A brand new D6 supplement... Galaxy Guide: The Old Republic

[Panzerjedi]

Progress Check... how is this comming along, will we have an expected ETA soon??
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[Mojomoe]

Progress report!

Almost all the editing is done, and now I'm on to hunting for images for each item. I also reversed an earlier decision on equipment and included a rudimentary chapter with 30-40 pieces of starting equipment to get players going. The big equipment guide is still forthcoming though.

It was awesome to be mentioned again in the Shooting Womprats podcast! One thing they'd mentioned was the lack of a Force section, so I wanted to broach the subject again:

Basically, there are very few if any new Force powers for TOR. However, this book is intended to function as a standalone, much like the Tales of the Jedi book, which reprinted many of the basic Force powers. Having read through Forceally's excellent Force Compendium, I've noted that it's 150 pages. My options for the TOR book:

1) Print only new powers, and perhaps a primer on how the Force works.
2) Print new powers, a primer, and a LIST of other powers (but not a complete guide)
3) Reprint ALL available powers for this era. This is a true standalone guide, but will add ~120 pages to a book that is already 350. But it's the most complete.

Thoughts??

[Mojomoe]

EDIT^^

I lied. To reprint all powers available in the TOR era would add 30-50 pages, tops, bringing the TOR guide to around 400 pages (410 with index)

[Forceally]

Do you recall the Darkstryder Campaign? The box had three books in it. One had the background story and the adventure arcs for the first part. The second had stats on the characters, vehicles, creatures, etc. Maybe you should do something like that. You have the main book. Then you have a follow-up that deals with the Force. I do think though that you should publish everything at the same time.

[shootingwomprats]

[cheshire]

[Mojomoe]

Apologies, I should have clarified -

Forceally's Compendium includes maybe 3-4 powers from TOR (Forcewalking, some Voss mystic stuff), but also runs the gamut of Dathomirian Nightsisters and other obscure force magic.

If I cut out all the ancillary stuff (obscure shamanism), and limit to ONLY the default powers available at the time (most of which are reprints from 2ERE - Affect Mind, Concentration, etc), it's about 30-50 pages. But very little is new, it's just edited down to what's available at the time.

[Panzerjedi]

hummm.... i'd keep to whats available in the period... buut sprinkle a few, just a few new ones in, in force powers.
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[shootingwomprats]

So Mojomoe with the new storyline that was introduced on 12-5 what are you going to do? I would suggest just pressing on unless you think the additional information will not ruin your current layout. Could release that storyline and information as a much smaller companion book later.
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[cheshire]

[Mojomoe]

Agreed. Though I really like the idea of continued expansion statbooks.

The funny thing was, I set out to initially document literally every item and being in the game. Even thought I had it in hand too. However, by the time if statted all ~60-70 creatures, I found a list of TWENTY more. They had literally produced content faster than I could stat it! And don't get me started on the TENS OF THOUSANDS of weapons and armor . At that point I decided that 90% coverage was better than an ever-expanding book that never releases.

[Panzerjedi]

Hey I know lol, I haven't played MMO but have herd about the crapload of weapons/armor
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[Mojomoe]

Ok I'm going to propose something radical -

If I were to include and promote a quick saber combat/saber forms/saber construction system in the Force section, are there any that have strong fan support? Or are they all just variants?

Does anything really stand above the rest and add something?

[cheshire]

I've never seen a solid saber form rubric that I think really works for D6.
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[Panzerjedi]

Will we see this by the holidays as planned? How goes the Picture hunt?
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