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Plays Qui-Gon Jinn, Anakin for about two strips, and later Padme, then Captain Antilles [[hottip:*:<ref>He also played [[Dark Forces Saga|Kyle Katarn]]</ref> in a campaign between ''Episodes III'' and ''IV''.

* [[Character Derailment]]: In-universe. His handling of Padme is completely different from how the GM did it.

{{quote| '''Owen:''' Yes. They used to be a peaceful, meditative race, until about ten years ago, when they mysteriously acquired weapons and started shooting at pod races. They began terrorising town dwellers, claiming some sort of broken promise. They've descended into barbarism.<br />

{{quote| '''Pete:''' Roleplaying is his downtime. He likes to turn his brain off.}}

An old roleplaying buddy of Jim's. Ben is often the voice of reason, and tries his best to rein Jim in. He's rather more focused on the role-playing than Jim--heJim—he's one of the few participants to distinguish between in-character knowledge and out-of-character knowledge, and he's even taking drama classes to help with improv. He's also very good at thinking his way around the GM's setting and rules. He has a habit of pointing out the flaws in the setting. He studies medicine outside the campaign, if only it's because his father wants him to. After his sister Sally confronts him over this in ''Episode III'', he goes away to rethink his life, and doesn't return until two years later during ''Episode IV''.

* [[Put Onon a Bus]]: He's nowhere to be seen at the start of ''Episode IV''.

* [[Walking the Earth]]: Or something to that effect. It turns out Ben disappeared in the time between Episode III and IV to find himself. Only he forgot to really keep in contact, so everyone thought the worst, especially Sally.

Ben's younger sister. Initially she only tagged along with Ben because her parents couldn't afford a babysitter that night, so the GM worked her into the game, and she ended up enjoying it far more than anyone expected and sticking around for the rest of the campaign. She's also wildly imaginative and not afraid to contribute to the world-building--manybuilding—many of the stranger aspects of the prequel trilogy were her contributions.

* [[The Atoner]]: As Mace Windu, she [[Random Number God|accidentally]] [[Off Withwith His Head|killed off]] Jango Fett. Mace spends the rest of the arena battle in a remorseful daze.

* [[Rescued Fromfrom the Scrappy Heap]]: [[Invoked Trope|Intentionally]]. Sally made Jar-Jar likable in the series. It got so good, Jim said "Jar-Jar, you're a genius," and it was perfectly believable.

An old friend of Jim's. Pete tries to abuse the system as much as possible - for example, he designed his character as short, armless, and unintelligible so he could get advantages elsewhere. Spent most of ''Episode II'' bitter about [[The Princess Bride (Filmfilm)|a low-fantasy campaign]] that he, Jim, and Ben played during the first [[Time Skip]].

* [[Bathe Her and Bring Her Toto Me]]: Inverted. He requests that he be cleaned and oiled by the Queen's most beautiful handmaiden as a reward for saving the ship.

{{quote| '''Ben:''' Wait, Pete, when did you decide to be evil? [[[Beat Panel]]] I can't believe I even said that.}}

{{quote| '''Pete:''' Look, I cajole dice, I beg them, I even punish them. But never in my life have I ''manipulated'' them.}}

* [[Min -Maxing]]/[[Munchkin]]

An initial non-gamer and thespian. She met Ben through drama class, and he introduced her to the role-playing group. She initially saw the sessions as acting opportunities (and she provided a humorous outsider's perspective on the usual PC behavior), but she is getting the hang of the combat simulations. She clearly has a lot of fun collaborating with the GM on her characters' backstories, and playing the parts for all the angst she can. Has been dating Jim since the end of ''Episode II''. Ran her own [[Van Helsing|supernatural]] [[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|campaign]] during the second [[Time Skip]], but the other players didn't take to it and it strained her relationship with Jim during ''Episode III''. However, the two work out their differences.

* [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?|Did You Just Airquote Darth Vader?]]: ''Twice''!

* [[Rules Lawyer]]: One of her [[Darths and Droids (Webcomic)/Awesome|best moments]] involves her {{spoiler|1=outdoing Pete at his own game and using this to hamstring his railroading during his GM tenure.}}

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Trust me."

* [[Bratty Half -Pint]]

{{quote| '''Ben (as Obi-Wan):''' Let me explain from the beginning. You know your name isn't really Adam?<br />

* [[Like Father, Like Son|Like Uncle, Like Nephew]]: Started out as [[Munchkin|a mini-Pete]] of sorts, except he was interested in a different kind of games; it even got [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0702.html lampshaded by the GM]. However, he seems to grow into...

{{quote| '''Palpatine:''' In the wrong hands, [the Death Star] could be... disastrous.<br />

'''Anakin:''' But in the right hands?<br />

{{quote| '''Ben''': He had a nervous twitch fighting living targets. He ''never'' hit.}}

* [[Cassandra Truth]]: [[Playing Withwith a Trope|Played with]]. {{spoiler|He's right about the Peace Moon being a weapon, but Palpatine only built it as a deterrent and did not intend to use it...initially.}}

* [[Man in Thethe Machine]]

* [[Bad Boss]]: Instructs his subordinates to execute themselves should they prove to be incompetent.

* [[Dragon Withwith an Agenda]]: Set up as one before ''Episode III'' ended.

* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: This one orders subordinates to execute themselves. According to Motti, he does it so often that they had to replace half the workforce during construction of the Peace Moon, putting its completion years behind schedule.