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http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/14/14624.phtml Joe G Kushner's Summary: Old school looking map? Check. Solid price? Check. Squares of Hexes? Check? Worth while purchase for those who love maps? Check. Go to the full review for more information.

Quote: Originally Posted by Mr Teufel For those who don't care for so much 'stuff', it looks like you can buy the books separately as PDF's on Drivethru for quite a bit less. Not quite. The Player's Guide is available standalone, the PDF of the box set includes all the stuff as well as the GM and Player guides. Conveniently, it's not all one big PDF.

Quote: Originally Posted by Mr Teufel Milsims has it for $85, but sold out. (?) Don't order it from them, then.

For those who don't care for so much 'stuff', it looks like you can buy the books separately as PDF's on Drivethru for quite a bit less.

Quote: Originally Posted by Kaemaril Not quite. The Player's Guide is available standalone, the PDF of the box set includes all the stuff as well as the GM and Player guides. Conveniently, it's not all one big PDF. That's excellent. I hope they decide to release the player's guide in print as a standalone book, too.

Quote: Originally Posted by Kaemaril Well, let's look at what's actually in the box: Some blank character sheets (6 or 7). Some non-blank character sheets (around 14). Two sheets of thin card 'gadget cards' One sheet of cardboard cutout story point tokens. Approx 174. One adventure book, 32 pages, containing 2 full adventures and 23 seeds One "Read this first" four-page pamphlet One Player's Guide,...

Quote: Originally Posted by Kaemaril The system, much like Cinematic Unisystem, has only a limited number of skills. 12, to be specific: Athletics Convince Craft Fighting Knowledge Marksman Medicine Science Subterfuge Survival Technology Transport There's an optional 'area of expertise'/specialization rule. There aren't any. The basic one, I suppose, is 'Timelord and companion(s) travel time and space fighting evil...

Quote: Originally Posted by Mr Teufel Oooh, it's only $35US on DriveThru at the moment! Have to check the delivery cost... Oh, drat. It's a PDF. I'll just have to wait for the box to turn up here, then. As of my posting right now, Amazon has the game new for $37.77 US, plus postage and handling. Not that I'm suggesting you buy from Amazon, but I'm willing to bet there are other sources (such as Milsims) here that...

Quote: Originally Posted by GetterBurai Ehhh ... If the game doesn't need to be a full-color printed box set to be playable, then yes, I think it is unreasonable. I may not like paying big bucks for big crunchy games, but I'm willing to do it (when the crunchy parts are well-designed) because "what I get" is necessarily big . But when I'm looking at a napkin game (i.e. one you can rescribble the rules of on a...

Quote: Originally Posted by Maxwell Luther It wasn't about the C7 license in particular, it was about the license in general. Until the change over in producers, the use of classic series stuff was pretty much verboten unless it had been specifically used in the new series, which was the focus. I assumed that this was to avoid confusing and overwhelming folks new to the brand by opening up the floodgates of 40 years of show background...