Star Wars role-playing game (WEG)

Infobox RPG
title=Star Wars
subtitle=The Roleplaying Game


caption="Second Edition Revised and Expanded" cover
designer= Greg Costikyan
publisher=West End Games
date= 1987 "(1st Edition)"
1992 "(2nd Edition)"
1996 "(2nd Edition Revised and Expanded)"
genre=Science fiction
system=D6 System
footnotes=

"The Star Wars Roleplaying Game" is a role-playing game (RPG) set in the "Star Wars" universe, written and published by West End Games (WEG) between 1987 and 1999. A later but unrelated "Star Wars RPG" was published by Wizards of the Coast in 2000.

The game, based on WEG's earlier "Ghostbusters RPG", established much of the groundwork of what later became the "Star Wars Expanded Universe", and their sourcebooks are still frequently cited by "Star Wars" fans as reference material. Lucasfilm considered their sourcebooks so authoritative that when Timothy Zahn was hired to write what became the "Thrawn" trilogy, he was sent a box of West End Games Star Wars books and directed to base his novel on the background material presented within.Fact|date=October 2007

Many sourcebooks and adventure supplements were published for the game during its run through three editions. WEG's license to produce "Star Wars" material was lost after the company declared bankruptcy in 1998, and the license was later picked up by Wizards of the Coast.

"The Star Wars Roleplaying Game" won the Origins Award for "Best Roleplaying Rules of 1987". [cite web| url=http://www.originsgamefair.com/awards/1987/list-of-winners| title=Origins Award Winners (1987)| publisher=Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design| accessdate=2007-10-09]

Core Rule Books

"1st Edition Rules"

The Star Wars Role Playing Game (1987) ISBN 0-87431-065-2

"2nd Edition Rules"

The Star Wars Role Playing Game Second Edition (1992) ISBN 0-874-31181-0
The Star Wars Role Playing Game Second Edition * Revised and Expanded (1996) ISBN 0-87431-268-X

Spinoffs

The Luke Skywalker and Han Solo adventures were a kind of "Choose Your Own Adventure" book. The "Imperial Doublecross" gamebook used the "Star Wars" d6 rules and character's die codes. The "Lightsaber Dueling Pack" and "Starfighter Battle Book" were picture gamebooks, presenting viewpoint series of pictures and the possible next courses of action, similar to "Ace of Aces".

Four board games - "Star Warriors", "Escape from the Death Star", "Assault on Hoth", and "Battle for Endor" were published and coincided along with the RPG, and a miniature wargame was written in 1989, called "Star Wars Miniatures Battles".

In the early 1990s, before the advent of the modern Internet, the FidoNet Star Wars Echo ran a message forum for playing the West End Games "Star Wars Roleplaying Game" on-line on computer bulletin board systems. The game also gathered a large internet following via such mailing lists such as the [http://drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu/~jae/sw/sw-rpg.html SW-RPG Mailing List] .

References

External links

* [http://www.starwarsclub.org/ SWC] , The Star Wars Roleplaying Club (or SWC for short) is an online club of Star Wars RPG players utilizing WEG D6 rules.
* [http://www.rancorpit.com/ The Rancor Pit] , a site dedicated to the game
* [http://www.vastempire.com/ The Vast Empire] , an Imperial "Star Wars" role-playing club
* [http://www.raptorsquad.net/ Raptor Squad] , a campaign-oriented site focusing on a rebel specops team using the WEG SWRPG D6 rules.