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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2404729" data-attributes="member: 14159">Okay folks, the d20 Star Wars line is not officially dead.  There has been no mysterious announcement, no press release of cancellation (for those who haven't checked the separate thread on it).  At most was a brief statement to vendors saying nothing planned for the rest of the year (the next 5 months, which is about how far WotC already posts their schedules).  They still do regular web columns (Jedi Counseling, series like Dark Forces Saga or Byss and the Deep Core, RPG stats for minis characters), Minis books are coming out with RPG stats (the Revenge of the Sith scenario book had about 6 pages of RPG stats for movie characters).  It isn't exactly shining and happy, but it's not over.With the SWRPG being, at least once, the #2 RPG in the industry, ahead of White Wolf, I really doubt it was not living up to any reasonable expectations of sales (look at what Vampire did for White Wolf, Star Wars was drawing more than that).  Lucasfilm was no stranger to RPG licensing, they dealt with West End Games for a decade and knew how it sold (and they certainly knew the approval process and the material going into the games, when Timothy Zahn was writing the Thrawn trilogy, they literally delivered a crate of RPG books to him to use as background).To keep this FLGS topical: as for saying they were overpriced and your FLGS couldn't move them, they cost only marginally more than comparable D&D books, and my local FLGS (The Rusty Scabbard, Lexington KY) can't keep them in stock.  They regularly have to reorder/special order books for people, and sometimes the books are sold out at the distributor, leading people to go online and buy them, sometimes at inflated rates on eBay (a thread on the d20 board said people are paying over $50 for the Power of the Jedi book).  I literally bump into new people starting SWRPG campaigns often now, including people who are upset they can't get ahold of books they want.  Ever since Episode III came out, I've seen a huge upswing in interest in the RPG, and WotC really seems to have dropped the ball.</blockquote>

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