Tales of the Jedi Companion


Tales of the Jedi Companion is a 1996 role-playing game supplement published by West End Games for Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game.

Contents

Tales of the Jedi Companion is a supplement in which the Tales of the Jedi comic series is the basis, and explores events set 4,000 years before the original film. It presents a time when space travel was slower, blasters had not been invented, and Jedi wielded pulse wave weapons. Despite the era's supposed peace and justice, the narrative reveals a darker past—some Jedi allied with the Sith and were consumed by a malevolent force even more sinister than the dark side. It includes an exhaustive catalog of characters, weapons, ships, and alien races from the comics.

Publication history

Shannon Appelcline noted that in its final years, "West End Games still had just one successful game, Star Wars – which had just been reprinted in a revised second edition. The Star Wars line was even enjoying something of a renaissance, with some very innovative material going to press, notably the DarkStryder Campaign, which took a darker look at the Star Wars universe. West End was also happily supporting the ever-growing 'expanded universe' by printing books like the Shadows of the Empire Planets Guide and the Tales of the Jedi Companion."

Reception

Andrew Rilstone reviewed Tales of the Jedi Companion for Arcane magazine, rating it a 3 out of 10 overall, and stated that "Fans of the comic - and presumably there were some - will possibly find it interesting stuff if they've always hankered to run a game set in that milieu. Aside from that, this is another supplement that's for completists only."

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