Star Wars used in non-Star Wars rules systems?
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Star Wars used in non-Star Wars rules systems?
The have been may Star Wars rules systems over the years. I am curious if anyone has ever run a Star Wars one-shot or campaign in a system that wasn't one that was meant to be used specifically for the setting. An example would be Mutants & Masterminds, which would probably be one of the easiest third party systems to use for the setting.
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Great Question.
A few SF rules sets feature Star Wars ideas with the ‘serial numbers’ filed off. Two very good products spring to mind.
Savage Worlds Science Fiction Companion: yeti (Wookiee), energy weapon sword (light sabre), repair bot (astromech).
Hyperlanes (D&D 5e rules. For space opera) Psionic Knight (Jedi), Interpreter Droid (protocol droid), Power and repair bot (astromech), Also the classes in the book do a good job of emulatating any of the non-force using characters in the films (all the characters in all the films).
A few SF rules sets feature Star Wars ideas with the ‘serial numbers’ filed off. Two very good products spring to mind.
Savage Worlds Science Fiction Companion: yeti (Wookiee), energy weapon sword (light sabre), repair bot (astromech).
Hyperlanes (D&D 5e rules. For space opera) Psionic Knight (Jedi), Interpreter Droid (protocol droid), Power and repair bot (astromech), Also the classes in the book do a good job of emulatating any of the non-force using characters in the films (all the characters in all the films).
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Re: Star Wars used in non-Star Wars rules systems?
I believe I once played in a one shot for the Star Wars setting using the HeroWars: Roleplaying in Glorantha Rules.
Feng Shui would also be fun, I would think
Our Space Master campaign felt a lot like Star Wars even though it was set in that universe.
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Re: Star Wars used in non-Star Wars rules systems?
Also AFMBE has such a space opera expansion, IIRC it is found in All Tomorrow's Zombies.Coronoides wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2019 1:19 pmGreat Question.
A few SF rules sets feature Star Wars ideas with the ‘serial numbers’ filed off. Two very good products spring to mind.
Savage Worlds Science Fiction Companion: yeti (Wookiee), energy weapon sword (light sabre), repair bot (astromech).
Hyperlanes (D&D 5e rules. For space opera) Psionic Knight (Jedi), Interpreter Droid (protocol droid), Power and repair bot (astromech), Also the classes in the book do a good job of emulatating any of the non-force using characters in the films (all the characters in all the films).
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One could do it with Alternity (alas, the d20 line and WotC's Star Wars license were no doubt nails in Alternity's coffin). WOIN's N.E.W. also has the *ahem* Star Knight career, complete with psionic powers and laser-swords. Both systems also allow for military/civilian character types found in the Star Wars Universe.
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Re: Star Wars used in non-Star Wars rules systems?
I never did that but I would seriously consider using The Expense AGE (green ronin) rule set if I did. Combined with the powers contained in the Modern & Fantasy AGE books, for the Jedi, it could work.
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The more I am hearing about WOIN the more I am wanting to get those books in the collection.RobJN wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2019 8:40 pmOne could do it with Alternity (alas, the d20 line and WotC's Star Wars license were no doubt nails in Alternity's coffin). WOIN's N.E.W. also has the *ahem* Star Knight career, complete with psionic powers and laser-swords. Both systems also allow for military/civilian character types found in the Star Wars Universe.
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I haven't had a chance to run it, but I've worked on converting WEG Star Wars to Traveller: The New Era.
Each pip of a stat is a point in Traveller, with SW Strength being both Strength and Constitution, Dexterity becoming Agility, Knowledge to Intelligence, Technical to Education, and Perception to Charisma. I've considered using either the average of Mechanical and Technical or the better of the two, but haven't come down on a firm solution yet.
Each pip of a skill higher than the stat is a level of skill (although once it's converted over, points over the stat should be halved).
Example: Han Solo at the start of the Corporate Sector Sourcebook is 9A9689. He has Astrogation 11, which I would consider an EDU skill. Since Solo's EDU is 8, he gets the first 8 points straight and halves the rest, so his actual Astrogation would be 9.
Most "named" characters are almost ludicrously overpowered, but it works well for mooks (stormtroopers, no-name smugglers, etc).
Each pip of a stat is a point in Traveller, with SW Strength being both Strength and Constitution, Dexterity becoming Agility, Knowledge to Intelligence, Technical to Education, and Perception to Charisma. I've considered using either the average of Mechanical and Technical or the better of the two, but haven't come down on a firm solution yet.
Each pip of a skill higher than the stat is a level of skill (although once it's converted over, points over the stat should be halved).
Example: Han Solo at the start of the Corporate Sector Sourcebook is 9A9689. He has Astrogation 11, which I would consider an EDU skill. Since Solo's EDU is 8, he gets the first 8 points straight and halves the rest, so his actual Astrogation would be 9.
Most "named" characters are almost ludicrously overpowered, but it works well for mooks (stormtroopers, no-name smugglers, etc).
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I posted about using Tiny Frontiers last year. My wife requested a continuation this year. I haven't posted the details yet.
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Tiny d6 would be a good choice to match the fast moving heroics of the franchise. However, the choice of PC species and robots is limited and they don’t provide a system to design your own PC robots and aliens. You could re-skin some of the presented races to cover some star-wars species (Gens would be great clone storm-troopers) but there is nothing like say an astromech available.dulsi wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2019 6:52 pmI posted about using Tiny Frontiers last year. My wife requested a continuation this year. I haven't posted the details yet.
We’re your PCs all human? How do you solve this?
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Two were human. The third was a Jawa using Khalumra for rules. The new game added another Khalumra but didn't reskin it. I have TinyDungeons 2e and TinyWasteland so I have some additional races available. Since it was a one-shot I didn't focus on converting things.
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Stellar Adventures https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/21 ... Adventures has a customisable set of rules for psyonics that seems written to be easily adapted to Star Wars. Maybe in future I will use it for running some Star Wars adventure.
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One or two years before WEG published its own Star Wars rpg, my brother ran a SW game using Pendragon's game system.
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Hero System is a good fit. I don't buy their official "energy sword" conversion but just using the generic Star Hero rules, it can be done pretty easily.
For a while I was working on a massive GURPS conversion which was awesome but required me to build some specialized rules.
I once had a vision of creating Star Wars: Galaxy Role-Playing, based on the Warhammer 2e rules set. You would have basic careers like Smuggler, Noble, etc. and then fit the Jedi into an Apprentice -> Knight -> Master scheme. Instead of chaos mutations, Force users would risk Dark Side influences. Etc. It practically wrote itself, but I couldn't find the time or motivation to do all the sweating and grinding.
For a while I was working on a massive GURPS conversion which was awesome but required me to build some specialized rules.
I once had a vision of creating Star Wars: Galaxy Role-Playing, based on the Warhammer 2e rules set. You would have basic careers like Smuggler, Noble, etc. and then fit the Jedi into an Apprentice -> Knight -> Master scheme. Instead of chaos mutations, Force users would risk Dark Side influences. Etc. It practically wrote itself, but I couldn't find the time or motivation to do all the sweating and grinding.
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That's a cool idea. I like the 2E Warhammer system. At the end of the day though, I can't see putting so much work into converting a system when the original D6 system is so slick.pawsplay wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2019 6:44 amI once had a vision of creating Star Wars: Galaxy Role-Playing, based on the Warhammer 2e rules set. You would have basic careers like Smuggler, Noble, etc. and then fit the Jedi into an Apprentice -> Knight -> Master scheme. Instead of chaos mutations, Force users would risk Dark Side influences. Etc. It practically wrote itself, but I couldn't find the time or motivation to do all the sweating and grinding.
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I just couldn't imagine there was much of an audience.