Crothian
First Post
Well, FFG made the decision (or maybe Disney/Lucasfilm made them) to focus on the rebellion era of Star Wars. The closest that you can get to Jedis is what Luke would have looked like in episode 4 and the beginning of episode 5. I can understand how this is a sticking point for some people.
That also means they are ignoring the expanded universe. This is a very small period of time in the Star Wars sagas. It is also the most wrote about with RPGs. It's giving me the option of playing in one time period and the same time period that all the other Star Wars games gives me. As far as I can see this game isn't giving me anything new.
The book weighs in @ 437 pages while Saga edition had 285. There is a lot of stuff in EotE and calling it incomplete is like calling Saga Edition incomplete. Saga took a kitchen sink a approach which left it feeling far from complete too.
Well, I know if I ask people to play Stars Wars some will want to play a Jedi. That's the most famous character concept from the setting. Without Jedi I might as well play Serenity, or Traveler, or Ashen Stars, or another science fiction space game. Without knowing how those 437 pages are used just listing page numbers proves nothing. But with almost twice the page count and I'll assume larger pages since the Saga books were smaller one would hope that it would be able to do everything Saga did but a hell of a lot more. That's obviously not the case.