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<blockquote data-quote="Doctor Futurity" data-source="post: 8562221" data-attributes="member: 10738"><p>Yeah this happens to me, and not just with West End, seen it with the D20/Saga version of Star Wars and the Fantasy Flight versions as well: the GM inevitably has a highly specific (and usually alternative universe view with head cannon mixed in) take on a very specific flavor of Star Wars that is, not surprisingly, opposite the more vanilla standard SW the players wanted to try out. I've bowed out of every game of SW I've had proposed to me, because in each case there was something exceptionally specific and weird about it when all I wanted was "standard old Star Wars." My wife even joined one one of these weird games and dropped out after three sessions with a "you were right, it was the GM's version of a Lucas special edition event" comment at the end.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: seeing further comments wants me to clarify. A lot of my run-ins with weird alt-Star Wars proposals are by GMs who seem to want too reinvent the universe. I'd be totally fine with a "no jedi, just ordinary citizens of the galaxy" adventures, and back in the day my favorite West End campaign was set in the sector authority area of the old Han Solo novels. What I am talking about is GMs who, as an example, have campaigns like: "Empire, but the armies of the Sith were there all along," or "Jedi are actually secretly corrupt and the films are propaganda." These are interesting ideas....but if the group shows up expecting "regular Star Wars" and instead it's something universe-changing, then that creates a range of problems if you don't have the very specific quibble or interest in tampering with the universe that the GM does.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doctor Futurity, post: 8562221, member: 10738"] Yeah this happens to me, and not just with West End, seen it with the D20/Saga version of Star Wars and the Fantasy Flight versions as well: the GM inevitably has a highly specific (and usually alternative universe view with head cannon mixed in) take on a very specific flavor of Star Wars that is, not surprisingly, opposite the more vanilla standard SW the players wanted to try out. I've bowed out of every game of SW I've had proposed to me, because in each case there was something exceptionally specific and weird about it when all I wanted was "standard old Star Wars." My wife even joined one one of these weird games and dropped out after three sessions with a "you were right, it was the GM's version of a Lucas special edition event" comment at the end. EDIT: seeing further comments wants me to clarify. A lot of my run-ins with weird alt-Star Wars proposals are by GMs who seem to want too reinvent the universe. I'd be totally fine with a "no jedi, just ordinary citizens of the galaxy" adventures, and back in the day my favorite West End campaign was set in the sector authority area of the old Han Solo novels. What I am talking about is GMs who, as an example, have campaigns like: "Empire, but the armies of the Sith were there all along," or "Jedi are actually secretly corrupt and the films are propaganda." These are interesting ideas....but if the group shows up expecting "regular Star Wars" and instead it's something universe-changing, then that creates a range of problems if you don't have the very specific quibble or interest in tampering with the universe that the GM does. [/QUOTE]
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