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Starting Over (again)

I'd really like to get back into a storytelling role, so I'd like to revive Star Wars as a wiki-based storyline. Part of my desire behind this is that I think this will help me write more online - particularly with Exalted. If I can get into the flow or writing for a Star Wars storyline I think I can carry that over to the other games.

A couple of points I'd like your opinion on.

System

I see it as 3 options - our own custom Revised System, D6, and D20, and that is the order of my preference. I think that our custom system is much more suited for online play as we won't bog down in-person sessions with questions about how the system works. We have plenty of time to figure that out offline.

Type/Scale of Game

Do you want to be peons in the universe or Generals leading armies? Do you want to be one of the 10 jedi in existence or one of thousands? I'm willing to go epic scale - You could be a large criminal organization. You could be an Imperial warlord wrangling with the other warlords for power. You can be one of the few remaining jedi, either Light or Sith.

Time Period

This goes along with type/scale - Clone Wars era? Rebel Alliance era? New Republic/New Jedi Order era? My preference is the reverse order of that list, but I know there was a lot of interest in clone wars era so I am open to it.

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-==Starting Over==
+==Starting Over (again)==
-When we start playing Star Wars again, I want to start over. I am really struggling with a group of characters with very loose connections to each other. It's very difficult for me to put a story around it and it's difficult to keep the interests of all characters in mind and still keep the group together. Especially since Star Wars is our secondary game, I think it would be beneficial to have a very defined sense of purpose for the group. Some examples of the type of group I would like to see:
+I'd really like to get back into a storytelling role, so I'd like to revive Star Wars as a wiki-based storyline. Part of my desire behind this is that I think this will help me write more online - particularly with Exalted. If I can get into the flow or writing for a Star Wars storyline I think I can carry that over to the other games.
-*Cohesive military unit - Starfighter pilots, special forces, etc.
-*Elite intelligence unit - Imperial or Republic
-*Group of smugglers or pirates
-*Group of Jedi
-*Team of assassins - sort of copying the Grass Spiders concept but it'd be equally cool in Star Wars
-I also want to re-examine the time period. I much prefer post-ROTJ as opposed to prequel era Star Wars. I don't know if it's the inferior quality of the prequels and the Clone Wars movie or what, but after playing for a few months in the post-Thrawn era of SWC, I'm just loving that time period. If there's a strong preference to stay pre-episode-I then I will oblige, but I urge reconsideration.
+A couple of points I'd like your opinion on.
-I'm also going to shift to a one-session-resolution type of style, no ongoing campaign or extended mission, since we could go months at a time between sessions.
+'''System'''
-Thoughts?
+I see it as 3 options - our own custom Revised System, D6, and D20, and that is the order of my preference. I think that our custom system is much more suited for online play as we won't bog down in-person sessions with questions about how the system works. We have plenty of time to figure that out offline.
+'''Type/Scale of Game'''
+Do you want to be peons in the universe or Generals leading armies? Do you want to be one of the 10 jedi in existence or one of thousands? I'm willing to go epic scale - You could be a large criminal organization. You could be an Imperial warlord wrangling with the other warlords for power. You can be one of the few remaining jedi, either Light or Sith.
+'''Time Period'''
+This goes along with type/scale - Clone Wars era? Rebel Alliance era? New Republic/New Jedi Order era? My preference is the reverse order of that list, but I know there was a lot of interest in clone wars era so I am open to it.