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** And in that universe, David uses his ideas for ''Notes and Nazis,'' and in that one, for ''Mutants and Miscreants'', and so on.

 

While most of the characters can be called the [[Meta Guy]], Pete refers explicitly to tropes and such with his drinking game. On top of that, he doesn't seem to really care anything at all about the actual story of the game, only his own character that he can control. The reason: he went too far into the infosphere of the tv tropes wiki, ruining any storyline in any medium for him forever. That's why he's a Munchkin- it doesn't require anything plot-wise and he doesn't have to care about the story. It's also why he's a big old jerk who doesn't like to play along with anyone's story plans.

 

* I third this one. The GM even seems a bit to be grooming Sally for the role, making a point of having her do the "set design" for Kamino.

* I fourth this one but because it seems in universe time has passed just as time between movies does, and having Sally GM for the current players kids (except Pete on R2),

* Sixth-ing this, or some form of it any way (timeskip with maybe new players and an old standby). It's a cool DM trick to pull out really old characters, especially when they're -your- (or someone you know) character; it makes them that much more heroic. The current cast is pretty much playing characters with a vastly reduced role in the original three movies; they show up, look cool, and go away again (or they're dead). Having new kids of the old cast would make for one heck of "Luke, I am your father" meta-game moment (though may be too dark for the strip). At any rate (as that's unlikely), looking at them... Anakin, Padme, Obi, Yoda, R2. Anakin becomes Darth; given the strips real life events, this is predicated by the as-yet unnamed conflict between Anne and Jim. Given what we know of the movies, at some point, Obi and Ana fight and both of their characters die (or go away at any rate). This would be Jim and Anne breaking up poorly. Come the big reveal in the original trilogy and the very emotional moment between Luke (who would suit Jim) and Vader, Anne surprises the group by showing up that session and reconciling with Jim. Han, Chewie, R2, Leia, C3, and Lando... Han and Leia are -Pete- and Sally. Ben becomes Chewie and the droids. R2 in the original is much less munchkin-y whereas Han is basically a no-name smuggler who somehow manages to hang with powerful people and thumb his nose at both rebels and empire. And he has a cool ship - one can see Pete getting a sidekick and such for being 'normal'. Or him just growing up. And then Sally could have a 'She grew up moment'. Though on the other hand, if Ben is Luke and Sally is Leia, then the 'He's my brother!' moment could be funny. ARGH!

* I'm going to go out on a limb and call bullshit on the "Sally will be GM" theory. It simply doesn't make sense. Consider the imagination shown by Sally in designing characters, races and planets for the prequel trilogy. Now consider the fact that basically every world visited by the characters in the original trilogy are single biome planets. Unless Sally undergoes some serious character decay (which seems incredibly unlikely given that her imagination is running strong at this point of the story), then the original GM will remain. Sally will continue with her current role of designing characters and creatures and adding variety to the maps created by the GM.

 

== During the escape from the Invisible Hand, Sally will temporarily take over Palpatine ==

 

== Jim isn't coming back ==

* Sally may change characters a lot because she is prone to do so.

* Chewie will be an NPC thrown in that Sally makes up when Han first appears.

* Has Anakin's last name even been revealed in the comic? There's no way to avoid not showing the end of Episode III's "Anakin Becomes Vader"... but the reveal is that Darth Vader is Anakin ''Skywalker''.

 

 

== To repeat from the above: Ben will be Luke. ==

 

Also, at complete random, I'm guessing Pete will be Lando.

 

== Annie will play Vader again after [[The Reveal]] ==

 

== Nobody except Pete will be sticking with the same character throughout the game ==

 

== Jim becomes a muchkin (though not as bad as Pete) through the end of Episode 2 and the middle of Episode 3, and then sacrifices Padme to undo his callousness. ==

 

== Mace Windu was going to be boring... Until Sally makes him a [[Badass]]. ==

* The expospeak probably will be epic, since the establishment of the Empire happened ''between'' campaigns (when last we saw Palpatine, he had just appointed Darth Vader Supreme Commander of the ''Republic'' Military. When Episode IV begins, Darth Vader works for an Empire opposed by a Rebel Alliance...).

 

* Seeing how the GM plays Palpatine as a [[Reasonable Authority Figure]] (which is in fact quite reasonable to assume from the first two movies if you watch them in chronological order), he may decide he was evil all along after the players dispose of his other villains quicker than he anticipated. My guess is that Mace and Anakin beheading Jango and Dooku respectively were [[Off the Rails]] events with both dying earlier than the GM intended, and the Grievous arc was also supposed to drag much longer. So he ran out of villains and decided and decided to pull a retroactive twist on one of the good guys.

** Actually, if you pay close attention, you can see that the Separatists - particularly Count Dooku, know Palpatine is an evil Sith lord and that's why they want to rebel against the Republic. Dooku's been ''trying'' to tell the PCs for several weeks now, they just won't listen.

 

== Anakin becomes Vader... but none of the the players know it. ==

 

== Anakin becomes Vader... but ''Vader'' doesn't know it. ==

 

== Annie is dating the GM. ==

 

== Jim and Annie will date for a while between Episode II and III, but will break up shortly before the new campaign begins. ==

 

== ''[[Record of Lodoss War]]'' will be mentioned at some point. ==

 

== Pete usurped the substitute GM position. ==

== Luke Kenobi ==

* Here's how it goes: In-game, Obi-Wan and Padme had an affair, and she got pregnant. This is what caused Anakin to kill her, which in turn causes Obi-Wan to kill ''him'' (yes, he dies in the [[Lethal Lava Land|volcanic planet]]). Cut to the future, Obi-Wan and his son, Luke, live in Mad-Max world. They may live with the Skywalkers due to Obi-Wan's [[My Greatest Failure|guilt for failing to raise Anakin properly and eventually killing him]], but they may just never call their roommates' names. And Obi-Wan isn't hiding or anything, he just happened to have been contemplating life in the desert when R2 arrived, and has a very good relationship with his son, which goes sour when said son decides to become a Jedi. And Leia is '''not''' Luke's sister, though she may well be an ex or something.