Is the time right for a Star Wars RPG based on Traveller rules?

[apastuszak]

It would be an interesting intellectual exercise. However, we have enquired about a Star Wars licence before (for A Call to Arms, back in the day), and the requirements for it are... a lot.

Love Star Wars. Not interested on a commercial level.

Would be nice for a licensee to cover the Sequel trilogy as well as the first two as well though...

Licensing someone else's IP is always a minefield. You need to raise the price of the product to cover IP licensing costs. And you could lose your license at any time. Look what happened to FASA and its Star Trek license. And the Star Wars license went from West End Games to WoTC then to the current license holder. Someone recently lost the Conan license, and it went to another publisher.

 

[MongooseMatt]

I look forward to being thoroughly cancelled from my local gaming society for my convincing and emotionally intense portrayal of an array of Gungan NPCs.

OMG, my last Star Wars character was a Gungan!

Tarka Bols, a Gungan Jedi.

Specifically, the very first Gungan Jedi. He had a lot to live up to. Loved the way his ears flapped when he was using Force Speed.

Never got him to Sith Lord...

 

[G'Naakbusters]

The only thing more alarming than a Gungan Jedi or Sith is a Gungan in the Traveller universe.

"Lookie, lookie. Issa Imperial patent. Meesa bombad noble! Mooie-mooie ganna upgradin' da starport to classen-B. Pitty hot!"

 

[Condottiere]

 

[Jame Rowe]

The only thing more alarming than a Gungan Jedi or Sith is a Gungan in the Traveller universe.

"Lookie, lookie. Issa Imperial patent. Meesa bombad noble! Mooie-mooie ganna upgradin' da starport to classen-B. Pitty hot!"

I'd allow it, for laughs!

 

[tytalan]

FFG and Edge don’t actually have the license that honor belongs to Asmodee and they are not going to let that license go especially since they just renewed it. Rumors are the renewal was for another 10 years but you’d actually would have to dig into their yearly tax documents to tell for sure but since it’s a publicly traded company those details are available.

 

[Sigtrygg]

Asmodee is the parent company, Edge and FFE are subsiduaries.

 

[hopsnbaer]

OMG, my last Star Wars character was a Gungan!

Tarka Bols, a Gungan Jedi.

Specifically, the very first Gungan Jedi. He had a lot to live up to. Loved the way his ears flapped when he was using Force Speed.

Never got him to Sith Lord...

That explains a lot.

 

[tytalan]

Asmodee is the parent company, Edge and FFE are subsiduaries.

Which is what I was pointing out that and the fact that because it’s a publicly traded company the duration of the license has to be included in their yearly tax documents

 

[Endie]

Which is what I was pointing out that and the fact that because it’s a publicly traded company the duration of the license has to be included in their yearly tax documents

What I think @Sigtrygg is pointing out is that, if the wholly-owned subsidiary is not, itself, publicly traded then the details of the license duration need not be made public in many jurisdictions. That's one of the (many, many) reasons why companies make use of subsidiaries.

 

[Condottiere]