Publisher: Black Campbell Entertainment
Author: Scott Rhymer
Language: English
Date of release: July 2018
Volume: 54 pages
Price: 9,99$
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What is it about?
Airships of the Pulp Era is like the
name of the books subtle hints about the Airships in this years
between the big World Wars, as it seems possible that them would be
the future of airtravel.
What's inside:
At the beginning we have a extensive
Introduction in the subject of the book. An overview at the history
leads gentle deeper into the subject to finally get to the important
questions. How did an airship work? What kind of Ships are there? How
do you travel with them? What kind of people work there?
In the next chapter Scott Rhymer shares
some ideas and suggestions to change the history of Airships on some
points, to make them this widely used Behemoths of the Sky that we
would have liked them to be.
After this subject is cleared we going
on with the different kinds of Airships that where out there and the
(almost ever tragic) tale of there service. Almost 30 of the 54 pages
are about this ships. From the balloon-like observer ships at the
beginning of WW1 to the most famous airships the disastrous
Hindenburg and Graf Zeppelin, obsolete through the constantly improved aircraft's of WW2. Although this is not really the end of Airships
(yet), the book will show you.
The author hints, alongside the
description of the different Airships and there history, again and
again points where to subtle change the events of time to let this
airship or it model series stay a little longer on the stage of
history.
Almost it seems to be to much of a
get-together of bad luck, wrong decissions and political games. Maybe
some obscure scheme of some Time Travellers to prevent the Era that
never was?!
Maybe...
The text is mixed with numerous
pictures of Airships, there Crews and there Interiors. Even a plan
of a Zeppelin made it in the final book.
About the Rules-Section it is really
sparse. One table for the stats of the different ships makes the page
49., which is nearly the end of the book.
Conclusion:
For starters, like lots of people who
reading this, I'm fascinated by Airships since my childhood and
anything about them. They get me to Pulp and Steampunk, which should
show you that I am not really objective on the subject, even if I
try.
This out of the way, I like this book.
It is a well written, well researched book. In my opinion you feel
that the author is an historian. I would say it is more of a
non-fiction book than a role-play book. At this it does a much
better job. It is informative and entertaining. For the perfect role-play book I would wish for some more juicy stuff inside. New
talents, new skills, maybe some pulp style gadgets. Some of this will
surely come in the „Skypirates of the Mediterrenan“ announced for
August/September...
Buy this book if you like Airships and
want to know more about them!
Sincerely,
Jonathan
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