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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 6298712" data-attributes="member: 32740">I've actually been considering the possibility of a d6 SW game again.  I've never given a hoot for "canon" beyond the films.  Just never interested me.  The canon covered by the films has enough problems anyway.  I went back and made a sort of "Cliff's Notes" version of the important plot elements of the films and I came to two conclusions.  First is that it actually makes rather poor fodder for events in an RPG campaign because the setting-shaping events all revolve around one or two individuals in one family with a really bad case of Destiny-itis.  Second is the astonishing repeated and consistent parallels to events of the American Revolution.So, I decided that the continuity and canon can quietly go play in a corner anyway because I intend to conveniently ignore vast quantities of it.  A proper RPG hinges upon the actions of PC's and a proper DM isn't interested in railroading events in order to keep the unfolding canon immune from PC interference.  My plan then is to have a general outline of events that will unfold with greater similarity to the American Revolution than to SW canon, but otherwise to expect that the PC's and their actions will be determining what kind of campaign actually ends up being played.  It might be galaxy-spanning or very localized.  It might wind up being more like Firefly than Star Wars.  The entire Rebellion might have nothing whatever to do with Jedi Knights, or it might have even MORE to do with a struggle not between Empire and Rebels but Jedi and Sith.  Will the Jedi even be wiped out?  Maybe not because the overarching plot for the campaign doesn't rely on it.Most important of all I've never even HEARD of the word, "midichlorians."  In fact, I can't even read what's between the quotes in that previous sentence.</blockquote>

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