A characters skills and abilities define which dice to roll, but the dice don’t deal in absolutes when totaled: What is great about the Edge of the Empire system, is its focus on story telling over rules lawyering. The illustrations and maps, are all excellent and really help set the tone of the game, dressing a good story with great visuals. The tokens are basic (no miniatures), but all of the printing is of excellent quality.
This is a complete system in a box, containing an explanation of Role Playing, basic rules for game play for both players and the Game Master, Pre-rolled character sheets with versions to show character progress, an adventure bringing characters together for the first time, maps, tokens to represent characters, vehicles, as well as destiny tokens and a set of the custom dice (14). This is not just an intro to the new Fantasy Flight Games Star Wars RPG series, but an introduction to Role Playing Games in general. The latest releases of D&D 5th Ed and FFG’s Star Wars Games ( Edge of the Empire, Age of Rebellion, Force and Destiny) have started making it to our game table. But recently I found myself in a community full of players and decided to dust off those dice… An old school RPG player( D&D Basic, Expert, Advanced D&D 2nd 3rd & 3.5 ed, Shadownrun, Gamma World, Call of Cthulhu, etc) I have been away from the hobby a long time.
