Not me. I'm strictly Old Republic.

No interest in the movie-eras. None of my players, interestingly, give a crap about the movie-eras either. The Old Republic is far more interesting.

I am working on an Ep VII campaign using Savage Worlds, hopefully ready to go in a couple weeks.  It will be set in Tapani sector from WEG's Lords of the Expanse boxed set.

I am making up what has happened in the sector for the past 30 years.  Some highlights if anyone is familiar with Tapani:  the Great Counsel reluctantly joined the New Republic after Jakku, the Ground Pounders fleet destroyed Tallaan and was in turn destroyed by a NR fleet, Tallaan being destroyed and no imperial influence causes economic depression along the Shapani Bypass, Saber Rakes have grown up to take control over houses, lightfoils and a few lightsabers are commonly worn by most nobles, many nobles secretly admire the First Order and establish contact, a branch of the Knights of Ren is established in Pelagia, after the destruction of Hosnia the Great Counsel narrowly votes to open diplomatic relations with the First Order.

The game will start with the party scavenging the radiated ruins of Tallaan.

Thing is, the planets and people who were fighting in the original Clone Wars to throw off the yoke of Republic oppression were actually fighting for what they thought was right. Their LEADERS may have been corrupted by the Dark Side, and pushed/pulled into starting the wars, but entire planetary populations weren't. The Emperor overplayed his hand by sowing the seeds of Rebellion, and just because HE lost doesn't mean all the rebellious worlds meekly returned to the banner of the Republic. The smoldering embers of the Rebellion (against the Republic) had been there for years, decades - maybe longer. Palpatine just tossed some gasoline onto them. The "Rebellion" of the first 3 movies were the powerful worlds who benefited from Republic rule and who wanted to return themselves to power.

At the time of Episode VII, the galaxy is still in turmoil, no matter what trappings the "New Republic" might have thrown onto themselves. If the massive Imperial military had truly been gutted and/or disbanded, how would the New Republic bring the rebellious worlds back into THIER fold? "Hai guyz, all is forgiven, back in line so we can ignore you like the last Republic did!" probably isn't a great selling point.

Think of the shattered Inner Sphere of MechWarrior's Succession Wars as a template. The Republic, the Resistance and the First Order are only three players - there may be (should be) many more.

We'll see if the scriptwriters have thought that far ahead in a couple of years.

A Sith in Carbonite.  A "Lich" if you will.  D&D invades space!.  The Sith have some kind of spirit transference power (why the Emperor wanted an unbroken Skywalker supposedly).  Having a carbonite phylactery?!?

A concise rundown of the available info of the 30 year gap:

http://www.rancorpit.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5862&highlight=

I'm running Force and Destiny right now. I and my group love it.

Not enough info on the TFA setting to feel comfortable running it, but I'm sure that will all be forthcoming.

But the idea that Force lore needs to be recovered and quested for across the galaxy is heavily reinforced in F&D. Also, Force Users are less powerful in F&D than in either Saga or D6, they're very manageable. The joke with my players is that Solo's crack about hokey religions and ancient weapons being no match for a good blaster at your side is really true (blaster rifles are mechanically superior to F&D's basic lightsabers.) The Force is an XP sinkhole in F&D, which is fine.

My Gm has shown an interest in doing an EP7 era campaign after our current one is finished.  Which is supported by the rest of the group, as they actually like the movie.

I did not.

Here's my thing with this question:  What do we know officially between the last film and this one?  Very little.  In fact, there's been almost no change to the galaxies setting.

Apparently, the Republic is STILL under siege by the Empire (one would think that the power vacuum left by the death of the Emperor would have lasted a little longer than just 30 years), there's a rebellion going to resist and...  That's it.  Most of the setting is a backdrop for the characters, like all movies have.

There's been an Episode VII of SW? When did it happen?

All I was able to see was an Ep IV remake...

Now that I think about it, since the removal of the expanded universe and this new film, we have about a total of 20 locations that make up all of the SW universe.

Quote from: Christopher Brady;872552Now that I think about it, since the removal of the expanded universe and this new film, we have about a total of 20 locations that make up all of the SW universe.

Considering that destroying the Republic meant cracking 5 planets? You could argue the scale has been massively inflated.

Quote from: Christopher Brady;872552Now that I think about it, since the removal of the expanded universe and this new film, we have about a total of 20 locations that make up all of the SW universe.

   Nah. Don't forget, The Clone Wars and Rebels are still canon, so you've got a lot of stuff there.

Quote from: Warboss Squee;872557Considering that destroying the Republic meant cracking 5 planets? You could argue the scale has been massively inflated.

It was one planet and its four moons.

It's confusing in the movie.

Quote from: Endless Flight;872616It was one planet and its four moons.

It's confusing in the movie.

Movie suffers heavily from lack of knowing what the hell is going on. It's like someone said, "the prequels had to much exposition, let's not do any of that".

It would just be a New Republic time period game with some events from the movie incorporated as backdrop.  Episode VII is not greatly different from the Post-RotJ/New Republic time period people have been running games in for a while now.  

There's the usual Imperial Remnant to fight.  They are being fought by some continuation of the Rebel Alliance as usual.  There's the usual new generation of force users, both light and dark.  Thrown in an emerging faction called the First Order into the Imperial Remnant.  Blow up a system none of your players have probably ever heard of or cared about.  They blew up Hosnia what?  Scratch a Senate that would have probably played almost no role in the game anyway.  Mention that the First Order has a super weapon which is now gone and doesn't matter any more.  The rest is details the PCs will never find out anyway.