I used it once, as a player, in an inexperienced group who was unfamiliar with the setting and the game and ruleplaying in general. Turned out to be a rather complex process, since the GM decided to also introduce the concept of Supporting Characters at the same time. Which was a very good choice for the story, I have to admit. But, still.
All other games, especially the ones I played as GM, were either one-shots or short campaigns of 2-3 missions in total. It’s still on my 1e bucket list, if you want.
Which, by the way, brings me to the point of supporting characters. Not the bucket-list, my anecdote further up in the text. Supporting characters were a portion of the game that received many updates. And with the “direct” action now being useable more often, I wonder how the concept turned out in 2e. I think this chapter will be one of the first I’ll read, once the PDF hit my inbox.
Modiphius planned to release the physical book by GenCon (Aug 1st–4th). This was stated a while back in a press-release if I remember correctly. Modiphius’ most recent newsletter also announces shipping of the books to begin in August.
Usually, pre-orders receive their PDFs when they’re available, most of the time this is a few days to up to one or two weeks prior to shipping.
So expect PDFs to be downloadable by August at the latest, maybe in late July.
(I’m so excited, already! )
Jim said somewhere that the plan was to release pre-order PDFs a week or so before the physical release, but I can’t find where I think he said that so I can provide a citation. I think it was a comment on the Facebook group, but it might have been on Discord. If I find it, I’ll post a link or a screenshot.
I may have missed it, but will there be guidelines to convert 1e space-frames to 2e. And Importantly will that space-frames even be backward compatible (and fairly easy to implement these changes)?
Shouldn’t be hard to convert. I doubt there will be anything in the PHB but it’d be nice if they had a separate free PDF the tells you how to convert them (and talents etc).
In essence: 2e spaceframes are built with the point system introduced in Utopia Planitia. Some talents are swapped out. That should be about everything.
Sounds broadly compatible.
I wonder whether the “Toolbox” (GM’s Toolbox?) as featured in this recent blog post does contain the GM’s chapter previously included in the core rules? Seems a bit like a place material is published in that Jim wasn’t able to squeeze into the core rules.
Can’t wait for release – finally getting quite excited about 2e.
Already counting the days.
Yet, I’ll probably won’t switch over until 2e is translated. Some of my players favour the rules in their first language and/or want to support the local publisher that does the translations.
Yet, I’ll steal & adapt everything I like, testing the heck out of that “broadly compatibility”.
I’m in the middle of a campaign that has one person who doesn’t want to buy 2e (yet) so I’ll just be cannibalising the bits I like as house rules for the immediate future. Whether or if we switch over properly is yet to be seen.
It makes it harder to reference the rules, since they can’t read them for themselves. They will also be thinking one way of resolving certain things when the new rules will say something else. It’s just easier to keep to 1e, which everyone has, then bring back whatever we like from 2e, rather than messing about with trying to instruct whoever doesn’t have the rules.
I meant just send them the PDF, the same way you would share a physical copy if you were all seated at the same table. Or specific pages of the pdf, I guess?
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