Darths & Droids

It would certainly haunt Pete. Seems an easy way to mess with his head.

On a different note, I wonder how much time has passed in-comic?

Edited by TheUnsquished on May 10th 2022 at 6:35:39 PM

(Annoyed grunt)

Episode 2151: Random Encounter

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Episode 2152: Ready Slayer One

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Was it this simple for them to meet up in the film? Oh, and I love Rey's expression in the last panel.

(Annoyed grunt)

Yes, that's a great choice of frame

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."

It really was that simple. The Doyalist explaination is probably that there was a force-sensitive in each group.

Link to TRS threads in project mode here.

Episode 2153: A Die of Very Low Probability

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See, if I were the GM in this situation, I would not be happy about players bringing special dice for certain rolls. I'm not sure how Pete gets away with it, except that this GM seems to be an Extreme Doormat who lets his players basically do whatever they want.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

Pete's special dice aren't trick or majorly biased, at most minorly biased the way you might expect any real die to be. They're selected purely due to Gambler's Fallacy, remember?

To disallow them is, first, to buy into Pete's nonsense (and this DM clearly doesn't), or to be so adversarial as to oppose the players' fun for the protection of balance that is not actually threatened, and this DM is the furthest thing from adversarial.

I genuinely don't understand your position here. Would you suspect your players of actually using gimmicked or statistically significantly biased dice?

When I DM'ed in high school we all agreed a certain d20 of mine rolled disgustingly well, and so it was a bit of a joke to switch on and off from it. (It was just luck, not actually a biased die I can't imagine, because it favored high numbers in general rather than a specific number or region on the die. I still have it; maybe I'll do the chi-squared test and see...)

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I have actually seen players bring weighted dice to games, but I suppose you're right that the GM is under no obligation to humor Pete's belief in the gambler's fallacy.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

Funny thing is that "this die always rolls low" has now been joked about both ways. We have the one where "it has to roll high because it rolled low too many times" and now this is "it has to roll low because it rolled low too many times".

I imagine that they all look roughly identical and only Pete can "see" the difference which tells him in which category each die is in.

Link to TRS threads in project mode here.

Heh, yeah, you're right.

My guess is that a "quarantined low roller" is more like 1-1-3, rather than 1-1-1. A non-1 low roll "refreshes" the 1's, so the rolling out work is wasted, but that just leaves . (Though probably it's a slightly longer history that earns a quarantining.)

Also, generally when I've DMed or played, characters who ready an action to shoot at the first thing that comes through a door get a pass when their allies or another friendly shows up. As generally, the intended idea is "I'm ready to shoot the first threat that shows up", not in so many words, rather than "I am going to shoot as soon as I see movement". Interesting to see this DM did not offer that grace. Then again, Pete did declare that was Rey's intention like two seconds after having just seen the rest of the party...

Edited by RaichuKFM on May 18th 2022 at 2:00:33 PM

Mostly does better things now. Key word mostly. Writes things, but you'll never find them. Or you can ask.

A lot of D Ming varies heavily depending on the kind of group you play with. Playing with strangers or people you only know via D&D means you have to watch out for things that don’t come up if you’re group consists of close personal friends.

I trust all my players completely, I wouldn’t play with them otherwise. But that’s in part because the one I know the shortest I’ve know for almost 3 years via work, the one I’ve know the second shortest is actually wife. I basically got the people close to me to play D&D, rather than finding D&D people and getting close to them.

Edited by Silasw on May 19th 2022 at 8:01:32 PM

"And the Bunny nails it!" ~ Gabrael "If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we." ~ Cyran

And in the universe of the comic, they've been playing together for years at this point.

Episode 2154: Hugger-mugger

(Annoyed grunt)

Say whaaaaa...?

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

It is fairly realistic for that sort of badly worded plan to occur in real life and is a cause for I Just Shot Marvin in the Face as well as "Friendly fire isn't ". Choosing to delay until you evaluate the potential threat can (in real life, not D&D) risk not responding quickly enough. The "shooting test" in Men in Black is a good way to demonstrate how split-second decisions can cause people to mis-identify threats.

Link to TRS threads in project mode here.

Is that how it played out in the movie? Rey hugs Finn so she can whisper something without the others hearing?

(Annoyed grunt)

Eh, sort of? While they're hugging, Rey say thank you to Finn and then Finn asks how Rey escaped, to which Rey answer she can't explain it and he wouldn't believe her. So while they do talk while hugging, they didn't really try to keep the topic as a secret to others.

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memnarch's speculations are especially entertaining given all the wrong assumptions about how much (or little) the Irregulars have changed the characters' relationships from the movie. And they're so accurate about other plot beats, too. I really want to see a recap from them once this is all over and they have a chance to watch the films.

Episode 2155: Improv Theatre

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I wonder if "Not that you know of" is a hint towards somehow adapting Solo in the future.

That's an interesting thought. Is Solo on their list?

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

Don't think they've decided on it yet, but DMM did somewhat-jokingly mention in these two forum posts about including it as a flashback between the moment where Kylo stabs Han (or I guess Zeppo in this case?) and the moment where Han dies.

(Annoyed grunt)

Of course, we also seriously considered skipping directly from A New Hope to Return of the Jedi and doing the entirety of Empire Strikes Back as a flashback in between when Darth Vader says "I am your mother" and when Luke goes "Noooooo!!" So make of that what you will. :-)

What does this meeeeeaaaaan??? That doesn't logistically make sense in my mind. Unless I'm severely misremembering how they handled it, that exchange doesn't happen in Return of the Jedi, it still happens at the end of Empire Strikes Back.