Many of my favorite games are OOP, but we play them still, and fairly regularly. Fortunatly our brains manage to make up new ideas/settings etc for them--or apply them to new uses if we want to try a different set of themes.

Quote from: J ArcaneWEG's books were so exhaustive and covered so much of the Star Wars universe that at one point prior to the prequels, they were actually one of the chief reference works for the official Star Wars encyclopedia.

They added a hell of a lot of content to the SW universe, but somehow managed to do it well enough that none of it ever felt horridly out of place, the way a lot of the silly crap FASA did with Star Trek and Doctor Who for instance.

Thing was, a lot of authors of WEG material did Star Wars novels and short story fiction in trade mags, as well as stuff like the short stories that appear in anthology novels like the "Tales of..." stuff.

There was a lot of cross-pollination there, back in the great lull between Return of the Jedi and the re-release, when the EU and WEG were pretty much the entire Star Wars scene.

It was glorious, even if some of the EU stuff bit.

Relatively few of the many RPGs I love are out of print (meaning quite a number, but not a huge proportion of the embarassingly large total).  Fewer still are unavailable.  One of the few ones I really can't find anymore unless I want to pay collectors' prices is the original Bunnies & Burrows, which I don't have anymore but would love to get again.  Thanks to PDFs and used book purchases, I can still get the complete collection of WEG Star Wars and Marvel Super-Hero (FASERIP).

Quote from: J ArcaneWEG's books were so exhaustive and covered so much of the Star Wars universe that at one point prior to the prequels, they were actually one of the chief reference works for the official Star Wars encyclopedia.

They added a hell of a lot of content to the SW universe, but somehow managed to do it well enough that none of it ever felt horridly out of place, the way a lot of the silly crap FASA did with Star Trek and Doctor Who for instance.

Yeah, I agree the quality of the books is amazing.  You almost thought some of those books came from Lucas himself.

Quote from: Blue DevilYeah, I agree the quality of the books is amazing.  You almost thought some of those books came from Lucas himself.

Except of course that Lucas hated EU anything, and delighted at times in pissing off EU authors and fans of the material.

At one point he axed official recognition for like, 90% of the books out there, and has on occasion even threatened to discontinue anything but the movies altogether.

Which inspired a campaign idea once, where I imagined that basically, Lucas is the creator deity in Star Wars, so nothing exists in the universe ithout his say so.  So when he started axing the "official tag" from all the EU stuff, it correspondingly disappeared in the "real" SW universe.  The PCs would simply see large portions of the galaxy disappearing off the map, and had to try and find out what was happening and stop it, before there was nothing left in the universe but Tattooine.

Quote from: J ArcaneExcept of course that Lucas hated EU anything, and delighted at times in pissing off EU authors and fans of the material.

At one point he axed official recognition for like, 90% of the books out there, and has on occasion even threatened to discontinue anything but the movies altogether.

Which inspired a campaign idea once, where I imagined that basically, Lucas is the creator deity in Star Wars, so nothing exists in the universe ithout his say so.  So when he started axing the "official tag" from all the EU stuff, it correspondingly disappeared in the "real" SW universe.  The PCs would simply see large portions of the galaxy disappearing off the map, and had to try and find out what was happening and stop it, before there was nothing left in the universe but Tattooine.

Yeah he has an ego, that's for sure.  I liked the first 3 movies (the originals) and I thought that prequels were pretty poor in the writing department.  Then I went back and watched the orignials and found they werent really well written either.

But hey, it proves you can write badly and still have a succesful string of movies.