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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JamesonCourage" data-source="post: 6121866" data-attributes="member: 6668292">They aren't; Leia and Chewie want to rescue him, and are following Luke's plan, which calls for subtlety, not an attack that will cost the Rebellion resources. It wasn't a Rebellion effort, but it was done by people within the Rebellion, because they cared for / loved Han.Actually, you're kinda ignoring my point, which isn't "PC halo." It's "they love and care about him in-game, and thus are trying to rescue him."I mean, it's not one you accept?How many TV shows, movies, books, etc. have people coming together? Backstory starts somewhere. Engineer the first session so that everyone has a reason to band together; everyone is persecuted by the same people, for example (they aren't interested in people switching sides; could be a brutal warlord, undead invasion, or whatever).Mind you, I like making sure my players have reasons to be together before the game begins / a new character shows up. The 8th line of my RPG in Chapter 1: Character Creation is "Rule 1: The character must work in a group." A couple lines down is "Rule 3: The character must have a reason to be with the party." I definitely want this defined pre-play, but I've only done this to ease things. I've run games where this wasn't the case, and I've played in games where this wasn't the case. They don't implode, and don't have to rely on any "PC halo" to be plausible.This is true depending on context; if they can complete their goal without him, aren't very close friends with him (if you send him away, good chance he'll die without your help), etc. However, if you need him with you, or you care about his life, etc., then you may just take that risk to watch out for him.I don't consider backstory ties the only kind of ties that bind people together.Okay, I get that you don't like his scene-hog exaggeration. I'm just asking about the backstory stuff, though. As always, play what you like <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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