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The main focus of the book is, as you’d guess,
Coruscant, but many other planets are given much
more than just lip service. I’m certainly not the
‘stand-in-line-for-days’ kind of Star Wars fan, but I’d
consider myself at least moderately informed on the
universe, but I found myself learning a lot more about
it and was really interested the whole time. NPC’s
(GM Characters) abound and the only thing that
would have made their sections better would be
illustrations of all of them, but then we’d have a much
higher page count and cost. Many of the new species
presented could serve as interesting PC’s but an
illustration of each is not provided, which would have
been nice but a text description serves pretty well.
There are also many new creatures to spring on your
party of adventurers, 29 in fact and several new
droids, starships and vehicles are also included.
BASICS
Coruscant and the Core Worlds (CatCW) is a hardback
supplement for the Star Wars role-playing game by
Wizards of the Coast. It has a full color cover that
you should be able to recognize from Episode II:
Attack of the Clones, a full color interior on slick
paper, and a page count that clocks in at 160 with a
retail price of $29.95 USD.
BETWEEN THE COVERS
Inside (CatCW) you’ll find a great amount of
information on what is likely to be the center of your
Star Wars campaign. As is pretty standard, and
thankfully so, for all of the Star Wars products that
I’ve taken a look at the interior is just wonderful.
There are very few movie stills, but the rest of the
artwork is very nice and the only thing I could have
asked for is more of it. The maps in the book are
also nicely drawn and easy to read. It all ads up,
especially with the slightly pale green base page
color, to a very aesthetically pleasing tome.
The list of new Feats is not huge (six) but I didn’t
mind this much at all because what I found to be the
real focus of the book was as a supplement for the
GM to use to enrich his games and in this aspect it
hits on all cylinders. Each planet has a section for the
GM with adventure seeds, each planet having at least
a couple that run a paragraph or more in length and
guarantee that you’ll have something to do no matter
where your players journey’s take them.
VALUE
I found CatCW to be a highly valuable book for any
Star Wars GM. The amount of information presented
here will help any campaign era and with the amount
of travel that is possible in a space-faring game and
it’s all usable and is presented in a very easy to digest
manner. I’m not saying to stay away from the book
if you’re not a GM. Not at all. In fact, there is a good
deal of information that players will find interesting
including a new Prestige Class the Seyugi Dervish,
which is really suitable for players/characters with
flexible morals, but looks like it could spice things up
nicely especially if levels are given to a major
antagonist. All told, Coruscant and the Core Worlds is
a beautiful addition the Star Wars role-playing game
and any GM would benefit from it being in their
collection.
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