The buyer will receive 7 modern-day scenarios with good production values for a price of 19.95. However, I personally cannot recommend this collection and must include it in the "If I had a full preview, I would not have purchased it" category of my library.

The phrase Occam's Razor led me to expect tight, believable no-mythos modern scenarios with just enough grey-area for the keeper to create interesting role-playing situations. Instead, I found almost half of the included scenarios to be some variation of "No mythos, just the most improbable and outlandish theoretically possible antagonist(s) playing the exact same role as the mythos/a mythos creature". The other scenarios, while not bad by any means, were nowhere near strong enough to compensate for their weaker companions. While I appreciate what they were attempting to do in this collection, I could only really imagine myself realistically running 3 or maybe 4 out of the 7 total scenarios without heavily changing them in some way. (Mileage will vary based on player and keeper preferences).

The main reason for this is that, ultimately, given the same amount of contextualization and preparation, I honestly believe that my players would have a harder time buying in to the antagonists presented in this collection than, say, the standard mythos/supernatural beings. For a collection titled Occam's Razor, I find that fact to be more disappointing than anything else.

Favorite Scenario: "The Watchers" For me, this scenario is the best representation of what I felt that the authors were attempting to achieve with this collection. Tragic and horrifying, but also utterly mundane and free of any specific backstory. The entire section is a concise 9 pages and gives the keeper a great deal of freedom to run it however they wish, whether as a misdirection-filled mystery or as a shorter session playing with the idea of narrator reliability. Easily adapted to a classic 1920s or more experimental setting with a bit of rewriting and preparation.

Least Favorite Scenario: "Frozen Footsteps" After reading this scenario, I had to do a double take and make sure I wasn't accidently reading a DnD scenario or a B-movie plot. Prompted an audible "Really?" from this buyer. While the premise can ultimately be tamed with prep work, atmosphere, and good pacing, I do not feel that it should have a place in a collection titled Occam's Razor. Truly the epitome of "the most improbable and outlandish technically possible explaination", made worse by the conclusion presented basically being a choice between killing all of the antagonists or somehow convincing offscreen NPCs to do it.

Very happy with this- I did the kickstarter, it was a very long wait but definitely worth it. I like the way the scenarios are presented and the overall quality of the product.

This really is one of the better anthologies out there.

Pretty solid over all, one clunker and one that needed more work but had a solid premise, your mileage may very.