I was thinking it would be fun to convert the Star Wars setting into a more medieval fantasy setting by making it "post apocalyptic" in the sense that blasters and tech of any kind is now extremely rare. I'm not sure why exactly but that wouldn't be too hard to explain. I like this idea because you can still have all the aliens that make SW so rich and interesting but restrict technology to about the medieval level. Which planet to host this kind of adventure... which would also have every species imaginable? Why Coruscant, of course! Also Coruscant would lend itself really well to "dungeon crawls" with heroes going lower and lower and discovering fun things.

Has anyone ever done anything like this? I think Lightsabers might be almost non existent as well. Just swords and bows and axes and whatnot. Force using "wizard" type characters... Ruins and decay. Treasure! New formed kingdoms! Sounds cool. But all using the EotE skin, so very little work to do (but I suppose a lot of skills would be pointless, as would some talents and even professions.

Perhaps rather than moving deeper, they are moving upwards. Say there's a barrier of sorts, multiple layers of suck that they have to make it through to come out into the "civilized" ( comparatively ) portions of Coruscant, where there is working technology. From down below, they have access to only the weapons they can build. This may include non-functional advanced weapons like vibro-swords. As they advance upwards, they may acquire components to upgrade their weapons or arsenal. Slugthrowers, powered melee weapons, etc.

Oooh, this is great! I guess this would allow for some of the good techy professions to be useful too. Each level you travel upwards allows for a slightly higher level of technology. But I'd still want to keep it somewhat low. Maybe the top levels are more like Mad Max level technology... Crazy suped up swoop gangs and wars over remaining space fuel for the very few speeders that still run. Occasional blasters owned by the very rich or lucky, but with limited ammo.

Hmm... but how did the characters get stuck at those horrible low levels? A ship crashed? They were thrown down as punishment by some vindictive crime boss? I guess the characters could come up with that part of the story themselves.

Great ideas.

18 minutes ago, Mandalore of the Rings said:

Hmm... but how did the characters get stuck at those horrible low levels? A ship crashed? They were thrown down as punishment by some vindictive crime boss? I guess the characters could come up with that part of the story themselves.

Great ideas.

I know it's a trope, but perhaps they just wake up with no memory of how they got there?

As for a less trope-y reason, perhaps that's just where they've been for centuries, millennia. Generations, at least. They've heard tell of a technologically advanced overworld, but no one has managed to make it through the levels of suck and reached the surface. Or if they did, they didn't come back.

13 minutes ago, P-47 Thunderbolt said:

but perhaps they just wake up with no memory of how they got there?

Yeah, tropes are fine. Star Wars is pretty much a bunch of well worn tropes. It's still fun. I like that idea too. Perhaps there are clues and they have to figure out how they got there...

4 minutes ago, Mandalore of the Rings said:

Yeah, tropes are fine. Star Wars is pretty much a bunch of well worn tropes. It's still fun. I like that idea too. Perhaps there are clues and they have to figure out how they got there...

I must admit, I have a soft-spot for well-worn tropes.

In the medieval/post apocalyptic SW setting, Gamorreans and Dowutin are pretty tough!

7 minutes ago, P-47 Thunderbolt said:

I must admit, I have a soft-spot for well-worn tropes.

Ha! You could even go all out, trope-wise, and have a quest about a peasant boy who is given his fathers sword from an old wizard and has to save a princess from a terrible dungeon (that destroys planets?!) with the help of a scoundrel and a hairy but faithful creature, whilst dueling with a dark lord and his endless minions...

In the book, Nexus of Power, page 30, there is the planet Weik. If I remember correctly, an ancient Republic ship crashed on this Wild Space planet centuries ago. The survivors have essentially started over from scratch. And the Force is viewed as magic. Pretty interesting setting.

21 hours ago, P-47 Thunderbolt said:

Perhaps rather than moving deeper, they are moving upwards.

Wizardry 4.

You played Trebor (or maybe it was Werdna) who was an evil, evil sorcerer imprisoned on the lowest level of the dungeon. You break out of your cell and have to explore and fight your way to the surface.

15 hours ago, andyrross said:

the planet Weik.

This is good. I mainly wanted a plausible way to have all the main Star Wars species in a medieval setting so this would actually work great!

9 hours ago, Mandalore of the Rings said:

This is good. I mainly wanted a plausible way to have all the main Star Wars species in a medieval setting so this would actually work great!

You should read up about the lower levels of Nar Shadarr in the Lords if Nal Hutta book, as this is pretty much what you're describing with this whole concept.