If so, what are you planning for it? How's it going?

No but I've been roped into running FFG's Star Wars  games.  At present they're in the final minutes of episode III but I may jump them forward in time once I get my head around the absurdly messy rules.  I'd have done it with GURPS of course, there's an amazing fan book and everything, but I also want to sell rulebooks and GURPS is hard to sell.

Ah well, would it be better to run aging / time passing cut scenes or just have them all frozen in carbonite and parked in a top secret Imperial warehouse for a couple decades?

There's nothing in the movie that made me want to play in that era.  But then again, it took Empire Strikes Back for me to get into the mood for an original game.

So yeah, maybe when the second movie is out I'll get something.

Quote from: David Johansen;872197(...) FFG's Star Wars  games (...) absurdly messy rules. (...)

There's a design ethos these days that's as complex as anything that came out in the early eighties and the sad thing is that it's almost entirely about avoiding math in play.

Oh well, I was thinking that being frozen in carbonite might be a good way to excuse jedi being missed in the purge.

Quote from: David Johansen;872219Oh well, I was thinking that being frozen in carbonite might be a good way to excuse jedi being missed in the purge.

Especially if they were Jedi who were:
1) Away from the more central regions during the Clone Wars. The galaxy is vast, there might be Jedi out there too far away for the purge apparatus to think it worthwhile to seek them out.
2) Weren't involved in the war directly - either because they were spies/undercovers, or pacifists who absented themselves and went roving.
3) Commanders who used local/native troops rather than clones, so escaped the initial slaughter of Order 66 and perhaps were spirited into hiding by their allies.

For any of those people, being frozen in carbonite as part of faking their deaths would be valid. Or simply someone who fell foul of a crimelord or other sort who liked to freeze people and use them as ornaments. "Yeah, they say Lord Gurvag has a Jedi as part of his art collection. Not even the Empire dared ask for him to give it up, though."

Maybe I missed something, because other than straight up re-enacting the movie with the same characters I'm not sure how you could discern it was a 'EP. VII' game. To me there just didn't seem to be all that much that set it off from previous ones that would show up in-game.

Quote from: Simlasa;872231Maybe I missed something, because other than straight up re-enacting the movie with the same characters I'm not sure how you could discern it was a 'EP. VII' game. To me there just didn't seem to be all that much that set it off from previous ones that would show up in-game.

1: the Republic exists again.
2: The Rebellion is now the Resistance.
3: the Empire is now the First Order and they DO have female stormtroopers (my, how proGRESSive).
4: TIE fighters have more things now. Including shields.

Other than that it's up to the GM, to suit the specific campaign.

Quote from: Jame Rowe;8722361: the Republic exists again.
2: The Rebellion is now the Resistance.
3: the Empire is now the First Order and they DO have female stormtroopers (my, how proGRESSive).
4: TIE fighters have more things now. Including shields.

Other than that it's up to the GM, to suit the specific campaign.

So... not much of anything, really.

Quote from: Jame Rowe;8722361: the Republic exists again.
2: The Rebellion is now the Resistance.
3: the Empire is now the First Order and they DO have female stormtroopers (my, how proGRESSive).
4: TIE fighters have more things now. Including shields.

Other than that it's up to the GM, to suit the specific campaign.

Were I to run a SW ep 7 game, here's how I see it going down:

• The Rebellion became the Republic.
• The sons and daughters of the Republic rebelled against their parents, yearning for a new Empire, forming the First Order.
• The Resistance is secretly funded by the Republic to fight a secret war with the First Order, while the Republic maintains cautious neutrality with the First Order.
• The First Order uses propaganda to show how corrupted the Republic is by spilling the beans on the guerilla war that's going on.
• People in the Republic begin flocking to the First Order out of anger against the Republic.
• The Jedi and the remnants Knights of Ren/Sith are engaged in their own sortie, outside of the influence of the Resistance and the First Order.
• Over time, the First Order ejects both the Supreme Leader and Kylo Ren. The First Order needs to put a good face on to garner public support for toppling the Republic, and these two dastardly beings are not what they need.
• The Republic insists on a new Jedi alliance to counterbalance the sheer number of people joining the First Order. The people of the First Order reject both the Jedi and remnant Knights of Ren/Sith, seeing them as both totally corrupted.

Maybe you could say that, with no Jedi's around, the Force has gone for decades without a direct manifestation... but now, all of a sudden it's popping up loud n' strong in teenagers... who scare the crap out of everyone when they manifest these weird new powers, lets call them 'psykers'... and so the space nazis, having performed 'exterminatus' on some wayward planets, start rounding up these 'psykers' and shipping them off to feed to this ancient looking guy who seems stuck in his throne... but then, when things are looking very dark for the heretical rebels, Luke Skywalker returns with news of this hyperspace entity named Ka-horn who he's been in contact with that promises to help them take down the space nazis and the old guy in the throne...

Quote from: Simlasa;872244Maybe you could say that, with no Jedi's around, the Force has gone for decades without a direct manifestation... but now, all of a sudden it's popping up loud n' strong in teenagers... who scare the crap out of everyone when they manifest these weird new powers, lets call them 'psykers'... and so the space nazis, having performed 'exterminatus' on some wayward planets, start rounding up these 'psykers' and shipping them off to feed to this ancient looking guy who seems stuck in his throne... but then, when things are looking very dark for the heretical rebels, Luke Skywalker returns with news of this hyperspace entity named Ka-horn who he's been in contact with that promises to help them take down the space nazis and the old guy in the throne...

Wow, how original. ISWYDT. :cool:

Quote from: David Johansen;872219There's a design ethos these days that's as complex as anything that came out in the early eighties and the sad thing is that it's almost entirely about avoiding math in play.

I think it's more that FFG game design in particular absolutely sucks*. I recently bought a new minis game Terminator: Genisys by Alessio Cavatore (from River Horse, a design studio), and its quite 'new school' rules are incredibly elegant, beautiful really. Whereas I can't make any sense at all of the stuff in my giant Descent 2 box, and FFG's other games seem at least as bad.

*WoTC's board games are appalling too, mind you.

Visual Dictionary would be your friend here or else just spend an afternoon cruising Wookiepedia or something similar.

There's a year after Endor before the Battle of Jakku and the signing of the Concords.  Then there's a big time skip forward to episode 7 unless you want to muck around with exploring Republican politics or intelligence operations against the First Order out in the Unknown Regions.  Once Leia funds the Resistance there's plenty there to do.  You have Luke's new Jedi Academy in there briefly too and the Knights of Ren betrayal or perhaps flying around helping Lor van Techa recover Jedi artifacts and temples.

I haven't used it yet myself.

I've generally preferred to run things inspired by popular media rather than in popular media, though I have been and remain willing to play in other people's games of such.

I'd be happy to play in an EP 7 (or Ep 4 as I prefer to think of it) game.