Mostly a clean copy. Unfortunately pages 38 and 39 are missing, cutting off the start of a 2300AD article.

Meaningful bookmarks might be a pleasant addition.

The heroes have to buy a widget to fix the ship from a world of odd-looking aliens in the close equivalent of Earth's 1930s or '40s, powered by ghost rock. Mostly curiosity value, I'd suggest, with some mildly amusing line art.

This is a great idea and it's remarkable to me that there have been so few suggestions for the game along these lines - which is probably why I feel such an urge to tinker with it. Though short, the coverage of devices seems reliable.

Although the Blue Tower does present some creatures to fight and treasure to grab, its heart is in the progression of brand-new adventurers through a lovingly detailed confined location with a remarkable sense of solidity. The Witching Hours has a slightly more active plot, inquiring into the depopulation of a village by wicked deeds.

Some credit is due this publisher that their production values, while still rough, show improvement. The Saure' (their punctuation, when they bother) and Hunters are pretty much exactly what you might think they are. Although advertised for the Traveller SRD, the painfully long Ranger section and the Robot Nexus contain no recognisable Traveller rules. The other creatures each rate part of a line for stats. It's all a bit of an insult.

An exceedingly nice-looking preview and thought-provoking development of the consequences of technological collapse. I suspect some of the rules might prove a little rubbery in play for my over-literal style.

Judges Guild have created a really nice, immersive description of a small off-world settlement with interesting human and nonhuman characters with their local intrigues that might draw in a stranger in town. QLI's work in transcription has left a few typos in the introductory pages.

I can forgive a lot for the imagination that goes into the gruesome denouement of this tale. I personally don't much like the particular technology that underpins the story and seems to justify any sort of magical occurrence in recent SF. Its background seems a little too contrived. But if the players will never know about it and the GM can justify it as a necessary leap of logic to make the science-horror work, maybe it's nothing to worry about.

So it's free and it's seasonal. It offers some reasonably forgettable business leading up to (on the last page) the suggestion to buy Savage Worlds Horror Companion to get the stats for the final encounter. If you have that work, you may find this a useful adjunct.

Intriguing comparisons of visual theme and composition may be the most compelling reason to spend time with this project. Verbally, the author may have tried to address too broad a field, as he struggles at the same time either to treat each source with the depth it deserves or to cover all of the literature I might have expected to see. I wonder if he would have done better to choose a single interesting theoretical approach to 'nostalgia' and apply it with rigour.

With a subtle hand (as any adaptation of Chambers' work would require) and as much gore as the GM finds appropriate, it should play out well as a strangely mannered experience of half-understood menace.

This is a pretty useful-looking description of a pirate home base, covering everything from the sector politics that allows them to operate, the raider herself, support vessels, crews, opponents on the side of law, to a number of brief scenarios that pit players against the corsairs.

A logical and pressing economic-political background drives two brief, but compelling sequences, influenced particularly by quirks of the characters' personalities.

I have received a copy of this product as a free download and reviewed it at the publisher's suggestion.

I'd like to see a hoplite class done well, as I've mentioned in regard to another attempt. I'm curious how class features for the barbarian, cavalier, monk, rogue and sorcerer fit into the subject of the work. I won't comment on everything, but just pick up a few points.

The introduction seems a little overstated. The Spartans didn't fight for nor favour democracy, as they were a monarchy supported by an unfree majority (as the section immediately afterwards describes). The classical world raised many famous warriors, not least the Immortals on the opposing side at Thermopylae.

The Hoplite: It might seem appropriate to make this an alternate class to the fighter. Generally, I can see players of other classes being tempted to dip into this for a couple of levels to pick up some of the abilities that perhaps break a few too many assumptions of the game and could have been more limited or deferred to higher levels. I do think it's an advance on Blackdirge's already interesting treatment, earlier mentioned.

Traits: These will need a little work to fit into the Pathfinder framework, which (without presupposing a solution) the author could potentially have covered in only a sentence or two. A lot of them are interesting, though.

This brings together a lot of good information for the gamer who's not an expert in the field (in a similar sense to the various reprints of public-domain works on this site, perhaps) and I certainly wouldn't describe its game content as unplayable, with a little judgement.

What seems at first another random tropical island with some pirate-y legends and funny-looking lizardfolk hides much, much more. It wasn't what I was expecting, but if a DM can find a place for it in a campaign, it should be a memorable short story arc.