Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is awesome and it ties in perfectly to the opening scene of Star Wars Episode 4, but it does unintentionally make a scene that f...
i used to play the old West End Star Wars tabletop RPG with friends as a teenager and Rouge One felt like one of our many games we set in the early Rebellion period
I GM a lot of the newer FFG SWRPG and my friends & I joked about it and the Mandalorian straight up stealing characters and setpieces from my campaigns lol
Edit: the early rebellion might be my favorite setting for the rpgs for the reasons I said above. It’s a lot of fun to play the no-glamour no-glory agents of the revolution ngl.
thought the same about Rouge One and a bit of Andor!
best campaign i ever did, just 1 on 1 with my good friend, was him raising a single rebel cell on a isolated and heavily exploited planet (similiar to the Scottish Highlands bank robbing world from Andor) .
then going to a general uprising, destruction of the Imperial garrison, and him betraying the entire movement, looting anything not tied down including a CR90, and escaping to become an asshole capitalist.
i let him drive the whole plot we just did it as a sandbox it was fun as hell. all took place in the first years of the Rebellion
i used to play the old West End Star Wars tabletop RPG with friends as a teenager and Rouge One felt like one of our many games we set in the early Rebellion period
I GM a lot of the newer FFG SWRPG and my friends & I joked about it and the Mandalorian straight up stealing characters and setpieces from my campaigns lol
Edit: the early rebellion might be my favorite setting for the rpgs for the reasons I said above. It’s a lot of fun to play the no-glamour no-glory agents of the revolution ngl.
thought the same about Rouge One and a bit of Andor!
best campaign i ever did, just 1 on 1 with my good friend, was him raising a single rebel cell on a isolated and heavily exploited planet (similiar to the Scottish Highlands bank robbing world from Andor) .
then going to a general uprising, destruction of the Imperial garrison, and him betraying the entire movement, looting anything not tied down including a CR90, and escaping to become an asshole capitalist.
i let him drive the whole plot we just did it as a sandbox it was fun as hell. all took place in the first years of the Rebellion