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In part two of our interview with game designer Owen K.C. Stephens, he discusses what it’s like to design games based on pre-existing intellectual properties and delves into the connections between D&D 3.5, Star Wars Saga system, and D&D 4E.

The release of Masters of the Force brings us to the end of the road with the Star Wars Miniatures game. It was a good run. Now all those little plastic Jedi are one with the Force.

Wizards of the Coast’s Star Wars RPG is going out in style with Unknown Regions, an old-school RPG book filled with monsters, traps, unexplored star systems and some powerful GM tools.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

All good things must someday end, and so it is with the Star Wars Miniatures game. Masters of the Force will be the final expansion produced by Wizards of the Coast. You can tell the creative team kind of went all out with this one — it’s packed with the best classic characters, and some [...]

The era of Star Wars RPG era guides is over, which is probably a good idea, since they’ve already covered every conceivable time period in the Star Wars expanded universe. These new (well, newish) books offer a plethora of options for droid builders and droid characters, plus inside info on Star Wars military organizations, perfect [...]

The latest expansion for the Star Wars Miniatures game, The Dark Times, comes out next month. Aside from Boushh, Ubese Hunter, what else can you expect to find in the set? Alien scouts, Gungan bounty hunters, and the (in)famous General Veers back when he was just a Major. Check out our gallery of minis and [...]

Boushh’s reputation as brutal, calculating bounty hunter with a psychotic streak wasn’t the least bit diminished by the fact that he was successfully impersonated by a princess. Honest.

The Rebellion Era Campaign Guide for the Star Wars RPG lets you play out all your childhood fantasies of helping Luke, Han and Leia defeat the forces of the oppressive Galactic Empire. When I finally got my hands on it, I had a certain, “It’s all been leading up to this,” feeling of excitement. Truly, [...]

You’re probably familiar with Michael Stackpole due to his many BattleTech novels and the popular X-Wing series of Star Wars novels. He’s the rare writer who made the jump from working on role-playing games to a career as a successful novelist. He had some interesting things to say about the new role digital publishing will [...]

Being a Jedi Master seems like a pretty thankless job. For one thing, the retirement benefits suck (“So, when I die, I just get to keep doing this same job forever, except Hayden Christensen might randomly show up?”). Plus, it’s basically inevitable that at some point one of your students is going to turn evil [...]

The Legacy Era in the Star Wars universe is kind of a tough sell. All the classic characters you grew up with are dead, and their descendants are a bunch of brats and losers. Sith lords operate openly, so you can’t swing a womp rat without hitting a Darth. Yet it might be the most [...]

Oh, Leia, even under all those layers and Boushh’s old mask, and even though you spoke perfect Ubese, we all knew it was you sneaking in to Jabba’s palace to rescue Han. Fearless and inventive indeed.