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[Caveat: I was sent a review copy of this PDF by the publisher.] This version of Psi-Watch, for the most part, delivers what the author claims in the introduction: the art and layout are vastly improved, minus the teal tint is some of the columns on certain tables that make them hard to read; the power armor construction system is sleeker, and the omissions and typos in the original version are cleaned up. Everything right about the first version is still here: the psionic feat system and the gritty Iron Age comic analog setting. The setting fiction and background will be familiar to anyone collecting mainstream comics circa 1992: psionics, genetic engineering, clandestine ops, alien influence and hidden agendas-- this is an early Image Comics analog, and unapologetically so, warts and all.
There are two areas where this PDF is significantly disappointing: material for running the setting and the price point. The PDF has few, if any NPC stats of any kind, and I wouldn't spend the time statting up adversaries to play this as written, regardless of how much I like the setting. $24.95 is entirely too high for this PDF; not to begrudge Chris Field, but this is the price point of PDFs featuring RPG engines currently in development from major industry players, and Otherverse can't expect to sell too many units of a game written for D20 Modern at this price in 2012.
This is a good game, and whether or not I ever run the setting, it's a good read, and elements of it will likely appear in whatever Iron Age inspired games I may run, D20 Modern / Pathfinder or not.
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