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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mongoose_Matt" data-source="post: 1066943" data-attributes="member: 239">Hi there,1.  We had a choice - fill up pages with material already in the PHB, or fill them with cool new B5 material.  Most people playing B5 will already know the d20 System inside out so the flicking between the books will be at a minimum.2.  Adding Con does not work - remember that a good Con affects your ability to stabilise from crippling wounds, so it is by no means redundant.  However, given the low hit points of the game, adding Con modifiers every level would blow any balance and put too much weight on the ability score (everyone would have a decent Con score).  We tried it at first level only but, to be honest, that is a wishy-washy halfway of doing things and was not satisfactory.  As it stands, Con is important but not overly so and the differences in hit point totals (matched with the weapons in the game) are minimal between most characters, which is exactly what we wanted to reflect.3.  The first batch of races are the 'core' selections for players.  Think of the others as NPCs or 'monsters'.  However, we left the opportunity for players to have a go at them, much in the same way as the Expert, Aristocrat, etc classes in the DMG are presented.4.  This was partially to break up the S&P chapter from being one long block of text.  Also, many items described there would not sit well in the main rules chapters and so the decision was made to keep them all in that chapter.  We did, however, consider it.5.  Spacecraft are not a prime focus of B5 (though they are pretty funky) and so they were not given their own chapter.  Oh, and I would not _anyone_ 'buy' something like a Hyperion.  Ever.6.  The award is for each character.7.  That is exactly why it is toned down - to stop it having an undue effect whereby all 1st level characters take it.Hope that helps!</blockquote>

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