#starwars

After watching #StarWars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith on theaters yesterday, I can't help but hum the soundtrack at work as I do stuff.

What an amazing experience that was.

Tomorrow after work I will go watch the anniversary rerelease of #StarWars Episode III, Revenge of the Sith!

Cannot wait to listen to Williams' score on the big screen once again.

[Star Wars] Deathstars & Droids (was: Star Wars – Galactic Adventures)

Ages ago (2011?) I found a Star Wars OSR retroclone called Star Wars – Galactic Adventures on the venerable wizardawn.com page, now lost to the wages of net history.

(…that was before there was an actual Star Wars product, a kids’ book, using the same title…)

For some reason it never really caught on in the glut of B/X rules variations at the time, and when people were thinking about doing an old school DnD kind of flavor of Star Wars they seem to mostly do their own thing afterwards, trying to clone it into White Box DnD for example, or things like that.

And of course there’s the whole point that the whole structure of old school Dungeons and Dragons does not really fit with most people’s idea about the Star Wars universe. And believe me, people have tried. They even tried it officially, there were after all multiple editions of a licensed Star Wars roleplaying game from Wizards of the Coast to cash in on the prequels and the concurrent release of 3e.

And yet when you ask people about Star Wars as a tabletop roleplaying game most people will go back to the old West End Games D6 Star Wars game. That one seems to have captured the sheer cinematic feel of the setting and the hearts of Star Wars fans.

In fact, they did so more than you might even realize: at a time when there was not much more Star Wars stuff coming after the first three movies it was the D6 Star Wars system that came up with new information about the whole setting. When Timothy Zahn started writing his Heirs to the Empire trilogy, which kickstarted the whole expanded universe started coming together, he was given a setting guide of the West End Games RPG as a guide. Arguably the Roleplaying Game shaped the whole of Star Wars afterwards. Even things like Coruscant were introduced first in the game, then the novels, and only showed up in the actual movies very belatedly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2nn_q1xAXI

(Specifically Coruscant first appeared on screen in the 1997 Special Edition of Return of the Jedi, and no, younglings, that small snippet wasn’t even there in the first release. In fact the current version on Disney+ is an even more altered version that shows Naboo as well).

Which of course goes to say that… yeah, I don’t actually want to play the D6 system. It’s fine. It’s a fine system. I appreciate it. But I kinda want to do a Star Wars DnD game. And not the D20 system either. The whole trend of putting the D20 system EVERYWHERE was a cancer on the hobby in the early 2000s.

I want to play Star Wars as if it was a DnD ripoff from the early 80s. Like what Starships and Spacemen basically did for Star Trek (before there was a proper Star Trek RPG).

Anyway, D20 Star Wars was not bad as D20 variants go…

…but I really enjoyed this little retroclone when I found it. You see, D20 Star Wars did an interesting thing where they put much more emphasis onto saving rolls than normal D20 DnD had. And this was something done here as well. In a way it feels like the author took D20 SW and retro-fitted it into a B/X framework, which is way more work than I would have done but also kind of cool.

By this point I am on my second house-ruled version of it. I took the original document and condensed it down into a variation I called Darths and Droids (after the the eponymous webcomic which imagines the movies as a science-fiction DnD campaign), while using all kinds of Ralphy McQuarry concept art for it. Lately I did that again, condensed my previous version even further, and replaced all the art with black and white art I found on the net (also because we only have a black and white printer at home), and called it Deathstars and Droids.

I think I need a better name for that.

Anyway, the actual reason I was doing that was because my kids are really into Star Wars lately, both the movies, the animated series, and playing the last LEGO game, and I was hoping that it would be a good way to introduce them to roleplaying.

My older son already decided he wants to play a B1 battle droid, which kinda killed my ideas for the first few scenarios I had. Oh well.

I also have to adapt the rather freeform droid rules into something that gives him the satisfaction of playing a B1 droid instead.

Which goes to explain why there might be some Star Wars content coming up on the blog which doesn’t actually concern any game you might have heard of.

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I now set a date for a Star Wars OSR (basically B/X dnd SW) game for the 9th of April. Now I gotta spend some time actually working out the scenario.

I call the scenario The Hidden Fortress so far, but if it has anything to do with the movie (the movie The Hidden Fortress which inspired SW A New Hope) remains to be seen.

by the way, so far I don't have players, anyone interested?

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#starwars #osr #ttrpg

I've got some B/X-inspired rules for Star Wars lying around (currently I call them Deathstars and Droids), and I've been thinking of running a few games in them soon.

One of the things I have been thinking about was to redo The Keep on the Borderlands as The Bastion on the Outer Rim, and have them explore The Hidden Fortress of Quasqueton in a scenario, a treasure hunt where they have to find an old jedi macguffin before the imperial governor/sith inquisitor does the same.

#osr #dnd #starwars

Picked up a few new video games over the past week. I won a $25 gift card for gamestop - so I found 3 Star Wars games for the PS4 that were only $5.00 each - I didn't think that was such a bad deal - until I realized they all want to install to the HD of the PS4 & download 50gbs of stuff.
Also picked up a Sonic Origins Plus game for the Nintendo Switch

#StarWars #PS4 #VideoGames #Sonic #Nintendo #Switch

If everyone is Irish☘️ on St. Patrick's Day, does that mean they're Mexican🇲🇽 on Cinco de Mayo? 🤔

(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)

#Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #Puns #StPattysDay #StPatricksDayMemes #HappyStPatricksDay #SaintPatricksDay #StarWars #StormTrooper #Parades #Irish #CincoDeMayo #Cosplay #StarWarsCosplay

fun thing I sometimes mull about...

Return of the Jedi only has a single jedi actually returning.
And then he dies.

in other words Anakin is THE Jedi.

conversely there's also just one Sith getting something akin to revenge in Revenge of the Sith.

I would argue that Anakin is also THE Sith of the title.

#starwars

#WordWeavers 3.1 — Introduce your MC to your best friend. Where would you do it? Would they get along?

(New thread! Talking about a long, ongoing fanfiction tale here, just to get something new out there. It might give me ideas. Sometimes I need a break from my original novels.)

Honestly, I wouldn't. Period, end of. They so totally aren't meeting. One of the MCs is a Sith named Nolana Disa, one who I know my best friend (who we call DJ) would get along with /far too well/. Pfft, the universe doesn't need a chaotic, messy friendship like that! I'd be stuck in the middle, trying not to let them commit war crimes. I'm cracking up thinking about this right now. I needed a good laugh.

#WritingCommunity #StarWars #ShadowsOfDesire #DarkRomance #Romance #ScienceFiction #Worldbuilding #AmWriting

George Lucas created #StarWars when he was turned down to direct a Flash Gordon movie. Alex Raymond created Flash Gordon when his publishers couldn't get the rights to John Carter of Mars in a bid to compete with Buck Rogers.

#scifi