The Edge of the Boganverse

All places in our Star Wars: Edge of the Empire campaign have now been taken.
I look forward to seeing you all a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Or outside C05 on Monday. One of those.

Our campaign draws heavily on the awesome fan film, Star Wars Downunder for it's setting and flavour. Watch the blog for updates and session reports.

Characters:

Sholto: Rodian Thief.

Ellin Daar; Human Scout

Snubellar: Wookie Pilot

Grazz: Trandoshan Marauder

Bryan Streethooner; Human Mercenary

Lira Praxxis; Twi'Lek Gadgeteer

Greelik Zibbs; Rodian Assassin

D47-B01; Droid Doctor

LSCWC becomes a wretched hive of scum and villainy in term three

Participate in grim and gritty adventures in places where morality is gray and nothing is certain. Ply your trade as a smuggler in the Outer Rim, collect bounties on the scum that live in the shadows of Coruscant beneath the Empire’s notice…

Throw strange dice!

Star Wars: Edge of the Empire is the role playing game of scum and villainy in the Star Wars universe. You can play as Bounty Hunters, Assassins, Techs, Slicers, Pilots, Smugglers, Doctors, Mercenaries and more. You can also play as Humans, Twi'Leks, Wookies, Bothans, Droids, Trandoshans, Rodians or Gant as you blast your way across the galaxy in search of thrills and loot. Mostly loot.

We will be using pre-generated characters, which will be published to this blog fairly soon. We will be moving back to our usual C05 location from the first week of Term 3.

Games design resources

A bunch of examples of Print and Play games have been added to our resource folder. These are all fairly simple amateur-made games which are designed to be printed out and then played with a minimum of fuss. You'll have to cut out cards and pieces some times, but that's it. These games are all good examples of what individual amateurs can create - several of them are also re-themes. A re-theme is when you take an existing game, and change the visuals and theme of the game to turn it into something else (the folder includes several re-themes of the popular PNP game Cheese Chasers).
A sub-set of Print and Play games is Mint Tin Games. These are games which are designed to fit in a single 'altoids' brand mint tin (which are about the size of a deck of cards). There are some very clever games of this type, including several which have taken a much larger and more complex game and streamlined it down to the point where it can all fit in the tiny mint tin. It's worth checking them out to see how much game you can fit into a tiny space using limited components.

Making games in Term Two

All though out Term Two we are making our own games!
We are writing rules, making boards and cards, designing boxes, the whole shebang. By the end of the term, all of our members will have their very own, original, hand crafted board or card game. Not only that, but you have the chance to win the coveted SPIEL DES JAHRES (Game of the Year - it's not my fault if the world's most prestigious game design award is German!).

In the first few weeks of term, we will discuss and plan how to design games, including the elements that go towards making a game, rule mechanics and gameplay.
Then we will start to play test our game designs to make sure the rules work and the games are fun.
When that's finished, we'll start working on designing the components - boards, cards, counters, rule books etc.
By the end of term, we will have our games finished and the judging of the LSC SPIEL DES JAHRES can happen!
You can find a resource folder on Google Drive which contains important planning documents, templates etc.

Want to make your game super professional looking? You can actually get it printed by The Game Crafter. The Game Crafter is an online store which prints home made games so they look just like things you can buy in the shops. If you want to use TGC, you'll need to get all of your art onto a computer and make sure it fits the printing templates. Games cost a touch more than things you'd buy in the shops (since they're one offs) and take about a month to arrive (since they're made in the US).
I used TGC to get my game Kitnapped printed, and it's also available for sale from them.

LSCWC Season 2017

Term One: Season of Random Gaming
Boardgames, card games etc. A new game each week, including:
Citadels, Toppollo, Carcasonne, and Kitnapped.

Term Two part one: Craft Term Mk.1
Learn to make your own board and card games.

Term Two part two: Craft Term MK.2
Learnt to paint wargames figures.

Term Three: RPG Term
Play various quick, rules light RPGs including All Outta Bubblegum and Lasers and Feelings.

Term Four: Tabletop Wargames
Take part in multiplayer skirmish games such as A Song of Blades and Heroes and GruntZ.

Toppy publishes game (sort of)

You can now buy an actual, physical, properly printed shiny hard copy of Kitnapped, Toppy's game about stealing other people's cats. It's available via The Game Crafter, a print-on-demand games site in the US. When you order a copy, TGC will print it up, box it up and send it out to you!
And whay would you not want a copy? It's a game about stealing other people's kittens so you can have ALL THE KITTENS!
Go forth and order freely!

Welcome to 2017!

Should I do the survey? Do THIS survey to find out!

Greetings strange bipeds!
2017 is upon us, and it's time to think about what games we'll play during the coming year!
There's a shiny new Google survey you can fill out (you will need to login using your school email address) - sometime during the next week (when we get enough results) there'll be some sort of announcement about what we're going to play during Term One.
Terms Two and Three, as usual, will have some sort of craft component - you can also vote for what you want to do craft wise on the survey!
NOW GO DO THE SURVEY!