Legacy: Wasteland Almanac by Chris Farnell is a role playing game supplement published by UFO Press for use with Legacy: Life Among the Ruins Second Edition.
The supplement is available as a 33-page PDF from DriveThruRPG for $4.99 but was purchased at a reduced price during a sale. Two pages are the front and rear covers and one the front matter.
Welcome to the Wasteland! explains that this supplement intends to help fill the world of Legacy away from the safety of the families’ and characters’ homeland. A sidebar explains how to use each of the three categories of thing included, with references to the relevant parts of the core book.
There are three different categories, each of which has 20 results in it. Settlements are settlements of different sizes, Devices are strange technological items and Threats are the dangers of the wasteland. Each entry is named, given a brief description and some in-game questions and/or prompts about it, which can also be used to extrapolate how the entry might change as the ages turn.
Legacy: Wasteland Almanac in Review
The PDF is well bookmarked with all the sections and every single entry linked. Navigation is good. The text maintains a single column format and appeared to be free of errors. There are various colour illustrations, up to full page in size. Presentation is good.
Given the nature of Legacy: Life Among the Ruins Second Edition, there are no stats for any of the entries; they just have prompts and questions that, combined with the description, could be used to weave them into the story. This also has the secondary effect of making this supplement generically useful for many post-apocalyptic games; many of the results can be used as the basis for creating encounters in other games, making the supplement much more useful than it might seem. Legacy: Wasteland Almanac is a useful little supplement, not only for Legacy but for other systems too, and it can be found by clicking here.
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