The ''Babylon 5 Roleplaying Game'' is a role-playing game published by

Mongoose Publishing Mongoose Publishing is a British manufacturer of role-playing games, miniatures, and card games, publishing material since 2001. Its licenses include products based on the science fiction properties ''Traveller'', '' Judge Dredd'', and ''Parano ...

in 2003.

Description

The ''Babylon 5 Roleplaying Game'' is based on the ''

Babylon 5 ''Babylon 5'' is an American space opera television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski, under the Babylonian Productions label, in association with Straczynski's Synthetic Worlds Ltd. and Warner Bros. Domestic Tele ...

'' TV series. The game's mechanic is the d20 System published by

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with character classes and races specific to the setting. Characters have a low number of hit points meaning that they can die very easily, in keeping with the show.

Publication history

The ''Babylon 5 Roleplaying Game'' was published by

in 2003. A second edition of the core rules was published in 2006 using the WotC

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. In 2008 Mongoose published ''Universe of Babylon 5'', a set of rules allowing the game to use Mongoose's edition of Traveller as its RPG engine instead of the d20 System.

Reception

''Babylon 5'' won the 2004 Silver

Ennie Award The ENNIE Awards (previously stylized as ENnie Awards) are awards for role-playing game (RPG) products (including game-related accessories, publications, and art) and their creators. The awards were created in 2001 by Russ Morrissey of EN World ...

for "Best Licensed Product".

References

Babylon 5 British role-playing games ENnies winners Mongoose Publishing games Role-playing games based on television series Role-playing games introduced in 2003 Space opera role-playing games {{rpg-stub