So I am preparing to run the three starter modules for my 3-man RP group for 5e L5R from 1st February onwards. However I was struggling to get the background feel for my players, so I sought out some guidance on the free fiction for the rework of the timeline. I downloaded each and every fiction, all 85 of them, and placed them into a single google folder, cateloged them using another website (source in the link below) and was going to share them.
Alas a friend of my, Snoop Hogg, did me a solid and created the ultimate; fictions 1 - 85 in a single PDF. It is the last PDF in the folder, but you can find the link in the cateloging document. Sharing it here because it's too much to go through the L5R website and download them individually, especially if you are returning and don't know the timeline.
I will do my best to keep it up to date, but if I am missing something, let me know.
Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tQjPPcjsMR0Cip4dOTIhsm8G_VOSEIBP?usp=sharing
Note: Information was correct at time of compilation and uploading (23/01/20).
 

My opinion is that if your biggest reason for choosing your hobby is to make money, you're looking for disappointment. Financial success can come from a hobby, but its a very rare and unpredictable thing.
You should create and play because you find it fun to create and play. If money is your goal you should work on making your own product.

If you really think you're going to produce something that awesome after a couple years of play and development, then sure, plan ahead and go with a system that has an open license.
On the other hand, if your awesome universe relies on mechanical slavery to a particular system, then it won't be awesome.  If it has drama, story, narrative, and interesting NPCs with motives, then it should be convertible into any system.
So I'd say you're putting the cart before the horse.
With no offence intended towards anyone, I'm going to take a wild-eyed guess and say that 99% of the people on these boards won't be in the position of having an awesome universe ready for sale in any system, never mind this one.
Having an open system could encourage more 3rd party development, but there's plenty of that out there already.  If the story is good you can easily cross systems or genres.  I can't tell you how many fantasy plots I've incorporated into my SW games.

So I am preparing to run the three starter modules for my 3-man RP group for 5e L5R from 1st February onwards. However I was struggling to get the background feel for my players, so I sought out some guidance on the free fiction for the rework of the timeline. I downloaded each and every fiction, all 85 of them, and placed them into a single google folder, cateloged them using another website (source in the link below) and was going to share them.
Alas a friend of my, Snoop Hogg, did me a solid and created the ultimate; fictions 1 - 85 in a single PDF. It is the last PDF in the folder, but you can find the link in the cateloging document. Sharing it here because it's too much to go through the L5R website and download them individually, especially if you are returning and don't know the timeline.
I will do my best to keep it up to date, but if I am missing something, let me know.
Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tQjPPcjsMR0Cip4dOTIhsm8G_VOSEIBP?usp=sharing
Note: Information was correct at time of compilation and uploading (23/01/20).
 

Thank you Jason. Having scanned through it appears as those on the site are already included in the library. Sadly the flavour texts are all written manually and not scanned across, so they cannot be included.
Thanks again though.

So I am preparing to run the three starter modules for my 3-man RP group for 5e L5R from 1st February onwards. However I was struggling to get the background feel for my players, so I sought out some guidance on the free fiction for the rework of the timeline. I downloaded each and every fiction, all 85 of them, and placed them into a single google folder, cateloged them using another website (source in the link below) and was going to share them.
Alas a friend of my, Snoop Hogg, did me a solid and created the ultimate; fictions 1 - 85 in a single PDF. It is the last PDF in the folder, but you can find the link in the cateloging document. Sharing it here because it's too much to go through the L5R website and download them individually, especially if you are returning and don't know the timeline.
I will do my best to keep it up to date, but if I am missing something, let me know.
Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tQjPPcjsMR0Cip4dOTIhsm8G_VOSEIBP?usp=sharing
Note: Information was correct at time of compilation and uploading (23/01/20).
 

So I am preparing to run the three starter modules for my 3-man RP group for 5e L5R from 1st February onwards. However I was struggling to get the background feel for my players, so I sought out some guidance on the free fiction for the rework of the timeline. I downloaded each and every fiction, all 85 of them, and placed them into a single google folder, cateloged them using another website (source in the link below) and was going to share them.
Alas a friend of my, Snoop Hogg, did me a solid and created the ultimate; fictions 1 - 85 in a single PDF. It is the last PDF in the folder, but you can find the link in the cateloging document. Sharing it here because it's too much to go through the L5R website and download them individually, especially if you are returning and don't know the timeline.
I will do my best to keep it up to date, but if I am missing something, let me know.
Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tQjPPcjsMR0Cip4dOTIhsm8G_VOSEIBP?usp=sharing
Note: Information was correct at time of compilation and uploading (23/01/20).
 

So I am preparing to run the three starter modules for my 3-man RP group for 5e L5R from 1st February onwards. However I was struggling to get the background feel for my players, so I sought out some guidance on the free fiction for the rework of the timeline. I downloaded each and every fiction, all 85 of them, and placed them into a single google folder, cateloged them using another website (source in the link below) and was going to share them.
Alas a friend of my, Snoop Hogg, did me a solid and created the ultimate; fictions 1 - 85 in a single PDF. It is the last PDF in the folder, but you can find the link in the cateloging document. Sharing it here because it's too much to go through the L5R website and download them individually, especially if you are returning and don't know the timeline.
I will do my best to keep it up to date, but if I am missing something, let me know.
Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tQjPPcjsMR0Cip4dOTIhsm8G_VOSEIBP?usp=sharing
Note: Information was correct at time of compilation and uploading (23/01/20).
 

The Year is 1123.
The name of the Place is Otosan Uchi!
(queue Babylon 5 music)

One-Shot Adventures for Genesys
Zombie High
It’s the night of the Halloween dance at Sentinel Lake high school, an event which is sure to prove—lively.

I'm just curious because I am coming back into the game and I'd love for there to be more waves coming. Any ideas if there are?

I'm just curious because I am coming back into the game and I'd love for there to be more waves coming. Any ideas if there are?

I'm just curious because I am coming back into the game and I'd love for there to be more waves coming. Any ideas if there are?

Simple question: Does anyone have a list of generic NPCs available for the 5E beta? 

I'm just curious because I am coming back into the game and I'd love for there to be more waves coming. Any ideas if there are?

It still doesn't make sense or work correctly, I think the assisting needs to be capped to assure that experience and ability out trump assisting.

Someone at level 1 could better someone who was level 5+ with the correct number of assists. That doesn't make the game balanced, and basically means that you just need X number of players with the basic skills and then everyone else can assist bump the required player up.

Cap assisting!!

In a holdover habit from my Warhammer days, I feel completely obligated to put some backstory together for anything and everything used in tabletop gaming, with Armada being no exception - and so, the genesis of my own Rebel fleet is forming.
The basic idea is that a relatively well-off planet in the Outer Rim (sort of the trade centre for a small cluster of systems, with a regional focus on mining) has a long naval tradition, with a heavy focus on partaking in anti-pirate operations throughout the cluster.
At the outbreak of the Clone Wars, the planetary rulers are feeling kinda uneasy regardless of who wins - The Republic is this staggering mess of corrupt beaurocracy, whilst the Separatists are proving themselves to be dangerously ruthless. 
And so, a third option is explored - pushing resources around in as discrete a manner possible, several secret asteroid bases are established and their fleet is expanded and upgraded, to ensure a proper negotiating position can be upheld once the dust settles and the interests of the cluster will be protected.
The formation of the Empire is alarming to say the least, and almost immediately the planetary leadership decides to create it's own resistance movement, based around it's secret and difficult-to-trace fleet. 
I am ballparking such a force to be comprised of perhaps 3-5 corvettes, backed up by 1-2 frigates. A bulk cruiser (which will remain conveniently away from actual combat for the purposes of Armada) and a handful of modified transports would provide carrier space for several squadrons of older fighters (a mix of widely-available Z-95s and Y-Wings) and multiple larger patrol gunships - comprising partially of and otherwise represented on-table by Lancers and modified YT-series freighters. 
The general composition of the fleet seems in line with canon fleet cells such as the Phoenix group, though it manages to be both a little larger and somewhat less ad-hoc due to its genesis as a proper military/policing outfit. Of particular note should be the relative profusion of the multi-crew "gunships", which I feel would be naturally in heavy use by a system navy whose main traditional purpose was patrolling against pirates and smugglers due to their size and response speed.
What do people think? Am I overestimating the likely resources of such a planet? 

I think the way things would be done would echo maritime practices on earth.
In earth history the transport of troops over long distances has been by troopships, simply unarmed ocean-going ships designed to efficiently move lots of troops. In modern times these have often been commandeered liners (for example the Canberra in the Falklands War). Specialised transports called landing ships, usually lightly armed (for example LSTs - Landing Ship Tank) have also been used to deliver men and material over long distances. These allowed for shore-to-shore (read: planet-to-planet) delivery of military forces. However they were too vulnerable to be used in an opposed landing, so smaller transports called landing craft (read: dropships/shuttles) were used for the actual landing phase of an attack. The landing craft would collect the troops and vehicles from the long-range transports and ferry them to the target. Larger landing craft could be ocean-going, but smaller ones would have to be carried by specialised ships.
It is logical to assume this framework would be used in the Star Wars universe as well. The Y-85 Titan Dropship is the rough equivalent of the WW2 era LCT - Landing Craft Tank. Dropships would however have to be carried by large ships with hyper-space capability. The Sentinel-class shuttle could carry up to 75 troops, but I would imagine that there would be larger shuttles/dropships in the Star Wars universe that we just don't know about.

Just started listening to it.  I really enjoyed the old thrawn trilogy, and I'm hoping this one stacks up. 

That is all. 
Read it, or alternatively, get the unabridged audiobook and listen to it.
easily the best Star Wars book I own, and has the advantage of being canon, too...

Aren't they Mel's Miniatures?
On second thoughts the Basestar is way too small.

Decided to do a bit of texturing as I work on this build.
Here's a progress pic:

I assume ISD’s have airlocks. That would be a quick and efficient way to get them off the ship. 

Let's see if we can figure out why there's a price difference...
 
 
Heroclix:
 

 
Star Trek Attack Wing:
 

 
D&D Attack Wing:
 

 
X-Wing:
 

 
 
Warhammer 40K:
 

 
 
 
 
What you get out of X-Wing is very high quality for the price. What you get out of WizKids is sub-par. What you get from GW is a really high quality miniature but requires painting skills.

We need a new subforum for all the posts discussing the new subforums.