I've always loved 0 Hour products and this is no exception. Even better, this is something I've been wanting for a long time. A small ship that can work like a luxury yacht, a mobile base for a high ranking ambassador or naval officer, or any of the jobs in the description. Maybe a disguised/stolen smuggler's ship. This little ship could be so versatile to fir in any campaign. I also love how the daily activities are incorporated in these ships. How many other ships have no bathrooms or laundry facilities? Excellent places to hide smuggled goods or that bottle for the alcoholic pilot.

Like I said - I love these products but this may be my favourite.

I really like this product. Unlike other Urban Arcana, this is set as magic is released back in to the world. The premise is that scientists have dug down to the lake under Antarctica, thus breaking a magical seal and releasing the magical waters. The reason that there has been no miracles in recent times is that the deities have backed off to maintain a balance but now they can come back - slowly. Spells and such only go to level 6 as people have to relearn how to control their new abilities.

I have only skipped through the text but I like some of the new restrictions. The Forestwalker (aka druid) has abilities that fluctuate with the seasons. Healing strength is doubled in spring while their constitution bonus increases during winter. You could probably add in the Wiccan sabbats to make things even more interesting. Power comes from sacrificing plants. You want to heal a broken leg? Touch a tree and the patient and go for it. It may kill the tree if it is too young (less than 50 years) but, hey, that's what sacrifice is all about.

Some of the items are really funny. You want to summon a Toad Lord? Then pay the price - blood from a lawyer. Good luck with that!

The diagrams are black and white and have the old look of woodcuts. No modern pictures here. Unfortunately not all the monsters in the Monsterpedia are illustrated but there are enough to muddle through.

One surprise was that the character sheet is only one page. It seems to have everything but I haven't tried to use it yet.

There is a large section on settings. At first I didn't see the point of this as the time is Today but then I saw that the presence of magic was being used to convert places to portals. Got a really deep lake? Look out for monsters coming from the Water Plane. A dormant volcano? The Fire Plane is reachable. The same for ancient cities, old graveyards and libraries of old books. That pretty much destroys Rome.

The text is fully bookmarked and easy to read in one column so you don't have to scroll up and down to read a whole page.

I really like this and intend to use it in the future.

This is a little too 4E for my tastes but some of the ideas will work at 3.X. It was interesting that one of the Icons was a Druid but there were no druids in the classes (no monks either). The lack of these two classes that I prefer to play probably figured large in my disappointment and low score. The game seemed designed for participants in the conflict between the Icons or running errands for them. There was a suggestion that even if PCs were working for themselves, they were somehow under the command of an Icon. A little convoluted for me. Probably an excellent setting for those wanting themes within themes.

Art work as good as ever - just a little too cute for my tastes.

Barely an introduction to a new world/Amerind hero in a post apocalyptic world. It takes half the pages in sepia toned story. The rest introduces Darkwulf, some sort of demon warrior in a totally different setting.

This is basicly an introduction to a series with character/dossier sheets on each girl at the end.

I haven't used this yet but it appears to be fun. I would have liked a character sheet with the download and it seems to need the Savage Worlds core book but what can you expect for this price? A great extension to the original.

From the description I expected to see a replica of an actual spell book. Instead it was just a single column description for each book mentioned and a spell list. You have to have the original books for the actual spells listed. There is a total of 8 pages, including title page, license page and partial descriptions of upcoming senior spell books (that are almost complete in themselves).

This was advertised as a product for bibliophiles and this bibliophile was disappointed.

This was a lovely picture but I found it difficult to use due to lack of detail. It was more of a photo with labels than an actual map.

Some serious, some fun. I particularly liked the throwing salt in to the air method. Wouldn't work on a sticky wet bar. Or would dissolved salt still count? Decisions, decisions.

Nothing you couldn't get from a book on gems and that would have pictures. Maybe as a starting off point.

A list of specialties some of which may need an encyclopedia to figure out. Use if you want something different then have some fun making up spells.

A list of food that the poor could only dram of. Deer tongue anyone?

A list of college majors. Any one who has looked at a prospectus can probably enlarge on it.

A list of derogatory names. Either use as is or talk to an eight year old.