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Cassian also was in a juvenile prison much of his early life. So now it just seems like, "Cassian feels compelled to lie about everything."

The Ghor are a wealthy people. They'll have thousands if not millions of light starships - yachts, shuttles, light freighters, etc. Unless the Empire is prepared for a total naval blockade over an extended period involving a fleet larger than massed for Endor, people will get off world. Heck...

Like most of the Empire's ill-considered crackdowns, I would presume that even if the Empire kills off 90% of its 800 million inhabitants, the surviving 80 million provide the Rebel Alliance with 400 legions of partisans because well, they have motive now. Crapping in your own back yard has...

No, she was not cut out of planning. She was only cut out of tactical in that they were bringing in someone who would be willing to kill Imperials to get the job done. She was given 48 hours to come up with something. This wouldn't have been hard to do. You don't need a lot of planning...

The set up was just, "We pull back the security at the plaza a little bit and hope that this creates an armed protest even though we no longer have an insider to suggest it?" It's not smart. For example, I would have announced a "March for Peace" with loyal citizens of the Empire showing up to...

Well, you'd think so. Seemed a bit strange to me. You spend a year engaged in armed revolt and then go to a protest? I know what the script writers were going for but of the twelve episodes I felt that was by far the weakest. Too many people jumping through stupid hoops to serve the needs...

To be fair, it's reasonable that a droid be virtually immune to anything short of a military grade blaster rifle. What's not reasonable is that the Ghorman front at this time didn't have heavy weaponry including military grade rifles and carbines. That they were still armed with light pistols...

Luthen casts himself as a high idealist who is knowingly adopting the methods of his enemy in order to fight them from the shadows. His backstory however doesn't present him as such, but rather as a weak failed soldier who couldn't take it anymore and who latched on to saving a girl as a means...

I think Lonnie Jung might possibly be more of a hero than Luthen at least the way that they concluded each man's story arc (which, I admit I didn't like since I wanted Luthen to end up an unsung hero and not a failed man). Lonnie Jung seems to be a Cyril like character who really believed in...

At a very basic level, it's pretty simple. Players will repeatedly throw at me doubtful propositions where the outcome isn't obvious or necessarily predictable. I need the system to provide strong guidelines for resolving those propositions in a way that is plausible and supports creation of a...

I gave up eight or nine years ago on trying to get someone to see sense if they don't seem to be making sense, not just here but everywhere. The effort required on my part is never worth the rare rewards when someone goes, "Wait... I think I see your point now." Saves a lot of frustration and...

I now know you've never driven a big rig. Just because something is ordinary doesn't mean it isn't heroic. That they are "doing what needs to be done" is a heck an endorsement, especially when it's something dangerous. Saying someone is "not getting something" is a really lazy way to say you...

We're going to have to agree to disagree on that. Are you saying Bodi isn't an awesome superhero? Are you saying Cassian isn't an awesome superhero. I think maybe you are missing the point. The point is that you don't need super powers to be a super hero. If you compare the show to Rogue...

The writers were forced to treat the Rebels cartoon as canon. You should hear their quotes about the quality of the writing in "Rebels". Totally justified, but it's what we got. There was some really sharp writing where the Deedra and Syril relationship was being held up as parallel to the...

It was good, but it was not as well written as season 1 and managed to be both a slow burn and feel rushed. The biggest problem with it is the lack of emotional payoffs. All the stories are just let downs with no dramatic tension, often with characters seemingly dying to get written out of the...

An everyman who doesn't adventure is a Commoner. Once you start adventuring you typically become something else, but an everyman adventurer is a Paragon.

I'm taking a lot of Traveller about how small independent freighters work and porting it into my Star Wars game. Star Wars has much more powerful and less realistic(?) jump technology (one of the major differences between science fiction and science fantasy is sci-fi pays attention to where the...

It actually sees play at the table is my general standard. For a typical hardback book, I will consider it "worth it" if I use more than 5 pages worth of material at some point. Few purchases withstand this critique.

It's probably closer to 2/3rds even if you play conservatively according to the MM treasure tables and more like 90% if you play published modules which have loot distributions intended very much to allow them to be adventure paths, in that if you finish them you'll level up sufficiently to play...

Something said in the May the 4th thread about celebrating Star Wars RPGs triggered my curiosity and that's how much do you allow canon characters to interact with (and potentially overshadow) PCs and how much do you rely on your own characters? Which canon characters have you used in your...