This decent science-fiction adventure for the Basic Roleplaying system is hurt by netbook-quality production values, and the fact that the adventure is of very little use beyond the confines of its own plot.

Neither of these conditions are deal-breakers, as such, but they make it very difficult to justify the asking price of this product.

Much of what's here is text -- a lot of it macro-level detail about the fictional universe which surrounds the Outpost 19 adventure site.

If you're a BRP gamemaster hoping to scavenge useful elements from this adventure, there's not all that much to take away -- unless you're interested in making the Outpost 19 campaign setting your own.

The creators obviously put thought and effort into their creation; the fault is not theirs. The question remains, however: does this product justify its cost?

For myself, the answer would have to be no.

Outpost 19 is an updating of the original Worlds of Wonder setting "Future World" (which can be found here http://basicrps.narod.ru/index-wow.html). At the time it was called "a poor-man's Traveller" by review Rick Swan in his "The Complete Guide to Role-Playing Games", but many people saw the incredible similarities to the Stargate film and television series (you travel world to world through gates as starship travel takes many years). In the update, despite the protections taken in the original setting where no gate would ever link to the core worlds, somehow one did and unleased a nanotechnological plague. Mankind has abandoned the core worlds and living in a ring of worlds now cut off from old earth. The gate workers became wardens and clamped down on technology, explorating and discover has come to a near-stop. On Outpost 19, some of that nano-plague exists, and you have to stop it. An interesting update and a difficult adventure with the promise of more in the fracture rim of humanity.