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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 5587256" data-attributes="member: 14159">I had a burst of this last weekend.I was running a d6 Star Wars game, using a conversion of the Dawn of Defiance adventure path.One player kept wanting to make a darksider.  I had pre-gens for a wide variety of character backgrounds and races.  He wanted to play a Zabrak former Sith Lord that had returned to the Light Side. . .as a starting character circa 17 BBY.  No.I showed him the two force-using pre-gens I had: A young padawan who had barely begun his training when his master was cut down at Order 66, and a mystic from a backwater world.  He begrudgingly took the padawan, but kept wanting to know why he couldn't shoot Force Lightning or telekinetically choke people, and seemed shocked when I said using those powers is Dark Side and he will become an NPC if he goes Dark, and besides his character didn't even know the powers and didn't have enough dice in Alter to reliably perform them if he did.  I even quoted Yoda with "A Jedi uses the Force for Knowledge and Defense, never for Attack".  He responded by saying he always did that in the Jedi Knight video games, over the course of the game it became clear he only dimly remembered the actual movies and all his Star Wars experience came from playing various SW video games, and typically taking the Dark Side path in those games.  I also found out he seldom played RPG's, and mostly played M:tG, when he did play RPG's it was D&D for simple dungeon crawls.So when he plays, he insists on looting everything that isn't nailed down.  He's hauling around a backpack with looted stormtrooper blaster rifles and utility belts, and was trying to find a duffle to shove all the medpacs and drugs he could loot from the Imperial infirmary, and acted more mercenary than Han Solo did when we first met him, trying to extort Bail Organa for more money for him to go off and fight the Empire.When it was over, he was tallying up how much stuff he stole and how much money he had looted/extorted and wanting to compare it with other PC's like it was their score of how well they did.He's not getting invited back since that one-shot at the FLGS is turning into a regular campaign.</blockquote>

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