Pyramid Review
At Your Service (for Over the Edge)
Published by Atlas Games
Written by Keith Baker, Robert "Doc" Cross, Brian Joughin, Neil Laughlin, Lee Moyer, John Nephew, Michelle A. Nephew Brown & John Spey
Illustrated by Lee Moyer & C. Brent Ferguson
112 pages; $19.95
It has been a while since the last release for Over The Edge, Atlas Games' modern day RPG of secrets and conspiracies, magic and science fiction, all blended into a surreal whole. So the publication of At Your Service, a new supplement describing some three-dozen businesses and locations across the tiny Mediterranean island state of Al-Amarja -- the setting for Over The Edge -- should be a welcome sight for fans of the game.
There are exactly thirty-six entries in At Your Service, some no more than a page long, others as long as ten or even eighteen pages, with most running to two or three pages in length. The book is light on art, but what there is -- all by Lee Moyer and C. Brent Ferguson -- is both good and captures the feel of the location or person each illustrates. Lee Moyer, in addition to the cover, also provides a logo or business card for each of the entries, and while many lose a little in resolution, it would be nice if Atlas Games were to make them all available as a download from their website. One final complaint is the fragility of the cover -- after only a few days use, the laminate giving the book's cover its glossy finish is beginning to peel. (Unfortunately, my copy of At Your Service is not my . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: January 4, 2002
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