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Summary: Finally, some original content!
Review: Starships of the Galaxy finally delivers some truly new content for WotC d20 Star Wars rpg. Unlike many of the previous supplements, which while nice to look at, SoG is not a re-tread of West End Games material or a retelling of things most fans know from the movies and novels.
Let me say it now, the old Smugglers Guide was one of my favorite West End supplements for their SW game, if only because it allowed us to customize our starships (would Han Solo be as cool w/o the Millenium Falcon?). However, you couldn't build your own, and you could only modify light transports like the YT-1300.
SoG, however, gives you the tools to create new ships from scratch, from a small fighter to a massive space station, and then follows up with rules to modify existing ships.
The book also includes updated, more detailed ship combat rules that are a great improvement over the ones included in the core-rulebook.Things I would have liked, but weren't included:
Economic rules, like how to finance your purchase, or deal with loansharks, blackmarket cargos, etc. I can do without the rules, since it would add at least another chapter to the book.
Things I think they should have included, and cannot fathom why not:
They provided stats, cost and flavor text for a various ship types. Some are new to d20, some are merely updated. What they did not do, however, was include the build points for given ships, which would make comparisons and modifications much easier. This would only require a few more lines per ship. As it is, you know how many guns a stock YT-2400 mounts, but you don't know how many it could mount after modification.
Also, a ship building worksheet would have been nice. Much nicer than the add for other SW products that takes up the last page of the book...
All in all, I'd have to say it's well worth the money, esp if you like to go beyond the movies in your game.
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Summary: Useful Reference
Review: This could have stood to feature more starships, but it is useful for a lot of GM NPC ships and the like. The new combat system is confusing, but my RPG group ignores it anyway, and uses the original system from the Core Rulebook. This features many lesser known vessels, including the recently-added Defender Star Destroyers, and offers some help for customizing and modifying vessels. For those who can't find the YT-1300, you are just too lazy to actually read the Core Rulebook. The YT-2400 is nice to see, but others like the older Clone Wars vessels, YT-2000 and YV-666 would have been nice to see. Overall, if you just want to yank a lesser seen vessel into an RPG, this is helpful.
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Summary: Useful Reference
Review: This could have stood to feature more starships, but it is useful for a lot of GM NPC ships and the like. The new combat system is confusing, but my RPG group ignores it anyway, and uses the original system from the Core Rulebook. This features many lesser known vessels, including the recently-added Defender Star Destroyers, and offers some help for customizing and modifying vessels. For those who can't find the YT-1300, you are just too lazy to actually read the Core Rulebook. The YT-2400 is nice to see, but others like the older Clone Wars vessels, YT-2000 and YV-666 would have been nice to see. Overall, if you just want to yank a lesser seen vessel into an RPG, this is helpful.
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Summary: Severly Lacking
Review: This rendition of Starships of the Galaxy for 3rd Edition Star Wars is severly lacking in any real detail. The Original for the WEG edition of Star Wars which is D6 instead of d20 had more detail, but still left a lot to look for. WotC needed to add more of the equiptment stats for ships, such as cost and actually add a sample of every "stock" ship since it is called Starships of the Galaxy and it only has a few of the lesser ships and doesn't even have the standard YT1300 that the Millenium Falcon is based on. I would only recomend this if you wanted to completely your set NOT as an actual reference or source book.
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Summary: Severly Lacking
Review: This rendition of Starships of the Galaxy for 3rd Edition Star Wars is severly lacking in any real detail. The Original for the WEG edition of Star Wars which is D6 instead of d20 had more detail, but still left a lot to look for. WotC needed to add more of the equiptment stats for ships, such as cost and actually add a sample of every "stock" ship since it is called Starships of the Galaxy and it only has a few of the lesser ships and doesn't even have the standard YT1300 that the Millenium Falcon is based on. I would only recomend this if you wanted to completely your set NOT as an actual reference or source book.
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Summary: The Force is weak in this one...
Review: When I bought the Star Wars RPG from Wizards of the Coast all I could think was WOW this is Great!!!
When I purchased this book all I could think was WOW what a waste of money!!!
This book contains little to nothing that is needed to run a good Star Wars RPG and it almost seems as if WotC just put it out there to see who would buy it. This book contains no generic starships, no better space combat system (than the original RPG) and no new or interesting character building materials.
Just a waste...
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Summary: Not Worth the $... i paid for it.
Review: Where to Begin...
This book is not what you want. Granted, this book has About 150 or so Spaceships described, With Basically full stats and a short biography for each, There are very few inaccurate pictures of Each. Each picture may contain up to 7 ships, with merely a sidebar to say what ships are included in the picture.
While i don't actively play The Star Wars RPG, I am interested in simply learning the rules so that it may be adapted to D&D, or some other RPG World. This is Not what i expected. I expected More ships to be explained, More pictures, and better descriptions. If your looking for an indepth book thats worth the time to invest money in, Look somewhere else.
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