Once again I find myself unhappy with a DramaScape product. The saddest thing is that I've just finished a 5-year campaign in which the players drove everywhere in a large exporation truck, so for 5 years, I've been looking for a product just like this. I should have been delighted to finally find one, but I'm not.
My basic complaint is that, once again, we don't get any views that let us distinguish visual ambiguities. The artist might well know what these trucks look like from the front, side or back, but I sure don't. And such views would be nice not only to give help in imagining the trucks, but in settling details. For example, there is a hatch on top of the cab that leads down into it. How high is the cab? Is there a raised area above a set of back seats that someone descends down to, or not? Are there any back seats? Does the hatch just drop you on to whoever is sitting back there? My players are gonna ask ALL these questions and I wouldn't have answers.
And the platforms that go on the back. Some have ladders leading up/down to the hatch. What is the actual height difference here? We will never know.
So, these diagrams fail in exactly the case that I would want them most: as a battle map for a mad-max style conflict on a moving vehicle. They just don't tell us enough, and they could have, so easily, with the addition of a single extra page showing front, back, and sides with indications of where the platforms would sit.
So, its currently a free product, and to me, worth about that much. I simply have no use for something as incomplete as this. Had it been finished, I'd have happily ponied up $5 or $10 for it.
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