Microlite 20 Star Wars: Session 1

A Mon Calamari scoundrel, a Wookie scoundrel and an Ewok Jedi (!) walk into a bar on Coruscant...

Getting back into roleplaying for the fall, three players joined me for Microlite 20 Star Wars. 

It was one player's first time roleplaying, so I started with a fairly simple system and Star Wars, of which he's a big fan. We used "Shadows Of A Black Sun," the Free RPG day Edge of the Empire quick start for the adventure.

Years of playing 2nd and 3rd edition D&D has made all of us familiar with character sheets listing specific abilities and using miniatures; the free-form roleplaying you can get from USR and Risus is a little challenging. Everyone settled in a little more once the shooting started, when a bounty hunter's hired gun and his goons opened fire on the party in a nightclub.

A Nikto, the bounty hunter species that is the focus of our adventure. (image: starwars.wikia.com)

After a failed intimidation roll against the bartender (he had a blaster rifle, and the Wookie couldn't get his hands on it quickly enough), the party got the information they needed, and they're on their way to the bounty hunter's hideout.

It didn't take long to create characters (which is good, as I've got to generate stats for the villain this weekend), and as it's still fundamentally the d20 system, we already know the rules. I expect a similar experience when we start 5e in a few weeks.