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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fireinthedust" data-source="post: 5058167" data-attributes="member: 51930">L4W has less material in the setting because it's homebrew.  I think we'd get the same thing if we ignored the EU after the movies.  All we need is to say that 10 years (or so) have passed.  The big issue with a SW game is picking the timeline.  It means accepting things we might not want, and that complicates everything.  Suddenly adventures have to be judged based on what's happening in source material everyone doesn't have easy access to.Imagine this: you're trying to run an FR game.  You want to set it in Anauroch, and you only have the FRCS.  Suddenly you discover that in a novel series you've never heard of someone placed a band of evil fey vampires right where your village is.     Or, worse, we've invented the Haon system.  Lucasfilm decides a year or two in that the Hylian Way has a massive gap of systems that don't have life in them, or just no stars in the way.  Suddenly we realize that we're nowhere near any of our neighbours, and it invalidates *everything* we've been assuming.Not only that, but the book was set between other books that were out when we were designing this setting.  Suddenly there's this massively-popular trilogy that's set between ROTJ and Zahn, and "you just don't have Star Wars without it, because it ties up all these loose ends".  That's why I propose a scorched Earth policy for events between the movies and the start of our setting.  We tell people going in that this is the case.  They can have mandalorian armor if they want, and styled just like the wicked-cool villain they love; it's just not his in the same way as it would have been if said novel series (which we haven't read) had happened.      Like, I'm not just saying don't work with the EU: I'm saying ignore the EU unless it's worked into an adventure.  If it isn't the movies/tv shows, it's a problem.  One either has to ignore it or include it.</blockquote>

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