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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 4332279" data-attributes="member: 7394">Thanks for the review. A question though, since the ENWorld review section is broken, could you do us a favor and post a copy of this at the product page over at RPGNow? <a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=56479" target="_blank">http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=56479</a>Second, this is a good review but I do have a couple of constructive and friendly responses.I agree, this would be a nightmare to print. That's why the PDF has layers turned on. That means that you can click the layers tab in Adobe reader and turn off background elements and artwork and just print the text if you'd like. Since I'm still waiting on a physical copy of the book, I've already done some text only printing for my home game.I can see this point of view. It was my intention to make the alien races as alien as possible, which would be a break from the typical Star Trek approach, where every alien is essentially a human with a bumpy forehead. The Tallinites and the Lamogos have been favorites with the players in my games so far, but one of the first expansions I'm working on is a worlds book that will detail more choices for playable alien races.As with many settings, I tried to present a couple of large conflicts. I wanted one of them to be clearly defined and one not so clearly defined. I'd be curious to hear what possible conclusions you've reached with the R'Tillek. Feel free to email me offline if you want to share. The other major conflict is the cold war between Earth and Lamog, which the review really didn't touch upon.I've started on this with my design blogs. Specifically, in the most recent one, I go into how to use the setting to emulate some popular space opera sub-genres. That's located here: <a href="http://darrindrader.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://darrindrader.blogspot.com/</a> I will also be expanding on this issue in one manner or another in the future, either in the form of more blog entries, or other products. As you point out though, I was looking for a setting that didn't have too narrow of a focus. To compare it to fantasy settings, I was looking for it to be more Forgotten Realms than Dragonlance in this respect.</blockquote>

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