Re: [ogf-d20-l] Technical characters (was Does it make sense for PCs to make things?)

[Doug Meerschaert]

Martin L. Shoemaker wrote:

> Thanks. So my Wookiee engineer can't be a hero. (And apparently, neither can
> Chewbacca. So THAT'S why Leia didn't give him a medal at the end of Episode
> IV...)

Chewbacca's a scout (or was that scoundral?); he's no more an engineer 
than Han is.

> I get it: conform to the stereotypes, or don't play the game. But whatever
> you do, don't fix the game!

Nope.  Star Wars is about archtypes--oops, I can't use a neutral word 
for them.  "Stereotypes."

(To head off the flame war, let me expedite it:  Star Wars should have 
rules for everything, not just what it was intended for.  We should keep 
fixing it until we have rules for the sexuality of jedi, and we can roll 
for exactly how the folds in a dasihing vampire's cloak compare to those 
of a powerful Jedi's.  Anyone who insists that a game should contain 
only those rules that are relevant to the game, and even have rules that 
encourage its intended style of play, is a Nazi just like Hilter.)


DM