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[Tarran]

Hands up, who here doesn't want to be a psychic paladin with a laser sword?

*Sticks hands up*

I personally have a lot more respect for clones than Jedi. I always have more respect for the lowly guys.

[monk12]

Roll to be a Clone Trooper would actually be pretty awesome. Flying around the galaxy, underequipped and underappreciated, taking on long odds (since when do the Stormtroopers win a fight?) Also, Ewok Hunting.

[Tiruin]

Roll to be a Clone Trooper would actually be pretty awesome. Flying around the galaxy, underequipped and underappreciated, taking on long odds (since when do the Stormtroopers win a fight?) Also, Ewok Hunting.

This sounds like a real good RTD to base on, there is a lot of space for personal creativity (pertaining to the GM) and that there can be many ways to actually complete goals.

What timeline is this though? Before, or after the Empire? Stormtroopers, or Clone troopers?

[Taricus]

Why not both? Start by taking down buckets and end up as some of the only stormtroopers able to hit a moving target

[monk12]

There's probably a bit more room for creativity and success (for the players) if set in the Clone Wars, possibly ending with the Jedi hunts at the end of Episode III. If the general tone is more given to slapstick and amusing incompetence, Stormtroopers would probably be more appropriate since being "that Stromtrooper on the Death Star who made it to the escape pod" is a satisfying victory when failure is assumed.

[Tarran]

I personally say clone wars.

I like the style of the helmets back then.

And back then the clones weren't all LOLBADGUYS.

Not that I'd play the RTD, but that's my personal opinion.

[Taricus]

I still say we do both. I mean, if you want to go down the competant stormtrooper route you could have them enslaving the wookies.

[monk12]

Mostly I think it's hard to reconcile the tone of each style- it's hard to be droid smashing, Jedi exterminating badasses one minute and Ewok fodder the next. I swear, it's like they get progressively worse at their jobs throughout the movies.

[Gatleos]

Hmm, that could be a good plot! A band of stormtroopers, close as brothers, enlisted in the Imperial Army. One day, they are all mysteriously granted an intense sensitivity to the force and go AWOL with a new, personal objective: hunt Jedi. The whole point would be to cruise around the galaxy, hunting down and assassinating Jedi.

Or maybe you're a Magnificent Seven-style band of Jedi, smugglers and former commandos who just fly around in their clunker of a spaceship helping people out.

[Taricus]

I like the first idea. If someone makes it, Count me in.

[Tiruin]

About the clone/storm troopers. I've seen a book on renegade troops after the fall of the Jedi. Not sure if it is canon to the story, but it works out well there. The renegades are just like what was described above (Actually able to do something), being commandos. Their only problems are that they're wanted fugitives and hunted because of their disloyalty. Social and political problems come up, too.

But, force-sensitive clones and being Jedi-hunters? Wow. That would be truly amazing.

[Talarion]

Did I hear Star Wars somewhere?

This would be awesome.

That is all.

(I would try and contribute, but I just decided to check here before I head off to catch some sleep, so yeah.)

[Gatleos]

Obviously if you went with that idea it would have to be set during the prequel trilogy, since there aren't really many Jedi left after that. And the phlebotinum should probably be of the mechanical kind, so it makes sense when a new player enters the party and suddenly gets these powers.

The more I talk about this, the more I realize that I'll never be the one to run it. I'm no expert on Star Wars canon, and I'd probably end up getting corrected every turn.

[Darvi]

Or maybe the players join because they got those powers.

[Tarran]

The more I talk about this, the more I realize that I'll never be the one to run it. I'm no expert on Star Wars canon, and I'd probably end up getting corrected every turn.

You could always make up some sort of alternate universe to Star Wars. Nobody's saying you can't do that, and that would allow you to mold the universe better and make it easier to explain how players did unbelievable stuff.