This is pretty much near-perfect for what it sets out to do - a D&D inspired hack of the ApocWorld engine. It is chock-full of examples on how to get a game going and the writing is fluid and fits the style of game. Perhaps because of what it is imitating, I found it a lot easier to digest then ApocWorld, though it is also simpler in scope and less ambitious in what it sets out to do.

The end of the book includes some very useful insight in how the various Moves were arrived at to help players customise the rules for their game world and setting.

At this price, I highly recommend anyone to pick this up if only for a read for ideas to apply to other games.

This was an interesting product, but if you are after background and ideas then it might seem a little thin compared to the D20 content. The D20 rules seem OK but I haven't played D20 too much recently. I found the way they implemented choices to customise the Dryden's abilities interesting. I would had liked a bit more info/ideas on the dragon-king setting but in a small PDF, for its price, this was a nice balance of rules and info. <br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Acceptable<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>

I got this product to have a look at how someone else had adapted Fudge for use with big mecha. To be honest, I wasn't that impressed. It's not that it's a poor product, but it's just not very useful in terms of information it supplies. But maybe it is just too dependent on HeartQuest (which I don't have). My advice is if you don't have HQ, you might want to consider carefully whether you want to buy some very average ideas of implementation. If you have HQ, then you need to consider if you need help in implementing Big Mecha genre stuff or now.

First of all, I must say I'm somewhat biased due to the fact I am a fan of Deadlands and that tends to colour my opinion a lot (such as being able to tolerate what I consider to be a clumsy rules system that is extremely munchkin-encouraging, terrible over-statting of NPCs/monsters, etc).

Lost Colony was a sourcebook rather than a stand-alone like Weird West and Hell on Earth Was. It was very similar to Quick and the Dead and Wasted West. However, it left a lot of unanswered questions in what I consider to be "basic setting info" and so I was expecting to find them in Lost Colony Companion (LCC).

Where, LCC is not a source book. It is a campaign book. If you have got the recent Great White Games (formerly PEG) campaign books for Savage Worlds (e.g. Evernight) then this is more that it is like. It does provide some insight and background but only with respect to what is involved in the Grand Campaign. It completely fails to answer what I consider to be critical info for the setting, like how many moons does Banshee actually have? (2 according to the novel Banshee Screams but 1 according to some random page in LC). Just how are the Anouks organised in their tribes? Are they like indians? Do they have live young or do they lay eggs? You know, stuff you normally get as a 5 page summary in most RPGs.

That aside, there is a lot of good stuff here. It's an interesting read in the old DL style of writing. There's a few things I don't agree with but it's a matter of style. It could use a couple of reference sheets or organisation sheets to help Marshals keep track of what's going on but it only takes about 15 minutes to make one yourself, which I have done for my current game using this product (only using EABA for rules instead).

So in essence, this is a good product but you must be aware of what you are getting. It is a Marshal's Campaign sourcebook, not a Lost Colony Companion!