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Pros/Cons
+ Good research on history of the time.
+ Examples of system use.
+ Game theme is interesting - evil PCs coming to terms with it
+ Sample mission.
+ Robin = Colonel Kurtz
- System not very coherent. I know what's going on but only because I've seen 2000 dice pool systems. Examples help.
- Bit ugly

Must include an NPC called Keeton
Lord Keeton.

Proximity: How close to the two films is it?
Robin Hood definitely. Geoff makes it clear where the Copolla elements are. I think it should be more obvious than that.

Complete: Is it complete? Could you run it?
Complete enough to run.

Attractive: Is it attractive to look at?
Not really. Bayeux Tapestry images are nice, 100 years too early but enough to trigger the imagination.

Professional: How much effort went into layout and style?
Some effort. Images proably took some choosing. Clear ordering.

Extras: Did they include actual cover, index, character sheet or any other cool things you get in a proper RPG?
Appendices, contents, sample adventure. BACK COVER! WOOT!

Conclude
A bit ugly in places but a very solid game. Living in England means that Robin Hood is probably off the cards for an RPG setting but making the Hood as Colonel Kurtz is inspired.

Just to explain a little better - Robin Hood is seen as being a bit twee and quaint if you live in England. As such, I normally wouldn't run a Robin Hood game for more than a single night. However, because of the mashup, I feel that this might actually be a way of running it - so kudos to that. Also, I appreciate that I'm probably one of three Englishmen on the globe that would play a free RPG (Andy Peregrine and Jon Hicks are the other two), so I judged based on the rest of the planet!

Not being an artist*, I did the imagery from an online tapestry generator. I agree that it (and my character sheet "layout") was a serious weak point.

My inspiration for the game, strangely, was the rumoured original plot of the Russell Crowe version: Crowe plays the Sheriff investigating grisly murders being pinned on Robin Hood. Flavour that heavily with Apocalypse Now and the setting writes itself.

This has been a fun project, as I tried to write a theme-heavy game that could be expanded easily beyond the pregen adventure. Thanks to all involved for even having this competition.




* I am, however, married to one. She happily fired off ten or twelve drawings and a mocked-up cover for the game - only to laugh at me because I couldn't use them.