[Mike Fischer]

I did not get a physical copy of SBA. It's my hope that the binding and quality will be high and based on Cubicle 7's Qin I think there's good reason to be optimistic.

Wraithform does sum up what my review may have neglected. There are a lot of chapters and a lot of illustrations in this book. Full starship rules, world settings, robots, space monsters. The comprehensive quality of the rules is just impressive.

In addition I may have failed to make clear just how much work the authors spent explaining and illustrating rules and story mechanisms. That's one quality that makes SBA seem like a great beginner's game- both in the sense of beginning players and beginning GMs. There's lots of room for in depth experienced play but for someone who is just starting out and unclear on concepts we take for granted this book goes the distance in explaining virtually everything. At the same time all that explaining does eat up some pages...

That being said it's not the Only beginner's game out there and I wouldn't try and say which is the best. It is an option that I would put on anyone's short list tho.

M.