Which other 2 pc species, besides the obvious aqualish, will be in the book?

My guess? Gamorreans and Nikto....

I'm hoping for Gamorreans, yeah. Maybe Weequay over Nikto since they have already shown up in the SWLCG. I could also see Quarren as a possibility, although they're not as likely.

I'm guessing Quarrens will be in the Bounty Hunter book.

Gamorreans seem quite likely. Especially as Marauder and Body Guard are natural fits for them.

For a third I think rather than one of the other species that featured among Jabba's skiff guards we might see something like Wiphids or Zabraks.

Oh, and for the Technicians book Jawas, Ugnaughts and Verpine.

I'm hoping not to see the various 'Hutt subject races' because I'm still holding out hope for a Hutt Space regional book that would have them in it.

I wouldn't be surprised if they recycled a race as they did in Enter the Unknown.

I almost said Trandosians as a joke.

I'm kinda stuck between Weequay or Zabrak.

I am hoping for Houk as one of them and Weequay.

Fairly certain Barabel is happening.

Barabel and Zabrak would be awesome!

If they follow in the same format as EtU then we're gonna get one movie, one AoR, and 1 EU.
My guesses....
Movie- obviously aqualish

AoR- I'm gonna guess Mon Cals (given their military nature), or Ithorian just because it's the most thug of the species presented in that line

EU- Barabel, though I admit I'd need new pants if it were the Lepi.


Whiphids or Zabrak would be dynamite!

Weequay, Klatooinian, or Gamorreans would be awesome, but would fit better into a Hutt space (or underworld/black market) centered setting book.

Two species I hope not to see... Nikto and Gotal.

Nikto would absolutely rock... however, it feel wrong to put them in a class book. Given their 5+ sub-species (which FFG has already acknowledged awareness of with Kaa'to in Shadows of a Black Sun), their jedi-hunter glory hounds, etc... their culture is just too rich, and interesting, to be assigned barely a page of write up. They would be better served (we all would), if they were placed in setting source book, where their culture and history can expanded upon and explored a bit more. It would be such a waste, nay an injustice, to do otherwise. Everything about them just screams for attention and that's saying something for what is otherwise just another of Jabba's henchmen.

Gotal is a similar ordeal, Talz too for that matter given the clone wars cartoons use of them and their being on Hoth, a setting book that is sure to come... not too many other species options to place there.

Ok I'm rambling at this point. Sorry...

I proposed in my thread for a large race (yuzzem, whipid or herglic) and zabrak.

Very much doubt we'd see PC Hutts ever.

We already know aqualish is one of them from the cover, assuming it follows the pattern set down in Enter the Unknown.

I'd prefer to see something other than 'bruiser' races personally, something with a bit more finesse.

Hey, us Gamorreans can have fin... BBBBBUUUUUUURRRRRPPPPP... esse!

Very much doubt we'd see PC Hutts ever.

We already know aqualish is one of them from the cover, assuming it follows the pattern set down in Enter the Unknown.

I'd prefer to see something other than 'bruiser' races personally, something with a bit more finesse.

Well Hutts actually have.. finesse. It's a bit ham-fisted and oft violent, but it's there. As a species, they've learned to rely on such finesse, and the fact that they have a galactic empire lasting thousands of years is a testament to that, even if that finesse is not readily apparent most of the time.

That being said, I see a number of issues with playable hutts, and I'm not saying they should be there. Everything that's in the books aren't all that is in the universe, but everything in the books are things that the developers suggest should be perfectly playable.

And I don't think Hutts fit that bill, most of the time. Just the fact that they are enormous legless slugs that are about as fast as a turtle and as graceful as a fridge raises all kinds of issues that would be hard to mechanically portray, but (should have such large effects on the narrative that it would be hard excusing it not to.

Squibs? No.. just... no. No.

Aqualish, Weequay and as a small final bet.. I'm very unsure of it but.. Gamorreans? That's where I'm placing my bets, even though Weequay and Gamorreans could (should, IMO) wait until a Hutt Space Supplement.

My personal wish-list would be Zabrak, Cathar and Miraluka, but I'm going to keep saying those three until I get them; they'd arguably all look odd in a supplement for Hired Guns, although I guess there's a lot of space for all three of them in the Expanded Universe during the Age of Rebellion.

My personal wish-list would be Zabrak, Cathar and Miraluka, but I'm going to keep saying those three until I get them; they'd arguably all look odd in a supplement for Hired Guns, although I guess there's a lot of space for all three of them in the Expanded Universe during the Age of Rebellion.

I get the feeling that we might be waiting until Force and Destiny to see Miraluka.

That said, I agree with you about Squibs. They're the Kender of the Star Wars Universe, and I don't mean that as a compliment.

I hope we don't see Gamorreans, every source indicates them as being dumber than dirt and that doesn't seem very fitting for a PC to me. My guess would be Aqualish, Weequay, and maybe Barabel.

In some of the novels, young Hutts (100-300 years of age) can move as fast as a human doing a slow jog. That still won't help with stairs or ladders, but the point is that most Hutts are not nearly as immobile as Jabba in RotJ.

I hope we don't see Gamorreans, every source indicates them as being dumber than dirt and that doesn't seem very fitting for a PC to me. My guess would be Aqualish, Weequay, and maybe Barabel.

So what? Dumb and strong seems a very fitting role for a heavy as far as I'm concerned... Plus they have opera's!

My personal wish-list would be Zabrak, Cathar and Miraluka, but I'm going to keep saying those three until I get them; they'd arguably all look odd in a supplement for Hired Guns, although I guess there's a lot of space for all three of them in the Expanded Universe during the Age of Rebellion.

That said, I agree with you about Squibs. They're the Kender of the Star Wars Universe, and I don't mean that as a compliment.

As always, depends on the player. I've been in a few games where there was a Squib PC and there were none of the "kender @sshole" issues in any of those games. And I've been in games where jerkish behavior came from a PC that was playing one of the more established species such as a Wookiee that used his muscle to bully the other PCs or a Twi'lek that was ready and willing to screw over the entire group for their own benefit.

Seeing as how they're on the cover, I agree that Aqualish seems a near-given. Gamorreans also make a degree of sense, as they're a pretty combat-centric culture. But then again, I wouldn't have figured Chiss as being much to do with Explorers, so maybe thinking in terms of "what species makes sense for the book" isn't the best way to go.

I wouldn't mind seeing Cathar, as it's an unusual choice. Though with Age of Rebellion not being that far away from it's own official release, I'd actually rather they didn't reprint an AoR species just to have the reprinted and available to EotE players.

I hope we don't see Gamorreans, every source indicates them as being dumber than dirt and that doesn't seem very fitting for a PC to me. My guess would be Aqualish, Weequay, and maybe Barabel.

So what? Dumb and strong seems a very fitting role for a heavy as far as I'm concerned... Plus they have opera's!

You've also got examples of atypical Gamorreans in the EU, such as Voort saBinring, who was very intelligent by human standards. Of course, since he was the result of an Imperial experimental program, he may be the exception that proves the rule.

As always, depends on the player. I've been in a few games where there was a Squib PC and there were none of the "kender @sshole" issues in any of those games. And I've been in games where jerkish behavior came from a PC that was playing one of the more established species such as a Wookiee that used his muscle to bully the other PCs or a Twi'lek that was ready and willing to screw over the entire group for their own benefit.

I don't disagree with you that irritating behavior has more to do with the player than it does the species fluff. That said, the way Squibs are written in-universe, they seem to be designed around that type of behavior. I'm not suggesting that wanting to play as a Squib is "wrongbadfun," but there are a lot of other Star Wars species I'd like to see statted before FFG starts scraping things out of the Lurmen, Squib, and Kushiban level of Star Wars lore.

Obviously, those are merely my preferences.

Hoping for: Weequay (OT), Kaleesh (PT), and Noghri (EU)

Will probably get: Aqualish (OT), Dug (PT), and Barabel (EU) maybe Defel instead of Dug?

Dugs were high on my list of likely candidates.

As for PC Hutts, Jabba in A New Hope looks pretty playable. Makes me wonder what happened by Return of the Jedi, boy did he let himself go...