alot of the words are spelt the way they are in england but other than that it is relly good book i love it! And well they should be, seeing as Mongoose is an English company :) Our American friends frequently forget that "English" is the correct language, and that they changed the spelling of word...

You might point to Delenn and Sheriden's offspring but this is because she is half human due to having her DNA rewritten by the Chrysalis. There might be other possibilities, where races have been transplated due to, say, Vorlon interference but then they're actually the same race, just living on d...

At the risk of disagreeing with you, Neo and Gabriel_Luna, I like having the stats of the First Ones; after your players are embroiled in their plans eventually they might want to take on the masters rather than the servants (and probably crushed into a pulp in the process, but that's another story...

I would not call the Technomages a boost, more like a joke (sorry Neo) for it messes up the Technomages classes and the ship i think theVorlons and the Shadows dont need to be boosted I think you misunderstand what the purpose of the Techno Mage article was SQ.. One of the main facets of B5 2e was ...

lastbesthope wrote:The Upcoming Rim book for the RPG might have something ((I'm guessing though)

LBH

You may find a few footprints, but Its not really that kind of book, its actually more of a ...how to.. kind of book, very useful.

Let's hope it has the necessary crunch for conversion. LBH It does...and I can say that with certainty as the artilcle and the ones which follow it were written by me ;) Any news on how to deal with the "Ranged Touch Attack" (see http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=20829 ) thin...

Hellhawk i agree with you; why not convert the stats from the 1st edition to the 2nd edition instead of a rewrite? Things havent been re-written, they have been re-formatted. Some tweaks, fixes, improvements etc...as was the intent of all things second edition. But it certainly isnt a re-rwite or r...

Why would you want to do anything that keeps you from increasing your mastery of the Tech? Or, in rules terms: Why wold you want to do anything that lets you lose spell points? Firstly because a) noone is born a technomage, and not all are traine dyoung.. many techno-mages were other things first. ...

Shadow Queen wrote:you cant have a Destroyer cross over into a healer mage class

And you still cant. But they are two extreme bookends of the same scale.

The changes to the destruction spells let me guess, that we will get revised prestige classes and that the Destroyer will become a 5-level prestige class. So what would a Destroyer do at level 16, then? Take up a second prestige class? Or hang up the mantle of Technomage altogether, since there's n...

Just to clarify, I wasn't trying to blame anyone. You just seemed the closest to the source so I figured I'd ask. :) We knew about combining fire as a wing, but that doesn't help any when you're trying to kill one solo craft with another. We decided to implement the armor damage rules as they were ...

On the other hand, development is about to begin on SpaceQuest, a set of science fiction rules based on RuneQuest, and a number of settings will be appearing to support this as well. Both Judge Dredd and Strontium Dogs have been mooted as possibilities but, as yet, nothing has been confirmed. At la...

Neo, can you explain why the final version made it near impossible for dueling star furies to hurt each other? Hello James In all honesty I can't say, playtest groups test the manuscripts and provide thier reports, but what actually gets changed, edited or implemented we never actuallu become aware...

Mick wrote:basicly when come down to it the space combat sytem need a total rewrite, and this time some playtesting would help

It was re-wrote "these" are the new rules and it was playtested, I was among one of the groups that did it, so you may wish to choose your comments a little more prudently

Hi Dom 1 - Pilot as a class skill. This is in the technomage base book, but not the S&P update. The technomages do get a ship as a class ability and the spells for the ship use the pilot skill bonus. Should this have been a class skill in S&P? Correct, this was an accident on my part the original dr...

We had our first starship combat tonight (chapter 2 of Ragged Edge) and there was some confusion over armor damage. First, I knew I'd read about it but we couldn't find it in the book. Then, I came here and found a description of it: Armor Damage Also when you attack a vessel the offensive rating +...

Not really, from the, admittedly very glancing look, I gave it, it's basically new rules where the old ones don't work. Unless Mongoose is going to do this for every 1st edition supplement then they still have a long way to go. And even then it's replacement rather than conversion stats. LBH I'd re...

Can you tell us more about "the ones which follow it"? BTW: Long Ranged Weapon: This spell increases the ranged category of a ships weapon from Close to Long Range This ship enhancement isn't very useful, because the Variable Energy Weapon is already a Long Range weapon. For a pinnace it isnt but t...

lastbesthope wrote:(Prays to the gods of crunch)

LBH

Your prayers have been answered lol

lastbesthope wrote:Let's hope it has the necessary crunch for conversion.

LBH

It does...and I can say that with certainty as the artilcle and the ones which follow it were written by me