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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crothian" data-source="post: 2031455" data-attributes="member: 232">Stargate Fantastic FrontiersStargate Fantastic Frontiers    Stargate is presently of the few original sci fi shows still on the air.  It is a nice break from from some of the other shows in that it seems to have a great following and a clear path.  It is also a great setting that seems designed for role playing.  It uses squads of four to five people that easily make a great player character party.  The Stargate is a device that allows travel between the stars and can set character up with highly diverse settings that are easy to get to.  It has a great connection with history and mythology as many of the aliens we learn play the roles of ancient gods.  The technology level can be highly variable from planet to planet and easily exceed the tech level of Earth.  So, characters can get advanced weapons and devices they do not fully understand.      Fantastic Frontiers is the first supplement for the Stargate role playing game.  IT covers season one of the show.  The book is soft bound unlike the hardback main book.  It is full color with a great lay out.  It is in the same style as the main book. It has one hundred and seventy six pages and it is filled with ideas and adventures.      The book is a very complete run down of the first season.  It will be more meaningful for people who have seen the show and more importantly this season, but the writers do not seem to assume everyone will be familiar with the show.  Almost the first half of this book is a very complete run down of each episode in the first season.  They are well presented having great ideas to offer on how to use the episodes and the material in them for other adventures.  Just because the SG-1 team (the most famous of the Stargate teams and stars of the TV show) have been there does not mean the adventures are exhausted at these places.  There are great details and insights into some of the goings on in the first season.      After the episodes summaries comes a very complete look at many of the NPCs but major and minor.  There is almost forty pages of them allowing for easy use of almost all the characters seen in the first season.  The NPCs are given a short write up of background information and it would be a little more useful if the show has been to use them.  But the stat blocks are rarely more then a column long so that each one does not take up a lot of space like in many d20 fantasy products.      The book pretty much allows one to use anything they see in the first season of the show.  There are new races and character creation options based on the places and people that are shown in the season.  There area few new prestige classes and NPCs classes as well as plenty of new feats and equipment.  This is a great book that really rounds out the main book with options from early in the shows existence.      Stargate has really impressed me as a game.  The show I have really liked but the game really captures the elements of the show and I really hope that the game can continue onwards.</blockquote>

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