This is a visually stunning publication, and functionally useful location. The art and writing are evocative, surprising, and the location can be dropped into an existing campaign, or used for a standalone adventure. The description and details are well-wrought without being specific to any system. A half dozen adventure hooks are supplied to provide a range of reasons for PCs to visit, all of which imply a range of potential approaches and jumping-off points. This bodes very well for future releases that should build into an entire campaign. Designed to be system-agnostic, the only drawback might be the conversion of the NPC statblocks to your system-of-choice. This should be straightforward for experienced GM's, but might present a minor speed bump to those more familiar with system-specific plug-and-play material.

I already own 2 paper copies of this book, but wanted to add a digital version. This is a great system and book, but this is a poor scan. This pdf is human-readable but throughout there are whole chunks of text that have not been OCR'd correctly. This makes it useless for a screen reader or other accessibility tools. The issue is the background image on the gutter side column of the page. There is not sufficient contrast in the scan for the optical character recognition software to distinguish the text from the background image, so 2-5 words are missing from each sentence throughout several paragraphs on almost every page. I have paper copies of all the other d20 Modern, Future, Apocalypse, Dark Matter and Call of Cthulhu books and I am buying the OEFs as they become available. In comparison the scanned d20 Modern Core Rulebook is sub-optimal. It is not even on par with other scanned and OCR'd books I have bought from the DND Classics line. Hopefully, WOTC will do the right thing and re-scan with better settings.

Update: WOTC re-scanned and updated the file on 2021-07-28. Note, this is a scanned copy that has been OCR'd. The filesize on the new version is about double the size (122MB) of the previous version. This has resolved the missing text. It took a while, but it has been fixed.

First, the content of these books is beyond question. I wanted to indicate I am very happy with the P.O.D. physical copies of these books. If anyone is concerned about differences between regular print run Eclipse Phase books, here is what to expect. The end papers (leaves of paper fixed to the inside of the cover) in these books are plain white. Not as pretty as the regular print versions, but by no means a deal-breaker. The Premium Heavyweight paper used in these books is as heavy as the regular print books, but has a more matte finish. This means the colors are slightly subdued compared to the regular print runs (mostly visible in images with a lot of black). This also means the pages are completely flat - my regular print books all have a very subtle rippling of the pages (likely because of changes in heat and humidity during printing). There is absolutely no indication of any print artifacts whatsoever, and the quality is very high (I actually prefer the look and feel of the less-shiny, P.O.D. pages). Panopticon does not have a bookmark ribbon (whether you will miss that is largely subjective, I don't). My copy of Panopticon is slightly (about 4mm) taller than my other EP books. The Panopticon book boards and spine are not as thick as the regular print books, but not so that regular human beings would notice. The folding of the cover over the book boards in the copy of Panopticon I received, is a bit misaligned along the top edge. This means it sticks up a bit from under the endpapers. Again, no-one but book-nerds would ever notice (if you are buying dead-tree copies, these things are probably important to you). The softcover books are as high quality as the hardcover, and are firmly stapled through the 'spine' created by folding the Premium Heavyweight paper. All these books are up to the very high standard I expect from Posthuman Studios - if you like your information embedded in tangible objects, you need not be concerned about P.O.D. quality.