Spinning this off from the "Only the Bounty hunter and Technician book left..." thread...

I love Jawa's and Gamorreans and I sincerely hope they show up!

Sand People I don't see how they would be playable though...

I play a Cathar in our current game. They could possibly be a part of an "Old Republic" book.
I got the stats from the Unofficial Species Menagerie, where you can find a few of those listed above.

I love Jawa's and Gamorreans and I sincerely hope they show up!

Seconded.

Sand People I don't see how they would be playable though...

Tusken Raiders, like Ewoks, would require a bit of creative license and suspension of continuity to use them as playable characters. Then again, the Chiss were unknown to the galaxy at large until nine years after the Battle of Yavin, and unnamed until nineteen years after, and they were one of the first species released after the core rulebook.

I like Jawas too.. I made a Jawa Assassin using species menagerie.

Strikes me as really odd how a Tusken Raider would be chumming around with other misfits on a starship. Yes, they're kind of iconic, but it ruins their mystique.

Chiss had Thrawn as a major antagonist; same with Falleen and Xizor. It makes sense for them to show up. Most of the rest mentioned here are very obscure, and essentially just background scenery as regards the movies.

And for the AOR line, I'd actually like to see species affiliated with the Alliance (like good old Prune Face), rather than just random ones.

Most of the rest mentioned here are very obscure, and essentially just background scenery as regards the movies.

That could be said of MOST alien species in Star Wars. Look at the first eight species released in the EotE core rulebook. Gand and Trandoshan were "scenery" and Bothans were never shown.

And for the AOR line, I'd actually like to see species affiliated with the Alliance (like good old Prune Face), rather than just random ones.

Dressellians ("Prune Face") are in Stay on Target. The only other alien species explicitly shown working with the Rebellion--that have not been officially released by FFG--are the Ishi-Tib, who showed up in the background of the briefing in Return of the Jedi.

Thanks for starting the Thread SavageBob.

Well, the species you listed may be in ANH and is therefore canon but I would concur with DeadBothanSpy that there are more common species around. For example personally I see Besalisk or Dug or even Pa'lowick before Brizzit, Lamproid or Quor'Sav and to be honest I've never heard of Qiirash.

(And I'd definitely want Besalisk, Sluissi and Vratix but will probably only get the first)

Thanks for starting the Thread SavageBob.

Well, the species you listed may be in ANH and is therefore canon but I would concur with DeadBothanSpy that there are more common species around. For example personally I see Besalisk or Dug or even Pa'lowick before Brizzit, Lamproid or Quor'Sav and to be honest I've never heard of Qiirash.

(And I'd definitely want Besalisk, Sluissi and Vratix but will probably only get the first)

Yeah, my intention wasn't to say these species should show up, just that they're film species and, thus, within the realm of possibility to show up based on what we've seen from FFG so far. I'd be very surprised if we ever saw many of them, like Quor'sav (the pair of bird legs that walks past in Mos Eisley) or Yam'rii (the preying mantis thing at the cantina bar).

Oh, and I forgot Givin (viable option for the Engineer book).

I disagree with Maelora's stance that "background" or "scenery" species don't deserve write-ups (or that they should't be as focused on as they currently are). But I respect that stance. Personally, alien species have always been the most intriguing thing about Star Wars. I can still remember the absolute thrill I got when I discovered Troy Denning's Galaxy Guide 4: Alien Races on a shelf in a B. Dalton Bookstore, and that book is almost entirely given over to "scenery" aliens. I'm an absolute sucker for information on SW alien societies and cultures, the weird ticks about their biologies, the whole shebang. For every group that doesn't enjoy this (like, it seems, Maoelora's), there's bound to be one like mine that does. (We, incidentally, don't care for tech that much.)

That said, some more diversity would be good if people are wanting more near-Humans, or species that might be "leads" in a new Star Wars film. With that in mind, perhaps FFG needs to give us the near-Human Bimm, the Qiraash, and the Anzat!

As for Alliance-allied species, I don't think we know of many more that were explicitly allied with the Alliance (at least not if we want to stay away from obscure Legends species, like the Chubbits). We've already gotten Bothans and Mon Cals, and Dressellians are coming up in Stay on Target. That said, there's tons of fluff that WOTC gave us about a lot of film species. I mean, check the Ultimate Alien Anthology and you'll see lots of suggestions that "Several Fooians joined the Rebellion to protest the Empire's anti-alien prejudices" or whatever. So, we may have to just rely on that kind of handwave to get our full contingent of AoR species.

The three species I want to see the most now are:

Bith

Pykes

Aleena

I disagree with Maelora's stance that "background" or "scenery" species don't deserve write-ups (or that they should't be as focused on as they currently are). But I respect that stance. Personally, alien species have always been the most intriguing thing about Star Wars. I can still remember the absolute thrill I got when I discovered Troy Denning's Galaxy Guide 4: Alien Races on a shelf in a B. Dalton Bookstore, and that book is almost entirely given over to "scenery" aliens. I'm an absolute sucker for information on SW alien societies and cultures, the weird ticks about their biologies, the whole shebang. For every group that doesn't enjoy this (like, it seems, Maoelora's), there's bound to be one like mine that does. (We, incidentally, don't care for tech that much.)

Eventhough I would enjoy write ups of more background species (and would welcome Ewoks as a playable race) I feel the Tusken Raiders fall outside of this category for some reason. they feel more like a distant cousin to the sentient species that are playable... However I guess others could say this about and then I would disagree...

In the CRB, there are a Defel assassin and Barabel enforcer listed in the adversaries along with a Gamorrean. Similar to how "enforcer" was later released, I imagine we will see these three species.

There are 2 scenes in the Star Wars movies that show the most aliens. The Bar Room scene in "A New Hope" at Mos Eisley. And Jabbas Palace in "Return of the Jedi" There are plenty of Species in those 2 scenes that are not covered even in the Species Menagerie.

The Weequay entry in Dangerous Covenants mentions the Houk, and that's a race of bruisers I'd like to have official stats on.

EDIT: I'd like to see the Lannik too.

Yeah, my intention wasn't to say these species should show up, just that they're film species and, thus, within the realm of possibility to show up based on what we've seen from FFG so far. I'd be very surprised if we ever saw many of them, like Quor'sav (the pair of bird legs that walks past in Mos Eisley) or Yam'rii (the preying mantis thing at the cantina bar).

Sure, didn't want to imply that you wanted to say that And I agree with the rest of your post.

(And I definitely want Besalisk, Sluissi and Vratix but will probably only get the first)

I'm totally down for Jawas as a playable race, but other then the ones already mentioned, all i can think of are Lasats as a playable species, granted they just now came out in the new CG star wars movie, but their design is based on the original concept art of Chewbacca, before they settled on giant hairy beast.

In the CRB, there are a Defel assassin and Barabel enforcer listed in the adversaries along with a Gamorrean. Similar to how "enforcer" was later released, I imagine we will see these three species.

That would make sense. The Barabel are Legends, but they feature pretty prominently in the NJO books. Defel, I guess, is Legends now, too, thanks to the Special Editions. Frankly, I prefer the Defel to the weird lizard in a beret that replaced him.

I'm totally down for Jawas as a playable race, but other then the ones already mentioned, all i can think of are Lasats as a playable species, granted they just now came out in the new CG star wars movie, but their design is based on the original concept art of Chewbacca, before they settled on giant hairy beast.

I haven't seen Rebels; have they established that the Chewie analog there is a Lasat? I assumed they'd jettison that bit of Legends and give him some other species, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

^Nope, he is a Lasat... One of the few remaining ones.

Verpine I would think would be in the engineer book.

Verpine I would think would be in the engineer book.

As a Rebel-allied species, that would be logical, also leaving Squibs for the Technician book.

I'd like to see Rattataki, Herglics, and Cathar.

I can see Cathar showing up in a Force and Destiny supplement because their most prominent appearance was in the Tales of the Jedi comics.

Cathar and Rattataki are both playable species in Star Wars the Old Republic MMORPG. They're the only two in the game that haven't been made into playable FFG species yet.

Are Cathar that prevalent in the rebellion era?