Ex-RPGNet Review: Heavy Gear – Blueprint File

Dream Pod 9 has established a reputation of visual excellence, and delivers it strongly with their line of poster-size blueprint files. Review Originally Published February 5th, 2002 Dream Pod 9 has earned a reputation of high excellence across its three lines of games (Heavy Gear, Jovian Chronicles, and Tribe 8 — and if you didn’t already know that, shame on you). One of the more innovative forms of supplementary product they’ve tapped in these product lines are the “blueprint files”. Each of these files – including the Heavy Gear Blueprint File which is being reviewed here – comes packaged in an 8.5” x 11” white envelope. On the front of the envelope is the title and a sort of “table of contents” – which tells you that there are eight 19” x 15” (poster size) blueprints folded inside the envelope, and that these blueprints are of: A Hunter gear; a Jager gear; a Mammoth strider; a Vortex landship; a Khan landship; a CEF hovertank; and a Fury-class assault shuttle. In addition, each of…