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Dream Pod 9 is well known for producing exquisitely designed products, that also happen to be extraordinarily expensive. This set of blueprints reverses their normal tendencies in that it is a reasonably priced set of some distinctly average blueprints. Basically what you have here are some enlargements of ships that are found in the various Jovian Chronicles books. If you've ever looked at the books and said to yourself, "I'd like to have this as a picture to hang on my wall." Well, you're partially in luck…these blueprints will hang on your wall, but they are nowhere near as beautiful as some of their more "action" oriented pictures in their books.

You know, when I think of blueprints, I guess I'm really thinking of deck plans. I'm thinking that if I spend $9.95 I'll get some cool deckplans and cutaways of these ships from the Jovian Chronicles universe. What I received were 5 sheets with top, side, and front views of various ships. 1 sheet with a ship's bridge, another with a cutaway of an exo-armor, and a final sheet that had a cutaway of a ship's interior…but this ship was in the main rule book, in color, and the diagram in the book was more informative.

If you want something to hang on your wall, this might be nice. If you want something inexpensive from DP9, this would fit the bill. If you want something that will give you more insight into the ships, and really cool blueprints of a ship…buy some old Traveller books. These "blueprints" are a major disappointment. They get a "D," and the tragic part about this is that I believe the people at DP9 could have produced something worthy of an "A" very easily, but they didn't. Its their loss, and it doesn't have to be yours.

Style: 2 (Needs Work)
Substance: 2 (Sparse)

Jovian Fleet Blueprint File for Jovian Chronicles
Author: Dream Pod 9 Category: game Company/Publisher: Dream Pod 9 Cost: 9.95 Page count: 8 19"x15" blueprints ISBN: DP9-312 Capsule Review by Scott Shafer on 02/23/99. Genre tags: Science_fiction Far_Future Space Anime	Dream Pod 9 is well known for producing exquisitely designed products, that also happen to be extraordinarily expensive. This set of blueprints reverses their normal tendencies in that it is a reasonably priced set of some distinctly average blueprints. Basically what you have here are some enlargements of ships that are found in the various Jovian Chronicles books. If you've ever looked at the books and said to yourself, "I'd like to have this as a picture to hang on my wall." Well, you're partially in luck…these blueprints will hang on your wall, but they are nowhere near as beautiful as some of their more "action" oriented pictures in their books. You know, when I think of blueprints, I guess I'm really thinking of deck plans. I'm thinking that if I spend $9.95 I'll get some cool deckplans and cutaways of these ships from the Jovian Chronicles universe. What I received were 5 sheets with top, side, and front views of various ships. 1 sheet with a ship's bridge, another with a cutaway of an exo-armor, and a final sheet that had a cutaway of a ship's interior…but this ship was in the main rule book, in color, and the diagram in the book was more informative. If you want something to hang on your wall, this might be nice. If you want something inexpensive from DP9, this would fit the bill. If you want something that will give you more insight into the ships, and really cool blueprints of a ship…buy some old Traveller books. These "blueprints" are a major disappointment. They get a "D," and the tragic part about this is that I believe the people at DP9 could have produced something worthy of an "A" very easily, but they didn't. Its their loss, and it doesn't have to be yours. Style: 2 (Needs Work) Substance: 2 (Sparse)

Jovian Fleet Blueprint File for Jovian Chronicles