Iron DM 2010 Discussion Thread

[ajanders]

Errg. An hour late and no pictures.
Methinks I'm in trouble.

Could someone tell me what the Saga Edition of Star wars is? All I've ever seen is the d20 and d6 versions. I hear about the Saga edition as some mystic holy grail...

 

[renau1g]

It's still a d20 version, just using a vastly (IMO) set of rules over the initially published set. From what I remember it even balances force users so not everyone wants to play the jedi

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[ajanders]

I always found the Jedi coolness pretty self limiting. The Jedi feels good their first two or three fights, but then all the villains start yelling "Quick! Kill the Jedi!"
Thanks for the clarification.
I thought it was some spiffy ruleset.

 

[Iron Sky]

[sblock=Notes on the adventure]I was originally planning on making several hooks, including some for Jedi (the Senate wanting to see if the ash-Shtat are ready to enter the Republic yet) and a hook/side-mission from secretive corporate agents (hence the bit of info about Republic corporations near the beginning that never gets used). The cantina hook was originally just going to be basic hook that I'd replace later with something more interesting.

I also was going to put modifications to make it compatible with other future systems (it would be trivial to port it to other versions of Star Wars, but thinks like d20 Future or Alternity). I even thought about Dark Heresy, but there's virtually no chance a 40k party would give a flying leap about some dude's daughter dying - "Sickness is weakness waiting to be purged, for the Emperor! *murder*"

Alas, I was too wiped out last night to add those. I wrote most of this between 11pm and 2:30am on Monday morning when I had to be up at 8am. I finished it up between 9 and 11pm last night before having to run and take care of the two houses I'm house-sitting for and pass the hell out so I could get up for work again at 8. Ironic that given 48 hours of time to write it, the universe conspired and left me 6 that I could use and I had to give up sleep for half of those![/sblock]

 

[ajanders]

Without the Force, midichlorians, or any reference to Star Wars canon, it doesn't really need to be SW.
Probably makes a decent Traveler game -- all you need is FTL and cultural differentiation.

 

[CleverNickName]

Without the Force, midichlorians, or any reference to Star Wars canon, it doesn't really need to be SW.
Probably makes a decent Traveler game -- all you need is FTL and cultural differentiation.

Hmm, I guess you are right. It could work for GURPS easy enough, or even D20 Future...but I think SWSE has the best mechanics.

Where'd the judges go?

 

[Pbartender]

Hmm, I guess you are right. It could work for GURPS easy enough, or even D20 Future...but I think SWSE has the best mechanics.

Where'd the judges go?

I don't know about the others, but I was...

1. ...in a car accident.
2. ...taking my son to the emergency room for broken foot.
3. ...getting rained out at a baseball game.
4. ...enduring the heat wave with no air conditioning.
5. ...desperately trying to finish buying a house, before contractual deadlines run out.

Worst. Week. Ever.

 

[Iron Sky]

No worries man, RL > internets. Especially when it's "RL!"

 

[CleverNickName]

Worst. Week. Ever.

Woah. That is truly an awful week. Mine was/is pretty bad too, but nothing like yours:

1. Apartment deal fell through; I now have but 32 days to find a new placeand get moved;
2. I started getting threats of assault and battery from one of my ex-wife's boyfriends;
3. My home computer was hit by two different computer viruses;
4. I had a migraine headache yesterday.

Saturday can't get here fast enough.

 

[Iron Sky]

Any judges actually survive this last week?