SW "Legacy Era" = Crap

[the_gneech]

Y'know, when I named my Star Wars campaign "Empire's Legacy," I had no idea they were going to run an awful comic series referred to as "the Legacy era." I'm kind of ashamed of the name, now. :(

What brings this up is I just officially "didn't buy" a Star Wars Saga Edition supplement tonight, the Legacy Era Sourcebook, after giving it a pretty thorough examination. Now granted, most of the "expanded universe" tends to be pretty weak[1], but I was not prepared for just how bad the Legacy stuff would be. All of the flaws of something like, say, Dark Empire, magnified by a factor of 10. "Whee, let's wipe out the Jedi again! And guess what, the Empire is back! But that's not bad enough, so now there's two Empires! But one of the Empires is a good Empire, or at least not as bad an Empire. Ooooh, moral complexity! Who says I'm a hack???"

Pfeh.

I had intended to pretty much ignore the fluff and pick up the book just for the stat blocks, talent trees, and so on, but those were pretty uninspired too. In the end, there just wasn't anything in there worth the money.

-The Gneech

[1] About the only EU stuff that I'd say was really good is the Knights of the Old Republic era, although I do enjoy playing the Jedi Knight computer game series.

Comments

[rhanlav.livejournal.com]

The Clone War Campaign book wasn't bad. And the Scum & Villainy book is very awesome, but that might have more to do with my love of the YT-1930 and the awesomeness that is Han Solo.

But wait... the next book is out? Erf. Gotta go buy!

--Salen

[rikoshi.livejournal.com]

You know, the concept of the 'Legacy' series had me rolling my eyes for a couple of years as I kept hearing about it. I just thought it sounded, well, dumb.

But people kept insisting that it was pretty good, and so I finally cracked and got the first volume of the graphic novels... and then later that week picked up the rest of them, because I had gotten hooked.

Now, I mean, I'm not a huge EU fan: I don't like the New Jedi Order, and "Dark Empire" makes my teeth hurt, but "Legacy" is actually really solid, in my opinion, which caught me by surprise.

I dunno. I mean, maybe it's not for everyone, but I thought I was going to hate it, and I ended up digging it quite a bit. My $0.02.

[hossblacksilver.livejournal.com]

I'm a fan of Legacy, I admit it. Though, I wouldn't mind seeing a few thousand years in the future when Luke, Han and Leia are more legend than history and the struggles of the galaxy and Jedi then.

As for the Jedi order getting wiped out, they seem to get that happening to them on a fairly regular basis (Happened in the KotOR era as well), I think that's just a case of, as my mom would put it, the Jedi Council reading their own press. Heck two of the most powerful Jedi sitting across from the Master Sith for years and they didn't get a hint? Yeah, I'm not that impressed with them now.

Still, the book I want is the Alien Anthology.