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February 05, 2008

Missing Things in RPGs

This weekend I was reminded by something that bugs me from time to time. There is always something missing with RPGs. For instance, I am running a Star Wars Saga Edition game on alternate Sundays and I discovered that there isn't an official vehicle record sheet for the new system yet. We were on our 5th session and I knew the characters could potentially get into a space battle, so I felt it was time to write up the spaceship. But there wasn't a vehicle record sheet to be found for the new system.

This bugs me because we haven't been playing the new system very long and we discovered this to be missing. How is it that WOTC didn't notice this in their play-testing? Considering how often space battles happen in Star Wars, you would think they would have noticed. In fact, they just put out a supplement book which is all about spaceships and there wasn't one in there either. Seems like quite the oversight.

So I had to do what I normally do, make one of my own. It's functional, it's crude and it's here. I could have done more with it but I didn't want to spend too much time on it. As it was, I spent about 2.5 hours doing this in Scribus, which isn't bad considering I don't use Scribus too often.

I think when I make my RPG, I'm going to describe in general terms the stats for characters and not bother making a character sheet. ;)

Posted by Kaishaku at February 5, 2008 11:00 AM

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That doesn't look like something that's crude. lol. I'm going to borrow it for Serenity.

Posted by: The Tricia [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 8, 2008 10:32 AM

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