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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bone_naga" data-source="post: 6669867" data-attributes="member: 85939">You can't really compare movie or book plotlines to RPGs. You can draw inspiration from them but the characters behave however the script says they behave. It's far less entertaining for most players if a single character is the star of the campaign and the rest of the characters are just supporting cast. Just like one character in a story can have gain ridiculously powerful abilities and outshine everyone else, whereas the same technique might not work so well in a game.But Star Wars is an interesting example. While it does heavily revolve around Luke, the most important thing he did in the movies was destroy the Death Star. After that, he could have died and the rest would likely have gone the same way. His actions after that were important to his personal plotline but not to the galaxy as a whole. He destroyed a walker on Hoth and helped direct the downing of others, yet the Imperial assault continued on and the shield generators were still destroyed. We really don't know if they even slowed it down since the AT-ATs appeared to steadily advance despite Rogue Squadron's best efforts. He went to Dagobah, which didn't really help anyone else. He fought Vader at Cloud City but that didn't really change anything one way or another. He fought Vader and resisted the Emperor on the Second Death Star but since Han brought down the shield generator and Lando destroyed the power core which in turn destroyed the station, they would have died anyway. So Star Wars is actually a great example of giving each character their own important pieces to play and letting each of them shine without one person clearly overshadowing everyone else.</blockquote>

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