The Dojo, one of the largest gaming stores in Chicagoland, devoted their entire open gaming room to running demos of Fantasy Flight's Star Wars: Edge of the Empire Role Playing Game, X-Wing starfighter miniatures battle game, and Star Wars Living Card Game (LCG).
The Empire was stopping traffic on the streets of Chicago's north side.
Keith Kappel, a contributing author for Fantasy Flight's Star Wars: Edge of the Empire role-playing game, is a local to Chicago and his new release "Suns of Fortune" (a sourcebook on the Corellian Sector) was a cause for celebration. Honorary Member of the 501st Cris Macht, filmmaker behind the Star Wars documentaries The Force Within Us and The Force Among Us, was there. And artist Matt Zeilinger (with credits on Fantasy Flight's X-Wing game, LCG, and EotE RPG) was in attendance, as well.
Our members mingled with the packed crowd at the store and took countless photographs with excited fans. Chicago's Finest showed up in response to a concerned 9-1-1 call about someone with a rifle standing out on the streets, but as their police cruiser rolled up and the officer saw us, it was clear that he knew that the call had been made by someone who had never seen Star Wars.
Faith, daughter of DZ-12108, was wearing the colors of the Rebellion, but IG-8968 made sure to set her straight about which starships to root for.
Star Wars games can be serious business!
For the Legionnaires there, the highlight of the event came near the end of the game day, when Keith Kappel gathered us around a gaming table and handed each of the troopers in attendance a character sheet for the role-playing game. But these were not just any Star Wars characters. Keith had gotten some information from the garrison commander about each of the members who would be playing that day and had made custom Edge of the Empire characters that represented each of our in-costume personas, complete with our profile photos from the Legion galleries. For example, Aimee Jorgensen (member 101) was playing a Biker Scout character with designation "TB-101," trooper Carlos Mendoza (5924) was handed a character sheet for Stormtrooper "TK-5924," Brian Troyan (8968) got to play as Imperial Gunner IG-8968, and so on. Naturally all of our characters were members of the elite fighting force known as the 501st Legion, Vader's Fist. Keith ran us all through a tailor-made game scenario which saw our squad of troopers breaching the escape pod ports of the Tantive IV and storming the bridge of the rebel ship (taking place at the same time as the main group of stormtroopers broke in through the rear airlock). Due to an abundance of bad dice rolls, it was a comedically chaotic misadventure, but I am proud to say that it ended in victory for Lord Vader's forces!
Big thanks go out to Fantasy Flight Games for all of the prize support, to the Chicagoland Games Dice Dojo for hosting a great event, and to everyone who came together to make the game day a success. And especially huge thanks to Mr. Kappel, who put a ton of extra work into creating an unforgettable adventure for us to play. Game on, troopers!
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Tour of Duty:
* 02/22/14 IL Dice Dojo Star Wars Game Day
Aimee Jorgensen 101 - TB
Carlos Mendoza 5924 - TK
Matt Fryzstak 8596 - SL
Brian Troyan 8968 - IG (EvCo)
Kathy Van Beuningen 9989 - Hoth Rebel Trooper
James Colaianni 10015 - ID
Kim Worley 12108 - DZ
Eric Werner 41551 - TK
Darcy Jorgensen 81470 - TB
Chris Cauwels 82659 - IC
Hawk Worley - photographic support
Faith Worley - cuteness support
TK-5924 had a slight armor malfunction, but fortunately, Crewman IC-82659 was able to help him get to the medical bay, just up the street!
