“It is your Destiny.” That is the term for Day 19 of the RPGaDAY 2025 Challenge. And when I think of Destiny, I think of the quote I posted above by Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back. In my humble opinion, the best Star Wars movie out there.
Star Wars has been a wonderful universe to base a role playing game around. While the latest version of the Star Wars RPG by Fantasy Flight Games is interesting, it just doesn’t scratch the itch for me. I’ve played it a few times at SaltCON and the dice mechanic does lead to some narrative cooperation between player and GM, but the funky weird dice with no dice guide at the table makes me think that I’m slowing the game down. I look at the symbols and I don’t know what they mean and I don’t want to ask again and again “what did I roll?” I did make a Star Wars: Edge of the Empire character for a past Character Creation Challenge.
I’ve never played the D20 based Star Wars game that Wizards of the Coast had put out. But I’m familiar enough with the system that I could either run it or play it. I also made a character for both the D20 based Star Wars RPG and Saga Edition that were released.
There are also several other RPGs with the serial numbers filed off so that they could make their own “Star Wars” game with White Star: Galaxy Edition or a number of others. But if I was really going to set up a Star Wars RPG, I have to go with the classic. The D6 Star Wars system by West End Games. I played it when it first came out. I was invited to a one-shot at a friends house earlier this summer. I’ve written articles for this in the past (I need to find it and scan it in for a blog post) and I remember homebrewing the heck out of the system. There is still a large enough following that a special re-release was published in 2018. It’s a simple system that fits the universe. And yes I remember many gaming sessions where we were trying to evade the Imperials.
It was my destiny, and I loved every minute of it.
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