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The New Jedi Order Sourcebook
There's a time to run and a time to stand....
The Yuuzhan Vong have shattered the New Republic's promise of peace throughout the galaxy. System by system, they bring death and enslavement to all they encounter. Even the Jedi have failed to slow the merciless advance of this dark tide. As this terrible threat from beyond the galaxy's edge pushes closer to Coruscant, the need for great heroes grows ever more dire.
This sourcebook features:
� New prestige classes, feats, species, ships, and starship combat tactics
� New archetypes with statistics for play at low, medium, and high levels
� Rules for the Yuuzhan Vong, including their soldiers and priests, ships, weapons, and equipment
� Action-packed adventure seeds designed for mid- to high-level characters
� Game statistics for characters from The New Jedi Order novels, including Vector Prime, Onslaught, Ruin, Hero's Trial, Jedi Eclipse, Balance Point, Conquest, Rebirth, and Star by Star
To use this sourcebook, you also need the Star Wars Roleplaying Game Revised Core Rulebook.
The Yuuzhan Vong have shattered the New Republic's promise of peace throughout the galaxy. System by system, they bring death and enslavement to all they encounter. Even the Jedi have failed to slow the merciless advance of this dark tide. As this terrible threat from beyond the galaxy's edge pushes closer to Coruscant, the need for great heroes grows ever more dire.
This sourcebook features:
� New prestige classes, feats, species, ships, and starship combat tactics
� New archetypes with statistics for play at low, medium, and high levels
� Rules for the Yuuzhan Vong, including their soldiers and priests, ships, weapons, and equipment
� Action-packed adventure seeds designed for mid- to high-level characters
� Game statistics for characters from The New Jedi Order novels, including Vector Prime, Onslaught, Ruin, Hero's Trial, Jedi Eclipse, Balance Point, Conquest, Rebirth, and Star by Star
To use this sourcebook, you also need the Star Wars Roleplaying Game Revised Core Rulebook.
160 pages, Hardcover
First published February 1, 2002
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January 3, 2022
For 2021, I decided to reread Del Rey’s first attempt at a multi-author book series in the Star Wars universe: The New Jedi Order, which was published between 1999 and 2003. This shakes out to 19 novels, three eBook novellas, five short stories, some comics, and a tangentially-related prequel era novel.
This week’s focus: more of a reference book from Wizards of the Coast’s Star Wars Roleplaying Game in 2002: The New Jedi Order Sourcebook by J.D. Wiker and Steve Miller..
SOME HISTORY:
In 1999, West End Games lost the license to produce Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, their D6 role-playing adventure set in the Star Wars universe. Wizards of the Coast took over the license starting in the year 2000 and introduced the Star Wars Roleplaying Game (yes there's just one word difference between them), which was a D20 role-playing adventure set within the Star Wars universe. Wizards of the Coast released a number of sourcebooks to flesh out the game, with new characters, creatures, planets, ships, and possible campaigns, and thus The New Jedi Order Sourcebook in 2002.
THOUGHTS:
Since the New Jedi Order series didn’t conclude until 2003, the Sourcebook only covers events from Vector Prime to Star by Star, unfortunately, there was no additional sourcebook for the subsequent ten books. But this isn’t really a reference book—it’s intended for Game Masters who want to run their own NJO campaign. So you get synopses of each of the books or duologies, character stats, stats and suggestions for character classes, and ideas of how the Game Master could run a potential campaign.
So The New Jedi Order Sourcebook is rather niche content. It’s primarily focused on the Star Wars Roleplaying Game, and isn’t a reference book like the Essential Guides. There are illustrations, but they tend towards character portraits rather than depictions of ships, weapons, and settings. I really loved the Essential Guides when I was younger—especially The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels--because I enjoyed looking at the cross-sections and dimensions, but there’s nothing like that here.
The first chapter in particular has a lot of information on the Yuuzhan Vong, with the caveat that this info only goes up through the events of Star by Star, so there’s a lot of revelations about the Vong that just aren’t present in this book.
There are some weird errors: Gavin Darklighter is described as Biggs’s younger brother when he’s Biggs’s cousin, and the galaxy maps consistently put Belkadan closer to the edge of the galaxy than Helska.
MY VERDICT:
There’s some helpful information here, but I think you would be better off reading it after Star by Star, especially if you take a break from the series and need a refresher. But if you have any interest in the Star Wars Roleplaying Game, I think it’s worth checking out—a NJO era campaign could be a lot of fun!
Next up: I’m working on a New Jedi Order post-mortem, so next I’ll be jumping back to the 1999-2005 prequel novels with The Phantom Menace novelization by Terry Brooks.
My YouTube review: https://youtu.be/K4p40-UJ3sI
PDF of The New Jedi Order Sourcebook: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eDFR...
PDF of the NJO chapter from Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zyk2...
You Bet I Love Jedi: https://web.archive.org/web/200304032...
This week’s focus: more of a reference book from Wizards of the Coast’s Star Wars Roleplaying Game in 2002: The New Jedi Order Sourcebook by J.D. Wiker and Steve Miller..
SOME HISTORY:
In 1999, West End Games lost the license to produce Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, their D6 role-playing adventure set in the Star Wars universe. Wizards of the Coast took over the license starting in the year 2000 and introduced the Star Wars Roleplaying Game (yes there's just one word difference between them), which was a D20 role-playing adventure set within the Star Wars universe. Wizards of the Coast released a number of sourcebooks to flesh out the game, with new characters, creatures, planets, ships, and possible campaigns, and thus The New Jedi Order Sourcebook in 2002.
THOUGHTS:
Since the New Jedi Order series didn’t conclude until 2003, the Sourcebook only covers events from Vector Prime to Star by Star, unfortunately, there was no additional sourcebook for the subsequent ten books. But this isn’t really a reference book—it’s intended for Game Masters who want to run their own NJO campaign. So you get synopses of each of the books or duologies, character stats, stats and suggestions for character classes, and ideas of how the Game Master could run a potential campaign.
So The New Jedi Order Sourcebook is rather niche content. It’s primarily focused on the Star Wars Roleplaying Game, and isn’t a reference book like the Essential Guides. There are illustrations, but they tend towards character portraits rather than depictions of ships, weapons, and settings. I really loved the Essential Guides when I was younger—especially The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels--because I enjoyed looking at the cross-sections and dimensions, but there’s nothing like that here.
The first chapter in particular has a lot of information on the Yuuzhan Vong, with the caveat that this info only goes up through the events of Star by Star, so there’s a lot of revelations about the Vong that just aren’t present in this book.
There are some weird errors: Gavin Darklighter is described as Biggs’s younger brother when he’s Biggs’s cousin, and the galaxy maps consistently put Belkadan closer to the edge of the galaxy than Helska.
MY VERDICT:
There’s some helpful information here, but I think you would be better off reading it after Star by Star, especially if you take a break from the series and need a refresher. But if you have any interest in the Star Wars Roleplaying Game, I think it’s worth checking out—a NJO era campaign could be a lot of fun!
Next up: I’m working on a New Jedi Order post-mortem, so next I’ll be jumping back to the 1999-2005 prequel novels with The Phantom Menace novelization by Terry Brooks.
My YouTube review: https://youtu.be/K4p40-UJ3sI
PDF of The New Jedi Order Sourcebook: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eDFR...
PDF of the NJO chapter from Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zyk2...
You Bet I Love Jedi: https://web.archive.org/web/200304032...
August 4, 2014
Enormously useful for d20 gaming in the Star Wars universe. It only gets you 2/3 of the way through the NJO storyline, but that's a full campaign by itself!
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