Hey Gamer Nation!
As soon as I heard about Starfinder I started thinking about whether the APs would easily reskin to Star Wars. I haven't read SF or Incident cover to cover yet but thought I'd start a discussion thread. Here's my initial thoughts on a quick reskin:
Absalom Station = The Wheel
Starfinder Society = Rebel Alliance
Eox = Empire
Cult of the Devourer = Dark Side cult
Would be nice to include Hutts. Maybe a Hutt owns Astral Extractions?
Yeah I think you could use the game system to emulate a Star Wars setting, but I have trouble seeing how any of the specific setting elements carry over without having to rewrite them completely.
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It would be quite easy to reskin the premise of Dead Suns 1 to a Star Wars: Saga Edition game.
Indeed, my instinct it to say it would be ridiculously easy to do so.
I do not see this as a bad thing at all. One of the greatest problems with Star Wars: Saga Ed is that it did not get the robust adventure support for the game from WotC that it needed to succeed. Instead we got rule book after rule book until... we ended up with little more than a system that encouraged class dip (after class dip) but still no real adventures to play...
And the sales weren't there, so when the license came up for renewal and WotC said "no thanks". So it died. Paizo also said "no thanks" to getting the license (a crossroads in time I'd love got Paizo to have again on a do-over) and so we got FFG's Star Wars RPG. (Not my cuppa tea.)
So: could a GM run a new Star Wars: Saga Ed campaign with Starfinder AP providing the backdrop to the adventure, more or less out of the box?
Absolutely. I don't think I would necessarily do it as you propose; I think it requires a little more finesse than that. Still, as we see the rest of the Dead Suns AP unfold, I think it will be easy for GMs read and make some alterations dor those who wish to go down that road. Setting it in the timeline of The Old Republic always works best. So no, not the Empire as such. But the Sith or a group aligned with them? Sure.
In time, I might even be one of the people to want to do this, too. But for now, I am content to kick the tires on Starfinder.
I agree that it would probably be easier to set Dead Suns in the Old Republic era. Eox probably works better as a member world of the Republic that not many other worlds trust.
