Star Wars Gamemaster Screen
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Article ImagesStar Wars Gamemaster Screen is a game accessory to Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game published by West End Games. It was written by Bill Olmesdahl and was first published in 1992.
The book provides a number of charts and tables for the use of the gamemaster, organized for easy reference on removable cardstock pages that also served to shield the gamemaster's notes and dice rolls from the eyes of other players. It also included a booklet containing numerous adventure hooks to allow the gamemaster to run an adventure with a minimum of setup time.
From the publisher
"Plunge into the adventure and mystery of the Star Wars universe with the Star Wars Gamemaster Screen. Inside are all the essential charts and tables necessary to run Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition. Conveniently organized for quick reference, these charts allow gamemasters to concentrate on the fun and excitement of a good game instead of flipping pages looking for rules.
As an added bonus, the 48-page book contains numerous fully detailed 'quick start' adventure hooks for instant gaming sessions. Intended to allow gamemasters to run adventures with a minimum of hassle, these hooks provide adventure settings and detailed plots, with suggestions for gamemaster characters and other essential items. With just a few minutes preparation, these hooks can provide countless nights of Star Wars adventure."
It provided advice on how to run games and also provided a number of adventure hooks.
Adventure hooks
Exploration adventures
- Situation Critical
- Here There Be Gremlins
- The Entity
- Temple of Stalsinek
- "A Perfect World"
- A Fortune For The Taking
Quest adventures
- The Royal Family
- The Heart of the Universe
- Envoy to the Queen
- Alderath Horticultural Society
- Droid Hunt
- Relative Difficulties
Alien Species adventures
Mystery adventures
- The Locked-Base Affair
- Murder in Paradise
- The Barren-World Mystery
- The Kubaz Insect
- The Passing of Uncle Gargon
- Chameleon
Force adventures
Smugglers' adventures
- Drag Race
- What Comes Around Goes Around
- Under The Claw
- Hostile Natives Of Th'irus
- Mob Psychology
- A Change Of Fortune
Appearances
By type
Characters | Organisms | Droid models | Events | Locations |
Organizations and titles | Sentient species | Vehicles and vessels | Weapons and technology | Miscellanea |
Characters
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Organisms
Droid models
- 9G Explorer Droid
- Assassin droid (as assassin Droid)
- Astromech droid
- R2-series astromech droid (as R2 astromech Droid)
- Fifth-degree droid
- First-degree droid
- Fourth-degree droid
- K4 security droid (as K4 Security Droid)
- Protocol droid (as protocol Droid)
- 3PO-series protocol droid (as 3PO Human-cyborg relations Droid)
- Second-degree droid
- StelProbe V Droid
- Third-degree droid
Events
- Clone Wars
- Battle of Endor
- Battle of Trailia
- Great Jedi Purge (Indirect mention only)
Locations
Organizations and titles
Sentient species
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Vehicles and vessels
- Airspeeder
- Cloud car
- Storm IV Twin-Pod cloud car (as Storm IV Cloud Car)
- Death Star
- Landspeeder
- 9000 Z004 landspeeder (as Z004 Landspeeder)
- Sail barge
- Sandcrawler (Picture only)
- Skiff
- SuperHaul Model II (as SuperHaul Skiff)
- Speeder bike
- 22-B Nightfalcon (as 22-B Speeder Bike)
- Starfighter
- Starship
- CR90 corvette (as Corellian Corvette)
- EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate
- Firespray-31-class patrol and attack craft (Picture only)
- Guardian-class light cruiser
- Lone Scout-A
- Luxury liner
- Mon Calamari Star Cruiser
- Star Destroyer
- YT-1300 light freighter (as YT-1300 Transport)
- Swoop
- Skybird (as Skybird Swoop)
- Walker
- All Terrain Armored Transport (as AT-AT Walker)
- All Terrain Scout Transport (as AT-ST Scout Walker)
Weapons and technology
- Armor
- Blast door
- Blast helmet
- Blast vest
- Blaster
- Blaster artillery
- 1.4 FD P-Tower
- v-150 Planet Defender (as v-150 ion cannon)
- Blaster carbine
- Blaster pistol
- DL-18 Blaster Pistol (as DL-18)
- Blaster rifle
- Stormtrooper One blaster rifle (as Stormtrooper One)
- Heavy blaster pistol
- DL-44 heavy blaster pistol (as DL-44)
- Heavy repeating blaster
- E-Web heavy repeating blaster (as E-web repeating blaster)
- Hold-out blaster
- Q2 hold-out blaster pistol (as Q2)
- Light repeating blaster
- T-21 light repeating blaster (as T-21)
- Sporting blaster
- Defender sporting blaster pistol (as Defender)
- Sporting blaster rifle
- "Light Sport" Hunter (as Hunter)
- Blaster artillery
- Breath mask
- Bowcaster
- Comlink
- Datacard (as datadisk)
- Datapad
- Enviro-suit (as environment suit)
- Glowrod
- Grenade
- Holocron
- Holoprojector (as holo-generator)
- Holovid (as holo-vid)
- Hyperdrive
- Ion cannon
- Laser cannon
- Lightsaber
- Macrobinoculars
- Medpac
- Melee weapon
- Mine
- Missile
- Navigation computer
- Power generator
- Proton torpedo
- Reactor core (as power reactor)
- Recording rod
- Slugthrower
- Spaarti cloning cylinder (as Spaarti cylinder)
- Stasis field
- Thermal detonator
- Tractor beam
- Turbolaser
Miscellanea
- Akol
- Asteroid belt
- Cantina
- Changeling (as shapeshifter)
- Death Star plans
- Demigue Terror
- Diamond
- Distress signal
- Dorian passion fruit
- Foodstuff (as food)
- Galactic Credit Standard
- Great Celebration of Life
- Heart of the Universe
- Hezar stone
- Hyperspace
- Jizz
- Kubaz Insect
- Liquor
- Millennium blossom
- Neurotoxin
- Ocean
- Planet
- Plastiskin
- Poison
- Power-consuming organism
- Ronnie the Rocketpack Rodent
- Salt
- Slavery
- Spaceport
- Spice
- Suspended animation
- The Force
- Dark side of the Force
- Force power
- Control
- Accelerate Healing
- Control Pain
- Detoxify Poison
- Emptiness
- Enhance Attribute
- Hibernation trance (as Hibernation Trance)
- Reduce Injury
- Remain Conscious
- Resist Stun
- Short-term memory enhancement (as Short-Term Memory Enhancement)
- Tutaminis (as Absorb/Dissipate Energy)
- Sense
- Alter
- Control/Sense
- Farsight (as Farseeing)
- Lightsaber combat (as Lightsaber Combat)
- Projective Telepathy
- Control/Alter
- Accelerate Another's Healing
- Control Another's Pain
- Force lightning (as Force Lightning)
- Inflict Pain
- Return another to consciousness (as Return Another to Consciousness)
- Transfer Force
- Control/Sense/Alter
- Battle meditation (as Enhanced Coordination)
- Mind trick (as Affect Mind)
- Qâzoi Kyantuska (as Control Mind)
- Sense/Alter
- Control
- Light side of the Force
- Treasure hunting
- Wallarand
- Wood
- Yarno
Notes and references
- ↑ Gamemaster Resources in the StarWars.com Cargo Bay (content now obsolete; backup link)