Play Report: Infiltration of Whisper BaseĪge of Rebellion starts with a group of rebels, or more specifically in this case some rebel soldiers and their mercenary allies (I allowed players to pick characters from either Edge of the Empire or Age of Rebellion), about to enter into the garage of an imperial installation called Whisper Base.

In any event, I had four players initially for this and sadly lost one a little into the game due to another commitment – but overall had more than enough to get a good impression of what was going on. It’s worth noting that this is an incredibly minor point here, as both beginner boxes give you four full color portfolios in the box, but it is nice to see them do this. This is pretty good and really helps to integrate the extra characters into the product as a whole, while they felt like more of a bonus with Edge of the Empire. Unlike Edge of the Empire, both of the extra characters actually have their own tokens on the sheet that comes with the game.

One thing that I will note with some interest is that Age of Rebellion has clearly considered the extra characters being released on the website. It doesn’t matter if you start with Edge of the Empire or Age of Rebellion, as they are both incredibly high quality products, which are a perfect introduction to roleplaying games as well. The best thing about both of these is that they are also entirely free, so go download them and have a look! Really, before I even get into the actual play report and my general thoughts let me just say that you should definitely get into this.

There are two additional free characters on their website if you want a little more variety and an extension of the main adventure a well. Once again it just has to be mentioned how terrific the support for this product is from Fantasy Flight Games.

Basically stuff that is going to be useful to anyone running a long term game and not just specialized for this boxed set in particular. Age of Rebellion continues the excellent tradition of Edge of the Empire by providing more of the funky dice this system loves, several excellent full color character portfolios, an adventure, high quality color maps of whisper base and some more tokens of various antagonists like stormtoopers, AT-STs and speeder bikes. Having taken a group of players through the Edge of the Empire Beginner Box for the Star Wars RPG, I was very keen to go through Age of Rebellions equivalent.

Age of rebellion beginner game map