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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remus Lupin" data-source="post: 6160157" data-attributes="member: 12760">I have a hard time understanding that. If you strip away jedi/force from Star Wars, then you strip away the single most distinctive thing about the setting/series. After all, if you take the first six movies as the center-piece of the entire SW Universe (which seems totally appropriate to me), then what you have is the story of the fall of the Jedi and their ultimate restoration, and the pivotal role played by the Skywalker family in that history.Without Jedi, you've got a lot of elements that have been quite extensively used in other settings, and often better. Any space opera (Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Star Trek, Firefly, Babylon 5) will have most if not all of those other elements represented in some way, shape or form. And while they may play around a bit with psionics, telekenesis, or psychic powers, those things are a) usually one-off experiences, b) not extensively explored, c) rooted in some form or another of science-type handwaving, and d) not rooted in a relatively well formulated set of rituals, institutions, and spiritual practices. The jedi are distinct precisely because of their central role, and their explicit (until the whole midichlorian debacle) rooting in a more spiritual conception of them as extraordinary abilities. And I'll also note, that in the new movies, often the lightsaber battles were the best part (I usually fast forward past any scene involving Anakin and Amidala).That's not to say that you can't tell stories in the star wars universe that don't involve those things, but, as I noted above, there's nothing about a story of that nature that says "Star Wars" to me. I'm perfectly happy to say that, if you want to tell those kinds of stories you should, and if you want to run those kinds of games you should. But I would hope that whatever the current system is would allow me to run a different game if I so chose. But then, I still have all my old saga edition books, and I like dthat system, so I'll be saving my money for other things, at least for the time being.</blockquote>

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