No more Star Wars RPG - It's Official

[jdrakeh]

Given that the only two widely available products produced for Amber were in 1991 and 1993, I don't think that's much of a product line.

The number of products in a line is not necessarily an indicator of its longevity, however (and you seem to have omitted thirteen years worth of the official Amber DRPG magazine when you counted the products made available for the game line).

The Amber DRPG is still currently in print and supported by a number of AmberCons anually. The aformentioend magazine, Amberzine, ended its thirteen year print run in April of this year. So...

You'd be wrong about Amber's longevity and product line

 

[Ranger REG]

There's another way to look at that.

I don't really care that WotC lost the license. I've played so much Star Wars that I've got my own spin to put on it. I'd rather play in my Star Wars universe than Georgie's or WotC's. And there are tons of rules out there for Sci-Fi d20 systems that you can apply to Star Wars.

Meh. That's one less Star Wars customer for WotC to worry about. No offense sorta.

But there are the rest of us.

 

[qstor]

Regardless of whether WoTC publishes or drops SWRPG.... why does that mean no more Living Force campaigns? The same material is out there, why can't they do another one, since the first was was 'wildly successful'? Who makes that decision?

The RPGA is a marketing arm of WOTC. If they aren't publishing the SW RPG anymore I doubt that WOTC would want to the RPGA to run Living Force anymore. The future RPGA sci-fi campaign is supposed to use F20 Future which they are making.

Mike

 

[The_Gneech]

Four releases, no missions books. (I'm unsure as to how successful they were).

Well, I for one wanted to buy the mission books, but balked at the price. They would have been a decent deal $10 cheaper.

-The Gneech

 

[Katowice]

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[Katowice]

Put RPG material in the SW Minis Boxes!

I for one think it would be cool if they could produce a small booklet of RPG stats and maybe some RPG rules/errata and package it in with the miniatures box sets. They could at least include stats on the minis figures.

 

[kenobi65]

I for one think it would be cool if they could produce a small booklet of RPG stats and maybe some RPG rules/errata and package it in with the miniatures box sets. They could at least include stats on the minis figures.

As MerricB has pointed out (though maybe not in this thread), WotC proposed putting RPG stats on one side of the stat cards (like the D&D Minis cards), and Lucasfilm rejected the idea.

 

[Odhanan]

Weird. I remember a "SW is dead" thread where some freelance guys working on SW assured us the RPG wouldn't be terminated. I guess they were not *that* aware of its situation then.

It sucks. No Ultimate Starships, no Revenge of the Sith sourcebook, no reprint of the Dark Side Sourcebook.

 

[jeffh]

As MerricB has pointed out (though maybe not in this thread), WotC proposed putting RPG stats on one side of the stat cards (like the D&D Minis cards), and Lucasfilm rejected the idea.

Does anyone have any idea why Lucasfilm would do that? I don't see how it would do them anything but good.

 

[Corinth]

Again: WotC did not lose the SW license; they chose to focus on SW Minis because that product line is far and away more profitable than producing RPG products, and the terms of the license fold both RPG and Minis under the same limited number of allowed products per year- so each RPG book made is one less Minis expansion. It's not surprising that the RPG went by the wayside.