The Babylon Project Earthforce Sourcebook: A Supplement for the Roleplaying Game, Based on Babylon 5 [Paperback]

Joseph Cochran (Author), Charles Ryan (Author), Zeke Sparks (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Chameleon Eclectic Entertainment, Inc.; First Edition edition (June 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1887990062
• ISBN-13: 978-1887990066
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,662,795 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Starship Combat system is excellently done and complete., December 1, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Babylon Project Earthforce Sourcebook: A Supplement for the Roleplaying Game, Based on Babylon 5 (Paperback)

This sourcebook is very important if you have any EF personell as characters. Furthermore, it adds more equipment, skills and charactaristics. More importantly, it includes the Starship combat system for the Babylon Project. I like this system, although I have not had a chance to play it yet. It is fast, easy to understand and tactics are important. Moreover, it is one of the very few starship combat systems I have seen where ships obey the Newtonian Laws of Motion (except gravity drive ships, of course). The weapons chart was accidentally omitted from the book, but it can be downloaded from Chameleon Electric's web site and it was included in the Gamemaster's Screen, below.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great supplement for an almost unknown RPG, March 18, 2002

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"juan_j_porras" (MALAGA, ANDALUCIA Spain) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Babylon Project Earthforce Sourcebook: A Supplement for the Roleplaying Game, Based on Babylon 5 (Paperback)

Lots of useful info and background, particularly useful if you are trying to run a campaign on the magnificent world Babylon 5 created for all of their fans.

It is a pity all the game supplements are so hard to find, I would love if someone reprinted them.

4.0 out of 5 stars Detailed and vivid information in a required sourcebook., July 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Babylon Project Earthforce Sourcebook: A Supplement for the Roleplaying Game, Based on Babylon 5 (Paperback)

It is always somewhat disappointing to have to buy yet another sourcebook just to complete your RPG system. This one is no exception and you really can't consider running a serious Babylon Project game without having this in hand.

On the upside, it is in full color, just like the main rulebook, and is full of the same deep descriptions that give a clear sense of how it "feels" to be part of Earthforce.

The book is organized in a logical fashion similar to the rulebook comes complete with information on at least one ship from every major race (except Vorlon) and a quick system for ship to ship combat. This includes two pages of full color cardboard cut-outs of ship markers.

You will also find information not only about Earthforce's structure, but a full cast of important characters in Earthforce.

While I cannot list their URL, as per Amazon's review policy, the publishers of _the_Babylon_Project_ (Chameleon-Eclectic) have a wonderful intro to! the system in general on their website.

*They also include a vital addendum to the first printing of this book*, and other useful PDF's.

While it would be nice to have more specific geographical information, (in both this sourcebook and the rulebook) my only major complaint is that this isn't so much as sourcebook as a integral part of the system, and it should be sold as such.

Either way, the book is *still* one you really can't do without.