Emperor Xan

Awesome!  Thank you for the links.  Seems I only missed two books and one has already been ordered.  Just need to find a copy of one at a reasonable price and I have all the books save the collector's edition of Champions.  These answered a lot of questions for me.

So, I have a tendency to be a completest with certain systems and much to my chagrin, I haven't found a list of books online for 5th edition, so I can't figure out what I'm missing, such as DOJHERO0224 going by the numbers on the spines.  Also, were there ever any 700s published?  If someone can point me to a list of all the books I'll be very grateful.

Thanks in advance.

Re: STAR HERO Reading List

Guess I'll give up the ghost if Snow Crash is getting mentioned somewhere else. Now...could I interest you in something involving the building of cosmologies?

Re: STAR HERO Reading List

IMHO' date=' [i']Neuromancer[/i] is the cyberpunk novel, and would still be a good example of SF noír even if the cyberpunk genre hadn't developed. Snow Crash is an affectionate and well-done parody of the genre, but it doesn't break any new ground. (That would be my reason, but I'm sure Steve has his.)

 

Incidentally, Steve, you may want to check out Gibson's Bigend trilogy as an example of SF themes explored in a modern setting.

The fact that it's a parody is all the more reason for its inclusion as a counterpoint to the hard-edged view of the genre. Hitchhiker's Guide is another example of sci-fi parody, but it is every bit as much a part of the exploration of the genre's limits as Stephenson's works are for their various genres (especially the Baroque Cycle).

For what it's worth, I've read Pattern Recognition and can honestly say if you've read the Sprawl trilogy, you pretty much know the story. After all, it's patterned on the third entry of that series.

Re: STAR HERO Reading List

I like Snow Crash a lot' date=' and in fact re-read it a couple years ago, but I consider it more an entry in the [i']Cyber Hero[/i] reading list than the pure Star Hero reading list. Definitely a fun book any way you slice it, though.

Then how do you include Gibson's Neuromancer in the list?

Re: STAR HERO Reading List

Wow, six pages in and no mention of Neal Stephenson? Dude, seriously? Snow Crash didn't make anyone's list? I'm a bit disappointed in that. A few others I didn't see:

The Memory of Earth, Orson Scott Card

The Dark Tower, Stephen King

The Unincorporated Man, Dani and Eytan Kollin

The Night's Dawn Trilogy, Peter F. Hamilton

Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke

I noticed that none of the blue books in 6th Edition mentioned how gravity works, other than a 2:1 ratio for climbing in flight, etc. Is this a subject that will be detailed in, say, a sci-fi expansion, or is it left to the GM? On a related issue, does zero-g affect powers like Telekinesis in terms of how much weight it can push/pull?

Re: Bloodstone + Dark Tower

One of the things that writing has taught me is that no matter how much one tries to divest himself of the material, the search for some answer is hidden in the work.

Okay, the confusion stems from the following:

Experience Points are listed in the Disadvantage section of creatures. Page 555 of 5ER gives a table for the number of points that should be gained from an adventure. Are these tables the numbers that should be given for defeating the creature in addition to completing an adventure successfully? Nothing I've read has shown the Experience Points in the Disadvantages of a creature as an award nor if this is an ad hoc system for determining such a value if I create my own opponents, hence my confusion as to how it works or what it is used for.

Re: Bloodstone + Dark Tower

Hope your version has a better ending then the Dark Tower series did.

I know this is coming nearly a year after the fact, but the series is a metaphor for the journey of the writer. No matter how close you get, the answers from each story you write leave you dissatisified and the journey begins once more, albeit this time with a little something extra to show you've gained more insight.

I've looked through the revised core book and HSB, but I still cannot find anything that explains how Experience Points work as a disadvantage. Where can I find information concerning this?