Darths & Droids ([syndicated profile] darths_and_droids_feed) wrote2026-07-09 09:13 am

Episode 2802: That is One Big Pile of Ships

Episode 2802: That is One Big Pile of Ships

Having a third force join a fight can be a cool way to throw in a complication. The heroes are battling a band of bandits, or grappling with a group of grimlocks, and some other pack of pugilists presents itself! They just wade into the fray, attacking people on both sides.

A variant is where the PCs are the third force. They come across two hostile forces who are already fighting one another. There are goblins! And orcs! And they're fighting each other! What do you do? If the heroes are reluctant to get involved, have both of the warring groups spot them and draw them into it, or both charge at them.

aurilee writes:

Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)

There we go! I knew we were going to have Nute show up again somehow. But these don't look like First Order ships. They don't even really look like any kind of Star Wars ships we've seen before, Millennium Falcon excepted. Perhaps they're just too densely packed together to have a good look, but they look kinda like a collection of model-kit bits and sprues. Just, you know, with a bit more detail on the stick-like bits to make them somewhat ship-like. I wonder where exactly they came from in the movie and what side they're meant to be a part of, given that they're only just showing up now.

Wherever they came from though, now this seems like a more reasonable fight for the heroes. A giant fleet of star destroyers wasn't going to be defeated by a small collection of fighters, no matter what happened on the command ship with Finn, Rose, and crew. Even Star Wars wouldn't have a bunch of unconnected ships explode from a single ship exploding, though I expect that removing the command will help tremendously. The Death Star in Episode VI exploding probably worked as well as it did for the Rebels as it had most of the Imperial leadership and was likely taken as a sign that things were going to go very badly for the star destroyers if they didn't leave ASAP. We don't have one of those to blow up in this case, just a very very large collection of ships that all look the same and a small looking tower on the planet's surface.

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