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Part 2. The "GM" section of the book and my final thoughts.

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Including: Aliens and Creatures, Advanced Equipment, The White Star Campaign, Interstellar Civil War and Kelron Sector, The Second Battle of Brinn and my personal opinion on this book.

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Aliens and Creatures - No old-school RPG would be complete without a beastiary and that's what we have in chapter eight of White Star.

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This chapter was a fun read. It starts with an intro that notes that all creatures only have vague descriptions. It notes that this is for the player's imagination's sake but I personally think some of it is for copyright sake :D [ READ MORE ]

White Star: White Box Science Fiction Roleplaying

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This, the first part of my detailed read review of White Star looks at what's basically the Player's or everyone section of the book. It's the first half, that is meant to be read by everyone, while the remainder of the book is for the GM (Referee).

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Chapters looked at: Introduction, Attributes, Character Classes and Races, Equipment, Playing the Game, Personal Combat, Starship Combat, Gifts & Meditations.

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Introduction A short one-page intro telling us what this book is about. Which is basically a conversion of the Swords & Wizardry fantasy RPG ruleset to a Sci-Fi setting. Now Swords & Wizardry is itself a retro-clone of original Dungeons and Dragons, the original Brown/White boxed set or OD&D as it's often called.

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This is a stand-alone game. You don't need to own S&W or any version of D&D to play. White Star was written as a generic sci-fi setting made to handle anything from Flash Gordon Pulp to Alien Horror to Sci-Fantasy like Star Wars. That said, reading it so far there's definitely a leaning towards Star Wars as the primary source. [ READ MORE ]