Simply being a Skywalker doesn't provide any game mechanics, but if you take the Legacy Destiny for Skywalkers, you'll gain the ability to spend a Destiny Point to treat your next Use the Force check as a natural 20.  Plo Koon's Legacy has the same thing, while those of the legacy of Wedge Antilles or Nien Nunb gets the ability to spend them for 20s on Pilot checks.  The Solo legacy does this for Mechanics, and Organa has the same thing for Persuasion checks (as does the Fey'lya legacy).  Of the legacies that don't let you boost skill checks with Destiny Points, there's Fett (lets you score critical hits on 19-20 for the rest of the encounter), Koth (gain the ability to not move down the condition track as the result of an attack for the rest of the encounter), or Ackbar (double any insight, morale or competence bonuses you grant others until the end of the encounter).

The drawback, as far as I can tell, is that unlike regular Destinies, there's no way to 'complete' one of these - if you fulfill an Education Destiny, for example, you get a +5 bonus to a single skill of your choosing (which stacks with Skill Focus), and other Destinies let you boost your ability scores.  The Legacy Destinies doesn't have any of that, you just gain one extra way to spend a Destiny Point.


But for me, the desire to play a Skywalker is mostly a "how cool would that be!?" kind of thing.  :D

That is neat, tracking the bloodlines.

I thought the Ackbar destiny let you recognize traps easier. :)

I really wanted to make a clever joke about that, but my wit failed me, I'm afraid.  :p

I wouldn't bother. Ackbar jokes are a tra...wait a minute...

http://www.wizards.com/default...diAcademyrpgpreview1
Preview of the upcoming Jedi Academy Training Manual, showing some of the new Lightsaber Form Powers, which any lightsaber-weilding Force user will no doubt love to death.  I can't wait to see the rest of these, they look really cool, and I like how they give you an added kicker if you have the particular lightsaber form talent associated with the power, without being useless for those who don't have it.

Also...

Anyone had a look at the Background mechanic found in the Rebellion Era Campaign Guide?  I really like it as an alternative to Destiny in less high-powered games, and really, I can see it being used alongside Destiny in games in which balance isn't a primary concern.  What I like the most about it, I think, is being able to make a Jedi who starts out trained in Stealth, or even Persuasion for the Consular-types out there, or to give my Scouts training in Acrobatics (which is the one skill I really feel is missing from their list).

Also, Racial Feats are pretty cool, Jedi Heritage especially for all the twi'lek Force users who are suffering from their poor Wisdom.  :p

Opinions:

Amongst my PnP group, it was considered that the 'Crippled' background was too overpowered compared to the others and should be banned. Essentially, you start out with a free cybernetic limb and your DT doesn't go down when you slide along the Condition Track.

Of course, you're also turning yourself into one of the few individuals in the galaxy who suffers equally from both Stun and Ion damage, which is a drawback that's worth concidering.  And, of course, if you want to Use the Force, that now comes with a penalty as well.  There's really no benefits to having a cybernetic limb in Saga.  :p

You're forgetting "rule of cool"

Then there's ALWAYS a benefit to having a mehcanical arm :D

Actually with the cybernetic rules in Galaxy at War there could be benefit to having cybernetics.

For those who haven't heard, after Galaxy of Intrigue and the Unknown Regions, the Star Wars RPG produced by Wizards of the Coast is coming to an end, as their license from LucasFilm haven't been renewed.  This also applies to the SW Minis game, that after the Dark Times and Masters of the Force will be coming to an end.  For more information, look here for the announcement from WotC:

http://community.wizards.com/g...e_Coast_announcement

To be honest, I don't think the announcement harms SAGA too much. I mean, there aren't many things not done in the other books. To prove my point they're doing a book on the Unknown Regions - clearly running out of ideas there.

wonder if anyone else is going to pick it up under a different system...

My buddy and I were discussing this and neither of us could think of a company that could afford the license that we had faith would do the setting justice. It is unfortunate but as was already said the game has done just about all it can do with LFL restrictions and using a D20 system.

I've enjoyed it and own almost every book and plan to get the last book as well.

*shudder* I just imagined White Wolf running with the Death Trooper line...

Yeah, the real problem is that frequently, when a game's not being published anymore, a significant portion of the fanbase quits player for no apparent reason.  Nobody's quite clear why but it happens, a lot.

Don't say that Vibetrippin. Now I have potential White Wolf titles for Star Wars games floating through my head.
Empire: The Oppressing
Jedi: The Enlightened
Rebellion: The Alliancing

I think White Wolf writers with Eve Online's influence could come up with a decent system to parlay the universe if they would not use Storytellers. You are right though, they could easily buy the license and try to make it fit their universe mythos though I think LFL would be against that.


Too true. It happened to Heavy Gear so much that stores won't admit that the company Dream Pod 9 actually exists and has new product (admittedly only for their miniature line though Steve Jackson will be putting out a new RPG for them), sometimes after showing them the active website.

It happens though, without new product to spend our hard earned money on then why keep playing it? People want to play with their new toy and if that is a new RPG book from some new company then so be it.

I'd see it more as Alliance: The Rebellion

And don't forget Droid: The Servitude

Last cover art for the Saga line...  and in my opinion, the best one, perhaps tied with Scum & Villainy.

looks like the outer rim. Na'gai are cool

Unknown Regions I believe, so all the crazy stuff from out there.

Can't wait for all the Chiss/Thrawn clones.

In my opinion, Thrawn is to Star Wars what Drizzt Do'Urden is to Forgotten Realms.


He's that ultra-cool "alien" that entire series are devoted to, and so many people want to be "that guy" that it spawns a whole culture of imitators.

I could also see that arguement made for Boba Fett.

Chiss has been a PC species in the game since the release of the Legacy Era Campaign Guide, and I think it was around as an NPC-species since The Force Unleashed, so that option has been out there for a while - and I've yet to see any Chiss characters even close to resembling Thrawn in my time playing this game.  Come to think of it, I can't recall seeing any Chiss characters in games I were in - I played a Scout once, in a Legacy Era game, myself.


There's a preview thread up on the WotC boards, here's a list of the species from Unknown Regions:


For the rest of the thread, look here: http://community.wizards.com/g...ost_num=21#409786469

Sounds like a good way to end the product line. Hopefully they complete all of the little web enhancements that may have been in the works and publish all of it as one big compressed file.