Star Wars Saga Resources

[Remus Lupin]

I've been looking for an old thread that had some player and GM resources to speed up character creation and play for SW Saga, but can't find it. So, I thought I'd start a new thread just for this purpose.

What are the resources any player and/or GM should have to play the game? By resources I mean character sheets, indexes, online reference works, etc.

Furthermore, what are the best of the best out there? I'm a character sheet junkie, but have yet to find anything that I consider "The Best" among character sheets. What are your opinions, folks.

This thread is wide open for anything you consider an important resource (apart from the books themselves) for playing SWSE.

 

[Donovan Morningfire]

The best resources I've found throughout the intertubes are as follows:

KenadBroki's "Don't Call it a Generator" thread on the WotC boards has his 4-star Excel-based character creation spreadsheet. It runs a bit slow at certain points, but it's prove a real boon when making NPCs.

EwokonToast (also WotC boards) has a SWSE Index thread, with two spreadsheets that lists pretty much everything that WotC has published for the game, broken up into character traits and pretty much everything else. Very handy for looking stuff up.

It hasn't been updated in a while (Galaxy at War was the last), but the OmegaDex by Funkimus Prime is also pretty sweet.

And for just general conversation about Star Wars Saga Edition, there is perhaps no finer place than the d20 Radio Network forms, with an entire section devoted to Star Wars Saga Edition, ranging from mechanics to GMing types and everything in between.

 

[Steel_Wind]

As far as a reference for use in character creation?

You'll want the file attached to this message which was created by one of my players. It's up to date and includes all data as of Galaxy of Intrigue. It will be updated later this month (for the last time *sigh*) to include Unknown Regions.

Charts include Tables, summaries and all page references for:

• All Species
• All Species Traits
• All Heroic Talents
• All Prestige Talents
• All Skill Applications
• All Force Powers and Regimens
• All Force Techniques and Secrets; and
• All Equipment

I highly recommend subscribing to the Ennie Award winning Order 66 Podcast either at D20 radio or better still, simply via iTunes. I can't praise the Podcast highly enough. It is not only very entertaining, it is a VAST resource of information on the game with hours upon hours of interviews with the SW:SE designers as well and hundreds of hours on the game and how the underlying crunch works.

The single most useful episode of the 100 they have now released is Episode 37: The List. But get em all. Really. No better way to assimilate the Star Wars: Saga Edition system then through the osmotic pleasure that is the Order 66 Podcast.

What can I say? I love the Order 66 Podcast. Simply the best RPG Podcast on the Intertubes, imo. By the way, D20Radio's downloads for SW:SE are not intuitively located - but you can find them here.

The D20 Radio forums are also exceptionally useful as well.

Jonathan's (Donavan Morningfire's link) to his NPC book in his signature above is a real gem. Grab it. Now.

There is also some exceptionally useful fan created sourcebook material over at fandomcomics.com. Go there and grab it all!

I would highly recommend grabbing (hell Web-SPIDER it while you can) the Full WotC Star Wars Archives while you can.

Please note: most of the miniature previews include full Star Wars: SE stats for NPCs and Beasts. You will not get these write-ups on the Star Wars minis cards - they are available only in the WotC preview write-ups. I draw their existence to your attention as they are eay to miss when you are going through things on the archive list quickly. You may dismiss them as fluffy marketing hype. Don't do that. You'll want to copy paste all of that info somewhere and save it.

There is a good chance ALL of the WotC Full Star Wars Archives will vanish as early as the end of April, 2010. That's about two weeks away!! The archive is almost certain to vanish by the end of August 2010. So do not delay. Grab the WotC Full Archives now while you still can. When the license is up and WotC can no longer support the game under the license - that material is almost certain to vanish into the ether.