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3.0 out of 5 stars
Handy, If Not Quite Essential, May 28, 2008
This review is from: Threats of the Galaxy (Star Wars Roleplaying Game) (Hardcover)
This is basically a Monster Manual for Saga, split into NPCs, creatures, and droids. As a miscellany of opponents, it does a good job: you'll find plenty of people and beasties to throw against your PCs. There's some neat new rules and PC alien and droid options, too.
The organization could have been better. For instance, instead of slipping in the option to play Miralukas under Jerec the fallen Jedi's entry or playing a Bith under the Black Sun Vigo entries, why not put the new race options in one place at the end? The same goes for new equipment, skills, and feats.
But the entries themselves are quite good. In addition to stat blocks, you get commentary on what role the character, beast, or droid can play in an adventure. A number of entries are statted out at different Challenge Levels, too, and in the case of NPCs, include advice on what sort of lower CL minions such an NPC would tend to have.
Overall, this is a useful book; perhaps not a must-have at $35, but for Amazon's much lower price, I'm satisfied.
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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not Exactly Everything I Had Hoped For, May 21, 2008
This review is from: Threats of the Galaxy (Star Wars Roleplaying Game) (Hardcover)
More a collection of average NPCs to place within your adventures than a guideline to how a GM might create interesting and exciting NPCs. As such I can only give it a two-star rating. Advertised as "everything you need to populate you Star Wars games" it falls a bit short.
While it does include stats for NPCs, beasts, and droids, there are sparse (if any) guidelines as to how a GM might create original material for his or her game.
At the standard (for Saga Edition) 9"x9" format, this 160 page book is a bit slim for its intended purpose. At 35 dollars, its not a great deal for what you get.
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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Falls short...really short, June 1, 2008
This review is from: Threats of the Galaxy (Star Wars Roleplaying Game) (Hardcover)
I'll start with the positives. The book is nicely put together for the most part, and of good quality. It has a nice selection of characters from the various books, games and movies--except for the ones that will be included in other books coming out in the next few months, such as a KOTOR guide and a New Jedi Order supplement.
The thing that I don't like about this book--it should have been included elsewhere. They "slimmed down" the rules in this iteration of the game, but they overslimmed. So instead of having all of these characters in the core book like they did in the past, they pulled them out and charged me for yet another book. And what is this desire to continue printing the books in this odd size? 160 pages really means about 120 when you factor in the smaller size of the pages.
Many of the characters don't have any pictures or drawings at all, and as I said, they really rob you by leaving out a bunch of the major players, only to put them into other books and charge you AGAIN over the next few months. They really could have and should have done a better job with this, but the material that you get is reasonably good, but it is certainly priced to high.
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