Post by strangebrew on Aug 19, 2018 19:34:01 GMT -6
Just picked this up (www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/star-wars-the-roleplaying-game-30th-anniversary-edition/). Along with AD&D 2nd edition, the 2nd edition of this was my go-to game in those golden years of age 12-14. The reprinted books are beautiful and have that old school hardback construction, much like the old AD&D hardcovers, and they smell marvelous.
I was paging through these, thinking about how easy it would be to use them to play a 1977-only game. The info is really minimal and is more focused on the first movie than the later ones, and the later references are easily ignored. Some of the templates are also a bit kooky (Ewok, really?) but characters can also be built from scratch. I think the hardest thing would be finding a group willing to really take the dive into such a thought-experiment and allow it end up going in odd places (like the original SW comic did) without people getting their knickers twisted. It would probably be much easier to place it during the first movie and not tell them what you had in mind - until it was too late.
On a related note, I'd also really like to run a Planet of the Apes game using Apes Victorious, players as astronauts, but have the world outside the ape-realm be a mishmash of 70s/80s retro pop culture references (pseudo-Darth Vader firing off magic missiles from the back of a Mad Max hot rod). Basically Encounter Critical, once again without telling the players what to expect - until it is too late.
I was paging through these, thinking about how easy it would be to use them to play a 1977-only game. The info is really minimal and is more focused on the first movie than the later ones, and the later references are easily ignored. Some of the templates are also a bit kooky (Ewok, really?) but characters can also be built from scratch. I think the hardest thing would be finding a group willing to really take the dive into such a thought-experiment and allow it end up going in odd places (like the original SW comic did) without people getting their knickers twisted. It would probably be much easier to place it during the first movie and not tell them what you had in mind - until it was too late.
On a related note, I'd also really like to run a Planet of the Apes game using Apes Victorious, players as astronauts, but have the world outside the ape-realm be a mishmash of 70s/80s retro pop culture references (pseudo-Darth Vader firing off magic missiles from the back of a Mad Max hot rod). Basically Encounter Critical, once again without telling the players what to expect - until it is too late.
