Got some old Star Wars books to check out in celebration of your punny non-holiday this week. Last year, this was accidental. This year, it’s on purpose.

This is the Star Wars Campaign Pack (1988), which, surprise, was meant to introduce campaign play. It probably sold primarily because it included the gamemaster screen, but it’s still a pretty cool way to put out a campaign frame, I think. In the booklet is all the basic info a GM needs for a campaign focused on a unit of rebel commandos based on the ship Long Shot. There’s material detailing the ship (including a gigantic fold-out floorplan), the sector the unit operates in, some key NPCs, a framework defining typical missions and a sample adventure to get things started.

It’s nothing crazy—sticking a bunch of people on a ship together is the basic Star Wars experience—but it’s nice to have it taken care of from the start without being super rigid, as later WEG Star Wars campaign material sometimes trends.

The cover here is also a panel in the screen, which was a thing that always annoyed me. So the players have to look at the sales copy from the back cover? Meh. It’s not the end of the world, I guess, but I do think it’s funny that they airbrushed Leia’s dancer costume. I guess it was too risqué for something that was going to be standing up on middle America’s dining room tables?    

Made a couple appearances on the broader web this week. First up, an interview with Joanna Hauser of Toy Tales. My appearance on Epic Levels' Mad Dungeon Podcast also dropped this week. That was recorded a ways back, but involves a cursed pomander ball, so is kind of preserved for all time.

The ogre gang is coming together into a terrifying force. Finished off two last weekend, though something got funky with the varnish so I might have to retouch them a bit. They look far better in person than in the photos, but that might be because I haven't figure out the seven (!) lens on my new phone yet.

It was not my attention to make these guys look like Hellboy's black sheep cousins, but that's where we are and I am not mad about it. I will say, I had no particular love for these sculpts before I painted them (this is even more true of the last two ogres who are still in-process) but now I dig 'em. The power of paint!