Jack Haggerty
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Does anyone else have or remember this WEG Star Wars campaign setting?
Would anyone be interested in helping me convert it to D20?
Would anyone be interested in helping me convert it to D20?
[SWRPG] Lords of the Expanse... D20 conversion?
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Shawn Carman
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Re: Lords of the Expanse
I always thought that was an interesting setting. If I ever get the time, I'm planning on converting the DarkStryder Campaign to d20, myself. I don't see having time for that before the fall, though.
I always thought that was an interesting setting. If I ever get the time, I'm planning on converting the DarkStryder Campaign to d20, myself. I don't see having time for that before the fall, though.
Jack Haggerty
First Post
I was beginning to think no one had heard of it!
Hmm... I don't think I ever played DarkStryder. What's that one like?
I didn't buy into many WEG Campaigns... HAd a lot of source books, an "Instant Adventures" bookof short adventure ideas, and the only campaign settings I had were Lords of the Expanse and The Far Orbit Project. They were the only two I really found interesting.
Anyway, my idea was to take Tapani sector and the noble houses from Lords of the Expanse, and slide them up the timeline to the "Rise of the Empire" era, right around the time of Episodes 2 and 3.
House Pelagia still rules the sector with its proud Jedi, and loyalist Houses Melantha and Mecetti scheme its downfall. The campaign would revolve around the the fall of Pelagia, the Jedi Purge and the civil war between the Houses.
Hmm... I don't think I ever played DarkStryder. What's that one like?
I didn't buy into many WEG Campaigns... HAd a lot of source books, an "Instant Adventures" bookof short adventure ideas, and the only campaign settings I had were Lords of the Expanse and The Far Orbit Project. They were the only two I really found interesting.
Anyway, my idea was to take Tapani sector and the noble houses from Lords of the Expanse, and slide them up the timeline to the "Rise of the Empire" era, right around the time of Episodes 2 and 3.
House Pelagia still rules the sector with its proud Jedi, and loyalist Houses Melantha and Mecetti scheme its downfall. The campaign would revolve around the the fall of Pelagia, the Jedi Purge and the civil war between the Houses.
Shawn Carman
Explorer
Re: Lords of the Expanse
That sounds really interesting. Sadly, I don't have the free time necessary to give you a hand, but I'd love to see what material you produce.
The DarkStryder Campaign was a WEG boxed set that was kicked off with some original fiction by Timothy Zahn. The box was followed with three sourcebooks, The Kathol Outback, the Kathol Rift, and Endgame.
I don't want to spoil anything, but the premise is that New Republic troops overthrow an ambitious Moff in the isolated Kathol Sector. They discover that he has some strange alien technology that defies all attempts to decipher it. Ordered to pursue the Moff, the group cobbles together a crew out of their own personnel and some of the local folks, piles in a heavily modified Correllian Corvette they took from the Moff's starport, and head out into the Unknown Regions after him.
It was a unique campaign, with a lot of room for intrigue that was normally absent from Star Wars products at the time. I enjoyed it quite a bit. There's a review of it buried somewhere at http://www.rpg.net if you're interested in more information.
Shawn Carman
That sounds really interesting. Sadly, I don't have the free time necessary to give you a hand, but I'd love to see what material you produce.
The DarkStryder Campaign was a WEG boxed set that was kicked off with some original fiction by Timothy Zahn. The box was followed with three sourcebooks, The Kathol Outback, the Kathol Rift, and Endgame.
I don't want to spoil anything, but the premise is that New Republic troops overthrow an ambitious Moff in the isolated Kathol Sector. They discover that he has some strange alien technology that defies all attempts to decipher it. Ordered to pursue the Moff, the group cobbles together a crew out of their own personnel and some of the local folks, piles in a heavily modified Correllian Corvette they took from the Moff's starport, and head out into the Unknown Regions after him.
It was a unique campaign, with a lot of room for intrigue that was normally absent from Star Wars products at the time. I enjoyed it quite a bit. There's a review of it buried somewhere at http://www.rpg.net if you're interested in more information.
Shawn Carman
Katowice
Explorer
There's a chapter on the Darkstryder campaign development in the last adventure of the series (Endgame). Basically, while Darkstryder was getting the finishing touches put on it, Star Trek: Voyager came out on network TV. Darkstryder developed in parallel with Voyager, and is somewhat similar in style.
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