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Yaahg D'sow joined Wookieepedia on July, 26th 2006.

Yaahg D'sow is also a member of the Rebel Roleplayers' Alliance to save WEG's D6 system roleplaying game

Yaahg D'sow has been a Star Wars Fan since the late 1980s.

[edit] Gamer

I've been playing WEG's D6 system roleplaying game for 10 years now, which is my main motivation to obtain more knowledge about the Galaxy. D6 stands for 6-sided dice. I usually run the games as the referee/storyteller or "Gamemaster". My job is to give the other players the setting, the scene and the background to play in. I make up the story, describe the streets, play the people in the cantina and decide on the tactics of the enemy spacecraft, while the other players have just one character who has to solve a series of problems in the gaming world over the course of one "adventure".

Characters have skills, like firing blasters or repairing droids or even using the Force. I they use a skill, they must roll the dice to see if they succeeded or failed. They will need a higher total, if they attempt to do something difficult. Depending on their performance in the adventure, they are awarded with "character points", which they can use to improve their skills.

West End Games, the company that had produced the rulebooks needed to play the game went bankrupt and the license expired. It has since been bought up by another company, Wizards of the Coast, that released a new Star Wars Roleplaying Game with new rules and books, that didn't meet the taste of many old-school players. While the old rules were created exclusively for Star Wars, the new ones were merely an adaption of an existing fantasy game system, that had been designed for the D&D roleplaying game. The result were many conversions of classic fantasy material like heavy armor and "magic" items being made, some for good, some for bad. Since I do not like most of the changes, I support the D6 system roleplaying game-online community, which still produces statistics and rules for the old system. Sites like the Rebel Roleplayers Alliance, the Rancor Pit or RPGGamer.org keep making adaptions of new material, that was never released for the old system.

It should be mentioned, that the neither system is free of flaws. WEG is responsible for a lot of confusion about the lengths of Star Destroyers or the armament of ships.