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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 1373702" data-attributes="member: 2067">Yes, it is possible to run a good Modern game by taking the news story from outside and running a group through it.But just imagine how much more awesome it would be if, say, the the kidnapper was an orc from a tribe your nation has been at war with for millenia? Or if the gang shooting was actually between rival Doppelganger clans, and involved an assassin who could stick to the walls and turn invisible?And Star Wars is fantasy, not so much sci-fi. Sci fi is more Trek; it's more about humanity and human tendancies writ large in a world created and maintained by human beings. Star Wars is about magic and monsters and Good and Evil. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Basically, I think the reason is, yes, playing someone running for thier lives through a city filled with undead is fun....but wouldn't it be more fun if those undead included the shambling corpses of giants and behemoths? And if they were raised by an elven necromancer? And if instead of runnign for your life, you could fight back effectively, and save the town isntead of just survive?And, yes, Fantasy is easier to learn, because we can ignore Reality while we do it. We don't need too much of a justification for why we have been at war with an orc tribe for millenia. On the other hand, if you say we've been at war with, I dunno, Germany, for millenia, people are going to want to know why, and why the hell no one knows about it....</blockquote>

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