The only thing I don’t like is the sector map. The Soviet Style Propaganda posters are a nice touch, and would have looked great in colour. The interior artwork is totally reminiscent of the older modules from the 80s – with a few exceptions. The horrible typewriter font that was used in the original Space Opera supplements is gone. Production wise – the supplement is nice and crisp. But any system that lets you roll Xeno-Acceptance and planetary per capita GDP is still cool. However, rolling up a Space Opera planet was about ten times the work of making a Space Opera Character – which was about fifty times the work of making a Traveller one – you get the picture. I remember when I got the first Atlas back in the early 1980s how much I liked the information presented compared to the simplified UPP (Universal Planetary Profile) of Traveller. The format is in the traditional Space Opera style. There are forty one planets detailed in the Atlas. He had shot the Chairman, he said “No, the line was too long.
Hours later he returns and gets back in line. He storms off towards the capitalīuildings. Another joke goes like this Ī man waiting in line in New Moscow gets fed up and declares he is
That leads to long lines and lots of waiting. Goods for purchase tend to come for sale in areas in a sporadic way The command economy of the GPR results in the expected shortages and inevitable queuing. A few pages on the Red Army, Red Space Navy and of course the KGB and some details of life in the GPR for the average comrade follow. A potted history of the GPR and subsequent wars and a multitude of Five Year Plans takes up the first ten pages. Guess we call this an historical divergence. It was nice to see that the original history of the Space Opera universe (written back in the 70s) has been maintained through to this date. It details the background history to the formation of this particular state, from the events of the “Wet Firecracker War” of 2008 and the collapse of the Soviet Union (the USA and allies had invented, with some alien intervention, a nuclear damper – well it is Space Opera) through the machinations of the surviving members of the old regime and their comrades from the Peoples Republic of China and other hold-out socialist states and their decades long plan to export the revolution to someplace else where those pesky Western Alliance and later United World governments wouldn’t follow. This Atlas covers the Marxist Galactic People’s Republic and it’s home sector NCG 1039. I hope that one day I can get a hard copy to go on my bookshelf but I might have to settle for a printed and bound pdf.
EMPIRE OF THE PETAL THRONE DND 5E PDF
I had to immediately buy a pdf copy from Drivethrurpg to go alongside the other Space Opera Atlases I have. Behold Star Sector Atlas 4: The Galactic People’s Republic. Imagine my surprise when browsing Drivethrurpg and discovered that there was a new release for the venerable Space Opera role playing game. The images are double sided and come individually packaged in a small plastic bag. The minis are printed on an elasticised material with an adhesive backing. Right off the bat I have to say that I think that they have a great product. I was asked to review some paper minis from the aptly named company from Lithuania called Flat Minis. There are even fan-made freebies out there – like these ones for Tekumel: Empire of the Petal Throne RPG (these examples are single sided). Go to Drivethru-RPG and you can find dozens of down-loadable minis. In recent years flats have made a big comeback. Had a big collection – especially Judge Dredd flats – that I wish I still had but it went south many decades ago. So, as aids for combat and so forth I used to draw my own and mount them on card. One thing we used to do was make cardboard flats for gaming – in New Zealand in those days you just didn’t get metals although most people I knew had the odd figure here and there. Should have been studying but instead played D&D for three days straight sort too much role-playing. In my younger days back in the 80s we did a lot of role-playing.
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