It's been revealed! Yay!

I'm hoping this means it will be out quickly after the beta period is finished.

www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp

$30 is a great price for what you get too.

Though I hope they release more details soon on the final version of the core book, and what the physical dice set will run for too…

I was hoping the final core book release would be a box set too.  But this is an interesting compromise between a boxed beginner's set, which will give us dice, and tokens, and maps, and lots of goodies; and what I assume will be a hardback book release for the full core rules.

This is cool, they are hoping to have this available for christmas from the look of it!

 Shut up and take my money! 

You guys have realised the full rules aren't in this, right?

I mean, I'll probably still get it for the adventure, extra dice, and the floorplans of that freighter.

This is FFG version of this:

right?

"The abridged and simplified ruleset, which is incorporated into the included adventure…"

This sounds like something I am not interested in at all. I assume they are coming out with a full rulebook also, perhaps dice is an add-on.

I am assuming it'll be something like THIS

One thing to take away from this, is that the dice probably aren't going to be adjusted for any symbol spread.

I'm torn.

32 pages is a heckuva lot of adventure, especially considering the amount of content that Sterling Hershey was able to jam into the small space for Crates of Krayts. But part of me wonders how much of the adventure is going to be devoted to rules that aren't addressed in the abridged book.

I'm on the fence right now. I'll definitely be watching for more details.

Well it shows photos right there on the page. It even says that quote i put about being simplified rules. All this just makes it sound like something I would not get, much like the Pathfinder one. I already had the 3 core books… was not going to get the beginner box.

On another note… this is kind of genius for people who were not in the beta, and kind of want to see what it is like. For $30 you can check it out, run an adventure and see if you like it. Kind of brilliant.

 I'm getting it for the dice and the adventure if anything.  $30 is a steal in my book.

Yancy

Gallandro said:

Yeah that is true… unless the 30 pages of the adventure is because they are walking you through the rules… and that is taking up the extra space (which they more or less say in the description, see below).

"The abridged and simplified ruleset, which is incorporated into the included adventure, lets you learn as you play…"

That to me sounds like a lot of space in the adventure. We will have to see I guess.

Ah… I found this too…

HOW BEGINNER BOX WILL DIFFER FROM CORE RULES

Had a thought.

What if it's a short series of adventures? Like an introductory "campaign"?

It's being called a 32 page Adventure Book. That does give me some amount of pause for thought. That could be worth $30

Cyril said:

Yeah agreed. $30 is a dynamite price for this intro idea for sure.

$30 might be worth it for dice, adventure and the cool maps (they have destiny tokens in there too, but I see no photo of them). We will have to wait and see. I just have a feeling calling this a 30 page adventure might be stretching it a bit. Might be 10 pages of extra training/explaination. Of course… it might still be worth the $30.

 I'm probably most excited to get my paws on the ship poster. That seems like a fun thing to have sitting in the center of the table. Moar dice are aways welcome too.