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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fireinthedust" data-source="post: 5069142" data-attributes="member: 51930">I have no problem with letting the PCs go after certain of the characters, if they want.  For example, if I wanted to kill Boba Fett and I actually managed to pull it off, so much the better.  That said, GMs should play their hand as deadly as they can in these instances (within the rules), simply because said NPC is so important to the setting.  As in the above example, there is no way my 1st-2nd level Ewok Mechanic should be able to take on a 14th level Boba Fett played well.  Boba should be cunning, should think weird, and just have tricks up his sleeve in case he's attacked randomly (which he would be used to, really).  Like Bane in the Clone Wars series, he'd have a secret base in an asteroid belt just so he can lead captors there and blow it (and them) up while escaping.  GMs shouldn't cheat, however, as that would be poor form and beneath us.  My players tend not to need my help, so I can unload on them if the adventure calls for it... well, in 4e; SAGA I'm getting used to.  Also, SAGA for me seems to be more about story than combat, so I'd only go ape sh** on them/you if it was expected or reasonable to do so (ie: "hey guys, let's go start something with that Boba Fett guy; he looks like a chump")Hoan/Galaxy:  yeah, I'd be disappointed if we didn't use other systems/planets.  However, could we maybe have a custom or tradition of starting all adventures in Haon?  Recruiting from the Cantina, for example (which could be a great Thread name), because it gives us a place where we can say 'hey, my Living PC really is a apart of something'.  A System-sized neighbourhood, y'know?Battle Droids:  Yeah, skip them in general?  I dunno, I mean if I have a wimpy noble I might need a Crab droid or something.  You could be right, though, and it does make sense.  Maybe no battle droids except by proposal case-by-case?  Wiki:  How do we start one of those here?  I like the idea of writing down a heading for each of the subjects we've got, like Haon, En, etc.  But also for the NPCs and Planets outside Haon that we've charted (good one, whoever said that).       Do we ask one of the moderators?</blockquote>

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