It may be too soon to be asking this, but here it goes:

From what I've gathered, the new Star Wars is pretty close rules-wise to WFRP 3ed. For example, it looks like fatigue and stress have been rolled into "strain," and combat appears to run on a maneuver/action format.

For those GenCon goers who got the new Star Wars book, what rules are different from WFRP? Are any worth looking at to adopt back into this game?

what i find most interesting is the choice to step back from WFRP3 components. i think it was brave of FFG to go full on with the components for WFRP3 but it wasn't a total success. i've zero familiarity with the WH40K products they have but having such diverse products to learn from can only be of benefit to the SW RPG. i'm really looking forward to hearing more details about the game and being a SW fan will definitely get the final product.

I'll be interested as to how much cards and chits are present and how optional and how it deals with large groups and advanced PCs

From the news I am picking up, it seems to be a streamlined/simplified version of WFRP 3rd, with custom dice, strain (stress/fatigue), and a few other similarities. I do like that they seem to have picked up some of the best parts of WFRP 3rd, and keeping some of the clunk down would make for a really good game. Makes me think it is a hybrid of WFRP 3rd and more traditional style games. I wasn't interested at all till I saw that.

Based on a post up in the Star Wars forum under the Game Mechanics header, they are handling combat pretty similarly to WFRP. In that hitting things in combat is easy and gets easier in the RAW.

In light of that, I'd say that Star Wars could actually learn a few things from having their designers actually read this forum .

I was going to buy this purely for the good of the WFRP and the community here but I fear that FFG has suspected something like this to happen as this beta is not released in PDF format as Only War was. **** you FFG.

Can only assume that they are only interested in feedback from the Americas, us europeans having nothing to contribute. No doubt it will become available on this side of the pond around Christmas.

FFG can't produce PDFs of the rpg per their license restrictions (falls under the computer ip license? It hurts my head).

That being said, I'm liking what I hear about each career in SW having a set talent tree with more hemmed in choices. It's something I've been meaning to do with WFRP but…I simply have too little time, too many games and too many ideas these days. As Zap Brannigen would say "The spirit is willing…but the flesh is spongy and bruised."

Star Wars universe cut in 3 rpgs ? bad idea. This isn't WH40K, a Star Wars PC party is meant to be a mix of character types

willmanx said:

I'm sorry to point this out (and by no means mean that this is only willmanx's doing) but I each time this topic is updated I hope to see a rule change that I would consider.

Pretty please (on all topics). Keep it on topic.

I think it's to soon to talk about the changes. The best things t, from what I saw, that I ilke in SW: The Edge of the Empire are - custom dice mechanics, all in one book and no cards/tokens. Also I like the idea od making 3 lines and that every one is about other aspects of the universum. It looks like it will have all the good ideas from WFRP 3e but used in more classical aproach to RPG. Can't wait to see the final product. The only question I have is why WFRP 3e was not made this way?

Beren Eoath said:

personally i like them in WFRP3 but i'm glad to hear they don't exist in SW:EotE, although i can envisage a desire to create cards for enemy npcs.

I don't have SWEotE but listening to the Order 66 play session, it seems 2 maneuvers are needed to move from close to engage, and to disengage. I am unclear however whether characters are 1 or 2 free maneuvers?

Also, I wonder if anyone has the formula to calculate strain in SWEotE, as I am curious whether it could be applied to WFRP to combine fatigue/stress.

Finally talent trees, I wonder whether all talents are always on once achieved on the tree, and if not what's the mechanisms.

Cheers

Ceodryn

You guys should take a look at that:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9077657/SW-EotE-Reference-Sheets-v2.pdf

Lots of rules that WFRP 3 is lacking (i.e. holding a breath, falling) were clarified in SW:EofE.

Cheers

I'm sorry - I'm not normally so negative, but does one need rules to hold their breath? Or falling?

Give me the tools - dice, conditions, etc. and let me arbitrate. I really don't want to have to memorize rules for swimming leather versus plate, or holding one's breath for 60 seconds vs 90 seconds, or something.

Ceodryn said:

In SWEotE you can perform a maximum of 2 manoeuvres, and this only in the case you forego your action, otherwise you have only one.

Having studied the Star Wars beta book, I'm now a convert as far as the system goes. It appears the designers are listening to issues with WFRP and streamlinging/correcting things while keeping all of the details. Certain things have become more fun (light pool / dark pool mechanic is awesome) while keeping much of the grandness of WFRP.

I doubt that it will ever occur, but if there happened to be a WFRP 2nd edition, a few things should be considered from the new Star Wars. The system does seem to be WFRP 1.5 for Star Wars.

No mentions of bits and pieces. This concerns me a bit (no pun intended). While I don't want an overwhelming amount of bits and pieces, I DO want at least some.

Here's a new link for that stuff: dl.dropbox.com/u/9077657/SW-EotE-Reference-Sheets.pdf

jh

Here's what I think I can use in my games:

• Fear (page 4) - can use to determine when creatures run (if I don't just say,"The enemies run.")
• Ranged attack difficulty (p.5)
• Combat modifiers (p.5)
• Vehicle maneuvering (for dwarf gyrocopters and nautulis)

Personally I thnk the dice mechanic is better in EotE than in WFRP …due to following reasons:

* Fewer dice

* Opposed checks are handled better so that trying to beat an equally skilled opponent will be roughly 50/50 whereas in WFRP if either player is higly skilled this skews the result severly …

Also I love the rules for gear modification … a variant of which could easily be implemented for creating high quality weapons in any low magic setting, thus still enabling characters to have something to lust for

How are Opposed Checks handled? That is an area of the WFRP rules that I find weak at higher levels (stat 6 vs stat 6 etc.) Yepesnopes has some house rules on that, how does the Star Wars system handle it?

I like its addition of challenge dice for ranges. I've sometimes "backhandedly" put that into WFRP saying the crowd, snow, wind or forest imposes added difficulty farther away the target.

If an action has a 50/50 chance to succeed why roll a tub of dice? Why not just flip a coin or have each side roll a d10, higher wins?

If two strength 2 characters are wrestling, just flip a coin. If there's a modifier, well add a white die.

Are we over-thinking this?

Did they get rid of talent socketing?

jh

Emirikol said:

Yes

Hmm. What other major clunk did they get rid of?

jh