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Which is saying the same thing ultimately. And you make that clear even once you get far enough in your explanation. Yes, so in other words rather than buying a cookbook I'm buying a prepared meal, possibly even one that has been cooked for me and not just arriving in one of those...

Not to mention if you show up selling a trunk load of Imperial weaponry with the serial numbers intact, you better be making a heck of a Streetwise check if you want to avoid someone passing information to the Empire with a detailed description of who was selling looted Imperial weapons.

I get it, but I don't think it's my sense of wonder that is the issue. It's that in an RPG I am used to buying game systems and not games. The problem isn't that I'm out of imagination. The problem is that I want to play "my game" and not "your game". Somewhere a generational gap happened...

Definitely not possible to make everyone happy, but it probably isn't the same groups that are upset on the two occasions.

I think it is fair to say that 3e very much makes the assumption that the vast majority of opponents will not be leveled NPCs, because the game advice and guidelines begin to fall apart if you do try to tell a story where most of the foes are humans and not monsters. Making 3e work in a setting...

If you go back say 15 or 20 years ago, I understood why everyone was excited about and appreciated pretty much every title that would get nominated. But somewhere along the line I must have crossed some generational divide, so that when I see these nominees I really don't understand what is...

I feel old.

Unless you have a high system mastery player trying to break the game, 3.X runs very well from level one to about level 7 to 9 if you stick largely to core and very sparingly introduce any other CharGen options. If you want to run it at higher levels successfully a very large variety of...

It does and I don't think that is coincidental, but my point is that it manages to speak on the same theme without undermining in anyway what happens in the original trilogy but rather being a complement to it. Whereas the sequels reboot the setting and characters to the state that they were in...

Each of the three sequel movies were philosophically different and even at times internally inconsistent owing to the complete lack of planning or coherence in the writing team, but one of the themes developed by 'The Last Jedi' specifically and by the ending of 'Rise of Skywalker' was that...

Rogue One hits even harder after watching the two seasons of Andor, and I consider this a mark of good story telling in that you can increase the story without detracting from or harming the story around you. Compare with the sequels and their overtly destructive take on the characters of the...

In its prime, Hollywood used to make 4 or 5 movies a year I enjoyed. Now it's down to zero to one. This year will probably be a zero for me.

Bringing Nale back is I think the first big narrative misstep in the OotS. I feel like this final "book" is dragging out too long and the pacing is slowing to a crawl, and Nale already had a story with good closure. Bringing him back feels extraneous as it's time now to be bringing the PC's...

First thing I owned was the Basic red box, the first printing. First thing I actually bought with my own money was the 1e AD&D Unearthed Arcana.

Wasn't the word I was thinking of.

A guy whose story arc begins because he can't follow orders and who spends all of the 1st season breaking the law and refusing to take orders from anyone is the poster child for just following orders?

That's not my reading of him at all. Exactly when do we ever see him motivated to "cause others pain"? Syril is a man living a fantasy of being a hero, of doing a good work, of establishing justice, of protecting people. He's not really competent to do that job especially at first, but he...

I think that's ridiculous. This was just realization of the advice she gave to Krennic. She knew what the end game was the whole time. She fell apart because Syril fell apart and didn't accept her rationalization of her behavior. Syril, not Deedra, actually believed in the work he was doing...

That's my biggest problem with season two. No one really gets narratively satisfying plot arc. A lot of plots literally go nowhere with no indication why this story had been chosen to be told. And many of the characters feel like they are dying for meta reasons rather than reasons driven by...