Cassandra

8 hours ago, assault said:

What I want to know is: why did Luke etc get credit for destroying the Death Star instead of the droid commando unit that sabotaged it while the Imperials were distracted by the Rebel fleet?

You don't really think that a womp rat hunting farm boy really destroyed it, did you?

Now you know the power of the force.

Cheating.

2 hours ago, Lord Liaden said:

Certainly a better shot than Luke or Han.

And every stormtrooper.

26 minutes ago, Badger said:

 

well, if I get in a fight, I am going for the most vulnerable spot.  I fight to win.  No such thing as dirty fighting for me.

I see you interned for Frank Underwood.

Suicide Squad came out four years ago?

Jesus He Knows Me by Phil Collins.

51 minutes ago, Badger said:

 

on a serious note,  that is one thing that bothers me with current cinema.   You can back throughout cinema history and find  strong female characters  (hell, like 99% of Maureen O'Hara* characters alone, for example) who were compelling characters.    Girl Power has become a way to make a "strong" female character without making them compelling, or strong for that matter (other than as an informed attribute)

 

*I could also go with Barbara Stanwyck, Katherine Hepburn, and a half a dozen others.

 

 

Rosalind Russell, Ella Raines, Joan Crawford

6 hours ago, Greywind said:

At least it wasn't Rosie O'Donnell...

I would prefer Rosie the Robot.

1 minute ago, tkdguy said:

I have heard of one AD&D game set in Middle-earth's Fourth Age where Sauron survived the destruction of the Ring, albeit in a disembodied and greatly weakened form, and started causing trouble years later.

Just  like Jeffery Epstein.

What, too soon?

The results of the New Hampshire Primary are in.  

They'll be announced after the votes are cast.

Just now, tkdguy said:

One way to make the PCs the heroes in a well-known universe is to set the campaign in a different time or place. For example, the default setting in MERP was year 1640 of the Third Age. Why? Because aside from the Great Plague having just ended, not many details are included in this time period. That gave the module writers and the GM a lot of leeway to develop the setting as they saw fit. Alternatively, if the players want their characters to take part in the War of the Ring, the GM can have them fight Sauron's forces in the east, so the heroes can prevent Sauron from sending more troops to Gondor, Dale, and Lorien.

 

The same thing works for Star Wars. Maybe the Death Star wasn't the Empire's only super weapon. Palpatine may have ordered the construction of another weapon of mass destruction in a different part of the galaxy. After all, the Death Star could only be at one place at a time, and the Rebellion was scattered in different locations. This would give the PCs a chance to shine without overshadowing Luke and company.

Of course the heroes couldn't go up against Palpatine after the second Death Star exploded.  I mean it would be crazy for him to have survived that.

Rosie Perez as Rene Montoya!    Was the appeal that she was born a more comfortable distance from the Apocalypse?

5 minutes ago, Anaximander said:

And, I would want to limit musical numbers to players who can actually sing.

Remember to provide plenty of drugs, as that was the key to listening to the music, and sadly in Carrie Fisher's case, performing it.

3 minutes ago, Anaximander said:

 

If my players want it and it won't ruin my story, anywhere the players it to is my opinion.

That seems an unlikely scenario.

I didn't like it the first time when it was called Ghostbusters (2016).

So where does the Star Wars Holiday Special fit into canon?

15 hours ago, steriaca said:

Sailor Moon has some really cut and dry universal rules. Only women can be Sailor Senshi, othoe either gender can possess a star seed. Chaos is the ultimate big bad, and it's goals are the elimination of everything in the universe.

 

Sailor Moon can only have one daughter. 

 

What does this have to do with this thread? Nothing much.

Actually there was suppose to be only one Slayer, but then Buffy changed the rules.

First they fail to release the pre-voting poll, and then they fail to release the vote totals.  

"I believe in coincidence.  Coincidences happen every day.  But I don't trust coincidences."  

Garak, Star Trek Deep Space Nine

1 hour ago, Anaximander said:

I am in a debate with a friend.  I like playing games like Star Wars, Star Trek, and other franchised universes.  I like playing and running those universes because they are pre-built and recognizable, but I also like to play around and twist stories to my own liking.  I see no problem, but my friend has the feeling that changing too much and it will no longer be that universe.  To some degree, I think he is right, but to what degree?  How much can you change Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel, or whatever before it stops being what it and becomes it is.  I personally think that is a personal opinion and in roleplaying games it should come down to group consensus regardless of opinions of the original creators like Roddenberry and Lucas.  My friend is a little more legalistic about canon.  I've studied writing, but none of my studies covered roleplaying games or LARPing in canonical universes, and I would like to get more opinions on how much can canon be changed before the fictional universe it describes ceases to exist.

Given how much Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel, and DC have changed their own universes I don't think there is any real harm in using any of them, or all of them combined, for your own campaign.  Lets say you're going to set one in the DC Universe, but which one?  One based on Batman/Superman/Justice League Animated series, or the DC Extended Universe, or the Dark Night, etc.  For Star Trek what time period would you be playing, the original series, the Next Generation/DS9/Voyager, Discovery, or the Kelvan timelines?    

Of  course if you're doing an Agents of SHIELD campaign I recommend using the Horror Hero campaign book.

Maybe they should just say James Middleton Cox won, and leave it at that.

3 hours ago, Starlord said:

...but Captain Kirk is from Iowa.  Picard is from a region of France where the people have British accents....

In a Futurama episode Fry asks "What do we care about who the President of the World is?  We live in the United States."

"Fry, the United States is part of the World."

"Wow" Fry says,  "I have been gone a long time.."

Winner of the Iowa Caucus announced.

The Winner:  Star Trek Picard.

I got it for $5 in 1990.

4 hours ago, Tjack said:

  I think that was the plan, rather than it being a coincidence.

Right up there with Garrett Morris' cameo in Ant-Man.

It just occurred to me that Marv Wolfman meeting Flash and Supergirl was incredible ironic in that he killed both of them off in the comic book series.

20 hours ago, death tribble said:

But Cassandra did you question Tim Burton under Spanish Inquisition interrogation ?

No one would have expected that.