Edge of Fantasy

Hi.

I have recently been playing with the idea of running an Edge of Empire game. Recently I found this Fantasy Hack as well as this Other Fantasy Hack.

Don't know if anyone's played around with these? If so, are they any good?

Would love to run a fantasy game using the Edge of the Empire rules. I was thinking of maybe running one of the Pathfinder Adventure Paths or just create something myself.

I'd love to participate in this!

Might I suggest this hack tho?

http://www.redshirtdown.com/kingdom/

I've heard good things and it seems to have a high production value, which is a good sign too IMO.

I'm very curious, as I know absolutely nothing about FFG Star Wars as a game system: What's so great about this system that you would fantasy hack it instead of just playing an actual fantasy RPG?

I always just assumed people played these games because they want to roleplay in the world of Star Wars, but onviously there's more to it than that, so I'd like to know what.

Well, so the custom dice that everybody bags on were used to create a narrative facing, unified mechanic that has roughly 3 "axises" of results, yet plays quickly (w/ a smallish learning curve - 3-6 sessions? depending on the player):

1. Standard dice-pool mechanic, success/fail
2. Dis/Advantage mechanic, allowing you to "fail-forward" or "succeed-but..."
3. Triumph/Despair/Destiny/Narrative mechanic, that allows you to influence the storytelling and/or worldbuilding and/or narrative through your roll.

All actions (combat, slicing/hacking, social, mental/mechanical, etc.) are resolved the same. i.e. The pool is built iin the same way, so it's very easy to learn and use. And any single action is resolved, start-to-finish (including all 3 above axes) with one roll. No: roll to hit, roll to dodge, roll for damage - all one roll. Yet it manages to incorporate the enemies ability to dodge in that roll.

It has a metacurrency economy that furthers the players narrative influence, as well.

And last but not least, it has a fantastic character creation/advancement system that is an elegant mix of skill-based (for that freeform character concept) and class-based (so that PCs are thematic and have direction for advancement for new players) that is satisfying and captures the Star Wars lore very well.

Basically, it's the best rpg ever (for me). :D

Ooh... Sky Wars looks very interesting—thanks emsquared

Right? Happy to spread the word.

That m an you'd be interested in getting in on a fantasy game in the FFGSWrpg system? :P

I'm interested in getting in on this, really keen to see how the system plays in a non-Star Wars setting

That looks really good. Looks like we have a winner.

I would definitely be interested in trying this out.

I feel like this is going to be amazing... but unfortunately, I am way overcommitted :(

So, I am thinking of either doing something original or running one of the Pathfinder Adventure Paths to give it some structure. I have Rise of the Runelords, Curse of the Crimson Throne and Iron Gods. Got the last one in a recent bundle so haven't read all of that one yet. Do anyone have any preferences?

Whatever you're comfortable with, and interested in.

I'd say go for whichever you're most comfortable and familiar with, especially if you're going to have to rework encounters and stats for things into a system the adventure wasn't originally designed for

Same. I've not played or read any of those so any will work with me.

This one does seem boss

I'd love to be a part! I am ridiculously busy, so I cant learn new systems nearly as often as I'd like. But I could play a game like this, with a system I know well, easily!

I can say that this is something I've wanted to do for a long time. The EotE system seems like it'd be so good for a gritty, lethal fantasy system. I'm in too many games at the moment, or else I'd join, but I'm certainly interested in seeing how this goes

Sounds awesome! Thanks! I wish I had the time and the headspace to learn a new system, otherwise I'd give this or FriarTuk's or McNeil5's EotE-for-noobs game! One of these days...

Freeform Universal has a SUPER easy d6 system for varying the success/fail outcome. I use this with my 6-year old all the time!

Does X succeed at Y?
6 = Yes, and...
5 = Yes.
4 = Yes, but...
3 = No, but...
2 = No.
1 = No, and...

I went ahead and made a game. You can find the game here.

I will start it out with the Rise of the Runelords adventure path and see where it takes us from there.

I applied.

That's a gem, emsquared. Nice find. Downloaded it myself, for future reference.

Very good production but it's hard for me to express in a productive fashion how much I dislike what they did to/with the Force/Magic though, after reading it. I had never looked at it until now.

Yeah, I can see that. They made it pretty lackluster. And the wizard's seems more like weapon stats than spells.

Yea, it seems to me like the creator was very concerned with balance and complete dismantling of the Force was his answer...

And it resulted in a tremendous loss of the innovation in the system.

Yeah the spells seem a bit bare-bones. I can see why they would have done that though, makes it much more manageable. In a game run using the conversion one could always modify themselves to mirror the force from the original system better.

I think an easy way out for them would have been to figure out how to convert the Force into Arcana (complete with the Force die, which does disappear in the conversion). But I basically agree that magical abilities (e.g. spells) are basically various attacks rather than a richer tapestry of utility magic and whanot.

I'll likely drive a magic user in the system, just to see how it feels and runs, and to see what we can do with it. And perhaps see what we can do to homebrew the conversion a bit into something a bit more interesting.

Looking for 1-2 more players to this game. The game can be found here.

And the rules are over here.

Might be worth reiterating that this game uses the Fan-tastic Fan-tasy Flight Games Star Wars rpg system.

Applied last night, hope I make it in.

You're in :)

We are back up to capacity. But will post here if there's more openings.