J.D. Wiker

This book puts everything you need to tell a Star Wars story into one volume: a good basic selection of all the possible character combinations, examples that relate to the films, rules for everything from space combat to droids, and a really good gamemastering section that even works in some basic economic ideas to use in worldbuilding. The class/feat/skill system is a bit of a jumble, but there's only so much you can do with the underlying d20 mechanics (I'm no fan of class/level systems); show more the writers have managed to do a good job despite it. show less

A good collection of ideas for fleshing out the Dark Side in a Star Wars game, including prestige classes, the psychology of the Dark Side, an abbreviated history of the Sith, and creations of Sith Alchemy ranging from metal swords that can take on lightsabers without handwaving a source of cortosis to mutated critters whose baseline stock would normally have the sense to stay away from player characters. Antedates the Knights of the Old Republic games, so it lacks the storyline developed show more there. Well worth having in a game master's collection. show less

I bought this because Gnomes of Golarion was so good. Perhaps dwarves are just less interesting than gnomes, but this was less fun. The bulk of this book was dry history and some fairly uninteresting geography.

A sourcebook for Jedi characters, with new Force powers and prestige classes, guidelines on roleplaying Jedi, a few bits of gear, some adventuring locations, writeups of various characters from the Expanded Universe, and, oddly, a bunch of sentient species and some Force-using creatures that feel like they didn't make the cut for a more general book. The odd bits are still useful, but it feels like they were thrown in to make page count. It would be nice if they provided a bibliography for show more the various things they're writing up from stories told elsewhere, rather than leaving it to readers to look it up in Wookieepedia. show less