Slipstream (Savage Worlds, S2P10008)

I swear, I know Pinnacle and Studio Two billed this is pulp/sci-fi adventure game, but all I can think of is the Flash Gordon serials, the comics and even the film. Granted, the cosmology of the game is quite unique but the number of similarities will be a nice surprise for fans of the genre. It also stages classics like Lost in Space, Buck Rodgers, and John Carter style gaming.The Savage Worlds mechanics is the spine for the work, and it holds everything in mind perfectly despite the game working around tactical combat options. But any group familiar with these rules can dive right in and explore a space opera with more races than any previous release I have seen. But the mechanics really come to shine when you sit down to create a new alien race. Granted the Deluxe rule book goes into some detail for this, but it is a bit heftier for Slipstream.If you have a hard time excepting the fact that there is no vacuum in space, that there's no need to have knowledge of 100 languages to speak to anyone who crosses their path, and even that there are no computers, sci-fi fans can get a lot of milage from Slipstream. I would even go so far as to say the game is also Kid Friendly.The game is just great Pulp fun and is easy to mold to your needs. Follow the Slipstream to the centre of the dimension; adventure awaits!

Out of all the Savage Worlds sourcebooks, this is one of my favorites. I'll recommend it right off.Black holes have sucked in many worlds and spaceships. Sometimes, Slipstream is where they go. This relatively small pocket universe is populated with perhaps a hundred worlds, and just as many different alien races. Several races are described in detail, and many more are outlined.The setting, Sci-fi Pulp with added flexibility, offers a lot of options to both the players and the gamemaster. The main plot is pretty good, but it's pretty much effortless to drop any scenario into Slipstream. Recommended.

If you're like me and always loved the 1980's Flash Gordon movie, now you can play it in Savage Worlds Slipstream! Of course the story is different but the feel is the same. The book is beautiful and the campaign should last a looooong time. Awesome!

Space pulp is a fun genre, and this high quality book is great if that is the game you are looking for.

If you are a fan of Buck and Flash then this is the book for you.

Great book, well produced.

Yes very excellent and fun to play

With a feel reminiscent of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers from the old serials, Slipstream is an awesome take on the Pulp Scifi genre. With a setting built to explain away the broken physics and impossible incongruities that will make any stickler for scientific fact beat themselves in the forehead with a brick. Dash in and save the day! Ride a plume of atomic fire into the clouds of the wave. Foil the world ending plots of the evil empress!I got this for Christmas and I have to say I'm tickled pink!