Showing posts with label Star Wars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Star Wars. Show all posts

Friday, 9 October 2026

Star Wars D&D and a campaign book

From New York Comic-Con, news of a Star Wars D&D rulebook and the preview of the campaign book Tyro Squadron Adventures

Yes you’re playing Rebels.


First thought: Darth Vader’s right there. Ever seen an RPG cover with a bunch of characters doing heroic poses and thought “They’re all gonna die next round” because of who they’re up against?

Oh well, at least it isn’t the FFG system.

Friday, 28 August 2026

RPGaDAY 2026 28. Devotion

#RPGaDAY 2026

28. Devotion

28. Devotion: Game you have played the most!

GMed - Due to a long history with it and several year-long runs recently probably Vampire: The Masquerade, though Buffy The Vampire Slayer is the longest I’ve run a series, almost six years.

Played - Star Wars is probably up there, mostly the D6 classic but also tried others (and wanted to go back to the D6 classic). Also a lot of the various Star Trek games almost all with one keen GM, up to Star Trek Adventures currently. Longest single games, there’s the four-year Werewolf: The Apocalypse run with that Star Trek GM and about as long with a Silver Age style Marvel SAGA game.

Autocratik - “If you’ve done every day of #RPGaDAY since it began, this is your 400th entry to the challenge. I feel tired just thinking about that!”

Saturday, 22 August 2026

RPGaDAY 2026 22. Grit

#RPGaDAY 2026

22. Grit

22. An enjoyable moment of grit PCs did or did not tough out.

Sometimes it’s fun to play the muscle. Especially when the system and group work to make that feel valid and badass.

Playing the bodyguard for a Rebel cell in Star Wars (d6 Revised) in the hold of a stolen AT-AT full of thermal detonators our pilot was driving towards a recently unearthed Sith temple to blow it up. A Sith Adept with Temple Of Doom style killer hands jumped into the hold to stop us. None of the PCs had any Force so this was not going to be a fair fight. I charged him, grabbed his wrists and bull rushed him back out the open side door, just catching the ledge and hauling myself up. The Adept jumped back up - and that was when he discovered that while I was wrestling him out the cell’s thief had slipped a detonator into his robes.

Saturday, 15 August 2026

Marvel and Star Wars news

From D23, because Disney has its own Comic Con thank you.


VisionQuest trailer marking it as a sequel to WandaVision and Agatha All Along


More of the MCU X-Men casting, for the film due May 5 2028. Empire news. Dealing with the fact that Professor X is eleven years younger than me. Inde Navarrette as Rogue means now I want a Rogue movie.

Thursday, 30 July 2026

Monday, 25 May 2026

Friday, 22 May 2026

The Mandalorian And Grogu

The Mandalorian And Grogu is basically a great big episode of The Mandalorian. And I for one am cool with that!

Star Wars hasn’t had a life-changing movie for me since The Empire Strikes Back, so a largely fun movie is plenty.

Kinda bitty here and there, like including things like a space dogfight because it’s the first Star Wars movie this decade, but still a fun space dogfight.

While also having big damn hero action scenes like the opening give it a different feel.

And lots of bits gave me a big silly grin, like realising why the fighting match was named that, the gearing up montages, and the way a couple of the robots moved.

People who haven’t kept up with the show but know who Baby Yoda and More Likeable Boba Fett are will probably have enough information from the mini opening crawl.

No end credits scene but there is something fun if you stay to the end.

Monday, 4 May 2026

The Sheer, Unbridled Joy Of Star Wars

The Sheer, Unbridled Joy Of Star Wars by Emmet Asher-Perrin at Reactor.

“Star Wars: A New Hope is pure mythology, distilled down to some of its simplest forms. Good and evil. Life and death. Triumph and defeat. Light and dark.”

There’s a reason we still go back to it almost fifty years on.

Star Wars Day

And lo, Baby Yoda Day is upon us this very month!

Monday, 6 April 2026

Maul: Shadow Lord

The artist formerly known as Darth Maul returns for an animated bridge between where he was in The Clone Wars and in Solo and then Rebels.

He really likes slicing up lots of goons in corridors.

He’s so much more English voiced by an American.

New characters introduced so that we aren’t just dealing with Evil Vs. Evil.

There’s a good cop. Weird these days. Also amusing that he’s the only human in the main cast.

I keep referring to the old Jedi as Reverse Splinter because he’s a wise old mentor living in the sewers who looks like a turtle.

Biggest stylistic shifts from previous series in the line, the lightsaber fights are really fast and the sabres themselves give off a lot of light so sometimes we have fights with half silhouettes lit in pink and blue.

Saturday, 7 March 2026

Purge them.

Inspired by Marathon and one of my current PCs, thinking again about a villainous space opera game like House Of The Dying Sun. Sinister agents of a fallen empire charged with revenge against traitors and breakaway warlords, where at best the PCs can decide to do some good on their way down, and everybody has dark armour and conflicting agendas and scary-looking fighters.

Monday, 9 February 2026

Super Bowl trailers

Great year for halftime show, bad year for adverts, fine year for trailers with more for The Mandalorian And Grogu (featuring halftime show guest Pedro Pascal) and Disclosure Day.

Saturday, 31 January 2026

Character Creation Challenge 2026 31g: Star Trek 2009 with Star Wars 1987 - Scotty

Character Creation Challenge 2026
PC groups for games I would do with different systems

31g: Star Trek 2009 with Star Wars 1987 - Scotty

And ending with a national treasure.

Actually using one of the templates as is. Though I could fiddle with the numbers, as Scotty is more socially adept than the default here. 

Montgomery Scott
Tongue-Tied Engineer

Friday, 30 January 2026

Character Creation Challenge 2026 30g: Star Trek 2009 with Star Wars 1987 - Uhura

Character Creation Challenge 2026
PC groups for games I would do with different systems

30g: Star Trek 2009 with Star Wars 1987 - Uhura

The Kelvin timeline version of Uhura emphasises her linguistic expertise and confidence in alien contact, so the closest template is Young Senatorial. And like McCoy giving her more of a boost to her core skill than a starting character should have.

Nyota Uhura
Young Senatorial, switching Strength and Technical

Thursday, 29 January 2026

Character Creation Challenge 2026 29g: Star Trek 2009 with Star Wars 1987 - McCoy

Character Creation Challenge 2026
PC groups for games I would do with different systems

29g: Star Trek 2009 with Star Wars 1987 - McCoy

As with science there isn’t a medic type in the d6 Star Wars templates, so based on his being the older grumpier member of the team, as long as he has a good Technical score for the Medicine skill.

Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy
Retired Republic Captain, switch Mechanical and Technical. And give him slightly more Medicine than he should have

Wednesday, 28 January 2026

Character Creation Challenge 2026 28g: Star Trek 2009 with Star Wars 1987 - Spock

Character Creation Challenge 2026
PC groups for games I would do with different systems

28g: Star Trek 2009 with Star Wars 1987 - Spock

D6 Star Wars templates don’t include something like science or medical officers, as the game assumes a handful of PCs in a little ship rather than the more organised fleet types. But give Spock a decent Knowledge score and we’re most of the way there. And as the only (half) alien in the core crew he also gets a few psychic powers.

Mr. Spock
Minor Jedi, with a small boost to Knowledge and Strength in exchange for Perception and Technical and a different power. If this system had disadvantages I’d add occasional berserker rage.

Tuesday, 27 January 2026

Character Creation Challenge 2026 27g: Star Trek 2009 with Star Wars 1987 - Kirk

Character Creation Challenge 2026
PC groups for games I would do with different systems

27g: Star Trek 2009 with Star Wars 1987

 

The 2009 Star Trek is a big fast sci-fi action movie and the director would go on to make Star Wars so, while Star Trek Adventures would do the job just fine...

Star Wars D6 characters distribute 18 dice among 6 statistics, with 3D being average. Then 7 between their skills, maximum +2D at start but I might give someone a +3D for a key specialty. They can split a die into 3 pips as well. We’ll get to Force powers when I make Spock.

27g: Star Trek 2009 with Star Wars 1987 - Kirk

James T. Kirk
Brash Pilot, but switch Perception and Mechanical. Knowledge and Technical. So different enough that Sulu might be a Brash Pilot too.

Tuesday, 20 January 2026

Character Creation Challenge 2026 20d: Star Wars with Black Star - Chewbacca

Character Creation Challenge 2026
PC groups for games I would do with different systems

20d: Star Wars with Black Star

20d: Chewbacca, Wookiee veteran

Chewbacca was first mate of the Millennium Falcon for decades, and a decorated veteran of the Galactic Civil War yes he did get a medal.