I'm of the opinion that the Star Wars EU had some great material for use in games as well as some pure crap that is best ignored. So, if you were running a Star Wars game, what would you keep and what would you throw away from the EU?

For me, I'd keep material from Rogue Squadron, Wraith Squadron, and the Thrawn Trilogy as well as the Modular Taskforce Cruiser and the idea of the World Devastators. The rest of the Dark Empire Sourcebook is crap and the comic series is pure bullshit and can get flushed. The Yuuzhan Vong are stupid as fuck and are best as a very minor side campaign item. The Jedi Academy series never added anything to my games nor did Tales of the Jedi. Shadows of the Empire was always very questionable.

The WEG source books are my main, uh...  Sources of information.  We tend to play in an undetermined period of time in the setting, usually sometime after A New Hope, but other than that, it's up in the air.

To be honest on the rare occasion I've run a game I do a Disney and add in from other sources (mostly WEG) as much or as little as required.

I use the WEG books and stuff from the Dark Forces games.  I never liked the novels or the comic books, so I don't use them.

I use the WEB sourcebooks and the first three Zhan novels. When I run Star Wars I still run the old EU and fuck the new stuff. It's shit.

Well, WEG had it down and Lucas was an idiot for ignoring the timeline that was nicely developed and consistent when making the prequels.  Anyway, for me, it's WEG, and Episodes IV, V, VI, Thrawn Trilogy and The Jedi Academy.  Not certain on the Dark Empire sourcebook at all, though I owned it at one time (might still own it, don't recall offhand).  

In fact, I'm designing my FFG Genesys Star Wars game based in part on FFG's SW game for skills but adopting in WEG's 1st Edition SW version of the Force, as well as utilizing WEG's timeline, equipment, vehicles, and so on.  I am borrowing liberally from the prequels as well as TFA and TLJ as far as tech is concerned; there are some great designs of starships and stormtrooper armor and such in those movies that I like.

I've started my most recent game between Episodes IV and V and am going from there.  In the future, I would like to run a game during the Knights of the Old Republic timeline too.

I honestly haven't read much EU. I've read Splinter of the Mind's Eye, the X-Wing trilogy by Stackpole, and Shadows of the Empire. I may nab bits and pieces of EU inspired stuff, like Black Sun is fine enough as an underworld organization working with the Empire. But the specifics I tweak freely.
Yuzan Vong are definitely out. A lot of the video game stuff, especially the X-Wing series are good for more spaceships. And the WEG sourcebooks are great to fill in bits and pieces of setting for RPG game purposes.

The first 40 issues or so of the Marvel Star Wars series and Brian Daley's Han Solo trilogy. That's it. Green rabbits, droid worlds, anti-droid prejudice, the Wheel, the Corporate Sector, Bollux.

I use what feels right for the game, whether it is from EU, or made up in my head.

I keep everything up to the end of the Vong War, gives me the opportunity to really change up some of the stereotypical worlds.

Then again, I also set the games well over a century after RotJ.

A lot of it is going to depend on when you are setting the game.  Immediately after the Battle of Endor there isn't as much "bulk" as several years after (like after Thrawn).  Also almost none of it has to have any effect on your players except for truly galaxy spanning events.

But honestly, as someone who lived and breathed EU as a teenager (1990 to 1998 roughly), I think the new canon is off to a much better start so why not just use that?

Nothing from the novels. I use these WEG books, which I think are the best of the bunch:

GG6 Tramp Freighters
GG9 Fragments from the Rim
GG10 Bounty Hunters
GG11 Criminal Organizations

Shadows of the Empire Guide
Shadows of the Empire Planets Guide
Platt's Smugglers Guide
Platt's Starports Guide
The Planets Collection
Wanted by Cracken

Quote from: KingCheops;1022619But honestly, as someone who lived and breathed EU as a teenager (1990 to 1998 roughly), I think the new canon is off to a much better start so why not just use that?

  De gustibus non est disputandum. As someone who started the EU at the same time and kept with it to the bitter end, I still find my selected subset more satisfying than the IMO dull and cynical New Canon.

  Personally, I'd like to do the New Jedi Order era with a different take on the Vong, or go back to the Tales of the Jedi era and ignore KOTOR's take--both of which make me an anomaly among fans.

Quote from: Vargold;1022611The first 40 issues or so of the Marvel Star Wars series and Brian Daley's Han Solo trilogy. That's it. Green rabbits, droid worlds, anti-droid prejudice, the Wheel, the Corporate Sector, Bollux.

Ohhh man how could I forget the Han Solo books?  I read them over and over again as a kid.  I loved those books.  Bollux and Blue Max.  Launching Stars' End into low orbit.  Nutty flavored doughy food stuffed into a blowhole.  Xim the Despot and the first battledroid army (which was actually pretty frightening).  Repulsorlift limousines.  Corporate Sector Authority.

Jaxxon wasn't it?  And who was the Quixotic Jedi old dude again?  Forgot his name.  

Loved it!  Thanks for the great memories, Vargold!

Quote from: Vargold;1022611The first 40 issues or so of the Marvel Star Wars series and Brian Daley's Han Solo trilogy. That's it. Green rabbits, droid worlds, anti-droid prejudice, the Wheel, the Corporate Sector, Bollux.

Quote from: CausticJedi;1022689Ohhh man how could I forget the Han Solo books?  I read them over and over again as a kid.  I loved those books.  Bollux and Blue Max.  Launching Stars' End into low orbit.  Nutty flavored doughy food stuffed into a blowhole.  Xim the Despot and the first battledroid army (which was actually pretty frightening).  Repulsorlift limousines.  Corporate Sector Authority.

Jaxxon wasn't it?  And who was the Quixotic Jedi old dude again?  Forgot his name.  

Loved it!  Thanks for the great memories, Vargold!

Vargold, CausticJedi, this one is for you!