Hello Clayp.
Beery has said in his thread (about 2-3 weeks ago) he'd update the RFB to patch 1.3 and than quit. He's playing another game and said he was not going to play SH anymore for the coming time. This is probably the reason he's not appearing on the forum.
As for the mods, when using JSGME, it's not all that difficult and if something gets overwritten and you don't like the effect ingame, you can always roll back easy. I used RFB as base and installed a lot of mods "on top" so to speak and was happy with the gameplay. It requires some trial/error I'm afraid.
Anyway, just to inform
