So last night I ran Scum and Villainy for the first time, using Star Wars as the setting. The players were
Human Scoundrel who was a former Czerka troubleshooter
Rodian Mechanic with a grudge against Czerka for killing his parents
Human Pilot, former Imperial flyboy gone freelance
Droid Muscle who bought their freedom and is extremely dangerous
Human Speaker hailing from a fallen corporate family turned pirates
Their starting situation was that they were going to stick up a high-stakes sabaac game happening in the back room of a pleasure barge heading into Canto Bight. They chose to pose as employees and passengers on the barge, with the Scoundrel using their False Papers to get into the game. Using a flashback, they Skulked their trick holocards into the game and cheated, while also framing the Czerka exec across the table for cheating. In the middle of the job another bunch of criminals started their own robbery and the crew managed to fight them off, rob the game, and then shot their way out to an excursion pod and escaped.
I really like this system and I can’t wait to run it again next week. The crew has some good relationships with some interesting Factions, and I’m looking forward to how it develops from here. The system itself runs like a dream and I went into it with basically no prep but it worked out really well.
Glad to hear the system is supporting you and it’s sounds like your crew had fun! 🙂 SaV isn’t EXACTLY Star Wars so I’m always a little nervous when people try to get it to match canon exactly :p But sounds like you had a blast.
Stras Acimovic We are really enjoying it! Luckily I have a good group of players, so any time the mechanics get a little fuzzy with how they line up with the “canon” we just make a quick ruling and remember it for later. So far it hasn’t been a big issue. I’ve already got players working on crafting projects and they keep telling me about how cool their playbook stuff is (our Mechanic has already decided that their Genius Pet is a trained porg). Thanks for making such a rad game!
I was WONDERING when porgs would show up—haha.
Thanks for picking it up and giving it a spin at the table ^_^
Did you use iconic star wars groups as factions, or make new ones up?
John Recca I stole a few from the old EU stuff like Sienar Fleet Systems, Incom and SoroSuub, and made up most of the rest just based on stuff that I imagined would be in the Corporate Sector. The First Order and the Resistance are in there as well, but their conflict is so distant from the main action of the game that they’re fringe actors at best.