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Another great adventure for Rocket Age! I wish there were more Rocket Age adventures in this format.
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If you enjoy Rocket Age, this book is a no brainer. Fantastic stuff! All the pulpy rocket punk goodness you expect. Heres hoping for more supplements :D
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I have to say, I am in love with Rocket Age. It plays to all my Retro Sci-fi memories! Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon meets Indiana Jones! RAY Guns zapping, Alien flying saucers with mysterious motives! Push your Rocket to the envelope and survive a chase with pirates in the asteroid belt only to find a nazi agent on your crew who sabotages your engines...
Endless Action, Punk, Noir and of course Retro Sci-fi!!
Perfect! I highly reccomend it for all RetroSci-fi fans.
P.s. Aside from a couple of typos and an incorrect table which is easily reinterpreted the production quality on the 5e core book is fantastic.
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Another fantastic adventure! Really hoping to see more of these short adventures.
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FINALLY! In my 20 odd years of gaming, i have been on the lookout for the perfect pulp sci-fi rpg. A few have come close but never quite hit the mark. Then I discover this gem! It works on every level. The layout is great, its well written, the art is fantastic and the setting feels huge in scope without leaving one feel overwhelmed. This is the D&D of the pulp sci-fi genre. If you love pulp sci-fi and rpg's..this game needs to be in your colllection.
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The four stories in this book are all quite different, yet they are all based in the same fictional universe - one where Einstein, Tesla, and Goddard invented an interplanetary rocket in 1931, and humans have expanded to the planets and moons around them. Of course, being in the pulp planetary romance genre, the Solar System is teeming with intelligent life. And, being set in 1938, there are Nazis to use as the villains (as well as non-humans on occasion).
None of the four short stories was terrible, but only one really grabbed me - Emancipation Knights by Ken Spencer, which is a strong homage to The Maltese Falcon - the rest were good, but not exceptional. And I think perhaps Nazis were overused as villains - in the setting they have created, there are plenty of areas for conflict without having to have Nazis involved in all the skulduggery.
If you're a fan of the role-playing game that it's based on, this is worth a read, and it's not going to damage your hip pocket nerve either.
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GREAT CORE BOOK. Awesome material and well written cant wait to play!!!
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Rocket Age smashes triumphantly off of the gaming table and onto the page. The team provide a well currated little collection of stories that perfectly capture the fun and over the top nature of the setting. Ken Spencer's Emancipation Knights was a particular stand-out, providing adventure and laughs in equal measure.
For those worried about format, I found that the pdf was quite readable on my ereader, so I wouldn't worry too much about that, the content of the book far outshines any formating issues.
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Reviewing it as a work of fiction, not on the basis of its format, this is a great book, providing exactly what I was looking for: inspiration, world building and some fun stories to kill some time.
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No epub, no mobi, no printing, wasted purchase :(
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Excellent beginning adventure, with all the "pulp" features you could want; lots of potential complications, a race for the maguffin, competing factions, aliens, Nazis...what else could you ask for? The adventure includes all the information you need to play, including details on the key NPCs and adventure spots, and it flows well while giving the players lots of choices to make along the way. Heck if you re-skinned it and set it in Africa or Central America in the 1930's you'd have a plot for the next Indiana Jones movie. Cubicle 7 has done it again! Plus, it's free.
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Alright, gonna say right now this is a great supplement. The new and varied Venusian cultures are all believable and compelling, the new creatures are fascinating and the earthling's interactions with the locals are excellent.
Just one thing, I've never really mentioned before, but has come up in the Mars book and Trail of the Scorpion campaign. They need more editing. They've left a couple of minor errors in, nothing major but rather annoying.
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This campaign book is excellent, incredibly meaty and just plain fun. The overarching threat of the Red Scorpion feels incredible and really unites all the very different missions.
It also acts as a tour of the Solar System, taking you to some very exotic locales and introducing a huge variety of new creatures, people and technology. The ever-present story hooks are as interesting as ever of course and even include the possibility of exploring the truth behind CS Lewis' greatest work.
I really recommend this book even to those who aren't a fan of pre-made campaigns. Even if you only took parts from various adventures I think your money would be well spent.
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Very good starter adventure, lots of options, plenty of play options.
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An excellent quick introduction to a region of space so far unexplored in Rocket Age. Like most Rocket Age supplements the emphasis is on story telling and adventure hooks. It also provides a number of new careers and factions to work for and against. You want to be an independent miner trying to eke out a living? A pirate? A corporate enforcer? Done.
The options are all there. For the price, there's no reason not to buy it.
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