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Oct 3, 2012 -- 12:37PM, RobShanti wrote:

Yes...what happened to the Eve of Destruction project?  Is that still in production or did the design team finish all the modules?

I moved to Florida and started graduate school and Jedi_Unleashed ended up doing the whole thing by himself.  The campaign's development didn't progress beyond module 5.  I've been planning on picking it back up and finishing it, but haven't had the time to do so.  Maybe after this semester is over (and I'll finally be done with the masters programs), I'll be able to spend some time on the project.  I started a group page in anticipation of keeping it a community project, but haven't done much with it since.

This is more of the Universe that a string of campaigns have been in, rather than the story itself. My players enjoy a bit of sandboxing with their adventures, so I always encourage them setting out on personal goals, I enjoy the challenge of improv. Well here is how they have written the history in star wars

It is important to note, that for some of these, a critical hit and fumble table was being used. If they(or their enemies) rolled a natural 20 they would roll the percentile dice, and get an added affect. Anywhere from x2 Damage to an instant kill.

The team consisted of a Force Focusing Jedi, a Lightsaber Focusing Jedi, a Alcoholic Zabrak who was deadply with a Sniper Rifle, a Scout named Shepard with Multiple Personalities(the second had a russian accent and had to try and sleep with every woman he saw), and their NPC ally Leonhem an information broker who worked out of the bar "The Spanking Monkey" on Coruscant.

0.Set during the Clone Wars, Ill skip some of the smaller things like when they saved Obiwan, and Leonhem managed to find and pilfer his lightsaber.
1.The Scout Shepard considered himself Mandalorian, and wanted to go to Mandalore and get traditional Armor. Since the Warriors had been exiled to the moon Concordia, he went there instead. After asking to obtain armor, he was asked to prove himself in combat. He fought in an arena by himself, where he bested several droids, then manalorian warriors, and finally (with the aid of Leonhem) several Nexu. After watching him fight, Mandalore wished to fight himself.

Now I had planned for Shepard to lose, Mandalore to help him up, tell him it was an honor and give him his armor. Not what happened.

Mandalore says he will allow Shepard to have the first strike, he rolls a natural 20. Then rolls a instant kill via throat sliceing. Mandalore falls, and the arena falls in silence. After some proding from Leonhem, Shepard picks up his helmet, lifts it into the air and shouts his battle cry "KRAV MAGA!" And by defeating the previous Mandalore, becomes Mandalore himself.
After deciding that he wanted his new found subjects to return to their home, he chose to meet with the Dutchess and negotiate terms (which was actually a secret plan to assasinate her and take over) Instead, he seduces her successfully, then asks her to marry him. And through their marriage he gains a form of control over all Mandalore, and brings the warriors back to the surface.

2.Later Count Dooku was assaulted at his house only a few days before the battle above coruscant. He had a Million Credit bounty alive on his head, and half as much dead. He bested a lowly jedi knight in battles, but was then critically wounded from a sniper shot from a Alcoholic Zabrak Sniper(with a bounty hunting license). This was of course after being severed from the Force.

3.While the crew of the Aluminum Dingo made their escape, 1 critical failure caused their guns to apparently shoot their own landing gear, and a second caused the ship to crash in a forest on Sereno, breaking apart in 3 pieces and separating the crew. When they destroyed the droid forces giving chase, they attempted to trick a separatist ship in orbit to send down a shuttle to pick them up so they could hijack it. Their deception was not good enough, and a shuttle was sent down, but with General Grievous in tow. Due to the amount of damage they had already sustained from the crash, and barely defeating the droids, they chose to simply give up Dooku instead. The Zabrak did not just want to simply give up his big pay day, so he took a shot at Grevious, on a natural 20 and very high damage rolls, managed to take him down to exactly 1 Hp, forcing his retreat.

4.During the battle of Coruscant, Dooku had apparently created a clone of himself to try and fool Sidious (the one Obiwan and Anakin fought), while the real dooku was fought by the heroes. They killed him, and turned his body in for the bounty. They also used the controls aboard the separatist ship, to order a shut down of all droids on board, and captured the capital ship, taking it back to Mandalore as the begining of a Mandalorian fleet. Then one of the Jedi went with the Zabrak to Utapau to collect the bounty on Grevious, they tagged along with Obiwan. While the rest of the heroes hunted down DeathWatch, killed their leader and took his darksaber.

5.On Utapau, the Zabrak finished what he started by criting grevious with one shot before Obiwan and the Jedi could reach him, killing him. Obiwan simply looked at the body, then the zabrak, then the body before saying "So uncivilized." Zabrak later collected the half million credit bounty for killing grevious as well.

6.Before Order 66 went down, the heroes met back up on Corucant, and brought several highly trained Mandalorian soldiers with them, and saw the three Star Destroyers in orbit and the Temple in flames.

Now another important thing to know is that I encourage my players to be clever. If I say something, I stick to it if I can, no matter what. So if they can find a way to use what I said to their advantage, I allow it and award a little exp for using their heads. Well in this case they asked how many troops might be on board the star destroyers, and with out thinking I said "Probably just a skeleton crew to maintain the bridge"

Instead of going to save the Jedi, they took shuttles onboard two of the Star Destroyers (Mandalorians went to one, the heroes to the other). And Easily made their way to the bridge, where they killed the crew and captured both ships, though not before the 3rd ship was notified, so they cut their losses and Hyperspaced back to Mandalore

I would love to see your Crit/Fumble Charts honestly.  It sounds like it was a very enjoyable campaign(s).

Nov 26, 2012 -- 10:07PM, Mickale wrote:

Well they were all just a bunch of friends wanting to have a good time. So there were alot of laughs. I dont think I am the best GM but if I can keep my players happy and entertained I am content that Im doing something right.
Good moment was when Feln, the midget, lost his legs

The whole point of RPing is to have fun.  If you can keep players happy and entertained, that means you've done a pretty good job.

Nov 27, 2012 -- 12:13AM, Mickale wrote:

Playing Star Wars RPG in the basement of a building called The Dragons Cup, drinking a smoothie called Merlin's Beard. Doesnt get much more fun then that.

Merlin's Beard does not sound like an appetising flavor honestly.  Interesting, but Beard flavor doesn't sound all that great.  The rest of that sounds like fun though.

I'd love to see your Crit/Fumble Charts sometime.