It’s no secret that I’ve been critical of The Rise of Skywalker, and that I’ve been wondering what has been going on inside of Lucasfilm. My suspicion isn’t that many of the Star Wars problems aren’t native to Lucasfilm, but are the unique friction that has come from Disney trying to get the same output from Star Wars that they
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Watching The Mandalorian has made me revisit some of my thoughts and feelings about Star Wars, and maybe come up with a more succinct and less wide ranging critique of why I really didn’t like The Rise of Skywalker. I haven’t wanted to fight this fight when it comes up, because people I like and respect enjoyed The Rise of
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I’ve admitted this before, but I will once again reveal my shame. Despite that fact that I was a huge Star Wars fan and was involved in the RPG hobby at the time, I never played West End Games Star Wars RPG. I’ve owned several products, but part of that is due to the fact that the WEG products were
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As someone that enjoys running and playing roleplaying games, I understand the value of repeated stories. Even more so as someone that enjoys the challenge of running games in established settings and finding the right beats to make the story feel as if it belongs with the source material. Warning: if you haven’t seen the movie yet, we’re going to
Read moreI’m probably not going to post this for a while, but I wanted to write up some feelings on The Last Jedi while the first impression of the movie is still fresh in my mind. I was lucky enough to go into the movie without hitting any major spoilers on the internet, although now that I’m seeing them, a lot
Read moreSo there was a recent dust up in Star Wars land, and Phil Lord and Chris Miller were removed from the helm of the Han Solo movie. Then Ron Howard was hired on to finish up the project. What is interesting to me is that people really like to have villains in a story like this. I don’t mean the
Read moreI’ve been thinking a lot about shared world settings again, given that I just finished the Sundering novels for the Forgotten Realms and am rather enjoying the contents of the Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide, and it’s making me cogitate upon shared world settings and how they are used, as well as the reputation they gain over time. First, I’ve never
Read moreIt may come as no small surprise that I’m a Star Wars fan. No, seriously, quit laughing at me. I know I say obvious stuff sometimes. Anyway, I’ve been keeping up with the new canon offerings from various sources, and there is a weird imbalance in the Force right now. I’m not going to talk about Rebels. Rebels is awesome
Read moreToday I happened upon this oddity on the game aisle at the local Walmart: I have yet to look at the actual rules, but as soon as I saw these, I decided that I had to come up with some kind of randomized . . . thing . . . to use with the Star Wars RPGs. I may have
Read moreHaving already set a dangerous precedent by posting the details of my Iron Kingdoms character tonight, I figured that I might as well double down and see if two campaign can survive the crippling weight of my backstory, so without further preamble, here is the background of my Ithorian Jedi from our Force and Destiny game.Note: Our Force and Destiny
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