New Star Wars RPG!

[Rawhide]

Anyone who knows me knows I am a fan of Owen Stephens Star Wars work. He has more writing credits for d20 Star Wars than any other author. (I love his other work too, I almost keep the Green Ronin AGMG in a shrine) which is why I search for him at Amazon occasionally.

Today, I found this link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/07...694892/ref=sr_1_7/002-1676961-0221643?ie=UTF8

Now, we all know Star Wars is dead as a Wizards RPG, so this is most likely a lost product, or a mis-labeled minis release. But if it isn't, having a new rulebook (the "Saga edition") release next year? By Owen and Rodney Thompson (owner of an ENNie award winning Star Wars rpg fan site?)

It would be the birth of a whole new era of Star wars gaming.

I also see Owen and Rodney wrote Dragon Magic together, so my guess is that there is no Saga Edition, and that project was cancelled and Dragon Magic written instead, and Amazon just didn't get the memo. But if not, I'd be in gamer heaven. It would mean WotC can be brought around with enough emails and support of related games, kinda like how Futurama got a new lease on life.

Anybody know if this is realyl going to happen, or if it's another d20 Spectaculars?

 

[Jack of Shadows]

Um,

Wasn't SAGA that really bad rules set they used to do the last Marvel Superheroes RPG with (not the one Marvel did themselves but the last TSR/WotC one)?

Jack

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Um,

Wasn't SAGA that really bad rules set they used to do the last Marvel Superheroes RPG with (not the one Marvel did themselves but the last TSR/WotC one)?

Jack

I expect Saga would be referring to the Star Wars Saga, and not that defunct game system.

Otherwise, wouldn't make much sense.

Man, I hope this is real.

 

[Banshee16]

Anyone who knows me knows I am a fan of Owen Stephens Star Wars work. He has more writing credits for d20 Star Wars than any other author. (I love his other work too, I almost keep the Green Ronin AGMG in a shrine) which is why I search for him at Amazon occasionally.

Today, I found this link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/07...694892/ref=sr_1_7/002-1676961-0221643?ie=UTF8

Now, we all know Star Wars is dead as a Wizards RPG, so this is most likely a lost product, or a mis-labeled minis release. But if it isn't, having a new rulebook (the "Saga edition") release next year? By Owen and Rodney Thompson (owner of an ENNie award winning Star Wars rpg fan site?)

It would be the birth of a whole new era of Star wars gaming.

I also see Owen and Rodney wrote Dragon Magic together, so my guess is that there is no Saga Edition, and that project was cancelled and Dragon Magic written instead, and Amazon just didn't get the memo. But if not, I'd be in gamer heaven. It would mean WotC can be brought around with enough emails and support of related games, kinda like how Futurama got a new lease on life.

Anybody know if this is realyl going to happen, or if it's another d20 Spectaculars?

Is it possible that it's a new hardcover, with accumulated info from the six movies? Maybe they're going to time this to re-launch D20 Star Wars to coincide (roughly) with the coming TV series?

Did WotC ever say that they lost their license? Or just that it was on hiatus, or what?

Banshee

 

[Turanil]

I believe that it must be the same rules with some small additions, and pics and generic info from all six movies (hence the "saga"). Maybe it's just a kind of setting book.

 

[HeapThaumaturgist]

They never lost the license. I think they were either required or limited to a certain number of releases under it per year and have been focusing on the more-economically-viable miniatures market with their release schedule.

I.E. SWRPG just doesn't make enough money to be worth the trouble, while people are willing to buy cases and cases of randomized minis to get rares, ultra-rares, and completed sets.

Often the people who joyously show up at the FLGS to pick up their pre-ordered cases of randomized product are the exact same ones that blow a gasket every time there's a price hike on RPG books.

--fje

 

[arscott]

Wizards never lost the license. The thing is, SW minis are covered under the same license, and the license specified a limit on the number of products they were allowed to release each year. Since minis are more profitable than RPG books, they focused entirely on the minis game.

If this book is real, it probably inticates that WotC changed the terms of their license starting 2007.

 

[Turjan]

Actually, someone from WotC said that they will have a big announcement regarding the Star Wars RPG at GenCon this year. I guess that it will be the linked book. Good find .

 

[CrusaderX]

From WizO_the_Hutt at the WotC forums:

This is not a hoax. The Star Wars Roleplaying Game Saga Edition is very real.

There will definitely be more details at GenCon, but I don't know what more I can say before then. Until then: It's alive! Alive!!!!

 

[booboo]

From WizO_the_Hutt at the WotC forums:

the force be with you