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Apprentice
 
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| I'm starting my first campaign, and am using the SW d20 system, and just wondered what people think of it, if they've played it. My main motivation was that I'm a huge SW fan, and wanted to use what I assume is an established system, though I heard a couple of people offline say it was a bit too complicated. So in my everlasting confusion, I set off on my quest to find answers...help! ~Emma/FitPiggy
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Champion
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| I think you'll find the majority of this forum are fellow Star Wars fans! I used to play the West End Games Star Wars RPG. It isn't perfect by any strecth of the imagination, but alot of fun. I personally vastly prefer it to D20 Star Wars which really didn't blow me away. I don't think the D20 version gives the players enough of a "hero" edge. I also think it's trying to make a rules template (i.e. D20) fit a system which it doesn't work with. Just my humble opinion though. Matt J
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D20 SW did introduce some very nice concepts into D20, particularly the idea of fatigue points, a penalty to stats for being wounded, etc. It's a bit chunky, but plays reasonably well. Being D20, the combat works betters if you use actual figures and floorlpans, which really depends if you like that sort of thing or not.
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MattJ (5/8/2008)
I think you'll find the majority of this forum are fellow Star Wars fans!
I like the films, I've never really got into the TT rpg. I've played it a few times in it's various incarnations and my conclusion is that Star Wars simply doesn't make a very good roleplaying game. Mainly because of Jedi, which in films do what the script writers tell them and in roleplaying games do what their abilities allow.
I was recently introduced to this sketch which I think perfectly sums up the problems with Star Wars as a concept for a roleplaying game. Angel Summoner is your Jedi, accompanied by a whole party of BMX bandits.
History is an important source for LRP. Along with other works of fiction.
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Ace video, Matt -- I'd not seen that before.
Saga Edition is a big improvement on the old SW d20, IMO. It's less complex (no fatigue points), and better balanced (Jedis / Angel Summoners have been nerfed). Plus, right in the core book, there are full rules for non-Jedi force users. I've run a game with just 2 PCs, a Force Witch and a Diplomat, who've proved to be more-or-less equally capable (and quite compatible, in terms of abilities).
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Heroic Knight
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I love angel summoners staff, I want one  I have to say I wasn't impressed by the 1st ed SW rules WOC published, although the copy of 1.1 a friend purchased was such an improvement I decided to wait until all the three prequels where out of the way, before looking at the game again. Certainly the Saga edition does look all new and shiny, I'll probably will pick a copy up at some point, but it occurs to me while reading this thread that if I where to run a SW game anytime in the near future I might try 'Spirit of the Century' *. *Disclaimer: I'm on a bit of a SOTC high at the moment and raving about it like an adolescent fanboy. Going to have to have a lie down now in a dark room, Sky Captain playing in the background.
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Champion
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I started playing in a D20 SW game. The GM had to get the long list of errata and add them to the book. Apperantly they haven't they been good at updates.
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Heroic Knight
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I've played the various versions (WEG, D20, Saga) and thought that Saga was the best of the bunch. My only hangup with SW for an RPG is that it doesn't really have any legs. It's great for a 6-8 session thing, but I've never really found anything more. Beyond this, it loses the 'magic' of SW, and becomes bog standard scifi RP.
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