{"id":43906,"date":"2017-08-16T15:19:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T22:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=43906"},"modified":"2017-08-16T15:19:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T22:19:36","slug":"yub-nub-star-wars-roleplaying-game-strikes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2017\/08\/16\/yub-nub-star-wars-roleplaying-game-strikes-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Yub nub! Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game strikes back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fantasy Flight Games is publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyflightgames.com\/en\/news\/2017\/8\/16\/dont-underestimate-the-force\/\">Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game 30th Anniversary Edition<\/a> later this year. Before 1987, we didn&#8217;t know that Sienar Fleet Systems manufactured the ubiquitous TIE Fighter. We didn&#8217;t know where Boba Fett came from or who the Mandalorians were. We didn&#8217;t know that the little things that looked like pens on Imperial officers&#8217; uniforms were code cylinders. Basically, our knowledge of the Star Wars universe was woefully incomplete until Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game from West End Games came out and codified the lore into something worthy of nerd nitpicking. It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/news\/west-end-games-expanding-that-galaxy-far-far-away\">thanks to these early gaming books<\/a> that Star Wars dorks could stand toe-to-toe with Trekkies in comparing minutia. West End eventually went bankrupt and the license passed to others, but the 1987 rules and sourcebook permanently influenced the franchise canon, much of it surviving through the Disney acquisition of Lucasfilm.<\/p>\n<p>The $60 bundle will include reproductions of the basic rule book and The Star Wars Sourcebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fantasy Flight Games is publishing Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game 30th Anniversary Edition later this year. Before 1987, we didn&#8217;t know that Sienar Fleet Systems manufactured the ubiquitous TIE Fighter. We didn&#8217;t know where Boba Fett came from or who the Mandalorians were. 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