http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0001.html

This is a great example of Star Wars RPG gameplay, though its D20 based, its still a good laugh, enjoy everybody!

I found this on some other thread earlier today and read the whole thing. Having run countless Star Wars rpgs and played in a few, I found it both totally hilarious and completely accurate.

I used to read that web comic as it updated. I had more than a few players in my time who would "know" an NPC was evil for something as small as they had a beard (even if their PC had one too). For whatever reason I stopped shortly after they got to the original trilogy. The same people have a previous one that's based on Lord of the Rings, though I can't remember the name of it.

My impression was that the "game" being played is based on a generic system, something more like GURPS. Then again, I'm not familiar with GURPS so it may be similar to D20 or I could be wrong completely.

It's a series of system-agnostic jokes based on general role-playing tropes not necessarily specific to a Star Wars setting. They do reference D&D quite a bit, but the "mechanics" seem just thrown in ad-hoc to serve the necessities of each specific comic. Though, they do draw heavily from D&D/d20 systems in that area also.

I'm especially a fan of the "10-foot laser pole" referenced a few times. The 10-foot pole was my favorite item in 3.0/3.5 D&D. In the Living Greyhawk campaign, there was a reward card that gave you the special ability once per session to pull an item off the equipment list under a certain gold value essentially out of nowhere. It was supposed to represent something you brought with you but had forgotten about until you needed it or something like that but, of course, I would always pull out a 10-foot pole so others would be forced to speculate as to where that came from. Well, right up until I purchased a Bag of Holding anyway. It was a lot less funny after that.

I used to read that web comic as it updated. I had more than a few players in my time who would "know" an NPC was evil for something as small as they had a beard (even if their PC had one too). For whatever reason I stopped shortly after they got to the original trilogy. The same people have a previous one that's based on Lord of the Rings, though I can't remember the name of it.

My impression was that the "game" being played is based on a generic system, something more like GURPS. Then again, I'm not familiar with GURPS so it may be similar to D20 or I could be wrong completely.

DM of the Rings as I recall they explained the Hobbits players left to play MechWarrior!

It is the ONLY reason I can now enjoy jar jar in small doses. Played by the kid sister...brilliant.

It is the ONLY reason I can now enjoy jar jar in small doses. Played by the kid sister...brilliant.

It is the best explanation of Jar Jar! lol!

How about all of us asking FFG to include a new force power…Summon Bigger Fish. LOL!

This has already eaten about three hours of my day today. It's the first time that anything prequel related has made me smile in a long, long time.

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