While D&D is very often somewhat jokingly described as being able to play as Gandalf and Conan and go on adventures together, there's a large grain of truth to it. The stories, the movies, the fairy tales that we grew up watching and reading directly impact what we want and expect to see and do when we sit down to play. So often though the stories that are told in children's books are ignored in favor of of more "adult" tales.

Which is silly. There are amazing stories that can be told from children's literature. Sometimes what you need is a little bit of fairy dust, and a guide to help you find the way.

Neverland: The Impossible Island is one such guide.

It would be easy to do a copy/paste of Peter Pan, slap some stats on a few key things, and call it a day. The author does so much more than that. Taking the original source material, and looking at it through not only a lens of what would be fun to play, but also tweaking and updating the source material to better fit modern sensibilities.

Yes, that means there aren't racist native american caricatures to be found here.

Instead, you get several interesting factions of island inhabitants, descriptions of various locations, and of course stats for important characters, including Pan, Hook, Smee, and the Croc. Interestingly no stats for Wendy or Lilly... But they do get a write up.

One of the things I most enjoy about Neverland are the figments. The creatures of the island aren't natural, and are created from the bits and pieces of the inhabitant's imaginations. There's a fun and infinitely expandable chart for creating simple figments, but as they're literally creatures of the imagination, there's no limit to what you can come up with.

If you've ever been interested in adding a bit of fairy dust to your game, it's worth the suggested price of admission (though it's PWYW) to pick up Neverland: The Impossible Island.

This supplement is great and I can’t wait to utilize it! It’s very creative and I think the mechanics will be really interesting and easy to work with. That being said, there are a few grammatical, spelling, and formatting errors/issues throughout the supplement. This doesn’t detract from the wonderful and creative information given, but does make a few sentences a bit difficult to read, it just requires a second pass at some sentences. I think that the figments will be the most fun for me to create but everything will be fun to play with! This is definitely a supplement you should check out if you, like me, have always loved the world that J.M. Barrie started and want to get a chance to play in it.

I think this a very fresh look at a well known universe. The Author has a deep and impressive knowledge of the source material, but doesn't rely on it's strengths to create her setting. Instead we get a setting with fresh twists and an opportunity to examine the source material through the lens of modern author's sensibilities and creative choices. It feels very timely, but still provides lots of room for a GM to use their own creativity and weave a game that's unique to their own gaming world. The artwork is great, and it seems very well concieved from start to finish.