{"id":3197,"date":"2010-04-22T05:30:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T09:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=3197"},"modified":"2010-04-22T05:41:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T09:41:18","slug":"star-wars-resume-role-playing-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/22\/star-wars-resume-role-playing-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Resume – Role-playing Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Concluding my Star Wars Resume<\/em><\/a>!\u00a0 In 1992 a former classmate named Serv and I assembled a group of folks to try the West End Games Star Wars Roleplaying Game<\/em>.\u00a0 Serv and I didn’t really know each other that well at the time, we just both happened to share an interest in Star Wars<\/em> and RPGs.\u00a0 Little did we know, but that group would be the catalyst that would lead Serv and me to become college roommates and life-long friends.\u00a0 Serv, Bob, Ed, Pat, and I had a blast with that group and we continue to stay in touch through THE UNIQUE GEEK<\/a>.\u00a0 I’ve been a part of a few other Star Wars<\/em> RPG groups since then, each of them full of great players and classic moments.<\/p>\n

The West End Games (WEG) system was released in 1987 during Star Wars<\/em>‘ wilderness years.\u00a0 After Return of the Jedi<\/em> in 1983, Star Wars fanaticism began to cool off.\u00a0 By 1987 Star Wars<\/em> was positively old news, so the WEG game didn’t really make a big splash.\u00a0 However, people began to take notice once the system was awarded the “Origins Award” for Best Roleplaying Rules of 1987.\u00a0 Not only did the game contain a decent rules system, the books were chock-full of new Star Wars<\/em> ideas and information.\u00a0 In fact, it’s widely accepted that WEG established much of the groundwork of what later became the Star Wars<\/em> Expanded Universe.\u00a0 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 WEG Star Wars<\/em> books and directed to base his novel on the background material presented within.\u00a0 How’s that for an endorsement!\u00a0 Once Star Wars<\/em> popularity began to rise again in 1991, WEG was well-positioned to take advantage of the resurgence.\u00a0 In 1994 WEG took to publishing its own original fiction in their quarterly Star Wars Adventure Journal<\/em>, featuring stories from authors like Timothy Zahn, Michael A. Stackpole, Kevin J. Anderson, Barbara Hambly, and Kathy Tyers.\u00a0 Sadly, WEG lost the Star Wars<\/em> license to Wizards of the Coast around the release of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Below you’ll find all my Star Wars<\/em> RPG books.\u00a0 Click the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n

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WEST END GAMES<\/p>\n