The first out of three books to complete the rules and setting for "the Chronicles of Future Earth." I question the wisdom in only releasing one of three needed books, as the ‘player’s guide’ isn’t a complete RPG by itself.

The ‘players guide’ is a great and beautiful tomb of a book and it allows you to create player characters, but only provides the bare minimum for the GM to run adventures, and that extends to both setting and rules.

The section on combat and mundane skills and their use in the game provides enough detail, but there is little to nothing on protagonists or antagonists. The section on magic is surprisingly good and really elevates the fantasy part, but yet with many of its sections left barebones with references to the two other books. These issues are hopefully addressed and covered in the two next coming books, but at the time of this review the rules and setting are incomplete.

The ‘quick start’ version with the included adventure Swallower of Souls provides some remedy by including some enemy profiles and more on the setting, but provides more of a snack sized sampler, than a fix.

I cross my fingers that the next two books will be released shortly, and that they indeed will cover the holes left by the first book.

Although, regrettably, incomplete at the moment this title has the potential to be one of the most interesting RPG titles in some time.