This is the 10th anniversary edition. Yes, it's been 10 years, and we want to present our favorite game with some style. This book contains everything you need to get started playing Battlelords: 12 fully detailed player character races, step-by-step character generation, extensive background information on the Alliance and life in the 23rd century, character Fortune tables, over 150 skills, 400 pieces of weapons and equipment, over 250 matrix powers, and the easy to use d100 percentile system. Also included are the Hell's Point campaign scenario, the Flexsteel Jungle mini-adventure, NPCs, and Player Character Archetypes for each race to allow you to start playing as soon as possible. The universe is infinite, and with Battlelords, so are your gaming possibilities.
We have revamped the main rulebook to make it easier to use than ever before, and better to look at. The 10th Anniversary Edition has 25% MORE artwork, with 70% of the total art being new! It has undergone a complete reorganization, with racial information consolidated, new cover art, an improved index/table of contents, new computer rules, and more! It has been reorganized into essentially two halves: the first half taking you through character creation step by step, with the second half giving you the rules, background info, and Battle Master info you'll need to play. The combat system has been revamped somewhat to include some of the innovations found in the Battlelords Journal supplement. Also, the computer rules have been completely changed to make them much more useful and integral part of the game. We've also greatly improved the table of contents and index. Lastly, fans of earlier editions will note that we have upgraded the binding for the books to the Otabind system which should give the books much longer life and will also allow them to lay flat.
Beyond the Rift features:
* Detailed campaign setting beyond the boundaries of the known universe
* 7 new and fully detailed player character races
* "I was just growing up tables" for each new race
* Over a dozen new alien weapon systems
* New alien armor, armor options, defensive systems, and equipment
* 3 new matrix disciplines and over 100 new matrices, including new combat focused matrixes
* Advanced hand-to-hand combat and martial arts rules for any Battlelords game
* New Mazian combat rules and Mazian hand-to-hand skill
* Dozens of scenario ideas for starting your Zenax adventures
* Rules for playing an extended campaign away from Alliance controlled space
Rift Runners make the best pay!
Some have claimed that beyond the great Motarian rift there are other universes yet to be discovered. Universes with untapped resources waiting to be exploited by the galactic mega-corporations of the Alliance. The mega-corps are keenly aware that discovering the secret to rift travel could ensure their financial prosperity into perpetuity and they are willing to pay handsomely for it. Fortunately for them there are no shortages of Battlelords who are willing to risk it all and enter the rift.
These "rift runners" are paid obscene amounts of money by their corporate sponsors to enter the vortex and make scientific measurements of phenomenon. Not all of them return, but not all of them meet their demise either. The truth is there are other universes beyond the rift and the truth is they have already been discovered. Discovered by those who never return. Trapped on the other side. Trapped beyond the rift.
Tired of pounding the pavement or slogging through the mud? It's time for your Merc to finally step up to some proper transportation. A speedy skimmer or an armored assault vehicle; any type for any job is out there waiting for you. And if you've really got the cash and some hardcore enemies, then step up to Ultra Armor, the ultimate in personal protection and mobile firepower in the Alliance. So saddle-up. It's time to RIDE.
Engines of War includes:
* Complete rules for piloting, damaging, and fighting vehicles in the Battlelords of the Twenty-Third Century setting
* More than 40 detailed skimmers, wheeled vehicles and Ultra Armors
* New weapons and equipment to customize your vehicle
* Many optional rules to increase the level of detail or streamline game play
* New vehicle-specific skills
* Detailed Record Sheets for a Vehicle and Ultra Armor included
This player's supplement has a wealth of new information to help flesh out your Battlelords character. Features include: three new races, the Kizanti, Goola-Goola, and I-Bot; Expanded information on the Eridani and Phentari; Expanded "When I Was Growing Up" and "Fickle Finger of Fate" tables; New Matrix Powers for Empaths, Healers, and Energy Controllers; More detailed racial features and descriptions; Expanded Skill Listings... And More! NEW in this edition: All of the racial characteristics tables have been expanded to include all 27 races!
The Galactic Underground 3 is a new Player Supplement for the Battlelords of the Twenty-third Century RPG. The GU3 contains "I Was Just Growing Up" tables for all the races in the Battlelords core book and supplements, detailed information on mega-corps, NPCs, information for PCs who want to adventure as part of the Alliance military, Galactic Control and Galactic X, and scores of new matrices for the Ikrini, Gemini, and Jezzedaic Priests.
Armor, Equipment, and Cybernetics; lots of it. That's what you'll find in book one of Lock-N-Load. This large compendium of equipment for Battlelords provides the player and BM with a myriad of ways to protect and enhance their players or NPCs. A huge amount of armor options and styles will lead to almost limitless combinations so each player can protect and equip his character exactly as he wants. With it, the players have the necessities to give their characters a fighting chance to survive the challenges of the unknown in the 23rd century. The largest equipment manual in sci-fi roleplaying just got better.
Weapons. Lots of them. It's what Lock-N-Load: Weapons & Tactics is all about. Over the eons all of the sentient races in the universe have come up with a myriad of ways to slaughter their fellow sentient. Whether it's a piece of chipped flint or an Abomination Omega Cannon, they've all held the same purpose: make the other guy do what you want or get rid of him permanently. By the late twenty-third century the science of killing has risen to a veritable art form. Never before has it been so easy to turn thine enemy into a smoking, greasy memory with barely the push of a button; sometimes merely a thought! Whether you like to work close with the blade, or reach to the horizon with a Gauss Rifle, it's all here for you; over 600 different weapons. Any Battlelord can find the perfect tool for the job. So don't wait and load up today!
This campaign supplement contains over 100 developed worlds, and three new PC races. The focus of the work is to provide background information for roleplaying, detailing over 50 NPC groups and player character services. Learn about ...
* Pirates
* Cyball
* the Anarchist Rebellion Movement (ARM)
* Aeodronian
* Misha "Dream Merchant"
* Sye-Men
A must have sourcebook for all Battlelords players.
