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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SWBaxter" data-source="post: 2262847" data-attributes="member: 27926">I have two Star Wars campaign ideas I'd like to run someday. The first is a post-ROTJ campaign, ignoring most of the extended universe stuff. The setup is that the restored Republic refits a captured Star Destroyer as the RSS Obi-Wan Kenobi, which is both a training center for Jedi and a jumping off point for diplomatic/espionage-style missions on behalf of the Republic. Luke Skywalker would run the school, Lando Calrissian heads the intelligence outfit, other movie types would occasionally show up for cameos. I envision it as kinda sorta a hybrid of Star Wars and Star Trek. The other is a bit more ambitious - it's an alternate timeline setting, created by wondering "what if Darth Maul had killed Obi-Wan in The Phantom Menace?" My alternate timeline includes events such as: - Anakin never receives Jedi training, but is brought up on Naboo and learns to use the Force on his own. His rage and anger still destroys his marriage, and he ends up wandering the galaxy trying to find peace. - Palpatine's plans don't go off nearly as well, he decimates the Jedi but a sizable number get away. A primary reason they escape is that Master Yoda gives his life buying the Jedi time. Mace Windu ultimately heads the Jedi Council in exile. - Since there's no opening post-TPM, Count Dooku never joins the Sith. But he still has his own ambitions, and his own twisted view of the Force. After the Jedi purge, he provides a safe haven for many young Jedi. - Padme Amidala's young son, Luke, is lost and presumed killed at age 8 when the transport he's travelling on is attacked by raiders from an unknown source. My reason for doing all this is simply to run episodes 4, 5, and 6 with the PCs in the hero roles, with enough of a twist that it seems fresh. Leia gives them the message on the Tantive IV instead of R2 and 3PO, the old hermit in the desert turns out to be Anakin Skywalker, the Sith who they keep running into calls himself Darth Vader but is actually the missing Luke Amidala, one of the Star Destroyers they always run into is captained by Han Solo, and so on. And the PCs would be the ones who rescue Leia, warn the rebels, blow up the Death Star, etc.</blockquote>

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