Providing game statistics for a type of trooper, a vehicle, or a weapon that the PCs could encounter satisfies both design goals. I mention that there is tension in a sourcebook of this nature, but that doesn’t mean that those two strategies of design must be mutually exclusive. Table Use is the ability of the sourcebook to help the roleplaying group craft a narrative that uses elements of that media to create a game with a similar theme and tone to the source material. Fan Service means that the sourcebook will define elements from the media being covered in game terms, based on that element’s popularity. I’ll refer to this as Fan Service versus Table Use. Sourcebooks based on licensed material tend to have an intrinsic tension inherent to them.

It also presents me with some challenges for this review. It is unique in the Fantasy Flight Games Star Wars Roleplaying line in that it is a sourcebook for all three of their game lines ( Edge of the Empire, Age of Rebellion, and Force and Destiny). Star Wars Rebels even went so far as to “canonize” elements of the old West End Games roleplaying game supplements, with references to various bits of gear, species, and galactic locations.ĭawn of Rebellion is a sourcebook for this era of Star Wars storytelling. Both Star Wars Rebels and Rogue One show Rebel operatives fighting against the Galactic Empire in stories that have stakes and present a true danger for the characters involved, because they aren’t the main characters we know from the mainstream saga. Depending on who you talk to, recent Star Wars media has produced some mass market offerings that have firmly embraced the type of story near and dear to the heart of many longtime Star Wars roleplaying fans.

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