do you think that FFG should put out a species book?

Should? Nah... not really. I prefer books with a little bit of this and a little bit of that, some species here, some gear there, a starship (or five), some locations, some adventure seeds, perhaps a small mini adventure.

I kind of agree with Jegergryte. The way species are designed in EotE, its very easy to take a description of a species and design the mechanics for it yourself. Given the immense material on the subject already out their in countless books, you can get info on pretty much any race ever feature in the Star Wars universe anywhere be it movies, cartoons, books etc.. If a player wants to play something like that, it should be easy as pie to customize it yourself. I think an alien "monster book" might be cool, that's a bit tougher to do yourself.

I think Fantasy Flight should focus on putting out great adventures, expanded material on different eras of play, perhaps some new classes (though I personally think they have very good coverage already). Really adventures, I mean to me that was what made Warhammer Fantasy 3.0 so much fun, the adventure writing and material was really amazing.

Personally I would love to see sourcebooks that cover specific cultures in detail--maybe connected to an adventure.

I love Twi'leks but I'm not really sure about how their culture works on Ryloth--it's been portrayed a lot of different ways and I'm by no means an EU scholar.

I know "Long Arm of the Hutt" goes to Ryloth and there are some Clone Wars episodes set there but I'd love to see an adventure that goes into detail about what life is like on Ryloth and the different species of creature that are there, as well as what types of people live on the planet.

Personally I would love to see sourcebooks that cover specific cultures in detail--maybe connected to an adventure.

I love Twi'leks but I'm not really sure about how their culture works on Ryloth--it's been portrayed a lot of different ways and I'm by no means an EU scholar.

I know "Long Arm of the Hutt" goes to Ryloth and there are some Clone Wars episodes set there but I'd love to see an adventure that goes into detail about what life is like on Ryloth and the different species of creature that are there, as well as what types of people live on the planet.

What makes this a "tough sell" for folks is that we have Wookieepedia, which has all of this information for free.

Back in the early 90s, in the Dark Times known as "pre-Internet," WEG had awesome stuff with their "Alien Species" Galaxy Guide, which laid out all of this cool cultural stuff. And that was great at the time, but now all the cultural notes about species are online and easily accessible to most if not all gamers.

Combined with the fact that most NPCs don't even bother with species adjustments for templates, and there's really little call for FFG to put out such a book for the modern system.

I don't think I have even read the Star Wars fluff in the rulebook (including the species write-ups). I go to Wookieepedia for anything I want to know about Star Wars that is non-rule related.

I will be passing on any fluff heavy books.

A specific species book with some stats and a picture would be cool. That way you could incorporate a lot of the various species into campaigns and have a general baseline. It's like with some RPG video games like Diablo 2 and 3. There were so many tables of stats for the various creatures. Having something like that would be cool.

Personally I would love to see sourcebooks that cover specific cultures in detail--maybe connected to an adventure.

I love Twi'leks but I'm not really sure about how their culture works on Ryloth--it's been portrayed a lot of different ways and I'm by no means an EU scholar.

I know "Long Arm of the Hutt" goes to Ryloth and there are some Clone Wars episodes set there but I'd love to see an adventure that goes into detail about what life is like on Ryloth and the different species of creature that are there, as well as what types of people live on the planet.

What makes this a "tough sell" for folks is that we have Wookieepedia, which has all of this information for free.

Back in the early 90s, in the Dark Times known as "pre-Internet," WEG had awesome stuff with their "Alien Species" Galaxy Guide, which laid out all of this cool cultural stuff. And that was great at the time, but now all the cultural notes about species are online and easily accessible to most if not all gamers.

Combined with the fact that most NPCs don't even bother with species adjustments for templates, and there's really little call for FFG to put out such a book for the modern system.

This is true. I'd still love something like that.

In fact, if anyone knows of any Star Wars novels or comics that are set primarily on Ryloth or that get into Twi'lek culture, I would love to know.

No

A species really isn't all that interesting to me unless it includes it's culture and is fleshed out more. Star wars has a lot of "Token alien" species where we only know the species based on one or two characters. Some of them have only appeared for once scene.

Most players would have no idea how the character should be played or it's culture. Too often it can be abused by the players who only want to play an alien so they can gain an advantage in the game and do more things. How many want to play a rodian just because it is the only alien species at the in EotE with 4 agility. or want to play a wookiee because of it's brawn. The player wouldn't care that a lot of wookiees are enslaved

A species book would be awesome if it included species specific non-career talent trees that allowed members of a species to fully develop their more significant abilities at an appropriate XP cost.

No

A species really isn't all that interesting to me unless it includes it's culture and is fleshed out more. Star wars has a lot of "Token alien" species where we only know the species based on one or two characters. Some of them have only appeared for once scene.

Most players would have no idea how the character should be played or it's culture.

To be fair, the type of book in question (like the old WEG Alien Guide) went into multiple pages of fleshed-out detail on the culture of each of the different species, which was entirely the point.