Pyramid Review
NeoTerra (for EABA)
Published by BTRC
Written by Greg Porter
97-page PDF download; $8.00
NeoTerra is the latest campaign setting to come out for the EABA universal RPG system. Like all good setting books, the majority of the text is dedicated to pure background information, and can be easily transplanted to most rule systems. BTRC has free conversion rules for GURPS, d20, CORPS, Timelords, and 3G3 on its home page.
This product is only available by download only in PDF format. Each purchase includes a full color (4.5meg) and a gray scale version (3.3meg). It is available from various online shops such as rpgnow.com and hyperbooks.com for $8.
For your $8 you get 99 pages (per version) in double column format. The table of contents and index are fully hyper-linked, as are other areas throughout. There are internal illustrations by Chris Martinez mixed in the text, and the cover and the beginning of each chapter really stand out with high-quality, full-page computer generated images by Thomas Weiss and Deanne Harper.
NeoTerra is divided into eight chapters. The first chapters give the history as known by the common man and an in-depth review of life, circa 2984 CE to help GMs and players play in the world. The middle two chapters describe character types and creation, as well as describing the Archetypes. The last chapters discuss GM's eyes only material, gear, important organizations, gadgets, and such. Players of EABA will find the information on using cyber and bio gear . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: March 28, 2003
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