guides, designed by and for other gamers. While far more in-depth, the drawback of having to print out 100+ pages is daunting.

Peter Olafson's Morrowind Prophecies is the type of game guide that gamers, both serious and casual, are looking for when they purchase a game guide. Given the complexity and detail of the game - ignoring the expansions - it would be understood if some content was missing.

I'm very happy to say this is not the case. This guide not only covers the primary quests and missions for both the Main Game and the Expansions, but explores even the most obscure and small facts and situations...Read more

This guide is immense. However, immenseness is neccesary for an equally immense game like Morrowind.
The guide to the the original Morrowind game is set up like this: First there's information about weapons, enemies, classes, races, and birthsigns. Then there's maps, a guide to the main quest, guides to the faction quests, (Which are further subdidvided by faction, area, and quest assigner) and finally miscellaneous quests. The two expansions, Bloodmoon and Tribunal, are set up the same way.

The guide does not have a complete walkthrough for the game (meaning it doesn't tell you exactly what to do step-by-step from the time you boot it up), simply because Morrowind is a game that relies very heavily on exploration. Also, Olafson writes very tongue-in-cheek. In an early Mages' Guild quest, you have to go pick some mushrooms. He says, "What is this, my daughter's science project?" Like that. One minor quip: A guide to where to find spells would have been very...Read more

As most gamers know, most strategy guides that are printed in paperback form are a mixed blessing. While the benefit of having a solid physical book to use when playing is a tangible boon, the content contained in them has typically been of poor quality. Oftentimes, content is missing (at best) or incorrect (at worst). Most serious gamers tend to instead look at online gaming guides, designed by and for other gamers. While far more in-depth, the drawback of having to print out 100+ pages is daunting.

Peter Olafson's Morrowind Prophecies is the type of game guide that gamers, both serious and casual, are looking for when they purchase a game guide. Given the complexity and detail of the game - ignoring the expansions - it would be understood if some content was missing.

I'm very happy to say this is not the case. This guide not only covers the primary quests and missions for both the Main Game and the Expansions, but explores even the most obscure and small...Read more