August 2008 Archives

So I'd heard that the Star Wars Saga Edition was pretty cool.   I picked it up and looked at it last week and thought it was a huge improvement over previous editions, which were basically just D&D in space.   My stumbling block to actually running a game was that there were no adventures for it.

Well I just found this today.   A full level 1-20 campaign for Star Wars saga edition!

Not that I have time to run another campaign right now, but you never know.  It's cool in any case. I may have to pick up the saga edition rules at dragoncon.

Just to keep track here are the campaigns am running or have planned now.

Currently
Delta Green
Dark Heresy

Next Planned
D&D 4E Ptolus

In the works
D&D 4E Eberron
Iron Kingdoms Steampunk using Savage Worlds

Probably Not but I like to think they will
Post-Apocalypse Savage Worlds (Maybe True 20)
Star Wars Saga Edition

I finally got around or rather got some time to read the D&D 4th Edition Rulebooks.    I'm really impressed.   At first glance I thought that they had changed quite a lot of the system, which they did, but hadn't really done anything to reduce the complexity.   After a through reading of the rules however, they have done a lot to reduce the complexity.   It not as easy to learn as say Call of Cthulhu, which has about 15 pages of rules, but nowhere near the complexity of 3rd edition, which  required computer software to make or keep track a a character.

The only real stumbling block to 4th edition right now is the lack of books.  To run a campaign like I need (okay want) ALL the 3rd edition books I have updated to 4th edition.   I also want to run my next campaign set in Ptolus, which I'd have to convert.   That's not going to be as hard as I thought.   SO for right now my plan  is

Near Term:  Introductory Adventure with Premade Characters
Next Campaign :Ptolus
Future Campaign: Return to Eberron

Btw, any of my Eberron players who read this, your former characters will have have had lasting effects on the world and figure promenently in the future Eberron Campaign.