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SWSheets “Mynock” Release Notes: Age of Rebellion, Force & Destiny, and Vehicles!

Hey gang!

The title says it all, but today marks a major new release of SWSheets.com. A few of these features have been live for awhile but haven't yet been properly announced. Now with the Mynock milestone complete, they're ready to show off to the public.

New Features

System Support

SWSheets.com now supports both Force and Destiny as well as Age of Rebellion. Force powers & upgrades are available to all characters now. The Knowledge: Warfare and Lightsaber skills have been added and will show when you select the corresponding game system for your character.

A note on Lightsaber - Depending on your Career and Specialization you can change the characteristic your Lightsaber skill is based upon. For this skill only, there are now left and right arrows that let you cycle through base characteristics.

Vehicles!

Vehicles are a relatively new feature to SWSheets.com as well. The vehicle page is pretty self explanatory but for the fact that the Starboard and Port defense zones will only show up once you have a corresponding silhouette of 5 or more.

Bug fixes!

Fixed a minor ordering when displaying attacks on a character with many attacks

Cleaned up the Edge of the Empire system logo to be more legible.

What's Next?

The next release is "Gundark." The highlights include better support for NPCs as well as some social / discoverability features. See the whole list of features here

As always, let me know if you have thoughts or feedback. Thanks!

SP

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Tools You Can Use: Compact NPC Vehicle Sheet

As I said when introducing my compact NPC character sheet, I hate clutter at the table. The FFG vehicle sheet is fantastic for my players’ ship as they want to track everything at a fair level of detail. Not only is that overkill for most NPC vehicles, but I also don’t want to have to remember “Okay, now which NPC sheet is the driver of this vehicle again?”

I made an combined sheet that condenses the most critical information on NPC vehicles and their crew. You can see it in action with the stats for a “CSA TAST-A”, a somewhat crap airspeeder used by CorpSec planetside police in my campaign:

Download Link

A few notes about this sheet:

This sheet makes pretty extensive use of scripts to calculate die rolls. You’ll probably want to open it in Adobe Reader to make use of them.

If your printer doesn’t support half-sheets, these also print nicely two to a page. What I usually do on my Mac OSX is:

Select all the NPCs I want to print for a session in Finder

Open them in Preview (this opens all the separate PDFs as one document)

Print, and under “Layout” select “Pages per Sheet: 2”

Changes or suggestions are welcome! All the tools I used to make this are free to use, and all the original materials are available for download or modification in the Github repository. Pull requests are welcome!

Happy GMing!

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Cantina Music

An interesting question came up on the SWRPG subreddit - what music do you use for a cantina beyond just the Star Wars classics? I actually keep such a playlist of fun and wierd music that I can see playing in the restaurants and clubs of Star Wars.

I have a few such playlists that I will also post here in the next week or so. Additionally, I regularly make additions as I find weird new music so I'll keep these lists up to date.

With no further ado, my "Cantina" playlist:

Chain Reaction - Steroid Maximus

Tarmac A Gris-Gris - Steroid Maximus

Blues Up and Down - Hot Club of Detroit (looks like spotify only?)

Melnorme Theme - Star Control 2

Arilou Theme - Star Control 2

Syreen Theme - Star Control 2

Sylandro Home (Floating Gas Bags) - The Ur-Quan Masters

Pkunk's Not Dead - The Ur-Quan Masters

Shake Yer Rootz - The Ur-Quan Masters

Daisuke - El Heurvo

Additionally, I have a "clubs" playlist for places that are a bit rougher than your average cantina. My "Clubs" playlist:

Hydrogen - MOON

Hotline - Jasper Byrne

Menu - Behavior (From Splinter Cell: Double Agent)

HQ Act 2 - Michael McCann (from XCOM)

Ode to a Room - Jim Guthrie

23 Minore Mane - CWK Joynes & Son Ensemble feat. William Sathya - download link on page

Vegas - Jesper Kyd (from Hitman Blood Money)

Power Plant - Simon Viklund (from Bionic Commando Rearmed)

Intruder Alert - Simon Viklund (from Bionic Commando Rearmed)

Javyar's Cantina - Jeremy Soule (From KotoR)

Shunjun - Yoshihisa Hirano and Hideki Taniuchi (from Death Note)

Yotsuba Group - Yoshihisa Hirano and Hideki Taniuchi (from Death Note)

Culture 19 - The Ur-Quan Masters

My Chrysalis Highwayman - Mark Morgan (from Fallout 2)

Druuge Theme - Star Control 2

Ultra-gross! - The Ur-Quan Masters

It's worth noting that I don't actually play these all that often at the table (I usually have some music playing, but worrying about switching playlists is just a distration). These are tremendous when it comes to game preparation though. I can put on the right playlist and jump straight into the mood.

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SWSheets - Out of Beta!

I’m happy to announce that SWSheets.com has officially left Beta. No terribly serious issues were found by the first round users. The most severe were that I totally forgot about the Medicine skill and that I had an ordering issue with large sets of talents or attacks on a character.

I was really happy to see the enthusiastic reception from users on both the FFG forums and the SWRPG subreddit. They’ve been super helpful in ironing out the issues on the site as well as determining the next steps.

Over the weekend I’ll be putting together the list of features for the next release (codenamed “Mynock”). This is your last chance to weigh in on the SWSheets issues page for what matters to you.

Changelog from this last milestone:

Eight bugfixes including password reset issues, display issues when rendering errors, and some HTML bugs.

Reworked the Character URLs (sorry for breaking all the existing ones, figured it was better to do that sooner than later)

Split the “Gear” field into three breakouts in keeping with the original EotE charsheet.

Added author profile pages and a thanks page for the volunteers who have helped thus far.

The full list of changes from the Beta period is here.

Beta Statistics:

84 users

29 users who have created at least one character (this was surprising, figured it would be lower)

34 total characters

1 character deleted for inappropriate content (also surprising, figured it would be higher!)

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SWSheets.com - Day 2

Building a website that other people are interested in is a blast. I'm glad to see almost universally positive reactions. There was one seemingly angry/disappointed person, but I don't think he understood that the site was free and open-source.

About 30 hours after I announced it there are 57 users, 16 of whom created characters. Furthermore I have 9 new items in the issues and feature requests page from the bugs and suggestions mentioned on either the FFG forums or Reddit.

I'm both relieved and a bit anxious about this. I had been assuming that I was the only person who was interested in this tool. It's exciting to learn I'm mistaken, but it also means I have real users with real data that I need to treat accordingly.

I'm glad I put all that time into user accounts and proper password encryption/reseting!

P.S. I'm not going to post updates about this every other day, but I just had to share my excitement with someone. =)

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Announcing SWSheets.com

I’m proud to share something I’ve been working on for the past few months, swsheets.com.

Right now this is in Beta mode. I'm making every effort not to do anything dumb that would cause me to wipe all the data or something equally catastrophic, but I don't make any promises. I expect to be out of beta in 1-2 weeks.

swsheets.com is a website for creating and sharing characters for Fantasy Flight Games’ Star Wars: Edge of the Empire RPG. Right now it’s rather basic and only allows you to create, edit, and delete characters. I hope to add in printing to PDF next, but that’s a rather complicated task.

Please take a look and let me know if you have any feedback or thoughts. You can add bug reports to the Github Issue page and you are welcome to give me any other feedback you have by commenting below.

SWSheets is completely open source and I happily accept pull requests. Check it out on Github.

Thanks!

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Tools You Can Use: Compact NPC Character Sheet

I hate to clutter up my tabletop with more than I absolutely must. Making full, two-page character sheets for each NPC drove me mad as a new Edge of the Empire GM. Much of the information on a character sheet is irrelevant to an NPC (no one cares about your obligations, CSA Viceprex). All of this just makes for wasted tabletop space.

To fix this problem, I made a compact NPC sheet: just the critical information I needed on NPCs that I could print on half of an 8.5x11 sheet of paper. In addition to displaying information more compactly, it also calculates skill and attack rolls as well as displaying a small reference on opposed social skill checks (I always forget that Charm is opposed by Cool, unlike most other social skills which are opposed by Discipline).

Here it is in action with the stats for a lowly droid my players encountered awhile back:

Download Link.

A few notes about this sheet:

This sheet makes pretty extensive use of scripts to calculate die rolls. You’ll probably want to open it in Adobe Reader to make use of them.

If your printer doesn’t support half-sheets, these also print nicely two to a page. What I usually do on my Mac OSX is:

Select all the NPCs I want to print for a session in Finder

Open them in Preview (this opens all the separate PDFs as one document)

Print, and under “Layout” select “Pages per Sheet: 2”

Changes or suggestions are welcome! All the tools I used to make this are free to use, and all the original materials are available for download or modification in the Github repository. Pull requests are welcome!

I’m working on something similar for NPC Vehicles. I’ll post it on this blog when it’s ready.

Happy GMing!

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Flavor: Down and Out in CorpSec

Recently my players visited the criminal underworld of the Corporate Sector. Knowing them, it’s exceedingly likely they’ll end up on the wrong side of the law.

A good way to provide in-game flavor to a setting is to create meaningful contrast to something the players know well. Just in case they end up arrested, I wrote out the CorpSec version of the Miranda Warning. The differences highlight the greed and structural unfairness that defines life in the Corporate Sector.

By the power vested in me as a dues-paying law enforcement agent of the Corporate Sector Authority, you are hereby under arrest. Anything you do or are reported to have done by a citizen of the CSA will be used against you in the court of law.

You are obligated to have an attorney. If you cannot afford one, one will be assigned to you and a lien of two-thousand credits1 will be placed against your future earnings.

You have the right to send a single piece of holonet mail. Additional holonet communications are available at one hundred credits each.

Do you understand the rights and fee structures that have been outlined to you?

What's your favorite way to add flavor to your settings?

Or vertices if you want to maintain EU canonicity, but I avoid currency conversion in RPGs at all costs. See my disclaimer on canonicity. ↩︎