A thread for discussing the Star Wars franchise and its various media and tabletop games.Prequel Edition>Adepticon roadmaps:https://www.atomicmassgames.com/transmission/adepticon-2026-roadmap-star-wars-legion/https://www.atomicmassgames.com/transmission/adepticon-2026-roadmap-star-wars-shatterpoint/Previous: >>98166374Fantasy Flight Games’ X-Wing, Armada, and Legion>https://pastebin.com/9puqx1zeStar Wars Roleplaying Games (d6/d20/FFG)>https://pastebin.com/iUriRfaAOther FFG Star Wars tabletop (Imperial Assault, Destiny and the LCG)>http://pastebin.com/ZE4gn0yNOld links>https://pastebin.com/yUVx32wBX-Wing/Armada/Legion/Shatterpoint:>https://www.atomicmassgames.com/transmission/update-on-star-wars-x-wing-and-star-wars-armada/>https://www.atomicmassgames.com/star-wars-legion-documents>https://www.atomicmassgames.com/star-wars-legion-transmissions>https://www.atomicmassgames.com/swp-transmissions/>https://www.atomicmassgames.com/swp-rules/Latest Edge news:>https://edge-studio.net/a-new-hope/>https://edge-studio.net/star-wars-edge/Unlimited links:>https://starwarsunlimited.com/articles/>https://swudb.com/>https://karabast.netTQ: There's a lot of debate on how a sequel story should be done, but if you could rip up the prequels and start from scratch, what would you do differently?prev thread>>98166374
Alright, which one if you freaks snuck your fetish material into canon?
>>98208679TQAll jedi have blue lightsabers. Anakin has the only purple. Clone war(S!) implies more than one. I'd have multiple armies of clones if different people. Boba didn't need to be a special clone son for the gene source. It makes a goofy bounty hunter from the OT too important to the setting to never comment on it. Have Anakin kill some adult Jedi. Maybe give some nobodies a bigger role in the movies so when they get offed by Anakin it's more powerful.
>>98210065loli moff is best moff.
>>98210065Uooh, bratty moff...
>>98210065I bet the laundry detail keep "loosing" a lot of her panties. >I'm am very sorry, Moff Tavira, >the damn laundry droid has been acting up again and seems to have shredded some laundry.>I will personally ensure the droid maintenance detail is properly chastised for failing to uphold their duties>the cost for any replacement garments you need will be docked from their pay.>camera pan to laundry detail and a bunch of technicians chucking creds into a pot and drawing sticks for the prize
I know I'm hardly the first person to point out that the prequels tell a story too big for three movies, but isn't it kind of crazy that Grievous wasn't very explicitly set up as an analogue for Anakin and made into a kind of archenemy for him? They literally had a Vaderesque figure right there but Lucas just wanted him to be some cowardly Bond villain instead.
I want to do some small scale Star Wars. This looks tight.
>>98210446You could probably do a refluff/total conversion of Flames of War or Team Yankee
>>98210090>All jedi have blue lightsabers. Anakin has the only purple.Eh, I don't know. The movies use purple as more of a political color that could swing either way as political power in intrinsically neutral, rather than just a transitory color from light to dark. Palpatine's antechamber is purple, as the office of chancellor is neutral, but being put towards bad ends. In the same way, Mace has a purple lightsaber, partly because Sam Jackson wanted dat purple saber, but he's also the most politically involved Jedi, working towards a good end in the the bad frame work of the stagnant Jedi. Anakin's goals, though human and understandable, are just about himself. >>98210432>Isn't it kind of crazy that Grievous wasn't very explicitly set up as an analogue for Anakin and made into a kind of archenemy for him?Not really? They're both cyborgs and have respiratory problems, but that's about it. I've never gotten the hate around Grievous being a cunning coward. Just because Tartakovsky turned him into the terminator doesn't mean that should be how it is. The big issue is that, as you mention, there isn't enough time to show him being cunning, so all you're left with is the coward.
>>98210568For my TQ responses:I would have liked to see more aliens in the GAR. You get this a little bit with the Wookies and the Pau'ans in some background shots, but making it clear that it was locals and clones fighting together would have been nice. You can also get some on the ground reaction to Order 66. A group of clones and regular soldiers advancing, when to the shock of the locals, the Clones stop short and gun down the Jedi who is leading them could help add to the horror. To go back to my point on Grievous not getting enough screen time, I would have also liked it if in the opening of Revenge of the Sith, we saw how Grievous likes to kill Jedi. You can have Anakin and Obi Wan get a communique about how Shaak Ti and some Clones have pursued Grievous on to his ship, and you can have Obi Wan and Anakin trying to link up with her, while cutting between Grevious hunting her and the clones. You can see him cutting off the groups in the corridor, using traps to pick of the clones, leading them into ambushes to be overwhelmed by Droids, all the while watching how they fight, and stalking the rescue party just out of sight like a predator, before at last striking when Shaak Ti is out of men and fatigued, killing her just in time for Obi Wan and Anakin to see it, and taking her lightsaber, forcing Anakin and Obi Wan to sneak their way to the Chancellor. You can establish some stakes, establish why and how Grievous is a threat, and get some action in. Though this would probably fuck with the pacing to an ungodly degree.
>>98210065Is that you, planefag? The answer is Mike Stackpole, by the way.
Who do you think made up the original Jedi when they first got together?I personally find the pyramid thing and Typhon to be a cop-out.
Modern slop machines can make some nice star wars pictures
Don't mind me, just the best Star Wars comic run, period!
>>98210731I dont think it really matters much or there being a particular reason for it to have been that people over this people. Maybe it was a human group, maybe mon calimari, maybe bothan, maybe it was after regular galaxy wide transportation was established and it was a mix of peoples. doesnt change much.Though if I would venture, I like the idea that the Jedi are the gestalt of various cultures comming together to formalize a general lightside orthodoxy. Thats why anyone proficient in the force is called a jedi since it just means someone proficient and knowledgeable in the subject. with a cosmopolitan understanding of the force being the jedi order proper, but they have contact with various more niche and particular traditions. Jedi = force user UN, like the republic is the political UN.
>>98210065I'm not skeptical of the idea of a Moff keeping a 16 year old piece of ass. Or marrying her. Or even her ruling through him after a stroke. But the idea that a 17-19 year old girl whose skills are 'tight pussy' and 'torture hobby' was able to get the crews of space battleships to obey her is really hard to believe.
>>98211009hmm, I remember gemini not like me using trademarked things like star ars.
>not “big in nemodia” edition>>98174180
>>98210065The one who made Tarkin gay in the post Disney canon.
>>98211442It absolutely can make trademarked stuff, you just have to avoid tripping it up. >visual referencesI'd recommend attaching as many reference pics as possible. Eg. It will let you make a stormtrooper if you ask for a "soldier with a helmet/armor like in picture 1", rather than "stormtrooper">specific wordsI find that Gemini is allergic to specifc trademarked words. But you can definitely get around it by using alternatives>droidRobot>stormtrooperNovatrooper>mandalorian Sci fi mercenary>moffSci fi officer
>>98210065>Corran Horn turned her down>but not until after seriously considering whether he should bang her for the mission
>>98213596She was older by then. And a lot more crazy.
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>>98208679Are the Mandalorians in Legion going to be a full faction in themselves or is the intended use for them to be mercenaries?
>>98213982They can be used as either mercs or a full faction.But as a full faction their roster is more limited than normal factions: they obviously don't get cheap units, force users and their access to vehicles is more limited.
>>98214267>mando>no force users Bardan Jusik for legion when?
>>98214391When they add the Basilisk Droids and Canderous tanks. Wich is to say, never
>>98214591Bardan Jusik is active from clone wars era up and well into the post RotJ warlord so he would fit in. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Bardan_Jusik
Help! I'm doing a one-shot where all the players are low-level death stick dealers. It will be based off of Glengarry Glen Ross, if they don't sell enough death sticks they will be ousted from the cartel.Give me ideas for leads on people/places to sell death sticks. Currently I have>Imperial outpost>Children's Hospital>Territory of rival syndicate, probably Black Sun
Star Wars rules for Chain of Command 2E: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fBXyEerQNTkZAcEQDT6RAdDrj6MiMmDa/view?usp=sharing
outside of andor is there something else from disney worth watching?
>>98215055Season 1 of Mandalorian, Season 2 is optional, just pretend the show ends thereRogue One is an alright finale for AndorSolo has its momentsThe last arc of their final Clone War seasonThe Crosshair solo episodes in Bad Batch
>>98208679Did Darth Vader lose his cock and balls? Asking for a friend, btw.
Every ARC trooper dual wielding pistols now is so dumb. That was Fordo's thing just to look cool not a good idea for all your special forces.
>>98213036aw, the old drifting around the trademark technique.
>>98210065She looks 14 years old. Shouldn't she be in her 20s, or like 18 or 19 by that point in her history? What grown ass man is taking orders from a teenage girl, anyway?
>>98215435He was extremely heavily burned below the waist. I would be quite surprised if he still had a fully functional penis.
>>98211410Who would you rather follow, some old geezer or Moff Legal Loli?Her crew is made entirely of simps and fanboys.
>>98216044>setting has the tech for reliable intergalactic travel and magic>not regrow penis and ballsHmmm
>>98216131I mean, if it did, Luke and Anakin wouldn't have needed robot hands.
Is it just me, or have you also noticed how Obi doesn't seem to fit in the legacy line he belongs in.>Dooku Redpilled Jedi who clashed with the Order for being lackeys to the Senate and turning a blind eye to the galaxy's corruption.>Qui-gon JinTHE maverick Jedi, he also clashed with the Jedi over their arrogance, way of doing things and hypocrisy (though not to the extent of becoming a Sith like his master)>AnakinI don't think I need to go into much detail here. Personal issues aside, he could also see the internal issues with the late Order, called everything straight as it was and his methods of general conduct were at times very "un-Jedi".>AshokaFiloni aside, as a character, she also was outspoken and rebellious at times. And when the Council banished her she never tried to return and even formed her own code of conduct in a pseudo "Grey Jedi" way.To all of them, Obi-Wan seems like such a stand out. He was a stickler for the rules (not the the extent of Windu ofc but still), conservative in his ideas and with a calm demeanor in general. To the point that he's considered THE ideal Jedi (after Luke I guess). Seems at least one in that crazy line should have been the straight man.
>>98217819I think he takes after Qui-Gon, but sees the shit going down in the Clone Wars, sees how Anakin changes.ANd he clearly didn't look too closely at the rulebook when he was banging Satine and probably Ventress
>>98217819He just took a little while to grow into the role.By the time of original trilogy, he didn't hesitate to purposefully deceive Luke into joining the Rebellion, because he knew it was for the greater good in the long run.
>>98217819The Dooku to Qui-Gon to Obi-Wan to Anakin thing really ends up feeling a little contrived, but that is probably more due to the lack of screen time the relationship gets.TPM should set things up, but Dooku is just not there and Qui-Gon dies 10 minutes in.And Ahsoka suffers from starting in a kids cartoon, then being in another kids carton and then Dsiney shitting the bed.She should have been in Kenobi, and Kenobi should have been about the Hidden Path from the Jedi games doing hidden Jedi things.And they shouldn't have cast Rosario Dawson.
>>98217819Qui-Gon was more like Obi-Wan's wacky dad that makes him feel embarrassed when they're in public. Not that crazy that he took an opposite way of being, not to mention that Obi-Wan clearly looks up to the council members.
>>98217819Probably boils down to the fact they didn't want to radically change Kenobi's character from what audiences were already familiar with. they probably just told Ewan just do his best Alec Guinness impression and called it a day. He is pretty much the only OT character besides Yoda that gets any screen time, after all. Anakin doesn't count because he's basically an entirely different person until the ass end of the PT.
>>98210568>The movies use purple because the actor wanted it and nothing more
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Play tabletop gamesPost minis
My AoR players have decided that the easiest way to destabilise the local imperial governor's power is to piss him off, and have taken a shine to psyops lately. >sleeper agent managed to get camera access to some of the jail cells in the local dungeon >team recreates a 1:1 replica of a jail cell>agitator hires a togruta prostitute>use the last remaining synthflesh in their depleted advanced camouflage kit to make the mousy human engineer's face resemble the governor's wife good enough to fool a casual onlooker>togruta prostitute and mousy engineer film an implied prison lesbian sex scene>add a choppy and grainy filter to it implying it has been reconstructed from deleted footage >release it on planetary holonet>"EXTRA! EXTRA! Governor's wife caught in lesbian love affair with alien prisoner! We have all the footage the Empire wanted you not to see!"One of the players even managed to get a AI gen to make "evidence" pictures.
>>98217871And CerasiAnd Lena Cobral (widowed milf)And Siri TachiI swear if Obi-Wan wasn't a Jedi he would have like 2 marriages and a dozen children. Don't forget that he did say to Satine that, had she said the word, he would have left the Order to be with her.
>>98219249Kenobi seems to have a strong inclination towards tsundere blondes.
>>98219255Truly a man of culture.
>>98218852damn, you got me rooting for the evil imp governor now.
>>98208679>if you could rip up the prequels and start from scratch, what would you do differently?Set the rise of the Empire one-two decades before it canonically happens and build from there.There's other things I could say but its mostly just beating a dead horse at this point.I've always felt the Jedi order of the prequels and its inspired media was lame and interesting and the main reason I don't really care for any of that stuff. It all feels like discount space Harry Potter or something.
>>98217960>obi should have been sacked for gay nigger railroad (literally) plotNo
>>98216087I'm not letting myself be tortured to death on the orders of some teenage girl.
>>98219834>gay nigger railroad (literally) plotWhat are you talking about? Are you OK?
>>98208679I wish I was a small level trader in Star Wars bros with a small little ship and I sell cool things at markets
>>98220917The thing about Star Wars ship is you need to fly them. It would be a constant running battle with tiredness and mechanical upkeep. Every trip has to pay fuel, food and debt.It’s a young man’s game, but Star Wars is a young man’s universe.
>>98221453>It’s a young man’s game, but Star Wars is a young man’s universe.you would have droids to help you, especially as a small time trader in a small area of the galaxy it would not be that hard
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my mando box just arrived and my customizable HQs are shipping soon, what else should I aim for to flesh this army out?
>>98221792get a second army box, sell off the dupe charactersget a tank
>>98215129Andor ending was awesome and although I like Rogue One, going straight from the Andor to the movie made me like it less. I just wanted to spend more time with those characters rather than the random crew they had for the movie.
>>98220917This sounds like cozy and fun, comfy-pilled.
Anyone have experience running the d20 Star Wars tabletop systems? Which is better, Revised or SAGA? I'm looking to maybe play one or the other (though the scene seems a little dead) and I'm mostly looking for which one is more likely to have a solid mechanical foundation for the world and interactions with it outside of standard combat/dungeon crawl stuff.
>>98222672I prefer SAGA since it has more content (you can even see them figuring things out as the books release. God damn, Mandalorian Neo Crusader armour is OP and only limited by a lack of official price or way to get outside of stripping dead KOTOR mandos) and is more 'focused' as a SW setting, but Revised is fine if you or your party is used to 3.5e.
>>98222790I've not had the chance to play either yet, but SAGA seems like Force users are a little more out of control or harder to not just render everyone irrelevant? Or do situations like with the armor you mentioned kind of balance it out?
>>98223103NTA but Force users are good for two reasons in Saga, one of which is a game mechanics issue:>Skills vs DefensesSkills go up one every two levels, Defenses start at 10 and go up one every level. Skills get outpaced around 13th, but skills can be frontloaded so at 1st level you rock a +13-14 Use the Force, meaning against someone with a Defense of 12 you automatically "hit" their Defense. And since something like Move Object just has DCs, you could with a good roll (30+, achievable at 1st level with some dice luck) slap someone with 10d6 damage. It will instantly kill pretty much anything you'd face. So at low levels Force wizards dominate offensively. They also dominate defensively because if they take Deflect, it's 1d20+14 (or whatever their Use the Force is) against an attack roll to nullify it. Most attack rolls at 1st level will be 1d20+3 at most. Again, huge advantage.At high levels, Defenses overtake skills. Sure at 20th level you might have a +24 Use the Force if you stacked it. But the guy who easily is rocking a Defense of 40 means you need to roll a 16+ to do anything at all to him. And he could have much higher than 40, 45-50 is not hard to reach against a Force user. Skill checks aren't attack rolls, so if you get a nat20 and it still doesn't reach the target Defense, you eat shit.This is why lightsaber melee mongers do better at high levels. Because they might be meleeing instead of being uncivilized with a blaster, but attack bonus rises overall faster than skills.Easy fix: change skill focus to grant 1/2 level bonus, cap at +5 (+7 if you want a bit more use at high level).>short range combatMost GMs put you in 30-60 foot encounters. Guess where lightsabers and Force powers are great? Melee and inside about 30-60 feet.Put a Force user against a ranged sniper using a sonic rifle, and watch your Jedi player froth at the mouth.Easy fix: plan better encounters that challenge your players.
>>98220917This except my copilots are a pair of Twi'lek tomboy engineers.
>>98223688>>98223103Just for shits and giggles, I looked and if a 20th level armour-wearer tank-type does not want Force users hitting him with their brain, he can easily reach a Defense of 50 against the Force and I've absolutely missed things when calculating that (literally just 20th level, +4 heroic bonus, +4 CON, +5 Fort battle armour with tech modification for extra +2, and +5 Unstoppable Force feat). If his Wisdom isn't shit (let's say 14) and he has Grand Army of the Republic training he will be at 48 against Jedi mind tricks and can add more easily.Or have Imperial Military Training and delete mind tricks from his brain with the discipline and order of the Imperial war machine.Better hope the Force user has a +30 and gets a natural 20. Grand Master Luke Skywalker, for reference, has a +29.
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What are some good lightsaber resistant weapons? I was pretty sure these guys had lightsaber resistant katanas, but then I went and watched the episode back and Ventress cuts the blades in half. I really hope the only options aren't like... Electrostaffs and their variants.
>>98217819I disagree on two fronts.Firstly, Ahsoka has nothing grey Jedi about her. She says "I'm no Jedi" but she doesn't act any different from them.Secondly, Kenobi only seems put together because he's paired with the most chaotic Jedi in the order. You can see in his interactions with Satine how he's actually pretty wild but has to hold back Qui-Gon/Anakin/Ahsoka/Luke so much he never gets much time to show it.
>>98224003Cortosis or Beskar seems to be teh godl standard for lightsaber-resistan material, with Phrik a close runner-up
>>98217819Obi-Wan was a war criminal who would likely cut your nose off if you sneezed in his direction and claim self defense. He was just really good at acting like Sheev and stuck with the Jedi because they gave him the opportunity to dismember people.
Why does it seem that nobody in the Star Wars universe uses laser pointer sights on their blasters? I've only seen them in swtor I think.
>>98224853I guess they got stuck at the old trilogy's aesthetics.
>>98224853It seems like technologically, the SW Universe sort of diverged to cover those needs using ocular equipment with visual enhancements, rather than gun-attached solutions, or just full on leave long-distance fighting to droids. The prevalence of full-face helmets and masks in use in lots of armor certainly lends itself to just covering it with ocular gear, and the armor is likely personalized to the user, which the gun equipment would have to be, too, because not every species is going to perceive the laser's spectrum the same.
>legion armorer is shorter than the generic femmandosCUTE
Do you guys think we'll see more customisable commanders? Like custom clones commanders/captains?
>>98226728they did one for the mando army so I wouldn't be surprised to see them come for everybody eventually
I legit had more fun with Shadows of the Empire than with the Thrawn trilogy.
>>98211009>>98213036With so many stormtrooper variants coming out to sell Star Wars toys like how hasbro treats transformers to sell toys, how long until the original trilogy stormtroopers become rare glup shittos?
this mando box has been a joy to assemble, not too hard to get different arm pairs on different bodiesbut holy fuck whoever designed din's cloak is an assholegiant two piece bit made of insanely thin plastic so it's almost impossible to keep aligned through the whole cloak
>>98228020Anon, those are my OC donut steel pics, not official stormtrooper variants.
>>98228093Good to hear, with all their extra arms it'll be nice to get some kitbash options.Like for someone who bought 2 starters, you could just give Din a gun to turn him into a customizable Mando or something.And iktf for the capes, that kind of shit (pic related) always drives me up the wall. >>98226728>>98226755I fucking hope so.Clone commanders would be cool.I'd also like some kind of hero stormtrooper with a big gun for the Empire rather than an officer/agent though they are more likely to get some sort of Inquisitor.Like the big Stormtrooper with an E-Web that was in the shitty SW arena shooter.
>>98226984I remember being largely bored with it, except for when I read it as a child and was reading Xizor trying to seduce Leia by pheromone-stinking her I found creepy and sickening for some reason I couldn't quite comprehend at the time. Cheered when Vader did that two minutes thing.
>>98224853But they do. Even going back to some of the OT blasters, they're present. Just look at the Power 5 blaster: The item identified as a "scope" is definitely a laser sight, in that it's clearly positioned in such a way that you couldn't look down it like a normal optical scope, and it's got a little power cable running to it.As for the practical reason why we don't see it, there weren't any commercially available laser sights out there yet when the original movie was made, and they definitely didn't have the prop budget to make something like that from scratch.
>>98228863It's kinda crazy there are at least two species that exude date rape particles.
>>98228357I know.I should have had that mentioned in my post. My bad.
been watching a lot of star wars stuff since late last year because of the venture bros and 21's star wars obsession. I was soured on it for a long time because of the, you know, disney. But a lot of the animated stuff like Maul is fucking great and shows what you can accomplish when you have writers who are probably nerdy men who like the story instead of fat hipsters who hate it.Don't really like swtor that much but it's 'okay' but sith lords like malgus and vitiate and his headmates feel very OC donut steel in the same way world of warcraft characters do.>almost 8 yearsFuckIt would be fucking great if there was a star wars game -like- warhammer set in the Sith Wars era, with Jedi Lords and Sith without the Darth title fighting each other in a fragmented galaxy that only knows war.
>>98210065>unironically mary sue, 13, and all the guys in star fleet/the imperial army are in love with her
>>98229402I mean, she IS a Stackpole character, so that tracks.
>>98229400>Sith wars eraNever ever, at least under Disney.The best you can hope for is probably high republic(?) Getting added to Legion
Planning on making my first FFG character, and the party premise is that we're a bunch of escaping slaves from a criminal syndicate. I've decided to go with the idea of being a dancer but I don't wanna go with the typical twi'lek pick cause I feel that's a bit too cliche, and I wanna be a femboy instead of a girl cause I'm gay. Which of the following species would make for a cute slave dancer (male)?>Tognath>Nautolan>Mirialan>Mikkian
>>98229584Just play a Twi'lek
>>98229584>TognathEven if the Tognath was cute enough like body wise, the breathing tubes and mask apparatus would probably make them a bit of an eyesore to the average sleazebag. I'd dig a lap dance from one, but it's probably a pass for most.>NautolanFeasible, they aren't too bad looking. They're probably a little too aquatic looking for some people's tastes but I'm sure if they were cute enough it could slide.>MirialanThey'd look nice but I genuinely think most Mirialan's would be too stuck up to shake their ass around at a criminal's expense. Pass.>MikkianConventionally attractive and have pretty head tendrils that could be incorporated into a dance similar to twi'leks. Lower brawn means you could play up the whole frail/weak angle and have a feasible excuse for going the femboy route too.I'd say go with the Mikkian. If the syndicate is based on some kind of aquatic planet you could maybe go with a Nautolan but yeah Mikkian is probably the way, either that or >>98229644
How to avoid slitting my wrists painting clones?I don't have an airbrush so this is my method:>prime grey>do all the black areas>do all the white areas>wash with nuln oil all over>tidy black or white areas where mistakes were made>redo all the white to brighten itJust getting to here is driving me nuts.
>>98228863I jerked off to that scene, because I'm not a fucking pussy.
>>98229584My brother.Zeltron is right there waiting to be picked.
>>98229757>he doesn't make a /your dudes/ scheme that conveniently doesn't have any white in itNgmi
>>98229584Zeltron
>>98229644Twi'lek boys aren't cute though. They got weird bumpy foreheads. Granted, there's at least one canonical male twi'lek dancer in a cantina in Children of the Jedi.
>>98229562I'm coping that legion will get some old republic stuff when FOTOR comes out. Mainly because I want full squads of lightsaber wielders fighting each others
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>>98230558>>98229562https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/The_Ninth_JediThis star wars anime sounds kind of like it's set during the Sith Wars what with Jedi masters ruling planets and having Lordly titles.
I need some help and advice anons.I’m planning on assembling and priming then painting these Bandai spirits models.They’re so small they’re practically miniatures.If it is safe what acrylic paints should I mix with a white primer to match the x-wing white and then the tie fighter grey?And then finally how are ammo by mig’s acrylic washes? They look like acrylic washes designed to reactivate as part of a cleanup process.I’m looking at starship acrylic wash by ammo for the job.I want to avoid oils and enamels.
>>98214669Chandrilan party. Naboo party.
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>>98212993https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7bmXywWus8
>>98231342Look up the micro galaxy squadron repaints for info
>>98229584Just go with a twi'lek boyNo one will want to flirt or be charmed by a tognath or mikkian, but I'm pretty sure most people wouldn't complain about a twi'lek flirting with them
>>98233241I never got to try spec ops. What are your thoughts on it? How good is it compared to recon?I've always wanted to use it for teaching games, but I'm not confident it's a good way to get into Legion but rather its own thing.Still, it could be a good alternative since people at my game club don't really want to move beyond 600pts recon games.
>>98233304That game was an absolute drug trip/
>>98229792I can see somebody who doesn't like NTR hating it, especially since Leia had literally lost to the date-rape pheromones before Chewbacca got there.
>>98233545I might like it better than Legion.
>>98229562I dunno shit about this era, and all I care about are the ships and the uniforms. How are they?
Planning a "face your demons" type of mission, obviously for the human characters it will be easy, gasses, food etc. Maybe even have a real 'demon' in there. But how could i entertain the droid player(s)? It was kind of ruin the vibe of the table if he sees it clearly immediately.I am just ripping out operation elrood stuff. If any of you have something way better please lmk. Just using it as an inbetween adventure while i stall the main plot.
>>98237777Droids are in a weird spot lore-wise, as these threads have discussed recently. They're a clear slave caste, but don't seem generally discontent with their lot, Legends IG-88 and whatever the droid from Solo's called notwithstanding. So perhaps you could do something with greater freedom or greater servitude? It would depend on what kind of droid your players have been running, whether freedom or slavery is what they're drawn toward.
>>98237777Oh that's good. Talking to a person irl makes me forget he's not. He's white so it's okI'll put a note in and try to work this tonight. It helps that he's the one person who might get into philosophy of being a droid.
>>98237721>meesa cums tuu dee gay side
>>98237777Droids require sensory input, just have the droid get hacked while jacking into a computer system or something.
>>98237721>>98237959ngl, as a bi man i would get down with that gungan. They got style
>>98210065Nnngh... breedable Imp brat... requires correction...
>>98210390Poor George didn't realize that underwear is hotter than no underwear
>>98214391>>98214604Oh God, this general would become unreadable for MONTHS if they put Traviss' characters in the game. (They still should, fleshing out factions is always good.)
Hey anons, today I was told that Star Wars Legion has many similarities to Bolt Action, which I rather enjoy. Can I get a down-low on the game and what to expect from it? Does it have any small point/skirmish game modes? How is the balance and meta? Is there room for narrative play?I just want to play as Imperials and put boot to neck.
>>98219951I'm down to "tortured" to being a little dead by her though...
>>98237721
I've been a star wars fan for like 25 years, ever since I saw RTJ as a child. I grew up reading the books, playing the games, and watching all the movies and shows and comics etc. I love being a lore nerd, I have a good memory so I have this stuff banging around in my head, so I love being helpful answering questions on forums and discords and stuff. Been really into swotr over the years, I play x-wing and FFG rpgs, and have recently started Legion as well.I have to say though, I don't like most of the disney stuff, and more than that, I don't like disney fans. I have had so many interactions with disney fans that are so disingenuous. "All of the sequel trilogy films made a billion dollars in theaters so they're good" is something I've seen so many times, and I'm growing weary of explaining why that's not good reasoning. Not only does popularity not always mean quality, but you have the second whole layer of brand recognizition fueling initial sales, and on top of that if you look at the relative performance of the three films relative to each other, there's a 20% to 30% decrease in revenue each time, meaning audiences didn't like the films and stopped going to them even if they initially did go for the first one. Like the more you actually think and apply critical thinking, you see that you actually can observe that audiences didn't like the films at large rates, but popular thing will always have some amount of popularity. I don't want this post to just devolve into "disney fans lack critical thinking" but when you combine this inability to understand relative success and what trends can be observed from such and combine it with defending certain other decisions, you do kind of see a trend.I like Andor though, and Maul has some good aspects so far. So Disney can make fine stuff if someone tardwrangles Filoni and you have more writers. The sequel films were absolutely terrible though, and Ahsoka, Obi-Wan, Acolyte, and most o the rest have been pretty bad too.
>>98241859>I have to say though, I don't like most of the disney stuff, and more than that, I don't like disney fans.You are not the only one, anon. I always had the feeling that Disney SW wasn't for me.I hope we all heal, and keep going our way ahead, enjoying the things we like, and keeping them alive in memory.
>>98241941Star wars is dead, man. Going forward, no star wars anything will be allowed to remain free of the disneywars taintcancer.
>>98241954I'm still enjoying my non-Disney star wars man. There's so much material previous to disney that I'll will take a long time for me to enjoy it all, and thanks to piracy I can get access to it all in digital format, comics, books, videogames, etc. I'm actually enjoying the rancor pit ttrpg pdfs, it's fucking tons of material.But, Star Wars Disney is dead for me.
>>98233313I haven’t found anything on priming them and making acrylic primer match the original plastic colors. Yet.Do you by chance know any specific tutorials or spoonfeed me please?>>98241970I want to download all the pre-Disney Star Wars comics as pdfs in chronological order. Then read them all. Not in one sitting as I get up to use the toilet.Got a link? Maybe in /3dpg/ code?
>>98241859Each one made a lot less, and the third one made only half of the first one. Interesting. So people did dislike the films and that's made apparent by sharp decreases in ticket sales as the trilogy progressed, but of course there's a certain minimum since it's "Star Wars" so people will say they were still popular and will ignore this extra data
>>98241859I don’t really have much EU nerd credit.I agree with your post.I have some Star Wars comics from before Disney I think.Or at least they were made before Disney moved eu to legends.Maybe that is enough but not much.What are the little things you think the Disney canon has done right though?
>>98242142They also only ever include how much each movie cost to make. They never include the gorillions they spent on marketing which means a whole bunch of the disneywars sw movies and projects not only didn't break even, but lost a berjillionty.
>>98242337They also leave out the fact that theaters take a decent cut of that revenue.
>>98242417That too. They never mentioned out of how.much money they SAY they 'made' what is going to the theatres to cover their astronomical running costs.
>>98241859>I like AndorAnd your opinion is equally as worthless as these Disney drones you made up.
The man-delorean and owu movie made even less money than Solo.
>>98242954And with only half the budget, too.
>>98242122Just examples of how acrylic goes on them. Just sand and paint. Can always repaint as needed with acrylics
>>98241152It's a good game, just very gamey with tokens, range rulers and cards which some people here don't like.>Skirmish game modsThere are 2: Spec Ops is very different from normal Legion but doesn't take much to get going, with 6-10 minis depending on faction https://cdn.svc.asmodee.net/production-amgcom/uploads/2024/11/Spec-Ops_Small.pdfRecon is more like mini-Legion with 30-50minis depending on faction. This mode isn't well balanced, clearly favoring melee units because of the smaller scale.https://cdn.svc.asmodee.net/production-amgcom/uploads/2025/04/DOC13_ReconRulebook_04302025.pdf>Balance and metaI'd say it's pretty well balanced, but new units tend to be dominant for a while until people find a way to counter them. Right now some units are dominant in each faction (Han on Tauntaun in Rebels, Vader/Thrawn/Dark troopers in Empire, Hondo's pirates for Mercs, Wheelbike Grievous in CIS). GAR is struggling on a competitive level but everything works fine in casual play. In my experience CIS and Empire are the most beginner friendly factions due to being tanky and pretty forgiving of mistakes.>Narrative playSure, AMG made a narrative game mode where your army gains boosts depending on experiencehttps://cdn.svc.asmodee.net/production-amgcom/uploads/2026/04/DOC51_TOD_Rulebook.pdfhttps://cdn.svc.asmodee.net/production-amgcom/uploads/2026/04/DOC51_TOD_Cards.pdf>play as Imperials and put boot to neckYeah, you can pick your flavor of boot to stomp on dissidents. All of them work well right now.
>>98242122NTA but you can probably just get all the pre-Disney comics on somewhere like comicsonline.Do Knights of the Old Republic if you're going back there though, good main character, solid sidekick/mastermind and Jarael is waifu. Republic, Dark Times, and Rebellion titles are also good. You will find the KJAnderson comics, with Ulic, Nomi Sunrider, and such to be a bit hit or miss though, I think, and it's much more loose when the Force was sometimes more space wizard than space magic-knight.
>>98210090>All jedi have blue lightsabersLuke is sad now.
>>98243123You're a star anon, thanks for the comprehensive reply. I guess it's time to pick up a some models then! Cheers :D
>>98243350Technically by the time Luke became a jedi he had a green saber anyway.
>>98244181>>98241152With that other Anon explaining so well, I suppose the only thing I can add is that Legion is a ton of fun :)
Played through Legacy Reborn on my Sith Warrior. It was good!Wonder what will happen next in 8.0 given the cliff hanger with Nul's machine being activated
>>98242954I don't see the appeal of Mandolorians desu. They're only interesting when they're being deconstructed or put through a humiliation ritual aka Kotor 2 The show itself and the tie-in movie feels very shallow
>>98245488I am still holding out on the previous DLC. Idk, maybe I'll resub again if I can get access 2 DLC worth of story for 1 month of sub>VetteDid you take the collar off?>>98245504Agreed. Mandos are peak reddit, rabid clonefags are way more tolerable. I like how every time mandos attempt to do things as a group, they get genocided.
Every time I see some "What If" shit like picrel, I get the urge to rewatch ROTS with the hope that the ending changes.
>>98243268My go to website I used is down now probably forever and I’m not sure about a new one.Not sure if /co/ can be a good answer for collecting all the EU Star Wars comics and organizing them in chronological order.>>98245504>>98245573I like the Mandos.I just look at them and see wasted potential and feel disappointment if that makes sense.
Anyone know what this astromech variant is called? These tall bois? Or do they have yet to be named?
>>98246115Don't let Chopper see this
>>98246143He wants the parts, I know. Fiendish bastard but I admire the work ethic.
>>98245573>Did you take the collar off?Yup! LS Sith Warrior. I can't bear to be mean to my companions lol. Lord Wrath x Vette's relationship is cutehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LsGk1WNbqk
>>98241859Something I've learned over the years is that the average person isn't average. In other words, what I thought was the average is not the average, and the actual average is lower than I naively thought it was. Online discourse proves it every time. The various defenses of the sequel trilogy I've seen people attempt are always so bad, and always reveal the speaker's lack of understanding of movemaking, star wars lore, what makes a good fight scene, what makes good dialogue, etc. Star Wars fandom is a microcosm of a larger issue which is a lack of critical thinking in our education system. People just get an impression, based on their subjective opinion, and then run with it, and will say the most ignorant things that could have been avoided with even a little bit of research, but that would involve critical application of skills they are not taught.
>>98245573>peak reddityou would know, redditor
>>98246330I get your frustration.Sometimes I wonder if I am part of the problem and ponder how to solve it with myself.I have a hard time sitting through reading so I might have difficulties with the good Star Wars books regarded as the best.But then again because this is /tg/ the general negatively towards black library books makes me wonder if even the best Star Wars novels are above average at best by book standards.
>>98246491>makes me wonder if even the best Star Wars novels are above average at best by book standardsMaybe broader by literature standards, but as mass media IP franchise consumption they are ok, even some are good (At least up to EU), a boy reading a book is better than not reading any book. Lots of the SW TTRPG and SW books share so much DNA between them since Zahn, Lucas always supported on and overviewed writers. I don't know about Nu-SW(disney), disney is dead to me, I don't give my money nor do piracy with disney stuff.
>>98246491There are some absolute shitters in Legends, but there's also some very solid books too. Although I look at some now and sort of see the proto-"quippy" Marvel dialogue, such as Starfighters of Adumar, they're still good reading. Are they going to be high literature? No, I don't think so. Are they good fun books that a lot of people read, enjoyed, and probably still love to re-read? Yes. So they're probably worth reading and are probably above average.
Planning on running a FFG game where the players are escaping a filthy rich species collector, and due to an attack on the guys stronghold, the power fluctuated and freed the players from the stasis chamber. What are some exotic intelligent race options I can give players? My first thoughts were Massassi and Flesh Raider, but I'm open to others.
Im excited about Zero company
>>98248237What is this quip marvel dialogue I keep seeing? I need examples as I don’t think it is a meme anymore.
>>98250367the peak star wars example is>they fly now?
>>98250367>“I believe he’s... tooling with you sir”>“...about his mother”
>>98250956>>98251010Thank you bros.I think my innocence is lost now. Now I am afraid that the quipping virus has infected me longer than I want to think about.
>>98249878I am cautiously optimistic
>>98251014>I am afraid that the quipping virus has infected me longer than I want to think about.There's still hope anon... rediscover your innocence and quip no more
>>98249878It looks goodsame with galactic racerthat they're doing something other than just third person ubislop or a metroidvania soulslike is hope-inspiring
Watching episode 2 again. And Anakin is so fucking autistic its UNREAL. Like literal autism doesn't know how to socially interact, wears a blank expression, and averts from eye contact type shit.
>>98251598Bonus points, the team managing his acting, feom the director down to the producers etc. MADE him do that. They kept pulling him up for emoting too much.. or at all.
>>98251598Episode 2 was more than any other Star Wars project an experimental one where Lucas pushed for 1930s melodrama style acting and dialogue to extreme. As far as Anakin goes, he was constantly anxious and weird because Padme whom he hadn't seen for ten years made him super hard and he wanted to impress her, and then he got visions of his mom dying. He's not normally autistic like that. He's supposed to be a fairly normal, witty dude. Obi-Wan even remarked that if Anakin had practiced his saber techniques as much as his wit, he'd rival Yoda as a swordsman. It's just the style of the movie and the story context, which is why it came across that way.
>>98252217I didnt say it was necissarilly bad. You definetly feel the pathos Of someone with great potential who feels at once stifled conflicted and at the same time lacking in the capability to do what he wants to do. Its still weird af, but there is soul there.
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>>98217819He was adopted by Qui-Gon later. That's why he shows the same flaws as Yoda.
Do you think star wars wargames aren't as successful as you would expect because a lot of the appeal of star wars is in singular force sensitive knights or bounty hunters with unique abilities dueling each other, and clones/droids/stormtroopers are mostly mooks? It's different from Starcraft or 40k where the big heroes are 200 dollar sledgehammers but it's still entire fine and viable to run an army of dark templars vs. zerg swarms, or even encouraged. Star wars doesn't even truly have a 'swarm' species like tyranids, aliens are usually much more humanlike and 'equal' in the force.>>98233241nice minis
>>98246330You are taking the words from the bottom of my heart anon. Thank you, I am afraid of voicing them, for my own sake.
>>98254895I think this is myopic from them, even under Lucas, and it is worse under Disney.If the deal was selling SW branded plastic, Kenner did great tho back in the day. If the deal was selling tabletop game books, West End Games did well back in the day. (It went bankrupt because of their parent company shenanigans, not because of WEG)Disney keeps dropping the ball constantly.I wonder if they ever made Yuuzhan Vong minis, and if them could be thought of a 'swarm' species. Maybe they had all the ingredients even back then, but weren't able to see the big picture. Dunno, I'll go get me some sleep, lel
>>98210065https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._Stackpolethis guy right here, God bless him
>>98208679Does anybody else kinda dislike the old EU's tendency to abreviate terms, like CorSec or CorChemCo?
>>98255190>plasteel
>>98255190I always get confused and think CorSec stands for Corporate Sector.
Star Wars Droids was great for its time, the tone was pretty mature and Its flavor was very "Expanded Universe", and it had influenced many of my campaigns to this day.
>>98255190Why would anyone be annoyed by something that humans do all the time?
>>98257628Maybe he's not human, anon.
>>98255316CorpSec or CSA was for the Corporate Sector, right?Is Corporate Sectory Seccurity CorpSecSec?Or do they just outsource security to a Corpp?
Planning on painting a tie fighter mini if I can get a good one or an stl.Any suggestions for specific models?Did some searching on colors and apparently there is some disagreement about grey or bluish grey. I’m leaning for light grey.Also are the ak interactive starship wash, detail and grime enamels good for this job?
>>98257982The colors vary over time, all are valid as far as I am concerned.I have no experience with enamels, sorry.And my painiting is dogshit-tier, it only serves as an example of what not do do anyway.
>>98257955CSA = Corporate Sector Authority.
daily reminder that for 900 years yoda despotically ruled the jedi, since no one dared to contravene the oh-so-wise grandmaster.over which time the order stagnated and crippled itself, since they tossed aside the (later proven) notions of the unifying force AND the Living Force. its why they hated and feared jedi like Qui Gon who refused to cast aside his (justified) belief in it.thats the flaw the Sith Exploited to eventually, slowly, build their influence until they crushed the old jedi order.It is literally all yoda's fault. if he had just fucked off around the galaxy letting the force send him where he was needed like 70 years after he became grandmaster or w/e, the sith wouldn't have ever been able to win.his arrogant complacency doomed them.
>>98258032Is the Corporate Sector the SW Cyberpunk zone?
>>98258458its like singapore. you chew bubblegum there you go to jail for 30 years hard labour, but white collar financial crimes are harder to find and mean CSA spend most of their time doing forensic accounting etc and datafuckery. because all the muggers and thieves etc just get shot out of hand as a matter of course. with a bunch of extreme 2a, self defence, castle doctrine etc. if some goons try to muscle in on your bank and your auto turrets happen to waste them... and the entire streetfront outside your bank, well, that's just the fault of the asshole robbers, case closed.
>>98258487And then you hit some other corpo's air speeder in thhe street, and he shoots back. Welcome to the weekly random corpo shootout!It does sound kinda cyberpunk.
>>98258397
What's are the most intresting periods for a RPG campaign?
>>98258006Alright I’ll go with grey.>that spoilerI relate too much to that.I think I’ll just assemble and put stickers on the snap fit models I have. They’re so small they’re practically minis anyways.
>>98259485Imp/GCW
>>98213036>>98211009There is something Fallout New Vegas about this look, but I can't fully nail it.
>>98260702>but I can't fully nail it.Probably because there's absolutely fucking nothing New Vegas-esque in those pictures.
It should've been the other design from the start.
>>98260702
>>98262119On one hand, I don't particularly like how unnecessarily busy the design on the right is. On the other hand, I despise how soft and rounded and toyetic the left looks.
>>98262157The one on the right is literally a toy isn't it?
>>98258397Yoda wasn't formally the head of the Order until about 100 years before the prequels, and he only took the job because it was happening after a war that saw several other candidates dead. Yoda was the happy old teacher who has to take the job because there is nobody left to fill it except him.And he didn't plan on keeping it much longer, either. Remember, when the Council appears in TPM, or in prequel era materials, it's also pretty clearly given that Mace Windu is the primary spokesman and day to day leader of the Order and the head of the Council. Yoda is closer to an "emeritus" equivalent, mostly retired and doing handover of the Order to his successor but also sticking around for a steady transition. Or in corporate terms, one of them is the CEO and the other is the Chairman of the Board.
>>98262536I think so, yeah.But both really look like they told a bunch of designers to make a Stormtrooper, but different from the OT.Itt's the same kind of vibe I get from ToR, everythhing is painstakingly, deliberately not-OT while 'borrowing' all the design cues from the OT.
>>98262536>>98262119I think the one on the right is actually just an Episode 9 Sith Trooper painted white instead of red.
>>98217819Everyone in that line rebels against some traits displayed by their masters, and Obi-Wan was in a situation where becoming stickler to the rules was the only way he could go different way than his master did.
>>98262573In the RotS novelization, Yosa does admit that he was at least partially to blame for the Jedi getting screwed by the Sith. He had basically spent the last 900 years teaching the Jedi to fight the last war, while the Sith had been adapting and developing new ways to undermine and destroy the Jedi. When the Sith finally made their move, the Order was completely blindsided because they had assumed that if the Sith ever did come back it would be a repeat of the previous Sith Wars, with armies of Sith and Dark Side cultists openly attacking the Republic, and the idea that the Sith might have infiltrated the Republic and were planning on seizing power from within only occurred to the Jedi too late for them to do anything about it.
You go to a busy planet in the mid-rim, while there you go to their market. What are you looking for and what are you hoping to buy? >tfw will never have a comfy stall selling old blasters and melee weapons while my chess wife and my twilek slave girl smile and help me make profits and the my twilek gives me a shoulder massage
This thread is so deadYou all should be playing tabletop games and painting minis.
>>98262892A lot of people love the old republic.What did it get right that Disney got wrong?
>>98265325can't afford it
>>98265369Actually have a good story. Copying the film aesthetics is probably the weakest part of the KOTOR games, but that's a relatively small issue when compared to them have very good writing.
>>98265325My players have been exploring an Ancient Sith tunnel system on the planet they're fighting over. The tunnels may provide a neat way to outflank the enemy Warlord, but are also host to horrors of a ritual long forgotten
>>98263926Mid rim is a great place to buy used ships. Core is so full of the new stuff that there isn't much of a used market, everyone in the outer rim is busy making their Clone Wars era rust buckets keep going. The mid rim is a sensible place like that, also good for picking up provisions.>>98265448You can easily pirate any of the Star Wars TTRPGs
>>982653693rd world / low iq coded>DUDE what if there were a BAJILLION JEDI AND SITH FIGHTING>DUDE and they have CLONES AND BLACK STORMTROOPERS DUDE!!!!>DUDE....DUDE LIKE A MILLION ZILLION MANDALORIANS!!!
>>98208679You know what would be an alt-canon Kino? If palpatine decided to NOT exterminate the jedi and remained content to be the secrete ruler of the galaxy with an army of Non master killing prone force sensitives at his beck and call. He still corrupts little ani maybe, but its all about how they run a shadow government instead of an out and out empire.
>>98217819>he could also see the internal issues with the late Order> And when the Council banished herArent these two opposite things?In the first, the jedi were (rightfully) suspicious of Palp gaining too much power so they sent ani to keep an eye on him. the only mistake the council did here was not investigating more into ani's personal life.In the second the council did that literally so that they wouldnt be charged of nepotism and saving thier own from the normal court system.In both cases the council doesnt DO anything wrong, they just were not informed of the full picture and made a decision with the info they had on hand.
>>98266134what's this from?>>98266165>Mid rim is a great place to buy used shipsI would love to sell ship parts to ppl, ugh to be a Star Wars merchant
>>98262573Windu is even worse. He's a thug.
>Qui-gon teached yoda who taught kenobi how to become a force ghostwait, how did anikan show up at the end of return of the jedi then? he was Vader by the time Kenobi learned.IMO, I always thought that was a stupid part of RotS. I always got the impression that when a force user accepts true jedi values they become a force ghost. Though I do like the irony of Anikan accepting the sith in order to learn how to keep someone alive, but ultimately what he abandoned, the jedi teachings, was the true way to achieve that.>>98266941He's just terse.
>>98267045wrong. the jedi are 'reee that's evil, you have to get old and dieeeeeeeee!'
>>98266941cope
>>98266941Sometimes a thug is what you need to get the job done. Jango Fett easily wasted another Jedi, and it was Windu who took him out. Palpatine killed three other Jedi masters in a matter of seconds, yet Windu was almost able to beat him (and arguably would have if Anakin hadn't intervened).
>>98242954Yeah it was just pointless and stupid. I don't know why I keep watching everything, I want to be completionist on all star wars stuff so I can review and judge from a place of actually knowing but it's just tedious to watch some of this slop. Stormtroopers are extra retarded whenever they're on screen and pose no threat, and 3 AT-ATs all miss him as he walks in a mostly straight line along a mountain trail that they could have just shot in front of him.>>98250367As the other anon said, "they fly now" is the perfect example. Not only is it inappropriate since the characters are supposed to be fighting for their lives, but it's also a worldbuilding error, since Finn is a trained stormtrooper who would be aware of his peers training with jetpacks, and he would also be aware of the Imperial jettroopers, and he would also be aware of the GAR jet troopers. The writers didn't care that it's a worldbuilding error that doesn't make sense, and they don't care that someone making a joke in that context it stupid, audience have become used to it because Tony Stark and Deadpool do it often.>>98265369Passion and creativity. It was based on the star wars films, but creative and enthusiastic people got to make new things. It's not always good, but most of it is, and even the bad things are at least creative and passionate.This is the same case of what made the EU liked, despite its flaws.And it's also the same reason why disney's stuff is generally bad. Aftermath is a perfect example of an uncreative person who lacked both passion and skill taking a crack at something other people had already done well, and doing a significantly worse job of it.>>98267045Some people are able to intuit certain actions and don't need to be traditionally taught. People have been force ghosts quite often throughout the franchise and we don't know if anyone taught them. Revan, Meetra Surik, Orgus Din, and Luke Skywalker after his death just to name a few off the top of my head.
>gone for a week>same thread as last time still upThe absolute state of /tg/.The absolute state of /swg/.
>>98267763I remember a time just a few years ago when we went through a new /swg/ thread every day. Now, even the AI art thread is faster than this place. If there are any hedge fund AIs scraping 4chan for data, take notice of this: The vast fanbase of nerdy consumers that made the Star Wars IP so valuable doesn't exist anymore. If people aren't posting on /swg/ anymore, then they're probably also not buying video games, action figures, LEGO sets, plushies, etc. Don't invest in Disney stock, because this is a sinking ship.
>>98266750>what's this from?From my campaign
>>98268228what is that b1 holding?
>>98266941>t. hates authority figures because he grew up without a father
>>98266941You can't call him a thug just because he's black!
>>98268865You are the one doing that correlation, anon.
>>98265369It may be inferior to KotOR but the Bioware story style is at least unique compared to the OT rehashes.
>>98268228tell me more....
>>98267045Qui-Gon taqught Obi-Wan, there wasn't time for Yoda to teach him.>I always got the impression that when a force user accepts true jedi values they become a force ghostWe only ever see 3-4 Force ghosts in the films so that makes no senseVader either learned it in his dying moments also from Qui-Gon or he learnt it as Vader and eventually followed it as a Jedi>ultimately what he abandoned, the jedi teachings, was the true way to achieve thatPadme wouldn't have been able to be a Force Ghost since she wasn't sensitive. Hence no Anakin would not have achieved what he wanted in RotS from the Jedi either.
>>98208679Have a pretty nice party going now with the addition of the droid and a ship.Am playing a modified version of mini six, which is a modified version of star wars WEG. Biggest difference is instead of having a whole bunch of little skills, they are absorbed into larger more fluid careers.Got a dry humored gumshoe, a firebrand pilot, a meddling droid, and a post war surplus shuttle we need to pay off. Think first thing first, do a pretty standard cargo and hush hush passenger transport to get some pocket change to spruce up the shuttle a bit. Just some beds and basic amenities for long term living.
Would you have been upset if his name actually was Ben Kenobi, and Obiwan was his rank? Padawan, obiwan, something else with "-wan," for master.
>>98266199Just because this is 4chan doesn't mean that being racist about it makes this more than your dogshit opinion.
>>98271155Is this about "Darth" getting soft-retconned into a title?I feel like the way the first movie is written, we would have found out that "Obiwan" is a title during the exposition.
>>98268666>666
>>98271079Man, I love mini six. What are your house rules? Mine are:>Body Points(BP) = Might’s total pips x3>Static Defenses = Attribute’s dice x4 +pips>Parry = Melee’s dice x4 +pips>Inventory is in Sine Nomine / Without Number style: Readied inv. is Might’s total pips. Stowed inv. is Might’s total pips x2.
>>98271155I kind of like the pre-prequel theory that "Obi-wan" is the phonetical reading of "OB-1", kind of like R2-D2 is sometimes called "Artoo". Implying that Kenobi is a clone. He did fight in the Clone Wars, and at the point we knew nothing about the Clone Wars, but if you're going to have a war using clones, it would make sense to clone powerful Force-users if it's possible.
>>98271486>Body Points(BP) = Might’s total pips x3THe base game recommends 20 PLUS your might for body points. do you think 9 as average for a 3D might is enough? especially if you are using sci-fi weapons and they deal between 4d to 6d damage. IMO 20 + might felt like a bit too much so I did 10 + might landing most things around 20 ish body points.
Did you guys read Sublight Drive? Confederate SIhe just started a sequel series set 8 years after a confederate victory (dooku got coup'd be Tann), which led to palpy's plan being abortive and the republic shattering instead. Palpy's loyalist republic, the libby Restorationist republic in the core, Mandalore, Emperess Teta, and the Tapani sector under Grant pulling out, the corpos doing who knows and the confederates securing the rim some funny butterflies>Kuat is making money hand over fist selling imp 1s to the loyalists and secutors to the restorationists >incom stayed with the loyalists so imp1s with xwings>raith is in confederate space so he pulled a TIE vulture out of his ass
>>982718883D = 9 total pips9 total pips x 3 = 27 Body Points3D+1 = 10 pips10 total pips x 3 = 30 Body Points
>>98272181I want the original version of the map he used, because god damn is it hard to find decent maps for Star Wars to do a recolouring of.
>>98272243here's it in pdf formfiles.catbox.moe slash r8ka4w.pdf
>>98272222jesh, I missread that. I took that as 3 for each might die.maybe 10+ Might roll IS too little. L like your version more than the Rules as written, 20+ Might giving you an average of 30 at 3d might seems a bit much. Though it does average out if you roll it for each combat encounter which is somewhat implied in the rules.
>>98272961Another one that gives similar results could be:(((Might's dice x4 ) + pips ) x 2) = Body PointsSo:3D: (((3D x 4 = 12) + 0 pips) x 2) = 24 Body Points3D+1: (((3D x 4 = 12) + 1 pip) x 2) = 26 Body PointsWhichever is easier to remember.
>>98272243>>98272252>>98272181here is something a guy posted on the re3ddit EU board, I think it will help its quite immense and filled with tons of detailhttps://galaxydiceroller.com/starmapbasically a fully interactive map
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>>98262142Canonically Edward Sallow Caesar is way more interested in talking to slave boys than slave girls.
>>98273430Thanks for sharing, it seems pretty useful.
>>98272181Why do those CISissies own Eriadu? That's Empire country.
All I wanted was starfighters and waifus.Why didn't they listen?
>>98274158slow down there, bigot heteronormative scum! you will take the gay trannyfaggot clones and like them! or else! you will like the disneywars hatefiction OR ELSE!We will call you... A nazi! Now go away or we will call you the N word again!
>the_force_is_female.lgtvhd8k
Guess what I'm going to play right now...
>>98274202>you will take the gay trannyfaggot clones and like them! >you will like the disneywars hatefiction
>>98274202>or we will call you the N word again!You have no power here.
>>98273101I like it.
>>98273955Horn Ambigene cracked it for its sins
>>98208679>TQIf you wanted to tweak the existing prequel trilogy, you could have Anakin fall not off of an emotional breakdown but rather because the circumstance set forward is genuinely one where the stability and certainty of the Empire was required to hold back an emerging threat. Anakin would fall and become Darth Vader as an enforcer for what he considers to be a necessary order, but it'd ultimately cost him everything he ventured down that road to protect.
>>98276387Like, imagine if instead of mom being raped to death and Anakin going on a series of killing sprees, he witnessed some shit in the course of the war that really, REALLY fucked him up. And so Darth Vader was born out of PTSD creating the mindset that the Jedi were ineffectual and that absolute control was necessary for the survival of the galaxy and the minimization of suffering rather than him having a tantrum because of Padme being destined to die of a preventable condition in a hypertech galaxy.
>>98276405you're just describing dooku
>>98241634God, just imagine how tight those vaginal muscles need to be to keep the water out at crush depth. Dick Guillotine.
Why do so many people jerk off Dooku? He's an extremely faggy character, and "makashi" (which only he uses lol) is the gayest style of saber fighting ever seen. He's like, the biggest anti-masculine character.
>>98277269this user is brazilian
legionfags ITT what are these supposed to be, came in the mando army box but the listing on their site doesn't even mention the cards/dice/these sticksI presume the ones with rotators are measuring gimmick sticks but no clue on these
>>98277269IDK man give me more dignified old gentleman vibes rather than gay vibes.(Anyways, I liked 1 handed swordsmanship)
>>98277363>dignified old gentleman vibes rather than gay vibes.those are the same.
>>98268666Skull of his old captain, a Kel-Dor PC that died session 9>>98269243They started as a rag tag group of mercenaries during the events directly following Episode 6. After over 120 sessions they have become notorious rebel commanders of their Stray Squadron. They also have a deep vendetta against the Pykes and fuck them over at every opportunity
>>98277361These are range rulers for shooting. The top one is range 1, the bottom 1 is 1/2. AMG is famously terrrible at labelling their boxes. But alas, enjoy your free gameplay bits, for once the mistake means you get more than you paid for.
>>98277899>>98277361I should specify. The half range one is only used to measure objective placements, deployment zones and during the game to see if a unit is in scoring range.
>>98272252>r8ka4w.pdfam I retarded? looks to have been deleted
>>98210065It's funny how she is truly more evil than most of the hardened old men in the empire
>>98277356Brazilians are masculine, though, so that's a good thing.Lightsaber forms go like this.Shii-Cho - NeutralMakashi - FeminineSoresu - MasculineAtaru - FeminineDjem So - MasculineNiman - NeutralJuyo - Masculine
I would give anything to return to a canon where the only lightsaber colours are red, blue, and green.
>>98277269dooku is played by the real life bond. a straight cold killer
>>98277269Dooku by all rights should've been the next Vader. If the prequels came out earlier starring a younger Christopher Lee he would've been iconic, but as with so many other things he remains a half-realized dream.
Beyond merchandise selling is there a reason so many different variants of stormtroopers and clone troopers became a thing?You would think that so many specialists would eventually lead to problems.
>daily reminder : christopher lee scaring the shit out of everyone else on set when he corrected the sound fx guys on how a slit throat sounds... because he's fucking killed people like that IRL
>>98278593Better question is the surplus equipment. Imagine all the helmets and unused clone armour at your local military surplus store when the clone troopers became stormtroopers.
>>98278619Are you referring to getting stabbed in the back on the lotr set?Or was this a different event on Star Wars sets?
>>98278593I suspect some contractor got friendly with a moff and made a deal to get all of his proposals rubber-stamped in exchange for kickbacks.
>>98278763its from when he was in a bond film. scaramanga? he played the bad guy in one. and since he's the guy bond is based on his err, 'technical expertise' on the reality of stuff they were doing in the film terrified everyone on set.>oh this guy could kill me and I wouldn't even know it until i was already dead
>>98277373Anon, I think you might just be extremely gay for refined old men.
>>98278864prancing fags tend to be homosexual
>>98277899>>98277910Got it, thanks anon!
>>98278962nta but idk man, when I think Macbeth or Captain Picard, my first thought isnt gay. But if thats your kink, thats your kink.
>>98278560>If the prequels came out earlierI think the more major problem is that he is only seen for the last 1/3 of Attack of the clones, then dies 10 minutes into Revenge of the Sith. He didn't have a movie long presence for multiple movies like vader had. If he was introduced in person instead of just talked about earlier in AotC, I think he would have been a bigger phenomenon.
>>98278039I just checked and it's still up for me
>>98211027Funny, that doesn't look like Tales of the Jedi.
>>98242122I have what I'm pretty sure is a more or less complete collection, about 15 gb. Might be missing some later stuff (like early 2010s, pre-yidsney but at the end). I'll see if I can put it up somewhere later.
>>98267045>>98267471>>98269333If I iirc correctly Obi-Wan pulled an Oma Desala and directly helped Anakin become a Force Ghost rather than teaching him how to do it himself while he was dying.
>>98277269This post reeks of small dick faggot energy.
>>98211027>best comic runthat's not open season or crimson empire though?
>>98278593Real armies have mountain troops and marine troops.>You would think that so many specialists would eventually lead to problems.It would, you're only working with 9.7k stormtroopers per SD if each specialist is part of their own unit then you're reducing their effectiveness if you're taking them to a place they're not suited to.That is assuming each SD has each specialist unit attached by default, old lore just had it that the gear was on the ship and Stormtroopers were generalists that wore what they needed. Under yidsney each specialist type is now it's own unit, so you'd better hope Imperial logistics give you scubatroopers and not sandtroopers when you're going to invade a water planet.
>>98281723>yellow snow troopersJust don't eat the stuff.
>>98269333Force sensitivity is the dumbest thing in the setting and everyone knows it.
>>98246115A duo of tall boy astromechs working for the Gotra or just themselves as saboteurs could be a freaky encounter, if not catching them sabotaging the party’s ship maybe spotting them pair skulking around a busy spaceport the party is operating out of
>>98278962Yes I know, that's what I said: you're a fag who likes men. Keep up anon.
>>98281723Real armies also have rational, comprehensible organisation, they don't just have a single organisation filled with Overly Specific Troopers. Moreover in "old lore" most types of Trooper were just guys in normal armour with some extra gubbinz strapped on, plus "snowtroopers" which as you say were regs in different gear, and Scouts that were a specific formation.Disney didn't just add a bunch of guys AND make them all Stormtroopers explicitly BUT also insist they're all completely independent of each other with essentially no discernable organisation between the level of Squad and Literally The Whole Army, but most of them have completely fucking different armour. Honestly the whole thing boils my piss: if the fucking stanky hags running Lucasfilm would just appoint *one* proper autist to sort all this shit out we could have a wonderfully fleshed out Imperial military, but of course they won't because not only are they too fucking imbecilic to even understand why that could be cool, as far as they're concerned the Empire are just interchangeable bumbling mooks who routinely lose to children with stun-catapults, so they shouldn't be cool at all.
>>98286695>Scene begins with players trying to escape from a starport on their ship>A couple of astromech droids that were working on it get swept aboard in the chaos>Just fade into the background doing Astromech things>Players go to bed>Whoever is most vulnerable wakes up in the middle of the night with one of them in their room watching them. It locks down the ship/room>Then the limbs start to emerge from it as it lifts itself up to full height, towering over their bedSounds like Some Real Shit to drop on a crew.
>>98269333>We only ever see 3-4 Force ghosts in the films so that makes no senseI just assumed you could only see people who you had a connection too or knew.>>98267471yah>>98280526>Listen little Ani you got like 2 minutes before you die, quickly, you got to stick your tongue in your right cheek, make a owl noise and think Orange-eagle-duristeel real fast, thats how you become immortal, lol.
Want to make a droid character for an edge of empire group but can't decide on what type of droid to make, someone pick a career + specialisation so I can decide from there please
>>98287356>careerHooker.>SpecializationYour fetish.
>>98287269>>98280526>Initially, there was darkness for Anakin Skywalker, a boundless shadowy realm, like a universe without stars. But then, from somewhere at the edge of his awareness, he perceived a distant, shimmering light, then heard a voice say, Anakin.>The voice was familiar.>Although Anakin no longer had a body or a mouth with which to speak, he somehow answered, Obi-Wan? Master, I'm so sorry. So very, very ->Anakin, listen carefully, Obi-Wan interrupted, and Anakin was aware that the distant light was either growing brighter or closer, or perhaps both. You are in the netherworld of the Force, but if you ever wish to revisit corporeal space, then I still have one thing left to teach you. A way to become one with the Force. If you choose this path to immortality, then you must listen now, before your consciousness fades.>Knowing he was beyond redemption, Anakin said, But, Master. . . why me?>Because you ended the horror, Anakin, Obi-Wan said. Because you fulfilled the prophecy.>The light was very bright now.>Anakin's first thought was that he might be able to see his children again. He said, Thank you, Master.From "The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader".Copy-pasting from the epub so I sincerely hope I didn't fuck up the paragraph formatting with the 9gag Meme Arrows.
>>98267471Not really fair to include Grandmaster Luke "Ultimate Gigachad" Skywalker in that list, is it? I mean he gigamogs even Revan.
>>98269333>We only ever see 3-4 Force ghosts in the filmsThat's also literally every Jedi we see die in the OT, so if it's supposed to be so rare that's an awfully big coincidence. One could easily assume that Force Ghosts are only visible to the people they appear to, so you don't see a bunch of dead Jedi hanging around unless they specifically want to contact you. In SWTOR Jedi Knight campaign it actually explicitly works like that, as your character's dead master appears to you as a Force Ghost, and the other NPCs in the cutscene comment about your character talking to himself/herself.
>>98287356Mechanic so you can be one of these little bastards
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