Provides enough information to inspire the imagination and encourages using variant and "off-type" examples. Rob also sugessts having your alien adversaries work together - as if they weren't enough of a challenge alone! The Skels on page 10 are my new favorite nighmare. They are original and terrifying - I don't want to spoil it, get your own copy and find out! Recommended.

I've been following the evolution of this setting - because you're not just getting a world book, but potentially an entire campaign setting - since it's very beginning, and am very pleased to see available as a complete book! There are two things I like best about the Zaonia world book. First, it seems like every section, even every paragraph, offers me a new adventure hook I could use in a game. While the book doesn't itemize these in a list somewhere, the story being told in the text is rich with possibilities. Second, the setting, the world, the places and animals, all have personality. This is neither a dry text full of sterile facts and stats, nor is it a novel-pretending-to-be-a-game-book that railroads a group along a narrow path. The Zaonia world book is full of interesting locations, colorful characters, and is presented in enough detail that it feels like there is an actual planet out there I could visit...just as soon as I can afford something better than Low Passage! Recommended.

If you ever wanted to play in a near-earth patch of space but were daunted by the fact that we actually know about the planets out there, then this book is for you. Stellagamma not only does the work of researching the star system in our neigborhood and presenting them in a Traveller compatible format, they have also provided expanded world creation rules and guidlines so you can create your own realistic planets. The most amazing thing is the price and the licenses. You can use this however you want in whatever product you want, and the prive is Pay what you Want.
Methane oceans. Rainstorms of molten glass. Cryo-volcanoes and Super-Earths - you can have all of these and more, with Near Space. Recommended.

Loved the Prog! It introduces new story arcs, sagas and series in a way that really grabbed my attention. The artwork was outstanding, as we've come to expect from Britain's premier comic. It makes me want to go online and get the rest of the issues to find out what happens next!