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Star Trek vs. Star Wars (and a collection of memes)

Star Trek or Star Wars; which do you like better?

  • Star Trek

    Votes: 19 23.8%

  • Star Wars

    Votes: 61 76.3%
  • Total voters
    80
Scalenex said:
This is totally abhorrent! I cannot stand for this.


You must put in Dexter Jettser!
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Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl said:
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So I'm running a solo RPG for a friend. It's in a fantasy setting. He is a lead investigator looking for magical spies from a hostile foreign nation.

Anyway this game system has five degrees of success for any action

Marginal, Moderate, Complete, Exceptional, and Phenomenal.

Two types of failure. Regular failure and a botched roll. Botched rolls are usually catastrophic failures.

I gave him a lead on a magical spy, and he botched his very first mahrlect roll! On an investigation roll, a botch means you not only didn't find any clues, you accidentally destroyed what clues existed.

I had to override that dice roll of course. Because if he botched his only lead that would have derailed a carefully crafted four-hour gaming session.


There is a joke in D&D games that there is no point in putting extra ranks in your tracking skill. If the story requires that the PCs track the target, the character cannot fail regardless of what the roll is. If the story requires the bad guys get away at this juncture, you cannot succeeded regardless of what the roll is.


Tangent!

That's the nice thing about movies and books, you don't have to rely on random chance. I always thought in the prequel Star Wars trilogy (and the Harry Potter series) Palpatine/Dumbledore had really crappy master plans that relied on a lot of moving parts coming together in exactly the right way.

Note, in Return of the Jedi, Palpatine had a crappy master plan that relied on a lot of moving parts coming together, but the plan blew up his face. Luke's plan to rescue Han from Jabba was pretty similar. It was really foolish to let his friends be voluntarily captured one at a time. Horrific things could have easily happened to Leia, Chewie, and the droids.

Jabba's Palace is not exactly Fort Knox. Luke was able to walk in, overcome two guards and catch most of Jabba's people literally asleep.
 
Scalenex said:
Tangent!

That's the nice thing about movies and books, you don't have to rely on random chance. I always thought in the prequel Star Wars trilogy (and the Harry Potter series) Palpatine/Dumbledore had really crappy master plans that relied on a lot of moving parts coming together in exactly the right way.

Note, in Return of the Jedi, Palpatine had a crappy master plan that relied on a lot of moving parts coming together, but the plan blew up his face. Luke's plan to rescue Han from Jabba was pretty similar. It was really foolish to let his friends be voluntarily captured one at a time. Horrific things could have easily happened to Leia, Chewie, and the droids.

Jabba's Palace is not exactly Fort Knox. Luke was able to walk in, overcome two guards and catch most of Jabba's people literally asleep.
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I always guessed that Leia went there on her own, or at least as a "I want to try this first". She seemed a little surprised/reassured that Lando was there. I don't know, maybe Luke saw it through the Force. He does seem somewhat "confident" in his plan.
 
NIGHTBRINGER said:
This should be fun...

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Mind you, that this is not the same as "who are your top 4 favourite SW characters". I love characters like Darth Bane, Trawn and Darth Maul, but I would never consider them to be SW Mount Rushmore material.

In my opinion the SW Mount Rushmore would be comprised of (in no particular order):
  • Darth Vader
  • Luke Skywalker
  • Yoda
  • Han Solo
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this is easy
1. gonk droid, that dude hard carried the series
2. mouse droid, another classic fan favorite
3.in the line of droids, i have to put on hk-47, dude is a legend and a meme
4. everyone's favorite droid, general grievous
 
NIGHTBRINGER said:
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This reminded me of something I wanted to share. My wife and I were driving last weekend. We were using the GPS, but going through some construction to get back to the highway.
I said something like "I think we're headed the right direction?"
She said "Yes, this is the way."
I immediately responded, "This is the way."
She just looked at me, blankly. I chuckled...
 
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