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[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 30 points 19 hours ago

I like how if you dig into this, it boils down to "a 10 year old RPG sourcebook said this one Gran planet was cool and space communist"

[-] Frivolous_Beatnik@hexbear.net 17 points 17 hours ago

It's funny, because that entire RPG line (the Fantasy Flight Star Wars RPG) provided a lot of good material for worldbuilding obsessed nerds - it's often the only cited material for a lot of what you would think are important concepts (like socialism). They're usually cool about the socialist, labor rights, and liberation stuff in the setting, certainly more so than cringe didney stuff that makes "anarchists wot believe in nothing" central villains.

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 10 points 16 hours ago

FFG was making a lot of great SW tabletop stuff during the 2010s. I liked the X-Wing dogfight game quite a bit. Never had an RPG group during those years, but that sounds like a dope one!

They're usually cool about the socialist, labor rights, and liberation stuff in the setting, certainly more so than cringe didney stuff that makes "anarchists wot believe in nothing" central villains.

That's more on the Marvel side of Disney, right? Maybe I'm too live-slug-reaction soypoint-2 whenever Saw Gererra comes on the screen to realize you're supposed to think he's "too extreme" or whatever

[-] Frivolous_Beatnik@hexbear.net 4 points 15 hours ago

Oh that's not even getting into Saw! Check out his fallen order portrayal for that "too extreme doesnt care about anything" stuff. I meant these clowns https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Nihil

The RPG system is great though, possibly my favorite all around - fun mechanics, depth for people who want to get into it, and super accessible for new players.

Lots of resources online like https://star-wars-rpg-ffg.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars_RPG_(FFG)_Wiki

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 1 points 2 hours ago

I nearly forgot about his appearance in Fallen Order lol.

I meant these clowns https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Nihil

I'm a fake fan and never got into the High Republic stuff lol. Can you at least headcannon it as "these dorks are being viewed through the lens of the radical centrist Jedi order"?

[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 2 points 15 hours ago

His fallen order portrayal, his clone wars portrayal, his rogue one portrayal…

[-] Frivolous_Beatnik@hexbear.net 6 points 15 hours ago

He's cool in...Andor? At least not portrayed as a cartoonish "madman"

[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Andor is the best Star Wars. No other sw has had a character say “everyone is a liberal except me”

best star was convo

Luthen: Think of it. Think of Spellhaus in flames. Neither of you could do it on your own, but together-

Saw: Kreegyr’s a Separatist. Maya Pei’s a Neo-Republican. The Ghorman Front. The Partisan Alliance? Sectorists! Human cultists! Galaxy partitionists! They’re lost, all of them lost! Lost. What are you Luthen? I’ve never really known. What are you?

Luthen: I’m a coward. I’m a man who’s terrified the Empire’s power will grow beyond the point where we can do anything to stop it. I’m the one who says, “We’ll die with nothing if we don’t put aside our petty differences.”

Saw: Petty? I am the only one with clarity of purpose.

[-] Des@hexbear.net 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

god that show added a richness to Star Wars that i really didn't think was possible

maybe we'll have a genre in the distant FALGC future that's just like "treats of the past, but really well written and performed"

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 5 points 14 hours ago

Andor is the best Star Wars thing ever put to screen

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 17 points 18 hours ago

As is tradition with Wookieepedia.

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