A Complete Guide to Star Wars RPG Dice

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

Do you have any questions? Ask them here!

[@carlosrivera9047]

I always wondered, in your opinion is knowing the odds you are up against considered metagaming? For example, if a player wants to charm an npc and the difficulty is 2p and 1r. Player fails. Another player originally wanted to try as well but decided against it after seeing the dice.

[@carlosrivera9047]

One other thing, the order of how dice are added to the pool should be emphasized (i learned this the hard way). Per core book, the order should always be adding dice, then upgrading, then downgrading, finally removing dice. CRB pg 20.

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

It can be, but the dice are never absolute. I would encourage to play the game first, and worry about dice rolls second. The player shouldn't say "I want to try a charm check" instead it should be a roll that comes after the roleplayed action. And that is correct! The book has info on the order of upgrading and downgrading!

[@ianhoulihan4649]

@@carlosrivera9047, I’m a firm believer that no check should be made twice unless there are consequences involved. That is that character’s “scene”. So in your example, the Charm check may have been a Hard difficulty. If the check failed, and another PC wanted to try the same thing, for me there would be setback at least, an increase in difficulty, and/or a full upgrade, depending on the circumstances.

[@carlosrivera9047]

@@ianhoulihan4649 This makes alot of sense.

[@lordcranio3032]

You really need to jump into this system to fully get it, don't let it intimidate you. By your second or third dice pool it will all make sense.

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

💯

[@Flanning]

Thanks for the reassurance! I've done a lot of tabletop, but it felt so intimidating just reading through all of the rulebooks and source material. Definitely seems overwhelming, but I know it will be easier once we get to the game.

[@FlintFireforge]

Best instructional video I've seen so far. Gearing up for a May the 4th game.

[@SuperUltraBob232]

Spontaneously bought an Age of Rebellion book with no idea what to do. You are a godsend, the only thing to do now is play as a group of droids discovering what it truly means to be alive.

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

Glad to hear it! Hope you enjoy this awesome system 😁

[@georggabriel7852]

We played this rpg a lot when it came out some 11y ago. EotE Starter, 3y homebrew campaign, 1y Arda I, 1y Gatekeeper. This Game is sooo good. It gets clunky in longer campaigns if you grant too much XP. After playing Genesys, Warhammer 4e, Pathfinder 2e, DnD 5e I am going for a revisit of this awesome RPG . I am So happy about your content, its awesome to get back into the rules. May the force be with all of you;)

[@gregwhite6005]

I played this for years when it released. I let my players roll all the dice all the time. As a GM I had enough to do and they loved the transparency. Also I let them suggest results for the negative effects too. We would effectively quickly workshop the outcome as a collective narrators, we’d go with the idea that was the most fun, dramatic or ‘star wars’

[@rossgagne5494]

I just picked this game up yesterday, the main Rebellion Book, The rebellion GM screen, 2 sets of dice and the Starships and speeders book along with the sourcebook with Star wars Rebels in its. Cant wait to play sounds really fun and your videos really do a great job explaining the rules.

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

So glad to be of help!

[@Lone_GamerUK]

At first didn’t like the dice 🎲 mostly due to be a little less straight forward. However after watching the crazy fun old Yogcast rpg play throughs - and as I understood more - it’s so great to have these story telling dice with advantages/disadvantages. So now I love the story & power it gives the players 🎉😂

[@tikapoejones4079]

thank you for this series it's a great refresher as a gm, i haven't played in a while and this series is awesome, cheers.

[@joe-wi8nj]

Okay took an hour but ive been studying dice mechanics like crazy for my rpg-ish? Board /card game. And this just clicked in like it was meant to be ! 😊

[@jarrettstavey5231]

GM sent me here, these videos are super helpful! Definitely looking forward to playing

[@clink-at-war2]

man I really wish I had these guides when I was first getting into this game

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

Same! It is why I created them, because I wanted them to exist for myself and my Players 😂

[@jodzileigh]

You have a really good teaching style! I really appreciate these videos Thank you!

[@davidmccullin8609]

Thanks so much for this video!! I have been struggling with the dice on this game.

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

Glad I could help!

[@jordandowers8102]

Although the rulebook is almost 500 pages, its nice that the GM (and the players) have quite a bit of say on how advantages/disadvantages can be played out. My really only TTRPG exposure is the galss cannon podcast I started listening to last month, and that is quite rules heavy haha. Love the vids!

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

Glad you enjoy them! :)

[@ianhoulihan4649]

It is definitely a more collaborative experience at the table, and less adversarial than many other systems.

[@nickdavison268]

Some great helpful hints about how to use the dice.

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

Thank you!

[@MightyMatt87]

Most of the time I actually don't tell my players how many purple dice are needed for the roll and I roll them, while the players roll only "good" dice. I make sure that they know how difficult these actions are from a narrative perspective, but not from a mechanical one. I like the idea that they fail an action but because of some advantages they might believe they succeded, or some threats happened and they don't know it immediately.

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

That's a cool way to look at it!

[@joe-wi8nj]

that's good gm ing! players do always need to know the why's and wherefores a little mystery plus with this dice system you can know/not know.

[@conmacmara2743]

I like that idea of gm using the negative dice much better

[@Wilhuf1]

I let my players roll all of the dice because the social contract is, they try it, having knowledge of the risks.

[@katherinewelling6026]

Really good explanation! Thank you!

[@Molten-Throne]

Great video, love the narrative dice

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

Thanks! Me too :)

[@ttrev007]

I wish i had watched this before i played with my friends. The dice really confused me. This helps

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

Glad to be of assistance!

[@markpurick5988]

Great explanation!

[@StrangeObscureStories]

Thanks for this great explainer

[@paulchen8147]

Even though it's (in my eyes) complicated: the narrative dice can be replaced by normal dice with help of the table in the core rules. But the bigger question: where to get dice? It seems every store is empty. But with the switch to Edge Studios they should be available again, maybe end of this year (or so I was told).

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

Unfortunately the game is moving publishers at the moment so stock is low everywhere. There are phone apps and websites that should be able to hold people over until the dice come back in stock. I've also heard that it will be later this year

[@badical64]

I've heard mixed things. At one point I heard that Edge was NOT reprinting the dice separately, and that we can only get them in Beginner Games. Buuut I also heard the opposite. So I'm really not sure.

[@natanoj16]

My favorite part of this system ^^ Just sad that it is so hard to get the genesys Dice sets where I live.

[@TheNickman007]

Good second vid!

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

Thanks! More to come :)

[@alcoholicwater]

Yea really nice having a fixed difficulty system rather than the dnd random number Lotr had a number system too but that is on the player character sheets

[@rileyackison4495]

Great vid

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

Thank you!

[@daeglan]

Can you do a video on Duty and contribution rank increases?

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

I touch on it a bit in character creation but haven't yet for an entire dedicated video. I probably should though tbh

[@Standby_JRB]

Awesome video. I'm mad im late to this game lol I cant seem to find any core books or dice sets for sale. Do you have any recommendations on where to look so i can get my hands on this game? I really want to be prepared for when i finally force (pun intended) my d&d group into this new system lol

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

If you play remotely, then RPG Sessions is great. As far as books I typically look at Asmodee's site or Amazon. The dice are still waiting on reprints which we have heard "Coming very soon" for a few months now.

[@longforgotten4823]

Are there any supplemental materials that tackle the old Republic?

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

Not that I know of :(

[@wesleyeavenson6054]

How might I approach a situation where I don’t have enough green dice for a roll? Do I have them reroll a green or upgrade the missing green to yellow?

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

Yeah that can be tough. Kinda need 2 packs of dice at minimum tbh. With the recent restock im up to 6 😅 I would reroll however many green after you already take their symbols into account

[@WJ2A]

I know I’m way late on this video, but for anyone with some experience as someone who wants to GM but only has minor experience in some other ttrpgs, would it be beneficial to get into a PC role first to get some experience or would it be better to jump right in to GM?

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

Just GM! I would watch some videos though for people’s playthroughs as well as go through my entire beginners guide playlist for SWRPG.

[@goochman1969]

how do you do damage? like if you shoot or use a lightsaber and you hit the target, how do you roll the damage?

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

You roll combat skills, so a blaster pistol rolls ranged light. You then take the weapon damage and add 1 per success. So 2 success rolled on a 6 damage pistol is 8 damage. I have 3 videos covering combat in the beginners guide series :)

[@99zxk]

I think that they should have used star wars symbols for the dice, like a rebel symbol for success and empire for failure. I don't know what an explosion or arrow means, but I get the the good guys are a good for the players.

[@noxumbra173]

At the 10 minute mark, after you rolled the dice. Why did you not explain the outcome of the roll with the Bandits?

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

I thought of that later after publishing the video 😅😂 I'll be redoing the series at some point to make it better and get some of the small errors out

[@vibrantoucan8890]

Question that is kinda related, but where do I get dice? I want to buy a rulebook, but the dice seem to be even more sold out than the books.

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

At the moment there is a phone app. Dice are rumored to be coming back in stock in January

[@theonlyenicfanever5346]

In the situation where you describe the climb check, they get 3 purple dice because the wall is high and there aren’t many things to hold on to, and get one disadvantage/threat because it’s raining. Why? What dictates what is purple and what is disadvantage? It seems completely arbitrary

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

Setback dice have lower odds of failure symbols being rolled, so are used when it isn't THAT much harder, but the situation makes it a little more difficult.

[@russellparker5043]

Good general coverage of the Dice, although resolving Triumphs and Despairs could be a whole segment all on their own. :) It also seems like you cut out resolving the rolls you used as examples...

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

Yeah a few topics will for sure be expanded on once the series is over! :)

[@TheLukio]

I've recently started playing SW EotE with a frew friends. Now in our 6th session and I still find the dice confusing as fuck. The symbol for a success is an explosion (why?), then you have a Jedi symbol which also is good but less good, then the empire symbol for disadvantage (?) and the triangle for something else? Some are combined, some are not - it's completely inconsistent to me. Recently played Mutant Year Zero with the multiple D6 and it was far more conclusive.

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

Yeah I don't understand the success or failure symbols being what they are either 😂

[@homestead13]

What happens if all of your dice cancel each other out? Do you roll again? I was nominated to be the GM. I have only ever played Age of Rebellion ONCE so I'm absolutely freaking out.

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

No success, 1 failure, 10 failure all are the same. You just fail the check.

[@Danarchy3]

These dice are just the dice for the genesys system with a star wars paint job for the symbols. Therefore you can use these with any genesys based rpg.

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

Technically, the star wars dice were first, but yes they are interchangeable

[@Danarchy3]

@@TheTabletopEmpire I just got into the genesys system from some friends. I figured that came first cause you can’t find genesys dice any where but star wars dice are still around

[@raymondhenrard3468]

Hello from Belgium. I'm new as GM for SW but I'm expert in many other RPG games. Ty for those tutorials. Just one thing... Don't forget you are almost facing neebies so when you throw dices, let more time for us to read it. Your editing is too cut. Let us time to understand your explanation. Have a nice day !

[@gothicsage-2]

The dice Mason, what do they mean!?!? XD

[@metalmyron]

the original D6 system is way better, probably the best dice system for any game

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

Im not super familiar with it but i enjoy the narrative dice a lot :)

[@gadzewk]

moved a little quick i thought

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

I appreciate the feedback! :)

[@ianhoulihan4649]

The other thing that many people miss is the way you can use the dice to interpret the situation. Everything that the GM pushes towards or that the players work for (like gaining BOOST die for good RPG, or ADVANTAGES turning into a BOOST from a previous check), came from some narrative effect. Even your character's training came from somewhere. Got a couple of ranks in ATHLETICS? Perhaps that tricky situation during the Battle of Tennab might help you in this instance? So in our example, if your character is walking across a tightrope over lava, there may be a SETBACK from the "wind", the CHALLENGE dice from the "lava", the BOOST from the "self stabilizing apparatus" (pole), and three DIFFICULTY. So if you rolled a THREAT on the SETBACK, it indicates that at that moment, a sudden gust of wind perhaps caused you to falter, the two THREAT from the CHALLENGER die meant thelava suddenly errupted fraying the rope. No matter the result of the check, you can use the dice to tell an even more exciting story.

[@gadzewk]

@@ianhoulihan4649 ah nice nice. yeah that does encourage little narrative elements, super cool

[@jamaalgaylord5029]

God the dice are scary

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

At first, they can be. Once you get the hang of them though they are soo amazing 👏🏻

[@drizzo4669]

These dice are straight up disrespectful. The most convoluted mess I've ever seen and they charge you spece, money and time to decipher them.

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

I like them, but they aren’t for everyone

[@inertloki5193]

Algorithm

[@timd7709]

you went wayyy too quickly through the results on the dice... would love if you took it slow, walked through why each die was removed or stayed etc etc.

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

V2 of the series coming at some point, ill keep that in mind!

[@thomasrobson6370]

This dye system is worse than the original Star wars RPG in the early to mid 80s and the original shadowrun game system😮 and both of these systems were d6

[@TheTabletopEmpire]

Better or worse is more of an opinion. I heavily prefer these dice over regular numbered dice

[@thomasrobson6370]

@@TheTabletopEmpire for Star wars I like the original d6 rules it makes being able to achieve baroque tasks more feasible, just that the advancement gets exponentially harder. He probably aren't familiar with that gaming system, the characters didn't gain levels you are advancing the individual skills or abilities with the so-called experience points that you earn during the adventures. I like the black and white rules of numbers I played the call of Cthulhu long ago it was very little with dice rolling and annoyed me post to a cool game.