Monthly Archives: January 2010

Star Wars Saga Edition ending

Well, it’s official:
http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75862/22320345/Wizards_of_the_Coast_announcement?pg=1

There have been several questions lately regarding the future of the Star Wars Miniatures and Roleplaying Game and until now I haven’t had definitive answers to give you. After a lengthy evaluation, Wizards of the Coast has decided not to renew the Star Wars license with Lucasfilm. We’ve had a long and fantastic run, but with the economic downturn, we have made the tough decision to discontinue our Star Wars lines.

WotC is no longer going to have the Star Wars RPG license and is discontinuing its miniature line. I am a bit saddened by the news; I’ve got every WotC Star Wars book and I enjoy the system. I had fun with some of the people on this blog. ^_^ Plus, my regular group just started a game. I really, really hope that this news doesn’t mean that we won’t play it to completion- we’re going through the freely available Dawn of Defiance campaign, and having fun. ^_^

My group has been a bit burnt out on 4th Edition D&D. Star Wars is close enough in rules to 3.5 and 4e that it was familiar enough to get rolling, and in truth, in a lot of ways I personally prefer the SW mechanics to the 4th edition implementation of encounter/daily/utility powers. ^^; We’ll see what happens!

Game Jumpers

Some of my friends are game jumpers.

I’ve followed them from game to game; I’ve played Everquest, World of Warcraft, Everquest 2, Dungeons & Dragons Online, Tabula Rasa, City of Heroes/City of Villains, Guild Wars, Hellgate: London, Lord of the Rings Online, Age of Conan, Aion, Champions Online, Eve Online and others I probably just can’t recall off the top of my head.

I resisted Warhammer Online and their disastrous foray into tabletop Warhammer, which they enjoyed but dropped after a few weeks (and some of them spent hundreds on the game). Ouch.

This time around, I’m playing with my wife, and that’s been solid. We’ve gone back to the only game she enjoyed in the past: World of Warcraft. It’s a strange thing- there are definitely times when I don’t like Blizzard (the gay gamer issue, the bnet lawsuit, the strategy guide lawsuit), but they also do a few good things with their fans and have generally made a fun game. Several of my friends have joined again as well, but I’m not sweating their leaving this time around, if (and when) they do. (I’m certain that Star Trek and Star Wars will be too tempting…) We’ve got a solid guild (for librarians and library-interested people!) and we’re having a good time. ^_^