I also kinda wish that we would stop making the characters that have been made several times already. There are a lot of (legends) characters which haven't been made yet, and I'm not even talking about the really obscure ones. There's still plenty to do.

Also, even if we wanted, we'd have to do at least some legends since certain factions will never get any more canon characters.

But the new star trek has all the PEW PEW of star wars without the snooze fest of poor banter and politics.

HAIL TO THE VICTORS!

New Jacen is awesome. He takes a minute to think over, but once it clicks, it's really cool.

Also interesting that I posted new stuff on the first post, but all anyone can talk about is the fact that we are doing another Jacen. That was already spoiled when the first Bothan Transmission was solved on May 6th!!!!!


A lot of people really like the expanded universe and were crushed when it became "legends". It has literally been included in our game since Rebel Storm (Mara Jade) and it wouldn't feel right for many if it were dropped altogether.

Many characters have never been represented, and need to be (both in my opinion and many others in the community).


On the flip side - new material is literally the future of the game and will continue feeding it. We CERTAINLY don't want to ignore that!

So what do we do!?! Can't please everyone.


The obvious answer is that we do some of both. My guess is that we will continue to do some of both, but the percentage will start to go less towards Legends with every set as those characters get checked off the list. But - as brought up already, some factions don't even exist outside of legends. Whether you like it or not - we are not dropping the factions.



Anyway - a little peek behind the designer's curtain:

Each set doesn't do it exactly the same way, but most sets vote in some manner to narrow the list down to the specified number. In addition, most sets also let each designer have a "pick". In other words, all the other pieces are chosen based on game/faction needs, community requests, new characters, etc. Then each designer gets their one unique pick added to the list.



Fun fact: My personal designer pick was Booster Terrik. I always liked the character, and I felt it was a legitimate option to pick seeing as he was a pretty major expanded universe character ("legends" now I suppose), but he had never been represented at all. I now expect all hateful comments for my pick to be directed towards me and me alone.

(I should mention that the personal designer picks are still designed together with the whole team, it's not one designer's free-for-all. The piece gets put on the set list, but it is designed in the same manner as all the other pieces - with the whole team contributing and helping shape it.)

So if you don't think Booster should have been in the set - that is on me.



Side note - set 14 breakdown:

Uniques: (out of 22)
From new material (Force Awakens, Rogue One, TV, non-legends) 11
From older cannon {movies} (non Legends, never before represented) 1 (EV-9D9)
Legends (never before represented) 9 (2 of which are Vong)
Legends (represented before) 1 (Jacen)

Non-uniques gets stickier, because some are clearly from new material (Death Trooper) and other are kinda (Dowutin Solider - Dowutins were first introduced in The Force Awakens, but it was just a denizen of Man Kanata's place - not a soldier we see in action), and others clearly are Legends (Vong).

But - of the 14 NUs
5 are from new material


So almost exactly half the set is from new material/cannon.

There is only 1 character (out of 36) in our set that has been seen as a prior representation.



It all seems pretty reasonable to me - but I am biased here.

Believe it or not I hear where you are coming from. It would not have been my first pick either, but I stand by giving each designer their one pick.

Completely agree, should never have handed out blast bug to non-uniques. Giving it to Uniques Vong probably would have been fine.

As for talon, they probably should have waited a set to attempt to make fringe playable. Another source of anti Jedi hate was probably not the best way to go...

So - no thoughts on Nein Nunb?

Also - Anyone notice the multiple direct relations between Booster's stats and his flavor text?

Mandalorian Defenseman
Mandalorian
5 pts
Common

HP 10
Def 15
Atk +1
Dam 10

Special Abilities
Melee Attack

Defense Beacon [This turn, an enemy that started or became adjacent to this character cannot both move more than 6 squares and attack more than once]

Pin Down [Enemies within line of sight and 6 squares of this character cannot move before the first activation each round. Allies within 6 squares cannot be moved by enemies' abilities or commander effects before the first activation each round.]

Singular Focus [Cannot gain abilities from allies]

Stealth [If this character has cover, it does not count as the nearest enemy for an attacker farther than 6 squares when choosing targets]


can we switch the names of Defense Beacon and Pin Down please?

I have no idea why we would do that.

Pin down doesn't allow anyone to move.

Defense beacon represents sending a signal to your allies so the number of pieces that enemy can attack is nerfed.


It would make zero sense if they were reversed.


Regardless, even if we wanted to we couldnt - cards are already at the printer.