This article is mostly about Jedi Knight, yet Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game is mentioned. (uses d6's with +1,+2 pips, effect scales, and rerolling successes)
Having played, it's perhaps one of the best written role playing book series ever made. There are so many expanded universe supplements its ridiculous. Tramp freighters rarely even written about, with full stat blocks, and aftermarket parts. "How many turbolasers does a star destroyer have?" 'Was that an Imperial I, Imperial II, Valiant, Interdictor, Eclipse, Terminus, Executor, Resurgent, Venator, ...'
From the Wiki: "Lucasfilm considered the West End Games' Star Wars sourcebooks so authoritative that when Timothy Zahn was hired to write what became the Thrawn trilogy, he was sent a box of West End Games Star Wars books and directed to base his novel on the background material presented within."
If you happen to enjoy roleplaying, and never tried them, they're at least worth looking at. Lots of ideas. (also 35 yrs old, so mostly available, if rare) The art's mostly of a b/w storyboard type. Yet, that's kind of nice as, movies, and quickly gives a sense of scale about a bunch of different SW ideas. https://dk.pinterest.com/pin/396598310951842250/ (has a lot of illustration examples)
I've never play West End's game, but Fantasy Flight's "Genesys"-based Star Wars TTRPG is a phenomenal, novel, and approachable game with a massive, encyclopedic catalog of cohesive Star Wars universe components.
I highly recommend any of the three starter kits (Jedi/Rebel/Smuggler) for fans of the franchise who haven't yet played a tabletop RPG, or for anyone who thinks "Dungeons & Dragons" might be an interesting way to spend an afternoon.
If you enjoyed "Genesys" and should happen to stumble onto a copy of WEG Star Wars (perhaps even from some shady cantina dealer with a gray sense of legal acquisition), you will probably enjoy the WEG predecessor just as much. It is timeless in surprising ways that most D&D editions are not, including its reliance on simple, effective d6 dice pools. That's one of the more fun contrasts between WEG Star Wars and Fantasy Flight (now "Edge Studios: An Asmodee Brand") Star Wars: "Genesys" uses pools of custom dice with unique faces and WEG's system is often called "d6 Star Wars" because it just uses pools of one of the cheapest and most common form of dice.
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Having played, it's perhaps one of the best written role playing book series ever made. There are so many expanded universe supplements its ridiculous. Tramp freighters rarely even written about, with full stat blocks, and aftermarket parts. "How many turbolasers does a star destroyer have?" 'Was that an Imperial I, Imperial II, Valiant, Interdictor, Eclipse, Terminus, Executor, Resurgent, Venator, ...'
From the Wiki: "Lucasfilm considered the West End Games' Star Wars sourcebooks so authoritative that when Timothy Zahn was hired to write what became the Thrawn trilogy, he was sent a box of West End Games Star Wars books and directed to base his novel on the background material presented within."
If you happen to enjoy roleplaying, and never tried them, they're at least worth looking at. Lots of ideas. (also 35 yrs old, so mostly available, if rare) The art's mostly of a b/w storyboard type. Yet, that's kind of nice as, movies, and quickly gives a sense of scale about a bunch of different SW ideas. https://dk.pinterest.com/pin/396598310951842250/ (has a lot of illustration examples)