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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6852947" data-attributes="member: 22424">Possibly.Part of it is also a reaction against the excessive reverence paid to these characters. Maybe not so much Conan, but some of the EU material written about Han Solo is absurd - the character was much more interesting when he was 'just' a smuggler, without being a former Imperial Academy graduate, top of his class, and the best general in the galaxy. (But, perhaps more to the point, there seems a determination that because a fictional character pulls off a trick once that character therefore must have some special ability to do it all the time.)And part of it is about the set-up of the game. If we're playing Star Wars then Han, Luke, and Leia really need to be suitable PCs (subject to playing at the appropriate level). If they're not, as is the case in SWSE, then there's something not right about the game. (And, as I said earlier in the thread, although D&D isn't "The Conan RPG", Gygax does note that he, Elric, Fafhrd, and the Grey Mouser were especially strong influences on the game. IMO, they too should be suitable for PC use.)</blockquote>