So, what roleplaying game did Star Wars best, in your opinion?

My best games were with the d20 version.

D6 certainly reads awesome but I've never played it.

Saga collapses under its own weight pretty quickly, IME.

D6/West End Games. By very, very far.

Quote from: Benoist;565360D6/West End Games. By very, very far.

This.  Star Wars never felt right with levels.

I played with the d6 system back before dirt, once.  I played many sessions of d20, and ran a months-long campaign with it, so I didn't mind it too much.

Were I to play the d20 version again I'd likely dispense with levels, except for Jedi, where they do seem to fit.

I have to say I liked d6 the best, though I really liked all three. I just wish we could have had sourcebooks for KotOR and the prequels published in that rule system.

West End d6 did it best with Force skills rather than powers, although they sort of went that way later. I liked being able to use the Force in creative ways rather than use it like super powers or spell casting. Not to mention in d20 games the Jedi are just a bunch of combat junkies. What Jedi in the films has "battle mind" and what a stupid thing for ANY Jedi to have anyway. Last I checked the Force was used for knowledge and defense.

In today's games I'd say Savage Worlds or Fate would do it best, but the odds of that are slim to none. I made a SW game and it worked pretty well, but I have finally come to the conclusion that Star Wars with Jedi is a really bad idea for an RPG. The kind of person who wants to play a Jedi, is usually the exact sort of person that shouldn't.
But yeah, West End did it best.

Quote from: danbuter;565364I have to say I liked d6 the best, though I really liked all three. I just wish we could have had sourcebooks for KotOR and the prequels published in that rule system.

Yeah, that would be pretty awesome. Pretty awesome indeed.

I have never run or played WEGS SW. Saga was my favorite edition. Sleek, elegant, and fast moving!

When I first came across WEG Star Wars pretty much defined and set the standard for what I want in a roleplaying game; easy, intuitive and fast playing rules which allow to quickly define well rounded, colourful characters and with a meta-game resource to throw in the extra oomph when it really matters.

Simple things like the fact that if you spend a Force point pragmatically you lost it but if you used it in a dramatically appropriate moment really spoke to me and now seems years ahead of it's times. I also loved that equipment was such secondary consideration. You could go through the whole campaign using the same blaster you started with - what changed was your skill using it.

I've not run D6 in years, but all the other games I've enjoyed running philosophically at least have a lot in common with D6.

WEG d6 Star Wars for the win.

I've played them all and really wanted to like SAGA, but none of the d20 versions can compare to the elegance of d6 Star Wars.

Quote from: jeff37923;565370WEG d6 Star Wars for the win.

I've played them all and really wanted to like SAGA, but none of the d20 versions can compare to the elegance of d6 Star Wars.

I think for me, the reason d20 doesn't click with Star Wars is because I see Star Wars as space opera. Everything should be huge, and bigger than the last thing that troubled you. PCs should be saying, "Oh shit!" constantly.
With d20 (which I also discovered in Ravenloft) PCs are rarely afraid of anything, and usually don't worry about just jumping straight into a fight.

Played or ran 'em all...d6 most extensively.

I prefer Saga, and it's not even really close.

I have a lot of fond memories of WEG Star Wars, but I also remember a lot of problems with it, especially regarding the Force.

As a GM, Saga d20 is still my favorite; it's quick, clean, and easy to find players for.

I think d6 pretty well nailed it.  Plus is was really cool back-when as an alternative to the class-based, polyhedral systems that were so popular.  Too bad about WEG losing the license, though I'm not sure how good of hands they were in anyway.  A lot of the powers stuff that d6 did after SW was disjointed - to put it gently.

Quote from: Pariah74;565365...I have finally come to the conclusion that Star Wars with Jedi is a really bad idea for an RPG...

Very, very this.  Jedi aren't meant for any type of game, as far as I can tell.  They're interesting plot devices, but they are so very godlike that depicting them as free thinking people among mere mortals goes from disastrous to boring pretty quick.

Unfortunately, the d20 versions never really picked up on this...  And adding to that mess, SAGA tries to compensate by making everyone else more powerful.  Wonder why THAT didn't work...  

Big fan of WEG/D6 here.

Quote from: Pariah74;565365In today's games I'd say Savage Worlds or Fate would do it best, but the odds of that are slim to none.

Starblazer Adventures can do Star Wars, right out of the box. Any era too, from Golden Age of the Sith to the wacky 131BBY thing whose name escapes me.