If you just let Harebrained Schemes do a Shadow run-style Star Wars that would be just fine. These games don’t need to be huge investments and the fact that everyone wants a big Star Wars game that is also subversive and weird is why we’re consistently disappointed by their level of ambition.
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Gone Home 2: Owen & Beru
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What is this podcast and what is this thread; I feel like I jumped back to a better time. Wraith Squadron, Infinite Space, bad but great Star Wars game ideas I want to play. I am so glad I found this community.
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That’s what Star Wars should be. It’s so beautiful and passionate and the franchise should just be an endless game jam, MAKE STAR WARS WEIRD AGAIN!
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Just started the podcast, but felt compelled to mention As someone who grew up in Nebraska, I will say to Cado that it also takes 6 hours to get from one side of Nebraska to the other just like Florida. The more you know!
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That screenshot of Yoda Stories took me back, haven’t thought about it in a long time. I remember having the Indiana Jones game that was basically the same procgen type of thing.
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Give Harebrained Schemes the license, let them do a Battletech-esque turn-based tactics game but throw in a C&C-style campaign: Rebels or Empire, or whatever other era you want to set it in.
Or hell, make it a merc faction game, those are sometimes around.
… Or better yet: “run your own crime syndicate, hiding from and occasionally working with the Empire, Rebellion, and everyone else.”
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mild Mandalorian spoiler
I’mma go make a bitsy titled Baby Yoda Stories right now.
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Cado thinking 20 hours is a rushed Pokemon Sword playthrough is really funny, because when I was up to where he was I was thinking the same thing, but it turns out the back half of that game just feels super rushed compared to the first half. I spent time doing Raids, catching more Pokemon than I usually do and I still finished the game much quicker than expected. By the end, I actually missed having long, tedious, winding caves filled with Zubats lol
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A somber game where you come home from college to explore an empty home and at the end you eventually come to learn that your aunt and uncle are smoking skeletons.
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Do you try and convince your skeleton family to stop smoking?
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Turns out I enjoy Waypoint a lot more when I’m able to google all the images they’re sending to each other.
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I was laughing my ass off hearing Rob Zacny saying “C-3PO as George Smiley”.
On the one hand, it would be a much better treatment the protocol droid was getting in the new trilogy. He got fuck all to do.
On the other, I can hear Alec Guinness rolling in his grave. The actor famous for A playing Obiwan Kenobi in Star Wars and B for resenting Star Wars so much. He also played George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy the BBC mini series back when the le Carre novel could be still regarded as contemporate. A performance so powerful that le Carre changed his book plans if the foreword of a Smiely’s People reprint is to be believed.
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the episode of bebop they talked about was the first one I saw. stumbled upon it late at night on adult swim as a kid. freaked me the fuck out
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Dang, I’m really into Star Wars again. I always wanted to play The Old Republic with a group, but none of my friends are as interested in Star Wars as I am, neither is my partner. :[
Anyone here have any interest?
The Mandalorian got me to resubscribe to The Old Republic.
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If folks are itching for more Star Wars-ness in their lives, I highly recommend the Off Guard Games RPG Scum & Villainy - it’s not a licensed SW game but SW is absolutely a big touchstone, and I’ve had a pretty good experience streamlining/hacking it to run Star Wars. It’s much lighter in rules than the FFG game and just uses d6s.
(Fans of Friends at the Table will recognize Scum & Villainy as the system from the second half of Twilight Mirage)
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I love the FFG games. I played a Age of Rebellion game for years with a group until our DM disbanded it with paragraph.
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I am literally prepping an Edge of the Empire game right now. First time learning the system.
These dice are weird, y’all.
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