What RPG supplements are considered canon?

Is there a website that gives concrete information on this? I tried looking on Wookieepedia to no avail.

Are the old West End items canon?

A list would be helpful...thank you

 

I believe that most sourcebooks are considered canon (they were frequently used by the Bantam-authors in the early '90s, as well as the Dark Horse Star Wars-authors of that time)... There's lots of usefull information in the sourcebooks, which is being used in the later (New) Essential Guides and the new RPG-books by Wizards...

 

All of them are canon. Some have superceded information in later sources, but that doesn't negate the canon of the rest of the book.

 

Yeah, I thought they were all canon. That's the great thing about SW. If it's got the Star Wars brand on it, but no "Infinities" label (or Polyhedron, right?), then you should never have to ask "Is it canon?" Because the answer is always "yes".

 

Some of the older RPG supplements are S-canon, though.

 

You have a source on that? Last I heard:

 

Perhaps he means stuff like "The Ordeal of Boba Fett" and the original backstory of the mutiny on the Rand Ecliptic, which have been rewritten or ignored by newer sources. There are only a few things like that, but they are there.

 

Right, but that's why I said certain stuff was superceded (sizes, measurements, certain "certain point of view" stories, etc.).

I hadn't heard anything about canon-status changing as a whole.

 

Also, game statistics, while not *ignored*, aren't canon either.

Other than that, though, it's all C-canon, from the first WEG book in '87 through the Wizards Saga Edition stuff coming out now.

In large part, it's actually thanks to WEG that we *have* a coherent EU canon to begin with. They did a lot of the fact checking and continuity doctoring before Lucasfilm had the good idea to create a continuity database in-house.

 

President Palpatine versus Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, for instance.

 

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Fixed.

 

Concerning the game-stats. Newer sources had the line in it that "other versions of the same character" could exist in other sources. They are changable, just for game-use and not canon.

Even if Abel quoted the Game-stats of Darth Lumi as a source for inforamtion (she spoke Sith there). So they might be of help sometimes.

Timothy Zahn had a good cooperation with WEG back in the 90ies. I remember his interview where he mentioned their great work for a few times. And how fantastic it was to have hteir books.

The Imperial Sourcebook for example was ground-breaking concerning ships of the Empire. Lancer-Frigates, StarGaleons, Rendili-Dreadnaughts and Torpedo-Spheres were all invented there. Later, especially through Rebellion (the Computer-Game) almost all of it became canon.

I think CompForce was invented there, too.

 

Yeah, the Imperial source book was very cool. For being pre-prequels the descriptions and histories hold up well against what came later. Compnor was a very cool idea that was never expanded upon in the novels and the Starship specs were incredible. The RPG stuff provided a great base of knowledge for the EU.