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We finished this game yesterday on Monday the 17th after two roughly 4-6 hour sessions. It was the game included in the Edge of the Empire core rulebook "Trouble Brewing", but I renamed it to "The Formos Job" which is slightly less generic. Seriously, "Trouble Brewing" could describe literally any story. The Empire Strikes Back? More like trouble is brewing for Luke and co. A New Hope? Sounds like there's trouble brewing for the Empire. Infinity War? Sounds like a lot of trouble is brewing! Anyway, I had low expectations of the adventure but it completely blew me away with the potential it had for allowing players to craft their own narrative by latching on to the characters they found fun or interesting. The NPCs are just fleshed out enough for you to care but not so fleshed out that you get bored or overwhelmed, and the way that the adventure lays out different reactions that NPCs can have to the PCs' behaviour is great for new GMs who aren't sure how to do that on the fly and veteran GMs who appreciate an adventure that's easy to run right out the box.

Big thanks to Ignas, James, and Conor for being stellar players and coming with me on this little adventure ❤ I really hope we get to do this again!

Anyway, here are some of the highlights of the adventure (the overall synopsis of which you can read in the Edge of the Empire core rulebook) in vaguely chronological order:

- unveiling this opening crawl to the players and them (Conor especially) just going absolutely bananas with excitement.

- the party immediately checking their ship for homing devices from the bounty hunter they stole the ship from and accidentally activating it when they found it.

- Perri vomiting on a shipyard official's shoes to distract him while D-troit waves off and throws the homing device onto someone else's freighter.

- Meeting the tritonite missionary and assuming (due to bad knowledge rolls) that his four arms are a sign that he's related to that old Clone War-era warrior, General Grievous. The tritonite's whole Scientology vibe was great fun to role-play.

- J9-B8's melodramatic wailing as Perri considered stealing his eyes to sell on the black market.

- D-troit killing Spir by shoving a glass of jawa juice in his eye, and Sho Koon slicing the bounty notice to have a picture of Spir's face so that we could justify the kill as for a bounty.

- Giving Gut-Garo the Weequay thug over to the Tritonite and later finding the guy dressed in a simple cotton robe with a big smile and dead eyes. Again, playing up the cult-like elements of the "Holy Gactimus" was hilarious.

- The fight in the market where Perri killed three thugs all by himself (where we all realised that he'd abandoned his office job to fulfil his space cowboy fantasies) and Sho Koon ripping the battery out of the enemy's gun only for it to explode in his hand.

- Meeting R4-W9 and telling him about what happened to J9-B8 and hearing his pitch-perfect "hooo..." sound of mourning, to which Conor could only Aaron_Paul_nooo.jpeg to.

- Tormenting a stunned Daro with the severed head of his smuggler friend (we didn't have much hope of keeping to Star Wars' usual PG rating...)

- Ordering a dejarik table and accidentally allowing the gaming lizard dude to see Daro in his cell, leading us to have to stun him too and leave him out in the wasteland.

- D-troit's genius plan to lure the smugglers onto the Freedom-2 by listening to a bunch of phrases Daro says during the interrogation and then having Sho Koon modify his voice box to sound like him (the Setback of which was that his voice was stuck sounding like a geezer forever). The ambush that helped us set up against the smugglers was perfect. (sta.sh/01i1jgdhukvh )

- "Hello. My name is R4-W9. You killed my boyfriend. Prepare to die."

- The intense fight against Bandin Dobah, in which D-troit's arm was crippled, R4 got a rad scar down his face from Bandin's vibro-axe, and Sho Koon got his arm blasted off by Godon's disruptor pistol. The moment Godon decided to give his sister a call thanks to D-troit handing over the number to him was triumphant and probably saved the party thanks to his indecision.

- Perri, after the rest of the party was knocked out and he was taken into Bandin's ship, casually throwing a stun grenade at Bandin's feet like an apple (while being held to a chair by his first mate) thus securing the bounty.

- The wrap-up where Conor played some triumphant rap music as we collected the bounty and sold off the glitterstim we found in Bandin's hideout, where Bandin said "I woulda gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling droids!"

- "You're pretty tough R4, how's about you become a semi-permanent member of our crew?" "Beep boop!*" *"Make that permanent!" *you_son_of_a_bitch.jpeg*

- Drawing the hierarchy of the gang on Conor's whiteboard and crossing off the members as we captured or killed them. (sta.sh/05ih86wdbjg )

- And finally, playing the Star Wars credits theme as we finished the second session.

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God this game is GOOD. I really hope Jack and Lozz are up for playing it sometime soon. The plan is to do a 1-3 session adventure with them and then fuse the two groups into one for a 4-6 session mini campaign. And since it's so episodic, maybe sometime *I* could be a player and someone else take over as GM. I'm thinking I'll either play as R4 (upgraded to be more like a PC) or a Jawa pilot...

Description
We finished this game yesterday on Monday the 17th after two roughly 4-6 hour sessions. It was the game included in the Edge of the Empire core rulebook "Trouble Brewing", but I renamed it to "The Formos Job" which is slightly less generic. Seriously, "Trouble Brewing" could describe literally any story. The Empire Strikes Back? More like trouble is brewing for Luke and co. A New Hope? Sounds like there's trouble brewing for the Empire. Infinity War? Sounds like a lot of trouble is brewing! Anyway, I had low expectations of the adventure but it completely blew me away with the potential it had for allowing players to craft their own narrative by latching on to the characters they found fun or interesting. The NPCs are just fleshed out enough for you to care but not so fleshed out that you get bored or overwhelmed, and the way that the adventure lays out different reactions that NPCs can have to the PCs' behaviour is great for new GMs who aren't sure how to do that on the fly and veteran GMs who appreciate an adventure that's easy to run right out the box.

Big thanks to Ignas, James, and Conor for being stellar players and coming with me on this little adventure ❤ I really hope we get to do this again!

Anyway, here are some of the highlights of the adventure (the overall synopsis of which you can read in the Edge of the Empire core rulebook) in vaguely chronological order:

- unveiling this opening crawl to the players and them (Conor especially) just going absolutely bananas with excitement.

- the party immediately checking their ship for homing devices from the bounty hunter they stole the ship from and accidentally activating it when they found it.

- Perri vomiting on a shipyard official's shoes to distract him while D-troit waves off and throws the homing device onto someone else's freighter.

- Meeting the tritonite missionary and assuming (due to bad knowledge rolls) that his four arms are a sign that he's related to that old Clone War-era warrior, General Grievous. The tritonite's whole Scientology vibe was great fun to role-play.

- J9-B8's melodramatic wailing as Perri considered stealing his eyes to sell on the black market.

- D-troit killing Spir by shoving a glass of jawa juice in his eye, and Sho Koon slicing the bounty notice to have a picture of Spir's face so that we could justify the kill as for a bounty.

- Giving Gut-Garo the Weequay thug over to the Tritonite and later finding the guy dressed in a simple cotton robe with a big smile and dead eyes. Again, playing up the cult-like elements of the "Holy Gactimus" was hilarious.

- The fight in the market where Perri killed three thugs all by himself (where we all realised that he'd abandoned his office job to fulfil his space cowboy fantasies) and Sho Koon ripping the battery out of the enemy's gun only for it to explode in his hand.

- Meeting R4-W9 and telling him about what happened to J9-B8 and hearing his pitch-perfect "hooo..." sound of mourning, to which Conor could only Aaron_Paul_nooo.jpeg to.

- Tormenting a stunned Daro with the severed head of his smuggler friend (we didn't have much hope of keeping to Star Wars' usual PG rating...)

- Ordering a dejarik table and accidentally allowing the gaming lizard dude to see Daro in his cell, leading us to have to stun him too and leave him out in the wasteland.

- D-troit's genius plan to lure the smugglers onto the Freedom-2 by listening to a bunch of phrases Daro says during the interrogation and then having Sho Koon modify his voice box to sound like him (the Setback of which was that his voice was stuck sounding like a geezer forever). The ambush that helped us set up against the smugglers was perfect. (sta.sh/01i1jgdhukvh )

- "Hello. My name is R4-W9. You killed my boyfriend. Prepare to die."

- The intense fight against Bandin Dobah, in which D-troit's arm was crippled, R4 got a rad scar down his face from Bandin's vibro-axe, and Sho Koon got his arm blasted off by Godon's disruptor pistol. The moment Godon decided to give his sister a call thanks to D-troit handing over the number to him was triumphant and probably saved the party thanks to his indecision.

- Perri, after the rest of the party was knocked out and he was taken into Bandin's ship, casually throwing a stun grenade at Bandin's feet like an apple (while being held to a chair by his first mate) thus securing the bounty.

- The wrap-up where Conor played some triumphant rap music as we collected the bounty and sold off the glitterstim we found in Bandin's hideout, where Bandin said "I woulda gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling droids!"

- "You're pretty tough R4, how's about you become a semi-permanent member of our crew?" "Beep boop!*" *"Make that permanent!" *you_son_of_a_bitch.jpeg*

- Drawing the hierarchy of the gang on Conor's whiteboard and crossing off the members as we captured or killed them. (sta.sh/05ih86wdbjg )

- And finally, playing the Star Wars credits theme as we finished the second session.

_____________________________________________________________________________________

God this game is GOOD. I really hope Jack and Lozz are up for playing it sometime soon. The plan is to do a 1-3 session adventure with them and then fuse the two groups into one for a 4-6 session mini campaign. And since it's so episodic, maybe sometime *I* could be a player and someone else take over as GM. I'm thinking I'll either play as R4 (upgraded to be more like a PC) or a Jawa pilot...