Darths & Droids/Fridge

Fridge Brilliance

 * I just realized; in Darths and Droids Qui-Gon Jinn is played by Jim. Qui-Gon/Jim. --Enlong
 * Also, Obi-Wan is played by Ben, and Anakin by Annie.
 * Thinking about both this and DM of the Rings, it's clear that while the latter is the result of a railroading GM trying to assume total control of the campaign, Darths and Droids is the result of a GM who just rolls with all the craziness that comes up and makes it work within his plans. If you think about it, this is perfectly in line with the settings' canonical villains. Sauron has his plan that depends on the enemy doing what he thinks they should--use the ring against him; it's thwarted when events transpire as he didn't expect, i.e., when it goes off the rails. Palpatine, however, is a master of Xanatos Speed Chess, and like that comic's GM, he just takes whatever happens in stride and makes it work for him instead of trying to stick to one plan. - User:Mr Death
 * Before they started Episode 4, apparently they played Dark Forces, which is set right before Episode 4.
 * Jim is currently on his third doomed character (Raymus Antilles), this one with the shortest shelf-life so far. At this pace, he's probably going to be playing Owen and Biggs in this campaign, and start as Dack in the next one.
 * Worse: Padme apparently started a trend of his character dying in every session he participated in. Raymus Antilles was his sixth doomed character (four times in four sessions+Padme+Qui-Gon).
 * Jim is working on Greedo now, which would seem to rule out Owen.
 * Anakin becoming Vader may have been privately handled between the GM and Annie (which means she already knows she's now playing Anakin's daughter), but new player Corey is the only one at the table who doesn't know that Anakin's son was given to the Larses. Playing Adam!Luke, he is going to be completely surprised and confused by the "I Am Your Father" revelation, just like Luke was in the movie.
 * Regardless of Ben's current status (med school, out of town, dead, et cet...) Obi-Wan's absence at the beginning of Episode 4 is quite necessary for the GM to keep the game balanced. Jim & Annie are both on new characters, Corey is completely new to the entire game, and Sally doesn't level up much since 3PO does almost nothing. Obi-Wan, on the other hand, is vastly overleveled. (So is R2, but Pete's saved by the fact that he has nothing but mechanical skills.) Obi-Wan's death later will illustrate that further; after all, once he appears in A New Hope, Obi-Wan is far too powerful for anyone but Vader to even pose a threat.
 * In episode 706, at first I look at the joke and blurb and think that yeah, it's a decent joke on reverse psychology. But I started wondering why the GM would allow it to affect the in game characters, since it looks like a pretty basic manipulation of the new guy. Then I realized: Due to the wording that the GM used for the restraining bolt, it's completely plausible that Pete's character would ask for the bolt to never be removed. It makes complete sense for R2 to have said that, given the bolt's effect on him. Well played on Pete's part.
 * I just realized some fridge brilliance. "Adam Lars" has Survival: Snow, Forest, Desert, and Swamp. Obviously anyone who has seen the movies knows that, he will be visiting a snow planet(Hoth), a swamp planet(Dagobah), a forest moon(The Forest Moon of Endor), and obviously he's on a desert planet(Tatooine). But even more so, is that on Hoth, he'll almost freeze to death, he'll have to live in a swamp for a bit, and he will be fighting a huge battle in a giant forest. Talk about epic foreshadowing.
 * Sally. When she was first introduced she was just a Tagalong Kid. Ben brought her for no other reason than because their parents couldn't find a sitter. The group included her in the game so she wouldn't be bored. Despite some friction between big brother Ben and sometimes with the GM, she was welcomed warmly and accepted in the group without much hassle. Then comes the A New Hope campaign. Ben has been, yet Sally is still coming to the games on her own. Most would call this a foregone conclusion since Sally's a main character, but it also demonstrates that Sally has gone from the kid they couldn't leave behind to one of the True Companions.
 * This also justifies the introduction of Corey, who has essentially taken Sally's old role of the group kid.
 * While the movie series is an obvious choice for an epic game, it's actually better suited than many people could realise. The four movies written by Lucas have a lot of battles or fight scenes that could easily be random encounters since they could easily be cut out without losing anything in the plot, like Han and Luke shooting down the Tie Fighters that come after them when they escape the Death Star. The Star Wars movies are probably the best setting for a DM of the Rings inspired webcomic.