"Peew peew!"
Our Star Wars game last night was a hell of a lot of fun, we played until almost midnight without even noticing.
Talia (who was still injured from the previous session) was critted by two grenades over the course of one combat encounter. I negated one by blowing a Destiny Point, but chose to suck up the other one. Then most of the building in which she was standing collapsed. She's pretty tough, however, and managed to pull through.
Doc Bosch played out the Destiny Point thing in a cool way. We were fighting alongside from Rantilian freedom fighters, one of whom had betrayed us to the Empire in what he believed would be a small way that got too big for him and resulted in the destruction of his people's sacred temple. (The aforementioned building that partially fell on Talia.) He felt pretty bad about this.
The way Destiny Points work in Star Wars is that you get them if your character has one of several defined "Destinies." Talia's Destiny is "Redemption," because she started off as an Imperial Officer and was involved in a terrible massacre.
One of the things you can do with a Destiny Point is negate an attack. So when I spent a point to negate that attack, Doc Bosch played it out by having the remorse-filled Rantilian traitor jump on the grenade. The rules don't state that the in-game manifestation of a Destiny Point expenditure has to be thematically appropriate to the character's Destiny, but the fact that the Rantilian's sacrifice served as a sort of Redemption for him made it much cooler. I think that would be a good house rule, or maybe just a guideline, for Destiny Points.
Anyway, after that we went up against Grand Moff Tarkin, rescuing the enslaved Future Admiral Ackbar and delaying the construction plans for "some kind of massive, top-secret superweapon" for weeks. ;)
Doc Bosch said that if we managed to kill Tarkin, then congratulations, we've massively changed our game's continuity from Star Wars canon! We did make an effort, and we may have been able to pull it off...but some of us would surely have died under a barrage of heavy laser rifle fire from Tarkin's bodyguards and elite Stormtroopers. (Star Wars: Saga Edition gives leader-types some really useful abilities to enhance the effectiveness of allies and henchmen, etc.) Plus, Tarkin had Force Points to spend and maybe even Destiny Points. So we didn't manage to kill him, but the most important thing for us was to bring Ackbar and his stolen datapad back to the rebels, which we did.
Then Doc Bosch suggested that we should go to a sushi place that's all-you-can-eat on Sundays. So today we joined Doc Bosch, Lady Bosch, fortinbras16 and shandril at Kyoto and ate waaay too much. We had a really good time. What's cool about this place is that it's not a buffet, you can order off of a menu (which includes everything I ever order at sushi places except for basic nigiri tuna), and everything is of good (if not exceptional) quality. We will definitely go there again.
Then I finally picked up a copy of The Dethalbum at a nearby Best Buy and we listened to it on the way home. mrsmetallian and I were impressed and amused by the fact that it's actually a good album, despite being a parody by a fake band. Good stuff.
Oh, and while I felt pretty crappy on Friday, I've been steadily improving since then. Unless I experience some kind of crazy downturn, this will have been an incredibly mild cold. My recently-acquired neti pot has definitely been my friend.
Talia (who was still injured from the previous session) was critted by two grenades over the course of one combat encounter. I negated one by blowing a Destiny Point, but chose to suck up the other one. Then most of the building in which she was standing collapsed. She's pretty tough, however, and managed to pull through.
Doc Bosch played out the Destiny Point thing in a cool way. We were fighting alongside from Rantilian freedom fighters, one of whom had betrayed us to the Empire in what he believed would be a small way that got too big for him and resulted in the destruction of his people's sacred temple. (The aforementioned building that partially fell on Talia.) He felt pretty bad about this.
The way Destiny Points work in Star Wars is that you get them if your character has one of several defined "Destinies." Talia's Destiny is "Redemption," because she started off as an Imperial Officer and was involved in a terrible massacre.
One of the things you can do with a Destiny Point is negate an attack. So when I spent a point to negate that attack, Doc Bosch played it out by having the remorse-filled Rantilian traitor jump on the grenade. The rules don't state that the in-game manifestation of a Destiny Point expenditure has to be thematically appropriate to the character's Destiny, but the fact that the Rantilian's sacrifice served as a sort of Redemption for him made it much cooler. I think that would be a good house rule, or maybe just a guideline, for Destiny Points.
Anyway, after that we went up against Grand Moff Tarkin, rescuing the enslaved Future Admiral Ackbar and delaying the construction plans for "some kind of massive, top-secret superweapon" for weeks. ;)
Doc Bosch said that if we managed to kill Tarkin, then congratulations, we've massively changed our game's continuity from Star Wars canon! We did make an effort, and we may have been able to pull it off...but some of us would surely have died under a barrage of heavy laser rifle fire from Tarkin's bodyguards and elite Stormtroopers. (Star Wars: Saga Edition gives leader-types some really useful abilities to enhance the effectiveness of allies and henchmen, etc.) Plus, Tarkin had Force Points to spend and maybe even Destiny Points. So we didn't manage to kill him, but the most important thing for us was to bring Ackbar and his stolen datapad back to the rebels, which we did.
Then Doc Bosch suggested that we should go to a sushi place that's all-you-can-eat on Sundays. So today we joined Doc Bosch, Lady Bosch, fortinbras16 and shandril at Kyoto and ate waaay too much. We had a really good time. What's cool about this place is that it's not a buffet, you can order off of a menu (which includes everything I ever order at sushi places except for basic nigiri tuna), and everything is of good (if not exceptional) quality. We will definitely go there again.
Then I finally picked up a copy of The Dethalbum at a nearby Best Buy and we listened to it on the way home. mrsmetallian and I were impressed and amused by the fact that it's actually a good album, despite being a parody by a fake band. Good stuff.
Oh, and while I felt pretty crappy on Friday, I've been steadily improving since then. Unless I experience some kind of crazy downturn, this will have been an incredibly mild cold. My recently-acquired neti pot has definitely been my friend.