I love it when children play RPGs. Their young imagination make any game soar. If there’s any way to help introverted children to help express themselves more and be better speakers, I would always recommend parents to run tabletop RPGs for them. This was why I immediately took this request […]
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Articles on the blog that feature various aspects of Star Wars from the films to artwork to tabletop games to comics and more! Because I like the Star Wars universe.
Snivvian Long Distance Lovers
Derf requested a pair of Snivvian lovers for his Star Wars RPG campaign. He plays a Snivvian student on Coruscant who has a long-distance relationship with a holodrama scenist back on Cadomai. Painted in monochome digitally with MyPaint, and coloured using GIMP 2.8. Click here to check out the image […]
Continue readingMy Interview at Epic Level Artistry
I gave an interview to Tristan Tarwater of Epic Level Artistry at the Troll in the Corner site. Here is an excerpt: Do you find yourself more drawn to drawing locations or people? Do you have them fleshed out before you bring pencil to paper (to use an old idiom) […]
Continue readingPaper Minis: Alien Fringers
It has been a while since I made Star Wars RPG paper minis. So, here is a PDF that features Wookiees, Aqualish, Rodians, Duros, Ithorians and Quarrens. You can use them as bounty hunters, mercenaries, smugglers, scouts, bodyguards, gunslingers or just a random guy on the street when the shooting […]
Continue readingGOKL Escapes Mos Shuuta
Modesty Blazing 01 Escaping Mos Shuuta *** I’ve already run Star Wars Edge of the Empire RPG Beginner Game adventure for Irfan, so now I would see how it would fare with half a dozen experienced tabletop RPGers, namely the guys at GOKL. From the available pregenerated characters in the […]
Continue readingSlugshark – With Stats!
When Irfan showed me this clay creature he created, I thought I’d take a photo of it and make up some stats for it. Star Wars D6 Slugshark, Amphibious reptilian predator Scale: Character Length: 150-200cm. DEXTERITY 2D Brawl 3D+2 Constrict 3D+1 PERCEPTION 2D+1 Sneak (only when swimming) 4D STRENGTH 2D […]
Continue readingTwo More SWAG Pickups
Two more Star Wars Artists’ Guild player character art pickups. I love picking up these requests once in a while for a warm-up sketch before work begins in the morning. Badji Hida is a Devaronian scoundrel requested for oexto‘s Edge of the Empire game. He wields a DL-18 blaster pistol, […]
Continue readingThe Lawless
The Star Wars The Clone Wars episode “The Lawless”. Best Star Wars since The Empire Strikes Back? Hyperbole? No spoilers here. At about minute 9, I was stunned at how the story went. The entire series and the tone it started with in the beginning was a feint. Despite some […]
Continue readingEOTE: Irfan Escapes Mos Shuuta
Edged by the Empire Episode 01 Escape From Mos Shuuta During the events of the previous blog entry, the GOKL gang also presented me with an early birthday: A Star Wars Edge of the Empire Beginner Game boxed set. At first the Star Wars RPG used the D6 system when […]
Continue readingShane Goes To Star Wars Identities
As mentioned in the Star Trek exhibition post downriver, my brother from another mother and hemisphere Shane went and visited Star Wars Identities exhibition at the Telus World of Science in Edmonton. Shane gave me permission to feature photos from his expedition into the world of Star Wars miniatures, maquettes, […]
Continue readingSWD6: Our First RPG Session Ever
Strikeforce Enteague Episode 01 Trial Run It was way back in 1989 when I received my first tabletop RPG, the first edition Star Wars The Roleplaying Game and the Star Wars Sourcebook by West End Games. I read through the rules and thought, let’s try this out. I didn’t even […]
Continue readingVader’s Imperial Sourcebook
Click on the picture above to view a bigger image of Vader reading the Imperial Sourcebook.
Continue readingD6 Stats of a Star Wars Hat
From Season 2, Episode 17: “Bounty Hunters” of Star Wars: The Clone Wars comes Embo the Bounty Hunter, a male Kyuzo. His signature gear is his wide-brimmed, armoured hat, which he’s able to use as a shield when turned into incoming blaster bolts. Also, he is able to throw the […]
Continue readingSabacc Cards of SWAG
Back in 2002, the first iteration of the Star Wars Artsts’ Guild made an exclusive deck of unofficial Star Wars sabacc cards. It was unofficial in that it wasn’t a Lucasfilm-sanctioned project. However, the cards and how it was played used the play description as detailed in L. Neil Smith’s […]
Continue readingRIP Ralph McQuarrie
Once upon a time, Ralph McQuarrie illustrated a coffee table art book written by Kevin J. Anderson called The Illustrated Star Wars Universe. McQuarrie, if you didn’t know, was one of the first conceptual artists for Star Wars. It was with his paintings that George Lucas was able to convince […]
Continue readingThe Queen of Air and Darkness
The Queen of Air and Darkness is the title of T.H. White’s second novel of his Once and Future King series. In the Star Wars universe, the Queen of Air and Darkness is a sabacc face card that possesses a value of negative two. There was a request on the […]
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