I have always loved the idea of Western based stories thanks to my father. From reading my father's collection of Louis L'amour and Zane Grey to watching the different movies with my father. So it should not come as a shock that I also held a special place in my RPG collection for various Western Themed RPGs. The Rider RPG based on the Cepheus Engine rule set being one of them.

So you can imagine I was very excited to pick up this new support product, "New Liberty". The product offers a fully fleshed out western era town with NPCs and various plot hooks and ideas. Wonderfully done with great art including key NPC portraits and factions to help give the town a fully alive feel. But in my opinion that is not the best part of this product.

They included a full history of the town from pre-establishment through the time of the SciFi era of the core Cepheus Engine products. They went on to offer some insight into how to use this product as a western town or a scifi small colony or back water world location. So whether you are playing a band of gunslingers from the 1800's or a crew of a starship in Fireflyesque style or a full on SciFi crew in their shinny spaceship just visiting a back water world, New Liberty can fit in and offer the game master a great setting with lots of creative and living NPCs.

I strongly recommend this product for those who might want to have a group of players use the town as a base or center point to a campaign. IT si well worth the cost.