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This is where the "which source material" question really matters. In the OT, Vader WAS more powerful than everyone else, and Luke, by the end, went toe to toe with him. You can't be true to that source material without embracing jedi as special and more powerful.

I am still having trouble finding the right game. I need something with a short, fun play loop that is also wide open. My personal Platonic Ideal here is Skyrim/Fallout4, but i have played them both to death. I was very sad that Starfield was not that same experience, and as much as Elden Ring...

Who cares? I don't mean that to threadcrap. I'm serious. What difference does it make to YOU how many "fans" D&D "has"? I mean, if you are arguing one way or the other, the answer must matter to you, right? For my part, only one thing matters: more active customers (whatever portion of the...

Boromir? Every Anglo Saxon hero ever?

Point of order: the Outer Room is run down and "lived in." The Galactic Core has always been Shiny, and the Empire obviously likes it that way.

And now HR is involved.

Very cool. Thank you.

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How much work do you do to turn the average Paizo AP into something playable? Because in my experience, even when they are good, they are NOT written or designed to actually be used at the table.

Was it? How would we know?

This whole post x10. Many folks run effective campaigns with published WotC modules, but even so they end up fighting the thing more than using it. This is a problem with any published campaign, of course, because your table is your table. But both WotC and Paizo campaign length adventures bury...

I agree that you can use a television structure to great effect. I personally think the mid-late 90s genre television structure (a la Buffy or X-Files) works best, in fact. That is a totally different thing that trying to force it to "feel like TV dialogue" in play, which is the claim I was...

Making memories is great. That's not the bit I quoted.

But it is impossible. You can't do it. Not only are they different mediums, 99.9% of folks don't have the resources.

Everyone plays for different reasons and with different goals, so i am not saying you are playing wrong or anything. But, this sounds completely counter productive to me. There is no audience except the people at the table, and those people are playing a GAME not watching a show. The only right...

I loaded up Gauntlet: Slayer Edition. Nice simple relaxing violence...

Ok. So how does me having a totally open situation and no constraints on the players' options (besides "no plane shift") translate to lack of options?

That seems completely opposite of the general definition.

The faewild stuff had nothing to do with the BBEG or main "story" at all. It was a side jaunt.

In all honesty, likely not. The particular player in this situation is not the best fit for my GMing style and while we have played together for 30 years, we don't usually play two campaigns in a row together. I suspect that he won't be particularly keen on joining the next campaign (probably...