1 hour ago, StarkJunior said:

Having worked with LFL on SWTOR, they are VERY unlikely to allow any actual direct tie-ins to anything canon in something non-canon. Battlefront gets canon tie-ins, because they are essentially 'canon' games.

The RPGs aren't canon, and I suspect its why they only did a one-off Beginner Game instead of any full books or sourcebooks to existing lines. And also why you find Legends material scattered about, alongside canon references, in all the books.

I don't want to dispute your insight, but they put out "Rebels" and "Clone Wars" books. Both are giving out materials from their series which are canon

2 hours ago, StarkJunior said:

Having worked with LFL on SWTOR, they are VERY unlikely to allow any actual direct tie-ins to anything canon in something non-canon. Battlefront gets canon tie-ins, because they are essentially 'canon' games.

The RPGs aren't canon, and I suspect its why they only did a one-off Beginner Game instead of any full books or sourcebooks to existing lines. And also why you find Legends material scattered about, alongside canon references, in all the books.

To hazard a guess, I’d say any restrictions from LFL were more temporary until the sequel trilogy was closed out. Similar to vetoing Timothy Zahn using a clone of Obi-Wan (which became C’baoth), the Sith race (which became the Noghri), or details of the Clone Wars, because Lucas/LFL Laos claim to establishing any of that lore on screen.

1 hour ago, Nytwyng said:

To hazard a guess, I’d say any restrictions from LFL were more temporary until the sequel trilogy was closed out. Similar to vetoing Timothy Zahn using a clone of Obi-Wan (which became C’baoth), the Sith race (which became the Noghri), or details of the Clone Wars, because Lucas/LFL Laos claim to establishing any of that lore on screen.

More or less, yeah, and it's usually only hardline for the movies, specifically. They get handwavey with some of the other properties, but like, when I was on SWTOR, we had blackout dates where we couldn't do anything post-second week of November - the November release date for a game was reserved for canon Star Wars games and December was a complete no all around.

It's also why even a lot of the art for 'official' things looks slightly off or different, and official adventures don't tread on any existing plot points you see in the films too heavily. And the books are more "Era" books than specifically only some piece of media or whatever.

It really depends on what reps from the LFL Story Group you get, honestly. SWTOR couldn't even use names that resembled the character. (For example, the "Boba Fett" inspired armor was called like "<Insert Word> Hunter Armor" or something, and it was only vaguely resembling him anyway. I think it had maybe some similar colors and a shoulder cape? But that was it. And even the "Kylo Ren" saber hilts looked different and had different SFX.)

Like, if the line continues, I could see a Mandalorian Era sourcebook once the show is over, because then everything would have been established as they wished it to on-screen.

I posted this in another thread but in case not everyone is following both -taken from a FB group and supposedly from someone at GAMA:

“This just in, Asmodee (FFG) roleplaying is NOT going away. It is transitioning to a new imprint called Edge Studios. And those older Star Wars books WILL be reprinted! Huzzah!“

10 minutes ago, DangerShine Designs said:

I posted this in another thread but in case not everyone is following both -taken from a FB group and supposedly from someone at GAMA:

“This just in, Asmodee (FFG) roleplaying is NOT going away. It is transitioning to a new imprint called Edge Studios. And those older Star Wars books WILL be reprinted! Huzzah!“

if true still dose not mean we will see anything new just that we don't need to rush to buy books

13 minutes ago, Oldmike1 said:

if true still dose not mean we will see anything new just that we don't need to rush to buy books

no argument but there has been a feeding frenzy of late as people try and complete their collections, this is at least good news for them and hopefully, we will still get Mando and ST sourcebooks

Someone else just posted on Reddit:

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Attended the GAMA Asmodee Keynote an hour ago. The FFG branded role playing games will be transitioning to a new European company over the course of this year. The company is called Edge Entertainment. Old books will still be printed, and new ones will be made. New books will still work with existing ones, so it's not a new edition.

8 minutes ago, DangerShine Designs said:

Someone else just posted on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/swrpg/comments/fgnhnx/gama_asmodee_keynote/

Ok, I'm somewhat confused when searching for the Edge Entertainment game publisher. I found a list of games they supposedly publish that included Ticket to Ride (published by Days of Wonder afaik) and Battlestar Galactica (published by FFG afaik). Erroneous interwebs info? Someone know of an actual English website or Facebook group for Edge Entertainment (the game publisher)?

...and I found news from 2017 that said Asmodee "absorbed" Edge Entertainment.

1 minute ago, Sturn said:

Ok, I'm somewhat confused when searching for the Edge Entertainment game publisher. If found a list of games they supposedly publish that included Ticket to Ride (published by Days of Wonder afaik) and Battlestar Galactica (published by FFG afaik). Erroneous interwebs info? Someone know of an actual English website or Facebook group for Edge Entertainment (the game publisher)?

I don’t think there is an English language version of their site as yet.

http://www.edgeent.com/home/promo

According to boardgamegeek, their only major product (major as the only one I had really heard of) since they were founded in 1999 was the heavy gear rpg

so can’t really predict how it will turn out

1 hour ago, MB -Fr- said:

According to boardgamegeek, their only major product (major as the only one I had really heard of) since they were founded in 1999 was the heavy gear rpg

so can’t really predict how it will turn out

Edge Entertainment has been publishing Star Wars to the European market for years. Example

They are the translators of the non-english editions and their graphics division designed the books. Check in the credits section of any of your rule books under "GAME LINE GRAPHIC DESIGN" for EDGE Studio

10 minutes ago, Mistervimes said:

Edge Entertainment has been publishing Star Wars to the European market for around two years. Example

Translating and distributing existing product is a different matter than developing new content.

Just now, Nytwyng said:

Translating and distributing existing product is a different matter than developing new content.

No disagreement. Asmodee is moving their RPGs to company that designs the physical layouts and publishes for the most markets. The logical progression is to hire RPG developers for that company. They could be freelance or full-time. We'll have to wait and see. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't hire the folks that were laid off at FFG.

The Star Wars announcement was the least of the restructuring announcements made by Asmodee yesterday. Asmodee announced dozens of MSRP increases and (game changing news) Asmodee USA is becoming a full distributor .

Quarterly RPG sales report came out this week. Star Wars RPG was number four and the only reason it wasn't number five was that CGL released 6th Edition Shadowrun at GenCon .

http://www.d20radio.com/main/ffg-rpgs-transitioning-to-european-production-house/

Not much more information here.

So know we have to wait for the French version to come out before the English version? At least Europeans will finally get books in a timely fashion.

Since it was posted in another thread, but not here: https://edge-studio.net/

Nice! Signed up for the newsletter.

Every one of the RPGs on that page looks interesting to me... though I also kickstarted an RPG called MAgical Girls not so long ago, so maybe I just have a problem.

There is some possibly telling wording at the new English website for EDGE. https://edge-studio.net/

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Since then, it seemed logical to entrust this activity within the group to a single studio, a group of experienced people all over the globe that will be completely and exclusively devoted to role-playing games publishing.

It mentions entrusting RPG's to a single studio, then says what I bolded. Does this mean freelancers?

It certainly doesn't exclude them.

1 hour ago, Sturn said:

There is some possibly telling wording at the new English website for EDGE. https://edge-studio.net/

It mentions entrusting RPG's to a single studio, then says what I bolded. Does this mean freelancers?

what it probably means is the RPG management will hppen there. but the freelancers will still do the bulk of the work. But that is a guess.

1 minute ago, Daeglan said:

what it probably means is the RPG management will hppen there. but the freelancers will still do the bulk of the work. But that is a guess.

I am sincerely hoping for the same thing.

9 minutes ago, DangerShine Designs said:

I am sincerely hoping for the same thing.

Me too. I'm hoping some of the names we know are asked to at least do some freelancing.