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unusual facts about ''Star Wars'' role-playing game



Aerican Empire

The group's activities are permeated by a great deal of humour and a love of science fiction and fantasy, with recurrent references to Star Wars, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and similar works.

Agota Kristof

The game's designer, Shigesato Itoi, a published author in his own right, compared the novel favorably to an RPG.

Andrew Hewitt

At Abbey Road and Air Studios he has performed on many film scores, for such conductors as John Williams and Howard Shore - including the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Doomsday, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Golden Compass and A Christmas Carol.

Audio signal processing

overdrive effects such as the use of a fuzz box can be used to produce distorted sounds, such as for imitating robotic voices or to simulate distorted radiotelephone traffic (e.g., the radio chatter between starfighter pilots in the science fiction film Star Wars).

Brian R. James

As a writer, Brian is best known for his online and print works for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game published by Wizards of the Coast.

Cad Bane

Cad Bane is a fictional character Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas, Dave Filoni and Henry Gilroy, as a recurring antagonist voiced by Corey Burton in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Conrad Phillip Kottak

He believes that various American legends and stories, such as Star Trek, Star Wars and the Thanksgiving story are growing into a type of mythology which someday might be comparable to Greek, Roman, or other stories which today are considered to be myths.

Crafty Games

Additionally he has worked on many acclaimed games, including Legend of the Five Rings, 7th Sea, Doomtown, When Darkness Comes, and the Battlestar Galactica RPG.

Darth Bane

He is a major antagonist in the Jedi vs. Sith comic book series, and the protagonist of the novels Darth Bane: Path of Destruction, Darth Bane: Rule of Two and Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil.

Dave Filoni

He is most known for his work on Avatar: The Last Airbender and Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Donna Barr

Barr also produced illustrations for the Traveller role-playing books, including Alien Module 8: Darrians, the MegaTraveller Player's Manual and several issues of both the Journal of the Travellers Aid Society and Challenge magazine.

Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls

The attraction's queue area passes through: Snidely Whiplash's hideout; a theater that spoofs movies such as "Jaws," "The Silence of the Lambs", "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", "Three Men and a Baby" and "Star Wars"; and a room with a talking bear head and a talking beaver head on a wall.

Ertl Company

Ertl has also, on different occasions, acquired the licenses to produce die-cast vehicles and figurines as well as model kits for Looney Tunes, Garfield, Thomas the Tank Engine, Super Mario Bros. DC Comics, and Star Wars.

Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks

Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks (full title: Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms) is a book by author Ethan Gilsdorf and a work of travel literature, memoir and immersion journalism that explores fantasy and gaming subcultures.

Fog City Mavericks

The film also shows some of the movies made by these filmmakers such as American Graffiti, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, The Black Stallion, Home Alone, Mrs. Doubtfire, Toy Story and many others.

Gamebook

Examples of games with prolific solitaire lines were Dungeons & Dragons, GURPS, Das Schwarze Auge, DC Heroes, and Call of Cthulhu.

The second type is the role-playing game solitaire adventure (an example of this is the Tunnels and Trolls series of gamebooks), which combines the branching-plot novel with the rules of a role-playing game, allowing the game to be played without a Gamemaster but requiring the purchase of separate manuals.

Grand Moff Tarkin

Grand Moff Tarkin, real name Wilhuff Tarkin and also known as Governor Tarkin, is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe, portrayed by Peter Cushing and Wayne Pygram and voiced by Stephen Stanton.

Heroes of Ruin

Heroes of Ruin is an action role-playing game in which the player battles various enemies such as snipers, beasts, and fencers.

James Georgopoulos

The "Guns of Cinema" series also expresses his affinity for the film and television industry by photographing a number of motion picture and television cameras; which include those from Titanic, Star Wars, Thriller, James Bond, Kill Bill, and Apocalypto).

Joseph Gatt

Gatt voices Lord Scourge in the LucasArts/Bioware game Star Wars: The Old Republic and several characters on the game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Ken Frank

He has also produced artwork for games from other companies, including Traveller (Game Designers' Workshop).

Margit Sandemo

Besides these she is fond of Star Wars films, thriller film The Silence of the Lambs directed by Jonathan Demme and earliest episodes of TV-series The X-Files.

Michael Kingma

Outside of basketball, Kingma, along with fellow Australian basketballers Axel Dench and David Stiff, played a part in Star Wars: Episode III as Wookiees.

Morrigan Press

Morrigan Press Inc. is a pen and paper roleplaying game publisher headquartered in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Motion Pictures, S.A.

Coinciding with early nineties when the video boom was over the company began to buy American film catalogs for television distribution, with titles such Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, The Return of the Jedi, Apocalypse Now, and Tucker.

Nerf Blaster

Cross-promotional models have also been released, themed around Marvel Super Heroes, Star Wars, G.I. Joe and Transformers.

Os Tarados

The movie reuses (probably without authorization) many themes from the 'Star Wars' series.

Phil Hawkins

Carrie Fisher (Actress Star Wars and writer) said his work "was the most visual they have seen" whereas fellow judge and director Brett Ratner said he was "a big fan".

Quest Corporation

They were originally known as Bothtec, which had developed The Scheme, a Metroidvania-style open world action role-playing game featuring music by Yuzo Koshiro, that same year.

Scrye

JM White, publisher of the role-playing game magazine Cryptych, launched the magazine in June 1994 after being introduced to Magic by its publisher, Wizards of the Coast's Peter Adkison, in July 1993.

Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe

Some gameplay elements included, such as the historic missions section, are evident in later Lawrence Holland games including X-Wing.

Star Pilot

In the fall of 1977, to quickly capitalize on the public's fervor for sci-fi movies following the unexpected success of Star Wars, the film was dubbed in English and released in the United States under a new title.

Star Wars Scrapbook: The Essential Collection

Star Wars Scrapbook is a book with pull-out reproductions of Star Wars merchandise/artifacts, in a similar fashion to the books Greetings From E Street: The Story of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band and Tupac Shakur Legacy.

Star Wars: Behind the Magic

The box includes a limited-edition full-color print of a painting by artist Ralph McQuarrie, "Yoda and R2-D2 in the swamps of Dagobah".

Star Wars: Dark Forces

The Dark Forces soundtrack uses the iMUSE system to create interactive music using the Star Wars soundtrack composed by John Williams.

Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi

A novel released on May 7, 2013 is written by fantasy author Tim Lebbon.

Star Wars: Empire at War

The campaign explores how the X-Wing is pressed into the service of the Rebel Alliance, the liberation of Kashyyyk, the first whisperings of a brand new Imperial superweapon and ultimately the Battle of Yavin.

The player(s) can use only the equipment they brought to the battle (be it an X-wing squadron or an AT-AT).

Star Wars: Force Commander

:Force Commander is also the name of a character in the Micronauts toy line.

Star Wars: Republic Commando

These Clone commandos have been specially bred at the clone factories on Kamino.

Sterling Hershey

Sterling Hershey is a full-time architect and freelance game designer, who has worked on two different incarnations of the Star Wars role-playing game for both West End Games and Wizards of the Coast and also on the Star Wars Miniatures game.

The Breakfast

Other Freakout themes have included The Big Lebowski and the Star Wars series, where the band has played sets that interspersed their own music with songs from the movies.

The Moore Show

Notable names which have been on the show include British Astronomer Patrick Moore, Coronation Street actor William Roache, Star Wars actor David Prowse and psychic medium, Colin Fry .

Tim Dedopulos

Early in 1995 he joined the Glasgow office of Seattle games giant Wizards of the Coast to work on their dystopian future-horror game SLA Industries.

X-Bomber

Two of the English voice actors, Jay Benedict and Garrick Hagon, had appeared in Star Wars (1977) portraying Deak and Biggs, two of Luke Skywalker's friends on Tatooine (though Hagon's role was reduced in editing and Benedict's scenes were cut altogether).

Year of the Black Rainbow

I don't know if it was necessary to make prequels for Star Wars, but this is where Coheed and Cambria came from.

ZenGems

Former LucasArts game designer Hal Barwood known for several Star Wars and Indiana Jones titles of the early to mid 1990's designed several of the levels of ZenGems.


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