We played a tonne of WEG Star Wars back in the day, with our main characters going through three movies and three TV specials worth of material, all culminating in a grand set piece showdown against the antagonist from the very first adventure that was both highly entertaining and very satisfying. It is one of my favourite gaming stories to relate to this day! (And it includes one of the best die rolls I've ever made.)
More recently (albeit a decade+ ago now), my then gaming group gave FFG's SW a try. While I was absolutely excited about what I'd heard about it, in the end we bounced off it so dang hard (for numerous reasons). Fortunately, the campaign ended once again on an absolute high note that included the narrative-injection (through spending Force points) introduction of an NPC that was just pitch perfect and saved the player's behinds. (I was the GM for this game.)
Afterwards I ran a one shot or two of WEG SW to introduce the group to it, and they very much enjoyed it.
As the pandemic got underway I fired up a Dawn of Defiance Campaign, starting with some (non-related) introductory adventures. It was also to be a playtest for a new ruleset I was designing. It went very well, enough so that one of the players also wanted to try their hand at running SW using the system, so they fired up a campaign in the Galactic Republic - Sith Empire Cold War era. It too went great!
We tend to play many games in our group, so we put the SW campaigns to the side to fire up other campaigns and now it's been a couple of years since we've played either of them, alas. (Crazily, we’re mid-adventure in the DoD campaign, so the characters have kinda been left hanging…)
While naturally I
enjoy my system for running SW (which also acknowledges
the d6 system as one of its many influences), I think SW would also work fabulously well using Cortex Prime (which finally available on DTRPG, hooray!). With the exception of the Cold War campaign, all the SW playing has been in that spot of a few decades BBY to decades ABY. It’s comfortable, familiar, no issues at all would happily play there again. That said, that little taste of that Cold War era also has me hungering to play more in that era, exploring the galactic and political makeup of that time as well as the different position the Jedi / Sith occupy during the era.
