Droid Engineer Archive

I'll be at GenCon gaming convention from thursday-sunday and will most likely be out of touch... If anyone else is there feel free to track me down, just look for the D6 star wars RPG games and I'll be there.

Jenden, you tried the d20 system for Star Wars? I've been getting my feet wet in it, and so far it's not too bad. But I haven't played the pre-d20 systems, so I have no comparison.

hope you have fun. Most of the group i play with go to the local gaming convention every year, i have never been to one though. i should really try to go to one soon to see if i can get some WEG's Star Wars books that i do not own or have fallen apart from use. to combat this i have actualy taken some books and made copys of them and bound them for use.

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RasalTheWise wrote:
Jenden, you tried the d20 system for Star Wars? I've been getting my feet wet in it, and so far it's not too bad. But I haven't played the pre-d20 systems, so I have no comparison.

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I've tried the D20 system... and it just feels too restrictive. Like D&D in space. The D20 system seems to be focused on a fight of flight type system (all non-combat skills tend not to be used in combat situations, which means non-combat oriented characters sit out half the game). Also, its got too much emphasis on melee skills (that may just have to do with the times I've played). Melee and ranged are about even in terms of viability... and seeing as how star wars is all about blasters thats not right (with the exception of jedi). Now, a creative GM can definately get around all those things, but they're obstacles that slow things down.
The only problem I have with the D6 system is you can end up rolling a few too many dice sometimes... especially in big epic confrontations. for the most part its reasonable (4-7 D6 I'd say) but I've seen it shoot up to 30-40 in extreme circumstances.

Anyway, enough of that rant.

the WEG version is much better IMHO. In WEG's version your character is just a collection of Skills, there is no levels, character classes, or any restrictions on characters. If you wanted a ex imperial commando with mad haxor skills, go for it.

i remember one of the characters someone played was a drunken ewok who thought he was a wookie, he spoke in ewook, and we had to buy a crate of comlinks for him due to every time it went off it starteled him and shot it with his thunderer pistol (6D damage unmodified).

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Corran950 wrote:

the WEG version is much better IMHO. In WEG's version your character is just a collection of Skills, there is no levels, character classes, or any restrictions on characters. If you wanted a ex imperial commando with mad haxor skills, go for it.

i remember one of the characters someone played was a drunken ewok who thought he was a wookie, he spoke in ewook, and we had to buy a crate of comlinks for him due to every time it went off it starteled him and shot it with his thunderer pistol (6D damage unmodified).

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exactly!

Let me state it categorically: All non-D20 game systems should be put out their misery and proceed immediately to out of print status.

I played the old SW D6 system and it sucked. I've yet to play SW D20 but the D20 system is easy as hell and you don't have to learn many new rules.

Thank you very much. Flame on.

the only D20 System i like is DnD it works cause thats what the system was designed for and follows 2nd edition rules for the most part. the other D20 games are just skins placed over the core rules to make new games which i find rather fugly.

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Sodan-droiddreamer wrote:

Let me state it categorically: All non-D20 game systems should be put out their misery and proceed immediately to out of print status.

I played the old SW D6 system and it sucked. I've yet to play SW D20 but the D20 system is easy as hell and you don't have to learn many new rules.

Thank you very much. Flame on.

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Not sure how its easier than rolling a couple D6's and comparing it against either a target number or an opposed role (with the only possible modifiers being a +1 or +2)

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Corran950 wrote:
the only D20 System i like is DnD it works cause thats what the system was designed for and follows 2nd edition rules for the most part. the other D20 games are just skins placed over the core rules to make new games which i find rather fugly.

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Yep. I enjoy the D20 D&D, it feels like thats what it was designed for. The D20 star wars... I keep waiting for the trolls and skeletons to pop out.

One of the things I really like about the d20 SW is that the players think twice about rushing into combat. Everyone's got a blaster, and most blasters do 3d6 to 3d8 damage. That will knock most low level characters flat in one or two shots. So *theoretically* players will be inclined to use tactics or look for other solutions before jumping into a firefight.

Alas, my group is used to D&D hack-and-slash. I've had one guy die on me more than once.

Let me break it down: IN SW D20 YOU CAN PLAY A DROID PC!!! Woot!