Star Wars Missions



Star Wars Missions was an unusual book series released as a mail-order book club promoted through schools starting in 1997. The books were written by Ryder Windham and Dave Wolverton and published by Scholastic. Members first received a boxed kit containing two dice (one six-sided, one twelve-sided), a rulebook, a pad of score sheets, a blank mission log, a member card, several game cards, a small poster and the first adventure in the series. Subsequent packages contained additional books, cards, and posters. Club members also received a magazine, unrelated to gameplay, called Star Wars Kids: The Magazine for Young Jedi Knights.

Each book contains several linear chapters followed by the actual gamebook segment. Upon reaching the interactive portion of an adventure, the reader must first select some cards (representing characters, vehicles, weapons, and powers) based on criteria specified in the book at hand. Unlike most gamebooks, these adventures do not feature numbered sections, nor do they instruct the reader to turn to particular pages; instead, they are composed of a linear sequence of events. Each event is described, then several choices are listed. The reader must select one of these choices and then skip ahead to find the matching paragraph describing the results of the choice. Readers are sometimes forced to revise their decisions before proceeding, but no choice ever leads to a premature ending. Since victory is inevitable, gameplay revolves around a score kept as a running total throughout the adventure. Rolls of the dice and values printed on the cards are frequently used to raise or lower this score, and while it has no impact on gameplay, it can be considered a measure of success.

After twenty adventures based on the original Star Wars trilogy, the series came to a close in 1999 and was replaced by the similar Episode I Adventures.

Game cards
Note: All of the following card photos are scans of actual cards. Any misspellings present are errors of the original manufacturer.

Set One
ISBN 0590127985

Set Two
ISBN 0590127993


 * Wedge Antilles
 * See-Threepio
 * Y-Wing Starfighter
 * Bi-Polar Blaster Carbine
 * Persuasion

Set Three
ISBN 0590128000

Set Four
ISBN 0590128019


 * Biggs Darklighter
 * General Jan Dodonna
 * Nien Nunb
 * Landspeeder
 * Adjudicator
 * Deception

Set Five
ISBN 0590128027


 * Dengar
 * Eron Stonefield
 * Udin
 * Dewback
 * Laser Scalpel
 * Sleep

Set Six
ISBN 0590908812

Characters

 * Big Gizz
 * Bossk
 * Tycho Celchu
 * Chewbacca
 * Boba Fett
 * Grand Moff For-Atesee
 * IG-88
 * Imperial Royal Guard
 * Wes Janson
 * Kassihm
 * Kar Lamoran
 * Captain Mordak
 * Do-Forow Nadon
 * Spiker''
 * Burra Stone
 * Trooper 1219
 * Darth Vader
 * Wicket W. Warrick''

Force powers

 * Camouflage
 * Capture
 * Concentration
 * Confusion
 * Defend
 * Extra Strength
 * Language
 * Pilot
 * Sight
 * Speed
 * Voice

Vehicles

 * AJP-400 Jetpack
 * Astral-8 Luxury Speeder
 * AT-ST or Scout Walker
 * B-Wing Fighter
 * Carrack Cruiser
 * IG-2000
 * Incom T-16 Skyhopper
 * IRD-A Starfighter
 * Mobquet Flare-S Swoop
 * Modified Cloakshape Fighter
 * Nebulon Ranger
 * Sky Slicer
 * Slave 1
 * Swoop
 * TIE Advanced X1
 * TIE Fighter
 * Water Wings

Weapons

 * Blas-Tech T21 Light Repeating Blaster
 * Darth Vader's Lightsaber
 * The Defender Sporting Blaster
 * Disruptor Rifle
 * Droid Disabler
 * Flechette Pistol
 * Glop Grenade
 * Prax Protector
 * Rodian Cryogen Whip
 * Stun Baton
 * Thermal Detonator
 * Vibro-Ax
 * Vibroblade
 * Wookiee Bowcaster

Miscellaneous

 * Star Wars Missions Mission Guide
 * Star Wars Missions Mission Log
 * Star Wars Missions Point Pad