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STAR WARS RPGs before 1987

Started by Dr Rotwang!, January 22, 2007, 08:34:08 PM

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Dr Rotwang!

January 22, 2007, 08:34:08 PM
So, how many of you rickety old walker-pushin' old gaming geezers played Star Wars games before WEG's official rules came along?  

Come on, I know you did it.  Spill it, you old coots.  Put down the oxygen mask and answer me!
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Pete

#1
January 22, 2007, 08:44:52 PM
Never actually played a homebrew Star Wars game but I did try to jury-rig Star Frontiers to do so.  Sadly I wasn't quite as imaginative and creative as I should have been and gave up after I'd decided Electric and Sonic swords just weren't good substitutes for lightsabers.
 

arminius

#2
January 22, 2007, 08:52:20 PM
Didn't play Star Wars but the AD&D game I played in 1983-84 had a Jedi in it for a while. Not really sure what the rules were for the character, let alone how it was fit into the campaign (it was really pretty chaotic hack & slash, and actually unpleasant to recall). I remember there being at least one semi-angsty moment with the DM tempting the Jedi with the Dark Side--again, not sure if there were any rules to handle that, or even if either of them seriously entertained the possibility of the character "turning".

Kyle Aaron

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January 22, 2007, 09:49:41 PM
Does it count if we made up Force rules for Star Frontiers?
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Dr Rotwang!

#4
January 22, 2007, 09:59:30 PM
Yeah, kind of, JB.  Can I call you JB?

I simply can't conceive that gamers of the era didn't try their own SW conversions for other games.  It HAS to have happened.
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droog

#5
January 22, 2007, 10:01:49 PM
I made up lightsaber stats for Traveller about '82, but decided it wasn't a good fit for the setting.

I think I've still got a drawing somewhere of a character in a Luke Skywalker judo-outfit, waving a lightsaber attached to a powerpack.
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January 22, 2007, 10:07:36 PM
Quote from: droogI think I've still got a drawing somewhere of a character in a Luke Skywalker judo-outfit, waving a lightsaber attached to a powerpack.
WAAAAAAAAAUUUGHH THAT'S AWESOME!
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Kyle Aaron

#7
January 22, 2007, 10:10:18 PM
Quote from: droogI made up lightsaber stats for Traveller about '82, but decided it wasn't a good fit for the setting.
We always assumed that "saber" actually meant "lightsaber", because otherwise it was just too lame. You know, you finish twenty years' service, Bob gets a spaceship, and Jim gets a sword.

I have a vague memory of someone saying, "is it at least a lightsaber?" and the GM saying, "uh... yeah." But that could be one of those retroactive memories, where you make something up to make sense of the crazy shit that happened.
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Consonant Dude

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January 22, 2007, 10:18:46 PM
Quote from: JimBobOzDoes it count if we made up Force rules for Star Frontiers?

I was going to ask that.

We played a lot of Star Frontiers but, essentially, we never really played Star Frontiers. We were playing Star Wars all along :p
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Kyle Aaron

#9
January 22, 2007, 10:24:41 PM
The only real mental image I have from that Star Frontiers game is some kind of dog-like alien guy in a suit next to a spaced-up Elmore chick - you know, typical Elmore, big boobs, bigger hair. I think they were coming out of the back of a spaceship, looked a bit like Stargate Atlantis' "Puddle Jumper".

Does anyone have a copy of the book? I lost it along with all my other old books in '99, so I might be imagining...
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droog

#10
January 22, 2007, 10:27:02 PM
Quote from: JimBobOzWe always assumed that "saber" actually meant "lightsaber", because otherwise it was just too lame. You know, you finish twenty years' service, Bob gets a spaceship, and Jim gets a sword.
No way! You couldn't even get an energy weapon without going to a hi-tech planet, and they were all bloody great things you needed to hike around like a Sten gun.

"You get a sabre."
"A lightsabre?"
"No, a metal blade with a basket handle. Suffer!"
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Kyle Aaron

#11
January 22, 2007, 10:33:43 PM
You were obviously a cruel GM, droog, Jevon was much nicer! :p
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Consonant Dude

#12
January 22, 2007, 10:33:54 PM
Quote from: JimBobOzDoes anyone have a copy of the book? I lost it along with all my other old books in '99, so I might be imagining...

Some images...

http://www.waynesbooks.com/StarFrontiers.html
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Silverlion

#13
January 22, 2007, 10:37:21 PM
I played a heavily ripped off version of Star Wars using Star Frontiers. (The themes were stolen, Jedi/Psionics were hacked on) but there were elements of other SF rips as well.
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#14
January 22, 2007, 11:28:27 PM
Despite looking like Star Trek with the seemingly Vulcan race, Star Ace actually did well for Star Wars. It really has the same feel and a setting with a rebellion against the Empire.

(Nowadays I'd use either d6 or HardNova 2 though ;) )
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