on DrivethruRPG as a PDF. These rules were last updated on February 14, 2018. Kickstarter Between 2014 and 2018, Dream Pod 9 launched six Kickstarter campaigns - five campaigns were successfully funded. All of the campaigns focused on raising funds to create new miniatures for either Heavy Gear or Jovian Wars. Properties The company is best known for a set of universes on which role-playing games, wargames, scale models and miniatures have been based: Heavy Gear is a military science-fiction universe where human worlds wage war against one another with mecha. Jovian Chronicles follows the exploration of the Solar System in the 23rd century and the conflicts that arise between the Earth and the space colonies. Tribe 8 is a tribal, post-apocalyptic fantasy game of horror and epic adventures. Gear Krieg takes place in an alternate reality World War II firmly set in the pulp genre. A few other less well-known settings for use in various publications include CORE Command, a space opera universe set millennia in the future. Reviews In the February 1998 edition of Dragon (Issue 244), Rick Swan reviewed two of Dream Pod 9's game settings, Heavy Gear and Jovian Chronicles. Swan praised the high production values of both settings, saying, "Both are beautiful games, into which a lot of effort has been invested". He also thought the Silhouette game system rules used in both was "a clever, elegant system, a snap to learn and adjudicate" and "the smartest set of universal rules this side of the GURPS game." But overall he found Dream Pod 9's work "lifeless" and focussed more on giant robots than roleplaying, saying their work "aims more at players interested in hardware than human beings." References External links Dream Pod 9's Website Role-playing game publishing companies Companies based in Montreal Canadian companies established in 1994 1994 establishments in Quebec