Rogue star ,osprey sci fi skirmish rules

[nozza_uk]

If you are on Facebook, there is an official group set up by Northstar and also a fan group where I frequently reply to rules questions

Ah Facebook 

[Predatorpt]

Just received a notification from Bookdepository saying that my Rogue Stars rulebook has been shipped. Let's see what arrives first - that one or the order from North Star (yeah, I bought 2 rulebooks).

[beefcake]

Just received a notification from Bookdepository saying that my Rogue Stars rulebook has been shipped. Let's see what arrives first - that one or the order from North Star (yeah, I bought 2 rulebooks).

I also got my book depository note

[Omac 247]

Picked up my copy from Caliver Books today, currently sorting through the lead pile for suitable models to use

[phreedh]

Picked up my copy from Caliver Books today, currently sorting through the lead pile for suitable models to use

Read! Digest! Report!

I'm looking forward to seeing reviews on this.

[Juan]

Some of us are going to wait a bit longer...

[Hummster]

Have North Star said anything about shipping yet?

I know Osprey's official release date is the 15th but I see that it is obviously in the channels now if the Book Depository and Caliver are shipping it.

[Juan]

I have read in Facebook that the van with the books is lost.

[Iago_87]

There was a Facebook post about the books' status by Northstar (currently somewhere between Osprey and Northstar if I'm not mistaken).

My copy (ordered via amazon) was in the mail today. I am pretty excited about it. My first impression: the book looks great.

Cheers,
Tim

[Cultist of Sooty]

Not impressed at all with that Facebook update. I would have rather have real information in plain English about the status of my preorder than some cutesy gibberish.

[Omac 247]

After a first quick read through I can report the book looks lovely, and the rules seem comprehensive and good fun.
I'm going to try to get a test game in this weekend, but if anyone wants to know any specifics, feel free to fire away and I'll try to answer as best I can

[bong-67]

Hi,
According to the latest Facebook update from North Star, their books have turned up.  This was posted on their Facebook page an hour ago:

"The Rogue Stars books have arrived!! The Nickstarters are being packed up as we speak."

All the best,
George.

[eilif]

Cool!

Given shipping from the UK, I should probably have my stuff in a week or so.  Looking forward to getting this.

[Hummster]

Glad to hear that we should have it soon.

[Iago_87]

Having had a first read of the rules, I really think they would benefit from character sheets and stats.

The rules enable you to build pretty much every character you like, but the way I understand them so far, you keep track of a character by noting down its traits (+ the trait's level) instead of having a basic stat for something. For me, it feels like, for example, the list of shooting modifiers is pretty long and a part of those could be included in stats to reduce the amount of necessary calculations.

Example: A successful shooting attack requires you to roll a 10 on a d20. There is a skill that makes you better at shooting (giving you, for example, a bonus of +1). As far as I can see, you always get the bonus. Why not have a shooting stat of '+1' instead of "name of the skill (level of the skill)" and so on.

To me, the "requires minimal bookkeeping"-promise is kind of invalid until I can come up with a character sheet of some sorts (looking for one at the end of the book was the first thing I did after reading the first pages).

That being said, I think that besides vehicles (my poor knight-size battlewalker has to stay at home^^), I don't think that I have a mini I couldn't use in the game as the mechanics cover the construction of pretty much every character you can think of (intelligent plants for the win!).

But as I said: it's just my first thoughts after reading the rules on my way to work.