Review – Star Wars Roleplaying “Scum and Villainy” Adversary Deck

I reviewed two different print-on-demand card expansions for Fantasy Flight Games’ Star Wars RPGs last week — Citizens of the Galaxy, Critical Injury Deck — and now it is time I pull down a third deck of cards, pop it open, and share my thoughts on another entry in what I believe is an incredible product line. Trust me when I say that these print-on-demand card packs are going to be in greater demand several years from now than we may think.

What makes me think that the dozens of decks published so far* for Fantasy Flight Games’ three different Star Wars roleplaying games will be in demand in the future? Scarcity. Since these products are produced effectively to order, there are fewer copies of each deck out there in the wild. We’re already seeing that the print-on-demand expansions that FFG produced for different Warhammer and Warhammer 40K games are spiking in value — the Tyranid* and Space Marine* packs for the Space Hulk: Death Angel* card game are just two examples — and I fully suspect that once production of the Star Wars RPG decks come to an end we’ll see these climb in price. Meaning that get them today or risk paying a lot more years from now.

It’s all well and good to think about the potential future prices on these print-on-demand card decks*, but what value do these cards offer to someone playing any one of the three different Star Wars roleplaying games? Well, as with the Citizens of the Galaxy Adversary Deck (reviewed here), this Scum and Villainy deck brings twenty characters from the three core rulebooks into a more portable format. This product is essentially identical to the Citizens of the Galaxy Adversary Deck, with the only difference being the characters included on the cards.

So what twenty characters are included in the Scum and Villainy deck? That’s easy to answer!

That’s a pretty useful grouping of adversary characters for a Star Wars RPG gamemaster to draw from when prepping for an adventure. As with the Citizens of the Galaxy Adversary Deck (reviewed here) all of the game statistics come from the core rulebooks, yes, but I still argue that getting the information onto cards makes it a lot easier during a game since you can have only the cards you need at hand. Leave the chunky rulebooks off to the side and make some room on the table!