Darths & Droids

[Jayngfet]

I'd vote for him again. Four more years, four more years!

[SirSigfried]

Why do I get the feeling that Valorum's next line is going to be as follows.

"Resistance is Futile."

[Jayngfet]

Hmm, I wonder if they're going to do the clone wars?

[T-O-E]

I wonder how they'll handle the other movies.

[Kurald Galain]

Hmm, I wonder if they're going to do the clone wars?

IIRC the intent is to cover all six movies, chronologically.

(and, presumably, with some new players later on)

[Knaight]

Well, they are going to need new players. Currently they have Sally(Jar-Jar), Annie(Anakin), Ben(Obi-Wan), Pete(R2), and Jim(Qui-gon)

But later they are going to need R2(Pete), Luke(Ben), C3PO, Han(Jim), Chewie(Sally), and Leia(Annie), meaning that they need 1 more person. Of course the people are guessing.

[Kurald Galain]

Of course the people are guessing.

I would guess differently. For instance, Sally could feasibly grow up in the meantime.

But since all the characters are flat stereotypes, it doesn't really matter how you divide them.

[Winterwind]

Also, it's quite possible that some character or other turns out to be an NPC tagging along with the PCs, or maybe a cohort or something of that sort. Not saying I think it will turn out this way, but it's a possibility.

[Gez]

If Ben becomes Luke, then Sally would become Leia. For the whole "I always knew you were my brother" thing in ROTJ. (Plus, what little girl doesn't want to be a princess?)

[Knaight]

Maybe, but Jim is probably going to take Han, leaving C3PO and Chewie, and Annie is the roleplayer, who is somewhat less likely to end up in either of these roles. That said I could see Sally taking 3PO.

Also new favorite line "Remedial course in Jedi ethics you need".

[SmartAlec]

"Master, if only you didn't keep randomly looting and killing, you would BE on the Council!"

I'll be amused if the citizens whom Qui-Gon sold all those blasters to in order to raise betting money eventually become Jabba's gang.

[Winterwind]

Now that I think about it, I could see Chewie ending up as not a proper character but a class feature instead... Han's Animal Companion.

Or Pete arrives at the conclusion (presumably, through some fairly hilarious event) that not being able to communicate is a bigger disadvantage than he thought, and tries to buy it away, with C-3PO being the in-game representation of the experience points Pete invests to get rid of said disadvantage.

[Adumbration]

Or Pete arrives at the conclusion (presumably, through some fairly hilarious event) that not being able to communicate is a bigger disadvantage than he thought, and tries to buy it away, with C-3PO being the in-game representation of the experience points Pete invests to get rid of said disadvantage.

Maybe he takes something along the lines of Obtain *familiar*? Anyway, it's good to know that there's still so much material they will use. It's good to have a regular, long-term webcomic.

[CarpeGuitarrem]

We interrupt this discussion to give you my opinion on the latest comic.

That was entertaining. Reality finally hits. When I DM the first time around, if there's any sort of overseeing organization around, I will ensure that a scene like that happens. "So...you systematically destroyed two entire villages...looted a government official's house...had...negotiations...with his ambassador..."

"Aggressive negotiations!"

[T-O-E]

Speculation: The Dm's a young George Lucas. Either that or his name's George.

Plus, imagine if Darths and Droids jumped the shark as soon as they reached "A new hope".

[Evil DM Mark3]

I must say, this makes more sense that the canon in places...

[Turcano]

I must say, this makes more sense that the canon in places...

Not like that's hard or anything.

[Jayngfet]

Not like that's hard or anything.

They really did try that in the expanded universe, it didn't turn out well.

[T-O-E]

I can see Han Solo's character (Probably Jim) "dying" in The Empire Strikes Back after being frozen in carbonite and then not wanting to re-roll, instead chooses to take over the character of Lando.

[Evil DM Mark3]

Chocolate dice...

[T-O-E]

How many comics can be made out of the entire series?

[DraPrime]

A lot. And this explains so much about Qui Gon's player.

[Evil DM Mark3]

How many comics can be made out of the entire series?

I dunno, how far into the film are they? Half way? That is about an hour in. 143 strips so far so that is about 2.4 strips per minute. The films have a total running time of 790 minutes. So that would be 1896 strips. Of course that is based on the ever erroneous "if current trends continue." Never the less it is quite possible that web comic could go for 1600-2000 strips. That is more than a decade at the rate of 3 strips a week, 12 years at the top end of the range.

[Storm Bringer]

Or Pete arrives at the conclusion (presumably, through some fairly hilarious event) that not being able to communicate is a bigger disadvantage than he thought, and tries to buy it away, with C-3PO being the in-game representation of the experience points Pete invests to get rid of said disadvantage.

Actaully, we've already seen this happening during the build up to the podrace, where C-3PO has been acting as a NPC mouth for pete/R2-D2 to let him speak IC. Personally, I think that's likey to continue.

as to future cast lists, I mostly aggree with Knaight about the roles. I think 3PO will remain a NPC, mind.

what I'm intrested in is who does Jim start playing when Qui-Gon is killed? He can't exactly leave the group (it'd disrupt the dynamics of the party, and deprives the writers of an useful comedic tool), but I can't think, off the top of my head, what major character he'd take over, save padme.

[TigerHunter]

what I'm intrested in is who does Jim start playing when Qui-Gon is killed? He can't exactly leave the group (it'd disrupt the dynamics of the party, and deprives the writers of an useful comedic tool), but I can't think, off the top of my head, what major character he'd take over, save padme.

I was going to say that I thought they'd just have Jim play Anakin and just move the girl who's currently playing Annie to Padme.

Then I realized that Jim playing a girl while flirting with a girl who's pretending to be a boy opens up far more joke opportunities.

[DraPrime]

I was going to say that I thought they'd just have Jim play Anakin and just move the girl who's currently playing Annie to Padme.

Then I realized that Jim playing a girl while flirting with a girl who's pretending to be a boy opens up far more joke opportunities.

He might actually refuse to do it because "it makes him feel gay" or something like that.

[TigerHunter]

He might actually refuse to do it because "it makes him feel gay" or something like that.

Which would make it all the funnier if he ends up doing it anyway.

[DraPrime]

That would be funny

[SolkaTruesilver]

Actually, what would be funny is if Jim take-over Padme as a character. And he has a relation with Anakin's. A girl playing a man with a man playing a girl. Talk about cross-genre.

[SmartAlec]

Looking forward to Ben's likely epic rant in Episode 4, when events and the party finally conspire to kill the character he's kept alive for three and a half episodes.