What iconic ‘themes’ can make your campaign feel like the original trilogy Star Wars movies? Here are some things to consider including in your Star Wars adventures:
- Super weapons
- Monsters
- Family issues
- Struggle with temptations / the Dark Side
- Fate of the Galaxy at stake
- The Force
- Stormtroopers
- Alien landscapes
- Epic space battles
- Light saber duels
- Droid sidekick humor
- Wild west type set pieces (Tatooine, Ord Mantell)
- Ruins of past civilizations set pieces (Yavin IV, gungan ruins, Rhen Var, Korriban)
- A sense of history behind some current events
- Exotic alien species and cultures.
- A wretched hive of scum and villainy
- A beloved space ship like the Millennium Falcon
- A powerful villain who has a chance at redemption story arc
- Rogue turned hero character arc
- Romantic story Arc
(Based on my own ideas and crowd-sourced wisdom from the Google+ Community)
One things that I have been doing that my players love is integrating background characters and story ideas from the movies into my game. One adventure was to capture a Rancor and deliver it to Jabba’s palace…it had to get there some way, why not make it your PCs job?
Another adventure idea that is currently underway is with Dr. Evanzan and Ponda Baba. Characters who have been seen and no longer matter to the overall arc.
I even am playing with fire a bit by having the group hunted by Dengar.
At the end of the day it makes my groupd kind of like the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of the Star Wars universe.
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