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Buy Starships of the Galaxy (Star Wars Roleplaying Game) by Owen K.C. Stephens, Rodney Thompson available and for sale on Brightsurf
| View Larger Image | Starships of the Galaxy (Star Wars Roleplaying Game)
by Owen K.C. Stephens, Rodney Thompson
| | List Price: | $34.95 | | Price: | $23.07 | | You Save: | $11.88 (34%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 12353 | | Studio: | Wizards of the Coast | | | Binding: | Hardcover | | Number Of Pages: | 160 | | Publication Date: | December 18, 2007 | | Publisher: | Wizards of the Coast |
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Product Description
"She'll make the Kessel run in five parsecs!"
This rules supplement contains advanced starship combat rules for the Star Wars Roleplaying Game Saga Edition. In addition, it provides new character options for spacefaring heroes as well as descriptions, deckplans, and statistics for starships from all eras (as featured in all six Star Wars films and the Expanded Universe). This deluxe, full-color game supplement also includes rules and guidelines for building your own starships. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 11 reviews)
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Shipyard Listings 
This newest version of the Star Wars Starship guide is great for those Smigglers, Bounty Hunters and Ace pilots that want to buy,steal or build their own custom made ship.
June 29, 2008 | |
More options to spice up vehicular combat 
After picking up the Star Wars SAGA roleplaying game from Amazon, I went to the Wizards of the Coast website to look up any potential printing errors in the book. While I was looking around, I read about an up and coming supplement dealing with starship options. It piqued my interest, so I pre-ordered a copy of it on Amazon.
A month later, the book arrived and after spending about a week using it, I can say it was very much worth the money.
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"Starships of the Galaxy" is at heart a gathering of ship statistics, paragraphs of ship descriptions within the Star Wars timeline and pieces of art sprinkled throughout.
There's good variety here: most if not all of the movie ships were covered, including the medical frigates (seen at the end of The Empire Strikes Back and during Return of the Jedi), Cloud Cars (seen in The Empire Strikes Back), Super Star Destroyers (around the middle to end of Return of the Jedi) and more. In addition to what was seen in the six films, there are also entries that come from the Expanded Universe novels, like Xizor's Virago (from Shadows of the Empire). These were a nice touch that managed to cater to both casual and hardcore fans.
In some cases, the descriptions were a little skimpy - you'd either read about who used the ship, or when and where it was conceived, but rarely both. Mostly though, they did get the basics of the vehicle across.
The art is a mixed bag in terms of style - some were very straight, bright and blocky, giving the ship a technical drawing feel (like the X-Wing, and it appears the artists did work for the d20 Modern supplement "d20 Future"). Others were a bit blurry, colorful and seemed to make the ship look like it was engaged that moment in the heat of battle (such as the Virago). Both were done well, however. So, consistency aside, I was very pleased.
Though smaller than the rest of the book, there is a section on starship maneuvers and tactics. While these are reserved for campaigns set primarily with vehicle combat as the main conflict, there are some good single options that work for a mixed theme campaign.
To top it off, the covering is solidly build and the pages aren't thin and easily bent. The low page count (160) might turn some away (and I was skeptical myself after Wizards lowered the average from 192 to 160) but as long as the content stays at this level of quality or rises, the cost will be justifiable.
February 24, 2008 | |
Fast and furious 
Good work for Wizards about this book, but size of the book very strange, doesn't look like any other book of Wizards (Star Wars or not) i own.
February 09, 2008 | |
A good start
The first book to expand on the new Saga rules, and it's about as good as I expected. A good mix of starships that is perhaps a bit heavy on capitol ships and many fighters that are visually distinct but all have roughly the same rules. Likewise, there are few deckplans, pretty much limited to a underwhelming deckplan for a YT-1300. The customization rules work relatively well and are easy to use.
Overall, I'd suggest it to people that like the new Saga Edition. It might be good for people that like Star Wars starships in general too.
February 09, 2008 | |
Starships of the Galaxy Review
Good book if you or your role playing group are going to be participating in space battles. If the game will focus on individuals and less on space battles then this may or may not be a benefit. It has good information for players and GMs.
January 28, 2008 | |
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