IC: What if Leia was the Hero
I’ve been thinking about A New Hope and the overall weak story structure, convoluted plot, and disenfranchisement of Leia. While I’m a huge fan of Star Wars, I feel like a retelling would be fun from an RPG perspective.
It would start with the same basic story. Jyn Erso beams the Deathstar plans to the rebel fleet and Leia escapes in the blockade runner. Vader catches up to the ship over Tatooine, where Leia was headed to rendezvous with Kenobi. All as in the original.
But here’s where we depart. Leia, an accomplished pilot, escapes in an x-wing with R2 when the Blockade runner is caught. She plans to jump to light speed, then circle back around to meet Kenobi. But her hyperdrive is damaged in a dog fight and she has to crash land on the planet. Now she’s on the run with the plans and her droid. She finds Kenobi and he’s become a drunk (perhaps he tried to train Luke and he fell to the dark side or something - or maybe he just can’t get over Anakin). While nursing Kenobi back to health and trying to find a way off planet, she runs into Han and Chewie, who are being pursued by the bounty hunter Boba Fett. Together they steal the Falcon, which is impounded, and blast off.
You get the idea. The setup works for 5 players: Leia, R2, Kenobi, Han, and Chewbacca. We could throw Luke in there somehow as well, depending on Kenobi’s back story.
I’d run this in d6 REUP and would encourage a collective discussion about the main characters and how they all fit together.
Anyone interested in such a thing?
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