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In my campaign I wanted the standard form of interstellar transportation to be wormhole style. This seems to be a nicer fit for both controlling access to various locations and for glossing over the hard science stuff while still providing an opportunity to drop players into new and interesting...

I noticed the medical skills mentioned in the errata page are missing from the WRRD (WOIN Rules Reference Document - Skills) and psychology, medicine, genetics, and xenology are listed under scientific skills. Any chance of an update? Have the other errata been fixed in the WRRD?

Did the new starter version do away with the character's descriptors? I kinda felt like the descriptor was the foundation of the character, but I don't see any descriptors for any of these characters. =[

I think the real question is how hard you think things like this should be in your world. On TV characters regularly pick locks and spoof video feeds, but in real life these things are much more rare. Would it be super cool and in the theme of your game for your players to regularly create...

Not to mention that nobody ever has to go to the bathroom. =] Generally our group tracks resources like food, water, ammunition, etc. only when it's interesting to the plot. We focus on adventure and storytelling more than accounting. Still, resting up between battles always seems to be a...

At some point in the last 50 years someone explained Hit Points in D&D as an abstraction of fatigue, injury, and even luck all mashed into one. Losing a few HP could just mean you got a little more tired during the fight. (Of course, this could also be from the time when one to-hit roll...

I'm looking at p. 14: in NEW 1.2 (Career Creation Walkthrough step 5) It's interesting that they don't mention any restrictions here, but you're right, it clearly says on p. 23 that "Not all races allow this substitution." And I was wrong when I said that it didn't say specifically that you...

I noticed this announcement in Facebook first, so I put all of my feedback there sigh. I did want to clarify, though: The new SOAK dice pools - are they supposed to be rolled like a contested attribute check, or are they supposed to remove dice from the damage dice pool? This part could use...

Hmm. The guys who invented the .gif file format call it "JIF" like the peanut butter, but that doesn't make it right. Woe Inn. Maybe this rule should have been part of the non-starter versions... =]

When learning WOIN we did better by starting with the WRRD for exactly this reason. The NOW rulebook has all of the important bits scattered all over, which in PDF form makes it difficult to comprehend cohesively. We spent a lot of time tag-teaming looking stuff up in the book while others...

The NEW rules allow you to (once per career) swap out any one attribute gain for a gain in one of your species/heritage/race attributes or an attribute tied to your hook. Does NOW say something similar? (I don't have NOW, so I'm relying on the WRRD for the NOW stuff.) It looks like for Human...

It sounds like the Open RPG Creation License that Paizo is spearheading might be a good bandwagon to jump on. Several big names in roleplaying have already signed on and they seem to have the right direction in mind.

I'm imagining that one can scan and detect some ships on the other side of a system, even if they can't really tell what kinds of ships they are, and then at some closer range they can get more details, etc. Same with planets and their satellites; one can see a planet from a long way away and...

p. 298 has a chart labeled "DICE POOL /n DEFENSE" that looks just like the "Attribute/Skill /n Dice Pool" table above it. Is this supposed to match the chart on p. 63 labeled "POOL /n DEF." giving the average score for the roll or am I missing something? I can't figure out what this chart is for.

Improviser. In the field, you need to improvise. Using your scientific know-how, you can create a crude object or device from your surroundings. This requires a LOG check, with a difficulty value equal to the purchase value of the object, and takes 30 minutes. But looking through the list of...