After buying Spelldancer (2010) today, I thought I'd buy Pandora's Wake (2015). As you can see, Pandora's Wake was made last year. The scan quality is good. Out of 196 pages, 195 are the content. Art: seems good, with some fairly good CGI.

Apart from the odd typo, the PDF appears the same as Spelldancer in every way: Character creation, etc.

You WILL need pages 31-32 (Equipment) from Spelldancer, as there isn't one in Pandora's Wake that I could see, apart from weapons & armour. That's why I've given it 3/5. It would have had 4/5 quite easily, but no equipment? What happens if your character wants to climb away from some approaching other-verse monsters? Where will they carry there ammo, grenades, food, water, etc. Twilight (GDW, 1984), was the first RPG I played that really emphasised equipment, although when I played D&D back in the late 70's onwards, they had their lists as well. Equipment can not only help your character, but others in the group or other survivors you might meet.

Most of the equipment from the Spelldancer list can be used: grappling hook, rope, pouches, backpacks, canteens (bottles in Spelldancer), and other items from the list.

The other-verse monsters are quite good.

There are 10 melee weapon skills, and 12 projectile weapon skills. So, in Melee skills, if you have skill in Bladed, but not Hatcheting, and you loose your blade and can only find an axe, there could be problems for the character. Pandora's Wake is quite good, and could be better with maybe the odd tweak here and their (equipment, skills perhaps). Combat skills could be handgun, Rifle (SMGs, Riflles, Shotguns), Heavy Weapons, Melee, Unarmed. I've done this to my system to simplify/generalise the skills.

So players could keep the Melee & Projectile skills, or maybe house rule them. The other skills in the other sections seem good. Like Spelldancer, Pandora's Wake has no index or character sheet (so far); but, it's still good at the sale price, and worth trying. Give it a look.