Play smugglers, bounty hunters, and Force users in the Star Wars galaxy, using narrative dice to shape every outcome.
From 51 firsthand play reports in 5 r/rpg threads. The threads alone average 6.8.
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128 r/rpg posts named it, October 2023 to October 2026.
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Reports on Star Wars FFG (Edge of the Empire, Age of Rebellion, Force and Destiny) split. Many groups ran it for years and say it feels like the films. Others found that reading the symbol dice slowed play or wore out the GM, and drifted away after a few sessions.
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Most people who ran or played Star Wars FFG (Edge of the Empire) report a fun, cinematic game. Several of those campaigns ran for years. It depends on players who narrate their own dice results, and a few groups got bored, found the symbols slow to read, or disliked the talent trees. 17 firsthand · 84 comments
People who actually ran or played Star Wars FFG report a system they love and keep returning to. They praise how well it captures the Han-and-Chewie feel and say the narrative dice work once players loosen up. Complaints are mostly about thinking up threats and consequences, book weight and sheet tooling. Much of the thread is about availability, PDFs and licensing, which I ignored. 11 firsthand · 75 comments
People who ran or played the FFG Star Wars games (mostly Edge of the Empire, some Age of Rebellion) mostly report a fast, flavorful system that gets players telling the story, and several ran long campaigns. The recurring problems are GM interpretation fatigue, tracking wounds and strain in combat, weak GM guidance on balance, and groups that bounced off the custom dice. 11 firsthand · 78 comments
The firsthand reports are mostly lukewarm to negative. Several groups found that reading the narrative dice symbols slowed play to a crawl, and some quit after one or two missions or burned out after a while. A few people run it happily, including one on Roll20 and one who loves the dice, but they give little detail, and much of the thread is about dice and book availability, PDFs and speculation from people who haven't played. 8 firsthand · 239 comments
The few firsthand reports on Star Wars FFG are mostly positive. One GM ran a long Rebellion campaign that felt like the movies, and others praise the dice for cinematic, evenly weighted actions. The cost is that the narrative results take prep and improv effort and the rules explain themselves poorly. Most of the thread compares it with d6 and d20 Star Wars or talks about Genesys, and I ignored those. 4 firsthand · 175 comments