I had run this one for a three players' group in one eight hour session, but my advice is to plan this as a two session game. A short review would be: it's a good scenario, I highly recommend it.

The (a bit) longer version: the scenario itself is very straightforward space opera, the book is pretty open about where it gets the inspiration (Star Wars and Guardians of the Galaxy), there's nothing to blow your mind with originality, and the adventure is very linear, literally discouraging the players from taking any detours off the set course of the events.

That said, every Savage Worlds GM should runt this at least once. Why? Because the way the adventure is presented and tied with the SW rules is one of the best examples of module writing. You will have an opportunity to experience dramatic almost all the subsystems and mechanics of SW: dramatic tasks, social conflict, chase, space combat. After playing this my players were really impressed by how flexible and adaptable Savage Worlds system is, even though two of them already had some experience with the system. One should basically go from dor to dor holding this book and telling: Do you have time to talk about our Lord and Saviour of the RPG: Savage Worlds?

There's also a fantastic layout of the book. It's easy to find anything you need and usually everything you need for a scene is on one page, which greatly helps when you want to keep the frantic tempo of the adventure. The only other so well written book I know is Mothership, and I believe that the creators of Guardians of Sol-Tau took some inspiration from there or some other modern OSRs.

So why four stars not five? Because I feel that for the price the book could include a few extra pages with location maps and a bit more background for the setting. You can run it as it is but then you will inevitably need to improvise or to spend some time preparing, which is fine but it makes me think that the book should be 1-2 USD cheaper.

In any case have you noticed the big number 1 on the cover of the book? I hope I will see at numbers 2 and 3 (at least) someday!

Seems to be a great intro to savage worlds and the SWADE subsystems.

You can perform a few combats, a chase, dogfight, social encounter, dangerous quick ecnounter, dramatic task, and more within 1-3 sessions.

Comes with 6 pregens, so you can hop right in after picking some characters.

The art is solid and there is enough lore here to get the short adventure done, with some neat modifications to some of the standard SWADE systems. e.g. adventure specific chase complications.

Overall, my players-all new to savage worlds-have loved their time so far and we are eager to see how their story concludes. I'm left wanting to know more about the rest of Sol-Tau, for sure.

I printed the printer friendly version (tip: set two pages per sheet in print options) and read it while commuting. This is a BRILLIANT scenario: the type of never-ending action I expect from a Savage Worlds adventure, with over the top situations and a glorious finale (if everything goes well!). The art and layout are fresh, and really help set the tone, which clearly is inspired to Guardians of the Galaxy, but maybe also Saturday morning cartoons, imho. This might become my go to adventure for introducing Savage Worlds to new or younger players, too!

Andrea Mollica and Giuseppe Rotondo have done a great job, AS USUAL. This is the perfect scenario to showcase all the special subsystems available for Savage worlds GMs, and it's an awesome story in its own right! Can't wait to run it with my group AND my kids!

I also suggest to use this scenario together with the Aces High system.

Just finished reading through the adventure and I can't wait to run it! The story is glorious and full of action, and the presentation makes it super easy to move from one part to the other. It's nice, for once, to have an adventure that tells you what to do if the group fails at some task!

I already had Aces High but hadn't had a chance to try it yet. Now this scenario seems the perfect fix for that too!