Another week, and more Star Wars revelations. No, not the latest rumors about breakfasts or filiming or nebulous canon statements and other stuff, but actual reveals from the upcoming Rebels show. Plus Fantasy Flight Games releases more about the huge Rebel ships coming later this year for X-Wing.
Read MoreStar Wars Wednesday - Still Here
So, a couple of weeks slipped by without posts. Guess I'll just ease back into it, then...
Read MoreStar Wars Wednesday - Busy Times
A rare miss last week followed by basically another one this week. I'll try to get back on track next week. In the meantime...
Read MoreStar Wars Wednesday - Clone Wars & More
Since The Clone Wars Lost Missions came out over the weekend, here are a few comments and notes on things along the way. No spoilers, though. And a few other items that got pushed aside in the past few weeks for more important posts.
Read MoreStar Wars Wednesday - Aaron Allston
Image: Michael Stanton IIA few thoughts about Aaron Allston, Star Wars novelist (among other subjects) and game designer, who passed away last week.Edge of the Empire: Dangerous Covenants Released!
Yesterday, Fantasy Flight Games announced that Edge of the Empire: Dangerous Covenants is now in stores. I'll have more to say about it later on, but here are a few notes.
This is the Hired Gun Career sourcebook, but it is useful for mercenary campaigns in general. It has new species, Specializtions, Obligations, Motivations, equipment, vehicles, campaign advice and suggestions.
Go get it!
Star Wars Wednesday - The Lost Missions
This is one of those busy weeks. Fortunately, The Clone Wars: The Lost Missions trailer was released and it looks great....
Read MoreStar Wars Wednesday - More and More Rebels
If you are a Star Wars fan and have been anywhere near a computer, let alone twitter or other social media, you already know this has been a week of Rebels reveals. Between the New York Toy Fair toy reveals and the scattered Rebel character reveals (still ongoing), it sometimes seems like the Rebels are literally showing up from all directions.
Read MoreStar Wars Wednesday - Age of Rebellion & Other Rebels
Coming Second Quarter 2014.Rebels everywhere this week. Rebel games, Rebel ships, and Rebel TV Shows. Plus The Clone Wars resurfaced.Star Wars Wednesday - GoldenGeek Award Nominations
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Depending how you look at it, today's post is either really late from last week, or a bit early for this week. We'll see if I post anything tomorrow.
Very early today, Boardgamegeek.com / RPGgeek.com / Videogamegeek.com announced the nominations for their 2013 Golden Geek Awards. Star Wars in its various game forms received a large number of nominations, including two of my products, Beyond the Rim for RPG Best Supplement and Star Wars: Edge of the Empire for RPG Game of the Year. Some categories feature more than one Star Wars game. Congratulations to FFG and their freelancers! A lot of great RPGs and board games came out last year, so there's a lot of competition.
Voting is now open (update: login and BBG Supporter membership required).
Here is the complete Star Wars nomination list:
Star Wars Wednesday - Old and New RPG Sources
Game masters are (or should) always be on the lookout for inspiration for new material, or, rather more often, using ideas directly from other stories, movies, and more. For players, their characters may not-so-subtly replicate a favorite hero. Inspiration has to come from somewhere, so this week, there are a few suggestions.
Read MoreStar Wars Wednesday - Games and Sketches
A little late this week...it's just been that kind of busy week. Anyway, I was going to post a lot of this last week, but didn't because of the comics and story time news. So, today it's an array of gaming and drawing, with a bit of other random commentary.
Read MoreLady Sabre KS Digital Books Going Out
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I've just become aware that the Lady Sabre Kickstarter books are going out in digital form to backers. I hope everyone enjoys them. My contributions are:
The Map - the mysterious document for which Volume 1 is named. This is actually shown within the comic itself in a very large panel. This also makes a similar appearance online.
The world maps in the various forms and books.
The Tanitin continent map.
The Pegasus deck plans, limited in the digital package to one elevation shown as a wall paper for use on various digital devices.
For non-backers, you can catch a glimpse of the maps in the sneak peeks released earlier. There is also the proof-of-concept video I created during the map making process which was released last year.
I saw the proofs for the hardcopies awhile back, and they also looked very good.
Star Wars Wednesday - Comics and Story Group Time
For those not on Twitter or paying a lot of attention online lately, it's been quite a week of Star Wars announcements, revelations, and more. It will be fodder for much discussion for a very long time to come. The common theme? Change, more or less.
Read MoreStar Wars Wednesday - Happy New Year 2014
Happy New Year! I was so distracted yesterday that I totally forgot about Star Wars Wednesday. I usually do some sort of grab bag post around this time, but I'm a bit busy for that at the moment. I do have a couple of items, though.
Read MoreStar Wars Wednesday - Mavs Star Wars Night
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone. Last Friday night, my local hockey team, the Missouri Mavericks of the CHL, hosted a Star Wars Night. They handled it very well, and the game was great, since the Mavs beat St Charles Chill 6-1. I had a good time.
Read MoreStar Wars Wednesday - Message from Beyond
A message from Beyond the Rim has been discovered.
Read MoreStar Wars Wednesday - Holiday Star Wars
No, not the special which shall not be named. Here's some Star Wars holiday stuff and a bit more fun you may or may not have seen...
Read MoreStar Wars Wednesday - A Lot of Insiders
Sometime in the past couple of weeks, I received the latest Star Wars Insider. I've commented before that I think the recent issues have packed a lot of different Star Wars articles. It seems more diverse than past issues. Since that could just be me overlooking what came before, I pulled down a couple of the first issues I have...
Read MoreStar Wars Wednesday - Music Universes
Back from another KC Game Fair. I had a good time. I intend to post some of the adventure information and possibly the characters I used for The Sabacc Incident, but given that it is more of an outline than fleshed out, ready to run adventure, it will likely take awhile to get it better organized.
This week, the music of and in Star Wars has appeared in a couple of places. I've heard the music of the movies, Clone Wars and Shadows of the Empire over and over for years. As I've said before, for me, the original Star Wars soundtrack was a stand-in for the movie itself in the days before VCRs and video.