Help with starting adventure.

[Rasputiza]

Hiall,
this is my first post here, and i need to do a brief introduction:

I played many RPGs in my life, and recently put my hands over some WEG SW books.
I decided to call my old fellows players to arms again and start playing some SW for a change (played MERP in the last 15 years, more or less).
Since i never used this system i'll have to study a bit the game mechanics, and i'll have few time to build up an adventure myself.
All i need is some help in deciding wich adventure from the original WEG ones is best fitted for a group of completely novice players, starting from level one. Keep in mind i'd love to start from the immediate start of the rebellion, or maybe some years before (just to give my friends some good reasons to hate the New Order), but if this is not possible, i'll revert to wichever published adventure can fit.
Thanks in advance!

Rasputiza

[hisham]

Couple of points and queries:
1) Game mechanics is simple. Once you start GMing, you'll see what I mean.

2) What adventure supplements do you have?

3) You still play MERP? Awesome.
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[Allst Beamem]

Looking at your list I would suggest the following for possible first time adventures....

Tatooine Manhunt (this was my groups first)
Crisis on Cloud City (mainly becouse this is a familer place for movie fans)

After you knock those out the rest will be snap. And youll probly start makeing up your own.

Good luck and good gameing
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[hisham]

Wow. Tatooine Manhunt was my group's first published adventure too. You really settle comfortably into the universe. You're on a timetable, counting down. You have a Clone Wars legacy. You're in and around Mos Eisley with a bunch of ANH background characters. And you got tons of bounty hunters.

Some of the original background source from the adventure are mentioned in other media over the years.
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[Rasputiza]

Ok, i see that you both agree with Tatooine Manhunt.
I read briefly the adventure and it seems it could be the right one.
My only concern is that the players should start with a Rebel affiliation.
I suppose i could rearrange them to be mercs hired by the rebellion, with not every detail already cleared out.
I'd prefer an adventure wich starts from a smuggler/hired hands situation, and later develops into a more rebellion sided one, but if this is very difficult to find, i could still rely on Tatooine Manhunt.

Thanks a lot for the help though
Ras

[Gry Sarth]

Most, if not all, of WEG's ready-to-play Adventure books are tailored for a Rebel group. If you want something different, you should perhaps look at the adventure hooks provided in GG6-Tramp Freighters and other books. They might not be as fleshed out as an adventure book, but with a little work, it gets the job done.
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[Allst Beamem]

Yes in all my years of playing and running this game I have had exactly one player actualy be in the rebellion

So just use any adventrue you want and mix it up a little, so thay dont have to evin care about the rebellion aginst the Empire if thay dont want too.

thats my advice anyway 8)

Good gaming too ya!
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[Pel]

I agree that Tatooine Manhunt is an excellent choice. It was my group's first published adventure also. All those bounty hunters on the cover made it a "must buy".

So, how did your first adventure turn out?
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[Rasputiza]

Yesterday i had my first glance into an adventure.

Since i had not the entire party with me, i decided to run an "on the fly" one on Tharsis planet (i needed the right hooks to get my players together).
The time is immediatly after the destruction of the first Death Star (nothing revolutionary, here). Tarsis is a sort of ghost world. With rubbled buildings (partly a rest of the Sith bombardment wich took place in the Kotor era), fighting gangs of crime lords, and with the Empire barely present to collect a 20% of criminal incomes.

One is the indebted human owner of a battered freight ship wich needs to get a cargo of delicate biomembranes to Kessel trying to pay her debt to a Tarsis Crime lord (wich happens to be the villain of the adventure found in the Gamemaster Handbook sourcebook: the next one i plan to play). She was formerly a scout for a corporation, but was fired due a massive financial crisis of her employers.

The other two are a force sensitive Cathar (a tribute to Kotor Juhani) Industrial spy/Saboteur, who found herself enslaved after her Gang Leader was killed (and the organization destroyed or swallowed by the winning faction).
She was rescued by a weird mechanic (an exceptional, but lunatic and drug addicted one), wich asked for her as payment (and filled in the difference) after a particularly well done work. He was dumped on Tarsis by his last employer (a wealthy and arrogant space merchant) after he brought a quarrel (about 2nd class spare engine parts he refused to mount on his ship sub-light engine) almost to blaster muzzle point. Don't ask me his race (he's not human) because i cannot remember the name (he chose the race yesterday evening just before beginning to play).

They both needed to "change air", and were in desperate need of a lift. They found the scout and accepted to be hired as mechanics and general servicemen for the passage and food.
Now they managed to fix the engine of the freighter (by scavenge some parts from a crashed ship), break the breathing mask of the mechanic (he's at -1D ATM), and retrieve some misterious data disks and chips from a smuggling compartment of the relict, among rotten away Kessel Spice. I guess this will be the hook of the next adventure (and not the data inserted in the ship, as in the original one).

Next two players i hope they'll have some combat capability (otherwise the party will soon become minced meat, imho), something like a mercenary, and a though spacer looking for a new ship after he got bored of the old one. They'll have to be human (since running a party of 80% aliens should not be easy during the empire era), or a Human and a Droid, but i don't want to push my friends too much in a direction: we'll see.

Ras

BTW: I didn't use sripts
BTW II: after next adventure i'll start the "Tramp freighters" one, as you suggested.
Thanks again!

[Pel]

You've definitely got some excellent groundwork for a Fringe campaign. Nice job on the planet Tarsis. Good imagery.
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