Review #2: Superdillin’s Neverland: The Impossible Island
Ok, first, I just want to say: Wow. A labor of love, true to the heartrending core of the J.M. Barrie book while updating the content in modern and inclusive ways. I will strive to avoid spoilers. I will also note I have no connection to the author, and purchased the book for its current price.
As with my last review, I will rate the book on 4 axes: Utility, quality, presentation, and price.
Utility: This supplement really does provide all the supplementary material and rules needed to run a game in this setting, and it does so within a mere 30 pages. Anyone with a love of Barrie’s work should purchase this product for use in their favored system, for while the system rules used are 5e DnD, it is easily adaptable. As a minor quibble, there are no CR’s in the statblocks…but that could be construed as good or bad, given how far off CR usually is.
5/5
Quality: The writing is exquisite, clear, readable, evocative. The characters are portrayed faithfully, neither disneyfied nor needlessly changed. All changes are for good reasons surrounding inclusiveness and faithful portrayal of marginalized people. The bad are bad, the good are good…and Pan is Pan. Bravo. The tiniest of tics is taken off for a few minor grammatical errors that did not significantly detract from the quality of the whole. I ight want more figments, but that’s me being greedy. 5/5
Presentation: Marvelous. Simply marvelous. Internal and external art is good, layout is good. I have nothing I can complain about, and I wanted to, because I’m going to get a bad reputation as a critic if all my reviews are glowing. But, truth first: This is a beautiful product.
5/5
Price: I’m going to need folks to start charging more for your work, you’re making me look bad. The standard listed price is $5.00 and it’s on sale for $3.50, for 30 pages of grade A work. That is a steal of a deal, and I recommend heading straight to Drive Thru RPG to pick it up now, before Superdillin comes to their senses and raises the price to $10 dollars or more.
5/5
Aggregate Score: 5/5. This is a very fine product. Buy it. Now.
