How do you make your D6 game/How do you argue?

[garhkal]

[Ankhanu]

Alright, let's tackle this again… writing in a text editor this time

[JT Swift]

Examples?

Well I haven't gazed upon most of them for literally a decade. [I've only recently dug out my Star War RPG stuff and started running it again].

So all of this is IIRC...
There was a missile weapon in the CSA Sourcbook. The text says it has three shots and then you chuck it and buy a new one. The illustration clearly shows FOUR barrels.

The TIE fighter is described as incredibly manuverable due to its small size. But they give it a 2D - which is about average for a much larger starfighter.

They describe those dish guns on Hoth as having a low rate of fire but that the pack a mean punch - occationally even taking out AT-STs. But they damage code for that massive gun is the same or less then the pistol sized gun on a speederbike.

The riot gun is described as very inaccurate, but its range codes are the same as any blaster rifle.

There were others. I just scribbled corrections to the stats in my game book and moved on.

That said, 90% of West Ends stats work fine with their flavor text and there's no need to change them at all.
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[Grimace]

Well the TIE fighter, when it came out, was pretty good compared to what was available for others (Z-95, for example). So I guess what they said was true, from a certain point of view.

As for the dish shaped artillery on Hoth...you got you weapons mixed up. The dish shaped one says it's an outdated and suffers from a low rate of fire, but is rugged and could survive the temperature extremes on Hoth. The one that says it can be a threat to AT-STs was the Golan Arms DF.9...the one that looked like an enclosed turret. It did 4D Speeder scale damage. Definitely enough to be a threat to an AT-ST. In fact, that's what it's write up mentions. "While the Golan Arms DF.9 posed a threat to smaller AT-ST walkers, its effect on AT-AT was negligble."

[garhkal]

4d speeder is only 6d character. A wookie with a vibro axe is doing more!
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[Grimace]

That's not the point, garhkal. The point is the turret was the one stated as being decent against AT-STs, which it just barely would be. I won't debate the Wookiee with any weapon and how it stacks up using R&E scale rules because they don't work well.

[Bren]

[mdlake]

In the write-up for my proposed campaign, I've told my players that I'd rely in descending order on:

1. The tone of Episodes IV-VI
2. Helpful suggestions and background from the rulebook
3. Official Episode IV-VI canon
4. Other Star Wars material, insofar as I'm familiar with it, which isn't much.

We're old enough to remember the first trilogy fondly and have mixed feelings about Ep I-III, and I have no interest in reading all the franchise-milking novels or "Essential Encyclopedia of Star Wars Costumes," so the original trilogy rules my table. If Lucas couldn't be strictly, compulsively 100% consistent with his own vision, I don't see why I should match it in every detail. But all of it takes a back seat to whatever I might need to keep THIS story moving.

It has to. I'm cloaking a western gunfight movie in Star Wars garb.

[Riij Skootu]

I just wanted to say hello, to those of you that remember me, I am back.

To answer the question at hand, I would say I am somewhere between mdlake's ideas and Ankhanu's.

1. Episodes 4-6
2 WEG - nothing that bogs the game down
3. Other Material: that has nothing to do with Anakin going to the Darkside
of the force. (Which in my humble opinion is ridiculous, seriously Lucas what were you thinking?)

I enjoyed SWRPG in seminary with my friends. It reminded me of the originals. I want to replicate that in my games. Something like the chase scene in the Asteroid field.
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[Fallon Kell]

[Bren]

[Fallon Kell]

[CRMcNeill]

I agree. While I like playing in the SWU, Firefly offers a very detailed picture of what life could be like in the Outer Rim, with the combination of different tech levels and the gritty, dirty feel of people just trying to get by. I used a floorplan from the Firefly RPG for a ship in an SW-RPG campaign, and it worked out rather nicely.
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"No set of rules can cover every situation. It's expected that you will make up new rules to suit the needs of your game." - The Star Wars Roleplaying Game, 2R&E, pg. 69, WEG, 1996.

The CRMcNeill Stat/Rule Index

[Bren]

[Fallon Kell]