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Maybe someone could share his ideas?
I'm a stay-at-home mom, who also enjoys all things Star Wars with my family and friends. This includes RPGs, like FFG's products. I recently drank the Kool-Aid on Age of Rebellion and am finding it to be a challenge with better-than-expected outcomes from some simple playtesting.
I hope you can value my insights, as a female gamer, despite asking for a male point-of-view.
As I understand your question, your playgroup (how many?) are Aces (which specializations?), and you'd all like to tell compelling and engaging stories with this cast. To the heart of your question, you want some non-starship encounters or seeds. Am I correct?
I wonder how many non-starship skills have been chosen. For example, what species-specific skill ranks were used? Is this a party of Dugs, Duros, and Sullustans, where their species' starting abilities already heavily factor into the career specializations? Is anyone wanting to use the Force, perhaps as their own career path from the Force and Destiny Core Rulesbook specialization (Warrior: Starfighter Ace), as a way to break repetition among skills and talents? How about any other piloting-skilled specializations; what is open to players- just one or more of six Ace specializations (If so, how are you handling the Beast Riders?)? What weapons, armor, and other gear are available to players, or is this just drawing from Stay on Target- Ace Career and CRBs (side question: do you, in fact, have regular access to this book?)?
Maybe knowing a little more about your players' characters may help us steer something in a unique direction. A group of all Mon Calamari Aces may suddenly have different agendas when a Quarren Squadron Leader takes the helm. If the whole party is a walking Agility and Willpower+Strain Machine, what about Presence or Cunning? The Empire, and known, long-term enemies, will begin to notice these deficiencies (or should, to propel story arcs and new directions or new duties). What are the party duties?
I like the suggestion from Stay on Target about building a definitive nemesis. Have you done this for one or more players or the group? Is there a recurring nemesis pilot or similar flyboy thorn in their collective sides? Maybe, more gold can be mined from a fresh, new nemesis character, around whom you build in advantages and plot hooks against your players' weaker points outside of piloting, navigation, or gunnery.
Pgs. 75-76 offer more direction about doing things other than flying, too, from Stay on Target.
This are my opinions, and I hope they can help.
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Edit: OP made their choice made and posted it.
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After some great discussions and encouragement from the community, I think we can retire this thread. I lead us off topic a lot, and new readers may get confused by the banter. My biggest take-away from this original post was that this community has a lot of experience in gaming, and with Star Wars, and shares of themselves freely with some good humor whenever needed.
Where do I go from here? I'll kick around the idea of an Age of Rebellion vs Edge of the Empire game, for reasons mentioned earlier. I feel responsible to actually carry-out a game, due to my son's "book report" hinging on his interpretation of those books. There is a string sense of community on these message boards, and quite a bit of community in our, umm, real community I live in.
I'll check back from time to time. I'm likely to be more of an observer with LIKES more often than actual posts.
Thanks, everyone. I wish I could give you all penguins!
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Yeah, I do feel proud that his go-to response to a friend having difficulties was to pop for pastries with no strings attached. Myself? I'd have tried to offer support too, without thinking of the added social pressures being asked to play a new game would have. Yet, he's the one with an IEP because he "learns differently." He could read and write before 1st grade, although fractions (literally) have given him nightmares. He is a big young man, but still my little baby behind his peach fuzz, muscles, and grease or oil stains that never seem to wash out.
So, you can see why this game is a cathartic outlet for him. He is willing to take something we all deem as casual fun and turn it into a learning experience. Even without being graded, he knew the "right answer" to a lunch date with friends. Despite his Asperger's Syndrome diagnosis at a relatively young age, he seems to grasp some social situations better than some adults. He and I are both at a loss to explain the sudden religious zeal by another friend and their parents.
I have to do right by my son. You've seen a hint of his personality and Star Wars interests. I want to tap into that fun creativity and just let him be a kid and play for a couple of hours each week with friends. It's even better that I can GM, because I have a front row seat to seeing how he behaves with others in planned situations.
He's of an age that I value experiential gifts over tangible things. I toss RPGs into the former category, although we need books and other reference pieces. He can hold the book and digest it til his heart is content, but we use those feelings, likes, and interests to build a deeper experience not found within the book. Does this make sense? I feel like I might be rambling. I AM proud of my son, which is why I want to share a hobby I've loved for decades, and also share our love of Star Wars.
So, whether it's soldiers or technicians, droids or verpine or ugnaughts, or a party of three or five, my mission on these boards - with your help - is to give him the best (expletive) rpg experience I can because he deserves it, and I love him.
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The idea of soldiers was my son's contribution. He's read a lot more blogs and online reviews than I have. I'm considering it because of the medic and the general combat-oriented skills this career has over technicians. Isn't there a Bodyguard talent tree in the Soldiers' book, too? I imagine this party would have its non-violent diplomat, and the rest of the party (3?) are soldiers of varying specializations, like medic. Doesn't the diplomat book have more details about protocol droids, too?
They returned from lunch. Everyone bought her meal because they chipped in their allowance or spare change. He said the biggest take-away was she knows she has friends. Very interestingly, they did NOT recruit her for the game. "If we did ask her, her lunch wasn't free. She needs basic friends right now." I'm paraphrasing a bit, but that was the scope of the lunch: support, not (necessarily) gaming recruitment. Of course I had to probe, and while they did mention us playing the Star Wars game, it was just as filler for what they like to do. I'm proud of my son and his friends for prioritizing real life friendship over following the fantasy of gaming distractions from real life. I wonder if these events will find their way into his final book report?
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So, I'll just throw this out there, as if money were no object...
Would a Diplomat with an entourage of Soldiers work to meet one or more of the following goals here:
* Require non-violence from the Diplomat. Whether by species or background or whatever, could we have a non-violent role for one player that makes sense and is useful to the game?
* Let some players, still angry over school violence from last week, be Soldiers as bad as they want to be? Wait- it's violent, but the Diplomat is the one under direction to be non-violent, so how convincing would they be? Like I've said, the teens want to play as themselves, and right now, they feel angry over the school violence to another casual friend. Could role-playing under careful direction give these kids the outlet to focus their anger and resolution, especially as soldiers?
* I have no idea what kinds of missions or gear this change would require. I bet one or both of the career specialization books would have details.
I read a lot of blogs and reviews of these two books, and am wondering if a completely different change in direction is needed to get bad tastes out of our mouths. At my comic book store, I can put one book on my "tab" that I pay at the end of the month. I'm looking at three: Age Core, Diplomat, and Soldier.
Advice is welcomed. I know this is a lot of $$ to drop after just buying new books. "Expensive" is relative, especially knowing how much therapy for autism can cost. Yeah, it'd ALMOST be cheaper for me to buy all three books at once with my discounts than therapy with deductibles and copays for new sleep medicine cocktails. No, I'm not suggesting we go without either medical option, I'm just comparing costs.
So, I'm kind of at a loss with the game as is, because of some sore memories that will take time to heal. We'll revisit or use it still.
I also wonder if we offered a re-start like this if we could invite other players without the bad start. Maybe we even nullify parental objection about violence if their kid played the non-violent Diplomat? Grasping at straws, now, second guessing my own parenting behavior and ability to guide kids who are and who technically aren't my own through a rough path.
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My son and his friends have been visiting with the extended weekend on Columbus Day. They've shared their disappointment over two significant yet (hopefully) temporary events. We discussed how to be a supportive friend at school, and to avoid temptations to retaliate against the assailant bully. They also expressed how one friend likely NOT playing takes some wind out of their sails before the game actually begins.
My suggestions about helping their school friend, from a woman's point of view, seemed to help them. I think they will be fine because they already texted her and will meet for lunch at Panera Bread today. She has her own loyal watchdogs, if she wants. I just asked them not to bite strangers or get violent themselves.
Honestly, there is more than a small part of me that wants to be a fly on the wall at lunch. I really wonder if they will try to recruit her for our game, knowing we're down one player for the foreseeable future.
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I spoke with the no-violence parents. We discussed the overall scope of this gaming hobby, and its history of random dice rolls and planned outcomes based on decisions/rolls. We also discussed the "Wars" part of Star Wars. I addressed how the PCs would be following the path of returning Vader's droids to him. As technicians, their use of tools and building things would take priority over combat weapons. I even showed the the Multi-Goo Gun piece to illustrate "weapons."
After comparing Vader to Satan, I feared the worst.
My biggest take-away from the discussion is a lot of heavily-quoted church based material that seems to fit a wide variety of topics. Somehow, economics and government wormed into the conversation, at which point I asked to stop preaching to me. I reaffirmed how I wanted the kids to have a good time playing in the Star Wars universe as heroes. They have a random chance to something bad happening, from an Imperial Stormtrooper asking for registration to running out of fuel for their ship. The more players push their luck, the more likely something more random or disastrous the outcome. Don't glitterbomb the Emperor and expect a pleasant day.
"Why add the Emperor? I thought Darth Vader was the main bad guy."
Neither parent nor I were buying what the other was selling. I acknowledged the communication difficulties. They said that my son must get his Asperger's honestly, and that there was a better way of dealing with "tragedy" than medicine and therapy. As I grabbed my purse and water bottle (note: NOT coca-cola) to leave after this well-intended yet highly offensive insult on multiple levels, their son sat in the hallway. He heard everything, I suppose because he looked forlorn.
I simply stated the the game is set with as little violence as I can direct, and further details will happen in game. I looked at the boy and restated the time and day of our next game (with a small delay as the group tries to calm down over the incident this week). I apologized if I somehow offended the family, and that I would not revisit my intentions or gamestyle further without good reason.
So, the ball is in their court. We may or may not have another player who may or may not use our house as a refuge and source of caffeinated drinks. Frankly, I don't care, anymore. He's in or out, and we'll have an answer in a few days I think.
What would you have done in my shoes?
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Penguin-love soothes the most savage wounds.
We spent the last two days R&R over real-life issues. With the extended holiday (Columbus Day), my son won't be going to school until Tuesday. I'm happy with how he is equally compassionate and willing to recognize what he can do and what is out of his control. On Friday, he and some other friends (not our gamer group) went to the counselor. They asked if there was more to be done to make school a safer place without another assembly. They offered their help in whatever way is decided.
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My wife and I don’t have kids, either. So, I doubt there’s anything useful in that space that I can offer.
I do kinda recall what I was like at that age towards girls, and to be honest, I wasn’t nice to them. I never choked anyone, but there were more than a few times when I “accidentally” brushed up against them in the hallway. And I got into fights with other guys, not uncommonly because I had “brushed up” against their girlfriend.
I would like to think that I have become a better person as I have grown up, but I didn’t get here all by myself. Official school counselors helped, as did finding other outlets for my energy — like wargaming and RPGs.
I know you’re going to be going through a tough time in this process, but it sounds to me like you’ve got a good kid, he has some friends who might be distractible but otherwise are presumably overall good guys, and you’re smart and you’re asking what seem to me to be all the right questions — of yourself, the kids, other parents, etc….
Since I can’t offer any useful advice regarding kids and parents and dealing with those kinds of things, I will try to restrict any advice or assistance I can offer to the realm of gaming and gaming-related topics.
But I will probably tend to be quiet when it comes to the interpersonal issues that I can’t really help with. That doesn’t mean I don’t support you or want to help in any way that I can, it just means that I have to recognize my own limits in terms of what kind of advice and assistance I can offer that are actually likely to be helpful.
I would like to end this post with something like “You go, Girl!”, but the problem is that you’re not a girl. I might be old enough to be your dad, but you’re still not a girl, and more importantly you’re not my daughter.
However, “You go, Mom!” just doesn’t sound right. In so many ways.
So, I guess I have to close with a question — what kind of phrase would you like to see used in this regard?
I don't know, Brad. How do you boil down the National Anthem to a note, or the night sky to a single star? You needn't have a catch phrase, because your genuine interest shown through more real than any hipster's 140 text character limit could. You admit when you've reached your limit, but still chimed in in solidarity. This is valuable - even more valuable than a quick quotable.
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So, with Resilience Advantage by Ugnaughts, would they do well as Cyberneticists? Bump Intellect to something higher, too.
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So, there's my boy!
Hey hun.
Being a non parent let alone one with the struggles you have I have stayed away from commenting so far. I do need to add a note of caution here though from someone who did not have the best parental relationship.
Angry Vader> angry parents. This to me is a fine and worrying balancing act. If this was me when I was that age Angry Vader Would become a
metaphor for Angry Parents very easily and that is a can of worms you may wish to avoid.
as for the rest sounds great, seriously all that you are doing is kinda inspiring. I hope it goes well for you and the group.
my feelings go out to yourself, your son and the girl, even to the attacker. I hope he realises what he has done and is remorseful.Thanks for commenting. We all get through life with help from others, and I appreciate your candor and sympathy for everyone involved.
I hoped that by having Vader issue the no violence warning, because of the safety of his kids and droids (let's pretend he cares at least a little for GoldenRod), it may be easier to swallow with Vader's rationale than just parents saying "Nope," regardless of their real reasons. Players will be less inclined to anger Vader, fearing his in game revenge, but maybe more inclined to rebel against parental warnings of no violence. Vader's anger might be easier to explain than a religious reason for our game.
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Vader stops Fett from trying to fire off a shot when his kid and droid are around! Why mess with him?!
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My name is Phoenix, but please, call me Phee
. My fear was (mostly) unwarranted, because I live in an awesome state and have an awesome family, but still. It can be scary sometimes, when you can see very real evidence that people hate you so much without even knowing you.So yeah, my spirit is with her tonight...
I appreciate your honesty and caring. Reading over my shoulder, my son hopes your 1000th post will be to this topic. He also really wants me to say
I can type for myself. Im (EDIT: StarWarsMom's son). I think you are brave Phee. If I see my friend tomorrow I will tell her I talked with someone as brave as she is. I dont know if she will be in school because of what happened. Ill still tell her when I see her tho okay?
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Oh no
. It's because of fear of things like that that stopped me from coming out until so late in life. All my thoughts to the poor girl... And your son, of course, for having to witness it.
I'm sad that fear kept you quiet. We haven't really 'met' much here, but you have quite the talent for number crunching, and a playful voice (well, outside of this mess of a thread topic)! Thanks for sharing something very personal, Absol197, and your compassion.
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3) Send the girl and my son and me some mental well wishes.
Absolutely!
Is is known whether or not the attacker is being disciplined (if not arrested; which he should be)?
I'm not immediately aware of what will happen to the choker. I do know that we got two phone calls from upper-echelon school administrators asking for my son's statement about what he saw, etc.
I'm happy that my son seems to be taking things in stride better than I might be. I feel really bad for the girl. I want to feel bad for the choker, but that compassion is far below what I'd like for my life. Nothing like this has happened to the girl in school (that I know of, or that my son knows of. I mean, choking someone from behind isn't an everyday occurrence at his school).
He said to me, and held my shaking hand- calm down, mom. Is this how you'd react if something like this happened to me?
As an advocate for my son, I've tackled ignorant teachers, know-it-all therapists, and well-meaning staff who have THE answer to every problem. I'm currently trying how to have a "violence" conversation with two adults I've know for a long time. The weight of all this violence talk wears on my nerves.
Let me publicly thank everyone who is reading and replying to this thread. What a journey we've had in just a couple of weeks! I;m not a social butterfly and prefer to hide behind my screen without a login. However, the wealth of support and genuine offers of friendship and kindness mean so much to me.
Yes, I have my partner who will be home later tonight from out of town business. Yes, I have my mother. Yes, I have my best friend who moved out of town earlier this year but who is a Skype call away.
I am thankful that I also have this community. You've provided much needed distractions, advice, and compassion during a difficult series of days. I'm sorry I'm not Wonder Woman, amd may need a day or two to rebound and collect my thoughts. Still, I think you folks accept me, my son, and even a girl you don't even know for who we are, or at least, who we try to be our better selves.
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That's horrible.
2) A droid, a jawa, an ugnaught and a chadra-fan are the go-to species. Add droid tech and gadgeteer. Can someone make some suggestions on other specializations to round out the party, please? Add general direction (like, bump the droid's AG to 4, or chandra-fan's INT to 5, etc etc)?
Northern Mustafarians make great Cybertechs or Droid Techs, and the Cybertech (all from Special Modifications) makes for a pretty good doctor/healer as well as a techie
Yeah, Eye for Detail is pretty nice for them! Thanks for the feedback! As we go for the droids, a healer/repairer is exactly what we'll need, too!
The N Mustafarian is quite likely to be played with as a Rastafarian until this distinction is made.
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Alright, here you go: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58496840/Ugnaught.pdf
Give it a minute or so to upload. I apologize if it is not as polished as the Jawa one, I didn't quite find the graphics I'd like, but I hope it works...
WOW! Thanks for the fast turn-around time! #feelinghumbled
The graphics are what they are- they're ugnaughts, after all, so it's not like there might be a zillion FFG-style images, anyway! I just needed something that looks "official" enough to get players a reference without the computer fired up. Thank you so very much!
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WAY OFF TOPIC:
My son came home from school today with some sad news. The girl, whom we referenced briefly in this thread as a romantic interest by some of the other teenager boys who play in our game, had violence visited on her IN SCHOOL. She was choked from behind by another student (not any of our players) with his hands, and sexual orientation insults levied at her.
...but no violence in our rpg, right?
I'm going into fixer/compassion mom mode right now. Seeing this act at lunch has upset my son, and he needs me. Can you please help me with these things over the next day?
1) Is there a spiffy template I can download to cut and paste ugnaught species stuff from the USM, like was done with the Jawa pdf? My google-fu is lacking today, so a link or message with link is appreciated. Having a hand-held source to consult is far easier and doesn't need invoke OggDude's character generator any more than needed for these new players who already have a tons of directions into which they could go.
2) A droid, a jawa, an ugnaught and a chadra-fan are the go-to species. Add droid tech and gadgeteer. Can someone make some suggestions on other specializations to round out the party, please? Add general direction (like, bump the droid's AG to 4, or chandra-fan's INT to 5, etc etc)?
3) Send the girl and my son and me some mental well wishes. I mean, (expletive expletive expletive) here we are, chatting about minimizing violence in games, and this stuff happens in real life. To-freakin'-day! I don't know if the other players, who are also students, saw any of this hate choke happen. I'm going to be sick, and foresee wine in my late night future...
EDIT: Add some compassion for the choker. He's obviously not his best self, either. Sheesh...
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There's a part of me, maybe a wrong part of me (you help decide), that wants to add some degree of minimal violence in the game. It's not like Mother Theresa said, "I don't want hunger and poverty, so I stay away from it." She confronted those ills head on. Her strength of character may be different than my players', but I wonder if I may be missing a motherly teaching moment:
We can't control what others do with their freedom of choice, but we can be responsible for our own actions in response to others' real or perceived behaviors. Isn't censorship a milder form of violence, too?
I'm talking about finding war reports on a slicing encounter (if we have a slicer), without even invoking real harm on players. What do you do about a threat of violence? Do you, as a party, try to stop it? If not, are you a guilty contributor to said expected violence? No blasters draw, no gore, but tons and tons of potential "violence."
Does this make me a bad mom or person?
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On another note, I wish the parents, church, or someone would instill self-advocacy in the boy. He could easily have declined the cola, knowing it was against his parents' wishes or his new church.More likely, he was rebelling.
Were I him, I would not have told you about my parents prohibition, and drank all the soda I wanted. Going to your house may be one of the few reliefs he can can get from his parents. But confronting his parents is a smarter idea.
I thought something similar may be happening, which explains his lack of reference to what would be a pretty big lifestyle change for him. I typically ask our houseguests to consider this like a second home, and to raid the fridge or cabinets as they want. I only ask that they offer the last of whatever is left to anyone else who may not have had any yet, and to write down that item on our fridge-based magnet message board for the next grocery trip. It's not like I force-fed (pun!) him cola!
For the boys, I know our house is a refuge from daily stress. They come over frequently, even everyday (it seemed) during summer when not in school. I think some of the anger over books, dice throws, etc. was because they know each other so well, and do consider our house a secondary home away from home.
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Would this idea float, do you think?
Well, I guess we know what side of the "Do I follow Cannon" fence you come down on.
Oh sure, I could nit-pick ideas - personally I think that Vader was pretty much of the "I killed Anakin" mindset and anything from his old life (like his first droid) he probably wouldn't care about. However for what you are trying to do - engage a bunch of teenagers who love Star Wars - I think that's a great premise.
I don't know if you had it in the cards, but I would certainly have Vader himself personally hand out the mission to the group at the game's start. If you're going to buck the trend of "Keep the Main Heroes of the Movies at arms length", go big, man!
I'm inclined to consider Six Degrees of
Kevin BaconDarth Vader. ZING- both droids were with Jawas on Tatoonie. Anakin was from the same place. Anyone want to play a Jawa? Check. Ugnaughts were on Cloud City, as were both droids at the same time at one point. So was Vader. Anyone want to play an Ugnaught? Check. Half of the party is beginning to evolve! Throw in any kind of droid, and we could see similar parity. 3/4 of the party, and we surprisingly easily match the 'Mechanics 1+' guideline, even without necessarily BEING technicians (although many of those specializations would work quite well).So...Jawa and Ugnaught are drawn from the Unofficial Species Menagerie. Droid is in the CRB. The last player will want a Chadra-Fan to justify the purchase and after the headaches that book momentarily (almost literally) absorbed.
A Gadgeteer makes sense to begin looking at careers, and has the license needed to pull/push storyline hooks.
A droid tech seems like a necessity, too, but that's okay.
From the Edge CRB, Spec Mods, and Far Horizons (and Stay on Target now, I guess, but don't want to have to juggle Duty vs Obligation), any suggestions? I'll likely present the players with pre-generated characters, and discuss how these were built after they get more experience points, and allow small rebuilds if wanted.
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Okay, my 2$....
Shouldnt that be a £ or some other weird foreign squiggly thing?
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The subject of 'violence' is a tricky one, and there's no easy answers. But I saw Star Wars in 1977 as a seven year old girl, and I understood that fighting and death were things that happened. The movies don't dwell on these, but you can't just ignore that the fate of Alderaan was a Very Bad Thing. Luke returns home to find his house and elders aflame. Ben dies, sacrificing himself in battle so the others can escape. Luke's childhood friend Biggs is killed by Vader. The themes of sacrifice and risk are present right from the start. In all honesty, if the kids involved aren't old enough to see the original movies, I would advise against role-playing Star Wars. Luke in the cave at Dagobah, Jabba's death at Leia's hands, Han being frozen in carbonite, Vader's redemption and death... I think all that stuff is too near the core of the films to ignore. This is a great lesson for kids who are ready for it - that 'doing the right thing' is tough and has consequences - but if the kids aren't ready for it (and you have to gauge that) I would recognise it and maybe play something a bit less intense?
WARNING - wildly off topic incoming
Man, I feel bad for the kid. Now you should raise your child as you see fit and I'm not advocating that kids sit down and watch Friday the 13th or Robocop (despite me sneaking into - or occasionally brazenly getting my mom to take me - to all kind of R Rated movies) or anything, but cutting out every single instance of violence in your life is just insanity. That means all your video games consist of Tetris and all your movies consist of romantic comedies. Even family shows like Doctor Who or shows with a positive futuristic message like the old school Star Trek have a certain measure of aggression on the protagonist or antagonist part.
Star Wars is about as positive a message as you can get - power of love, strength of conviction, doing what's right and so on, and the violence is 98 percent bloodless and harmless (Ponda Baba and the Wampa not withstanding).
That kid is going to grow up hating his parents.
Yeah, I never expected to go all out for blood and gore, but the actual definition of 'violence' is what hangs in the balance. How much self-preservation is violence? How much use of others' resources constitutes violence? I'm waiting to hear back from the parents on these and similar questions.
On another note, I wish the parents, church, or someone would instill self-advocacy in the boy. He could easily have declined the cola, knowing it was against his parents' wishes or his new church.
In fact, I'm not even 100% sure the family has converted to a new religion, just that they are checking out a new one. All of this may go away if some goes awry during their church meetings or deeper doctrine are unaccepted by the family.
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To all of this, add three guys wanting a date with a young lady whose affections are already spoken-for.
Was this young lady involved in the game, in proximity to where the game was being played, or elsewhere but nevertheless the centerpoint of some pre-existing tension among the three guys?
She lives in town. She is in class with three of the boys at once, and with my son in another class. To hear her name as a classmate isn't unusual because they share some many classes and the classes aren't super-huge.
However, her relationship orientation would exclude all players from having a date with her. Yeah, this was a difficult topic and part of the really bad time we experienced as ...well, teenage boys interested in a young lady who won't return their affections because of her attractions elsewhere. Insert disgusting jokes made by some of the boys and you can see how I had my hands full as a mother, mother/parent figure, and woman who thinks inclusively.
EDIT: No, she's not part of the group. For her sake, at least two players would have to elevate their maturity to avoid conflicting beliefs about her ability to be attracted to someone not named them. Thankfully, my son and her are friends and study-buddies two years ago, so he got to see a totally different side to her than her looks.
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Again, I have no idea about what church denomination is involved, or your faith... but you might also want to consider how you will treat The Force, which is really what makes Star Wars different from every other sci-fi setting.
The Force is REALLY vague as regards the religious and spiritual elements, but Good and Evil are presented as powerful and seductive forces, that pull and push at heroes and antagonists alike.
Again, this may not even be an issue, but I know some people get upset at things like Harry Potter or The Hobbit for having magical elements, or D&D having clerics and gods. Maybe best to consider that ahead of time if you think it might be an issue.
Initially, the Force would have its own extensive rules, and I wanted to avoid so much depth at start of the game. Given players' experiences, this may have been overwhelming. Plus, nobody asked to play a Jedi.
With the sudden church demands set by one parental group, I'm happy to avoid further ire by discussing "morality" at the gaming table.
Darlin', your advice is worth two bucks! Mwah!!
. My fear was (mostly) unwarranted, because I live in an awesome state and have an awesome family, but still. It can be scary sometimes, when you can see very real evidence that people hate you so much without even knowing you.
. It's because of fear of things like that that stopped me from coming out until so late in life. All my thoughts to the poor girl...
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