Do we know if FFG plans in publishing era specific sourcebooks? I'd kill for a Tales of the Jedi/KOTOR book. WEG's TotJ book is my favorite Star Wars supplement ever published, but I'd be really keen on playing in it her eras too... Or even as Imperials (especially poignant given the new EU's attempt to make the average Imperial more sympathetic.)

Adventure and career books are okay but I'd really like to see material published that plays with the wider EU (canon or otherwise).

As an aside: Has Nomi Sunrider's 'Sever Force' power been drawn up?

I'd like a "Force Awakens" sourcebook. But my guess is, and I hope I'm wrong and its sooner, is that it'll be after the movies.

Pretty much bone dry on any information other than what we know is coming (only 1 career book indevelopement and 1 adventure book lost at sea). As for era books, who can say? I think the developers picked the Rebellion era because they wanted to, but what that means if they want to expand beyond that, well, we'll see. I wouldn't mind era books, but then you have to ask 'just what will they cover and how?' There's a lot of content to pack into one book for a single era.

Ooooooo boy, another one of these threads.

Do we know if FFG plans in publishing era specific sourcebooks? I'd kill for a Tales of the Jedi/KOTOR book. WEG's TotJ book is my favorite Star Wars supplement ever published, but I'd be really keen on playing in it her eras too... Or even as Imperials (especially poignant given the new EU's attempt to make the average Imperial more sympathetic.)

As much as I would love era books I'm of the opinion that FFG has no real interest in other eras. I think if they were interested in other eras they would have made a more neutral game. I feel for the most part they'll milk the OT era for what it's worth.

Everything Disney has supports their movies. If you work with Disney you too support their movies. That said, I wouldn't be surprised to see a Force Awakens book before any other era stuff.

Everything Disney has supports their movies. If you work with Disney you too support their movies. That said, I wouldn't be surprised to see a Force Awakens book before any other era stuff.

But not everything Star Wars supports the movies. They are still making products under the Legends logo not directly related to the movies. Disney does not really seem interested in making everything about the movies. And it hasn't really been their business MO to make EVERYTHING about the movie they are currently promoting.

Disney very much operates in a "it's all our money anyway" kind of mindset.

At best we may see something set in either the prequel trilogy (maybe a Clone Wars book of some type) or the upcoming sequel trilogy. Now that canon has been reduced there is little likelihood of a KotOr, TOR, or Legacy book of any type. That's not to say that they won't draw on information therein for some supplement, but an actual era book? I don't think so. Now that a majority of those eras are "Legends" material, they are just there to be mined if used at all.

At best we may see something set in either the prequel trilogy (maybe a Clone Wars book of some type) or the upcoming sequel trilogy. Now that canon has been reduced there is little likelihood of a KotOr, TOR, or Legacy book of any type. That's not to say that they won't draw on information therein for some supplement, but an actual era book? I don't think so. Now that a majority of those eras are "Legends" material, they are just there to be mined if used at all.

They have been pulling heavily from Legends so I wouldn't rule it out. They have more leeway in this arena. My guess is after bounty hunter and technician books come out we will have a clearer view.

I doubt we'll see sourcebooks that are focused entirely on Legends-specific eras of play, such as KOTOR/SWTOR or Legacy Era.

From what the design team said when the RPG line was announced, they wanted to go for the most iconic Star Wars experience they could manage, and for them that meant setting the game in the Rebellion Era, which for a lot of older fans is the iconic Star Wars setting. Obviously the writers have no problem pulling elements from Legends (E-Wings in Stay on Target and the entire Corellian Sector for Suns of Fortune as examples) but those elements are themselves centered around the Rebellion Era.

As for what they're going to do in regards to the sequels... the only ones that know are under NDAs and blabbing about it would cost those folks their jobs and probably any ability to work in the gaming market again. And since RPG production is of a vastly smaller scale than film production, so it's generally much easier to plug/prevent info leaks than it would be about a movie.

The fact there's a new X-Wing starter box that uses TFA ships means that FFG isn't going to completely ignore the sequel era films. For all that's known, they could be planning to wait until the third film is released and then possibly do one big setting-specific book to cover all three films in one go. And since it'll have been a few years since the release of Force and Destiny, said book might even be a new core rulebook with various errata and system updates included. Or they could figure on just doing a series of system neutral splat books that can be used with any of the game lines.

I still see them doing one book per line for the Post-ROTJ era.

An EOE book covering the period right after Endor because I feel that a lot of new EOE style organizations will be emerging and old ones growing stronger in this period.

An AOR book covering the periods from the Resistance forming to TFA.

An FAD book covering whatever the Awakening of the Force is.

I still see them doing one book per line for the Post-ROTJ era.

An EOE book covering the period right after Endor because I feel that a lot of new EOE style organizations will be emerging and old ones growing stronger in this period.

An AOR book covering the periods from the Resistance forming to TFA.

An FAD book covering whatever the Awakening of the Force is.

That's so logical you're probably right, I just wish they hadn't treated them as 3 separate product lines in the first place. Maybe TFA would give them the opportunity to reorg future splats under one product line "Star Wars RPG" as they do with the NPC and crit decks and the dice.

As an aside: Has Nomi Sunrider's 'Sever Force' power been drawn up?

This might be close, from the upcoming Keeping the Peace book:

"The Suppress Power will particularly interest Guardians because it enables them to shield themselves and others from Force-based attacks, ensuring safety in the presence of sentients wielding the dark side."

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2015/7/8/keeping-the-peace/

I still see them doing one book per line for the Post-ROTJ era.

An EOE book covering the period right after Endor because I feel that a lot of new EOE style organizations will be emerging and old ones growing stronger in this period.

An AOR book covering the periods from the Resistance forming to TFA.

An FAD book covering whatever the Awakening of the Force is.

That's so logical you're probably right, I just wish they hadn't treated them as 3 separate product lines in the first place. Maybe TFA would give them the opportunity to reorg future splats under one product line "Star Wars RPG" as they do with the NPC and crit decks and the dice.

Well there is nothing stopping the mixing of material from the lines and dividing the lines allows groups to focus on what they like the most, For example my current group does military focused campaigns the most followed slightly by privateer or pirate focused campagins followed by smuggling and independent trader focused campaigns and while we done many campaigns where we've had force users we have rarely done force users and force user organization focused campaigns. So we focus on getting AOR books as top priority, EOE as second, and FAD as third. If they mix the lines we would need to prioritize everything and just hope we get the books that focus more on our primary interests first, skim every book to determine priorities, or ask for summaries of the material in each book here.

I still see them doing one book per line for the Post-ROTJ era.

An EOE book covering the period right after Endor because I feel that a lot of new EOE style organizations will be emerging and old ones growing stronger in this period.

An AOR book covering the periods from the Resistance forming to TFA.

An FAD book covering whatever the Awakening of the Force is.

That's so logical you're probably right, I just wish they hadn't treated them as 3 separate product lines in the first place. Maybe TFA would give them the opportunity to reorg future splats under one product line "Star Wars RPG" as they do with the NPC and crit decks and the dice.

Well there is nothing stopping the mixing of material from the lines and dividing the lines allows groups to focus on what they like the most, For example my current group does military focused campaigns the most followed slightly by privateer or pirate focused campagins followed by smuggling and independent trader focused campaigns and while we done many campaigns where we've had force users we have rarely done force users and force user organization focused campaigns. So we focus on getting AOR books as top priority, EOE as second, and FAD as third. If they mix the lines we would need to prioritize everything and just hope we get the books that focus more on our primary interests first, skim every book to determine priorities, or ask for summaries of the material in each book here.

I wasn't meaning to suggest they ditch the lines altogether, it does help to look for smuggler character options here, force user character options here. But a generic line would allow them to do something like an alien, vehicle/starship, or planetary sourcebook without reprinting material 3 times. Another example where a generic label would be useful is an Imperial sourcebook, then we wouldn't have to see 3 books (smuggler/pirate hunting, military org/ISB, and Inquisitors) when they could explain once how different parts of the Imperial hierarchy work together.

Is the MMO no longer canon? It's still being developed and it was recently announced that BioWare is making a single-player story for it; essentially a KOTOR sequel.

Seems weird that it's still being developed but not canon.

And I don't see why the Tales of the Jedi setting couldn't still be canon. Lucas allowed the comics to be written, and circumventing the embargo against writing anything before Episode 4,because it takes place so far in the past it wouldn't matter.

Is the MMO no longer canon? It's still being developed and it was recently announced that BioWare is making a single-player story for it; essentially a KOTOR sequel.

Seems weird that it's still being developed but not canon.

And I don't see why the Tales of the Jedi setting couldn't still be canon. Lucas allowed the comics to be written, and circumventing the embargo against writing anything before Episode 4,because it takes place so far in the past it wouldn't matter.

It exist under the Legends logo. Disney hasn't stopped producing non canon material. It's just decided to be a lot more firm on what is and isn't canon. There is no practical reason to shut the MMO down to be honest. It's making money after all and it keeps people interested in the brand overall. It doesn't need to be canon for people to enjoy it and Disney is counting on that little fact.

Yeah, I think it was clarified during the Star Wars Celebration that TOR is out. Part of the reason is if Disney ever wants to explore that particular era, probably. I'm sure if they sent a cease and desist, there would be a lot of unhappy people, and would probably be pretty detrimental.

It's win/win in the end. Both Bioware and Disney are able to create material for their audiences and not worry about creating conflicting stories.