Ok, I admit I am a Star Wars fan, always liked it far better than Star Trek's bizarre utopian dream that always seemed far less possible than space knights with laser swords. Call me silly. Anywhos, I have been running around the last few weeks reading this RPG, that one with the sexy cover, one over there, these two here....trying to something simple I could use for my solo gaming, but also something robust and loose enough that it could encompass the world of Star Wars.
And just to be clear here, Star Wars to me is in reference to the original three films, plus Rogue One and to a degree, Solo. The rest of that nonsense does not exist. In my SW world, Leia was perfect and beautiful, loved Han with all her heart, Han was a scoundrel with a heart and would die for his friends, Luke was an incorruptible brave warrior who knew that he could not just sit around while the Empire tormented all the people.
So I have been in a quandary the last few weeks what to do. No system I looked at: Black Star, WEG d6, ICRPG, Fate Accelerated, Tiny Frontiers, etc etc etc seemed to fit my needs. So, I gave up.
Then today while out on my deck listening to the rain I suddenly had a thought. Why not just use White Box? James Spahn made White Star, which has many bits that are SW with the serial numbers rubbed off, even then I do not think I even need that much. This got me to thinking why I like White Box for my solo games, what draws me to WB? It is a simple, straightforward chassis to run games. I also feel it is easily malleable into whatever genre you might want. What is Han Solo, but a rogue with a particular set of skills. Luke, a cleric maybe? In any case, for me the first thing is visualization. So what to do?
So I made White Box Star Wars character midicards!
I did not! I will certainly check it out. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI do not know why but apparently the original poster decided to delete their comment, so I am adding the links they had posted about:
Deletehttps://jrients.blogspot.com/2010/10/episode-iv-what-we-know-what-we-dont.html
https://jrients.blogspot.com/2010/10/another-galaxy-another-time.html
DeleteThis post actually points to something that always bothered me with the prequels:
ReplyDeleteI always assumed the empire had been around for a long time, longer than the two decades presented when the the prequels came out. I assumed Vade was far, far older and that he betrayed Luke's father in some manner that resulted in his death, but I never assumed dad and Vader even knew each other.
I also believed the Jedi Order had been long dormant by the time the first film was released. The way Han and others act like they had never seen, or possibly even heard of, the Jedi. Then in the prequels we have hundreds of them running around with their glow sticks. I mean, everyone would have seen and heard of them. Like the had collective amnesia or something silly like that.
Anyway, cool articles!
What if the Empire used the media (like the corporate, Democrat establishment media of our day) to memory-hole events of the recent past? Anti-jedi narratives followed by "there were no actual jedi... they're a myth" narratives?
ReplyDeleteIt is possible I supppse, but completely forgotten in two decades? Seems unlikely to me.
DeleteThere is a sci-fi version of White Box called White Star. Easily adapted to a Star Wars setting.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I mention that above in the post. It is a little ‘heavy’ for my solo needs and I am inclined to try to run it a little less….crunchy isn’t the right term. Heavy is not either. I am not sure how to explain it.
DeleteYour character sheets are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
ReplyDeleteThere used to be a retroclone called Star Wars Galactic Adventures floating around. I noticed it was not quite the same as it seemed to have a much heavier emphasis on saving rolls than standard dnd.
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