News
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6696205,00.html
Good news; more missile defenses, this time forward deployed in Poland. It's about effing time we got on with it. Ballistic missiles are too easy to intercept, if we would just build the equipment. Once we've negated ICBMs as threats, maybe we can bring back the B-70.
Bad news; more money from US taxpayers to subsidize failed countries. Instead of requiring the world to change its fucked up systems, we just subsidize failed economic policies. Why?
In other News, I saw the new Star Wars RPG at work the other day. http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=starwars/article/rpgsagaed
She's a beautiful piece of work I'll give her that. The format is amazing, the cover, the paper, the font, the layout, the art, everything. Well the binding seems second rate, but that's nit picking. Flipping through at lunch reveals many changes. They've adapted much d20 modern here, for the better. Unfortunately while being a MUCH better game overall, and one that stays closer to its source material in feel, it's still d20. Auto-fire still sucks, the force is clumsy (and now its AD&D magic, compleat with spell memorization), classes and levels still shoehorn your roleplaying, hit points are still divorced from injury, and still go up with every level, armor still makes you harder to hit, and skills take an even further back seat to feats and the new modern style class talents.
The good:
-Broad Classes with variation
-swift actions give combat more flexibility
-Droid characters available out of the box
The Bad:
-D20
The Ugly:
-one attack per round, that's it.
Good news; more missile defenses, this time forward deployed in Poland. It's about effing time we got on with it. Ballistic missiles are too easy to intercept, if we would just build the equipment. Once we've negated ICBMs as threats, maybe we can bring back the B-70.
Bad news; more money from US taxpayers to subsidize failed countries. Instead of requiring the world to change its fucked up systems, we just subsidize failed economic policies. Why?
In other News, I saw the new Star Wars RPG at work the other day. http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=starwars/article/rpgsagaed
She's a beautiful piece of work I'll give her that. The format is amazing, the cover, the paper, the font, the layout, the art, everything. Well the binding seems second rate, but that's nit picking. Flipping through at lunch reveals many changes. They've adapted much d20 modern here, for the better. Unfortunately while being a MUCH better game overall, and one that stays closer to its source material in feel, it's still d20. Auto-fire still sucks, the force is clumsy (and now its AD&D magic, compleat with spell memorization), classes and levels still shoehorn your roleplaying, hit points are still divorced from injury, and still go up with every level, armor still makes you harder to hit, and skills take an even further back seat to feats and the new modern style class talents.
The good:
-Broad Classes with variation
-swift actions give combat more flexibility
-Droid characters available out of the box
The Bad:
-D20
The Ugly:
-one attack per round, that's it.