Last, Best Hope...

[Moiner]

After many years of a d20 Babylon5 campaign (from, as we used to say, another network), I'm itching to try running B5 under the t20 system. So, I'm putting a oneshot together for friends and figured I'd mention it here.

The Backgrounds use feats from the Other company's book, so I won't print them here; I am however playing with racial stereotypes as Flaws for Conviction replenishment. I'm happy to let Virtues be player chosen.

Here's what I've got on that:

Race and Flaw
Abbai: Backing down from a fight you know is right or necessary.
Brakiri: Making a short term profit at the expense of long term success.
Centauri: Betraying the trust of a needed ally.
Drazi: Using your fists to settle a matter when you know you're wrong.
Earther: Abandoning a sound principle you ask others to hold.
Minbari: Obeying/transmitting without question an order you know is unjust/unwise.
Narn: Drawing another into your fights against their better interest.
Pakmara: Revolting another at the risk/cost of your own success.

More as this develops...

[The Shadow]

So the characteristic human sin is hypocrisy? Oh, that is so cruel! I like it! :)

But wouldn't it be more appropriate for the Minbari? Those smug little jerks sprayed hypocrisy wherever they went. "Minbari do not lie." (Except when it benefits their family.) "Minbari do not kill Minbari." (But kicking Minbari out of their homes to die of exposure and starvation is fine.)

One of the best lines of the early series is, "Who told you the Minbari do not lie?" "...They did." "I see..."

[Moiner]

So the characteristic human sin is hypocrisy? Oh, that is so cruel! I like it!

But wouldn't it be more appropriate for the Minbari? Those smug little jerks sprayed hypocrisy wherever they went. "Minbari do not lie." (Except when it benefits their family.) "Minbari do not kill Minbari." (But kicking Minbari out of their homes to die of exposure and starvation is fine.)

One of the best lines of the early series is, "Who told you the Minbari do not lie?" "...They did." "I see..."

Well, I wanted to keep the "pass the buck" factor for the Minbari, and didn't want to duplicate the flaw. I do take your point, though. Of course, one of the things I loved about the series, and which made it so refreshing after many years of neotrek was that everybody lies. All the time. About nearly everything.

As for the game... things seem mostly ironed out in terms of converting goods in the Other company's book from prices to Wealth Ratings (It seems to work out-- very roughly-- to 1 per 100 credits, with some slippage at the upper end). I am pleased to see just how easy the conversion from very specialized classes of Agents, Diplomats, Traders, and Lurkers go to Experts. I'll just say that Benefit is a very forgiving Feat with tons of wiggle room in it.

If the oneshot goes well, I'm thinking of running a Shadow Agents campaign in that setting, tentatively entitled The Price Of Progress.

[The Shadow]

If the oneshot goes well, I'm thinking of running a Shadow Agents campaign in that setting, tentatively entitled The Price Of Progress.

Progress is very much in the eye of the beholder, isn't it? Vir's idea of progress was to see Morden's head on a pike. :)