General Campaign/Rules Info?

[gamedave]

Nick,

I know you said you were planning on running during the Rise of the Rebellion era. Any more details? Are we part of the nascent Rebellion, Fringers on the Edge of the Empire, or...?

Also, are you planning on just using SWADE as-is, or are you adding any special Setting Rules, custom Edges, etc?

BTW, for a character, I was thinking of maybe a former Clone Trooper heavy trooper. But I'm not sure of what kind of campaign you want to run or if that would fit.

[cassusaevum]

I'm going to tweak things just a bit from the timeline I mentioned last night.  I already have a game I was working on for Rise of the Rebellion, so I'm going to use that as a jumping off point since we're on a tight timeline.  So, the game will actually begin a couple of weeks after the destruction of the first Death Star.  I'm going with the "Rogue One" cannon that suggests the Rebel Alliance at this point is a very loose Alliance of widely disparate cells that have only now come together to really try to stop the Empire.

There will be custom species (posted something on that).  I'm also fine with "Clone Trooper" being a custom species, or a Human.  I think a former Heavy Trooper fits fine (though since I changed the timeline, you might be a tad bit older than originally indicated).  I'll probably be doing some equipment packages at the start rather than having you guys buy equipment.  "Heavy Trooper" will definitely be one of them.  With some exceptions (Species, the Force) I'm going to try to stick fairly close to SWADE, though there will be some setting rules in play (Fanatics, Fast Healing, Heroes Never Die, Multiple Languages, Unarmored Hero, No Power Points).

The (very general) starting story will be as follows:

You are all members of the fledgling Rebel Alliance.  You may have come from different cells or ideologies, but with the fall of the Death Star, you have banded together.  You find yourselves aboard the Rebel Corellian Corvette Antares, bound for a rendezvous with a supply flotilla.  The organization of the Alliance is still being shaken out, and right now, you are "supernumeraries" who are hitching a ride to what will likely be a new Rebel base now that the Yavin 4 base has been compromised.