In keeping with my custom as an anti-hipster whose movie theatre is just a pain to park at, I finally caught ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’, and it was pretty okay. There were moments I love, moments I didn’t get, and a particular moment early in the film where I suddenly realized: They’re building the adventuring party! This is just like an RPG! The rest of the film felt like a VERY successful round of the Star Wars RPG, albeit with fewer people repeating the word “Mandalorian” over and over, as if the word itself would transform you, Shazam-style, into Boba Fett. (‘B’ for the smoldering essence of Bob Dylan, ‘O’ for the standoffishness of Othello…) As the final scenes played out, a tiny part of me kept thinking: “These are some terrible saving throws, you guys”, leading to today’s D-20 system query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) congratulates Chirrut Îmwe’s player for successfully making Zatoichi work in a fantasy/science fiction setting and honoring the jidaigeki influences of Star Wars, asking: Which scripted pop-culture experience plays out MOST successfully like an RPG for you?
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As so many times before, Seven Samurai. You got certain archetypes, they meet in a tavern, go for an adventure and some get killed randomly.
Well, the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie fits the archetype pretty well, I think. The first 10-15 minutes are character introductions, then everybody meets at the tavern (prison) and then the DM contrives an adventure/reason they all have to stick together long enough to become friends and companions.