List of First Edition Books

[Falconer]

Reposted from elsewhere (original post by me). Thought this would come in handy. I’m sure we’ll be talking about plenty of 2e products; but for me 1e was an obvious starting point.

Core

40001 Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game
40004 Campaign Pack [Gamemaster Screen]


Essential Rules Expansions

40027 Tramp Freighters [Ship Modifications and Repairs]
40050 Planets of the Galaxy, Volume One [Planet Generation System]


Essential Planets

40005 Tatooine Manhunt
40023 Yavin and Bespin


Movie/Novel Sourcebooks

40002 The Star Wars Sourcebook
40006 Imperial Sourcebook
40007 The Rebel Alliance Sourcebook
40008 Death Star Technical Companion
40038 A New Hope
40039 The Empire Strikes Back
40040 Return of the Jedi
40056 Heir to the Empire Sourcebook


Collections

40041 Alien Races
40046 Cracken’s Rebel Field Guide [Technology]
40057 Planets of the Galaxy, Volume Two


Adventures

40009 Strike Force: Shantipole
40017 Battle for the Golden Sun
40016 Starfall
40018 Otherspace
40020 Scavenger Hunt
40021 Riders of the Maelstrom
40022 Crisis on Cloud City
40028 Otherspace II: Invasion
40030 Black Ice
40033 The Game Chambers of Questal
40036 The Isis Coordinates
40037 Death in the Undercity
40019 Graveyard of Alderaan
40034 Domain of Evil
40049 Planet of the Mists
40052 Mission to Lianna
40053 The Abduction
40067 The Politics of Contraband


“1.5 Edition”

40043 The Star Wars Rules Companion
40048 Gamemaster Kit [Gamemaster Screen]

[finarvyn]

Thanks. 1E is my go-to edition, and it's the reprinted edition, so it's the one I would want to discuss most of the time. This list is pretty useful for me to see what I own and what I don't.

[boot]

2E Star Wars Stuff...

For those that don't know, the second edition offerings for WEG's Star Wars game is about 90% compatible with a 1E game.  The reverse is not true.

2E has a lot more bells and whistles. It has more skills, more rolls for things.  It typically has the player throwing more dice than with 1E.  And, it has more information in the stat blocks.  So, playing a 2E game from 1E material is a lot harder than the other way around.

If you're playing a 1E game using 2E materials, you'll be missing some details, but not much.  It's an easy conversion.  The Speed Code will be missing.  You'll have to convert that.  Some of the skills have changed, and you will see new skills.

In my opinion, both versions of the game are excellent.  2E is a more detailed roleplaying game.  It's more crunchy.  It's got Character Points, Advanced skills, and Specializations.  It's got a combat initiative roll.  It's got fully developed sensor rules.  It's got rolls for lots of things not rolled for in 1E, like movement.

1E, on the other hand, is a quick, slam-bam-thank-you-ma'am game of Space Opera, with BIG DAMN HEROES who save the day.  It's roll-n-go!  And, it has the lightning fast feel of the original trilogy.

My preference is 1E, straight out of the core rulebook.  No 1E Rules Upgrade or Rules Companion mechanics.  Just back to basics--a quick dicing game that moves at the speed of a stormtrooper speeder bike.  Others prefer the more common, more crunchy, more detailed rules of 2E.  

You decide which fits your tastes.

[Starbeard]

How did the Rules Upgrade figure in? I know that pamphlet was released only months (weeks?) after the original rulebook, and added a couple things while clarifying others and providing errata, but I don’t know if future copies of the book were then sold with upgrade slipped in, or how someone could even expect to get hold of or become aware of the upgrade.

[boot]

I was buying the game when it was new, and all of the adventures came with the Rules Upgrade. I don't remember the Rules Upgrade being included with hardback books or supplements.




This is the official rules progression.

1.  Star Wars First Edition
2.  Rules Upgrade
3.  Rules Companion

4.  Star Wars Second Edition
5.  Star Wars Second Edition Revised & Expanded
 

[Zulgyan]

This could be a sticky since it's so useful.

[boot]

We should get a list of all of the D6 stuff, both 1E and 2E.

After all, 2E is basically 1E with extra stuff in the stat block.

Ignore what is not used in 2E. And, use the conversion rules to come up with Speed. Boom, your 1E game is in business.

[boot]

WEG STAR WARS PRODUCT LIST



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