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Another reason Bossk is cool is because he is part of the only species in SW that actively hunted and could take down wookies. Before he became a bounty hunter he hunted them for their pelts. Also, Trandoshan religious beliefs are like the basis of X-box Achievement points, and I quote: quote:Jagannath points were a concept of the Trandoshan religion. Jagannath points were earned by hunters for each kill, and when they died, the Scorekeeper (Goddess) would tally the points to determine the hunter's place in the afterlife. To be captured alive was the greatest of humiliations, and reset a Trandoshan's lifetime score back to nothing, invalidating a lifetime's work.
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Jace Madan posted:Another reason Bossk is cool is because he is part of the only species in SW that actively hunted and could take down wookies. Before he became a bounty hunter he hunted them for their pelts. Actually it is extremely lame
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i know we've been over it but monocultures based on "the one guy who we saw on screen was one so everyone in his species is also one and that's all they do or think about" are just terrible. did at least one writer try to buck this lazy-rear end trend? i'd like to think after all this time if i were a eu writer i'd be like "you know what, jabba's species actually highly values philosophy, charity, and asceticism. he's just a rear end in a top hat outlier and 'hutt' is actually a title like a mafia 'don'" i mean for example the damage is done to the slug monsters but if there was another race of space aliens that hadn't yet been explored.
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Otisburg posted:i know we've been over it but monocultures based on "the one guy who we saw on screen was one so everyone in his species is also one and that's all they do or think about" are just terrible. i think the closest you get to that are two characters from stackpole's novels - the twi'lek lawyer and the bothan revolutionary. i don't think any alien character in the films is treated as an outlier, they're all assumed to be the norm. which is kind of weird because you'd think Jabba the Hutt means he's kind of unique as far as his species goes (because his title is 'the Hutt') but then every Hutt is involved in that sort of thing
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I always just assumed that "Hutt" was his family's name, and he was the head of the space mafia. But nope, he's actually called "Jabba Desilijic Tiure".
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Otisburg posted:i know we've been over it but monocultures based on "the one guy who we saw on screen was one so everyone in his species is also one and that's all they do or think about" are just terrible. This was why the original StarWars Galaxies loving ruled before they hosed it up. Trandoshan medic? Why not. Rhodian Creature Handler? sure thing. Mon Calamari weapons maker? You got it. I miss that game. It was the single most amazing thing until they decided to destroy it.
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trandoshans are predominately enlightened in regards to sentient rights and bossk's family has disowned him for his hate crimes. nemoidians are by and large revolutionary socialists and the trade federation is repugnant to them. ewoks in general are a spacefaring race no more or less sophisticated culturally or technologically than the galaxy at large. endor represents a fundamentalist luddite colony of teddy bear amishes. you know if you want to get social justice jedi about it the strong undercurrent of racial determinism in star wars and sci-fi/fantasy in general is really uncomfortable. Myrddin_Emrys posted:This was why the original StarWars Galaxies loving ruled before they hosed it up. Trandoshan medic? Why not. Rhodian Creature Handler? sure thing. Mon Calamari weapons maker? You got it. pre-NGE it was really interesting. I'm not sure if it was "Star Wars" (crazy fast-paced pulp laser battles and vehicle combat is what you'd expect, not 80% of the content focused on prospecting for higher quality petroleum to build better composite plating) but the whole a-la-carte character advancement and the crazy robust crafting/noncombat profession/player economy "build it from the ground up" system was if nothing else ambitious. Owlbear Camus fucked around with this message at 13:41 on Jan 26, 2015 |
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Otto Von Jizzmark posted:Has Bossk been given his own series yet? If not they should get on it ASAP he is by far the most exciting and controversial character in the Star Wars stable. I always thought it was really weird how his shins and ankles were, like, wider than his pants:  I was also gonna say I remember Bossk as being strangely damp-looking but turns out that's another alien I can't be arsed looking up.
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My report is on a star wars book. It is called Hair to the Empire. I liked this book it is about Luke Skywalker. He goes on many adventures and he uses the force and he uses the lightsaber he built in Return of the Jedi. He has to stop a bad guy who is trying to kill luke and beat the rebellion. The bad guy is very good because he is an alien with blue skin and he is also very clever and uses his cleverness to trick luke skywalker. My favourite character is Han Solo because he has chewbacca and the millenium falcon and i like chewbacca. he is funny andthe millenium falcon is very fast. I like this book because it is like the film return of the jedi and that is my favourite film. List of star wars books I read as a child: The novelisation of Star Wars Shadows of the Empire Specter of the Past Some short story collection, it had a story about Corran Horn. All I remember is the main character was actually called Corran Horn and he had a green x-wing. List of star wars books I have read as an adult: The first 30 pages of Heir to the Empire (Hey I only got like 10 pages into Twilight, so I guess the star wars eu is 3 times as good as twilight)
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Pastry of the Year posted:I always thought it was really weird how his shins and ankles were, like, wider than his pants: Ol' tightpants Bossk
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you know what aggrivates the poo poo out of me that appears in every starwar tabletop roleplaying game? you have a bunch of different species you can make your guy with their various stats and traits and stuff, right? in every version of the game made by different writing teams and publishers, 3 publishers, 6 or so revisions/editions, since 1987, every wookiee write up has contained a passage that is more or less this: "wookiees have really badass arboreal climbing claws that could mess someone the heck up. wookiees NEVER EVER use these in combat, because it's a huge cultural taboo and they would become outcasts known as 'mad claws'." without fail, they go so far as to not even bother giving stats for what the claws would do if you did. like what if you're already an outcast for unrelated reasons, with nothing to lose? what if you're a jerk to whom the moniker 'mad claw' sounds really cool? what if you're an iconoclast utilitarian who will pay lip service to the tabboo but wreck someone with your claws if you're desperate/angry and no one is looking to mark you as outcast? what if you're literally fighting for your life to protect the wookiee orphanage? but no wookiees are so uniformly against using their claws to wreck people no version of the RPG even bothers to give you claw attack stats, meaning that the GM can make something up like plus whatever to your unarmed damage, but by the rules as written the taboo is so strong no wookiee is even physically capable of it E: actually one more thing in some versions wookiees have an ability to enrage peiodically for even more prodigious close combat wreckage, but even in a blind rage they appaerntly won't claw folks. welp that's my post complaining about a 28 year old recurring oversight in nerdgames, thanks for reading. Owlbear Camus fucked around with this message at 14:10 on Jan 26, 2015 |
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Fetus Tree posted:Years after the Battle of Endor, Bossk retired from professional hunting. He later ran into Han Solo on a space stationorbiting Ord Mantell during the Yuuzhan Vong War. When he heard of Chewbacca's death, Bossk rubbed it in Solo's face, receiving a broken snout in return. The encounter escalated into a fight, and both Bossk and Solo were put into arrest cells. Solo was allowed to leave shortly before the invasion of the space station, but Bossk had to stay. The station was later destroyed, but just before the explosion, an escape pod jettisoned. "arrest cells" because jail or prison is too mundane?
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Fetus Tree posted:Years after the Battle of Endor, Bossk retired from professional hunting. He later ran into Han Solo on a space stationorbiting Ord Mantell during the Yuuzhan Vong War. When he heard of Chewbacca's death, Bossk rubbed it in Solo's face, receiving a broken snout in return. The encounter escalated into a fight, and both Bossk and Solo were put into arrest cells. Solo was allowed to leave shortly before the invasion of the space station, but Bossk had to stay. The station was later destroyed, but just before the explosion, an escape pod jettisoned. Tell the truth - how many EU books have you read, and how many EU books do you currently have in your house? Answer truthfully - see through you, we can.
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Otisburg posted:i know we've been over it but monocultures based on "the one guy who we saw on screen was one so everyone in his species is also one and that's all they do or think about" are just terrible. Wasn't Jabba an outlier deviant because he had bipedal slave girls and not like other slugs? Then again I don't know if that's true or not it's something I heard in earlier SW threads on the forums but that's it.
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Guys, I just spent the weekend staring at Qi Baishi paintings I think - I think I know how to defeat the Chinese
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:You assholes who keep creeping into the thread to insist the EU is good to need to ride the gently caress on out of town
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Pastry of the Year posted:I always thought it was really weird how his shins and ankles were, like, wider than his pants: Not going to bother checking if there's a Wookiepedia article for cankles, but there probably is one.
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The thing that makes me cringe the most: Trying to change the Mandalorians so that they are peace loving people.
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Gridlocked posted:The thing that makes me cringe the most: Trying to change the Mandalorians so that they are peace loving people. Everything to do with the Mandalorians in the EU is complete garbage
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what was "changing" the mandalorians, werent the mandalorians eu-invented in the first place
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Acne Rain posted:what was "changing" the mandalorians, werent the mandalorians eu-invented in the first place Yes
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Otisburg posted:trandoshans are predominately enlightened in regards to sentient rights and bossk's family has disowned him for his hate crimes. That always bugged me, like how even a comment in a conversation in star wars will cause sleeping generalizations about whole species. Like when Jabba calls that Twi'lek a weak minded fool for getting hit with mind control, Hutts now have +5 vs mind affecting abilities and Twi'leks have -2 wisdom. Then later on there's a twi'lek jedi and she's supposed to be super badass, but a wisdom penalty cuts into that so now there's an optional feat twi'leks can take that more than makes up it. Also I was in a campaign once with a Trandosian dockworker who was only in the adventure because he had a week off from work while his arm regrew. Also I told a jedi in my campaign he was getting a "chesty shy padawan" so he got a wookie. One character in star wars is an outlier though, general grievous. His people basically got invaded by a republic species, fought them off, then the invaders asked the republic for assistance and got it. Also he was way the hell better in the cartoon than in the movies.
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:That always bugged me, like how even a comment in a conversation in star wars will cause sleeping generalizations about whole species. Like when Jabba calls that Twi'lek a weak minded fool for getting hit with mind control, Hutts now have +5 vs mind affecting abilities and Twi'leks have -2 wisdom. Then later on there's a twi'lek jedi and she's supposed to be super badass, but a wisdom penalty cuts into that so now there's an optional feat twi'leks can take that more than makes up it. Also I was in a campaign once with a Trandosian dockworker who was only in the adventure because he had a week off from work while his arm regrew. Also I told a jedi in my campaign he was getting a "chesty shy padawan" so he got a wookie. Yeah I've always hated that too and thought it was super dumb and lazy. Even as a kid I remember reading the essential guide to aliens and thinking it was dumb. I had all the essential star wars guides and would read them on the toilet a lot. Reading crap while taking a crap.
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Gammatron 64 posted:
http://youtu.be/bxU2eqZtYmc
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can someone edit or review my fan fic ? it's a n 18.000 word dissertation on jedi meister bossk, modeled after my own self
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Otisburg posted:dumb wookie poo poo Mr.Pibbleton posted:dumb twi'lek saga edition poo poo You should probably be playing Edge of the Empire and not dumb saga edition baby poo poo. Only mention of wookies not using their claws "These claws are only used for climbing, never for combat, as such an act is seen as dishonorable in Wookiee culture." No rule for them because it doesn't even factor in, wookies are just a bit stronger than everyone else and when they get hurt they do more damage. Twi'leks are physically weaker than a human but you can just put points in that if you want it to be good because EotE isn't a dumb system that fucks you over if your not taking optimal stuff. Its pretty good at not doing the stereotype thing either with races too much either, this is the default twi'lek they give you to teach you how to play:  Also they are doing thing this thread was doing which is pretty hilarious:  Turns out Rodians are mostly peaceful and into opera and art and stuff meanwhile Greedo was just this lovely rear end in a top hat. kingcom fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Jan 26, 2015 |
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kingcom posted:You should probably be playing Edge of the Empire and not dumb saga edition baby poo poo. I actually picked up the FF book and turned to the wookiee entry at my local game store b/c I was curious if the legacy continued, and saw it had the same blurb and no rules for it. You're saying eote/aor isn't granular enough to model the difference between a punch and a rake with big gently caress off dagger claws damage wise?
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Otisburg posted:I actually picked up the FF book and turned to the wookiee entry at my local game store b/c I was curious if the legacy continued, and saw it had the same blurb and no rules for it. You're saying eote/aor isn't granular enough to model the difference between a punch and a rake with big gently caress off dagger claws damage wise? Melee damage is just Brawn + Weapon damage. A Vibrosword does +2 damage. A plain wookie who was not put any points into brawn has 3 by default. That means he does 5 damage. edit:The thing that makes the vibrosword fancy is it crits constantly which in this system is just an auto-kill on anything thats not a major npc or pc. "When a Wookiee has suffered any wounds, he deals + 1 damage to Brawl and Melee attacks. When a Wookiee is Critically Injured, he instead deals + 2 damage to Brawl and Melee attacks." Thats all you need for wookie loving people up. They hulk out and wip out their claws if anyone has hurt them.
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Thats my original star wars EU character, please dont steal.
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Pretty sure that's not canon
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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TheSpiritFox posted:I hope you're not talking about Lando and the Amazing Organic Quella ship because those were some of the worst poo poo I've ever read. drunk asian neighbor posted:The Lando books were very reminiscent of the original Han Solo trilogy: 80s as gently caress, very pulpy, and good fun reads. I loved the starfish I think you guys might be talking about two different Lando stories. There's the early days ones where he's hanging around with Vuffi Raa the starfish droid and is targeted for harassment by a space wizard that turns out to be a squishy little bug monster in a big suit, and then there's the one where old Lando takes Lobot and R2D2/C3P0 and goes in a weird spaceship that is supposed to wake up a dead planet.
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theironjef posted:old Lando takes Lobot and R2D2/C3P0 and goes in a weird spaceship that is supposed to wake up a dead planet. Yeah I dunno what the hell that one is
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kingcom posted:Thats my original star wars EU character, please dont steal. http://toast1862.tumblr.com/post/42325697921/this-is-my-jedi-wookie-cantina-dancer-slash
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What are the stereotypes of humans? All human are either hotshot pilots, dickbag military types, or redshirt enlisted men?
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:What are the stereotypes of humans? All human are either hotshot pilots, dickbag military types, or redshirt enlisted men? No you see humanity is the only species that can have all kinds of different appearances, personalities, and cultures. The only one.
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Chomp8645 posted:No you see humanity is the only species that can have all kinds of different appearances, personalities, and cultures. Actually if you're the wrong skin color/culture you're considered a near human like the space Eskimo. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Pyn%27gani
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Kotor 2 was the the tits though. Cannon aside, the grey side of the force is p sweet. Honestly, i want kotor: the older republic: tool around with jolee and fish people
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