The Anla'Shok Expansion
Background
An expansion called "Anla'Shok" was the next expansion to be released for the Babylon 5 CCG when Precedence lost the license. It had certain design criteria: develop the rangers, expand the Minbari, design a "corporate faction", address issues with the ISA and Drakh, and design big-name replacements. Some of that information was made available in the only press release that Precedence put out about the expansion. What most people don't know is that the development stage was being done by an external committee of 5, of which I was one. Just before the license was lost we sent a preliminary card set to Precedence for development.
Some of the cards we sent have long since disappeared - we were working in teams - but I did have a collection of notes for over 100 cards that I had been involved with. Over the last few months I've reassembled what I could from the notes and played around creating virtual "dream cards" based on what was submitted.
These are by no means "official" cards. If Precedence had kept the license then their development team (i.e. Kevin and Mike) would undoubtedly have made changes that reflected where they wanted the game to go. The cards thart are here are what I might have done if I had been the development person. This means that I have worked at properly costing the cards, templating and checking their abilities as well as plugging some gaps that have become apparent. Feedback (typos, how the cards play, unintended consequences) will be gratefully received as many of these cards have never been playtested. It should be stressed that Warner Bros' and JMS hold all the various copyrights here so please respect that.
Resources
The link below opens a skydrive folder conatining card sheets. Each card sheet contains 8 cards except for three which contain only 4 cards each. They can be printed out in portrait format but you will need to either reduce them to 1/2 size or print them at 150dpi. They are stored as 6 pages of 'rares', 6 of 'uncommons' and 6 of 'commons' to facilitate printing them off for booster drafts and such like.
Clicking the link will take you to the skydrive page
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