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Im thinking of sending my players to Kessel in the future. Of course I have looked at the Wookie entry, but Im looking for more information. Any of the published adventures that features Kessel? Any other sources of information?
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One of the Adventure Journals had a Kessel Run adventure in it. I'm currently away from my books so I can't tell you which one.
I think I'm wrong about this, It could have been Sevarcos.... I'll have to check when I get home this weekend.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:26 am Post subject: Re: Sooo, youre going to Kessel you said? Well, good luck! |
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| ZzaphodD wrote: | | Im thinking of sending my players to Kessel in the future. |
I remember running an adventure that took place in my imagination's version of the Spice Mines of Kessel before even reading the Jedi Academy Trilogy. One of the PCs was captured and there was a jail break heavily influenced by Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
| ZzaphodD wrote: | | Of course I have looked at the Wookie entry, but Im looking for more information. Any of the published adventures that features Kessel? Any other sources of information? |
The Jedi Academy Sourcebook "Chapter 8: Kessel" (p. 85-95). It even includes the game mechanics for making the "Kessel Run" (which Han and Chewie made in less than 12 parsecs). This chapter on Kessel is one of the only reasons I bought the book before deciding to get them all anyway. But since getting this book, I haven't used it.
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ZzaphodD
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I assume the Jedi Academy Sourcebook is a d20 product?
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Negative. It goes over the Keven J Anderson trilogy and is most definitely D6
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I ran an adventure once where the corporation that the characters were working for wanted to start there own glitterstim mine.
They hired the characters to hunt and capture bogeys and spiders. It was a great adventure full of suspense and action. At the end they found a queen spider with a egg chamber ala "aliens".
It also provided a second adventure as they had starship trouble and had to dock on a space station. Where the queen escaped and then they had to hunt her down again. |
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| garhkal wrote: | | Negative. It goes over the Keven J Anderson trilogy and is most definitely D6 |
Great, just the simple task of finding it then...
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| ZzaphodD wrote: | | I assume the Jedi Academy Sourcebook is a d20 product? |
| ZzaphodD wrote: | | garhkal wrote: | | Negative. It goes over the Keven J Anderson trilogy and is most definitely D6 |
Great, just the simple task of finding it then... |
I'm sorry my original answer did presume that you were aware of the novels that the sourcebook is based on, because the novels came out in 1994 which would mean it really wouldn't make commercial sense for WOTC to publish a sourcebook by the time they started producing the d20 Star Wars RPG in 2000. I should have just put "WEG" on my answer for clarification, and I do apologize.
Let's see what I can remember. The Jedi Academy Trilogy takes place 7 years after RotJ, which means it's the chronologically next major storyline after The Thrawn Trilogy and The Dark Empire comic books. The main Imperial antagonist is Grand Moff Tarkin's young mistress, a female admiral. And there's a long-lost Sith spirit or some such. Luke declares himself a Jedi Master and gathers up some students to begin training. His nephew Jacen, a young toddler in diapers, heroically saves the day at one point. One of Luke's new students is tempted by the Dark Side, but comes back to the light. There is a new dreaded superweapon that blows up stars instead of planets and capital ships. Lando looks for a wife. IMO, there were a few cool ideas but the vast majority of the novels are utter rubbish.
For that reason, the Jedi Academy Sourcebook was one of the last WEG Star Wars books I acquired when completing my collection. I haven't really used it yet, but the sourcebook is better than the novels themselves.
Amazon, Half.com and eBay all have listings for the book starting at around $10 plus shipping.
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Whill wrote:
| Quote: | | There is a new dreaded superweapon that blows up stars instead of planets |
Whill you forgot the part about the superweapon being a starfighter size ship and having armor that shrugs off the blast of a Deathstar-scale superlaser.
| Quote: | | ...the vast majority of the novels are utter rubbish |
Oh, I guess you didn't forget that part.  |
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I looked through a 'copy' of the book I just happende to find somewhere.. It seems that theres no maps included which was really what I was after.. 
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| Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:09 am Post subject: |
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| ZzaphodD wrote: | | garhkal wrote: | | Negative. It goes over the Keven J Anderson trilogy and is most definitely D6 |
Great, just the simple task of finding it then... |
... I actually recently got a second copy of this book I could sell to ya 
In all honesty, the book has a lot of good info in it; I got my second copy in a lot of other books I didn't have.
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| Quote: | | ...the vast majority of the novels are utter rubbish |
| Bren wrote: | Whill wrote:
| Quote: | | There is a new dreaded superweapon that blows up stars instead of planets |
Whill you forgot the part about the superweapon being a starfighter size ship and having armor that shrugs off the blast of a Deathstar-scale superlaser. |
I believe I intentionally forgot that part, even after looking through the Sourcebook in recent years. But now that you've mentioned it, that triggered another memory about the series' climax featuring the nearly as equally rediculous way that the author's main protagonist (the Jedi who went dark but came back) contorted his body to fit into the starfighter-scale ship's superweapon's missile tube...
But hey, these novels were still better than Crystal Star!
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Whill wrote:
But hey, these novels were still better than Crystal Star!
Crystal Star?!   NO!!! That's impossible!  <cue scary Luke face. |
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