What is your favorite era to game in?

[Whill]

Old Republic (circa 1000 BBY or earlier)
Pre-Palpatine Republic (circa 1000 BBY to TPM)
Rise of the Empire (TPM to AotC)
The Clone War (AotC to RotS)
Early Empire (RotS to Solo)
Early Rebellion (Solo to ANH)
The Classic Era (ANH to RotJ)
The New Republic (Post-RotJ)


These aren't exactly Legends or Canon era names and definitions, but I wanted to keep it a bit more vague since some of us have our own timelines. So this is completely based on films, except the first one. Please feel free to be more specific and more general in your replies (and please reply with multiple eras if you like gaming in multiple). And for any eras (especially for the last option), please also specify if you like to set your game in the EU, Canon universe, or your own that diverges from both. This thread was made with gamemasters in mind, but please feel free to reply with your favorite era to game in as a player too. Thanks.
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[cheshire]

I think that all the campaigns that I've run long-term have been either Classic Era or Early Rebellion.

I've run a short story arc of about 6 sessions in the New Republic.

I think the reason why I gravitate to the Rebellion eras are oriented toward my like of underdog stories.
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[CRMcNeill]

I'm partial to the Classic Era, with some overlap into the Early Rebellion and New Republic eras (most of my stat write-up, even for ships from other eras, focus on how those ships would be used in the Classic Era). My reasoning mostly parallels cheshire's, in that I like the underdog feel, but add to that the fact that so much of the EU focused on this era that there is a wealth of material available to add detail and deep background stuff.
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[garhkal]

Starting pre Yavin, often end around ROTJ or just after.
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[Raven Redstar]

I like whatever era gets my players fired up. Honestly, there's no better fuel for creative fires than your players being excited. So... I can't pick one.
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[CRMcNeill]

I’d go even further and include some of the older ships from TFA, like the Resistance Transport or the Baleen Freighter.
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"No set of rules can cover every situation. It's expected that you will make up new rules to suit the needs of your game." - The Star Wars Roleplaying Game, 2R&E, pg. 69, WEG, 1996.

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[Whill]

I have used Tales of the Jedi ships for any pre-PT era when I need an old ship, and I will be happy to repurpose DT ships for my current (divergent) post-RotJ setting (which I won't get to actually game in for several years from now).

[garhkal]

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[CRMcNeill]

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[MrNexx]

I tend to like the unfettered options of the Old Republic.

"We're doing something that hasn't been covered by movies or games. So, if my Kashyyyk is weird, it's because it was weird for a while 3000 years ago."

That said, my longest-running campaign was set in the prequel era, using an alternate version of Episode 1 as a background.
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[StarPadre]

It never occurred to me to set my scenarios or campaigns 'any-when' but the New Republic.

I actively played when all I really had to go on was the three films (4-6) and a couple of NR books I'd read. I thought ...

1. It was the most accessible period to the players, as everything they had seen in the films was in the past, and could inform the players' imaginations and understandings.
2. The future was unknown so nothing the players did would cause some sort of 'alternative timeline' situation.
3. It seemed the most exciting period, as the Empire was leaderless but there were pocket Empires with plenty of the favourite bad guys and their machines still to deal with.

I always thought of the players as volunteers (or having some other motive) working as operational teams being sent with limited resources to assess and maybe deal with situations etc. The NR could provide limited resources (the NR is always cash strapped and resource-scarce in my campaigns, because of major efforts with big forces elsewhere) and it allowed me to have NR agents and contacts assist them if various ways every now and again, either by pre-arrangment, dumb luck or desperate request!

[garhkal]

[Whill]