Star Wars as a Fantasy setting

Yeah. It'd be a samurai game with magic (sorry, "The Force") fluffed as chi.

Star Wars only really has two things going for it: space and all the cool shit that happens in the void, and the force. Plant that sucker on terra firma and your left with only the force, ie magic. So just play D&D and tone down the wackier shit.

Planes are basically planets, so you'll have magical craft that carry people and cargo through planar portals. If you wanted a more low-magic world, you could set it in an archipelago with many islands with diverse cultures and climates, and have lots of sea battles.

Is the expanded universe over already?

>>50819410
There is no Expanded Universe anymore. There are the Legends, and there is Canon.

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>>50819358

If you wanted to translate it reliably, it would have to be at least early industrial era to represent things such as Seinar's legions of TIE Fighters and the overwhelming industrial might superceding mysticism a-la the end of the Clone Wars. It would be a lot like Eberron if the industrialization of magic ended with the mass execution of casters.

>>50819358
Airships. Lots and lots of airships. Fighter pilots become dragon-riders and eagle-riders. The force remains unchanged. Different worlds = different towns/kingdoms/continents/planes. Droids become golems(likely magi-tech) left behind by the requisite precursor civilization(s). That should take care of most things really.

I'd also make the world this is set in insanely huge in order to capture just how many races and kingdoms are present in the setting.

It's already refluffed fantasy.

>>50819358
It could easily work. You just have to decide on your flavor of remodeling. Are the jedi now dragonriders? (eragon)? Are the jedi now warrior-mage hybrids? Samurai with chi powers?

And ofcourse, do you set it it technologically in settings similar to early medieval europe or the napoleonic era, ancient rome or sengoku japan? Since it's a not-star wars, it should be big enough for everything, though depending on WHEN in the worlds timeline it is, some things will change.

I would say look at it as less of a "everything in star wars but magic instead of tech and crossbows instead of guns" and more like the difference between warhammer fantasy and warhammer 40k, or for closer comparison, warhammer 40k and AoS. Rough analogues and counterparts, but not direct reskins

>>50819358
OK well now i really want to set this in a dnd setting. more generic but definitely stick with the samurai with chi powers thing for jedi.

Also that's be kinda awesome to see refluffed TIE fighters and X-Wings and shit.

TIE's could be Giant Bats. tactics are the same for the generic TIE. Not sure what would work for the more unique TIE, and the Death Star could literally be a fuck huge Floating Armed Mountain.

Then you have the rebellion creatures. So Giant Eagles for A Wing. Griffon for X Wing, Could even have a tamed Roc fill in for the Millenium Falcon, and for Flagships Dragon's definitely fill the roll.

>>50820139

Seinar is a prestigious bat breeding guild originating as a family business. The TIE variants are all different breeds of giant bat. Incom, named here Inpres, in turn originated as a communications company originally dealing with printing presses, having consolidated with an eagle breeding ranch at some point to wrest a more direct control over messaging long before the rebels hastily reconfigured its stocks of beasts into creatures of war to keep some form of control in the skies against the Empire's swarms of skilled batfighters.

Master breeders on both sides are trying to breed ever stronger beasts of war as they try and find a balance between power, temperance, and ease of production.

>>50819358
considering a popular fantasy book series was quite literally refluffed fantasy star wars, I think it would translate well

>>50819477
R2 looks like a fuckin dim-sum cart. All he's missing is an Asian lady

>>50819358
Its basically just a high fantasy story.

turn Space Ships into dragons and the Deathstar into some ritual temple that fires death-rays at countries instead of temples.

R2 Droids are Fairies that babble in fairy talk.

other Fey might be other Fey creatures.

>>50820311
other droids*

for fucks sake.

Star Wars already is Fantasy In Space, do we really want to reverse engineer this? Won't that cross the streams or something?

We should be making Star Trek or Blade Runner into Fantasy instead.

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>>50819381
Probably.

>>50819358
The sole reason SW isn't fantasy is to have more than 4 biomes.

>>50819381
Nothing wrong with that.

>>50825970
What if I told you Earth has more than 4 biomes?

If anyone has friends like these, what are the stats on the gladiator and raider?

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>>50819381

>>50826975
Try
>>50801892

But anon, Star Wars is D&D.
>an adventure-filled setting
>evil and good do battle
>wise individuals wield mystical energies
>mysterious warriors with supernatural powers
>lost natural wonders
>ruins and forgotten temples

>an evil empire
>an evil wizard-emperor
>an evil fallen paladin
>an ancient order of wizards
>good vs evil
>a princess that needs saving

The real trick would be running or writing such a story without making it seem like a star wars ripoff

>>50819385
Force is much 'cleaner' than D&D magic by far.

>>50827882
Put in dragons, and dragon riding knights!

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>>50819358
IT WOULD BE CALLED ERAGON, A FUCKING SHIT SERIES WRITTEN BY A 15 YEAR OLD.

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>>50819358
Seen people play it as a steampunk setting.
>Airships+StarShips

>>50820325
>Blade Runner into Fantasy instead.
That sounds pretty awesome actually.

Do Golems dream of Magic Sheep?

>>50827882
>>50830019
>>50830101
which is some kind of Star Wars and LotR rip-off

to be fair tough, I still like the world, somehow...