Star Wars: Outer Rim

The base game supports 1–4 players. The standard target is ten fame; eight is suggested for learning and twelve is an optional longer game agreed beforehand. Reaching the chosen target wins immediately without finishing a round.

Assemble the map, set up faction patrols and randomize contacts. Players choose characters, starter ships and character-specified databank cards. Multiplayer starting credits are 4,000, 6,000, 8,000 and 10,000 in turn order.

Planning offers movement up to hyperdrive, 2,000 credits, recovery of all character and ship damage, or one Planning ability. A defeated player must choose recovery.

Move along connected paths, counting each entered space. Entering the Maelstrom stops movement. Entering a patrol’s space normally also stops movement unless positive reputation with its faction or an ability permits passage.

In the action step, deliver, trade, take a market action and resolve Action abilities in any order. Each standard action and each individual Action ability is usable once. Asset trades require another player in your space; a market action normally requires a planet.

A market action may discard one deck’s top card to its bottom, then buy one top card from any market deck. The replacement revealed after buying may move a patrol; replacing a card merely discarded this way does not trigger patrol movement. Assets require matching slots.

Deliver eligible cargo and captured bounties at their destinations; one deliver action can resolve several. Jobs usually use an encounter at their destination and follow databank instructions for tests or combat. Bounties first require finding and confronting their targets.

Resolve just one encounter: your space, a planetary contact, a patrol or an Encounter ability. A patrol in your space belonging to a faction with which you have negative reputation must be encountered before other encounter choices.

Skill tests roll two dice: unskilled requires a crit; one copy of the skill allows hits or crits; multiple copies also allow focus. Combat rolls the appropriate combat value, with hits worth one damage and crits two. Compare rolled damage to decide the winner; the attacker wins ties.

Original base solo play uses one AI character starting with databank card 91 or 92 and the G9 Rigger. You act first with 4,000 credits; the AI starts with 6,000. After each of your turns, draw and follow an AI card from top to bottom. First to the fame target wins.