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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remus Lupin" data-source="post: 3607403" data-attributes="member: 12760">That's one reason why Old Republic and Legacy are such good eras to play in. We know that in the Rise of the Empire, the Clone Wars will start and Anikan Skywalker will become Darth Vader no matter what you do. We know that in the Rebellion Era the Death Star will be destroyed (twice!) but you won't ever get anywhere near it, and Darth Vader will kill the Emperor no matter what you do. In the New Republic, the Vong will invade no matter what. There's a lot more open-endedness to that plot-line, but the major events are still largely out of your control.On the other hand, the Old Republic has 4,000 years for you to put your characters, and even if you place them in the midst of the Mandalorian War or the Sith War or whatever, there is still so much undefined plot-space that you can craft major events at the interstices of the "canonical" plot.Because "Legacy" is so new, it is even more open-ended. Plus, I like the numerous factions, as Klaus pointed out, and the overall "darker" more pessimistic tone of the series. There aren't "white hats" vs. "black hats" or at least there aren't ONLY white hats vs. black hats, and that suits my sense of moral ambiguity just fine.So I think that, depending on the era, Star Wars CAN work well as a setting, as long as you allow your characters to exist in a place where there is enough undefined space that they can really accomplish something.</blockquote>

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