1 hour ago, Nytwyng said:Just finished Thrawn: Treason . Almost entirely Imperial protagonists. And not a mustache twirling villain in sight (save for a few brief appearances by the Emperor, Tarkin, and Krennick).
They’re military personnel performing standard military duty. While some of those more...extreme...personalities clearly rise to the top, most are just average people. I’d say there’s nothing inherently difficult about an Imperial campaign, and it doesn’t have to inevitably lead to the characters having to acknowledge the evil they’re helping carry out.
It's not hard at all to play that way. Morality doesn't even have to be a thing to begin with. It's a galactic civil war, the guys in uniform don't care about some philosophical war debate, they're fighting to stay alive. If you do want to talk morality, you can show off the good things the Empire does, or even have the players working with reformers on the inside or doing it themselves, people who acknowledge the Imperial system ain't great but it's not totally awful and it can get better. Acknowledging the Empire's flaws doesn't mean you want to join their enemies and destroy it.
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