A couple of days ago I had a friend (outside my usual gaming group) who is HUGE into the D6 Star Wars ask if I could run EotE. Oh sure, what the hell - and so yesterday I went over, built some characters and ran them through the paces on the Beginner's boxed set.
Creation was a little chaotic, since I only had my hardcover, the AoR beta and a copy of the EotE Beta to work from (and 6 people to generate characters for) - so the characters may not be completely book accurate, but they're close enough.
It took them a little bit to get generating a dice pool, but they took to the "So, you've got a triumph. Tell me how awesome you are" concept straight away. My first moment of awesomeness example was in the cantina, when someone failed to hit a gamorrean, but got like 6 advantage and wanted to disarm him. "Fine, the 3 advantage disarms him, and while you missed the gamorrean, the remaining advantage made his axe flip backwards and impail a second gamorrean who was threatening Player Y, saving him":
From that Crowning Moment of Awesome, they fully embraced the system. They were off and running telling me how awesome they were, other people coming up with ideas for the roll and generally having a blast. The favorite of the night - they had caused a kerfuluffle at the Spaceport Docking Control when trying to unclamp the Krayt Fang's clamps, and I rolled the Stormtrooper encounter from the next page into the tail end of the fight.
One of the characters, a Police-Bot rolled well enough to get the Stormtroopers to stop shooting at everyone, that they needed to get to the Fang's hanger to deal with an issue - but rolled a whole bunch of threat and instantly blurted out, as the stormtroopers believed him "Fine, we'll escort you to the hanger to straighten this all out. Teemo the Hutt will meet us there. . . ."
Now this, of course, potentially messes up Long Arm of the Hutt - but it was so cool I couldn't let it not stand. A perfect place to end for the night, a hell of a cliffhanger!
Final result - everyone had a blast, they loved the system, and the D6er who started it was convinced. He didn't think he was going to switch engines (he had put a TON of work into WEG, building aliens and didn't want to convert everything over), but he admitted that he really liked the system.
So yeah, score all around FFG.
