Day One of #RPGaDay2021 starts off with a single, simple word: Scenario. After seven years of this activity, I'm certain I could recycle some of the classic posts, Favorite Scenario to Play, Favorite Scenario to GM, Favorite Scenario to Read, Favorite Scenario to Add Cannibal Goat-People to, I probably covered it in years prior.
The idea is simple, start with GDW's Challenge Magazine's first issue (#25) and adapt the scenarios, NPCs, and fluff Traveller material into my Star Wars game.... and ultimately the West End Star Wars stuff as it was published. I pondered the concept in #RPGaDay2019 and had just started proper indexing all the material and implementing it in #RPGaDay2020.
I can safely say, that after another year, it's a slow go, but I'm effectively through most of the material up and including issue #29.
Why Traveller articles for Star Wars, you may ask? This was going to be attempted regardless, but the characters lent to the more mercantile nature of Traveller.
Me: "What are you playing."
Player #1: "A Brash Pilot."
Me: "Good, and you?"
Player #2: "A Wookie."
Me: "Good pairing, and you?"
Player #3: "A Twi'lek male merc, can I be enslaved to another player, and trying to earn my freedom."
Me: "I'll allow it, and you, Steve?"
Player #4: "I want to be a Galactic Exotic Animal Dealer!"
Me: "Dammit Steve!"
So far, it's worked, and the scenarios are strangely plug-and-play. A few NPCs have made casual appearances, ready to return, and I've inter-mixed some Starfinder and Star Frontiers material to mix up.
Once I complete the scenarios in Challenge #28 and #29, I have a difficult decision. I had always planned on moving this neutral campaign down a different storyline, closer to either the Rebellion or the Imperial ties. However, upon reviewing Challenge's predecessor, The Journal of the Traveller's Aide Society, issues #1-24 are so chock full of articles on new planets, and flora and fauna, that I might delay some events to allow for more diverse exploration and acquisition.
And so far, the actual cost of acquisition for the material used for fifty-plus sessions (including a Star Frontiers module) is less than twenty bucks.
Disclaimer: I do not condone the use of third party sites to obtain protected intellectual properties without compensation. However, a cheap American, I do recommend getting things as cheaply as possible, so look for sales/discounts on pdfs, or cheap copies at your FLGS/Conventions. In reality, I've gone through five issues worth of material in a year. Your mileage may vary, but a library of material like this, built up over time, is a sheer bargain.
Disclaimer #2: I'm putting aside all the Twilight:2000 material for when Free League ships their Twilight:2000 Kickstarter
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