How do you handle the changing Star Wars universe?

[Rathe Ehtar]

Tell it like it is, B.

[Tybalt]

i agree, i do not like to have to do what the books, say and neither do the players. i think converting things and developing your own stuff is perfectly ok, especially when everyone is having fun
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[Jace_Terrik]

I don't buy Blizzards of the Coast sourcebooks. EVER!

But I still read the novels, the comic books and watch the cartoons. I use the material available and try to "merge" it with existing information via compromises. If there is no such information, I make it up.

In a way, I like having campaings in the Prequel Era (though it's not as cool as the Classic Trilogy Era), because it gives me a lot of opportunity to make up my own stuff.

Example: Clonetroopers are NOT Stormtroopers in my campaing, because it contradicts existing information.
So, I do a compromise. Kinda.
Why aren't Stormtroopers clones in my campaings?
Well, because their growth acceleration make them pretty useless in the long run. They age twice as fast as regular Humans. Of course, the life expectancy of a Clonetrooper isn't very long.

Also, the brainwashing and indoctrination of Stormtrooper cadets functions as another aspect that puts fear into Imperial citizens.

Also, in my campaing, the clones never were that realiable. They were forced into action too soon, etc. Making them unpredictable in the endgame.
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There is no ignorance; there is knowledge.
There is no passion; there is serenity.
There is no chaos; there is harmony.
There is no death; there is the Force.

[Kabal]

For me, nothing that was done in the prequels or most of the EU will ever see daylight in a campaign I run. Stormtroopers are not clones (and they never were), the Clone Wars was fought against a clone army, which is why cloning was outlawed. Boba is not a clone. Anakin was carved to pieces by Obi-Wan, and then fell into Lava (which apparantly is being changed for EpIII), there's none of this silly "only 2 sith ever" garbage. The emperor does not have a clone, since cloning cuts you off from the force, 99.9999% of the Jedi are extinct, but there are still some force sensitives around. The list goes on and on.

[Hellcat]

If I could figure out how to convert from D20 to D6, then I'd get the WotC sourcebooks just so I could put all the material in a proper SW RPG format. Though I might get them to use as resource material for other purposes. Really prefer D6 as I don't have to worry about which dice to use and it pushes you to use math more. Roll 5D with results like 1, 5, 5, 6, 2 and you have to add 'em up where as roll 1 D20 an it tells you right there what you got. Besides, if you have the X-wing or TIE Fighter Strategy Guides, add up the WEG stats for a Star Destoryer's crew and gunners and then look in the strategy guide's tech section at the crew. Guess where they took their stats from.
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[Hellcat]

I saw a conversion table at their website and I recall it being D6 to D20. Didn't seem easy to reverse to me, otherwise I'd have used it on the ARC stats.
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[Firehawk0220]

I establish a rule at the beginning that the only cannon materials in my universe are from the movies, or speciifc things I've liked from the expanded universe.

From there on out, its there game. If they want to try and kill Luke Skywalker in cold blood, I'll let them try.