Based on FFGs current publishing pattern the last career book will be out early 2018. I have some thoughts on what kinds of books FFG might publish after that and would like a discussion what we might want.

Do we want compendium books? Like a book of species, an atlas of the galalxy, an arms & equipment guide, a starship catalog?

Would we want a second cycle of career books.

What about movie sourcebooks? A 160 page book with species write-ups for each species seen on screen for more thant two seconds, new equipment, vehicles and starships, adversary and critter stats, multi-page descriptions of each new planet.

Whatever we get will be in support of the new movie/TV content, of that I am sure. I doubt we will see compendium books. I think we will see the same sort of 'a little of this and a little of that' trickled out in adventures and the new books for the new content.

Thematic books in the same style as the area books are my best guess. That and adventure modules.

But I'd rather wonder about the career books than speculating on that far down the road.

Speaking for myself I do not want a second cycle of career books. Mostly because I feel that by the time we get the last career book of the first cycle most official Star Wars content would be covered.

For the second cycle the career specializations would get very specific and situational and for species it would feel like scraping the bottom of the barrel for content. Do we really want write-ups of "joke" species like the Max Rebo band from Return of the Jedi and the two-headed Boontha Eve race anouncer from Phantom Menace plus the faces of spectators?

I'm pretty confident we won't see more career books. We might see a universal spec or two drop in some books going forward but that would be all I am willing to bet.

Are you talking about career books for EotE being finished by 2018 or for all the lines?

Are you talking about career books for EotE being finished by 2018 or for all the lines?

If they keep their current rate of publishing, all lines. EotE finishes their career splats in early 2017 (since I doubt the book will hit before Christmas).

As for what I expect to see, as stated elsewhere, I find compendiums highly unlikely. It would A. anger some of their core customers and B. be mostly recycled reprints. When a line gets to the point where it's selling recycled material a lot of people consider the game dead.

By the time we get to 2018 I honestly expect them to start thinking about 2nd Edition and maybe leaving the OT era for the NT era. Until then I expect us to get mostly adventures and location splats. So more books like Nexus of Power, Strongholds of Resistance, and Lords of Nal Hutta.

NT era?

NT era?

New Trilogy era. So Ep VII-IX.

I want compendiums but only after the entire line has been completed.

I don't follow every game publisher but I haven't seen a published compendium of previously published material in an RPG line since AD&D 2nd edition. And that was the TSR salad days. Mongoose Traveller puts out the occasional compendium since they're trying to appeal to the Old School Revivalists but it's a mish-mash of small articles that don't fit into any specific book line.

I'm very willing to wager that a compilation book will never happen. The profit margins are so slim that no company wants to end up printing a bunch of unsold books. The competitionist market isn't big enough to accommodate that risk.

Second edition. Tweak the system to get rid of soaks so high as tho be immune to blaster pistols, put in a real starship system that works at both starfighter scale and capitol ship scale combat. Basically make the game better.

Compendium books for races, ships, guns, droids, ect. Make sure there is a pic with every item so we know that they look like.

I can also wish for a unicorn and world peace too.

I would say sector books like Suns of Fortune, but if compendiums wouldnt make money, sector books and adventures certainly wouldnt. I dont expect the Star Wars stuff to go the way of the 40K stuff if only cause of the minis, but I can very easily see the RPG getting all the support that Rogue Trader has gotten in the last few years.

That is to say, I dont expect anything at all, except maybe episode 7-9 tie ins, after they finish the class books. It does kinda depend on how well Rogue One does in December. If it bombs, I expect there will be no support for the RPG, if it does well, I dont expect much more than tie ins

I don't follow every game publisher but I haven't seen a published compendium of previously published material in an RPG line since AD&D 2nd edition.

4e has one as well, pretty handy honestly.

My prediction - once the last career book comes out, they're shutting the line down. That's it! Enjoy the game.

I don't follow every game publisher but I haven't seen a published compendium of previously published material in an RPG line since AD&D 2nd edition.

4e has one as well, pretty handy honestly.

3.5 did that too (although in their compendiums they also included new things), Paizo has also done this with PF although more sparingly.

My prediction - once the last career book comes out, they're shutting the line down. That's it! Enjoy the game.

Makes being a completionist a bit easier.

The big difference between when D&D did it (both 3.0, 3.5, and 4) is that at the time those books were released the info was new and for the most part not found in other product lines. There were some repeats of course, such as core races being repeated and getting a bit more in-depth treatment, but overall those books were mostly new material. FFG has decided to put a little of everything in every book and has amassed a collection of things so large that any such book would be almost 100% repeat info. Thus this is very different from what WotC put out for Dungeons and Dragon.