[RPG]: Threats of the Galaxy, reviewed by Phlophouse (4/4)

[RPGnet Reviews]

http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/14/14157.phtml

Peter A A Murray's Summary:

The much needed supplement to Saga Edition, faithfully fills the Star Wars branding and is indispensable for the Gamemaster. Unfortunately, it is not as an entertaining or exciting as other Saga Edition supplements.

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[bielmic]

i agree; the book is still a must buy. the characters inside sometimes seemed underpowered compared with PC's of the same level due to the fact that the threats entries are balanced, well rounded, competent characters compared with the combat specialists of my old group.

one big complaint on the star wars message boards when the book came out was the slew (dozens and dozens) of stat block errors. the vast majority were minor (missing a feat or talent, bonuses off by 1 or 2) but many were disappointed by that. while the characters are still very usuable (i personally never encountered an error that i needed to change on the fly and couldn't in less than 5 seconds), it does show a lack of professionalism on the part of WOTC. it's the same thing as if you picked up a novel riddled with spelling mistakes and typos; the plot may still be excellent and the characters engaging but constantly coming across errors like that is distracting. WOTC needs to hire an RPG fanboy whose job it is to simple number crunch the stat blocks. that sounds like a perfect intern assignment, imho.

[ob1knorrb]

Is there a consolidated list of corrections for the book somewhere?

[bielmic]

i don't have a list myself but you might be able to use the search function on the WOTC or the d20radio.com message boards to find them. both of the two boards i visit for this game had long threads regarding the topics and one of them had a list of mistakes (but i can't recall which one).