02 January 2006
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RPG Actual Play, Role Playing Games, Star Wars, Wild Gundark
Concluding the saga of the Wild Gundark crew:
Quickly, the person on the other side of the comm told Nisa to meet them in Landing Bay 239 back at Medeus. “We'll be waiting there at noon local time tomorrow.”
Then the Fifth House woman cut off the transmission abruptly.
The confused N4 remarked, “Could someone please explain the situation to me? Who is this 'Duke' and who was that organic who ceased functioning outside the ship just now?”
Ignoring the newcomer droid, the worried Groo asked, “You think that communiqué was really bad for our health?”
A grinning Similiv replied, “Probably, Greenskin... but we wouldn't want our lives to be boring now would we?”
Finally after much contemplation, Nisa grimly said, “OK! We have a meet, but get ready for anything this time. We have about 12 hours till the meet, and I want to be alive for it.”
And now the conclusion:
The world was known as Daver Kuat, third planet from its sun, a standard terrestrial life-bearing world. Unlike its sister world Kuat, which was a great big mess of thousands of ships surrounding it, orbital traffic here was light. On the farthest side of the planet from the sun, there was an island. Upon the island was a mountain. At the side of the mountain, there was a cave, spewing fiery smoke from it. Right outside the cave on flat ground was a YZ-900 light freighter. Six beings within this ship were considering their next move, now that the passenger who promised to pay them for passage had disappeared.
And they seemed to be right smack in the middle of the local politics of the Noble Houses of Kuat, which was known to be pretty deadly.
26 November 2005
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Humour, Star Wars, Trawling The Net
As reported earlier, screen captures of an atrociously subtitled
Revenge of the Sith bootleg was posted at
winterson.com. It appears that the image of Vader screaming "Nooooooo!" in despair over the news of Padmé's death, which was subtitled "Do not want" (see image below), has taken a life of its own as an
internet meme.
18 November 2005
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Hisham |
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RPG Actual Play, Role Playing Games, Star Wars, Wild Gundark
Continuing the saga of the Wild Gundark crew:
Nisa pulled on her control yoke and told her passenger (and her wary crew), "Let's get to work." Similiv turned to the comm board as the ship's nose turned the way Nisa directed it.
And she discovered that a colossal object blocked her entire forward viewport. Something gray. Something wedged shaped. Something over a kilometer and a half in length. Something ominous.
It seemed to them that the ship's cabin temperature dropped several dozen degrees.
"An Imperial Star Destroyer!"
And now the continuation of the story based on the Star Wars RPG campaign:
14 November 2005
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Artwork, Friends, Star Wars
Here's a portrait of
Harloth Graf the Naboo Guard in the Star Wars RPG
Sabredart campaign I posted earlier, using Photoshop to pencil and paint the piece. I wish I had a better photo reference of player
Stu Cunningham for it, though. Close enough, Stu? Or more work needed?
25 October 2005
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Hisham |
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RPG Actual Play, Role Playing Games, Star Wars, Wild Gundark
A Star Wars fiction, based on the Chronicles of Wild Gundark RPG campaign.
It all began when the crew of the Wild Gundark was commissioned to deliver twenty tons of bantha milk to the backwater town of Prosperity on the cold tundra of the planet Dellalt. The job went without a hitch, apart from the little tussle with the crew of an Imperial customs corvette (the two-pronged, sleek affair that many tramp freighter captains love to hate) in the Vaxal system. Unfortunately, the result of the little encounter was the spillage of approximately half of the delicious blue milk because of gravity plate failure. Things could have turned out real bad for them, but instead their contact, a imposing and tattooed Herglic named Dapp only paid them fairly in half and left peacefully.
There was only one thing known to them as they left Dellalt: They had taken on a passenger, Tell Sabarin, a stately and noble-looking person, who paid them a huge sum of twenty thousand credits to convey himself and his cargo, a cryogenic bio-containment crate, all the way to his homeworld of Kuat in the Core Worlds.
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But there were two things unbeknown to them.
One: While they were away from the ship bargaining with Sabarin for the transportation fee in town, a shadowy figure slipped quietly into their ship followed by a shuffling metallic figure. Five minutes later, the shadowy figure slipped out alone and disappeared.
Two: A few minutes later, two more shadowy figures sneaked onto their ship.
And never came back out.
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26 September 2005
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Hisham |
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Role Playing Games, Star Wars
In 1989, my father bought me two books that started me into
Star Wars role playing game: West End Games'
Star Wars The Roleplaying Game rulebook and the
Star Wars Sourcebook. My first campaign (and the longest I gamemastered) was my "Strikeforce Enteague" campaign. The players were characters of a
Rebel Alliance strike team that consisted of mostly fringer types, and it took place in a sector of the galaxy I created I ultimately named the Enteague Sector (thought sometimes their adventures took them as far as
Coruscant which at that time was only referred to as Imperial City.)
Here I am 16 years later, and I've finally finished a project I started almost 2 years ago: a pdf mini-sourcebook formatted for the
SWRPG called
Worlds of the Enteague Sector. It's not extensive as
WEG's
The Planets Collection or
WOTC's
Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds. There is a front cover, a back cover, a credits page, 22 pages of actual content and all these pages are in full colour. It's all fitted snugly in a 1.87mb zip file, free for all to download.
Apart from me writing and drawing, I also had plenty of help from my friends. Many thanks to Ryan "Cassed" Lee for designing the Ironfist emblem for the book, Phil "Grimace" Hatfield for editing it and Chris "Chris Curtis" Curtis for proofreading it.
Edit (Apr 20 2006): I've just corrected some layout errors, reworded some sentences that I didn't like and uploaded the new file. Enjoy
Worlds of the Enteague Sector Ver 1.1.
You can download the book here.
17 September 2005
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Star Wars
As far as positions of movie planets are concerned, the incredibly detailed galaxy map of the Star Wars universe is complete. Webmaster Eric Przybylski has also done a great job placing the planets of the
EU in the massive map he made, with inserts of the Corellian Sector and the Si'klaata Cluster, among others. Also included are several smaller maps of sectors such as Kuat, Kathol, Brak and Elrood.
Check out
Navcomputer.com if you want to know how far it is from Hoth to Bespin (the
Millennium Falcon's flight in
The Empire Strikes Back), and where Polis Massa (where Luke and Leia were born) is located in relation to the volcanic world of Mustafar (where Vader was immolated); or if you're hardcore what route did Quinlan Vos take to relocate his clone army from Saleucami to Boz Pity (as mentioned in passing in
Revenge of the Sith); or if you're ultra-hardcore how far Ganath is from Nal Hutta (where the
Falcon hid after being attacked by Boba Fett upon Han and Leia's retrieval of the fallen Jedi Vima-Da-Boda in
Dark Empire)...
...or maybe you just need to see where the Gree enclave is in relation to the Core Worlds...
Click here to visit Navcomputer.com.