Here's the thing, from what I've seen, Zebulon's guide gets trashed and bashed quite often in forums and yahoo groups dedicated to this game. If there are defenders of Zebs they dont seem to speak up much, from what I've seen.<br /><br />I'm glad Zebs came out personally and no I'm not trying to champion it. <br /><br />but for the most part the majority of zebs is the new skills and equipment and that was great stuff.<br /><br />The resolution system which everyone hates, was just a "bright idea" that some one at TSR came up with and was also instituted in a Gamma World edition then dropped. Honestly I think that what they were trying to do with that: having a great roll to hit mean high damage was admirable just flawed in its implimentation (Remember it came out at that time in TSR history when Lorraine Williams was in control and had forebad play testing because she wasn't paying people to play games). I never used it. <br /><br />The extra stuff on mega corps and cadres in Zebs was just setting fluff- pretty much take it or leave as per individual tastes- I liked it as it was one less thing I had to develope.<br /><br />The time line; well I've never been happy with that but from the number of other fan timelines I've seen on the net I guess most people had the same reaction. <br /><br />The new races- yuck I only liked the humma at the time dwarves in space (ifshnits) just didn't grab me though after 20 years and warhammer 40k and all the cool dwarves with space kit miniatures out there I'm much more amenable to them (maybe with a better background) if for no other reason than to use some of the really nice space dwarves made by hasselfreeminiatures. as for the race with 4 legs and 2 arms that just didn't make sense to me and that one I could just leave, in fact I cant even remember the name.<br /><br />Yeah it was half finished revision and suffered from no play testing (Like all other TSR products of the time). but I was certainly glad to have it. most of it was usable even if it lacked space ship skills and all references to the new resolution system were easy to translate to the old system. The things I didn't like in it I just didn't use but enough of it was usable that I found it indespensible.<br /><br />Maybe you all see it differently?<br /><br />Jedion<br /><br />
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