Why no Star Wars version of Dungeon?

[wingsandsword]

We don't have the rights to do a Star Wars magazine, so apart from any discussion of whether or not such a magazine could possibly be profitable, it's just not something we can even consider.

Besides Star Wars Insider? If you don't have the license to make it, that's certainly news, and your site still lists you as making it (http://paizo.com/store/byCompany/p/paizoPublishingLLC/byBrand/starWarsInsider). Is there some esoteric bit of licensing that prevents the Star Wars RPG from being covered in it's pages, did you lose any ability to cover the Star Wars RPG after Polyhedron folded?

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Besides Star Wars Insider? If you don't have the license to make it, that's certainly news, and your site still lists you as making it (http://paizo.com/store/byCompany/p/paizoPublishingLLC/byBrand/starWarsInsider). Is there some esoteric bit of licensing that prevents the Star Wars RPG from being covered in it's pages, did you lose any ability to cover the Star Wars RPG after Polyhedron folded?

I seem to remember Insider switching publishers(again) not too long ago.

 

[HellHound]

They know exactly how well the original d6 RPG sold, and it's pretty clear the d6 version sold far better.

Really? At my FLGS, the d20 version outsold the d6 version core rules in the first four months, according to the owner.

But that's just local.

Do we actually have a source for this?

 

[wingsandsword]

Really? At my FLGS, the d20 version outsold the d6 version core rules in the first four months, according to the owner.

Oops, typo on my part. I meant d20. I'll go correct that.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Really? At my FLGS, the d20 version outsold the d6 version core rules in the first four months, according to the owner.

But that's just local.

Do we actually have a source for this?

Probably nothing more than anecdotes, really.

But according to WotC, the SWRPG was their second best seller behind D&D, and while it was far behind D&D, it was also well above their other stuff. I definitely would believe it was the second best selling RPG behind D&D when it was being fully supported.

 

[satori01]

It's worse than that. It's impossible. We don't have the rights to do a Star Wars magazine, so apart from any discussion of whether or not such a magazine could possibly be profitable, it's just not something we can even consider.

--Erik

What about an issue about a D20 game called Stor Wars, about Jodi knights against the evil ompire. You could even put those two little dots above the "o"s.

Think that could fly?

 

[kenobi65]

I seem to remember Insider switching publishers(again) not too long ago.

Yup; IIRC, Lucasfilm itself took it back, at least a year ago.

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

(a mass market oriented fighter combat game and then scaled up fleet version for the hobby

I would so have bought all of that.

 

[kenobi65]

But according to WotC, the SWRPG was their second best seller behind D&D, and while it was far behind D&D, it was also well above their other stuff.

Making it a giant among midgets.

But, seriously, other than D&D and Star Wars, the only ongoing RPG that WotC has is D20 Modern. The other RPGs that WotC has done in the d20 era have, for the most part, been one-shot deals (Wheel of Time, Call of Cthulhu, etc.).