VBAM Galaxies
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 12:02 pm
What is VBAM Galaxies?
VBAM Galaxies is the working title for a "community edition" of the VBAM rules that was born from a discussion of potential changes and updates to the encounter and strategic combat resolution rules that came up on the forums.
The goal of Galaxies is to let the entire community get together to hash out the best of the 1E, 2E, and optional rules and put together a working copy of what those rules might look like. This is a sandbox for testing new concepts, seeing what works, and what should be adopted back into the main VBAM product.
VBAM Galaxies GoogleDoc
To make collaboration easier, I've shared a GoogleDoc for us to use in developing the rules. Public users have comment rights on the document at present, which means you can go in, comment, and even add text to the book. Check it out!
VBAM Galaxies
Galactic Companion
Lost in a Sea of Stars
Engineering Manual
Carrier Wars
How will this affect other VBAM products?
That is largely up in the air right now. This is meant to run in parallel, however if we end up really catching fire in a bottle with improvements to the rules, then many of those updates could find themselves folded back into the main VBAM rules. This is more of a "skunkworks" to see what works and what doesn't and provide a public environment for playtest and discussion.
There's a chance that Galaxies could end up evolving into a revised version of VBAM 2E, but there's also a chance that it might just be a "here's another approach to the rules" parallel edition that will feed more into a Third Edition several years down the road.
VBAM Galaxies is the working title for a "community edition" of the VBAM rules that was born from a discussion of potential changes and updates to the encounter and strategic combat resolution rules that came up on the forums.
The goal of Galaxies is to let the entire community get together to hash out the best of the 1E, 2E, and optional rules and put together a working copy of what those rules might look like. This is a sandbox for testing new concepts, seeing what works, and what should be adopted back into the main VBAM product.
VBAM Galaxies GoogleDoc
To make collaboration easier, I've shared a GoogleDoc for us to use in developing the rules. Public users have comment rights on the document at present, which means you can go in, comment, and even add text to the book. Check it out!
VBAM Galaxies
Galactic Companion
Lost in a Sea of Stars
Engineering Manual
Carrier Wars
How will this affect other VBAM products?
That is largely up in the air right now. This is meant to run in parallel, however if we end up really catching fire in a bottle with improvements to the rules, then many of those updates could find themselves folded back into the main VBAM rules. This is more of a "skunkworks" to see what works and what doesn't and provide a public environment for playtest and discussion.
There's a chance that Galaxies could end up evolving into a revised version of VBAM 2E, but there's also a chance that it might just be a "here's another approach to the rules" parallel edition that will feed more into a Third Edition several years down the road.