Random Star Wars Thoughts

[Darth Logos]

He just felt like looking like a bad ass....That's what I would do!

Golden Rule of the of outlaw society: "Do unto others, before others do unto you."

I hated that they tried to soften Han that way. NTM how the ^%$& do you miss when the target is literally 3 feet from the muzzle of your blaster? Honestly, can anyone tell me how Greedo lasted that long shooting that poorly?

[JEStucker]

Golden Rule of the of outlaw society: "Do unto others, before others do unto you."

I hated that they tried to soften Han that way. NTM how the ^%$& do you miss when the target is literally 3 feet from the muzzle of your blaster? Honestly, can anyone tell me how Greedo lasted that long shooting that poorly?

Greedo was a stormtrooper?

[Darth Logos]

Greedo was a stormtrooper?

Word. But stormtroopers don't last long.

"A stormtrooper and a "red-shirt" get into a fire fight. The stormtrooper misses every shot, the "red-shirt" dies any way."

[B1ondeange1]

Just gonna leave this here as well....

Saber Forum Role Playing Games

As some may have realised I've recently been promoted to GM I am working to help tidy up the RP forums, get Training and Probation (T and P, the forum where new players start their RPing to learn how we do it here and what is expected) moving again and recruit new players into our T and P and then into the main RPs. Our TOR era RP is currently at a standstill but our GCW era RP which I administer is running though it has been quiet over the holiday period.

I am looking for input from both seasoned, new and prospective players as to the direction we want to take in the RPs in 2015. If you are interested in RPing please feel free to head over to the below thread and leave your comments and opinions. I am also looking for expressions of interest in joining the T and P when I get it going again (please PM me).

2015 RP Direction- All Players (Old, New and Prospective) Please Read

[B1ondeange1]

In addition to my early post regarding the RPs on Saber Forum, I am looking at starting a new training and probation RP game in the very near future so we can get new players into GCW RP. If you are interested in joining the GCW era RP and you have not played in either TOR Reboot or new GCW (before I took it over), then please check this new training RP out.


Venomstrike II OOC Discussion

[Master Rel]

[Master Rel]

Just gonna leave this here as well....

Saber Forum Role Playing Games

As some may have realised I've recently been promoted to GM I am working to help tidy up the RP forums, get Training and Probation (T and P, the forum where new players start their RPing to learn how we do it here and what is expected) moving again and recruit new players into our T and P and then into the main RPs. Our TOR era RP is currently at a standstill but our GCW era RP which I administer is running though it has been quiet over the holiday period.

I am looking for input from both seasoned, new and prospective players as to the direction we want to take in the RPs in 2015. If you are interested in RPing please feel free to head over to the below thread and leave your comments and opinions. I am also looking for expressions of interest in joining the T and P when I get it going again (please PM me).

2015 RP Direction- All Players (Old, New and Prospective) Please Read

...a deserved promotion!

[Darth Logos]

...wait...no...it's gone

[B1ondeange1]

I shall revive this old thread:

Hey everyone!

Just letting you all know that we are finally getting the TOR Era RPG up and running again! For those of you who are interested, check our the discussion so far here: http://www.saberforum.com/index.php?topic=24172.0

All new players to the Saberforum RPGs have to go through training and probation (T and P) first. We are currently looking for new players to join the TOR T and P game, which will be a training scenario on Tython where all players are Jedi Padawans- sorry, we don't have the numbers or time to run a Sith one at the moment, but we still encourage you to create a Sith character if you chose to after you have been graduated!

As the current mission in the GCW era T and P RPG is drawing to a close, we will soon be able to take new players into that as well. In this RPG we are a band of pirates aboard a small transport, the Venomstrike II.

For more information on the RPGs here head to this link: http://www.saberforum.com/index.php?topic=23947.msg361071#msg361071. From here you should be able to find all the information you need to get started.

Any questions, or if you wish to join, please PM Krace and myself.

Thanks!

[Darth Logos]

I think I finally remembered what I was going to say.

Recalling key lines of dialogue from Ep I while also reading Darth Plagueis, I started to realize the huge story telling error in the SW universe.

In the Council Chamber Ki Adi Mundi states, "The Sith have been extinct for a millenium." This is true and doesn't bug me.

But later on at Qui-Gon's funeral, between Mace and Yoda, Yoda says, "Always two there are. No more, no less. A master, and an apprentice."

At this time, Yoda is just over 860 years old. So he would be the oldest living Jedi in the galaxy at this time. Bane reformatted the Sith Order under the Rule of Two almost 150 years before Yoda was born, and opted to keep his little operation a secret.

SO HOW THE HELL CAN THE JEDI KNOW ABOUT THE RULE OF TWO WHEN THEY THINK THAT THE SITH ARE EXTINCT?

The fekkin Chewbacca Defence makes more sense.

[Noctis]

I think there is so much lore out there that the authors literally forget pieces of it.  I can't tell you how many times I've found giant, gaping plot holes in the books, but it doesn't really bother me all that much.  In general, canon seems somewhat fluid as far flexibility goes, which is fine with me.  I know quite a few friends of mine who aren't as into SW as they would like to be because they feel like the sheer volume of history is just too staggering to wade though. 

I disagree.  I think that's the fun part!  But I do tend to shrug off a lot of inconsistencies.

[Darth Logos]

I think there is so much lore out there that the authors literally forget pieces of it.  I can't tell you how many times I've found giant, gaping plot holes in the books, but it doesn't really bother me all that much.  In general, canon seems somewhat fluid as far flexibility goes, which is fine with me.  I know quite a few friends of mine who aren't as into SW as they would like to be because they feel like the sheer volume of history is just too staggering to wade though. 

I disagree.  I think that's the fun part!  But I do tend to shrug off a lot of inconsistencies.

<snickers> You said "gaping...holes."

I'm with you on the discovery part though. I won't spoil it if you haven't read Darth Plagueis, but I'm learning all kinds of things. And I know that there was plenty that already existed before the author wrote this, but I'll gladly accept new canon fodder if it's told well. I also know (at least I think I know) that the Bane trilogy came out post Prequels, so I'll grant a little leniancy if there was no precident of basis (like from comics) predating the making of the prequels. It's like, we'll hint at it because the hard canon hasn't been established yet. It just rubs me as bad story telling, and I hate that. And it's also just one more thing that makes the prequels suck.

[Drahcir]

I always just assumed we didn't know the whole story, rather than it being an inconsistency.

[Darth Logos]

I always just assumed we didn't know the whole story, rather than it being an inconsistency.

That is one of the beautiful things about a ficticious history. One story can hint at it, and another can tell it. Like doubtless some creative genius has taken the line, "Your ship?!? Remember, you lost her to me fair and square." I'm 99.999% certain that Lando was an EpV original character, so therefore there would be no reference to him in the EU before hand. But it opens up endless possiblities as to the story of how it did go down.

Another thing I like about not having everything etched in stone is a good stry teller can work some epic magic if they're creative enough to find the proper holes. For instance (not to toot my own horn) the story I want to write about Darth Logos is going to make reference to Force techniques that (at least I) have never come up. Many will feel that it would be bad story telling to drop in new abilities in a TOR era story. But I have a solution to this. If the character didn't share his abilities to keep a hand up on his rivals, and never recorded them in a holocron, then they begin and "end" with him, but still remain open for future stories to be inspired, by having their characters "develop" these same techniques on their own.

However, I will admit that trying to keep track of new stroies in the past and the future (and whatever you consider the present)[even though technically it all happened "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..."].

[Noctis]

I always just assumed we didn't know the whole story, rather than it being an inconsistency.

That's pretty much what I meant, really.   As a fiction writer myself, I think it's kind of hilarious that fans will bang their fist on the table and be like, "BUT CANON SAYS!!!"

Canon . . . is still fiction.  It's all fiction.     It's so silly that people try to dictate the reality . . . of fiction. The fun part of fiction is that it's so flexible.