No more WotC Star Wars - announcement

pukunui · Jan 28, 2010

Hi all, I don't know if any of you have seen this already or not but WotC's Greg Yahn has made an official announcement that WotC has chosen not to renew the Star Wars license. Their current license ends in May, so The Unknown Regions will be the final RPG book and Masters of the Force will be the final minis booster set.

You can read all about it here: Wizards of the Coast Announcement.

jeffh · Jan 28, 2010

For some reason, when I click on the link nothing happens. I have to actually paste it into my browser.

EDIT: Never mind, problem was fixed while I was typing this.

Relique du Madde · Jan 28, 2010

<DarthVader>

NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
</DarthVader>

PREDICTION: Like Alternity 4e will become 4e's space fantasy setting..... ALTERNITY 4E will be the 2011 or 2012 setting.

PREDICTION 2: I will no longer buy any WoTC products UNLESS Modern 4e (Gamma World) and Sci Fi 4e (Alternity) are actually better then SWSaga.

Too bad SW Saga's rules aren't ogl.. that's system deserves a future iteration that doesn't include hundreds of powers per class..

pukunui · Jan 28, 2010

jeffh said:
For some reason, when I click on the link nothing happens. I have to actually paste it into my browser.

EDIT: Never mind, problem was fixed while I was typing this.

Yeah sorry. I had the coding the wrong way round. Should work fine now.

pawsplay · Jan 28, 2010

I'm not surprised. While Saga had its nice points, I think the development just never hit the right notes. As for the minis, there are really only so many stormtroopers you can sell.

ProfessorCirno · Jan 28, 2010

Guess they had to axe something in order to make Gamma World a CCG :hmm:

Relique du Madde · Jan 28, 2010

pawsplay said:
I'm not surprised. While Saga had its nice points, I think the development just never hit the right notes. As for the minis, there are really only so many stormtroopers you can sell.

I agree about that considering that their were a lot of holes within the rules that should have been plugged but never were without homebrewing. That and the where's waldo-esque nature of some of the rules, feats, equipment which really made things difficult since several key books went out of print.

ggroy · Jan 28, 2010

Relique du Madde said:
PREDICTION: Like Alternity 4e will become 4e's space fantasy setting..... ALTERNITY 4E will be the 2011 or 2012 setting.

Now this I can buy into, for a 2011 setting!

Though one can wonder whether they will salvage some of the Star War SAGA ruleset (ie. talent trees, etc ...) for it, or will they just use the straight 4E ruleset with the at-will/encounter/daily structure of powers.

Obryn · Jan 28, 2010

Relique du Madde said:
Too bad SW Saga's rules aren't ogl.. that's system deserves a future iteration that doesn't include hundreds of powers per class..

oof. I actually gave up on SWSE after there were hundreds of talents per class. (And they're not even as organized as 4e, where at least powers are stratified into levels, reducing the sea of options into a small pond.) IMO, it badly needs something like DDI for organization.

-O

Dragonhelm · Jan 28, 2010

I'm sad to hear this since my friend Patrick Stutzman got to be one of the game designers. He was loving it, too.

No more WotC Star Wars - announcement

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