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I think this fits here. Everyone likes Star Wars art! Edit: Because the description is important; "I drew it for a contest that a friend was having. It was a festival, where you dressed up, and decorated your cyber pets. Well, someone took it on a tangent and drew a horse as Luke Skywalker. I took it a step further and drew Obi Wan and Darth Maul as horses. It took me quite a while to get them positioned right... not to mention getting the horse to look like Darth Maul. I doodled and sketched at work for a couple of days before I had it. But....if you look, poor Obi Wan is doomed. From the way I have him positioned, he can't come around to block the other end of Darth Maul's lightsaber. He's a goner. :o("
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# ? Feb 12, 2011 23:10 |
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RagnarokAngel posted:Also produced by George Lucas. Post-divorce Jorge too, though Jim Henson was around to keep him from making an rear end of himself. Casimir Radon fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Feb 12, 2011 |
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Casimir Radon posted:Post-divorce Jorge too, though Jim Henson was around to keep him from making an rear end of himself. Well he was the producer, not the director. Which means he just threw a lot of money at it and got his name on the cover to sell more copies.
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# ? Feb 12, 2011 23:18 |
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RagnarokAngel posted:Well he was the producer, not the director. Which means he just threw a lot of money at it and got his name on the cover to sell more copies.
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# ? Feb 13, 2011 00:17 |
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Mr.Gorha posted:I think this fits here. Everyone likes Star Wars art! To make up for that,
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# ? Feb 13, 2011 01:34 |
No, it really doesn't.
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# ? Feb 13, 2011 02:00 |
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Better?
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# ? Feb 13, 2011 02:03 |
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Is that Boba Fett's lunchbox?
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# ? Feb 13, 2011 02:10 |
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I think there's a head in there.
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# ? Feb 13, 2011 02:56 |
Biplane posted:I think there's a head in there. Its his other helmet, the other one with custom space banana sticker decals on it.
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# ? Feb 13, 2011 03:12 |
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Biplane posted:I think there's a head in there. To be specific, a psychic decapitated naked space lady head.
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# ? Feb 13, 2011 03:14 |
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gently caress the haters, that comic was mad fun to read!
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# ? Feb 13, 2011 04:36 |
Fett in comics is silly enough to be enjoyable, god help us when he translates to written word though.
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# ? Feb 13, 2011 05:12 |
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NeonTurtle posted:Rule 2187: If something is related to George Lucas, no matter how tangentially, it must reference the movie THX 1138 at some point. I'll agree to that.
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# ? Feb 13, 2011 05:57 |
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GodlessCommie posted:But the ending is the best! It was all a dream! While I had my problems with those episodes, that definitely was not the way I read that ending. Treating the whole thing as similar to Luke's cave vision on Dagobah (as the producer said in the commentary) makes a lot of it easier to digest. It was still all over the place and definitely not one of the best story arcs though. Epi Lepi posted:My first taste of Star Wars was the dance number in the special edition of ROTJ. The combination of fear and horror that Sy Snootles instilled in 9 year old me kept me from trying the series again for years Just wait a few years, and a whole new generation of kids will have nightmares of that red-lipped proboscis coming at them in 3-D!
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# ? Feb 13, 2011 06:31 |
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Who knew that the prequels were so topical! http://www.njoe.com/2011/02/11/different-galaxies-same-old-stuff-a-change-coming-2/#more-8746
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# ? Feb 13, 2011 09:15 |
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Hey, Geeky Star Wars Loser Thread, I made this just for
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# ? Feb 14, 2011 00:20 |
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Admiral Goodenough posted:Hey, Geeky Star Wars Loser Thread, Awesome.
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# ? Feb 14, 2011 01:48 |
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I wish I had some versions of the Star Wars Valentines without the watermark so I can hand them out tomorrow.
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# ? Feb 14, 2011 02:35 |
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I FINALLY got KOTOR to work on my Mac. It took me a long time of searching for patches, but I played five hours straight (after an hour or so of it lagging and randomly crashing) tonight. So playing KotOR along with reading an X-Wing book should make the rest of February very Star Wars-friendly. It makes me wish I could get a game of Star Wars RPG (yes, I own it. And a shitload of the other books despite rarely having used them) going.
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# ? Feb 14, 2011 05:54 |
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Which one? The d6 one, Star Wars Saga Edition, or one of the less-commonly-used variants?
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# ? Feb 14, 2011 06:07 |
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AmbassadorFriendly posted:I wish I had some versions of the Star Wars Valentines without the watermark so I can hand them out tomorrow. If you have archives, you can see the original thread (without watermarks) here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1791965 While I was looking I also found the Indiana Jones Valentine thread from the same year: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1789494 And this thing: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1812825
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# ? Feb 14, 2011 09:42 |
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ZeeToo posted:Which one? The d6 one, Star Wars Saga Edition, or one of the less-commonly-used variants? Pre-Saga Edition d20.
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# ? Feb 14, 2011 16:09 |
I'm with you on the OT Star Wars RPG, especially if it was done open world style.
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# ? Feb 14, 2011 16:15 |
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mojo1701a posted:Pre-Saga Edition d20. Played a couple games with it, ended up getting dropped from our list. Jedi didn't party well with non-Jedi, and a single crit roll could kill almost and character or NPC.
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Last Friday, I saw Lohengrin at the Chicago Civic Opera House. As I was watching it, I came to the conclusion that the Prequel Trilogy would work so much better if you present it as a classic opera. Hell, make all six films into operas while you were at it. Call it the Skywalker Cycle. Of course, there's no way to mass market opera, so I guess it won't happen.
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Mahoshonen posted:Last Friday, I saw Lohengrin at the Chicago Civic Opera House. As I was watching it, I came to the conclusion that the Prequel Trilogy would work so much better if you present it as a classic opera. Hell, make all six films into operas while you were at it. Call it the Skywalker Cycle. Fat aging opera stars being winched everywhere to simulate a flippy jumpy prequal style lightsaber fight made me grin.
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SeanBeansShako posted:I'm with you on the OT Star Wars RPG, especially if it was done open world style. Yeah, I didn't really try to take part of any established events. Any adventures I did were purely just normal D&D-type games, but using the Star Wars galaxy as a back-drop. KaosFactor posted:Played a couple games with it, ended up getting dropped from our list. Jedi didn't party well with non-Jedi, and a single crit roll could kill almost and character or NPC. I think the Jedi thing was probably one of the reasons why it never got off the ground. A Jedi is powerful, but if you're role-playing properly, then they're boring. I tried to mitigate that somewhat by putting it in the post-Return of the Jedi era, where Jedi were freer to explore their own path and didn't have to really take orders as much.
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I always wanted to play though a game of the RPG; so many entries on Wookiepedia are sourced from sourcebooks for the games, but never had anyone to play it with Started reading through Dark Empire yesterday though...when was it written? 1988? (before Thrawn trilogy?) Lots of little errors creep up in it, like it being a big deal for the Alliance to have 2 captured Star Destroyers (when there are easily like 5 or 6 in just the X-Wing books). Still a fun read (kind of liked Luke being a dark side crazy for a bit), just curious as to what material the writers had available when they wrote it. Also, the X-Wing comics are awesome. Stackpole does an awesome job fitting stuff into canon/past books, like Fel giving Han poo poo about the outfit he wore when part of Xaverri's show, which I think A.C. Crispin developed as part of her books. Last bit of - the comic adaptations of the Thrawn trilogy are pretty rough. I've read them so many times I actually have a lot of the dialog/exposition memorized, and they've got a few characters/speech bubbles swapped, etc. If you gave someone the comics to read first, they'd probably be really confused.
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mojo1701a posted:Pre-Saga Edition d20. Star Wars D6 is one of the greatest RPG systems ever for pickup games and new players.
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movax posted:Last bit of - the comic adaptations of the Thrawn trilogy are pretty rough. I've read them so many times I actually have a lot of the dialog/exposition memorized, and they've got a few characters/speech bubbles swapped, etc. If you gave someone the comics to read first, they'd probably be really confused. I don't think the artwork is that fantastic, either.
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# ? Feb 14, 2011 17:09 |
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A Star Wars Opera would be cool. I enjoyed the Concert series they had a couple years ago. The problem is that, especially in more evocative scenes like lightsaber duels, the nature of opera would make the OT even better while making the PT even shittier. mojo1701a posted:I think the Jedi thing was probably one of the reasons why it never got off the ground. A Jedi is powerful, but if you're role-playing properly, then they're boring. Well, all monks and paladin types would be pretty "boring" (if you mean less combat, they're great for roleplaying when your game has more ethical considerations, I think, cuz then you get into Kreia-like situations) if they're being role-played properly. This is the reason why many players end up making DBZ monks or fallen paladins. But this isn't TGD so...
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Dark Empire came out sometime during the release of the Thrawn Trilogy. The whole point was that the New Republic was almost beaten, and they were pushed back to being Rebels between Thrawn and Palpatine's return. I remember my GM's solution to the Jedi overpowering the other classes was to dual class. Of course he was a massive power gamer to begin with. The second, and last game we played we were an experimental group of Padawan's who were found when the were older so we had several levels of another class on top of our Jedi levels. I was a scoundrel/Jedi counselor and dumped most of my points into affect mind. I had something like a +37. Power games like that are fun at first but so lose the point of an RPG.
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Fox of Stone posted:A Star Wars Opera would be cool. I enjoyed the Concert series they had a couple years ago. The problem is that, especially in more evocative scenes like lightsaber duels, the nature of opera would make the OT even better while making the PT even shittier. I'll agree with this. Operas are about larger-than-life characters and grandiose plots (I could be wrong about this since I have limited operatic knowledge). The only problem is the space combat. quote:Well, all monks and paladin types would be pretty "boring" (if you mean less combat, they're great for roleplaying when your game has more ethical considerations, I think, cuz then you get into Kreia-like situations) if they're being role-played properly. This is the reason why many players end up making DBZ monks or fallen paladins. But this isn't TGD so... The difference, I think, is that paladins have a greater range to do their work. At least, I've always seen Jedis as structured and rigid based on what they can or can't do. That is, a Jedi who believes that the ends justify the means would be considered dabbling in the dark side.
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Fox of Stone posted:A Star Wars Opera would be cool. I enjoyed the Concert series they had a couple years ago. The problem is that, especially in more evocative scenes like lightsaber duels, the nature of opera would make the OT even better while making the PT even shittier. Actually, I think an opera would help the PT if you give the writer enough flexibility and freedom to edit out material, add exposition (which is sung, so it's more bearable) to flesh out the motives and plot, and just don't worry about doing fancy lightsaber moves, especially because it's possible one or more of the leads is going to be overweight. What sold the idea to me was reading the plot synopsis of Lohengrin which ends by saying The female lead dies of grief and I immediately thought of how Padme died. That's when it struck me-the clumsy love plot between Anakin and Padme and Anakin's fall to the Dark Side was totally in line with what happens in a lot of operas.
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# ? Feb 14, 2011 19:35 |
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In Japan, Final Fantasy often gets live performances complete with famous musicians and singers who are practically opera in their reputation. Not QUITE a full opera, but there's definitely possibilities for genre-crossing. Since Final Fantasy is basically Japan's Star Wars, I could see there being potential for John Williams' scores being done to narration.
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# ? Feb 15, 2011 05:08 |
If Star Wars went Opera Anthony Daniels will no doubt be all over it demanding to be Threepeo because the man is a THESPIAN.
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# ? Feb 15, 2011 05:10 |
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Considering EU authors' love of taking other famous stories and either shoehorning, ripping off, or flat-out copy-pasting them into Star Wars, is there a scrap of the EU that is basically Seven Samurai but with Jedi?
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# ? Feb 15, 2011 05:11 |
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Silver Brushes posted:Considering EU authors' love of taking other famous stories and either shoehorning, ripping off, or flat-out copy-pasting them into Star Wars, is there a scrap of the EU that is basically Seven Samurai but with Jedi? Uh, well I suppose a portion of the OT is from Seven Samurai (among other Kurosawa works) -- Threepio and R2-D2 were based off the bickering peasants from Seven Samurai ( a film that I have still only gotten halfway through because I always fall sleep since I start it at like 1am on a Saturday night )
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# ? Feb 15, 2011 05:48 |
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It was The Hidden Fortress, not Seven Samurai.
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# ? Feb 15, 2011 06:14 |