Recent content by James McMurray

That could work for larger ships, but for smaller ones it's way too slow.

I much prefer the 2e starship combat, although as someone mentioned you have to add armor degrdation rules or it doesn't work.

Tell them "this is how the rules work, if you need hard physics explanation for them, you'll have to provide them. Write them up and submit them to the group, the fewer holes the rest of us find the more XP it's worth."

It could be that when scenes like that have people referring to the galaxy they're referring to only the known galaxy, but using verbal shorthand. Kinda like if I tell my coworker we'll divide up America in conquest. A casual listener might think I'm talking about North America or a combination...

I can recall at least two occassions on the show where someone is in hyperspace and detects something in normal space. Unfortunately I can't remember enough to give an episode name, or even really a whole scene.

The thing is, Shadow vessels are made of Plot Devicium. Just random clones that don't help the plot wouldn't work. :)

In at least one of the episodes a group of Starfuries goes off beacon by chaining out and leaving a line of communication between them. Presumably you could to that with a ship, some automated mini-beacons, and your own jump drive to go in and out of hyperspace.

I'm not a big fan of so much codification for the older races, but apart from the telepathy part it looks fine and is definitely understandable and not at all complex. I only leave out the telepathy part because I don't have the rules for Ancient One telepathy so can't really comment on...

I'd love a book about the Vorlons and Shadows. But if it has stats in it I'll do like I do with D&D's Gods: ignore them.

Not a new language, just a better one. :)

Star Trek even explained it in an episode or movie (don't remember wehich one). Apparently all the races are offshoots of the same base race that was seeded across the galaxy by some even more ancient race. Not exaclt science, but at least they tried.

Star Trek even explained it in an episode or movie (don't remember wehich one). Apparently all the races are offshoots of the same base race that was seeded across the galaxy by some even more ancient race. Not exaclt science, but at least they tried.

The maximum rating for a class skill is always 3 + character level, whethet it i a class skill for your current class ro not. Your method one is the correct one. It's the increased skill point cost that keeps this from being a problem. Sure, that Agent / Diplomat can have a really high pilot...

He could have 5 levels in the PrC "Vorlon Higher than 10th Level." Why do you need stats for Vorlons and Shadows? I'd think you'd need a really high level campaign for the PCs to get into a situation where the stats mattered. Not to say I'm not curious about their stats of course. :)

Could be cool. Check out Arthur Scott Card's Ender's Shadow series (especially the last two) for some possible historical info. In it it has a Caliphate rising to power and only stopping global conquest because the rulers were too stupid to follow the proven general's lead, and they turned on...