• Tarl, a storm world in the Outer Rim Territories, bordering the Unknown Regions
• Icarus Orden, pacifist Human Jedi Master and former protector of the Eye of the Dragon force relic.
• Erdan, Human Jedi Knight, newly knighted student of Icarus Orden. Last seen in Lenk, the capital city of Tarl before the city’s burning by the Mandalorians.
• Ool Mudon, Ithorian Jedi Knight, former student of Icarus Orden now questioning his master’s ways.

• The Mandalorian Interlude Primer: An overview of important PCs, NPCs, locations, starships, etc. in the subcampaign.
• Ord Biniir: An Outer Rim ordinance/factory world that the Mandalorians (including Clan Olan) secured early in the war to build Basilisk battle droids.
• Ubrikkian Steamworks: The Republic corporation whose factories on Ord Biniir were seized by the Mandalorians.

• SAGA Fantasy: The Wizard
  • SAGA Fantasy: 0 Level Spells
  • SAGA Fantasy: 1st level Arcane Spells
• SAGA Fantasy: The Fighter

Check it out and let Damon know what you think!

• Starrior Expeditions: based on Zebulon Beta, Starrior specializes in offering exploration and logistical support operations in the Vargis Tau System, and Zebulon Prime in particular.
• Koth: Zabrak bounty hunter and occasional freelance assasian/kidnapper … at least until a botched job for Pirate Lord Ral Duris put a price on his own head.
• Morgwa, the Roar of Ithor: an Ithorian bounty hunter specializing for non-lethal takedowns. Known associate of Koth.
• Neeida: a Rodian quickdraw artist. Known associate of Koth.

• Sub-campaign overview in the Holocron of Zend.
• Thoughts on the start of the Mandalorian Interlude at Nuketown.

Scavenger’s Guide to Droids

The Droid Codex, with its myriad combat, technical and utility droids, makes it tremendous resource for game masters, particularly for those running Clone Wars or other droid-heavy campaigns. This is easily the most statblock-heavy book since Threats of the Galaxy, which may makeScavenger’s Guide to Droids less essential for players. Those who enjoy playing droids will find plenty of new options for their characters, and tech specialist types should appreciate how the protocol format allows them to put their creations to work, but even they may be disappointed by how much of the book has been dedicated to the codex.

Read my full review of the book at GameCryer.com.

To that end, we’ve been migrating content to the Holocron. Hardcorhobbs and I recently returned to that task, and I’m pleased to announce we’ve made some significant headway. Here’s what’s new:

• The Episode Index: The Shadows of the Force episode index is almost current; it now includes entries for Episodes 1-8, representing over a year of real-world gaming. Each episode’s chapter entries include at least the crawl for that chapter; we hope to add summaries later on.
• The Primer: The Primer lists major PCs, NPCs, starships, organizations, and locations in our campaign. It’s a great way to get an overview of the major and minor players in Shadows of the Force.
• The Ghost Walk Cluster: I’ve uploaded my notes for this remote Outer Rim star cluster to the wiki.

The wiki remains a work in progress, but I think we’ve made some good headway. Next up will be tweaking the theme so that it better represents the campaign (including a campaign specific header) and adding information to support our upcoming “Mandalorian Interlude” mini-campaign (in which we’ll be putting aside our normal characters to play Mandalorians during the initial days of the Mandalorian Wars.

I’ve posted some thoughts on Nuketown about running the advantages of running an episodic-style Star Wars game as opposed to the more traditional “thousand plot points” approach we used during our Dungeons & Dragons campaign.

It’s not that one is objectively better than the other, but I’ve found that the episodic approach works well with our increasingly increasingly erratic group roster, as people drop in and out of game days because of family and job commitments (not to mention outright exhaustion.