New Star Wars RPG!

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I find your lack of faith... disturbing. WotC isn't some wretched hive of scum and villany. If you strike a Star Wars RPG down, it will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

...lack of faith?

I've always said it wasn't dead! You won't find many crazier Star Wars(especially d20) fans on these boards past me.

Go back a few months and find those "Dear god, we're all going to die! SWd20 is gone forever!" threads for the real ones who didn't trust the Force!

 

[Alzrius]

If this new corebook has all the updated errata and other fixes implemented, then that's good enough for me.

Quoted for truth. I didn't buy either of the two SW d20 rulebooks, and now looking over at all the many, many fixes that were released under the Jedi Counseling series at WotC's website, I wasn't too broken up about that. Hopefully this will fix things!

 

[trancejeremy]

While I'm sure it won't, I would like it if it incorporated a lot of the stuff from the KOTOR games. That was a more streamlined version of the rules, but also allowed for more , er, droid kicking.

After playing the first one, I was real excited by the SW d20 game. But then I actually got it, and well, it was sort of the other direction. Not bad, but not as action packed as I had hoped based on KOTOR.

 

[shadowbloodmoon]

This is soooo going on my list to get... Seriously though, a True 20 version would be pretty cool to have for a streamlined game, but as said before, if it incorporates some of the changes made in all the Jedi Counseling articles and includes info for all the movies, that would be great. I'll get it either way, but still...

 

[Owen K.C. Stephens]

Hey Folks.

Looks like Rodney and I have both found this thread now, and hopefully getting the word out here will help it get out in general. (I received over 120 personal emails since Amazon made their posting of it.... apparently a lot more people have my email than I thought!)

There's not much we can say about the book itself, due to those pesky NDAs. When we can, I promise we will.

I can talk for just a moment about the process of writing the book. When WotC offered this to me and Rodney, we both had some trepidations. We talked to each other before committing, and ran some things back and forth with Chris Perkins at WotC. What we heard (which I can't talk about – dang it) brought us both around, so we dug in. I admit that knowing I would be working on the book with Rodney is one of the reasons I took it. The Star Wars RPG is how I met Rodney, and having worked with him on a SW project before (which is still out there in the ether), and more recently on Dragon Magic, I knew we could collaborate well and produce something we'd be proud of.

It's easier to work with someone if you can actually meet them in person sometimes, but for whatever reason I think Rodney and I do just as well with emails and near-daily chats. I know my sections were made better by his comments, and hope he found some of what I had to say useful. The project overall turned out better than I had hoped, once our part was done. Of course it'll be developed and edited (thank goodness), and playtested... and one of the reasons we can't talk about the book is that it's so far out a lot could change between now and then.

But working on it was a lot like getting to hang out with an old friend again, and at least part of that was because I was writing it with a friend.

I hope you all like it as much as we do, once it's out. And when we're allowed to, we'll happily give you a better idea what we've actually done with it.

Owen K.C. Stephens
d20 Triggerman

 

[Wraith Form]

They may not perfectly fit the setting you decided on but they should be easier to convert than Eberron adventures. They could at least be mined for ideas.

Actually, Forgotten Forge seems pretty easy to convert. As I read it, I pictured swappping out the D&D elements with SW elements and it seemed relatively straightforward.

(warforged = clones)
(Lord of Blades = rogue clone trooper trying to find his "roots")
(Sharn = Coruscant)
(the warforged matrix-pattern thingie = Kamino clone warrior DNA process crossed with Sith tech )

I was going to set it a few years after the Clone Wars ended. Everything looked good--until I realized that I wasn't sure if I could continue converting the Eberron adventure path without major obstacles / brain farts / writer's block...

 

[Ranger REG]

Yep, as Gary Sarli already confirmed, the product's real. It was written by Owen K.C. Stephens and myself, and I think the release date on Amazon is correct. Now let's just hope they announce some details at GenCon so I can talk about the book!

Any other names you can leak out?

 

[Owen K.C. Stephens]

You mean names of other authors? The first draft was written entirely by Rodney and myself, though obviously other people are going to get involved in the diting and development stages.

Owen K.C. Stephens
d20 Triggerman

 

[Ranger REG]

I hope you all like it as much as we do, once it's out. And when we're allowed to, we'll happily give you a better idea what we've actually done with it.

Owen K.C. Stephens
d20 Triggerman

First off, congrants to you and Rodney (aka Moridin).

Now I know why the d20 Modern Bullet Points web column are occuring less frequently, although I am very grateful of the latest read (titled "It's All About the Gears").

I sincerely hope you can not only talk about the new core rulebook but the future of SW d20.

 

[Owen K.C. Stephens]

Thanks, and I hope we can talk about it soon too.

I suspect the Bullet Points' slowness has more to do with the general overwork of the tireless web team than my big projects -- I'm normally several articles ahead of them (because all -I- have to do is write them, not edit, lay out, code, find art for, or vet them with the rules team).