Introducing new people...should I...?

[TheEvilDM]

Just run a game of the first edition rules or the introductory adventure rules or just jump into it with 2e revised?
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[Fallon Kell]

Most people seem to like 2R&E, but some people like the "stun" rules of 1E and a few of us like the scale rules in 2E. On the whole, I think 2R&E is the most popular rule set, while 2E is my favorite.
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Complete Starship Construction System

[TheEvilDM]

[Fallon Kell]

I'd go introductory for first-timers.
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Complete Starship Construction System

[cheshire]

I've always done the R&E for my first time players. I was known for running a short campaign each winter for newbie roleplayers. I'd give them a sheet that briefly explained how to do character creation and advancement (which I now have up on my 4shared), and then I'd give a brief rundown on how the rules worked, and we'd go from there. We'd do a small campaign of 3-5 adventures to let them get the hang of what roleplaying was all about and how the rules worked.

The rules for the R&E are simple enough as it is that you don't necessarily need to go to 1st Ed. I never really had a problem with any of my newbies using the R&E, although the chemistry of the group may have been a factor. I had 3-4 people who had either never roleplayed before or had only done it once or twice. Then I made sure that I had a veteran gamer who was intimately familiar with the rules at the table as well.
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[Bren]

I'd start with whatever rules you want to run. The rules are simple enough as they are. What's may be more important for new players is to introduce rules incrementally by having the characters do something in the first session that involves some non-combat skills and maybe a short combat. Add in a chase scene in a later session to introduce the vehicle movement rules. Then add in spaceship movement and combat in an even later session. The goal is not to overwhelm them with learning rules in any one session, but to introduce the rules gradually by having something new in each session.

[TheEvilDM]

[Zarm R'keeg]

That's basically how I did it. Heck, 6 or 7 modules later and a year or two in real life, and I'm still introducing new rules as I come to understand/sit down and really research them.
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[Raven Redstar]

I've always started on 2nd Ed. R&E, usually for the first game I run something like the Pirates of Prexiar out of the main book. My players have always enjoyed the infiltrating of the pirate camp. It usually gets the gaming juices flowing, so to speak.

The nice thing about all of the WEG Star Wars editions, are that they're all incredibly simple. If you can do basic addition & subtraction, you're golden. I have had some players who don't like to think, so they don't do well keeping track of their MAPs. They generally needed me as GM to tell them what to roll, but all in all very simple.
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[Bren]

[Raven Redstar]

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[Bren]