Tell Me About The Universe of Babylon 5

[Twin Agate Dragons]

This is another one I'm ordering from Amazon later today and having read the preview pdf (which is admittedly pretty sparse fluff and crunch wise) I'm salivating for more. Anything else you can tell me or can point me to would be great.

 

[tneva82]

This is another one I'm ordering from Amazon later today and having read the preview pdf (which is admittedly pretty sparse fluff and crunch wise) I'm salivating for more. Anything else you can tell me or can point me to would be great.

Well it's more of a rulebook in that it covers how to play in B5 setting with traveler rules. Pretty light on setting information though psi-corp stuff was neat for me since I don't have much of psi-corp stuff from elsewhere.

Hyperspace rules are also bit weird looking and the travel speed/length is pretty odd. Either you are very slow or you'll run out of fuel in few hours. Hyperspace definitely needed but commercial transportation is very, very slow to places where is no jump gate nearby(like Earth! That's slow travel from Io jump gate!).

Careers work, equipment works(though auto weapons need figuring out since there's no numbers. Bloody D20 copy&paste).

Good enough if you have setting information elsewhere and aren't that heavily into space travel. Which albeits fits B5 feel.

 

[Lorcan Nagle]

I agree with Tneva for the most part - if you know your B5 background it's a good toolkit for playing games with the Traveller rules, but there's a lot of misprints and oversights.

 

[lastbesthope]

This is another one I'm ordering from Amazon later today and having read the preview pdf (which is admittedly pretty sparse fluff and crunch wise) I'm salivating for more. Anything else you can tell me or can point me to would be great.

See here for how to get a free copy of the updated pdf, I'm sure Matthew would accept the amazon order despatch email as proof of purchase.

http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=39767

LBH

 

[mechascorpio]

But the book won't look much like the revised PDF, right? Mongoose isn't re-publishing the hard copy, IIRC.

 

[Twin Agate Dragons]

See here for how to get a free copy of the updated pdf, I'm sure Matthew would accept the amazon order despatch email as proof of purchase.

http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=39767

Thanks for the heads up LBH! I really appreciate it! 8)

 

[tneva82]

But the book won't look much like the revised PDF, right? Mongoose isn't re-publishing the hard copy, IIRC.

Well contents are pretty much same. Big difference is the background and colouring. Book is black&white with rather dark background. PDF has white background with colour borders&pictures.

 

[lastbesthope]

But the book won't look much like the revised PDF, right? Mongoose isn't re-publishing the hard copy, IIRC.

True, that's why they're giving the paper purchasers a free copy of the updated pdf.

LBH

 

[Sean-Khan]

Ooh, I wasn't aware of the update, haven't been following things much lately... Good to know, have to get a photo of myself with book & get the update