Lurking Fears Blog of the Week!
Let’s talk about games! Today I want to start my first blog talking about my first true love in RPG’s and that is West End Game’s Star Wars, otherwise known as D6 Star Wars, WEG SW, etc. It was the first game I ran as a GM and I spent many years playing it. Still do, in fact. The system was pretty simple: Each Ability and skill had an amount of D6’s you would roll and a modifier, like 4D would be 4 D6 Dice and 2D+1 would mean 2 D6 and add one point to the total. You would roll all the dice, add them up and try to hit a target number. Later they would add fun stuff like the wild die and so on, but that’s the basic part of it. You could spend Character points to add a die to the pool or add a Force point if you were lucky to have it and double it. It still is probably the most researched and heavily sourced game I think I have ever seen this side of D&D and Traveller. There were TONS of rule and sourcebooks, detailing planets, aliens, ships, scenarios, ca...