Battlestar Galactica Role Playing Game (Battlestar Galactica)
by Jamie Chambers
List Price:
Buy Used: from $5.81 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Jamie ChambersEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2007-09-01
ISBN: 1931567557
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Margaret Weis Productions
Book Reviews of Battlestar Galactica Role Playing Game (Battlestar Galactica)
Book Review: Great Gaming System / Grammatical Errors Galore
Summary: 4 Stars
Let me preface this review by saying I am a fanatic of the new Battlestar Galactica series. I wasn't aware of it at all until I picked up the first season. I was instantly hooked and burned through three seasons in less than a week.
I began searching for more material and found this book. I like pen and paper games and ordered the book from Amazon. I was very impressed with the Cortex Gaming System. It's very straightforward and doesn't take time at all to learn (I was used to D20 and D10 systems.)
It goes into good detail about the Colonies, character creation, skill and combat resolution. Like some of the other reviewers stated, the ship combat resolution area is somewhat sketchy, but you can manage through. The really nice thing are Plot Points which allow characters to change the story in subtle ways to aid themselves by basically buying off the storyteller. The book also has a system of merits and flaws which I find interesting and can really impact game play if characters and the storyteller don't ignore them.
I would have preferred more information about society prior to the fall, but the game is based on the series which plunges you into humanity's fight for survival post-nuclear holocaust.
However, with the material in the book, I am running a pre-nuclear attack game taking place on Canceron (the Colonies' tylium planet.) I believe in the future more books will be coming out that will flesh out military and other faction details and I hope more information will be available about the specific colonies.
Now on to the bad. The book indicates that Liz Wilhelm was responsible for proofreading. I certainly hope she was paid in potato chips, because she did an absolutely atrocious job. I'm not perfect by any means in my writing (as you can tell), but the grammatical and spelling errors are so numerous and some so glaring that it's a wonder if this woman can read at all. A great example is in the back of the book in the reference section where they go over the Colonial Phonetic Alphabet. Alpha is spelled Aplha instead. Horrendous.
My only other complaint is more narrow. In my job I deal with a lot of firearms. The book lists some firearms, such as the Picon Five-seveN (a pay on the real-world FN Five Seven.) The picture presented, however, is clearly a Beretta style 92FS pistol. The LEO M12 submachine gun is picture as an H&K MP-5, the Leo Storm Carbine as some variant of the AR-15, and the Milirem 700 is clearly a picture of a Remington 700 rifle. Again, this is something that most people won't mind, but it greatly irritates me. I've resorted to scrapping some of the weapons entirely and building others from scratch.
Despite all of this, I am impressed with the book and gaming system. I plan on purchasing additional books as they become available.
Entertainment Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Battlestar Galactica the Role Playing Game on Amazon!
Battlestar Galactica GM Screen (Battlestar Galactica)by Jamie Chambers
Margaret Weis Productions; Published: 2008-03-19; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.00
Price in other shops:
Battlestar Galactica Quickstart Guide (Battlestar Galactica)by Jamie Chambers
Margaret Weis Productions; Published: 2007-08-16; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.43
Price in other shops:
Battlestar Galactica Role Playing Game (Battlestar Galactica)by Jamie Chambers
Margaret Weis Productions; Published: 2007-09-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $19.00
Price in other shops:
Similar books summaries and other product reviews
Serenity Role Playing Game (Serenity)by Jamie Chambers
Margaret Weis Productions; Published: 2005-09-19; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $20.95
Price in other shops:
Battlestar Galactica: Season 3Release date: 2007-10-23; Music CD
Best price: $10.58
Price in other shops:
Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion Season Three (Battlestar Galactica)by David Bassom
Titan Books; Published: 2007-09-18; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.01
Price in other shops:
Star Wars Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, Saga Editionby Owen K.C. Stephens, Rodney Thompson
Wizards of the Coast; Published: 2007-06-05; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $22.01
Price in other shops:
Starships of the Galaxy (Star Wars Roleplaying Game)by Owen K.C. Stephens, Rodney Thompson
Wizards of the Coast; Published: 2007-12-18; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $17.95
Price in other shops:
Dungeons and Dragons Core Rulebook Gift Set, 4th Editionby Wizards RPG Team
Wizards of the Coast; Wizards of the Coast; Published: 2008-06-06; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $56.34
Price in other shops:
Battlestar Galactica - Season ThreeUniversal; Release date: 2008-03-18; DVD
Best price: $33.99
Price in other shops:
Battlestar Galactica GM Screen (Battlestar Galactica)by Jamie Chambers
Margaret Weis Productions; Published: 2008-03-19; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.00
Price in other shops:
Battlestar Galactica - Razor (Unrated Extended Edition)Universal; Release date: 2007-12-04; DVD
Best price: $6.25
Price in other shops:
Battlestar Galactica Quickstart Guide (Battlestar Galactica)by Jamie Chambers
Margaret Weis Productions; Published: 2007-08-16; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.43
Price in other shops: