J.D. Wiker

A sourcebook for Jedi characters, with new Force powers and prestige classes, guidelines on roleplaying Jedi, a few bits of gear, some adventuring locations, writeups of various characters from the Expanded Universe, and, oddly, a bunch of sentient species and some Force-using creatures that feel like they didn't make the cut for a more general book. The odd bits are still useful, but it feels like they were thrown in to make page count. It would be nice if they provided a bibliography for the various things they're writing up from stories told elsewhere, rather than leaving it to readers to look it up in Wookieepedia.… (mehr)

This book puts everything you need to tell a Star Wars story into one volume: a good basic selection of all the possible character combinations, examples that relate to the films, rules for everything from space combat to droids, and a really good gamemastering section that even works in some basic economic ideas to use in worldbuilding. The class/feat/skill system is a bit of a jumble, but there's only so much you can do with the underlying d20 mechanics (I'm no fan of class/level systems); the writers have managed to do a good job despite it.… (mehr)