Star Wars Episode V.I: The Google Wave

Dec 20, 2009 18:47


Originally published at I Am Teh Bagder. Please leave any comments there.



I love West End Games’ Star Wars D6 game. It’s always been a firm favorite of mine, and I’ve got many fond memories of playing it with friends during high school. Most of the time I’d run the games, as I prefer to be a GM, but I’d also get a kick out of playing the game, particularly if it was run by my buddy Steve. Now that I’m getting back into roleplaying, I want to recapture how it felt to play those games. I’ve found a gaming group at Ohio State University, and have played a game of D20 Future with a couple of guys there, and I’m hoping to run some Star Wars with them. That won’t be until next year when some of the guys get back from Crimble break.

Luckily, I’ve started running a game via Google Wave, jumping on the bandwagon as many other gamers already have. There’s a slew of tools starting to become available for gameplay, including maps and dice rollers, so there’s a great deal of potential for Google Wave to work well for running games. There are already online tools to play games, but as I tend to like strong narrative-based games, and the group of players I’ve gather for this game are spread out throughout the country, Google Wave should be a good medium for running the game. It’s not without its technical issues, but I think those can be worked around.

We’re just about to run a Prelude, where all of the players get together and form the main party. As the game unfolds, I’ll post details here so that others can read what’s happening. That’s one of the benefits of Google Wave: everything gets archived, so you can have historical playback of gameplay so that you know exactly what’s gone on in the past. We’re still waiting for all of the players to choose characters and for us to start the Prelude proper, but it’s going to be fun when they do. It’s been years since I’ve really ran a game, but as we put all this together and get ready to play, I’m reminded of how much fun it is to not only play games, but to run them as a GM. I’ve always preferred being a GM to being a player. There’s more of a challenge in being a GM, and a lot more responsibility in shaping and directing the story so that everyone has a good time.

Why the heck has it taken me so long to get back to this? Oh, yeah. Life got in the way. Well, as Master Yoda says "Do, or do not. There is no try". I guess that also applies to roleplaying as well as developing awesome Force powers.

Check out this awesome article on the Millenium Falcon on the StarWars.com website. It’s where I snagged the above image from.

Yes, I know. I am such a Star Wars geek.

Tags: star wars, rpg, roleplaying, weg, west end games, millenium falcon

roleplaying, tabletop

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