What's your Star Wars Universe?

[bobenhotep]

my favorite world o star wars was set roughly 400 years BNH. the republic was in decline and the characters were smugglers and bounty hunters. interestingly enough, i never had a force using pc.

I chose that time period because nothing at the time was written about it. the pcs smuggled goods around the republic. the main starfighters were z-90's and a tiny fighter with forward swept wings called an IE-44. i described a lot of different freighters, but recycled the stats for the yt-1300, ghtroc 720, and the scout ship.

i made up a lot of equipment and put it all on 4x6 cards, then put them in a photo album.

i also had detailed rules for modifying ships and building them. i remember some of them, but would have to reconstruct the rest...

i also did the " imperial frontier corps" which was kinda like star trek in star wars, if that is possible...

[ZzaphodD]

I play in an unspecified time right before the Battle of Yavin.

The Death Star is under construction (the players will 'discover' it later in an adventure).

[Cool McCool]

#3.

The original trilogy.

Take that and extend "Mos Eisley" to the rest of the galaxy. It's a dirty, grimy place full of scoundrels, gamblers, dirtbags, and troublemakers all trying to eke out a living under the oppression of the EVIL GALACTIC EMPIRE.

Galactic Noir.
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[Nico_Davout]

I am currently GMing a campaign set in LotF times. My characters are freelance who are working for everyone who pays. Recently they did a job for the Galactic Alliance Guard looking for so-called Corellian terrorist on Coruscant .
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Nico,

Han Solo shot first, midichlosomething do not exist, Rebel Alliance was created as in the WEG books and indoctrination theory is the true ending of ME3.

[Kyram Vhett]

1- Han shoots first, need i say more!
2- Prequals never existed apart from a few spinof things like republic comic series and the clone commando books. i like the clone wars cartoon but as far as continuity goes doesnt exist.
3- Big fan of the eu, there is some realy bad stuff like the black fleet crissis books but i think theres more good than bad material out there.
4- Ewoks rock (dont judge me! LoL!)

On star wars in general i think there has been a steady dicline in the quality of merchandise and material realeased since the late 90's, with the exception of the comics and novals which i think have just got better and better over the years. I just seems that there isnt much thought past how much money can this make me going into the products, one of the most disapointing things is the star wars insider which used to be a realy good mag with some realy great content like scouting the galaxy which was unfortunatly droped.

Sorry for making my first post a bit of a rant but i kinda went off on one.

Regards Rich

P.s. its good to find a site based around the old d6 system with a pleasnt comunity.
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[Nico_Davout]

[Kyram Vhett]

LoL! true but still something that needs to be stated at every posable moment.
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OYA!

[Doomhead]

Ewoks (Muppets in general) rock!!!
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[Whill]

[Rerun941]

Here's my big beef with the Han/Greedo scene. As it was originally presented, Han kills Greedo in cold blood (not self-defense). It helps establish that Han is a hard-boiled guy willing to kill over a few credits.

We're meant to see Han this way, so we can later see him "soften" after his encounter with the Rebellion, and of course, most especially: Leia.

Any changes to the circumstances change Han's presentation. If Han fires in self-defense, he's no longer a tough character. If Greedo is drunk or shown to be incompetent, Han is no longer a badass.

Han needs to be protrayed as a tough cookie in one of his first on-screen scenes. Just as Luke needs to be portrayel as a lonely, idealistic farmboy. Just as Obi-Wan needs to be portrayed as a mysterious, wise man.
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[JT Swift]

I’m pretty open-minded. So All the EU (I know about) up to “Unifying Force” (and nothing set after that point) is in my games ‘canon.’

With two major tweaks…
1. Han shot first (see Star Wars Revisited! It’s ‘true’!)
2. The New Republic still exists at the end of “Unifying Force” and was not replaced by the GFFA.
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[schnarre]

...I've had a number of them, like I mentioned earlier, but here are a few:


1st) Not long after Endor, a successor to the Emperor comes to power & begins a major PR campaign to defang many of the gripes that led sentients to favor the Rebellion. There is a ceasefire for a time. However, such is too good to last & dissidents reignite conflict.
The "new rebellion", lacking the strengths they had previous, will eventually lose the conflict--there is even a schism among them. But through a number of unplanned events, there rises a new opposition: 5 major groups band together to oppose the Empire. 2 new groups align with the Empire. Before long, it's full-scale conventional warfare between the 2 factions.
(this was my first setting--lasted for over 12 years of gaming )

2nd) Cannon from OT onward, but no Vong. Alternate Clone Wars--it's the enemies of the Republic using clones (not droids--keeping with the track record in the books about automated units not being better than manned).

3rd) Keeping with the PT & OT. The Clone Wars novels by Dark Horse Comics, & Clone Wars cartoons that appeared on Cartoon Network (& showed Anakin's duel with Ventress). After the conflict, there is an unexplained technological regression--an alternate usage of Drain Life Essence by the Emperor--which allows the Empire to sieze control of most of the Galaxy (& accounting for why Clone War gear seems so much more advanced than anything that comes later).

...there's plenty more, but these are the main ones.
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[belshazzar]

There's plenty of space for everybody in the Galaxy. I loved the Thrawn trilogy, but when I set the events in that time-frame players see what's happening from afar. They are still pirates/minor agents of the newly formed New Republic (I.e, plenty of adventure and no worry about politics). Sure we could play instead intricate political plots... it's legitimate (there must be politics and intrigues in SW galaxy as well) but that campaign would lose most of the SW feel (but you know, you want to do something different after a while). A good example of this is the (VERY GOOD) Darkstryder Campaign. It gets much similar to Star Trek (blasphemy!)... but it's still LOTS OF FUN! Oh... one important change in my campaign is that f*** DO NOT EXIST!!! The whole idea is just BAD BAD BAD (and useless.... they just didn't use it in later movies). They also tell me that the novelization of PHANTOM MENACE is not so terrible, so there's possibly plenty of fun in that time-frame without much modifications (as long as you kill JARJAR!)

[Jame Rowe]