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Those boxed Lords of Creation modules, sitting on the upper shelf at the game store,had been nagging at me with their $3.99 reduced sticker for almost a year now. I'd looked at them, fingered them and even read some of their back covers. Armed with a fin, I entered the hobby store looking for a bargain. This time I cracked, having recently received massive doses of Gamma World and XXVc material, and picked up this post nuclear holocaust adventure. The box promised mutant, cyborg and android cultures. Futuristic airship merchants, giant "reclaimers", intelligent mutated animals, etc where the highlights.

At first glance inside my new purchase I was sorely disappointed. 70% of the packages weight was a pad of Lords of Creation character sheets, useless to me. After I discarded some promotional material I was left with a 30 page book, an 8 page booklet on the early history of Akron, OH and 2 (other) player aid sheets (some texts and some maps of encounter areas). I was depressed.

As I pursued the main adventure book, I found great promise. After absorbing its contents I found an adventure/sourcebook very suitable for multiple campaigns: XXVc, Gamma World, Torg, Rifts, Shadowrun, (Toon?) or any dark future/post holocaust/time travel/scifi game. The adventure's encounters are not exciting but promote role-playing and are well connected. There are puzzles to solve, confrontations to resolve and missions to complete. Within the text are general descriptions of: several mutant animal cultures, some street gangs, two high tech societies, three recovering peoples and some dangerous wild encounters. There are: mobile cities, domed cities, time agents, a supernatural phenomena, old cities, new cultures, radioactive wilderness and a Godzilla-like nasty. If any of this sounds familiar to your campaign, then this module is useful to you, but don't pay more than $4.

Style: 4 (Classy and well done)
Substance: 3 (Average)