The premise that our collective fears could manifest as physical monsters is SUCH a good hook. The creatures and their ecology are frightening. The art and the writing are effective at making your skin crawl. I can't speak to how this Data Packet's crunch plays with SLA's rules system, but the stat blocks are straightforward enough that I could easily translate these creatures to other systems.

This is an awesome supplement that you could easily cannibalize for any horror game (fantasy, modern, anything!). I highly recommend it!

While I appreciate being able to re-obtain a copy of this game for non-collector prices the level of jpg on the scans in Karma and Mort make them practically unusable. Delhyread and Contract Drectory are ok and the core book looks like the remastered one so that is excellent. Pretty dissapointing that the two original suppliments are such poor quality scans. In this day and age they should really be redone at a higher resolution with much much lower jpg compression.

"I will give you everything you want.....all you have to do is give me blind obedience!"

Mr. Slayer!

Check out my review of this awesome classic that has been reprinted!

SLA Industries: https://youtu.be/4ExwOQQjZOs

The new scan is superb. It's lovely to have this classic back in the condition it deserves. Excelent work by all involved.

My favourite datapack from Nightfall. Content is great. It can be used to challenge high levels SLOPs, or to create great atmosphere. Only annoyance where occasional misspellings. Also, The Dream contains new definition of lower downtown, which is great. New Hunter sheet Red Alert contains a great way to introduce PCs to these horrors through hunter sheet. So, I'd recommend also buying it.

It's a solid 4,5/5, and I'd like to give it a 5 star rating but there are few minor things why I drop it to 4. Content is 3-5 depending on your own taste. I personally don't like Moral Right division, so I didn't find virtual squads very usefull. But that is not big minus for product. Hunter sheets are spot on, and at least are is directly related to previous datapacks, easily giving the GM an entrance way to introduce new horrors to game. I felt that little better editing would have improved this product (this is mostly why 4, but not 5 stars), but I didn't find too much misspellings.

Generally text flows well, content is good and this product has earned its place on SLA continuum.

SLA Industries is somewhat different. It posits, in the typically dour, rain-swept and pessimistic style it has achieved, a contest between the players and the monsters – er, a series of psychopathic serial killers – which may or may not be equal or fair in nature. The conceit is that the players take the role of quasi-official operatives who may accept contracts to eliminate undesirable presences on the mean city streets, returning if successful with evidence of the kill (ears, perhaps, in the Mongolian style or some other previously agreed token).

There are twenty such ‘Hunter Sheets’ provided in this supplement, which runs to a length of 77 pages in a PDF item. As well as initial and concluding fluff – sorry, intensely-wrought and crafted flavour pieces (there is a reason why publishers are so reluctant to pay for fluff) – the twenty serial killers are presented one at a time, first with information for players and then the same for the GM. The first would be presented to the player group, depending on how much choice the GM is prepared to offer them, while the second is reserved for subsequent use. Some clues are presented for working the individual killers into play but, inevitably, too many of these in a row will make game play feel a little repetitive. Perhaps they may be reserved for occasional interludes when a campaign reaches a natural break or when an impromptu game breaks out for one reason or another.

The different prey vary in deadliness but share the atmospheric qualities that SLA players will enjoy (since they presumably do not play if they do not enjoy it) and are consistent with that atmosphere. The style of the book is also consistent with the theme and the portraits of killers are sensibly located in the players’ part of the text. The text itself is divided up into sections artfully arranged across the pages in exciting post-modern style and, for some reason which escapes me, lengthy sections are written entirely in capital letters, which can make it feel like the reader is on the receiving end of an extensive character assessment by an ex-spouse. Still, no doubt it will appeal to some people.

For would-be entrants to the SLA GM clique, this is likely to be an invaluable resource in providing means of involving the players in urgent action and preventing them from having the leisure time to write poetry, open hardware stores and raise llamas and all the other stuff that players will get up to if they are not being continuously threatened by vile and violent sociopaths. The GM is unlikely to use all of the hunter sheets, at least not all at once, but some will be very helpful in getting things going. Above all, it helps ensure the continued power and existence of the GM clique.

Honestly I'm only dropping it from 5 stars for the typical reason I'd put all SLA Products at a 4/5 and that's due to the fact they put products out without them being thoroughly edited.

The content is 5/5 but the grammatical errors and a few continuity errors kinda irk me, perhaps the problem is that I'm just looking at it too hard.

Well, where to start.

Hunter Sheets: Red Alert is billed as Truth Rating high and it is not kidding. For anyone who has an interest in the back story of SLA Industries this is a must have. It starts, innocuously enough, with some more info on the Moral Right, SLA Ops internal nemesis de jour. Inspired buy Mary Whitehouse's National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, MR are a relativly recent addition to the World of Progress. Essentially an arm of SLA's internal security aperatus they have supplanted Cloak Division and are rather more interesting as an antagonist. Here we have their latest effort to bring moral fibre to the streets of Downtown Mort, the Virtue Squads. A combination of Football Hooligans, Shin Heads, Neo-Nazis and other brutal thugs lead by the scions of the World of Progres' wealthiest and most powerful families, there is plenty of social commentary here as well as a distinctly Clockwork Orange vibe.

Following on from this are the Hunter Sheets themselves. Five distinctly different targets are presented here, all of whom will provide at least an evening's play and a decent challenge. All bar one also touch on a hidden element of the World of Progress. The detailed system info also provides plenty of material for a GM to work into his own adversaries.

Finally there is the closing story, featuring Intruder, Mr Slayer himself and one of the Huntersheet targets. It's a good read, referencing a number of old, somewhat obscure SLA short stories such as Love is a Stranger (check out the SLA forums at http://nightfall.me/index.php if you are interested) and it's the most Truth heavy section of the whole piece. While it's not the telling of the SLA backstory it does give you enough to see the shape of it and intrigue you as to what is to come.

All in all the Virtue Squads are the highlight of the piece for me. I run SLA as a very street level game and unlike SHIVERs they cannot just be pushed around or outright ignored. The other elements are things I would weave in infrequently to up the wiredness level and keep my players on edge. If you are interested in the secret world of SLA however you are likely to disagree with that assessment.

The game itself is very good with a dark subversive undertone.

But this scan of a physical book is amateurish and crude to say the least. There are scan lines, warped pages, stitching errors and other graphical anomalies. I am sorry that I purchased it. I could have made a better scan and searchable PDF myself.

I bought the bundle. Only Cannibal Sector One and Hunter Sheets 1 were worth it. All the others suffer from the same problems.

The game itself is very good with a dark subversive undertone.

But this scan of a physical book is amateurish and crude to say the least. There are scan lines, warped pages, stitching errors and other graphical anomalies. I am sorry that I purchased it. I could have made a better scan and searchable PDF myself.

I bought the bundle. Only Cannibal Sector One and Hunter Sheets 1 were worth it. All the others suffer from the same problems.

The game itself is very good with a dark subversive undertone.

But this scan of a physical book is amateurish and crude to say the least. There are scan lines, warped pages, stitching errors and other graphical anomalies. I am sorry that I purchased it. I could have made a better scan and searchable PDF myself.

I bought the bundle. Only Cannibal Sector One and Hunter Sheets 1 were worth it. All the others suffer from the same problems.

The game itself is very good with a dark subversive undertone.

But this scan of a physical book is amateurish and crude to say the least. There are scan lines, warped pages, stitching errors and other graphical anomalies. I am sorry that I purchased it. I could have made a better scan and searchable PDF myself.

I bought the bundle. Only Cannibal Sector One and Hunter Sheets 1 were worth it. All the others suffer from the same problems.

The game itself is very good with a dark subversive undertone.

But this scan of a physical book is amateurish and crude to say the least. There are scan lines, warped pages, stitching errors and other graphical anomalies. I am sorry that I purchased it. I could have made a better scan and searchable PDF myself.

I bought the bundle. Only Cannibal Sector One and Hunter Sheets 1 were worth it. All the others suffer from the same problems.

The game itself is very good with a dark subversive undertone.

But this scan of a physical book is amateurish and crude to say the least. There are scan lines, warped pages, stitching errors and other graphical anomalies. I am sorry that I purchased it. I could have made a better scan and searchable PDF myself.

I bought the bundle. Only Cannibal Sector One and Hunter Sheets 1 were worth it. All the others suffer from the same problems.