Join The Infernal Brotherhood in this actual play of the Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game adventure Otherspace. Join live in YouTube chat and share your thoughts on the adventure and player characters. You can pick up the original sourcebooks as PDF’s here: https://www.starwarstimeline.net/Westendgames.htm
Cast:
- Leonard Cheesyfoote, Tough Native | Cameron
- Rom Drygrerr, Failed Jedi | Robert
- Clayvin Sprocket, Tongue-Tied engineer | Chris
- Cornelius Humperdink, Wookiee | Joseph
Game Setup
Last Time on Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game: The Rebels are sent by Alliance High Command to meet up with the Alliance transport Celestial. They are supposed to take command of the vessel and its secret cargo, including imperial prisoners, and see it safely to a hidden Rebel outpost. Once they arrive at the jump coordinates they discover dozens of Tie fighters scouring the area, and one even collides with their ship, damaging their hyperdrive unit. They are ordered to maintain course as the Imperial Star Destroyer begins its approach. They realize they cannot take on this threat and their sensors do not detect the celestial, so they take a chance and trust in the force as they jump. (Read the Cut-Away to Star Destroyer Bridge on Page 7.) With their damaged hyperdrive their trip through hyperspace is anything but normal, landing them in a completely foreign dimension known as Otherspace. They discover their hyperdrive needs to be repaired before they can try to return home, and then pick up another ship on their sensors near a massive nebula. It’s the Celestial! But it appears to be dead in space. They dock and board the ship to discover most of the escape pods have been jettisoned and there are only the dead onboard…
About Star Wars Otherspace
Beyond realspace, past the time-bending corridors of hyperspace, another galaxy waits to be discovered. When a problem develops with the hyperdrive engine of an Alliance prisoner transport, members of both the Rebellion and the Empire are deposited into a strange, unexplored dimension between the hyperlanes and realspace.
Here, abandoned ships from all over known space float beside those of unknown origin. These desolate craft orbit a giant vessel, drawn to it like moths to a flame—or a spider’s web.
Within the dark interior of the giant ship, the war between Rebel and Imperial finds new battlegrounds and new weapons with which to destroy each other. But they also find something else, something that just might find them first. It wants to escape otherspace, to reach realspace. And when it does, the galaxy will die!
Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game 30th Anniversary Edition
Few books or games have had as enduring an impact upon the Star Wars galaxy and its fans as Star Wars™: The Roleplaying Game. Originally published by West End Games in 1987, it arrived at a time when the future of the Star Wars galaxy was uncertain, and it captivated a whole generation of gamers with rules and guidelines that made it possible to design and enjoy adventures truly worthy of the Star Wars universe and its ongoing space opera.
Now Fantasy Flight Games is proud to offer faithful recreations of this influential rulebook and The Star Wars™ Sourcebook. Our Star Wars™: The Roleplaying Game 30th Anniversary Edition is a limited edition set of both books, printed with higher quality than the originals and packaged in a stylized slipcase.
These books were sent to Timothy Zahn as references when he started to develop Grand Admiral Thrawn and his Thrawn trilogy. They introduced materials that were later adopted into Star Wars canon, such as the names of alien races like the Twi’lek, Rodians, and Quarren. They even inspired members of the Lucasfilm Story Group as they worked on their writers’ bible.
Now, Fantasy Flight Games is proud to return Star Wars: The Roleplaying to print as a collectible set of two high-quality, hardbound books presented in a stylized slipcase. You’ll find all the original game materials—just as playable as ever—and they’re presented with the same graphic design and fake, in-universe Star Wars advertisements for the Imperial Navy, the R2 astromech Droid, and more.
Even the books’ use of black-and-white, blue ink, and full color sections have been recreated, along with its use of still photos and concept art, some of which have been updated for this new 30th Anniversary Edition. Finally, the books come with a foreword by Pablo Hidalgo, one of the creative executives on the Lucasfilm Story Group.