[[WMG:Kylo Ren is Greedo - not Jim's character who called himself "Greedo" after "Freddo" and before "Han", but the boy whom young Anakin apparently murdered in The Phantasmal Malevolence. Being a shapeshifter like his father (the original Han), he convincingly took the appearance of a corpse the way Wedge does in Rogue One, firstly to dissuade Anakin from hurting him any more, and then to provide sufficient distraction for Han to be able to leave (carrying the 'corpse' of his son and making some excuse about taking him back to their home planet for burial) without being hassled about his gambling debts. Over the following decades they travelled around in various different guises, before they returned to Tattooine (with Han once again in Rodian guise), where Han was murdered by the identity thief.
- The problem with this guess is that that strip made it quite clear that Star Wars exists in the DM of the Rings universe. The Lord of the Rings has also been mentioned in Darths And Droids.
- Ben does recognize Dooku's miniature from a campaign he played a few years ago, but since it's a bonus strip, it's probably not canon. The two universes are likely unrelated, for the reason stated above.
- And the last sentences of the comic will be:
- "GM: Well, you won. How was the campaign?
- Sally: Super! Thanks, George!
- Pete and Jim: Yeah, most parts were awesome.
- Pete: ...but you could cut the talking a little.
- Ben: Well, I've got to admit, this was pretty good.
- GM: Yeah, kinda epic. Wonder how good would be a film made out of this..."
- No the GM IS George Lucas if he was born in 1970 and thus hadn't lost his writing talent yet.
- Also, the in-universe DMM takes ideas from the other players' antics and uses them in Wands And Warts.
- And in that universe, David uses his ideas for Notes and Nazis, and in that one, for Mutants and Miscreants, and so on.
- His justification for being substitute GM was that he had the most GMing experience of everyone in the group, aside from the GM himself.
- His Railroading-heavy GMing style seems to resemble that of DMotR's DM.
- His first name is Pete. Maybe his last name is "Jackson?"
- Aside from the Railroading, the two styles are pretty different. (DM of the Rings wants to tell a story and couldn't care less about fights, experience, and loot, Pete couldn't care less about story, but will want to design encounters, and has more of a loot and experience focus.)
And also, we didn't have any Doctor Who WMG for this yet.
- No, you fool, they are obviously Haruhi Suzumiya. All of them.
- Really? Seems that Sally and Annie should be switched. Sally is more crazy, but story-oriented, thus explaining Elan's trope-happy-yet-incredibly naive personality, and well...Soul. Splice.
- Belkar must be the least optimised character in the entire Order (at least since Elan Took A Level In Dashing Swordsman). No way is he Pete's character.
- Durkon is obviously played by a a more relaxed Pete, note how Dwarves are one of the most cheesed out Core races of Dungeons & Dragons, and Clerics are so powerful when not used as a heal bot that this troper's friend refuses to play one after his last one out shown the Fighter and Wizard simultaneous, while still healing back in 3e.
- They could have the new player Corey to play Belkar, if Pete is Durkon.
- Alternative casting: yes, Ben is definitely Roy, but Jim is Belkar, Sally is Elan, Pete is Varsuuvius, Annie is Durkon and Corey is Haley. Jim wanted to play a Chaotic Evil (and stupid) barbarian for the same reason that he decided to play fake!Han as evil and stupid; he's embittered at the way that the good characters he plays keep dying, and he knows that there's no point in his character having decent Wisdom and Intelligence scores if he's never going to use them. Sally just enjoys Elan's daftness, but, as she matures, so does Elan. Pete is playing another character who, like Artoo, is obsessed with gaining the ultimate in arcane power (in a fantasy setting, through developing their magical skills rather than owning a nifty piece of technology - after all, magic items are too easy to steal). Annie is a versatile actor and wanted to experiment with playing a character notably different from either Anakin (because he's deeply moral, loyal, and psychologically well-grounded), Cassian (although Durkon is a cleric rather than a warrior, he doesn't have a hang-up about being excessively pacifist - instead he has various other hang-ups) or Leia (a calm, reflective older man), and although she had thought deeply about Durkon's backstory and motivation from the start, she kept him in character as the sort of person who doesn't talk much about such things until it becomes relevant. By default this leaves Corey as Haley - maybe she was based on an Action Girl archer he'd recently enjoyed playing in a shoot-em-up video game.
- Don't they refer to him as, well, "him"?
- Only in-character, when the GM is using male NPCs
- Pete is shown as being of the mind that girls don't play RPGs at all. I forget whether he knew the GM previously, but if he didn't, he doesn't show the same sort of reaction to the GM that he did with Sally or Annie. If the GM were a girl, then either A. Pete knew her previously and thus wouldn't likely be all "OMG a girl?!" at Annie, or B. he would've gone, "OMG a girl GM!?" at some point.
- Short hair?
- Bifauxnen?
- I thought of this myself, but unfortunately they do refer to the GM as 'him' in strip 100.
- Word of God says that the writers originally intended not to reveal the GM's gender, but then realised that they had already called him "he" in the early strip mentioned above.
- At least partially Jossed; Corey is playing Luke, and the regular GM is still GMing.
- Confirmed!
- They did say in a translation thread (for the strip where Anakin kills the Greedo of the movies) that "That solves that problem", meaning Greedo is dead, so this does seem likely.
- I'm calling it confirmed with the latest page. A pilot whose sidekick is Chewie? Unless they have something really elaborate planned, it has to be Han.
- I knew it! Greedo is Harrison Ford! The faux-Italian/Spanish accent was unexpected though.
Search your feelings, you know it to be true!
- Confirmed. Although it's just something Jim comes up with on the spot.
- He's a former Jedi who turned to death sticks to keep out the voices, and he's demonstrated a propensity for Samuel L. Jackson quotes.
- Episode 4 is called "A New Generation". They've got similar names to the original generations, but who's to say it's not Jim Jr., or named for their parents' sibling or old friend?
- Well Jim just pre-emptively gave baby Leia his blaster.
- Jossed as shown here: Annie switches to Leia, while Jim (I guess) switches to Captain Antilles.
- Han's Big Damn Heroes moment at the end of Episode 4 seems like the sort of unexpected character development Annie would be fond of. Not likely Jim would be subtle enough to play Han's original, mercenary character.
- Confirmed, Jim plays Han (after Captain Antilles dies). Ben picks up Chewie after Obi-Wan's death.
- Problem: What does he do while he's waiting for Han to actually join the plot?
- "Let's see this new character you've rolled up, Jim. Huh... you named a former Jedi after a dinosaur? Oh, excuse me, after Count Dracula and a dinosaur..."
- Yeah, Qui-Gon dies two movies and 30 years before Han Solo's ever on screen. Maybe at that point the player will leave, and come back later, but that's a stretch. And why would Annie stop playing Anakin after he turns evil? If it were by her own actions (which, given recent strips is very likely) why would she stop playing the character she's deliberately built?
- Games get really hard to manage if you have players on both antagonist and protagonist sides working against each other.
- That just adds more opportunities for jokes, doesn't it?
- Games get really hard to manage if you have players on both antagonist and protagonist sides working against each other.
- Jim has officially slipped into the high heels of Amidala as of Qui Gon's death.
- Which makes Han fit as his next character even better.
- How so? As Padmé, he'd have kids (Luke and Leia) and then if he takes over as Han he'd be hitting on his own (in-game) kid. That'd be kinda... off in some ways.
- If Jim plays Han, Annie has to let Vader become an NPC and switch to playing Leia... Or it could be the other way around. Again.
- Which she has done, so this is quite possible.
- A recent strip showed that Jim may be interested in Annie. He's going to try to express that through role play - and he'd balk even more at playing a gay character.
- This would explain why Amidala goes on the full adventure in Attack of the Clones, and the adventure only starts when she arrives.
- It would also explain the fact that Amidala is totally cool with Anakin massacring an entire village full of Sand People.
- Meh, Sand bastards had it coming. And considering it's D&D, he probably killed them for XP.
- And after Annie makes Anakin go evil and Amidala dies they both roll up new characters: Han Solo and Leia. And Obi-Wan rolls Chewie.
- Meh, Sand bastards had it coming. And considering it's D&D, he probably killed them for XP.
- Also, he recently got to know that he can earn XP with good roleplaying. So he will "abuse the rules" by having all those Amidala/Anakin scenes with Annie.
- Alternatively, Sally could make up the Wookiees. I mean, they are like giant teddy bears.
- Ewoks more so. Waitaminute...
- Umm..what? R2's alive in all 6 movies, so why not just keep playing him?
- Jossed. Ben seems to have taken over for Chewie after Obi-Wan's death.
- Jossed — for now, at least. It's possible that Jim and Annie will switch characters later, but rather unlikely.
- Impossible now that Anakin's dead. However, Annie does end up playing Padmé as Vader.
- Alternatively, she will take over Mace Windu, Yoda, or some other Jedi. Someone that can actually fight.
- Somewhat confirmed. Sally has thrown a tantrum and refuses to continue playing. Whether she will re-enter as another character remains to be seen.
- She just changed to Dex, but seeing that Ben is pointed to Kamino, and she made her character to stay at the diner, she probably need to change character...again.
- This troper is starting to think she's going to end up playing all the really weird minor characters that show up, sorta like a freelance NPC.
- As of this comic, she's taken over C-3PO, so it looked like this one was right...
- ... until she started playing Mace Windu in this one. Ain't no stoppin' her.
- And then she changed back to Jar-Jar to make the senate speech, and is currently controlling C-3PO again while the GM is away. So, uh, maybe she'll play both C-3PO and Windu and switch between them, or something?
- And now, as of this strip, she has switched to Yoda, and the GM has put his foot down and said "NO MORE CHARACTER SWITCHING!" meaning she'll probably be Yoda from now on. She might still do some switching, though...
- ...There is no way the writers weren't watching this page.
- This troper is starting to think she's going to end up playing all the really weird minor characters that show up, sorta like a freelance NPC.
- Much later than the original WMG, but Jim did run the Dark Forces campaign between Episode III and IV
- Jossed. Ben takes over Chewie from the GM instead.
- Just a hunch. It would seem like Sally would want a giant teddy bear as her best friend (even though she's trying to act "grown up" in the AOTC setting). And with Jim playing Amidala all gung ho, Leia would be a natural extension. "Into the garbage chute, Flyboy!"
- I'd venture that Sally will want to play Chewie instead. Think about it, it's exactly the kind of character someone who likes to play "cute" aliens would want to play, but at the same time wants to look good in front of her friends. "Okay, so he's basically a furry teddy bear alien... but he's totally tough and strong! I swear! "
- Jossed. Jim plays Han, Annie plays Leia and Darth Vader, and Sally plays Threepio.
- I actually thought of this and wanted to add it. It makes perfect sense, as her role in Attack of the Clones has switched almost solely to description and playing NPCs. Also, don't know if a GM ever roleplays himself, but I have this idea that the GM's name is Luke....
- I third this one. The GM even seems a bit to be grooming Sally for the role, making a point of having her do the "set design" for Kamino.
- I fourth this one but because it seems in universe time has passed just as time between movies does, and having Sally GM for the current players kids (except Pete on R2),
- I fifth this, because the current group is cracking apart at the seams so badly it'd require an Author's Saving Throw to keep them all together. Sally's removed enough from things to look back later with rose-colored glasses and run a new game from the fragments of the old.
- Sixth-ing this, or some form of it any way (timeskip with maybe new players and an old standby). It's a cool DM trick to pull out really old characters, especially when they're -your- (or someone you know) character; it makes them that much more heroic. The current cast is pretty much playing characters with a vastly reduced role in the original three movies; they show up, look cool, and go away again (or they're dead). Having new kids of the old cast would make for one heck of "Luke, I am your father" meta-game moment (though may be too dark for the strip). At any rate (as that's unlikely), looking at them... Anakin, Padmé, Obi, Yoda, R2. Anakin becomes Darth; given the strips real life events, this is predicated by the as-yet unnamed conflict between Anne and Jim. Given what we know of the movies, at some point, Obi and Ana fight and both of their characters die (or go away at any rate). This would be Jim and Anne breaking up poorly. Come the big reveal in the original trilogy and the very emotional moment between Luke (who would suit Jim) and Vader, Anne surprises the group by showing up that session and reconciling with Jim. Han, Chewie, R2, Leia, C3, and Lando... Han and Leia are -Pete- and Sally. Ben becomes Chewie and the droids. R2 in the original is much less munchkin-y whereas Han is basically a no-name smuggler who somehow manages to hang with powerful people and thumb his nose at both rebels and empire. And he has a cool ship - one can see Pete getting a sidekick and such for being 'normal'. Or him just growing up. And then Sally could have a 'She grew up moment'. Though on the other hand, if Ben is Luke and Sally is Leia, then the 'He's my brother!' moment could be funny. ARGH!
- I'm going to go out on a limb and call bullshit on the "Sally will be GM" theory. It simply doesn't make sense. Consider the imagination shown by Sally in designing characters, races and planets for the prequel trilogy. Now consider the fact that basically every world visited by the characters in the original trilogy are single biome planets. Unless Sally undergoes some serious character decay (which seems incredibly unlikely given that her imagination is running strong at this point of the story), then the original GM will remain. Sally will continue with her current role of designing characters and creatures and adding variety to the maps created by the GM.
The GM will have great delight in playing Ben's old character against Ben, and turning Annie's character into the main villain.
- I think that would be too obvious. Personally, I'm going for:
- Ben: Han ("Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star, or bounce too close to a supernova and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?")
- Jim: Leia (if he likes playing Padmé)
- Annie: Luke (he's the most dramatic)
- Sally: Chewbacca
- Pete: R2-D2
- Partly confirmed. Pete stays as Artoo, Jim plays Han, Annie plays Leia, and Sally plays Threepio. However Ben stays as Obi-wan, a new player, Corey, joins as Luke, and Annie also plays Vader.
- To the point where she'll make a living off of being a game designer. Look into your heart, you know it to be true.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Although when Obi-Wan dies Ben takes over the new NPC they just got Leia.
- Sally may change characters a lot because she is prone to do so.
- Chewie will be an NPC thrown in that Sally makes up when Han first appears.
- Vader will not be a PC simply because they don't know who Vader is until Episode 5 in the Luke, I Am Your Father moment.
- Has Anakin's last name even been revealed in the comic? There's no way to avoid not showing the end of Episode III's "Anakin Becomes Vader"... but the reveal is that Darth Vader is Anakin Skywalker.
- Jim plays Han and Chewie.
- I contend that this is foreshadowing that he will play two characters. Han and Chewie share practically every frame they're onscreen, not to mention (Movie)Han has certain traces of Jim's gung-ho attitude, making them the logical choices.
- Annie plays Luke.
- Pete plays R2-D2.
- Ben plays Obi-Wan for A New Hope. After that... ?
- Sally plays C-3PO in A New Hope, then switches to Lando (and briefly switches back to C-3PO for the beginning of Return of the Jedi).
- Vader is an NPC... for now.
- Leia is also an NPC, if only for A New Hope.
- Confirmed as happening off-panel. Jim has just died as Captain Antilles, & apparently he bit it with 3 other characters (including Kyle Katarn & possibly Bail Organa) each in their respective first sessions during the interim.
- Isn't Sally, you know, still a young teenager while Pete is at least in his 20s, since he's friends of the characters who were established as being in college back in Episode 1 (which is a couple time-skips ago by now)?
Also, at complete random, I'm guessing Pete will be Lando.
- Ben is already planned to come in as Han. He will switch over to Lando after Han gets frozen in carbonite, and probably switch back later.
- Jim will be set up with Luke, who is much more suited to the GM's preference for Arc Welding.
- Annie will assume control of Obi-Wan temporarily (he had originally been planned as an NPC). Just as Obi-Wan mentors Luke in-game, she will be mentoring Jim in properly roleplaying a character. Jim will alternate between decent roleplaying and his more typical behavior. During/after the Death Star section, Annie will regain control of Leia.
- The Romance Triangle will follow the movies. It will start off as Jim and Annie's RL relationship carrying over into the game, but eventually Annie decides to pursue an in-game relationship with Han. There will be significant tension over this.
- Sally will realize that Threepio is a pretty crappy character stat-wise, and switch over to Chewbacca by the start of Empire.
- Sally and/or Annie may briefly take control of Wedge during the assault on the first Death Star.
- (Timeframe: Jim has died on the Tantive IV). Jim will be unable to make the next session, before returning as Han. Annie is about to be captured and will play as Luke for a while. Ben returns as Kenobi until the Death Star escape then takes over Leia (low chance) or takes over Luke while Annie returns to Leia (better chance) for the rest of Episode IV. Ben's attendance becomes restricted (med school? residency?) resulting in Luke's Split the Party status in Episode V - and Pete doubles as Chewbacca after being caught on the split (bonus XP for being Huge and unintelligable). Dagobah is Ben and the GM running a secondary set of sessions to keep level parity. After Han is frozen Jim plays as Lando.
- Now that he'll be playing Greedo, it certainly seems viable that he would switch to Han after Greedo gets shot.
- Or maybe Greedo is the character who resembles Harrison Ford.
- Confirmed.
- Or maybe Greedo is the character who resembles Harrison Ford.
- Bail Organa (killed in the destruction of Alderaan).
- A rebel spy aboard the Peace Moon (shot by the other PCs).
- An X-Wing pilot during the attack on the Peace Moon (shot down).
- Luke's copilot on Hoth (dies in the crash).
- And Ben would play Wedge as the WMG above. Nice Book Ends with the beginning of the whole story.note
Player | Endor | Peace Moon |
Jim | Greedo | Lando |
Ben | Chewie | Wedge |
Sally | C3-P0 | Ackbar |
Pete | R2-D2 | Er... |
Annie | Leia | Anakin |
Corey | Wicket | Adam |
But still... for the whole story to be decided by a then NPC...
- JossedLuke: Sally? What? Who are you?
- Jim and Ben remain in their roles as Han and Chewie respectively.
- Corey will play Finn (and learn the hard way not to wield a laser sword if he isn't a Jedi). Luke becomes an NPC.Finn/Corey: I attack the Stormtrooper <roll> 11.GM: <roll> He parries with his electro-baton, I told you unless you're proficient you're not gonna have much luck hitting things with it.Han/Jim: Himself included so far.Finn/Corey: Can I go back to playing Luke now?
- Alternatively Corey is on vacation for most of the campaign and only returns in time for the final session as Luke, and Finn is played by a new player: Sally's boyfriend.
- Sally might go through a tomboy phase and decide to abandon C-3PO in favor of Rey, and be a Jedi after seeing that no one else is. Furthermore the Ship Tease between Finn and Rey is translated into Corey and Sally deciding to get together (they would be in their mid teens at that point). 3PO likewise becomes a minor NPC.Rey/Sally: I use Suggestion. "You will release me." <roll> 19!Stormtrooper: I will release you.Rey/Sally: I can't believe I did this on the first go... oh and: "you will leave your gun".
- Pete will play Kylo Ren. After seeing how much fun Annie had roleplaying Vader, he just drops the pretense and embraces his power hunger wholesale, he also decides to try and roleplay some more and ends up becoming a really annoying Thespian, somewhat screwing up his Min-Maxing this time and rolling up a Stone Wall instead of a Mighty Glacier that ends up being bested by Sally's character.Finn/Corey: Just how many critical hits can your character take?! You were already shot in the splanch by Ben, went through several explosions and I just stabbed you in the shoulder with a fracking laser sword! How is your character still upright?Kylo Ren/Pete: Critical Resistance, and it only cost me a minor penalty to my control over the Force and my attack rolls, nothing I can't live without.Rey/Sally: We'll see about that.
- Possibly hinted at in Episodes 1503 and 1510. In both, Pete showed an interest in keeping Vader's helmet.
- Annie will play Poe Dameron, as Jim becomes more of a Roleplayer, she becomes more of a Real Man. Leia becomes an NPC similar to the webcomic's Palpatine/pre-Sally Yoda, a quest giver.Poe/Annie: I line those PIEs up and bake them one by one.GM: Roll.Poe/Annie: <roll> 13, <roll> 16, <roll> 19, <roll> 16.Finn/Corey: Whoa.Poe/Annie: Best star pilot in the galaxy right here.
- Well, now that the Force Awakens plot has started, we can effectively Joss all of these. First, Jim is playing Poe. Ben WAS playing Lor San Tekka, but he's dead now, so there's still a chance he can go back to Chewie. Sally is Kylo. Pete is Rey. Annie is Finn. And Corey is BB-8. Technically, Jim can still play Han at some point, but... who knows.
- Jim plays Jyn, and she's even more aggressive than she was in the film.
- Ben plays Cassian, who spends most of the story dealing with Jyn's lack of subtlety and fondness for explosions.
- Sally plays K-2SO continuing her droid rights plotline.
- Pete plays Chirrut, taking the Blind flaw but counteracting it with Force Sight seems like the sort of thing he'd do.
- Annie plays Bodhi, the troubled defector seems like the sort of character she'd enjoy.
- Corey plays Baze, he's fed up with playing melee characters and wants someone with a large gun.
- Confirmed for Sally and Pete. Jossed for Annie, who plays Cassian, and for Ben and Corey, who aren't in the campaign. Jim plays "Kyle Katarn" (Saw Gerrera), but whereas "Bria Tharen" (Jyn) is an NPC, but it's implied that upon Kyle's death, Jim will switch to playing Bria.
- Alternatively, Jim's first character will be Saw Gerrera, renamed "Kyle Katarn", and then he'll take over Jyn, renamed "Bria Tharen". Bail Organa will die in the final scene with Vader.
- Confirmed. Jim plays Saw Gerrera, renamed Kyle Katarn, and Jyn is an NPC renamed Bria Tharen, who will potentially be taken over by Jim once Kyle Katarn dies. Danuta, however, is Jedha, not Scarif (which will be probably renamed Toprawa instead).
- Not likely, unless he decides to give up playing Poe.
- Jossed now, and it takes more than one example to make a tradition in the first place.
- It’s actually twice: Annie was new to gaming when she began playing Anakin.
- Confirmed as of page 1854.
- Jossed. Pete is Rey, while Ben replaced Lor with General Hux.
- Massively Jossed. Corey was being doxxed.
- More likely Darth is just the result of Annie responding in-character, if overly dramatically, to every nasty twist sprung on her. Imagine it - the GM says: "Your mother dies in your arms." Regular player: "Oh, that sucks. Do I still get XP for completing the mission?" Annie: "Okay, I'm traumatised and stricken with grief. Because I'm a brooding teenage boy I look for something to lash out at... okay, I've killed all these guys. That's going to leave me even more traumatised, isn't it?"
- Looks like it so far.
- And Anakin's devious smile in 520 adds more evidence that he's playing both sides. Maybe in this canon, the Emperor will be the puppet of Darth Vader? That would be incredibly awesome, actually. Or, hey, why not? Adding a new WMG...
- And she implied she's lying because of who asked her. Plus Ben already said to Jim that she's not seeing anyone.
- To combine this with a previous theory, Jim will take control of Padmé as his character, and he and Annie will start dating, causing the romantic subplot between Anakin and Padmé. Anakin's switch to the Dark Side will be caused by a breakup with Jim, which will be why Anakin force chokes Padmé.
- All but confirmed now. At the second campaign's end, after Anakin and Padmé's wedding, Jim asks Annie out and she accepts. Two years later, when the third campaign starts, Annie is obviously upset about Jim and Pete mentions that they've been going out.
- Partially jossed - Annie and Jim have made up, but this hasn't stopped Anakin's fall to the Dark Side. Of course, they made up after Anakin had already slaughtered the younglings, so the partial bit is important - Annie is enough of a thespian to keep on going from the characterization that has already been established, and when the pre-making-up characterization includes manipulating your head of state into executing the rest of your organisation and killing innocent children looking to you for help...
- Sand People down.
- Getting more likely as of the final arc of Attack of the Clones. Annie is taking Anakin through his original development, but with no influence from Palpatine, so unless it's just coincidence that they're both evil by the end...
- In progress as of the climax of Revenge of the Sith. Anakin takes advantage of Palpatine's emotional instability after Mace's assassination attempt to convince him that democide against the Jedi is the only solution
- Yes! Building a moon! Dedication to the cause of the Peace Moon could also be why Annie joins the Dark Side.
- Jossed, Annie did these things because she was dedicated to playing her character as a character (but not necessarily as a heroic character).
- Addendum: They will, but it will be skipped over with another Time Skip.
- Confirmed. It's never called Death Star in the comic, only as Peace Moon.
- Jossed. They're still named Luke and Leia.
- Jossed. It's the continuation of the same campaign in the same setting.
- Close but no cigar. Maul was Jango's partner.
- This makes even more sense now that Mace Windu's part has been taken over by Sally.
- Jossed. The GM was pretty cool with Mace cutting Jango's head off, reminding Sally that he was a bad guy and Mace was a good guy. Sally, however, regretted her actions.
- More or less confirmed. Sally played Mace during the fight scene, and now she's playing Yoda.
- Jossed. Annie plays Leia.
- Also Jossed. Lando is an NPC.
- Jossed, pretty much. They broke up, and then got back together before Anakin killed Padmé.
- In the D&D-verse, Darth is apparently a title used for retired Jedi.
- Jossed.
- Or, the Peace Moon is the "Death Star" in the New Hope screencaps, but it really is a perfectly harmless symbol of peace. Of course, the players blow it up anyway. The second Death Star may or may not be a second Peace Moon, but either way it's getting blown up too.
- Then how did it blow up Alderaan?
- It was there to try and talk the warlike citizens of Alderaan out of testing a new superweapon, which backfired destroying their planet.
- Or Alderaan shot first...
- Then how did it blow up Alderaan?
- Recent events have left Naboo a devastated wasteland, so unless it is somehow healed this theory won't work, but I like it.
- The expospeak probably will be epic, since the establishment of the Empire happened between campaigns (when last we saw Palpatine, he had just appointed Darth Vader Supreme Commander of the Republic Military. When Episode IV begins, Darth Vader works for an Empire opposed by a Rebel Alliance...).
- Seeing how the GM plays Palpatine as a Reasonable Authority Figure (which is in fact quite reasonable to assume from the first two movies if you watch them in chronological order), he may decide he was evil all along after the players dispose of his other villains quicker than he anticipated. My guess is that Mace and Anakin beheading Jango and Dooku respectively were Off the Rails events with both dying earlier than the GM intended, and the Grievous arc was also supposed to drag much longer. So he ran out of villains and decided to pull a retroactive twist on one of the good guys.
- Actually, if you pay close attention, you can see that the Separatists - particularly Count Dooku - know Palpatine is an evil Sith lord and that's why they want to rebel against the Republic. Dooku's been trying to tell the PCs for several weeks now, they just won't listen.
- I've said for YEARS that the Separatists should have been for the most part genuinely well intentioned (if duped by Dooku and with nasty backing) and after their defeat turned into the Rebel Alliance. Now we have the chance to see the story as I would have written it! (PS: the Separatists and Republic are fighting because the Sith lords, who wind up in charge either way, want to see whether droid or clone armies are more badass)
- Canonically, most surviving Separatist hold-outs did join the Rebel Alliance, once it formed, so obviously parts of the Separatist movement were genuinely well-intentioned but duped (just as many Republic loyalists were genuinely well-intentioned but duped).
- Are you saying you'd inflict the holiday special on the guys who make the comic? Monster!
- No, he's saying they'd inflict the holiday special on us.
- What if the GM (Sally, in her first go as GM) actually make it a kick-ass black comedy/dramatic campaign about living as an alien in a repressive, stupidly-petty, human-centric police state, a la Paranoia? Sally's love of journalism, seen during Revenge of the Sith's campaign, can explain all the weird infomercials, bad TV programs, and shitty music numbers. They're all part of her Crazy Is Cool satire of the media.
- No, he's saying they'd inflict the holiday special on us.
However, he hears of Luke's exploits at the Battle of Yavin, sees his name is Skywalker, correctly concludes that he is Anakin's son, and goes to seek revenge on him for his father's actions. The reason he captures Han is to lure Luke (much like Vader did), but he transferred Han to a place more advantageous to him before telling Luke he's got Han hostage, not knowing that Luke is already heading to Cloud City to rescue him.
- Jossed. Boba is after Obi-Wan, who he believes is still alive and wants to find out his whereabouts from Han.
- Sally has a bigger budget.
- Jim and Annie will be away on honeymoon.
- Pete will play Starkiller. How else do you explain the power discrepancy between Starkiller and every other Jedi?
- Sally will play Proxy. Technically only one character, but still lets her switch personalities when bored.
- Ben will play Juno, and get revenge on Pete for stealing the spotlight by repeatedly embarrassing him with attempts to romance Starkiller.
- Alternately (copied from The Force Unleashed's WMG page):
- It was meant to be a stealth espionage campaign. Then the GM made the mistake of letting Pete play a Jedi.
- Annie is playing Juno. The character with the deepest background and most emotional turmoil. Plus, her Belligerent Sexual Tension with Pete's Jedi, which seems to be a hallmark of her characters.
- Jim is playing Rham Kota. His "brilliant" plan to randomly attack Imperials until Vader shows up, then take him out. When Pete went ahead and "killed" him, he talked with the GM and arranged to be blinded instead, so he could sit back in the spaceship and pester Pete with "brilliant" plans over the comlink. The GM agreed because, hey, pestering Pete.
- Sally is PROXY. She liked playing C-3PO so much, she wanted to play someone like Threepio, but cooler. Pete walked her through the droid construction rules. He was very disappointed when she took the flaw "Programmed to kill one specific being," instead of something like "Bad at Dance," until she pointed out that her target was Pete, and she'd be so thoroughly unable to kill him that it would never come up in play. Pete had never been more proud of her.
- Ben is Bail Organa. Again missing for a few sessions, he showed up, took over that character, and tried to nudge the story back on track by suggesting clandestine meetings and sabotage of Imperial facilities. Then Pete decided to yank a Star Destroyer out of the sky.
- Alternately (copied from The Force Unleashed's WMG page):
- Jossed. Chancellor Valorum becomes Grievous.
Meanwhile, Jim has started to love actual role-play, thus he'll decide to impregnate Padmé for the sake of Drama.
Finally, by the end of the series, no one will fit the same niche as they started. GM will become the Brain, Jim the Thespian, Annie the Munchkin, Pete the Loonie, Ben the Real Man, and Sally the GM.
- Judging by some of the recent strips, this WMG has very strong support. Anakin seems to be playing both sides, Jim has been working on his roleplaying, and Annie seems to be much more aware of the meta-game and such.
- And when he/she does succeed, some thing goes horribly wrong and results in Jim's character being resurrected as Luke.
- Jossed. She did with some of her last words.
- CONFIRMED! Here and here.
- More accurately, he was Gunray's Manchurian Agent.
- Considering Annie-kin's gambit to turn Palpatine against the Jedi Council has just Gone Horribly Right, the Chancellor may still give Order 66 himself.
- Possibly confirmed about Padme becoming Vader. At least, unless Vader is lying or delusional.
- Everything except Palpatine becoming Anakin's Sith apprentice has been confirmed.
- Jossed. Annie plays as Leia while Vader is an NPC first. Then Annie takes over Vader, making all the players believe Vader is Anakin. Then in Cloud City she reveals that Vader is actually Padmé.
- Jossed. Anakin never becomes Vader... Padmé does.
- Jossed. Mos Eisley is built from the ruins of the dreadnaught.
- Confirmed! Although really, what else were they going to do?
- Perhaps "Con, cen, TRAAATE!"
- Well, the dianoga just pulled Luke under, so we'll see if half of this is confirmed or disconfirmed this Thursday.
- The dianoga released Luke. No mention of an underwater oxygen extraction apparatus yet, however.
- Aaaannnd... Confirmed! Now we wait for the grappling hook to come into play...
- The dianoga released Luke. No mention of an underwater oxygen extraction apparatus yet, however.
- And now we're at the gap...
- After all, he's the one with the motivation, and the Darth Vader suit is the perfect disguise. Besides, Jango Fett disguised himself as a droid once. Who's to say his adoptive son can't disguise himself as a cyborg?
- Dooku says that Anakin is like his teenage son, in that he's quite rebellious. Tarkin tells Vader that his father didn't care for his rebellious ways as a teenager. Neither is really evil; they just end up working with the villains due to no fault of their own. And to really drive the point home, they're both FRENCH!
- Well, not French French. Space French.
- Being Darth Vader's son will be a minor preoccupation at that moment.
- Well, he did come to that conclusion, and there was much Big No-ing involved, but being Vader's son was still the reason for it. Unless it comes up again as a Brick Joke, this one's Jossed.
- The Imperials will probably steal it back at Hoth then. OR Han takes it...
- At the start of a session the GM notes that Jim is running late and they should start without him. Obviously this is their reason for why Han shows up to the battle over the Death Star at the last minute, right? Well what if that's just a red herring? Vader mentions in the same strip that he has an informant who told him the rebels are launching their fighters. Maybe Han is (for the moment) playing both sides. Maybe he'll regret his actions and save Luke, or maybe that's still an elaborate cover. Maybe this will go on into Empire Strikes Back and Han deliberately leads the others into the trap on Cloud City. Who could have been conspiring with Annie all along. One way or another, the players will be stunned by how good Jim's roleplaying has become.
- After all, it would be just like Pete to try to appropriate the Peace Moon, and you can't exactly take control of something if it's been destroyed by the rebellion!
- The general idea is still sound, but in that strip, Luke was the one giving the wrong redezvous point to Wedge.
- Confirmed! ...And then taken in a very unexpected direction in the next strip.
- Vader is actually Anakin after all, and Padmé really was the one that died. Annie and the GM could have just been lying when they said Vader was Padmé.
- Confirmed, Mark is a clone of Luke.
It would be entirely in character for a clone of Valorum who didn't like looking like Valorum to steal the corpse of a beloved leader and puppet it around in an attempt to command more respect.
And when he appears again, it's actually going to be Wedge Antilles.
- Nah, it would look too much like DM of the Rings. Plus, the film sucks waaaaaaay more than anything they've used so far combined.
- My guess is that the original guess meant the game, not the movie.
- Already done with this Comments on a Postcard strip. You don't remember the movie Comments on a Postcard? There you go.
- Confirmed on both counts!
- Seeing as 349's and 319's strips have almost confirmed that the campaign that took place between Episodes I and II is indeed Princess Bride, 350 will show a bit of what happened in that campaign.
- Jossed, but it was a good shot.
- The Princess Bride could still show up in a later one, though. Of course, it would probably be different from the one in the Darths and Droids universe, as it would include Sally and Annie like the rest of the alternate universes do.
- Then again, maybe not- the Jaws one didn't have either of those two, just Ben, Jim, and Pete.
- And the Muppets one had Sally as the GM.
- Jossed, but it was a good shot.
- But didn't one of the captions say Harrison Ford is well known for playing Indiana Jones within the Darths & Droids universe?
- Simple, Steven Spielberg did all the directing in this universe.
- Then who did the writing? Lucas came up with the idea of a modern pulp movie on his own.
- Maybe he merely crashes the car * later* .
- Then do American Graffiti and THX 1138 not exist either?
- But didn't one of the captions say Harrison Ford is well known for playing Indiana Jones within the Darths & Droids universe?
- Jim-the impulsive Jeremy Clarkson (Hammer=Summon Bigger Fish?)
- Ben-the Only Sane Man James May
- Pete-the Stig (again taking Mute in exchange for phenomenal speed)
- Either Sally or Annie-Richard Hammond. Sally would fit a bit better though, with Richard's excitable nature and tendency to name cars.
Course, this all probably goes out the window once you factor in that the Comics Irregular a) might not have seen Top Gear, and b) might prefer the Aussie version.
- Jim is Kit/Dragon Knight, the impulsive hero who doesn't know what the hell's going on (because he didn't pay attention to the GM's backstory). He tries to get a more powerful deck, but accidentally picks up the one the GM intended to be DK's Evil Twin.
- Ben is Len/Wing Knight, who actually did read the backstory and was rewarded by being made the savvy mentor and the Batman-esque badass (and he gets teased for giving his character a name that's one letter off his real name, even though he insists it was a coincidence).
- Annie is JTC/Torque, the mysterious, overly dramatic and morally ambiguous "tweener".
- Sally is Maya, mirroring her interest in reporting; initially she'd think the "spandex superheroes" thing is stupid, but starts feeling left out and the others convince the GM to make her a Rider too, resulting in him (reluctantly) derailing his plot by killing off Kace/Siren and handing her deck to Maya.
- Pete is Vic/Wrath, the most overpowered Rider in the story. In the interest of Min-Maxing, he takes a bunch of defects like Amnesia, which the GM is cleverly manipulating to make Wrath into The Dragon (which Pete doesn't really mind). For some reason, he's also convinced that if he beats the other eleven Riders, he'll be granted a wish.
- Jossed. According to the Cast link at the top of the page, it's the usual GM; Pete is the Tin Man.
- Simply because it's the easiest way to explain the sheer mess that is Westeros.
- The fourth-to-last meta-fic will take place in a world where the New Testament never existed.
- The third-to-last meta-fic will take place in a world where the Old Testament never took place.
- The second-to-last metafic will take place in a world where Classical Mythology never took place.
- The final metafic will take place in a world where NOTHING existed. It is revealed that the universe was created by people playing a tabletop RPG.
- What is the "_____balls" documentary?
- Who in the film got a breakout role in the first Futurama film?
- What was one of the actors primarily known for?
- What was the subject matter of nerdy YouTube videos?
- What never got a revival?
- What was never made into a film?
- What influenced Western culture in place of Forbidden Planet?
- What were the greatest Hollywood blockbusters in Forbidden Planet's time frame?
The authors state that in the Darths & Droids universe, 'Moonraker was never made. James Bond fans never had it so good.' I suggest that in this universe, the 1979 space-travel film was never made, but subsequently, Moonraker will be made as the first Bond movie to be set entirely in Britain, and to feature a heroine who decides not to have sex with James Bond. This will inspire a series of other Ian Fleming adaptations:
- The Spy Who Loved Me is a Bottle Episode thriller about a woman defending herself against two mobsters in an isolated American motel. James Bond does not appear until near the end.
- Octopussy is about a war criminal drinking himself to death to avoid facing up to the fact that his ill-gotten gains have not brought him peace. James Bond plays a cameo role as the detective investigating what really happened all those years back.
- Quantum of Solace is a serious drama about a marriage going sour. James Bond does not appear, as his presence in the Framing Device of the book was irrelevant to the plot.
- Jim: Brock, always in the mood for a fight.
- Ben: Doctor Venture, trying to make the role work.
- Pete: Helper - can't speak, but has some impressive armament.
- Annie: Dean, reacting like a teenage boy would, in that situation, aiming for realism.
- Sally: Hank. She decides the game is boring, and decides to act like Batman. Or like a Hard Boiled Detective.
- Jossed. The campaign is described in Episode 260, and it is mentioned that if it were a Lord of the Rings campaign it would have been far better.
- Although it was Jossed pretty specifically. Makes you wonder if the creators were on this very wiki...
- We have confirmed he is in fact One of Us. So the specific jossing was probably intentional.
- It's basically confirmed that the campaign they were playing was The Princess Bride, see below.
- Jossed. The campaign is described in Episode 260, and it is mentioned that if it were a Lord of the Rings campaign it would have been far better.
- Minor nitpick: in the source material, those three are already working for Prince Humperdink.
- So the theory works even better!
- Above suggestions seem to almost be confirmed. In 319, we gain a bit more insight. The pirate ninja got away with the princess, who was his True Love. The roles appear to be Pete: Vizinni, Jim: Fezzik, and Ben: Inigo Montoya.
- 30 pages later and there is more insight. Pete said that his character was poisoned and that they were hired to fake a kidnapping so is to gain public sympathy for a war against the neighbouring kingdom.
- Page 406 reveals that the pirate-ninja who killed Pete had an "immunity to Iocaine powder."
- And...confirmed. Page 410 spells it out.
- So the theory works even better!
- Evidence. Pete's demise was, shall we say, inconceivable.
- I'd say this is more or less confirmed.
- Jim plays Lady Eboshi, since now he repents of having neglectfully killed monsters that didn't deserve it.
- Ben, thoughtful roleplayer, who tries to negociate peace, plays Ashitaka. He negociated Ashitaka's Cruise Missile arrows with Annie as a side effect of the curse.
- Pete plays Jigo. He took short, old, fat and ugly as flaws in order to unlock "incredible ninja skills" and "personal army of ninja retainers". He was supposed to get the head of the forest god for the emperor. Annie planned on him betraying his master to side with the PCs, but he decided to betray everyone and keep the head in order for his character to become immortal. He was mostly angry that Ben ditched his character after their first encounter.
- Sally played Moro on occasion, wanting to eat the humans. She is responsible for the description of the "gods", and the Scenery Porn. "The forest god is a deer, with chicken legs, and a baboon face that turns into a giant at night". She also played San, and that explains why Ben was so protective of her.
- The GM didn't play in this campaign, he was to busy with exams and preparing the next instalment of Darths & Droids.
- So, in the D&D Universe, Annie invented zombies?!?
- It's starting to look like a mixture of a couple different things, including freakin' Twilight.
- Her vampires sparkle.
- Confirmed. Nice to get one right for a change. :)
- Spoke too soon - a strip or two later, Jim describes Katarn's death as a Heroic Sacrifice. It might still have to do with why Jim can't use laser swords anymore, but it looks like a shaving accident is out.
- Annie would be good as the troubled, slightly shell-shocked Captain Mal, Pete would be the beefy, big-gun-wielding Jayne or the nerdy Ace Pilot Wash, and Sally would frankly be an epic Kaylee.
- Alas, they've pretty well spilled the beans on this one now. Bad news is, it's not Catch-22. Good news is, it's Airplane!
- And now, Jim's adventure plan has been published, detailing Jim's Airplane!-based game.
- Episode 920: Idle Hands: After the campaign, Pete wanted to do something light for a change.
- 988: Re-LAX has more allusions. Pete was a (apparently very busted) super-intelligent martial artist with extra lifespan.
- 1023: Toad Away mentions that Pete released a bunch of NPCs to help them and that they "soaked up a lot of damage" and that it was a crime-fighting campaign.
- Okay, wild guess: Ben's campaign was The Avengers, and Pete was either Captain America ("Extra Lifespan") or Black Widow ("super-intelligent martial artist").
- I'm thinking The Dark Knight Rises now. Pete was probably Catwoman.
- Or Batman. It makes sense for the minmaxer to become Batman.
- Alternatively, Batman Begins with Pete playing Ra's Al Ghul
- New clues: 1094: All in the Mind: Sally was a clown and Corey was a superpowered criminal psychologist.
- Oh crap Sally was the Joker how could they let this happen. (And Corey was Scarecrow. Also, that means they probably did the whole Dark Knight trilogy.)
- As of #1123, I think we can confirm Dark Knight Saga: the GM was a DA (who'd be Two-Face) and they were committing crimes to lure out a vigilante (who'd be Batman). The prior description of Pete's character could fit Bane as well as Ra's, but if he was Ra's then there's an odd absence of certain villains so I'll throw out another theory: the prior campaign was only Batman Begins and Dark Knight; they'll pick it up again once Empire Strikes Back is over and do Dark Knight Rises with Jim and Annie joining as Bane and Catwoman.
- The following comic reveals Ben originally wanted it to be in the style of the 60's Batman TV show, but it ended with the vigilante sacrificing himself to save the city from a nuclear bomb. This confirms it as being the entire trilogy. It's likely that Pete rolled up a new character after Ra's Al Ghul's death.
- 1208: Tone of Violence mentions a Robot Utopia campaign, presumably Sally's.
- 1251: Droid Droid Revolution, Corey notes the droid uprising went badly for the humans, which Sally defended as humans were oppressors creating slaves for their own amusement.
- 1380: I Have an (Electric) Dream Corey said that it was a literal zoo for the humans. It also took place on an island, which none of them could escape from because none of them could fly.
- It might be Robot Land from Astro Boy
- An earlier clue: 1357: Dressed to Kill: The robots min-maxed and traded arms for bite strength.
- My guess - and I saw some on the Darths and Droids forum also float this theory - is that the "robots" are a Red Herring and they're playing the dinos in Jurassic Park.
- Essentially confirmed as of 1467: Ladies and Lentil-men: There was a little-girl hacker who "turned the fences back on", and the party were playing as "robot dinosaurs".
- My guess - and I saw some on the Darths and Droids forum also float this theory - is that the "robots" are a Red Herring and they're playing the dinos in Jurassic Park.
- We know it involved lots of guns, and that "it was. . . different," the players apparently almost didn't make it, but did triumph in the end, probably due to some GM fiat by Corey. Die Hard, anyone? Corey fudging the rules and the rolls might explain how John McClane survived all that.
- After a long absence for most of Rogue One and all of The Muppet Show, the plot thread was picked up again when Episode VII started. Corey delivered on the big guns he promised, and Sally played the villain. The players shot her character with one of her own guns, but then Sally got "creative". Plus Pete played a woman with an evil prince stalking her.
- Later strips add the twist that it was a Combining Mecha campaign, and they go into everyone's characters: Ben was a reluctant leader, Pete's homeworld had been destroyed, the GM was a techie girl pretending to be a boy, plus there were two NPCs in the party as, in Corey's words, a cocky joker type and a "Gentle Giant" mechanic. But things were complicated by the fact that Pete wanted his own mecha instead of combining with the team, which Sally supported but almost led to Pete's character's death; and then Corey had to come up with a second mecha for Ben to pilot. In the commentary, memnarch guesses that it's Voltron, and some of the specific details line up with the Legendary Defender version (with Ben as Shiro, Pete as Allura, GM as Pidge, NPCs for Lance and Hunk, and Sally as Zarkon and/or Lotor; though that leaves the question of who plays Keith).
- The group captured "Zaiforge cannons", confirming for certain that it is in fact Voltron. Further strips add details that the second mecha was made for Pete's character before she was injured and Ben had to take over, and Corey made the group replay the last two sessions in order to make sense of the story after Sally's character "trigger[ed] the apocalypse" to see his dead wife.
- Lots of guns: Almost everything in the Mushroom Kingdom is a gun, a la arcade cabinet - Cameras, telecommunications
- Different: Oh man is Super Mario Bros. different
- Heroes almost don't make it: Luigi in particular is constantly throwing them into danger, to be saved by Fungus/GM
- Using guns against Villain: Luigi and Mario use the De-evolution against Koopa three times. First to make him more reptilian, second makes him a full T-Rex, both times making him more powerful, and only after the third time does it actually stop him.
- And with the "Ben will be Lando" guess, Lando's Face–Heel Turn, and Ben and Anakin falling out between films III and IV... This has some interesting implications. Mainly, that Ben will become Good Guy Lando late in their Ross and Rachel issues, and turn after they make up.
- CONFIRMED!
- Or not confirmed, they were just fighting over a misunderstanding.
- This could mesh with the news that Annie lost her job. Jim will feel responsible for supporting the baby, and Annie's guilt (heightened by the hormones) will drive her to try to find a way to save Padmé.
- Pete seems to have noticed.
- Mid-session? Doubtful. Why not a hospital?
- This is let down by his earlier comments, along with "I call for ice cream!"
- On the contrary, it just makes the eventual rise of Palpatine even more of a blessing. An autocratic leaning Valorum is bad enough, but an insane one? Bring on the Empire.
- On the counter-contrary, who doesn't love ice cream?
- Batman◊.
- As of strip 467, Grievous has turned out to be a cyborg Valorum, providing more fodder for this theory.
- Now that the Original Trilogy is finished, it seems unlikely. It's up for debate on whether the Republic or the Empire was worse, with the Empire possibly being in the lead because of Darth Vader mass executing Imperial troops on a whim and Palpatine being completely mad. Good propaganda shouldn't leave you questioning whether the new regime was really better than the old one.
- On the contrary, it just makes the eventual rise of Palpatine even more of a blessing. An autocratic leaning Valorum is bad enough, but an insane one? Bring on the Empire.
- Well DMM is a troper.
- Maybe he's the one who posted this WMG...
- Iffy since I contacted him and got permission to make a trope based on something I read in one of the strips. He didn't think to do it himself, it seems. Maybe he is a troper, but not a contributor/editor?
- LIES! That not true, that's impossible!
WeThey would never do such a thing!- Why should I listen to you? You're just a line of text!
- Especially if Sally continues her habit playing background NPCs.
- Well, Ben has gone missing, but Naïve Newcomer Corey, Pete's nephew, has arrived. He will probably become Luke.
- Apparently Jossed, given that the original GM was not surprised at all to know that Pete had stood in for him.
- Jossed: If Pete's remarked about the dice is the truth.
- It's also called "petrol" in Australia. The author is Australian, so this may simply be evidence that the game is played in Australia somewhere.
- There are a number of other Britishisms in the comic, spoken by several players, so this is probably just the Australian author thing.
- Pretty much confirmed, considering L.A. is an "Overseas" job.
- That could still apply if everyone was Australian, however.
- Alternativly, Obi-Wan and Padmé will have an affair, and that's what the fight will be about. Luke and Leia are actually Obi-Wan's children, and Obi-Wan will return to teach his son the ways of the force.
- Obi-Wan doesn't have to "return", since the only evidence that Ben was hiding and not, say, meditating in the desert was Leia's "Helpmeobiwankenobiyou'remyonlyhope", which is dialogue, so easily scrapped. For the full theory, see Luke Kenobi, below.
- I agree with the first part of this theory, about Anakin dying, but Vader will not be Dooku's son. He will be Boba Fett. He was foreshadowed so much that he must have a larger role in episodes 4-6 than what he had in the originals. That will be the revelation at the end of Episode V. The screencap of movie Fett will be a random bounty hunter, or involve another plot twist.
- Agreed very much. See Luke Kenobi, below.
- Vader being Dooku's son seems to have been Jossed.
- Not if Anakin does become Vader.
- This is definitely in-bounds, since they've done the reverse with Valorum: a cyborg shows up, and in Darths and Droids it's the reincarnation of an established character where in the movies it wasn't.
- At the very least Darth Vader claims not to have been Anakin. Darth Vader, with the help of a flashback, claims to be Padme.
- Here's how it goes: In-game, Obi-Wan and Padmé had an affair, and she got pregnant. This is what caused Anakin to kill her, which in turn causes Obi-Wan to kill him (yes, he dies in the volcanic planet). Cut to the future, Obi-Wan and his son, Luke, live in Mad-Max world. They may live with the Skywalkers due to Obi-Wan's guilt for failing to raise Anakin properly and eventually killing him, but they may just never call their roommates' names. And Obi-Wan isn't hiding or anything, he just happened to have been contemplating life in the desert when R2 arrived, and has a very good relationship with his son, which goes sour when said son decides to become a Jedi. And Leia is not Luke's sister, though she may well be an ex or something.
- On the evil side, Boba Fett was originaly intended to come back for vengeance against Obi-Wan for killing his parents. Remember that Jango says "Obi-Wan killed both your parents". Anakin isn't on the kid's radar. Except, the PCs kill him on sight. Then the GM remembers that the family had contacts with the cloners, and says "what the hell, that guy was a clone, HERE is the real one. But he dies again. After enough clones, he decides that Boba did not turn into a bounty hunter. Instead, he is Darth Vader himself, and the "clones" are actually elite imperial soldiers, whose uniforms are designed after that of the only father Boba/Vader knew.
- But Valorum is Grievous. I propose Bubble is Sidious.
- And Grievous is dead. Besides we know Palpatine is Sidious; he referred to himself as such once before, and all of the cloaked Darth Sidious scenes are shown in Palpatine's exposition flashbacks.
- Alternately, they will be Sally's creation, but they will be AWESOME and completely redeem them, much the same way she did with Jar Jar Binks and the Gungans. Wicket will be one of the most badass ninja/rogues ever.
- Jossed, at least as far as Pete hating Ben being responsible. Pete is clearly just as overjoyed as the other players when Ben returns.
What does this mean exactly? Probably because the GM decided to take a break for a while, but the players want to continue playing in the campaign setting, so he calls upon his brother, or sister, to GM for them. The sibling, however, would be no-nonsense, will railroad them all the time, put Pete in his place, and disregard Sally's suggestions and force her to play only one character, which would probably be C-3PO.
To make this even more fun Jim, Ben, Annie, and Pete know the new GM, and are flat terrified of them. They know of the types of campaigns this sibling would like to run, stories chock full of Grey-and-Grey Morality, sadistic choices, and wham sessions. Examples of games that this sibling would have run would be game versions of Berserk, A Song of Ice and Fire, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and The Black Company. They would then be relieved a little bit when the Sibling GM decides not to GM in that fashion for the Original Trilogy campaign. By the time of Return of the Jedi though, the sibling decides to loosen up a little and give the players a little leeway, which would explain the Ewoks.
- Except that we saw Grievous burn. Valorum-into-Grievous worked because in the movies, Valorum is never seen again after he's voted out of office, freeing him up in the comic to live out his fantasies of cyborgism by replacing his own body parts while still alive. However, Grievous dies on-screen, both in the movies & in the comic; it would take one heck of a brilliant plot device to restart a deceased brain with no other organs supporting it.
- Didn't stop Cerberus... :)
- Cerberus basically resurrected Commander Shepard as he/she was prior to his/her death. They only used cybernetics when it was ABSOLUTELY possible. But most of Shepard's organs were restored to working order.
- While an interesting idea it's been made clear that Vader's still Anakin.
- Didn't stop Cerberus... :)
- Obviously in the breaks in this campaign the GM is running his pulp adventure campaign.
He'll come back just in time for Obi-Wan to save Luke from the sand people, shocking the group.
- He hasn't left yet. He just went to go pick up ice cream to celebrate the big finally.
- Darth Vader: You killed my son!Luke: No, Vader, I AM your son!
- Somebody better pick up that phone, because I fucking called it! (i.e. Confirmed.)
The Moon Ghost aboard the Peace Moon really did exist. It was Nute Gunray, who uploaded his brain functions in time before Anakin killed him on Naboo. Then, when R2 downloaded the entire Peace Moon, he inadvertently downloaded Gunray, which is why his Ls and Rs occasionally switched. It finally culminated in Episode V, where Gunray takes control of R2 and Cloud City as a whole.
- I think basically every other sentence out of Jabba's mouth made it clear that he wasn't a human in a rubber suit.
What, the conclusion you drew from Jabba constantly lampshading that he's not a human was that he's actually not a human?The reason he took his death with such equanimity is that it let him do a dramatic death scene without actually dying, because, seriously, it's not like strangling the rubber suit is going to hurt the puppeteer.
- Jossed, probably, by the reveal that Jabba had a larval stage in Rogue One.
The splanch is the organ in a Clawdite that lets them shift shape. If you're doing a surgery or autopsy on an influential personage and you unexpectedly find a splanch, then there's actually a Clawdite impostor. Boba will live even if he never gets the splanch transplant Zam Wesell tried to pay for; he just won't be able to shift from his "Jango Junior" form (though of course he'll grow up and age). Maybe his being half-Zabrak is why his splanch is wonky.
This also adds . . . depth, let's say . . . to any background Non Player Characters who get injured and shout, "Oooh, my splanch!!"
- Darth Vader: After all these years of torment, I am at peace.
- Jim initially plays hot-headed characters who quickly get killed, including one named after Will’s friend Mercutio. When he gets fed up with dying and decides to play a character with a strong survival instinct, and everyone gets fed up with Jim doing Just a Stupid Accent for any story set in Italy, they settle on a historical drama set in mediaeval England. Jim’s Knight character turns out to be a Lovable Rogue who hangs out in a bar in a Wretched Hive in 15th-century London, and is a boastful, cynical sidekick to the young hero who is obviously The Chosen One. But this time there’s no way he’s going to return to the battlefield just in time to save the day – Prince Hal can look after himself. Also like Han Solo (especially as played by Jim), Falstaff is Not In This For Your Defence Against Revolution, but simply accumulating loot by extorting bribes from reluctant conscripts.
- Who plays Prince Hal? It might be virtually anyone:
- Corey: In another Coming of Age Story. Just as Corey started off unfamiliar with tabletop games, but was quickly able to transfer the skills he’d learned in computer games (and Luke knows how to survive on ice planets, swamp planets and forest planets, despite having grown up on a desert planet), so Hal starts off with no battlefield experience, but gets by on the fighting skills he had learned in the mean streets of London.
- Ben: Using Hal’s struggle to live up to his father’s expectations as an outlet for his own troubled relationship with his parents. Ben is also experienced at playing the young Padawan to Jim’s unreliable Mentor, and is comfortable bantering with Jim but telling him off when his behaviour gets really inappropriate.
- Pete: After all, one of his favourite writers is Niccolò Machiavelli. Who could possibly be better qualified to play a devious prince who is willing to pretend to be friends with people simply in order to dump them when it’s politically expedient?
- Webcomic/Freefall
If they didn't break the "the campaign happens in chronological order" for Rogue One, they aren't going to do it now. And they can't go the "reminiscing about a past adventure" route again, because we're specifically told Jim created Greedo/Han for New Hope. But we know he spent ages writing the guy's history, and he's not going to want that to go to waste. Probably with occasional interruptions from the GM to remind him it has to be consistent with the established universe.
I'm guessing the players based their characters on themselves, to a certain extent.
- Obi-Wan started out looking like the "real" Ben does. After he comes back from his travels, he's got a "cool beard" and, perhaps, long shaggy hair - that's why he plays Chewie. Remember, Ben dressed up as Doctor Zaius for Sally's protest.
- Sally started out playing Jar Jar Binks when she was an awkward little girl - Jar Jar's odd stride was similar to hers, and his ears were inspired by her pigtails.
- Jim is Han Solo. Han's expressions match him too well for him to look like anyone else. He's handsome, too, which explains how the Cloudcuckoolander manage to attract Annie.
- Annie looks like Shmi. For her first character, Annie assumed she'd have to play someone similar enough, so she just opted for a character who looks like herself, only middle-aged. Actors often play characters older than their actual ages, so Annie was planning on using make-up to make herself look older.
- Corey looks like Luke. He assumed the "game" would include a character design menu, but when it was revealed it was up to his imagination, he just settled on his own appearance.
- Pete, on the other hand, isn't short or stocky, he just designed R2-D2 to take advantage of the sci-fi scenario. He does, however, hide under his electronic gadgets so much, you can kinda see the resemblance.
- Pete is The Mandalorian. His name and backstory went unrevealed for so long because Pete never bothered to give him either. "Not allowed to remove my armor" is exactly the kind of "flaw" Pete would find appealing, since it only impacts those irrelevant social interactions while meaning he's always maximally prepared for all combat encounters.
- Sally is Kuil.
- Jim is Cara Dune. He wanted to play Padme again. . . his way.
- Ben is IG-11. Sticking to his character's programmed dictates with the dedication of the true roleplayer, it gets his character killed. Twice.
- Annie plays a string of bounties, bounty hunters, and other potential allies that Pete screwed over for XP, loot, money, or some or all of the above. The Mythrol, Greef, Fennec Shand and/or Toro, Xi'an (or any of the crew from "The Prisoner", really), and so on.
- The Child is an NPC Pete was supposed to just had over for the bounty. The GM added The Child's amazing Force skills on the fly to get Pete out of an encounter the GM had scaled for the whole party, who Pete had promptly ditched (or frozen in carbo— er, alcohol). Pete then decided The Child was of maximum utility to keep with him, instead of any of the other player characters. Because NPCs don't get XP. Annie gets rigtfully, royally pissed at Pete for continually selling out, literally selling, attempting to kill, or successfully killing her helpful PCs while keeping the ugly GM-fiated frog.
- The campaign will take place after the Sequel Trilogy, with the appearance of certain dead or older characters being explained away by cloning, Identical Grandson, or other means