A Review of the Role Playing Game Supplement Alien Terrain: Icorja Marshlands

Alien Terrain: Icorja Marshlands by Dave Woodrum is a generic supplement published by Fishwife Games for use with science fiction settings.

The supplement is available as a 6-page PDF from DriveThruRPG for $1.50 but was purchased at a reduced price during a sale. One page is the front cover.

The first page of content starts with a paragraph of prose before explaining the aim of the supplement. It has an overland hex map of a marshy coastal region suitable for science fiction settings. Each hex is 10km across and there are 17 numbered locations. It further explains what additional material there is in the supplement.

The meat of the supplement takes up one page. This has the hex map of the area with the terrain and locations marked on it. Seventeen locations are then briefly described on the rest of the page, ranging from settlements to crashed ships to points of interest. Each has a few sentences giving a brief overview of the location.

Unlike the first entry in the series, this then has another page with two d12 encounter charts, one for land, one for water. No stats are given for the encounters, as this is a generic supplement.

Following this is an unlabelled full-page version of the hex map suitable for players.

Another new addition is a full-page labelled GM’s map, with blank locations added for the GM to expand on.

Alien Terrain: Icorja Marshlands in Review

The PDF lacks bookmarks and at this length doesn’t need them. The text maintains a single column format and appeared to be free of errors. There are no illustrations bar the cover and maps. Presentation is okay.

This supplement takes things a little further than the first, with the addition of the encounter charts, but there’s still a definite feeling that these could be expanded into more. Of course, a GM can do that expansion themselves, but a longer version, expansions for existing hex maps or, perhaps, having them fit together to make an entire setting, would be nice. Alien Terrain: Icorja Marshlands is a decent and inexpensive little supplement suitable for futuristic campaigns, spacefaring or not, and it can be found by clicking here.