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West End Games
Free Digital Sourcebooks and Supplements
From 1987 to 1998, the Pennsylvania based company West End Games released official Star Wars roleplaying game sourcebooks, adventure supplements, guides, and the Star Wars Adventure Journal, all of which contained new stories set in the Star Wars universe, some as prose, but most as adventure scenarios for use in the game. All of this material was approved by Lucasfilm and later made its way into the background (and occasional foreground) material of the novels and comic-books that comprised the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
Due to the owner's poor choice to siphon money from West End Games into his failing shoe company Bocce Imports, done in a last-ditch attempt to keep it afloat, West End Games went under and lost the Star Wars license. Two years later, Wizards of the Coast picked it up and ran with their own sourcebooks and supplements for a decade until they let it lapse in 2010. Fantasy Flight Games now holds the license and from 2012 on has continued to produce new and exciting roleplaying game sourcebooks, guides and adventures.
With the West End Games material now long out-of-print, and
expensive and time-consuming to
track down on the second-hand market, I have made it available here as free
digital PDFs for fans new and old to enjoy! The following are arranged by type of
product. The West End Games number follows each title. This list also
includes professionally-produced PDF continuations of the D6 West End
Games series written by fans, and indicated by any linked title that
does not have the West End Games number following it.
Note: If you find any imperfect or missing pages, send corrected versions here. Also, if you happen to have any of the pre-Living Force RPGA material from 1988-2000, let me know and I'll post them here!
Special thanks to the individual(s) who initially scanned these, as well as to Thiago S. Aranha and the people at Womp Rat Press and the REUP team, Dave Amberson, Don Diestler, Mike Fett, Keith Kilburn, Peter Lomas, Joseph McHorter, Oliver Queen, David Stairs, Daniel Stull, Michael Fraley, and others for carrying the torch and continuing where West End Games left off, such as Brian L Bird and his team. Drop me a line if I've neglected a name so I can include you to this site's list of acknowledgments. Special thanks to JF Boivin for first bringing these to my attention, and Robin Gosse for helping me figure out what to do with them so they didn't eat up all my bandwidth! |
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Sourcebooks (hardcover) and Related Supplements |
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The Roleplaying Game: 1st edition 40001
The Star Wars Sourcebook: 1st edition 40002
The Imperial Sourcebook: 1st edition 40006
The Rebel Alliance Sourcebook: 1st edition 40007
Han Solo and the Corporate Sector Sourcebook 40042
The Roleplaying Game: 2nd edition 40055
Heir to the Empire Sourcebook: 1st edition 40056
Dark Force Rising Sourcebook: 1st edition 40058
The Last Command Sourcebook: 1st edition 40059
The Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook 40131 (softcover)
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The Movie Trilogy Sourcebook 40076
Tales of the Jedi Companion 40082
Truce at Bakura Sourcebook 40085
The Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition Sourcebook 40089
The Rebel Alliance Sourcebook 40091
The Star Wars Sourcebook: 2nd edition 40093
The Jedi Academy Sourcebook 40114
The Roleplaying Game: Revised and Expanded 2nd edition 40120
The Roleplaying Game: Revised, Expanded & Updated
Shadows of the Empire Sourcebook 40122 |
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Rules Supplements (softcover) |
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Campaign Pack: 1st edition 40004 The Rules Companion: 1st edition 40043 Gamemaster Kit: 1st edition 40048 Gamemaster Screen: 2nd edition 40064 Gamemaster Screen: Revised (2nd edition) 40135 (updated)
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Gamemaster Handbook (2nd Edition) 40065
D6 Template Collection Volume 1
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Guides and Sourcebooks (softcover) |
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Fantastic Technology Series Galladinium's Fantastic Technology: Guns & Gear 40025 Cynabar's Fantastic Technology: Droids 40116 Gundark's Fantastic Technology: Personal Gear 40158
Cracken's Series Cracken's Rebel Field Guide 40046 Cracken's Rebel Operatives 40084 Cracken's Threat Dossier 40139
Planets Series Planets of the Galaxy Volume 1 40051 Planets of the Galaxy Volume 2 40057 Planets of the Galaxy Volume 3 40072
Platt's Series
Pirates & Privateers Series The Far Orbit Project: A Pirates & Privateers Supplement 40029 |
The Death Star Technical Companion 40008
Goroth: Slave of the Empire 40098
Alliance Intelligence Reports 40109
Hideouts and Strongholds 40111
Rules of Engagement: The Rebel SpecForce Handbook 40113
Secrets of the Sisar Run 40136
Wretched Hives of Scum and Villainy 40153
The Black Sands of Socorro 40154
Alien Encounters: Aliens Compendium 40166
Corellian Engineering Corporate Sourcebook
Guide to TIE Fighters: The TIE Fighter Sourcebook
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Galaxy Guides (softcover) |
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Galaxy Guide 1: A New Hope: 1st edition
40038 Galaxy Guide 1: A New Hope: 2nd edition 40124 Galaxy Guide 2: Yavin and Bespin: 1st edition 40023 Galaxy Guide 2: Yavin and Bespin: 2nd edition 40119 Galaxy Guide 3: The Empire Strikes Back: 1st edition 40039 Galaxy Guide 3: The Empire Strikes Back: 2nd edition 40125 Galaxy Guide 4: Alien Races: 1st edition 40041 Galaxy Guide 4: Alien Races: 2nd edition 40094 Galaxy Guide 5: Return of the Jedi 40040 |
Galaxy Guide 6: Tramp Freighters: 2nd
edition 40095 Galaxy Guide 7: Mos Eisley 40069 Galaxy Guide 9: Fragments from the Rim 40063 Galaxy Guide 10: Bounty Hunters 40073 Galaxy Guide 11: Criminal Organizations 40075 Galaxy Guide 12: Aliens--Enemies and Allies 40089 Galaxy Guide 13: The Phantom Menace Galaxy Guide 14: The Dark Side Galaxy Guide 15: Attack of the Clones |
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Solitaire Adventures (softcover) These solitaire adventures are in the form of "Choose Your Own Adventure" type stories, and present a multiplicity of storylines within a single story. A linear pathway has been provided for Jedi's Honor that avoids contradictions with other stories. This can can be found here. |
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Adventure Supplements (softcover) The following roleplaying game adventure supplements are the main source of new and exclusive Star Wars Expanded Universe stories, apart from the seventeen Star Wars Adventure Journals. For these to fit into any kind of linear timeline it must be assumed that the protagonists emerged successful, though the details of their campaigns cannot be entirely ascertained, as they are part of the game mechanics, and not spelled out in detail (to allow for the gamers to have their own unique adventures). |
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Tatooine Manhunt: 1st edition 40005 Strike Force: Shantipole: 1st edition 40009 Battle for the Golden Sun (1st edition) 40017 Otherspace (1st Edition) 40018 The Graveyard of Alderaan: 1st Edition 40019 Scavenger Hunt (1st edition) 40020 Riders of the Maelstrom: 1st edition 40021 Crisis on Cloud City (1st edition) 40022 Otherspace II: Invasion (1st edition) 40028 The Game Chambers of Questal: 1st edition 40033 Domain of Evil: 1st edition 40034 The Isis Coordinates (1st edition) 40036 Death in the Undercity: 1st edition 40037 Planet of the Mists (1st edition) 40049 Mission to Lianna (1st edition) 40052 |
The Politics of Contraband 40067 Classic Adventures Volume 1 40083
Classic Adventures Volume 2 40128
Classic Adventures Volume 3 40133
Classic Adventures Volume 4: Best of the Adventure Journal Issues 1-4 40138 Classic Adventures Volume 5 40165
Tower of Shadows (aka. Temple of Ooradaal; unpublished adventure for No Disintegrations) |
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Boxed Sets and Related Adventures These larger adventures run as lengthy campaigns with multiple connected storylines. Related adventures or supplements that are not included in the box set have been included here for ease in identifying and locating them. (Note: the Lords of the Expanse box-set must be downloaded individually) |
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Mos Eisley Adventure Set 40212
Lords of the Expanse 40215
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The Darkstryder Campaign 40209 Darkstryder: The Kathol Outback 40118 Darkstryder: The Kathol Rift 40121
Introductory Adventure Game 40602
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Star Wars Adventure Journal (softcover) West End Games produced 15 issues of the Star Wars Adventure Journal, with two others that went unpublished. Issue 16 has been recovered in whole, while issue 17 has been recovered in part. Both were published exclusively on this website. All are available for the first time as PDFs. Issue #18 is forthcoming. |
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The Star Wars Adventurer's Journal and Wild Space Magazine
The spiritual successor to West End Games Star Wars Adventure Journal,
and professionally produced, Brian Bird's Adventurer's Journal
feature all eight issues of new RPG adventures, short stories, and
supplementary material (I think they're complete, but head over Brian's
Facebook page
here), as
is Womp Rat Press' two-issue Wild Space Magazine, both of which
are referenced in Supernatural Encounters.
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Live Action Roleplaying (softcover) Live Action Roleplaying (LARPs) became popular in the mid-90s, close to the end of West End Games' run, allowing them to produce two LARP books during that time. |
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Miniatures (softcover) While all of West End Games' adventure supplements could be played with miniatures, the following were specifically intended to be used with such. As with the former, they contain RPG scenarios that are canonical in the Star Wars Expanded Universe. |
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Star Wars RPG Magazines
Numerous roleplaying game magazines around the world featured exclusive Star Wars EU content. In the link above are some of those. This is a dynamic project of translation and digitization, and a growing list. If you want to help, contact me and I'll put you in touch with a member of the team working on these. |
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Board Games (softcover) Although the strategy/board games produced by West End Games do not include any new or exclusive Expanded Universe stories, they are included here for nostalgia and posterity's sake.
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The Lightsaber Dueling Pack: Luke Skywalker 40010-71 The Lightsaber Dueling Pack: Darth Vader 40010-72 The Starfighter Battle Book: X-Wing Vs. TIE Interceptor 40011 Star Warriors: Starfighter Combat 40201 Adventure Boardgame Series Escape from the Death Star 40207
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D6 Conversions (digital) The following PDFs take the stats from the Wizards of the Coast D20 game and convert them for the D6 West End Games rules |
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ADDITIONAL FAN-MADE RPG SOURCEBOOKS, SUPPLEMENTS, AND ADVENTURES |
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Note: Unpublished. rare. or out-of-print Star Wars stories will be taken down if/when officially released/reprinted |
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Cult Encounters
Previously unpublished duology intended for Hyperspace and the Star Wars Blog. |
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Lightsider
Tom Veitch's unpublished bridge story between Dark Empire I and II |
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