Auld Is not all as about the system as like it seems a step back...I had my head full of systems...I have GM's a few a read a lot more...and sometimes is not about good of bad...is about pages and pages of nothing but how to...? I lately prefer simple rules and goods adventures/campaigns/worlds ... D&D allways as appealed more to me in the terms of settings (Dark sun/ Ravenloft/ Dragonlace...) than in the term of rules...Preferences that one have...
And I kind of prefer the mongoose one...because in myself i know that i will never GM B5 but at least the book is a good insider of the serie (photos, details, maps, season recordatory...) I prefer the feeling of the B5 of mongoose (it seems a bit more oficial)...rules...well I don't need more rules...my head will explode with rules...I have to begin to make my own rules (That's the only thing that realy made me think about the d20 thing is the one rule for all...)

Yes, the background material in the Mongoose version is superb! Now if only they will come out with the Pak'ma'ra Gourmet Guide to the Galaxy...

The Auld Grump, finger lickin' good...

*EDIT* the Chameleon Eclectic system actually was very simple at its core, but because the ship combat system used vector movement it could get complicated. Combat not involving ships was very fast indeed, and left dead characters in its wake. Hero points could be used to avoid dying, but recovery took long enough that most sane folks will try to avoid combat.

In the game I ran the PCs ended up guarding sheep on Mars as a punishment detail, the idea of sheep in a low gravity environment with a helium rich atmospher struck me as funny...

As far as I know, Mel is a white het as far as WWG is concerned. Pictures of his stuff here are okay, as long as they are with WWG stuff. Any higher-ups want to disabuse me of this notion, fire away.....