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<blockquote data-quote="Weiley31" data-source="post: 8085398" data-attributes="member: 7017196"><p>There are plenty of ways you can avoid the Skywalker effect or even "Well I already know how the story ends, so how is my knock off Han Solo smuggler supposed to beat that?"</p><p></p><p>Example? I had an idea where it was basically, what was it First Order or Imperials...can't remember, but anywho the story would be basically the PCs being a squad of Elite Stormtroopers called in to resolves a situation where a Galactic Barge or some ship has been taken hostage by the Yevetha for trespassing in their territory. (They are basically <em>nasty</em> beings who pretty much feed blood to their egg sacks to birth their young and extremely xenophobic.)</p><p></p><p>The squad leader of the Elite Stormtrooper unit wants to ensure that they are able to breach the barge and rescue the civilians, despite a number of them being possibly rebels. He doesn't care as he job is to make sure the civilians are safe. The problem? They unexpectedly get a Sith Inquisitor assigned to them as their Handler, who only cares about capturing a Jedi who is hiding among the civilians on said barge. To the Inquisitor, the civilians are expendable and anybody that tries to ignore that or the "mission" will be personally executed by the Inquisitor on behalf of the Emperor/Supreme Leader. So the idea is trying to "survive" both the aggressive alien forces and the Inquisitor, while trying to save people, and not get branded as Traitors by the Imperials.</p><p></p><p>Sometimes, flipping the script is great: What if you play an Imperial game where your Imperials just trying to do their job and not because they are evil? What happens if your villain is a Rebel terrorist, who takes the hero worship of Luke Skywalker's destruction of the Death Star to an unhealthy level, and basically bombs/destroys imperial facilities where there are higher levels of civilians there?</p><p></p><p><em>The Yevetha are from the WoTC Star Wars Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Alien Anthology splat book. Basically tells ya about all the various alien species in the Legends Expanded Universe.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Weiley31, post: 8085398, member: 7017196"] There are plenty of ways you can avoid the Skywalker effect or even "Well I already know how the story ends, so how is my knock off Han Solo smuggler supposed to beat that?" Example? I had an idea where it was basically, what was it First Order or Imperials...can't remember, but anywho the story would be basically the PCs being a squad of Elite Stormtroopers called in to resolves a situation where a Galactic Barge or some ship has been taken hostage by the Yevetha for trespassing in their territory. (They are basically [I]nasty[/I] beings who pretty much feed blood to their egg sacks to birth their young and extremely xenophobic.) The squad leader of the Elite Stormtrooper unit wants to ensure that they are able to breach the barge and rescue the civilians, despite a number of them being possibly rebels. He doesn't care as he job is to make sure the civilians are safe. The problem? They unexpectedly get a Sith Inquisitor assigned to them as their Handler, who only cares about capturing a Jedi who is hiding among the civilians on said barge. To the Inquisitor, the civilians are expendable and anybody that tries to ignore that or the "mission" will be personally executed by the Inquisitor on behalf of the Emperor/Supreme Leader. So the idea is trying to "survive" both the aggressive alien forces and the Inquisitor, while trying to save people, and not get branded as Traitors by the Imperials. Sometimes, flipping the script is great: What if you play an Imperial game where your Imperials just trying to do their job and not because they are evil? What happens if your villain is a Rebel terrorist, who takes the hero worship of Luke Skywalker's destruction of the Death Star to an unhealthy level, and basically bombs/destroys imperial facilities where there are higher levels of civilians there? [I]The Yevetha are from the WoTC Star Wars Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Alien Anthology splat book. Basically tells ya about all the various alien species in the Legends Expanded Universe.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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