Brickdoctor

Right, but he doesn't seem to completely discard them or be ignorant of them - he does seem to know what's going on, as much as he claims that that's 'someone else's universe' that he can't control and doesn't play in.

It's not off-topic. We're discussing the appearance of a character in the Rebels series, and we're doing it in the thread about said Rebels series. I'm not saying that it would be completely nonsensical for Ahsoka to come back. It would sort of parallel Padme, Obi-Wan, and Luke, as you say, in that Vader would try to convince them of something, fail, and then try to kill them. (Obviously not succeeding/changing his mind in Luke's case.) But I think that there's already a good progression in Vader's storyline, hating Padme, wanting to kill Padme, regretting killing Padme, hating Obi-Wan, wanting to kill Obi-Wan not regretting killing Obi-Wan, not wanting to kill Luke, regretting turning Luke over to the Emperor. Adding Ahsoka to that kind of messes up the "failure, anger, regret, resignation" progression. (Remember that that progression isn't altered by Vader's mission to kill all the other Jedi, because they weren't characters close to him.) Additionally, my point is that that doesn't have to be the case with all the characters, and that there is already precedent for a character just disappearing the way Ahsoka has (for now). Ahsoka doesn't have to die for Anakin to be unable to save her - he's already failed to convince her of something and already failed to save her in his inability to persuade her to return to the Jedi order. This is the ending that best satisfies everyone, it doesn't make anyone mad by killing her off, and it doesn't make anyone mad by involving her in OT storylines. My point is also that Ahsoka already has a great conclusion, and I don't want to see that changed by a later conclusion. This is already the best conclusion I can envision for the character that should satisfy the largest group of fans. Just as with Ventress, while there could be more to the story and while it might make some sense to bring her back, it doesn't need to be done. Perhaps this is more in the storytelling sense than the storyline sense*, but the story has already been told. It's done, it ended with a well-done episode, don't mess with it. *And as vast as the EU is, Star Wars is still a work of fiction and any productions of it need to focus on the best way to tell the story of the Star Wars universe.

Where did Lucas say that he avoided the post-Jedi EU storyline? I think there's at least one instance of him maintaining continuity between his movies and the books; Coruscant was first named in Heir to the Empire. (Assuming that that wasn't something Lucas had already decided and instructed Zahn to use - I don't think it was, but I'm not a hundred percent sure.)

Thanks for the review! I'm not familiar with the 'real' ship nor am I a fan of the game, but I can't deny that this model is a very solid-looking build. (By which I of course mean the aesthetics, not the durability.) Color scheme looks great, TLG continues to impress with all the new colors of minifigs and their accessories, and while I feel the hull is a little flat on top, it's always good to see TLG integrating more of the studlessness and the curved slopes into the shaping of their sets.

Thanks for the review! Somehow this set seems a little... more gappy? lightweight? not as bulky? as the previous version. I can't put my finger on it. Regardless, I think TLG did well making this one of the cheaper sets that still includes sought-after minifigs. I won't be buying it because I have the old Jango Fett and because I'm not a PT fan, but I imagine that with a Clones clone, a Geonosis B1, and Fett in this set, it'll be an easy decision to buy for plenty of fans.

Thanks for the review! I was never a fan of this ship, it's apparent inability to fit in with other Star Wars spacecraft (It looks an AAT crashed into a sailbarge and had wings tacked on.), and it's overuse in TCW, I think TLG did a good job adapting it into a set, considering the source material. Not something I'd buy, but if you consider that these are minifigs fans are sure to like, and when you know what the vehicle is actually supposed to look like... not bad.

Well that particular model isn't a true 'rainbow MOC'. While it uses a lot of colors, they're all separated along divisions that make sense. That's sort of the position I was in*: I had plenty of bricks, not enough of each color to make one large model from one color, but at least each section or building or vehicle would have one color, and a color that made sense. (Ships would probably be black for lack of browns, castles would be yellow, fire stations would be red...) I guess it helped that I was originally a Town/City fan and I grew up with sets that were still on the smaller side, even if I wasn't old enough to ever have true Classic Town sets, so until I had more bricks, most of my buildings would just copy TLG's style with the open back, the smaller size, the prefab parts - things like that to cut corners and keep things to one color.*I was probably in a little better position than most, as I had a few buckets of bricks from a (then) TFOL who was moving on but had kept his bricks in very good condition. (I say 'bricks' and not 'sets' because all the sets were disassembled and some pieces were missing, but the bricks were like-new.) So the closest I've ever gotten to a rainbow MOC is... ...the ones I build now. I do the rainbow thing all the time when building prototypes or the support structure that won't be seen.

You got a silver one like me, for lazy members who don't contribute as much. By the way, while Historica doesn't have any of those copyrighted hobbits, halflings are fair game.

Ventress had a huge impact on Anakin. She was the rival enemy, the character drawn from unused concept art and fleshed out to fill the exact same powerful apprentice role, just for the other side.

"Yes, unfortunately, I seem to have developed a knack for discovering villains and then missing later encounters with them. I was in the Fields when Lady Wren was defeated, and now I hear that the bog witch Baba made an appearance while I was sitting around in the Hall making trades."

You could let Palathadric talk to them instead, since he's a Paladin and already has Diplomacy. (Or are you trying to avoid letting Pretzel say something? )

Something I just realized: Elgar (Jedi master brick), William (Volcanic), and I have all expressed our disapproval of the Wolfgang's stealing from the Houses. All the Forestman* heroes oppose the Wolfgang's mission, even though that's the faction that TLG originally used to fill the "Steal from the rich, give to the poor" role. *Although Elgar and William use the CMF S1 Forestman. IMPOSTERS!

The RA has examples of this more high-end setup by Huw from Brickset, and Cam's setup.

Actually, while Docken cares about rewards, these 'points' wouldn't affect his actual stats for Heroica. So unless they somehow grant loot, XP, or in some other way increase his actual stats, he wouldn't care. If he cared about a stat which didn't matter, that would in fact be non-essential roleplaying.

So many Rogues...

That wasn't mine, then. I don't use any lights or other equipment. Just paper, tripod, camera, light from a window.

Mead is a drug though not in the way most people think of it, I guess, containing alcohol. Nostrum is patent medicine and might very well contain opiates or cocaine.

This one?

Also: more figbarfing! I love that S9 Knight head. It's just so perfect for a Brobric Elf. (And that is a new head for Lord Normorn. I have no idea why I originally picked the S2 Pharoah's head for him; it just looks weird. This new head is still fairly close to the old one, and I like that it looks like the expression of a slightly older and stressed out elf.)

Interestingly, when the game first started, I think Sentinel was the only effect that most of us assumed was put into effect immediately. (Because all the other Shields are.) I know I did at least the first few Orders for Quest 1 with the Knights first thinking that they might roll Sentinel, and not to soak up Free Hits like we do now.

I did notice the Fang Coast. For some reason I never noticed that Pyr was flame coming out of the mouth, though. I assumed it was there because the sea between the Fang Coast and the Abra Desert looks like the Mediterranean, and so Pyr was maybe Crete. As for Terra Chima and the Lance, I admit that I'd never really paid attention to those areas until you pointed it out.

Oh, so was it intentional that the continent looks like a dragon's head with Lake Glaz as the eye? I noticed that when I was making the map of Dastan.

Yeah, Smelling Salts have always given players a second turn even in the Round they're used.

She did have a tragic end. She decided to leave the Jedi order. And yes, that can be an end to a character. Like I said: just like Assaj Ventress decided to just disappear. Besides, it's a major part of the story that the female characters close to Anakin died prior to his falling to the Dark Side and he couldn't save them. This ending made sense. Just as he couldn't prevent Shmi or Padme from dying, he couldn't convince Ahsoka not to leave the order. So she disappears, in an ending that satisfies both the OT fans who didn't want her to be retconned into later productions and the CW fans who didn't want her to be killed off.

Oh, and even though my emperor has a Star Wars reference for a name, I never tried to draw from SW in building for Dastan -- you would have probably seen a lot more Tatooine domes and exposed piping and the like if that were the case. (Though like anything I build, I don't exclude the possibility that something from Star Wars might have slipped in or was in the back of my mind, just because I've read so much about that universe. )