Even if you don't use this spectacular Roll Table for a game, reading it alone is a pleasure. It takes you, entry by entry, into the dark, beautiful bowels of Mesoamerican Antiquity with all its grand horrors. However, the lyrical prose is never alienating of the subject matter, always playing with the tension of our distance to this different time and yet how at the core of it, it's all the same! Our fears are the same. Our hopes are the same.