Brickdoctor

Actually I believe that because it's roleplaying, it is real arguing, in-universe, and John Paul responded using an NPC, also in-universe. I'm not sure that it's something that should be done, though. You never told them before that they needed to be quiet, and they're not doing anything to negatively affect the quest, and they already defeated the enemy you're threatening them with. It's fine to be the evil QM, but threatening them to make them stop doing something that does no harm and that you never told them they couldn't do is kind of getting carried away. This is apparently another incorrect assumption some players have about me. I've only ever said anything about other players decision to roleplay when that roleplaying interferes with a statistical or mechanical advantage; I have nothing against their roleplaying itself when it doesn't negatively affect the stats.

I don't think you needed to stop them, though. They were just roleplaying, and they weren't doing anything to impede the progress of the quest...

As if that's a good reason not to know something.

It's not odd for Ahsoka not to appear in later productions. It doesn't mean that she's not getting involved, it just means that she isn't affecting the storylines of the main characters, which I think is appropriate since she's already filled her role and all the possible major future roles for her are already filled and the story already makes sense. Got accused of murder and left the Order after the master didn't believe in her innocence.

The Town Watch is an incompetent force in a city with no real law and no strong united government to enforce it - as one of the Houses in power, the Ziegfrieds are their own law.

One of my goals is to host a quest, epic on the scale of Quest 4* in both in-universe size and real world length, blowing away all records for long quests but with the majority of the quest being story, not battles. Some day. *Relative epic-ness, that is. When Quest 4 was hosted, it was far longer than any other quest and gave the heroes a much larger amount of freedom in a much larger location that they were allowed to roam around in. I railroaded them at the end because at the time it seemed like the quest was taking too long, even if it's now nothing compared to Quest 48.

It's not a two-battle quest. This is the boss now, so that means, say...four more battles?You said you wanted to host a shorter quest; maybe the only way for you to do that is to have the boss battle happen earlier.

Oh, are they not meant to fight him, is it not the boss battle yet? Oops (Though considering who the QM is, maybe the boss battle does start at the halfway point. )

Stop arguing with the Stealer; just tell him how he's taking away people's freedom and making their choices meaningless by using the Harvester to follow him, blah blah blah, then yell "For loot and XP and because we're heroes so we don't need a reason to kill stuff!". Then charge. Simple.

I think the entire reason Sandy won't let us imbue scrolls in shields is because he wants me to have to spend a turn to switch between artifacts with different immunities.

I'm embarrassed to say that I actually own the first volume of those three books. (This was a time when I was thinking I might one day have a huge memorabilia collection and wanted to buy all those Star Wars-releated books that I thought were hard to find because I'd never heard of them before - it was something of a 'Dim Age' and I didn't get very far before I started devoting the money to LEGO again, but that was one of the books I bought.)

Immune to Fragile. Immune to Badly Poisoned. Immune to Instant KO. Immune to SP Reduction.

No, you can't.

NOOOOO! Come back here with new scrolls so I can be immune to more stuff!

Very well. (But I would like to say that I do think she has potential for a future story - but that this is neither the right way nor the right medium in which to explore that storyline. A comic book, a short novel series, or even a short series of TV episodes, I think those could work, but only if they didn't affect the storylines of the main OT characters and if it isn't such a high-profile production as to make her seem like a main character again.)

I walk through the Marketplace on the eve of my next quest. Hopefully Guts and Hybros will remember to pick up some extra consumables before we leave. In the mean time, I should probably get rid of my lesser consumables and grab some just in case. "Miss Portia, I'd like to sell three Potions, five Venoms, two Fire Bombs, an Ice Bomb, and a Water Bomb for (5+5+5+5+5+5+5+5+10+10+10+10)/2=40 gold. With that, I'd like to purchase four Grand Potions." (10*4=40 Gold) I line my various bottles and vials up on the counter for Portia to see and collect my Grand Potions.

I move to look at the Quest Board, returning U'Ordiussum's nod as he exits. "Excellent."

But even if that wasn't a main role, it would still be a role that was already filled. The reason and the method by which the Rebels stole the Death Star plans? Explored. (And really, why does there need to be a reason? It's a planet-destroying superweapon that your enemy is building; you'd be a fool not to know that you needed to try to find a weakness before it was too late.) Getting Yoda to appear? He's in exile, knowing that his fighting days are over, waiting to pass on his knowledge to the next generation. He's not supposed to appear. Joining up with other Jedi? A major point of the Dark Times is that the resistance is scattered and what few Jedi are left are slowly picked off one by one. (And we don't need a character to get resistance together because we already have Mon Mothma and Starkiller and Garm Bel Iblis and Bail Organa for that.) Signifying how powerful the Empire is? The Rebels already know that. The Empire just wiped out the Jedi and the Rebels are lead by people who were already forming resistance before the Empire was created; they already know what they need to do and what they're up against. Last of the old Jedi? Already Obi-Wan and Yoda.

Sorry, I just had to pick this out of your post. That's exactly the point: the story continues on without her, and it already makes sense. Believe me, I understand the desire to know what happens later. I just think that this is a good place to end the story and leave the future of the character unknown, since there is already a future that doesn't involve the character.

Aw, MegaBloks! I'd forgotten about that series, and you had to remind me of it. Argh, stupid Whaladons and TNTs. (That, by the way, is an example of a ridiculous bit of the EU, and I was happy to find out upon looking it up that many of the major plot points of the series have since been retconned.)

Well that wasn't one of the original quests... I don't think Sandy built the Leo Aragon minifig, by the way.

They're not exactly being passed out, but they almost are when they're readily available to all heroes for a somewhat low price (compared to how much Gold heroes can make and how much they spend on consumables) for two months a year and everyone knows when they will be available. It's not that hard to integrate magic shops every now and then into quests instead.

I understand that people liked the TCW show and they want to see more of that in Rebels. But I don't think there needs to be a link as you describe it, uniting the two shows in their non-film-but-related-to-Vader-ness. They're still separate shows with (what I think should be) separate and different stories to tell, and they already have the big, overarching link in that they'll have Vader as what I assume will be a major character. (The two eras both being parts of Vader's story, after all.) As for that pattern I mentioned, my point is that there's one character per major progression in Anakin/Vader's outlook. I suppose you could say that it doesn't have to be that way, that it doesn't have to be a smooth or predictable pattern, but it doesn't seem to benefit the story (which at this point is still primarily the story of Vader) that much to bring Ahsoka back, the major character that she's become, and then to have her just mirror something Vader did to someone else. Like I said before: she filled her role, she's already figured into Anakin's failures, she's already majorly affected Anakin, and she's already gotten a great conclusion - I think she went out in a great episode, and I think it's time to move on from her story. I'm not an Ahsoka fan, nevertheless I don't want to see any character in Star Wars get a bad conclusion or storyline, nor do I want them to mess up what has already been established in the storylines of other characters. I don't want to see Ahsoka's already excellent conclusion made less so by a continuing storyline, and most of all I don't want her future storyline to create anything even more messy or unnecessary in the storyline of other characters when her role doesn't need to be extended.

Indeed. (And he claimed to be having people do research on the subject, too! It was his daughter right? Was supposed to be doing extensive research on the EU before writing an arc for... the Nightsisters and Assaj Ventress, I think - and then proceeded to throw everything we knew out the window.)

I kind of agree - when the game first started they were sort of the thing everyone wanted to collect all of, and we all thought K-nut would be incredibly powerful when he had all nine. New modifiers have been added but the gems still remain just as powerful with the potential to be the most powerful of the Damage multipliers. Meanwhile meads were increased in price but gems were made easier to get.And I should add that I don't think gems should be nerfed or that other classes shouldn't be able to stack multipliers like they do, just that they shouldn't be as common and shouldn't all be easily buyable from NPCs like Elphaba.