AU & The campaign

[Jedi Skyler]

[Kilgore]

glad someone likes it

[masque]

I tend to enjoy most of the EU stuff I've read, although I haven't read any of the NJO stuff or The New Rebellion & Darksaber. I'm reading the Bounty Hunter Wars right now, and digging the hell out of it. I disregard the prequels and the Special Edition versions of the movies.

It's a relatively minor issue for me however, as my campaign is fringe-based and takes place between ANH and ESB. The galaxy is huge to play in, with tons of room for criminal orgs (canonical and home-grown) and lots of opportunity for "free-traders" trying to make an honest buck. We're mainly located in the Corporate Sector, which is only sparsely described, so there's plenty of freedom to do whatever.

Every now and then I come up across canon, but it's tangential to the adventures of my players' characters. Currently I'm corraling them towards an adventure where they end up providing advanced prosthetics to the Rebellion, which of course will end up being Luke's hand. They enjoy the idea, but they also know they're not going to run into Luke or any major characters. That's pretty much my standard approach to canon within the game.
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[garhkal]

When i do play a non rebellion era, i usually like to go with the thrawn trilogy to dark empire time frame... And i use as much or as little of the EU as i decide when i started that campaing. One i used all the stuff from DE, but as little as poss from the thrawn era.
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[Taliesin_Bardwolf]

Well, I have read almost everything from EU. Some things like me, some not. So I just use in my game what I like, and forget the rest.

In fact, my game is a lot like Kilgor's one, but I have some more Jedis (not very much, at all) and the Jedi Academy is in Yavin IV, as in EU (I had some ideas for adventures there).

[Firehawk0220]

I like everything up through Jedi Academy. The Hier to the Empire triglogy rocks, Dark Empire rocks, and Jedi Academy is decent enough. I also use the continuity and events of several of the PC games as I am a big fan of some of the material. Like Dark Forces, Dark Forces II Jedi Knight, Jedi Knight II Jedi Outcast, and finally, Jedi Academy.

I do not care for any of the New Jedi Order crap at all. It doesn't feel like Star Wars. I don't like most of the characters. Tenel Ka and some of those others seem retarded to me. I mean who builds a crappy lightsaber, loses their hand and then refuses to get it replaced? A crazy idiot, that's who. (Just my $.02. Don't want to upset anyone.)

I run post ROTJ games, but I do my own thing. I don't do the Yuzhann Vong or any of that crap. I don't care for it.

[Sith'Ari Lizanthrin]

My main gripe with the EU was Troy Denning's use of a concept he came up with for the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons setting DarkSun in Star Wars.

The Rhullisti lifeshapers were the concept from which he drew the atrocity I ignore known as the Vong. The Rhullisti (conceptual Vong) were the original inhabitants of Athas, and would have returned on a comet from unknown areas beyond Athas to "Re-Green" the world. They were immune to magic and had a distaste for human society as it had sprung up. They were to defeat the city state of Tyr and lifeshape it to be re-greened Sound familiar? The only change he made was the masochism and fleshy details. So in my games, no Vong.

As a writer myself I take issue with using something so non Star Wars and trying to force it upon Star Wars. I understand the desire to see a good idea come to fruition, and I understand losing the opportunity to tell a good story. But, when Denning admitted as much at a GenCon interview I truly lost my taste for something I already caught on to.

Other than that I take everything canonical and EU canonical with a grain of salt. Changing what I do not like while keeping the flavor I have come to love that is Star Wars. My only major canonical gripe is the demystifying M-word was never conceived. I can understand why Lucas did it. (To demystify the Force and deter further religious beliefs based on Science Fiction) But that doesn't mean I have to like it.

Alexis Dority
*smiles*

[Jedi Skyler]

Of the books, I think my favorite is still I, Jedi. Although it INVOLVES some of the major characters, it's not ABOUT them. But it IS about a minor character who follows a different-yet-similar path and gets the chance to be a shiny-sword-wielding hero like big bad Luke Skywalker did, AND he gets to do it without being completely saddled by the altruistic farmboy attitude that yokes Luke.

[ZepDek]

Well me and some of my players use pretty much any star wars material and accept it as cannon (Except Midiclorians....don't get me started), but the thing is only for the start of the campain. After that its all up in the air. I've had alien invasions, beings from other dimensions coming here (sometimes accedently, sometimes not), and so on. Once a group of heros, who, after buying more than a million credits worth of allience war bonds (You know those are good for 3 credits for every one you spend?) secured their investment by saving hoth from the empire's forces (by saving the shield generator). Needless to say, the empire really didn't like that and cannon went out the window.