Schweig's Top 10 Most Influential D6 Star Wars RPG Products

[Loc Taal]

Here's some interesting reading for those of you trying to decide which book to get next.

Schweig's Top 10 Most Influential D6 Star Wars RPG Products
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[Son of Fire]

I actually have #7 on that list.
I found it when I was visiting my lady at a store in Albany NY, so I nabbed it for $10.00.

Its one of my three actual books.
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[Vartax]

I don't agree with that list. I think the Gamemaster screen 2nd edition revised should be in the top three. I could see the rest being up to the GM's interests.

[cheshire]

Don't get me wrong, there are some good books on the list. But really, the Tales of the Jedi companion really could have been better. It's list of the Force powers (minus two) is probably the best thing it has going for it. It's organization lacks something, and it doesn't really give a good plot summary of the comic series.

I'm suprised that Pirates and Privateers isn't on there. I've used a few ideas from the book, and I'm not even running a pirate oriented campaign.

Heroes and Rogues, in the eyes of most players I've talked to, is "just a bunch of player templates." I find it odd that it would be considered so influential

[Vartax]

I guess I could see hero and rogues giving ideas of NPCs and possible adventure ideas from the character templates. I just bought the box set for darkstryder, and I really don't see too many cool things to place it on the list.

[Maximilian Bernas]

I own 10, 9, 7, 6, 2, and 1...

Hmmm, I don't have them all!

I... MUST... ACQUIRE... THEM... ALL!!!

<whew> okay, I'm better now.
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[Grimace]

I just finished reading this, and while I have 9 of the 10 listed, I think the list is pretty accurate. Sure, not every one of them will be used all of the time, but each one is "influential", as the list suggests. Tales of the Jedi Companion offers quite a bit of information and ideas on Jedi, something that did not really exist up until that point. There were little blurbs here and there in other books, but nothing really compiled that information into a single book until Tales came out.

Heroes and Rogues is a book that out to have more emphasis put on it by the GM and the players. It can do great things towards making player characters more than just the typical combat junkie that seem so prevelant these days. Gamemasters can use it to help flesh out their NPCs so the characters are more interesting and provide better interaction for the player characters to deal with. Like Tales of the Jedi, until Heroes and Rogues came out, there were only small snippets here and there in books.

So, all told, the books on the list are pretty good, and certainly include things that were either good, full explanations of material that was previously glossed over, or provided brand new information that provided good material for both GMs and players to chew on. Each individual person could easily pick and choose a couple different from the list. Even I can, as I use certain books more than the books on the list, but overall each of the books on the list gave me more than a little pause to look over them and appeciate what they had in them.

[cheshire]

I'm not sure what it means "most influential" (meaning, I'm not sure who the books were supposed to influence), but I think if you had to put together your own top ten list, what would it be?