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Jedi Padawan Quest (Star Wars)

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[x] Falleen

I like them, and enjoy playing against/with the hat.

Also glad to see this starting up.
 
[X] Trandoshan

Lizards and healing abilities and potential Jurassic Park references, what's not to love?
 
The Englanderish said:
Oh yeah, as a question @The Laurent

There's two major different versions of Ryloth that are rather irreconcilable - which one you using for the Twi'Lek's backstory? The old twilight-strip cave-dwelling clan setup with extremely fucked up society and death environments outside the habitable strip? Filoni's simultaneously less insane but less interesting (although still kinda interesting) villages and strongholds with a decidedly more stable culture and less hostile geography?
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I'm now curious about the first one, incidentally, I never even knew it existed? What sources present that view of Ryloth, by the way?
 
The Laurent said:
I'm now curious about the first one, incidentally, I never even knew it existed? What sources present that view of Ryloth, by the way?
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Stackpole's X-wing novels, the YJK series, and I think a few others- not sure. It's prevalent enough and early enough though I'm putting money on it being a WEG thing though.
 
@The Laurent

Quick request, can you put links to new omakes and also the winning action in your updates? It just makes keeping up a lot easier for me personally; and though I don't want to presume, I'd like to think it would help others as well. I don't get alerts for omakes, and not knowing what action won can leave me lost on what is happening, escpecially if there are 'canon omakes' in between.

That said, uhhhhh *rolls dice*

[X]Twi'lek
 
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Kylar said:
Stackpole's X-wing novels, the YJK series, and I think a few others- not sure. It's prevalent enough and early enough though I'm putting money on it being a WEG thing though.
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Weirdly, I swear I read the Stackpole novels and missed it. I mean, I got the impression that Twi'leks had clans, and warrior culture stuff, but the specifics didn't pop out to me.

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@The Laurent

Quick request, can you put links to new omakes and also the winning action in your updates? It just makes keeping up a lot easier for me personally; and though I don't want to presume, I'd like to think it would help others as well. I don't get alerts for omakes, and not knowing what action won can leave me lost on what is happening.

That said, uhhhhh *rolls dice*

[X]Twi'lek
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Eh, sure, why not. I can do that.
 
Hangwind said:
The Jedi are at best weak, ineffectual anchors on a PC. At worst they are corrupt, self-righteous slavers and enforcers for a criminal regime
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Ok, I'll try to not get too much into this discussion. I've been doing it to death in other threads. But really, I think you are being very unfair. "Corrupt slavers and enforcers of a criminal regime" perfectly describes the SITH, not the Jedi. Like really, both the pre-baneite Sith and The Galactic Empire were tyrannical criminal regimes built on the principle of the strong crushing the weak underfoot. Are we even looking at the same source material? Star Wars could not be clearer on the fact that the Sith are BAD.

Now, if you would like to play an evil character, that is a valid choice. (But one I am opposed to.) But don't try to pretend that the Jedi and the Republic somehow are the bad guys compared to the Sith. As for growth, I do not think having morals and a strong inner code of right or wrong is a bad thing let alone "weak, ineffectual anchors on a PC.". On the contrary, it keeps things interesting and makes the PC into more than a minmaxed murder machine.

To be clear, I know the current Jedi Order and the Republic have problems. But they weren't always so set in their ways, and my goal in quests like this has always been to try to make some sensible reforms once we are in a position to do this.
 
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The Laurent said:
I'm now curious about the first one, incidentally, I never even knew it existed? What sources present that view of Ryloth, by the way?
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Pretty much everything before Filoni. I did a roundup on the Ostrander Twilight (not that one) arc in Kylar's EU thread, which covers some of it pretty well, but TL;DR: Ryloth pre-TCW rotates extremely slowly, meaning that one side of the planet is permanently bathed in sunlight and the other perpetually dark, creating a narrow habitable strip at the borders, with the rest being death zone. The Twi'Leks live in cave-cities within this habitable strip.

They also have a very unfun society. Their clan-leaders are made up of councils from various noble families. Aayla Secura's clan has five heads of families, of which the Secura family is one. When one of the leaders dies, the other members of the council are driven out into the death zone to die and new leaders are chosen.

Women especially have an unpleasant life, being heavily constrained to roles and often treated as property or second class citizens, regularly being sold offworld as slaves - even members of noble families, like Aayla, who only narrowly escaped sale to a Hutt as a young child. This is so much so that Xiaan Amersu, a young Twi'Lek Jedi, significantly looked up to Aayla despite having not met her because of what she represented.

That said, Twi'Lek men didn't usually have much of a fun time either - just less unfun - even if they were ever in a position of power or influence (which most pretty much weren't; really bad prosperity inequality and a lot of predation from offworld slavers) then they lived with the eternal concern of one day ending up on the council... which is basically an eventual death sentence if one of the others dies.

One of the major produces of Ryloth is Ryll, a weak form of Spice that had uses in pharmeceuticals. It can also be fed to Kessel Energy spiders to produce Glitteryll (the spiders usually produce glitterstim). Glitteryll is potent at pacifying people who ingest it and has a severely deleterious effect on memory. Naturally, it's really fucking illegal.

Basically, oldRyloth is really unpleasant, but really interesting.
 
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Now, now, folks. Aside from the whole jedi balance, we're forgetting about what is quite possibly the most interesting option of all. An option the author of this quest has completely forgotten about. The real MVP here. No doubt about that.

 
This might be a premature question but..

@The Laurent @NemoMarx is this quest following typical Jedi archetypes? Meaning Guardian, Sentinel or Consular? If so it'd impact my vote on race.
 
I find it tragic that shapeshifters were basically never used after Aotc introduced them. Like the clone Wars series used them once and that's about it.

I knew twileks were gonna win, id massively prefer something else- falleen, trandoshan, wookiee....

Clawdites can changes their appearance to just about any humanoid, including gender swapping I believe. 8 wonder if with training we could grow/regrow limbs.... in any case given the ain it causes it would povide interesting narrqtive choices vis a vis the dark side.
Falleen are snek people qirh pheromones qnd a pre established species hat..

Trandoshan would be fairly intriguing. Aside from being tough (and having regent abity) they also age very quickly- if we were a kid in 21 BY we'd be a teen in 19 but. Also would have interesting dynamics what with being a designated villain species.
 
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Undead Martyr said:
Classes can changes their appearance to just about any humanoid, including gender swapping I believe.
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They can, but do keep in mind it takes a lot of time to learn those skills. Young Clawdite can just about change color or a little bit of shape, and it's only in adolescence that they have the practice, generally, to imitate another species. It's a skill you'd have to practice and learn, but you will be able to do that.

And learning to shapeshift despite the pain might be valuable for other kinds of training, like meditation, at least a bit.
 
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