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STAR WARS RPGs before 1987

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

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Tyberious Funk

#15
January 23, 2007, 12:00:06 AM
I remember playing a hacked version of Basic D&D.  I'm pretty sure this was after Star Wars 1st Ed was produced, though.  I grew up in a gaming wasteland, so it probably wasn't until the early 90's that I got my hands on any WEG material.
 

Leo Knight

#16
January 23, 2007, 07:41:06 PM
Wow. Almost everything I ever ran with Traveller was ripped off from "Star Wars". I had big furry critters called Grendels, which were, of course, turbocharged Wookies.
 
Lightsabers? Check.

Blasters? Unless otherwise noted, allthe ranged weapons were blasters... except shotguns. Check.

Flying through asteroid fields? Blasting TIE fighters? I never used the computer programming rules. Pilot skill added to your rolls when flying. Gunner skill added to your rolls when firing. Check.

Landspeeders, big Jawa type crawlers, cloud cities, wretched hives of scum and villany, Imperial troopers in combat armor, speeder bikes? Check all that.

I ripped off the entire underground section in "Splinter of the Mind's Eye" for one session. Killed me a PC with the amoeba thing in the lake. I always imagined psionics the way Luke's force abilities were portrayed in "Splinter..." About the only things I never used were droids, although I may have had a protocol droid once or twice.

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Casey777

#17
January 23, 2007, 08:04:30 PM

Star Frontiers. "Electric Sword", right. ;)

While I didn't use it at the time for Star Wars Traveller had stats for several Star Wars characters in some of the Supplement books and could pretty much be Star Wars: A New Hope if you made the Imperium the Evil Empire as was one of the early ideas.

LKW on Traveller & Star Wars

flyingmice

#18
January 23, 2007, 08:08:47 PM
Nope. I've never played a StarWars game before or after.

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David R

#19
January 23, 2007, 08:20:51 PM
Never played a SW game before '87. When SW ideas started trickling into our games, it was normaly mixed up with ideas from Vanth DreadStar (?) and Co. Those were some trippy times...

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David R

Dr Rotwang!

#20
January 23, 2007, 08:25:31 PM
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Settembrini

#21
January 24, 2007, 01:38:22 AM
Casey was quicker.
Traveller even had Luke & Vader all statted out in 1000 characters & citizens of the imperium.
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