Is the D20 Star Wars RPG Dead?

But enough for a new stuff for a new core book?

For WotC, in terms of profit, it does make sense to put out a new core book and then to follow up with "revised" every thing else...man I'm going to be bankrupt...

 

Wizards of the Coast is, ultimately, a corporation out for money. Right now they're raking it in bigtime with all the new D&D books, with new ones coming out every month. People are willing to buy two or three new books at 40$ a pop, so Wizards is going to keep flooding the market with Dungeons & Dragons as long as they can. As soon as sales start to dip, they'll pull back from D&D and focus on something else. Maybe Eberron, maybe d20 Modern, and if we're lucky, Star Wars.

Also, with the new movie coming out, you might see an interest for the Star Wars RPG spike just enough to prod Wizards into releasing some new source material. It's not very likely, as any interest triggered by the movie is probably fleeting at best, but you never know.

Ultimately, the Star Wars RPG is on hiatus, much the same way Family Guy was. It's not dead or cancelled, and it is certainly still making Wizards money, or else they would have sold it off by now or officially cancelled it to save production costs.

 

As a veteran SWRPG (WEG), and a zilch player for the WoTc version because I just never got around to playing it, because most of my friends quit playing RPGS by that time.

When I was heavily playing RPGs, it was basically because of WEG SWRPG. Our campaign started right when Tim Zahn released Heir to the Empire. We played for three RL years, and spanned from about six months after ANH to about the beginning of the Jedi Academy Trilogy.

WEG released a plethora of stuff anything and everything a Star Wars fan could possibly imagine, from adventures, sourcebooks (on pretty much everything). Heck, even the sabaac rules were in one of the adventures. I remember authors like Tim Zahn and Kevin Anderson used the RPG for ideas, and great insight into the expanded universe.

The main thing to remember is that Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game was the flagship game system for West End Games. Of course, in comparison, WoTC had card games and other systems long before they bought out TSR and adopted D&D from that acquisition.

I hate saying it, but unlike WEG's ability to churn out adventures/sourcebooks virturally every month, WoTC (even though having Slaviseck and crew from WEG), it's not their main focus...

 

wizards is too busy putting out the minis right now. i know not everyone is thrilled with them, but at least they are doing something.

 

While I've been itching for some new SWRPG books I'm sort of glad WotC decided to hold off on a lot of material until after RotS. There's a lot of areas the RPG hasn't been able to go because they couldn't step on LFL's toes with regards to sotryline and whatnot. Now that there's a defined end of the Clone Wars and a clear story of how the Jedi purge went down there's far more places WotC can go with source material. There's also new vehicles and creatures and characters to take into consideration.

 

With all of the Star Wars things to come out in the next couple of years, you can expect more stuff left and right. I can imagine a Star Wars the TV Series sourcebook...although I'm going to stay as far away from anything related to the Star Wars TV show as humanly possible. Crappy television shows killed Star Trek and destroyed its magic in my eyes, I won't let the same thing happen to the only sci-fi series that has consistantly held my attention.

 

God, I certainly hope so. WotC SW is an affront not only to Star Wars but to roleplaying. My hate for WotC, and especially the d20 system, is unbridled. Certainly it would suck to not have any new SW RP material, but I think that it's actually better to have nothing than to have the money-grubbing spewpiles that WotC was defecating all over the place.

 

"Crappy television shows killed Star Trek and destroyed its magic in my eyes..."

I thought Star Trek was a crappy television show first...

 

snap <G>

Although star trek TNG was bloody great, DS9 and voyager though... and enterprise poo