Starships is AWESOME!

[AllenS]

My effusive compliments to Don, and everyone else who was involved with the creation of this amazing book

Allen

[Don Mappin]

Thanks, Allen. Glad you like it.

[Dave Biggins]

Well, there's one happy customer

[Snake_Plissken]

Well, there's one happy customer

make that two

[Erik Filean]

Three. I've been playing with ship construction a little bit before commenting, but I'm really happy with this book. It succeeds in creating lots of new options without making the rules much more complex than they were before. That's a departure from a lot of "expanded rules for..." sourcebooks, and a welcome one.

[Ineti]

Just got my copy today. Looks great. I love that dark blue cover. I've liked what I've read so far.

Nice work, all.

[Alex Pryde]

I bought it... I love it... minus one little thing: I'm still not happy with ablative armor. I'll be posting in the proper board about that later.

I'm very happy with the combo of construction rules and the additional ship records. Quick question: Do the ships include the extra 5 structure from Ablative armor in their structure number or not?

[Erik Filean]

Originally posted by Alex Pryde
I bought it... I love it... minus one little thing: I'm still not happy with ablative armor. I'll be posting in the proper board about that later.

I'm very happy with the combo of construction rules and the additional ship records. Quick question: Do the ships include the extra 5 structure from Ablative armor in their structure number or not?

Yes, they do. For example: in the Sovereign entry in Starships, that line reads "Structure: 45 (5 ablative)." This means the ship has 40 base structure--the default for a Size 8 ship, as it happens--plus the five "system hit free" points of ablative armor.

[Darth Sarcastic]

Only have one teeny tiny minor gripe...I think all the construction rules from the NG should have been carried over. I mean like the rule/cost of transporters and shuttlebays/craft. This way a ship designer just needs one book to look through. Otherwise I've been enjoying this book very much. I also like the fact that you have more stuff to choose from, this way you can (i.e.) change out the warp drive if it takes up too much space and get one that takes up less space but with the same speed.

[Lt. Dade]

Hey Everybody,

I've been pouring over STARSHIPS since the GAMA trade show and I am super-psyched to use it in my game. I've got a sort of VOYAGER/ELITE FORCE premise operating right now (mixing series) and I was just beginning to regret it. STARSHIPS has changed my mind, because now I have a reasonable excuse to make use of Kazon, Klingon and Jem'Hadar ships.

Terrific work, Don, really.

word,
Will

[qerlin]

Got it last night. Looks goods. Actually sat down this morn to see if I could slap together some ships. Did up a Constellation, a few Orion designs -- no prob. The only thing I wish they'd done was keep some of the bits from the NG in the Starships book, instead of referencing back to them (a pain, but there was probably a word count limit, I'm guessing).

They only thing I really didn't like was the art on the starship pages; I actually prefered the schematics versions from the other books. They could have compressed the writeups down to two pages per ship and packed a bit more in without the big, not well done drawings. (The Talon looked particularly off...)

So, other than the artwork, with I really disliked, the book itself is pretty durned good. The ship write-ups look solid (the TNG stuff also seems to match the SOM write-ups; only the TMP stuff in SOM looked really screwy & only on the photon damage.)

Out of a 1 to 10, I give it an 9 on content, 6 on art; 8 overall.

[PGoodman13]

Gotta disagree with you there, qerlin. I actually rather like the art, and am idly wondering what Dave would charge to do a set of drawings for me once I get the King's Protector class rewritten to Starships specs....

The book itself is way cool, and I am well-pleased with it.

[Don Mappin]

Originally posted by qerlin
Got it last night. Looks goods. Actually sat down this morn to see if I could slap together some ships. Did up a Constellation, a few Orion designs -- no prob. The only thing I wish they'd done was keep some of the bits from the NG in the Starships book, instead of referencing back to them (a pain, but there was probably a word count limit, I'm guessing).

You are correct, sir.

I thought everyone had the rules memorized like myself.

[Don Mappin]

Originally posted by qerlin
Out of a 1 to 10, I give it an 9 on content, 6 on art; 8 overall.

I'll take a 9 from qerlin!

[Dave Biggins]

Originally posted by Lt. Dade
STARSHIPS has changed my mind, because now I have a reasonable excuse to make use of Kazon, Klingon and Jem'Hadar ships.

Hey LD,

Do me a favor and let me know how the torpedo shuttles work out.