This is the third of four year-sourcebooks for the B5 game, each describing one of the years of the series beyond the first (the first is included in the core book). As with the other books in the sequence, it's a 128-page full colour softback book. There are four chapters.
Chapter 1 describes the iconic characters at the start of season 4. Sheridan has reached 15th level, but still has only 37 hit points (which is a good thing). The other characters have similarly risen in level. Nice, but I'm not sure of the value of this material being updated book after book. Still, I'd be complaining if it wasn't covered here.
Chapter 2 describes the series, episode by episode. Each has a summary, new rules, and adventure ideas. This is the bulk of the book, running to 77 pages. It's good stuff, but not the way I would have structured the game, as I've mentioned before.
Chapter 3 provides new rules material, including rules for broadcating (illegally or otherwise), rules for interrogation, rules for hitching lifts across the gamaxy (seriously), and two prestige classes: Shadow and Vorlon agents. These are quite nice, although it's a significant surprise that Lyta doesn't have levels as a Vorlon agent.
Finally, chapter 4 has three pages of new equipment. Not surprisingly, there's nothing earth-shaking here, just a few new additions that are quite nice.
This book is competent, and does the same job as the others in the series as well as they do. I'm not sure I can recommend it, since most of the book contains summaries for episodes we've all seen. Still, lots of adventure ideas here, which are nice.
Mongoose claim that they've improved the editing of their books lately, and I'm inclined to agree. However, they still need to do more. There are many instances here of word-substitution errors. Discrete instead of discreet (hint: anyone can hope to be discreet. Only conjoined twins can really hope to be discrete), too instead of to, their instead of there. They're less common, but still a noticable flaw in the book, and still annoy me.
Next up: I'm finishing off Eberron at the moment, with 70-odd pages in the last chapter to read.
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