I want some friends to create new characters, but I've encountered a hurdle when doing that. It's very difficult to show them all the careers/species that there can be, because that information is scattered thru a lot of books.

Do you think they will ever come out with a character creation book to help easily access all this stuff (species/careers). I mean, I actually HAVE most of the books and it's still time consuming, I can only imagine how it is for people how don't have most of the books. I guess they want to wait till all the Edge of Empire Career books to be done first, otherwise they would have to constantly update it.

I doubt it, honestly. Reprinting content in compilation format doesn't seem to be FFG's style, they've never really done it before.

For one-stop character creation, have you tried OggDude's Character Generator software?

Compiling all the Specs and Species from $1000 worth of books, into a single tome? Not likely. Use OggDude's.

1 hour ago, Tom Cruise said:

I doubt it, honestly. Reprinting content in compilation format doesn't seem to be FFG's style, they've never really done it before.

They did do such a thing with Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play 2nd edition, publishing a book that compiled all the careers from that line's various splats into a single tome.

But it was also the last book the published for WFRP2e, which they'd taken over from Green Ronin as part of them acquiring the Warhammer RP license, and they knew they weren't going to be doing much with 2e and instead would be focusing their efforts on a 3rd edition.

With regards to Star Wars RPG, if we do see an announcement of a single book combining the various specializations from the assorted career splats, whether it be truly one single book or one book for each line, then we'll have a pretty good indication that FFG is winding down and doesn't have much plans to produce new content for the game, which itself likely means they don't plan on retaining the license given how well the books have been selling as opposed to the Star Wars RPG not being profitable.

When my group has their Session 0, I usually have a laptop at the gaming table and have each of them thumb through OggDude's generator to help build their characters. While one player is occupied with the builder, I have the others talk about what kind of character they want to play. As they do so, I will start pulling out splat books and suggest specializations that may work well for their concepts.

I've compiled a personal species list including:

What I know from the books that I have

Assumed stats for the species in the books I don't have

My own custom species

Especially since the species are sorted by what characteristic they have a 3 in, that process is very fast.

As for specs, it goes quickly for me since I'm only playing Edge. Otherwise, I would put all the available specs into a list sorted by role (ie combat, talking, piloting, medicine, mechanics, computers, outdoors, sneaking around) then categorize them into a list like that, followed by a mention of what book includes that specialization.

I have a different outlook on character creation. I am a visual guy and find a piece of artwork that fits my character concept. I have been collecting online art for star wars rpg for years.

Not to say the stats are unimportant but I love to have a look and a story idea before I even look at actual stats.

But as to the topic I would say a book like you are talking about is never going to happen. A PDF would be more likely but with how the license has always been for Star Wars rpg we wont see that either.

I do what I have always done, buy everything. Been collecting Star Wars RPG books since 6D was new.

Expensive but well worth it in the end.

Im all for a book like that , im not looking for the full description of talents , but some might for completeness and this is where it falls down the book would be the size of a core book. 6 specs for 18 careers at 2 pages each for the specs means 216 pages for the specialization description and talent sheets and 36 pages at 2 pages each for the career descriptions , then about 50 pages of force powers, goodness knows how many pages of motivations , obligations, duty, moralities, then the full talent descriptions for those that are not common in all 3 core books. The talent pages are roughly 2 per career so that would be another 36 pages so you may as well include every talent.

It would definitely be at least going on the size of core book even leaving out the force abilities, but would definitely be worth it IMO