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Anyone else not getting into FFG new Star Wars Rpgs

Started by Abraxus, June 16, 2017, 06:52:51 PM

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AaronBrown99

#315
July 30, 2017, 01:35:49 PM
Quote from: jeff37923;979586Well, you have to wonder what happened to the woman who was wearing Leia's native dress before Leia......

They just fished it out of the Rancor's nest and washed it off.
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Warboss Squee

#316
July 30, 2017, 02:35:41 PM
Quote from: jeff37923;979586Well, you have to wonder what happened to the woman who was wearing Leia's native dress before Leia......

Ewoks probably ate her. Hell, the end of the battle must have been one giant buffet line.

Crisis911

#317
July 30, 2017, 02:59:17 PM
My group tried Edge of the Empire a few years ago and we hated it. The funky dice created such a strain on me as a GM to constantly come up with complications and boons or whatever. My players also hated interpreting those symbols every time they rolled. No more games with funky dice at our table.

Warboss Squee

#318
July 30, 2017, 04:08:05 PM
Quote from: Crisis911;979605My group tried Edge of the Empire a few years ago and we hated it. The funky dice created such a strain on me as a GM to constantly come up with complications and boons or whatever. My players also hated interpreting those symbols every time they rolled. No more games with funky dice at our table.

My group loves it for the same reasons yours don't. Different strokes.

Brand55

#319
July 30, 2017, 04:35:41 PM
Quote from: jeff37923;979586Well, you have to wonder what happened to the woman who was wearing Leia's native dress before Leia......
I'm just guessing, but I'd wager it belonged to Cindel Towani's mother from the Ewok movies. She was killed by a bunch of aliens at the start of the second movie, not long before Return of the Jedi.

Armchair Gamer

#320
July 30, 2017, 05:14:31 PM
My head-canon for Jar-Jar Binks is that shortly after the end of Episode III, Palpatine had Mas Amedda eliminated as a liability, framed Binks for the assassination, and had him either executed or driven into exile, thus removing a couple of risk points and reinforcing the anti-alien biases he was exploiting.

  (Yes, I know this conflicts with the Wendig novels and the New Canon. But as I've mentioned, I default to Legends over New Canon. It's what I grew up with. I don't resent them scrapping Legends--I'm just not sold on what's replaced it yet.)

Dumarest

#321
July 30, 2017, 09:02:26 PM
I can see you guys need me to play an Ewok in your next campaign to show you how it's done right. Challenge accepted. If they're good enough for Chewbacca, they're good enough for me.

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Christopher Brady

#322
July 31, 2017, 12:47:43 AM
Quote from: Warboss Squee;979598Ewoks probably ate her. Hell, the end of the battle must have been one giant buffet line.

They WERE going to eat Leia and crew, remember.  For all their faults, the little buggers ate MEAT.
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tenbones

#323
July 31, 2017, 10:29:54 AM
Quote from: Crisis911;979605My group tried Edge of the Empire a few years ago and we hated it. The funky dice created such a strain on me as a GM to constantly come up with complications and boons or whatever. My players also hated interpreting those symbols every time they rolled. No more games with funky dice at our table.

As I've indicated waaaaay back in the beginning of this thread and many many many others - you don't have to "come up" with anything. There is a handy table that will give you mechanical bonuses/penalties without anyone having to spend 1 point of creativity or effort. (gotta save that Strain for real encounters after all).

tenbones

#324
July 31, 2017, 10:35:25 AM
Quote from: jeff37923;979151I want more.

I want there to be space for tales of the hero who isn't larger than life, but still does the right thing even though it scares him so badly that he pisses himself. I want comedy like the Tag & Bink comics series. I want horror like Red Harvest and Death Troopers.

I want more of what there is less of.

The grandiose galaxy smashing material that you so eloquently describe removes too much of the human element in my view and reduces the stories to superheroics that are hard to connect to when every main character is the Best In The Galaxy. You can overdose on wonderous spectacle in fiction or gaming just like any drug.

That's funny - because most of the games that I run with FFG Star Wars happen to be exactly what you're describing. But all those other elements, the big-top stuff is there too - just mostly in the background. I tend to run games that are people living on the edge of the Republic and Empire, dealing with criminal syndicates, local issues, Hutt Cartels (when they become much more established), Bounty Hunter Syndicates and sometimes just good-ol-fashioned freebooting adventurer stuff in the backdrop of a galactic Cold War.

This current game I'm running right now is the *first* game I've had where someone is playing an actual force-user (Sith).

Black Vulmea

#325
July 31, 2017, 11:17:43 AM
Quote from: Christopher Brady;979680They WERE going to eat Leia and crew, remember.  For all their faults, the little buggers ate MEAT.
Had ol' George emphasized forest carnivores with a taste for long pig over fucking teddy bears, RotJ would be worth re-watching.
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tenbones

#326
July 31, 2017, 11:20:08 AM
Quote from: Black Vulmea;979756Had ol' George emphasized forest carnivores with a taste for long pig over fucking teddy bears, RotJ would be worth re-watching.

No shit! I would love for them to keep the cuddly appearance too - as long as they showed them ripping people apart and cooking them.

jeff37923

#327
July 31, 2017, 03:39:19 PM
Quote from: Black Vulmea;979756Had ol' George emphasized forest carnivores with a taste for long pig over fucking teddy bears, RotJ would be worth re-watching.

Quote from: tenbones;979757No shit! I would love for them to keep the cuddly appearance too - as long as they showed them ripping people apart and cooking them.

Count me in on that!
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Voros

#328
August 01, 2017, 01:55:22 AM
Quote from: Black Vulmea;979756Had ol' George emphasized forest carnivores with a taste for long pig over fucking teddy bears, RotJ would be worth re-watching.

Jedi is solid up til Jabba blows up.

Biscuitician

#329
August 01, 2017, 07:18:14 AM
Quote from: Black Vulmea;979756Had ol' George emphasized forest carnivores with a taste for long pig over fucking teddy bears, RotJ would be worth re-watching.

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