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Star Wars Lightsaber Dueling box art
1988 Ranked #15,004

Star Wars Lightsaber Dueling

Players use illustrated combat books to choose attacking and defensive lightsaber poses, trying to inflict thirty damage first. Each wound drains Force, so reading the opponent’s next move determines the duel.

Wargames Book Fighting Rock-Paper-Scissors Simultaneous Action Selection

Players

2

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

2/5

Rating

6.03

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Similar to the Lost Worlds series of books, West End Games's Star Wars Lightsaber Duelling Pack consists of two books. One book representing Luke Skywalker and the other book, Darth Vader.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Simultaneous Action Selection

Choose actions secretly or concurrently before revealing them together.
Rock-Paper-Scissors

Resolve choices through a circular set of strengths and weaknesses.
Variable Player Powers

Each player has different abilities, restrictions, or strategic advantages.
Read the full game description

Similar to the Lost Worlds series of books, West End Games's Star Wars Lightsaber Duelling Pack consists of two books. One book representing Luke Skywalker and the other book, Darth Vader. Each book contains 32 character pages plus rules. The character pages depict the combatants in various offensive and defensive poses that show each player what they are looking at at each moment in the game. Each character begins the game with 30 "Force" points and loses one for every wound. The first player to inflict 30 points of damage wins. Book mechanic also featured in: Lost Worlds Marvel Battlebooks: Captain America

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Type

1
Wargames

Category

4
Book Fighting Movies / TV / Radio theme Science Fiction

Mechanism

3
Rock-Paper-Scissors Simultaneous Action Selection Variable Player Powers

Family

4
Category: Two-Player Fighting Games Movies: Star Wars Players: Two-Player Only Games Series: Picture Book Games (Nova Game Designs)

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2
Best with
2
Play time
20 min
Age
12+
Complexity
2.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
Dennis Greci Alfred Leonardi

Artists

3
Stephen Crane Anne C. Fink Michael Manley

Publishers

1
West End Games

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