Dark pips give dark Destiny points to the GM, Light pips give Destiny Points to the players. Repeat at the beginning of each session. Mar 08, 2016 When a player uses a Destiny point, that point changes from Light side to Dark side. When the GM uses a Destiny point, that point changes from Dark side to Light side. In this way, Destiny ebbs and flows during the game in much as it does in the greater Star Wars Universe. Players and the GM can only use one point per ability check or roll. When a player uses a Destiny point, that point changes from Light side to Dark side. When the GM uses a Destiny point, that point changes from Dark side to Light side. In this way, Destiny ebbs and flows during the game in much as it does in the greater Star Wars Universe. Players and the GM can only use one point per ability check or roll. Besides officially licensed Star Wars RPGs, there are many RPGs that are Star Wars in everything but the name. Some of them are in my opinion much better than official ones. Off the top of my head: Scum and Villainy: a Blades in the Dark hack to play with a band of scoundrels struggling against the.

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The Star Wars Roleplaying Game is a d20 Systemroleplaying game set in the Star Wars universe. The game was written by Bill Slavicsek, Andy Collins and J. D. Wiker and published by Wizards of the Coast in late 2000 and revised in 2002. In 2007, Wizards released the Saga Edition of the game, which made major changes in an effort to streamline the rules system.

The game covers three major eras coinciding with major events in the Star Wars universe, namely the Rise of the Empire, the Galactic Civil War, and the time of the New Jedi Order.

An earlier but unrelated Star Wars role-playing game was published by West End Games between 1987 and 1999. Bill Slavicsek was one of the designers of that former game as well.

This game from Wizards of the Coast is currently out of print. The current official Star Wars role-playing game is the game of same title published by Fantasy Flight Games.

Original and revised editions[edit]

The original Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game was originally published by West End Games as a d6 product, enjoying many years of play before WEG went bankrupt.

The d20 rebooted Star Wars Roleplaying Game originally came out around the time of the release of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. It included statistics for many of the major characters of that movie. The later Revised game included material from Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones and changed various feats and classes.

The Star Wars Roleplaying Game uses a Vitality/Wound point system instead of standard hit points, dividing damage into superficial harm (Vitality) and serious injury (Wounds). A character gains Vitality points just like hit points in other d20 games, and rolls for them each level and adds their Constitution bonus. A character's Wound points are equal to their Constitution score.

Most game mechanics are familiar to players of Dungeons & Dragons and other d20-based games. Characters have six Ability Scores (i.e., the standard Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma), a class and level, feats, and skills. Most actions are resolved by rolling a twenty-sided die and adding a modifier; if the result equals or exceeds the difficulty, the check succeeds.

Species and classes[edit]

As with most d20 System games, Star Wars offers playable races (called species) and classes to the Player Characters (PCs).

The species of Star Wars d20 that are included with the Revised Core Rulebook are: Humans, Bothans, Cereans, Duros, Ewoks, Gungans, Ithorians, Kel Dor, Mon Calamari, Quarren, Rodians, Sullustans, Trandoshans, Twi'leks, Wookiees, and Zabrak and the unusual option for d20 games, Droid (this is unusual because it allows you to create your own race to an extent, and also you are ruled - technically mastered - by another player).

The character classes are Fringer, Noble, Scoundrel, Soldier, Force Adept, Jedi Guardian, Jedi Consular, Scout, and Tech Specialist (added with the Revised Edition). Prestige classes allow advanced characters who wish to specialize in certain suites of abilities to join a class devoted to them. For example, Jedi with special talents at helping others can choose to specialize as a Jedi Healer, while a blaster-wielding mercenary might earn a reputation as a Bounty Hunter. The core rulebook includes the Jedi Master, Jedi Ace, Crime lord, Elite Trooper, Starship Ace, Officer, Darkside Marauder, and Darkside Devotee. Supplements to the core rulebook introduce many more prestige classes.

Saga edition changed things around and made Force Adept a prestige class.

Original and revised editions releases[edit]

The following books are available for the original edition.

The following books are available for the revised edition.

Saga Edition[edit]

On June 5, 2007, Wizards released Star Wars: Roleplaying Game - Saga Edition Core Rulebook. The game was streamlined to be easier to play and a greater emphasis was placed on miniatures. Some of the major changes include:

• Standard hit points have replaced the former Wounds/Vitality system. Each character begins first level with three times their maximum hit die in hit points based on their class which is modified by the character's Constitution bonus. Jedi and Soldiers for instance, have a hit die of d10, and begin 1st level with 30 hit points + Con bonus. Characters then roll a hit die for additional hit points as they progress in level. Characters also have a Condition Track which measures how much they are currently impaired. If Damage from a single attack exceeds the damage threshold, the PC is moved down the condition track. Each level of the track enforces progressively worse penalties until the PC is knocked out. Further damage can kill the character.
• The number of character classes have been reduced to five — Jedi, Noble, Scoundrel, Scout and Soldier. Each class progresses along 'character trees' similar to the d20 Modern system where characters are built with talents and feats. Jedi for instance, can follow talent paths such as Jedi Guardian, Jedi Consular, plus the new Jedi Sentinel and Lightsaber Combat talent trees. This allows for greater customization and more variety amongst characters of the same class. Prestige Classes are still available, but they each also have one or more talent trees.
• Saving Throws have been changed to a series of 'Defenses'. Virtually all attacks and offensive powers now require a roll against one of three defenses — Reflex Defense, Fortitude Defense, or Will Defense. These Defenses are analogous to both Saving Throws and Armor Class (or Defense as in the previous system) in other d20 games.
• Skill points have been eliminated. Characters have a number of 'trained' skills they can pick based on their class and Intelligence bonus. When a character makes a skill check, they roll a d20 and add half their character level + any other bonuses. If they roll for a trained skill they get a +5 bonus to the die roll, and certain applications of some skills cannot be attempted unless trained in the skill. Skills themselves have been simplified and integrated, with such skills as Deception covering the former skills of Bluff, Disguise, and Forgery. The Mechanics skill now encompasses Repair, Disable Device, and Demolitions (as well as crafting devices in the expansion books). Likewise, the new Perception skill combines the Spot, Search, Sense Motive, and Listen skills.
• Force sensitive characters now have a single 'Use the Force' skill, which allows them to do a number of things such as moving small objects and searching their feelings. Force Powers are special abilities such as Force Choke or Move Object that form a 'suite' of powers, similar to a hand of cards, which are used up, and recharge between encounters; all Force Powers involve a 'Use the Force' skill check, and a greater margin of success on the check will produce a stronger effect. Force users can also select Talents related to the Force, and prestige classes grant Force Techniques and Force Secrets which further improve their ability to use the Force.
• The game includes an optional Destiny system. Characters receive 'Destiny Points' which are more powerful than Force Points. They allow such things as scoring an automatic critical hit without rolling, gaining 3 Force Points, or automatically succeeding at a virtually impossible task. Destiny Points are used to help characters with a predetermined fate (usually determined during character creation) eventually fulfill their specific overarching goal.
• The character class Attack Bonus progressions no longer allow for multiple attacks during a full-round action. Instead, a character wielding a single weapon must pick the new 'Double Attack' feat (for one extra attack) and 'Triple Attack' feat (for two extra attacks), but both incurring significant attack roll penalties uniformly to all attacks that turn. Multiple attacks are, in general, less common, streamlining and speeding up combat turns.
• Rules and stats for NPCs have been refined. There is only one non-heroic class for NPC characters. They do not get heroic Defense bonuses, their Hit Points are limited to 1d4 + Con bonus per level (and they do not receive triple maximum starting hit points at first level), they receive less ability score increases for every four levels they have, and they get only the feats granted by gaining levels; non-heroic characters do not gain Talents. Non-sentient creatures in the game use the 'Beast' class and gain 1d8 + Con hit points per level.
• Many minor bonuses have been eliminated. Alien races and classes now rarely grant bonuses to skill checks; instead they often allow a reroll of the check under particular circumstances.

Saga Releases[edit]

The following books were released:

The Core Rulebook exists as an original and as a revised printing.

On January 28, 2010, Wizards of the Coast announced on their website that they would not be renewing their license to produce Star Wars products for their roleplaying and miniature gaming lines. Their license ended in May 2010.

Reception[edit]

Star Wars Roleplaying Game Saga Edition won the Gold ENnie Awards for Best Game, Best d20/OGL Product, and Best Rules, and the Silver award for Product of the Year.^[2]

References[edit]

1. ^Kenson, Stephen (June 2000). 'ProFiles: Andy Collins'. Dragon. Renton, Washington: Wizards of the Coast (#272): 18–19.
2. ^2008 ENnie Awards

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On Sunday, November 20th, I got to game master a face-to-face session of a tabletop roleplaying game for the first time in probably five or so years! A couple of mates and I gathered at The Wicked Goblin, Cairns’ friendly local game store, and I brought the Star Wars: Force and Destiny Beginner Game with me for us to try out.

In the name of getting better at the craft of game mastering, I want to go over how things went, both before and during the session, and work out what I can change or improve for the next one.

Preparation

Naturally, when playing a prepared adventure in an RPG, the game master needs to make sure he knows what’s going on. One of the first things I did (yes, I waited a day or two until I had some extra zip lock bags before breaking the counters out of their board) was read through the included adventure; as it’s intended to show both players and game master how the game works, it has pretty much everything you need. The slim rulebook that allows further adventures after the “Mountaintop Rescue” adventure ends isn’t really necessary (although I did break it out once or twice during the game).

As I read the adventure (and the “Lure of the Lost”downloadable adventure that follows) and was introduced to the non-player characters, I found myself casting the Non-Player Characters; the supporting cast of beings with whom my players get to interact. The first character the players meet, known as the Gatekeeper, I wound up thinking of as Ian McKellen, somewhere between Gandalf and Magneto, and the scruffy hunters they encounter shortly afterward immediately called to mind the scruffy humans from the Battlefield Earth movie.

The adventure comes with four characters that the players can take on, and I made sure to take some Post-It notes with me so that the players could make notes directly on the sheets without damaging them.

One discovery about my current style of game mastering is that I’m not the biggest fan of pure improvisation, the kind of off-the-cuff, make it up as you go along creativity that’s encouraged by games like InSpectres – I like having some structure to rely on. That said, I do prefer adventures that have the opportunity to have character – I think the biggest thing that turned me off the Pathfinder module I attempted to run online for some friends and relatives a few months back was that the adventure module I ran was almost a pure dungeon crawl with threats that had no real character of their own. “Mountaintop Rescue” had a good bit of character to it.

Play

We all made it to the Wicked Goblin on time and were able to get stukc in pretty quickly! Alwin was an experienced RPG player, offering some comparisons between the Star Wars Roleplaying system (which his was his first encounter with) and other systems he’d played. Glenn was a first time player, though, so I wanted to make sure he had a good time. Of the four characters available, they leapt on the two who came with lightsabres.

I was wondering how quickly resolving actions would go; instead of adding numbers from attributes, skills, situational modifiers and a dice roll together in order to beat either a difficulty set by the game master or another character’s opposing action, the Star Wars Roleplaying rules get you to gather a handful of custom dice which generate totals of success and failure points; as long as you have more successes than failures, you succeed. If anything outside your abilities and skills would assist you, you add extra dice; if something specific to the situation would aid the game master, he or she gets extra dice.

In the end, gathering dice, rolling, counting successes and failures and subtracting one from the other takes about the same time as rolling and calculating results in more traditional roleplaying games.

The game went more quickly than I thought; this turned out to be a good thing as I hadn’t checked exactly when the Wicked Goblin was closing, but the reason may have been that, while Alwin and Glenn were certainly working together, they weren’t interacting so much as characters, either with each other or me. They tended to play their characters a little more like video game avatars, charging into combat. Maybe that’s not a bad thing; I’ve got another post on the go about how RPGs can be a great place to let your inner badass out to play for a while. And while I could say striking your enemies down without giving them a chance to surrender not exactly Star Wars-y, I do mind me how Luke mowed through a bunch of Jabba’s guards with his lightsabre in the first big set piece of Return of the Jedi… although it was after Luke gave Jabba and his cronies plenty of warning.

I did love getting to play the personalities of the Gatekeeper and Malefax! I think Malefax wound up coming out a bit more David Attenborough than Ian McKellen, but he was still fun to voice. I couldn’t think of a casting for Malefax, so I just played him as menacing and rabidly angry, and that seemed to work. I’m looking forward to introducing more characters next time!

That said, characterising places got a bit loose, toward the end. I let the map do a bit of the talking as they players progressed into the Jedi Temple; “You’re here, here’s what’s in front of you, okay! Here come some characters.”

Speaking of the map, I made sure to take a photo of the board at end of the game (it’s the featured image of this post) so I can set up the same next time and keep going right where we left off. I also have the game’s notes in my notebook which stays in my shoulder bag, so I should be all set for next time!

The main thing, though? It felt great. It was intense, and there were times that I was worried that I didn’t know what I was doing, but I kept it all together and enjoyed myself – and from the compliments Alwin and Glenn gave me afterward, I did a good job ensuring that they did too!

There’s another post in there about my anxieties and gaming which can wait for another day. In the end, while my efforts might not have met some critical standard of perfection, the session was my first time back in the GM saddle for a bit and it was more than enough; it was plenty!

What I want to do next time

We’ve scheduled the next session for Saturday, December 17th; with any luck the two absent players will be coming along and Glenn may also be bringing his young son with him! I’m planning to wrap the fight scene at the end of “Mountaintop Rescue” then press on with “Lure of the Lost,” the downloadable sequel adventure.

As we’re playing on a Saturday, closing time won’t be as much of an issue, although some players will still need to head off around five thirty.

It’s going to be interesting, as I will have two more new players who will have missed the very step-by-step intro to the rules of the game; also, the beginning of “Lure of the Lost” introduces the light and dark sides of the pre-generated characters, which ties into Conflict points. I’ll need to get Alwin and Glenn to help bring the other players up to speed without forcing them to drink fro The Firehose Of Knowledge.

Further to the point about playing the characters above, I want to encourage players to feel safe and interact with each other and me in whatever method they prefer. Sometimes it’s easy to lose in all the rules and dice-rolling that a core part of the charm of RPGs is that you get to pretend to be someone else, and be a little amateur theatre about it. I think one thing I can do is ask the players what they think about the characters in front of them. What sort of people are they, what annoys them, what would make them laugh, how are they likely to react when shit gets serious?

I’d also like to be able to play to the special things that the Star Wars Dice do; come up with Advantages, Threats, Triumphs and Despairs ahead of time so that I can throw them at my players whenever the dice come up for/against them. (Soft of reminds me of the “Cool things that can happen in fight venue X” lists from the Feng Shui roleplaying game…)

Then, as mentioned earlier on, I’d like to try and bring the places to life just as much as the characters. I want to find the balance with helping the players paint pictures in their heads without making their eyes glaze over.

Finally: Paperclips! They’ll be great for letting characters mark their experience advances on the starting sheets without writing on them; my initial idea was Post-It notes, but they didn’t stay stuck.

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