One challenge with playing Star Wars with people who aren't extremely into Star Wars, is that it's hard to describe weird species all the time.

Not only that, but even me as a GM, who is actually not super-into Star Wars, often comes up short when I try to describe the colorful, weird plethora of races one might encounter in the street, so when I have to insert a random NPC, I way too often fall back on the few races I already know and am familiar with, or, as an alternate approach, describe someone from a completely undisclosed species I just made up.

But I would love to be able to draw a card and get a random Star Wars species, with the species name and a picture of a member of the species. Such cards, digital or physical, would simply be an amazing GM:ing resource.

Alas, I do not have time to make them, at least not for quite some time. So I wanted to ask - does anyone know of something similar already done, that I could perhaps make use of?

I made these to have a visual and basic information reference for each species...

hope it helps!

26 minutes ago, Kainrath said:

I made these to have a visual and basic information reference for each species...

hope it helps!

I love these cards (and your others). Is there an easy way to get them to print multiple to a page?

5 hours ago, Natsymir said:

One challenge with playing Star Wars with people who aren't extremely into Star Wars, is that it's hard to describe weird species all the time.

I don't know if you allow your players to use smartphones or tablets, or if you yourself own one, but a picture is worth a thousand words. What does a Twi'lek look like?...Well here's a google image search. Personally I would try to steer clear of allowing players to look it up as then they might sit there for the next 5min looking at 12 pages of twi'lek images, but if you can flash them an image then you can move right along.

5 hours ago, Edgookin said:

I love these cards (and your others). Is there an easy way to get them to print multiple to a page?

Use a PDF printer to turn each into a page. Then use printer options to print 9 or 4 to a page depending on desired size.