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    In general 
  • Outside the story itself, the Overly Long Gag keyed off from the link at the bottom of the rant for strip 50 just goes on longer than you'd believe physically possible, thanks to another AU strip being added every 50 main strips. The wiki even has a page cataloguing them all.
  • Since the characters are just avatars of the players in-universe, this leads to plenty of funny moments where they act in ways that often contrast to how they're played in the movies. Examples include, but are not limited to: Qui-Gon trying to summon a bigger fish, Darth Maul being surprisingly talkative, and someone calling Jar Jar Binks a genius.

    I. The Phantasmal Malevolence 
  • Strip 4: Trying to explain just what a Jedi is.
    GM: Jedi is your character class. You're sort of warriors with arcane abilities—
    Qui-Gon: Like fighter/mages?
    GM: — fighting for justice.
    Obi-Wan: Ah, paladins.
    GM: No. You draw upon the power of the Force—
    Qui-Gon: "The Force"?
    GM: The Force is an energy field—
    Obi-Wan: Energy? But energy is force times distance.
    Qui-Gon: And "power of the force" would be distance times the derivative with respect to time.
    GM: <sigh> You're monks.
    Qui-Gon: Got it.
    Obi-Wan: But monks can't wield—
    Qui-Gon: Shut up. He'll take away our laser swords!
  • As early as strip 15.
    Qui-Gon: Hey Obi-Wan, when we land, you stay put and I'll find you.
    Obi-Wan: Okay.
    GM: You're in different ships; he can't hear you.
    Qui-Gon: HEY OBI-WAN! WHEN WE—
    GM: No.
    • The stage adaptation takes it a step further, with Jim leaning into Ben's ear to shout the line.
  • Every time Jim tries to explain something to Ben whenever some Star Wars-related name comes into play:
    Obi-Wan: ... "Padawan"?
    Qui-Gon: A woven rug.
  • "You know .. that would explain a *lot*."
    • Doubly funny given Qui-Gon makes the same statement in the film only for it to be brushed off.
  • The answers to "What's a pod anyway?"
  • Often caused by Qui-Gon's ridiculous incorrect explanations and insane out-of-nowhere ideas.
    Yoda: Injected the boy with midi-chlorians, have you?
    Qui-Gon: Oh, that! It's okay. We'd gambled all our money on a race so we could buy back the ship we used to bribe a gangster to throw it; so we had to doublecross him and fix the race instead. We got the kid to drive, and he needed some extra skill points or he probably would have killed himself.
    Obi-Wan: You forgot to mention that the ship was never ours to give away in the first place. Or that you had no idea if Anakin would even survive the blood transfusion.
    Qui-Gon: But it all worked out fine in the end. After I threatened Watto with my laser sword and we ran away from the authorities.
    (beat)
    Yoda: Hmmm. Remedial course on Jedi ethics, you need.
  • The entire podrace plan of Jim.
  • This may possibly be the single most convoluted, self-defeating plan ever devised by Jim. The fact that it "works" is nothing short of a miracle.
    • Oh, and this was also technically the origin of the Tuskan Raiders.
    • It gets funnier when you realize that Qui-Gon created every major problem in the entire story. Or at least kicked it off.
  • This CMOF makes friends with Paranoia Fuel. The deadpan delivery by Shmi just makes it better.
  • A sort of meta one: Shortly after the above, Annie transitions to playing Anakin. The first big thing she says is what sounds like Anakin suddenly becoming overly wise and profound, possibly from his new midi-chlorians... But if you know West Side Story, then you know Anakin is reciting Somewhere.
  • "I sense much fear in you." "No you don't." "Do too."
  • Annie and the readers learn something interesting about Jim.
    Pete: Roleplaying is his downtime. He likes to turn his brain off.
    Jim: Chocolate dice!
  • Anything suspicious about Anakin? Nope, can't think of anything!
  • "I don't follow." "So, you don't follow, or Qui-Gon doesn't follow?" "..."
  • Jim trying to interrupt Darth Maul's monologue to Obi-Wan.
    Darth Maul/The GM: Look, you seem like a decent kid. Shame I had to off your hot-headed partner, but he wasn't listening to reason.
    Qui-Gon/Jim: I'm right here, you know! Me and my -8 hit points!
    The GM: (rolls) -9.
    Qui-Gon/Jim: I'll be quiet.
  • Qui-Gon's death
  • The alternate take for Episode 37, in which the GM actually lets Qui-Gon summon the bigger fish. The blurb below even links to a recipe for said fish.

    II. The Silence of the Clones 
  • Padmé meets her family.
  • The Separatist meeting in Episode II, especially the goofy French accent of Count Dookû and the similarly ridiculous speech patterns of the other leaders. Summed up best with the following quote.
    Ben: You know those improv classes Annie and I went to?
    GM: Yes?
    Ben: I just wish they could've seen this.
  • The death sticks scene actually plays out exactly like in canon, but then:
    Obi-Wan: "You want to leave your death sticks with me."
    Elan Sel'Sabagno: I wanna leave my death sticks with you.
    Obi-Wan: Anyone want to buy some death sticks?
    GM: Hey!
  • The Rant from Darths & Droids #240:
    And then she dies in this scene, and quite clearly reveals her shapeshifting capability. Wow, there are shapeshifters in the Star Wars universe! We've been shown that fact quite explicitly. Surely this will become important later in the plot.
    Only it never does. It's never mentioned again anywhere else in any of the movies. I think Anton Chekhov just committed suicide with his gun.
  • 242 (though the next strip repeats the joke):
    Anakin: I understand the importance of discretion.
    Palpatine: Are you...accusing me of hiding something?
    Anakin: Why? Are you?
    Palpatine: Are you?
    Two Beat Panels: *are extremely well-placed*
    • For added amusement, the next strip has Palpatine saying he went through Jedi training, and warning Anakin that the midichlorians he was treated with can raise awareness too far.
      Anakin: Are you calling me paranoid?
      Palpatine: Are you?
      Anakin: Are you?
      Palpatine: Maybe.
      [Beat panel]
      Palpatine: They can also cause deja vu.
  • #272, on the clone army:
    Lama Su: Two hundred thousand units, with another million well on the way. Each one absolutely identical to the next.
    Obi-Wan: Wow.
    Lama Su: You are impressed?
    Obi-Wan: It's just... I've never heard a GM admit that about NPCs before.
  • "Quiet, trashcan."
  • "But if you fail, we'll chop you in half!" "Right....I'm glad I'm a recording and didn't hear that."
  • "Also, kill R2-D2."
  • The beginning of Episode II, when Padmé and Palpatine are talking about Naboo's moon.
  • Throughout Episode II, there have been hints at the fantasy campaign gone wrong that pissed off Pete so much. When Ep II is over, we find out that the game was The Princess Bride. Pete is so angry because he was playing as Vizzini... who fits exactly into the kind of Min-Maxing we've seen Pete do throughout D&D.
  • "Who's the Jedi Master here?" "Er, you are." "Don't you forget it!"
    III. Revelation of the Sith 
  • Strip 415, where R2 decides to fire his laser cannons, rolls a 1 (with one of his "special" dice that has the 1's pre-rolled out, no less), and misses everything in the whole battle..
    Obi-Wan: What are the odds of that, R2?
    R2: ...Ramming speed.
  • Everything about the Homing Missiles in Episode III, from the way they act like some sort of extreme skateboarder to their really funny dialogues to their grand explosions.
  • "I'll just call Jim and tell him not to come back next week."
  • Why is Strip 506 so funny? Maybe because it's conducted entirely in questions?
    Palpatine: (flashback) ... Well in that case, would cucumbers and sliced egg offset the saltiness of the kippers to your satisfaction?
    Grievous: (flashback) Would doves cry?
  • "Don't ever interrupt me when I'm monologuing!"
  • Ben takes on the Fridge Logic of Grievous keeping his internal organs.
    Obi-Wan: Why, in a cybernetic body, have you kept your heart?
    General Grievous: Without a heart, how am I to feel love?
    Obi-Wan: Love? That's more human than I imagined you to be.
    General Grievous: Without love, how am I to feel hate?
    Obi-Wan: Okay... well... I guess that makes a modicum of sense.
    General Grievous: And without hate, how am I to know the exquisite sensation of mild annoyance?
  • "Ah, to take wing! Free of the surly bonds of—"
  • Ben, Sally, and Jim having a conversation on Sally wanting to be President of the World while Annie is about to jump off the slippery slope.
  • Jim finally gets how Annie is playing Anakin.
    Jim/Padmé: You're... EVIL!
    Pete/R2-D2: Ding ding ding ding! Give the man a cigar!
  • When Pete/R2-D2 declares his support for the party going evil:
    Ben/Obi-Wan: Wait, Pete, when did you decide to be evil? (Beat) I can't believe I even said that.
  • As Jim/Padmé explains how his/her relationship to Annie/Anakin can still work out even though Anakin's now officially evil.
    Jim/Padmé: There have been good people married to evil people before. If they love each other enough they can work it out.
    Ben/Obi-Wan: Um...
    Jim/Padmé: Like Hitler and Eva Gabor. Note
    Pete/R2-D2: What?
    Jim/Padmé: Well she was a bit evil, but compared to Hitler...
  • Jim roleplays Padmé as being naturally horrified by what Anakin's done... until he learns how much exp those kids earned.
  • Despite having already heard what Gunray's done to Naboo, Jim still doesn't get (or has already managed to forget) when Palpatine recounts what he said.
    Gunray: Don't worry, I have still solved Naboo's tidal ploblems. Permanentry.
    Jim: Well, that sounds alright.
  • Jim, having finally gotten the knack of staying in character, reacts to Obi-Wan telling Padmé that Anakin's evil.
  • This exchange:
    Obi-Wan: I sneak on board Padme's ship.
    Padme: I roll a Spot check!
    GM: What are you looking for, Padme?
    Padme: Just... searching for hidden compartments. On the boarding ramp.
    Obi-Wan: And I check my back for knives periodically.
  • In this strip, Ben is telling Annie in-character how Anakin wound up becoming so evil that he killed the one person in the universe he claimed to care about, and finishes it off by yelling "Your journey to the Dark Side is now complete!" Pete OOC'ly chimes in: "Achievement unlocked!"
  • Don't forget Pete's "special die", which apparently involves using goggles and rubber gloves. One has to wonder what it actually looks like.
  • While Padme was dying in labour after being attacked by Anakin, one of the medibots asked Obi-Wan if he's Padme's husband. He says no, and the bot immediately assumed that the children were born out of wedlock and tried to get the two to marry off immediately.

    IV. A New Generation 
  • This one requires a little knowledge of the Star Wars universe, but:
    Jim/Captain Antilles: We cut a pit trap in front of the entry point.
    Rebel Soldier: With what, Captain Antilles, sir?
    Jim/Captain Antilles: My laser sword.
    R2-D2: That was when you were playing Kyle Katarn. Remember why this character doesn't have one?
    Jim/Captain Antilles: Oh. Right.
  • To prove that Irony is alive and well, we learn that Jim's (original) character at the start of the "A New Hope" campaign is Captain Antilles... whom, if you recall, gets killed by Darth Vader at the start.
  • From comic 686, there's cover-ups, Vader-style:
    Vader: Word will not get out, will it, commander?
    Daine Jir: Won't it?
    Vader: Everyone concerned will meet with an unfortunate accident.
    Daine: Oh no, I'll inform our occupational safety committee immediately.
    Vader: No, you're going to kill everyone who knows.
    Daine: Oh dear, even myself?
    (Beat)
    Vader: Yes.
    • In the following comic, Vader's informed about the plans.
      Vader: So the plans would be...?
      Praji: In... in the escape pod?
      (Beat)
      Praji: So we should... um... find the pod?
      (Beat)
      Praji: Aaand retrieve the plans?
      (Another beat)
      Praji: And... execute myself?
      Vader: Perfect.
  • Pete versus the restraining bolt.
    Pete: Man! This sucks!
    GM: Actually, you think it's awesome.
  • Corey, the new player of "Adam Lars" (Luke Skywalker) is pretty new to tabletop games.
    Adam: That's a funny-looking dice.
    R2-D2: Die.
    Adam: Whoa, relax.
  • Despite not being familiar with non-videogame RPGs, Corey picks up player/character knowledge segregation faster and easier than Jim.
  • Pretty much anything Beru & Owen say. And there is blue milk.
  • The justification for for Adam having Survival: Snow.
  • Strip 719, in the midst of Ben's return:
    R2-D2/Pete: Yes! Thank god you're back! Where's my frakkin' dreadnought?!
    Obi-Wan/Ben: Crashed it, walked away. And you?
  • "Adam Lars" learns about his true origins.
    R2-D2: Congratulations. Your life expectancy just went from "senile pensioner with a space-bus card" to "missing your next birthday". Which, by the way, is actually tomorrow.
    C-3PO: Happy Birthday!
  • The other players were pretty straightforward with Corey/"Adam Lars"/Luke Amidala about his father.
    Obi-Wan:Your father Anakin used his Jedi powers for his own gains. It corrupted him. He betrayed and murdered your mother, Padme Amidala.
    Obi-Wan: That was the end of our friendship. We duelled, and he fell.
    Luke: Whoa, let me get this straight. My name is Luke Amidala? You killed my father?
  • After the introduction of Mos Eisley, and the discussion on how it's a Wretched Hive, there's this:
    Jim: A perfect place to meet a new friend!
    Ben: (As Obi-Wan, to Luke) We must be cautious.
  • Pete realizing, to his horror, what's become of his dreadnought.
    Pete: Mos Eisley is made of dreadnought!
    Jim: So... technically you own the whole town.
    Pete: But does it nuke things?
  • Pete tries remote hacking the dreadnought's systems to get the troopers. He doesn't quite succeed.
    GM: You access some controls, but you're not-
    Pete: I activate it! 11!
    (incredibly loud music starts blaring out)
    Trooper: That is definitely over local ordnance levels!
    Trooper 2: Let's go!
  • The introduction of Greedo. (Hard to explain, but what really makes this one is getting this after the long period of anticipation over Jim's new character. Especially as the writers teased the forumgoers by confirming, back in Episode I, that Greedo had been Killed Off for Real... and then having Jim hint that his new character would be named "Greedo".)
    • Also, here, Greedo is more difficult to understand than Chewbacca, who speaks English fluently.
    "Greedo:" Buongiorno! It'sa me! Greedo!
    Cue Obi-Wan and Luke looking completely baffled
    • Then there's Obi-Wan's and Luke's reaction to Greedo wanting payment before transporting them.
    • After a few more minutes of listen to Jim's roleplaying, the GM explicitly apologizes for letting this happen.
    • Soon after Obi-Wan and Luke leave, Greedo is held at gunpoint by...Han Solo, captain of the Millenium Falcon (read-the original Greedo).
      • Which naturally leads to the question: Did Han shoot first, or did Greedo? Answer: Yes.
  • Obi-Wan doesn't need a Jedi Mind Trick to get past the stormtroopers in this story. These guys aren't just weak-minded, they're stupid.
    Obi-Wan: So what does this lunatic look like?
    Trooper 2: Well, he looks like... that kid there actually. Anyway, have you seen anyone by that description?
    Obi-Wan: Besides this kid here that looks like him, no. No I haven't.
    Trooper 1: That's a shame. We're all very concerned.
    Obi-Wan: Luke, do you have a twin that you know of?
    Luke: Huh? No, not that I know of.
    Obi-Wan: Hmm. Well, you heard it from the kid himself. Sorry we couldn't be of more help.
    Trooper 1: Say, kid, if you've got some spare time later, perhaps you could patrol with us and help give people an idea what this lunatic looks like. No insult intended.
  • The big reveal, comic 722...
    Vader: I had your blood tested, Senator Princess Organa. DNA analysis. Midi-chlorian count.
    Vader: Princess isn't your real name, is it? Your real name is Leia.
    [snip]
    Vader: You're not the Organas' daughter.
    Leia: Duh! I've known that since I was, like, six. I'm the proud daughter of two heroes who died... fighting the likes of you!
    Vader: No, Leia, you are my daughter.
    Leia: That's not true. It's impossible!
    Vader: Search your DNA report. I know it to be true.
    Leia: No. Noooooo!!!!
  • The forums reaction to Naboo's destruction. Ranging from: mourning Jar Jar Binks, the complete destruction of all Tuna Booze Oil, and the fact Jim will never be able to cast Summon Bigger Fish ever again. If you were someone who never read the comic before but had seen the movies, the sheer crazy-pants nature of it is freaking hilarious. Bittersweet though if you're a fan, where it feels like an actual death to a very unique part of the series but still freaking ridiculous.
  • The general reaction to The Reveal that Annie is in fact controlling Vader.
    Corey: Let me get this straight. Annie, you're now playing Princess and her evil dad? How does that even work?
    Pete: If I was controlling a bad guy, you know what I'd do?
    Ben: If?
  • The destruction of Naboo gets more comedy than it should.
  • This strip has Pete trying to shut off one alarm after another to the point that he's triggered all of them! Han's position in the final panel sells it.
    Sally: I'm pretty sure this does not match the definition of "sneaking in."
  • What we have here is an exact transfer of lines from the movie, and it being completely fitting.
    Han: Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?
  • This strip has a running gag of Vader and Tarkin being interrupted by alarms giving confused reports on what's going on. The last line perfectly sells it.
    PA System: One of them may be a radioactive Wookiee-gram.
  • Ben trolling two clone troopers.
  • "Look, there is absolutely nothing weird about Leia kissing Luke."
  • "Hey, we made it out with as many people as we went in with!"
  • This exchange, about Ben having stood up to his father about his future career:
    Sally: And dad'll get over it soon.
    Ben: You think?
    Sally: We needed a new kitchen table anyway.
  • Jim goes for the More Dakka approach when it comes to shooting enemy fighters.
    GM: Are you sure? You'd need a bucket of dice...
    Pete: Here.
  • Pete's special die being mentioned again is in itself funny, but Jim's reaction when he learns the GM (and the police) banned any other use of it or something similar is priceless.
  • The inversion of That's No Moon in this comic.
  • Pete's brings out another special die for the shot on the Peace Moon. And when the GM protests the use of explosions, Pete reassures him that it's been sitting under liquid Nitrogen.
  • The description of Jim's side campaign (which is based on Airplane!) as the "GREATEST DRAMATIC STORY EVER." Presumably it was actually based on Zero Hour! (1957) (the movie that Airplane! parodies), and the other players derailed it.

    V. The Enemy Let Slip 

    VI. The Jedi Reloaded 
  • How the infamous Slave Leia outfit is handled:
    GM: Jabba slumbers in his chamber. You see Princess on the throne platform, obviously his slave.
    Luke: How so?
    GM: Well, uh, she's chained up and dressed as a slave.
    Leia: Ah, like Shmi. Shapeless sackcloth sort of thing?
    GM: Yeah, um... something like that.
  • It's easy to forget that Jim and Annie are playing this campaign via webcam until something like this happens:
    Pete: Anyone want a drink?
    Jim: I'll have one.
    Corey: Um. You're in Los Angeles.
  • Jim declaring he is out of his usual good idea so he is gonna do something crazy.
  • Strip 1258: The characters are attempting to entertain Jabba in order to stall for time. After Ben tries and fails with a story about failing to rescue a slug:
    Jim: Time for my psychotic episode. Blargle blargle grargle!
    Jabba: Now that's entertainment!
  • During the battle at the sale barge, Pete warns the others that the guards are setting up a gun on the rail, and the entire party spontaneously launches into a Hurricane of Puns. What really sells it though, is the entire party cheering in unison when it fires on the next page
    Everyone: "Balustrade Blaster!"
  • Strip 1266
    Boba Fett: Fool!! You should have chopped off my hand while you had the chance!
    Luke: There are enough small arms around here already.
  • Han finally reaches breaking point with Boba's monologues, telling him the truth about Obi-Wan, forgetting one teeny, tiny important detail...
    Lando: Wow. Good memory, Mr. Amnesiac.
    Han: ... or so Chewie told me, anyway.
  • And then, after Boba's spectacular breakdown and death, comes the punchline.
    Luke: Obi-Wan's not actually dead, you know. He just transcended into a cloud of midi-chlorians.
    Han: Well now you tell me.
  • Strip 1300
    Luke: Well, that was a great swamp juice.
    GM: Make a Bluff roll.
    Luke: 3.
  • Yoda teaches Luke Force Transcend. It goes poorly.
    Luke: How do you do this transcend thing anyway?
    Yoda: Like this. Hnnnnngggggh
    [Yoda becomes one with the Force]
    Yoda: Only once can you do it though.
  • In strip 1317:
    C-3PO: Luke, who are you talking to?
    Luke: Huh? You can't...? Oh... just... my invisible friend.
    Han: I used to have one of those!
    {beat}
    Han: But then he vanished.
  • The attempt to sneak on board the second peace moon, predictably, fails. This results in their shuttle being remote-controlled to land at an ambush point. Jim's solution: shoot out one of the engines. Of the shuttle they're in. That is in the process of landing. When pointed out that this will cause them to crash and die, he enacts his backup plan... of shooting out the other engine.
    Chewbacca: Please allow me to express my heartfelt exasperation at this almost entirely self-imposed mass suicide attempt by prefacing my blame attribution with the request for the identity of the person who gave Han a bloody blaster.
  • Jim's opinion on his past plans.
    Luke: So... Turns out you need to have a good plan, not just good rolls.
    Han: Whereas some of my plans were so good they didn't even need to succeed!
  • In strip 1363, R2 (Pete) tries to free the group from the net...by using a pizza cutter. The explanation is also funny;
    R2: I had it installed in Jabba's palace to serve pizza on his barge.
    C-3PO: That seems a bit over-powered for cutting pizza.
    R2: I put extra points into it.
  • "I'M SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW"
  • The in-universe explanation for the random frog-thing outside Jabba's palace?
    C-3PO: [What] are you doing with that sock puppet?
    Beat
    Worrt: I got bored waiting for all of you to arrive.
    • Even better? The frog in this narrative does a Shakespeare soliloquy.
    • Then the GM realizes that Jim and Annie had been connected via webcam for quite some time, and so saw the whole thing.
      Jim: We made popcorn.
  • Corey mentions having an idea for a campaign. The GM assures him that he can run it after Episode VI.
    GM: What's it about?
    Corey: Big guns.
    Jim: AWESOME.
    Pete: I'm in.
    Sally: I hope there's more to it than that.
    Pete: Yeah. Bigger guns.
    Corey: Oooh, good idea. I'll make a note.
  • The Ewoks are reinvented as ultra-capitalists, thanks to the influence of Nute Gunray.
  • The Ewoc trap. Since the players are all fully aware of what an innocuous piece of meat on a stick in a forest means, they spend ten minutes debating what to do.
    Jim: It's clearly a very elaborate trap.
    Ben: ... it's a dead animal on a stick.
  • The Ewocs agree to give the group transportation back to their village. Ben thinks this sounds fair. Cut to them tied to poles.
    Chewie: Well this just isn't fair.
    Paploo: Don't worry. You'll be invoiced for the cost of these sticks.
  • Sally, as C-3PO scamming the Ewocs by pretending to be Nute. Repeatedly. Also counts as a moment of awesome.
  • Han prods Paploo into going along with a crazy plan by calling him an NPC. Yes, in-character. Leading to this.
    Paploo: {driving off} Non-Profit Company, my foot!
  • The Emperor doesn't get why anyone would want to destroy the Peace Moon.
    Luke: Your last one destroyed Naboo.
    Palpatine: This one is far bigger, far better, far more peaceful!
    Leia: Has he ever thought about making his superweapons smaller, worse, and actually peaceful?
    Sally: So, not actually super, and not actually a weapon?
    Pete: Where's the fun in that?
  • During the attack on the Peace Moon, Admiral Ackbar makes a realization.
    Oh my god! It's not a trap! We're just prats!
  • The Ewocs declaring war. "Sound the Horn of Plenty!" "Booo-yah!"
  • In strip 1438, when it's revealed that Darth Vader made it most of the way down the path to the Light Side:
    Pete: Have you been planning this all out again, Annie? That's way too much effort for a game.
    Annie: Doop deep.
  • I needed a lieutenant of unparalleled acumen; but alas, Jar Jar turned me down."
  • Pete is a lawyer. Criminal defense.

    Butch Cassian and the Sundance Droid 
  • At the start of Butch Cassian and the Sundance Droid, the team tries to explain a session they played before Corey joined and Ben returned, but alas, Jim as usual derails what happaned.
    Pete: You weren't even there Jim.
    Jim: They were my minions who emerged victorious. Same thing.
    Pete: Technically they were Jabba's minions.
    Sally: And that wasn't even the start of the adventure!
    Ben: Is anything Jim said true?
    Jim: (With a shit-eating grin) It was definitively awesome!
  • With "Kyle Katarn" (or Saw Garrera) making his appearance, we learn why Jim's not allowed lightsabers anymore: Kyle didn't just slice off his hand, but both of his legs as well.
  • Galen's unconventional (and evil) parenting style:
    Bria: He always used to do this.
    Chirrut: He always used to develop giant apocalyptic superweapons?
    Bria: No, lecture me with PowerPoint.
    Chirrut: The fiend!
  • The "Did you know that wasn't me?!" scene, where Sally approaches the group, only to take a Critical Hit from Jyn/Bria.
    GM: Um, Sally, what's your HP total again?
    K-2SO: 44. Way more than Threepio! That's a lot, right?
    GM: Uh... Wow. Looks like Bria totally took care of that Imperial combat droid that K-2SO was right behind!
    {beat}
    K-2SO: Hey guys! It's me!
  • K-2SO’s death. In the movie, it’s a moving, tragically unavoidable Heroic Sacrifice to ensure the mission succeeds. Here? He dies because Cassian and Jyn stupidly lock themselves inside the vault by bringing the handprint they need to open it in with and having Kaytoo shut the door behind them. As a result, he’s left to get shot to death by dozens of stormtroopers while Cassian and Jyn just sit in the vault like idiots.
  • The big dramatic moment on which all of Jim's roleplaying of Jyn hinges: Galen Erso actually hated PowerPoint all along! Krennic tricked him into using it, the fiend.
    Ben: But... PowerPoint?
    GM: I'll take all the help I can get.
  • From the non-canonical strips, there's Galen Erso's revenge:
    Galen: No railings. Anywhere. Clone troopers will fall to their deaths by the thousands.

    The Invisible Hands 
  • The Ass Pull improvised let's-just-kill-some-time nature of the latest campaign (based on the Star Wars episode of The Muppet Show) becomes more and more obvious until this happens. Singing fish, floating on the stage.
    R2-D2: Wait. Is the stage flooded then?
    GM: Uh, no. They're... suspended by force fields. And they're holding their breaths.
    R2-D2: While they're singing?
    GM: If you guys can get away with it, so can I!
  • Pete and Sally witnessing the GM's improvising improv theatre.
    Pete: You suggested an improv theatre.
    Sally: I regret nothing.
  • Corey's leet interrogation skills.
    Pete: Do you think he's actually stupid, or just roleplaying stupid?
    Sally: He's learned a lot from Jim.
    Pete: My question stands.
  • The new-... er, núwsreader (as the transcript calls him) getting mobbed by sheep.
  • Sally's opinion on the alignment status of paper.
    Pete: Bills are lawful neutral!
    Sally: Lawful neutral is just evil with extra steps!
  • Who is Miss Piggy in this campaign? Wedge. Shapeshifted, naturally.
  • Poor Corey as Luke trying to work out the many, many layers to Wedge's disguise.
    Luke: Why are you wearing a disguise?????
    Wedge: Otherwise they'll suspect I'm a shapeshifter!
  • "The Force runs deeply in Anakin's family." "So does getting burnt."
  • The Vader-knockoff is using an electronic signal to make R2-D2 dance, and Chewbacca figures out that the best way to jam the signal is to counter-dance. When the clone turns his signal on C-3PO, Sally points out that dancing requires a Skill roll.
    C-3PO: Although I'm fluent in six million forms of communication, interpretive dance is not one of them. My Dance skill is -3.
    Chewbacca: Good, you need to fail! If you do the dance properly, the sleeper agents will get the activation signal!
    R2-D2: Natural 1! Natural 1!
    Unsound Effect: (20!)
    C-3PO: (dances for a couple panels) On the bright side, six million and one.
  • And Corey's reaction is to just resort to the combat system.
    Luke: I quick-draw my laser sword, and...
    GM: Quick-draw? Make a skill roll.
    R2-D2: A normal draw would have been fine.
    Luke: Don't panic.
    Unsound Effect: (1!)
    Luke: Okay, panic.
  • Pete successfully negotiates a +3 bonus to R2's dancing roll... that is, the dance that R2 is performing because he's being controlled by the enemy. The Rant sums it up nicely:
    When claiming dice roll bonuses or any other sort of advantage for various circumstances, don't forget that those circumstances might also apply to your opponents.
    Especially if you're currently working for the opponents.
  • Pete dealing with the Vader knockoff via Logic Bomb is impressive... until you notice Pete is quoting Star Trek (specifically, Kirk's logic bomb from "The Changeling").
  • After dealing with the Vader knockoff, Pete shares his chain of thought that led him to deduce Nute Gunray was behind it.
    Pete: It's so obvious that something else was going on. Something deeper and more sinister.
    GM: And not that I was improvising by the seat of my pants?
    Pete: That... never occurred to me.
    GM: Thank you.
  • From the intermission strips, Pete and Corey trying to make sense of Wedge Piggy's clone being a shapeshifter... turned into a statue.
    Pete: That just made less sense.
    Wedge: You gotta learn to just stop asking at some point, good buddy.

    VII. The Forced-Away Kin 
  • As the group finally start playing The Force Awakens, they all roll up new characters. Who does Ben initially play as? Lor San Tekka. No prize for guessing how that works out.
    Lor: Beware. There is a legend that whoever passes on the location of Ahch-To is doomed.
    Poe: (blissfully) Cool. Hand it over, I'll take care of it.
    (Lor stares at Poe nervously before reluctantly handing him the map, at which point BB-8 barges in.)
    BB-8: Hey, guys, we got company!
    Lor: The First Order! They tracked you here!
    Poe: Hey, you're the one who's doomed.
  • Laser-Guided Karma locks on as Poe and BB-8 head back to their fighter ship with intent to use the guns; troopers hit the engines, and Corey is left with a point-defense swivel gun as Jim tries to get the ship moving.
    GM: The ship won't start.
    Poe: I hotwire it.
    BB-8: The engines are on fire!
    Poe: Should be easy, then! (rolls) 3. Not great, not terrible.
    GM: The gun stops working.
    BB-8: How is that not terrible?!
    Poe: The engines are still warmed up!
  • Knowing that Annie is playing one of the enemy troopers, Jim starts trying to shoot hers down, as another PC is a more difficult opponent than masses of Mooks commanded by the GM. The first trooper he shoots down after making that decision... isn't Annie's.
    Finn: You shot my buddy! Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds!
    Poe: Uh oh.
  • Pete's massive Freak Out when Sally, as Kylo Ren, kills Lor San Tekka.
  • Kylo's interrogation of Poe, which Poe turns into a job interview.
    Kylo Ren: I believe you may be the Resistance pilot I'm looking for.
    Poe: Possibly. So tell me, what's the worst thing about working for the First Order?
    Kylo Ren: Dealing with Resistance scum like you.
    Poe: What's the best thing?
    Kylo Ren: I get to kill anyone who stands in my way.
    Poe: Walk me through a typical day.
    Kylo Ren: What?
    Poe: You know what my greatest weakness is?
    Kylo Ren: You talk too much?
    Poe: I come up with a lot of crazy ideas. I mean kerr-azy. It takes someone with a firm hand to keep me in check.
    Poe: But on the plus side, I'm the one who can see through a screen of obfuscation and deliver that one blinding realisation that we've been doing everything wrong, and need to change to something nobody else could conceive.
    Poe: In short: I'm the guy your organisation needs.
  • In one of the most delightfully bizarre and inexplicable character changes yet, Captain Phasma is portrayed as speaking almost entirely in poetry quotations.
  • In general, the sheer amount of Adaptational Villainy hurled at the Sequel cast so far. Finn is a revenge-driven Sociopathic Soldier who only complains about the mass murder of villagers because his target isn't among them. Poe is an unsympathetic douchebag who turns traitor at the first sign of trouble. BB-8 is a Pragmatic Hero who manipulates Poe into a Stupid Sacrifice that gets him captured. Even Kylo Ren is more of a villain, killing Lor San Tekka just because, instead of being provoked into it by Lor pressing his Berserk Button. Its like everybody decided to try and play like Pete.
  • Speaking of Pete, he's playing Rey, who took "Never Gets a Good Parking Spot" as a flaw, meets an old woman who saw Anakin kill Greedo, gets compared to Anakin, and botches up a bargaining roll.
    memnarch: And now Rey is out of parts, needs some water both to drink and to reconstitute her food, and wants to leave town tomorrow on a hoverbike that's probably been stolen for parts by now. Half the players are on Team Antagonist, and the other half are scattered about or busy finding a new character.
    ...
    This campaign is awesome.
  • For that matter, in a meta sense, addressing some of the fan reactions to Rey by having her, in the strip, be a character played by Pete.
  • Kylo Ren torturing Poe using Force Coercion.
    Kylo Ren: Now... do the hokey pokey and turn yourself around.
    Poe: (who is tied to a chair) Argh! These restrains!! I CAAAN'T!!!
  • Finn sees Rey for the first time while she is fighting against two thugs. Since she is played by Pete, Finn is initially skeptical at her cry for help and wonders if she's a thug who is assaulting two innocent peddlers.
    Rey: ... I'm being repressed!
    Thug: Bloody peasant!
  • Strip 1914: The GM knows his players.
    GM: As Chandler's Law says, when in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand. I have a lot of doubts about the ability of you guys to stay on track.
  • In an excellent example of delayed in-character introductions, Finn, Rey, and BB-8 end up on the same side of a combat situation before they get each others' names.
    Finn: You, check out over there! Droid, see if there's anything we can use as a weapon!
    Rey: My name's Rey!
    BB-8 And I'm BB-8.
    Finn: Finn. Pleased to meet you. Now unless we ditch these troopers I think this is the beginning of a really short friendship!
  • Episode 1946 sees the return of Han and Chewie... with Jim playing Han.
    Sally: You’re letting Jim bring Han back?
    GM: Of all the characters Jim’s played, he’s the only one who hasn’t died relatively quickly.
    • It quickly turns out that Han/Greedo is still going around stealing people's identities for no reason, as he currently goes by the name Xasha. Rey complains that he was using the name Vittorio when she last saw him, and not long after he steals the identity of a random henchman he killed, changing his name to Yanni.
    • Jim also reveals that the reason he's bringing Han back is because the character he rolled up as a replacement for Poe was supposed to meet Rey, Finn, and BB-8 in jail on Tatooine, but he got caught in the First Order airstrike the party accidentally brought on the town, dying before they even knew he existed.
  • The reactions to the gang named "Kanjiklub".
    Corey: Kanji Club?
    Sally: They started learning Space Japanese, fell in with a bad crowd of anime fans, and turned to crime.
    Corey: Ah, a timeless classic.
    Sally: This is why people get me to help with worldbuilding.
  • As the party reaches Takodana, Han casually reveals to Finn that he knows the latter is a First Order double agent, but tells him not to worry about it because Han's been a traitor plenty of times himself (he even implies that he's a traitor right now) and thus won't tell on him out of sympathy. Finn is nonplussed.
  • Insight into Corey's "big guns" campaign (via sharing with Annie and Jim, who missed it) seems to indicate that he ran Voltron, complete with Combining Mecha. The problem? Pete wanted his own Humongous Mecha, which doesn't mesh with the Power of Friendship, All Your Powers Combined way that Voltron works.
    Pete: (door) Hey, everyone! Sorry I'm late.
    (Beat Panel as Sally, Corey, and Ben stare)
    Pete: What? I just got here, I can't have ruined everything already, can I?
    • Not only that, but given the revelations of future strips, it eventually becomes clear that (in the grand tradition of the characters taking off-screen campaigns based on one movie and morphing it into a different one) Corey’s campaign, originally implied to be Voltron, turned into Neon Genesis Evangelion .
  • The comic's take on "TRAITOR!" scene. Instead of being angry that Finn is a traitor, the "TRAITOR!" trooper instead says that he never believes Finn actually is a traitor. The reason he throws away his blaster and shield in the comics? He wants to give Finn a hug.
  • The running gag of Jim's characters dying continues with a twist on Poe's survival. How did he survive the crash here? Well... he didn't. He died. Fortunately, the Resistance has his twin brother, Allan.
    • Finn, not knowing this, runs over to Allan to hug him. Allan returns the hug... because, just like how Finn thought he was Poe, Allan thought Finn was Poe.
      Finn: What about this face? Do you recognise this face?
      Allan: Yeah, I always thought you were the ugly twin.
  • Pete is late to a session, and tells the others to start without him since Rey is kidnapped anyways. When he arrives, we get this exchange:
    Pete: Hey! Sorry I'm late. What's happening?
    Jim: We're deciding if we want to rescue you.
    Pete: I brought cookies!
    Sally: I change my vote to yes.
  • Pete finds he can't use the force to escape the rack Rey is trapped in because it's designed to hold a force user. He promptly argues that there absolutely should be a guard because leaving force users unguarded is foolish. And then when the DM agrees he promptly uses force suggestion against the guard.
    • The way the guard just appears without transition the moment the DM agrees.
    • On a related note the guard, who in the film was played by Daniel Craig, has every line of his be one from Casino Royale (2006).
  • Rey escapes, but Pete isn't interested in anything to0 predictable as making a clean getaway from the army of fanatics.
    Pete: Why would I do that? I'm free, I'm not a droid so Nute can't infect me, and I'm on the Peace Moon. I start looking for the command room.
    GM: Ohhh... I really should have seen that coming...
  • More insight into Corey's campaign:
    Pete: Look who's talking, Mr. "Let's Replay The Last Two Sessions So The Story Makes More Sense."
    Corey: Well, I didn't expect Sally to trigger the apocalypse!
    Sally: Hey, you gave me means and motivation. I wanted to see my dead wife! What else would I have done?
    Corey: Someone turned evil by trying to circumvent the death of their wife is a pretty bad story hook. I see that now.
    GM: Don't sweat it, Corey. Every GM makes mistakes in their first game. And every game thereafter.
  • The explanation for why they're called the First Order. In Star Wars proper, it's taken from the admiral saying the restoration of the Empire was their "first order". Here? It's because Nute Gunray founded them, so...
    Phasma: The First Order!
    Finn: "Retail"?
    Phasma: YOU GET 25% OFF YOUR FIRST ORDER!!!
  • The Reveal of who Captain Phasma really is in this version of events; A digital back up of General Grievous in a cloned body!
  • As the attack on the Peace Moon begins, Hux demands answers:
    Hux: What happened to our shield?!
    Officer: It was deactivated from an auxiliary control room.
    Hux: Send a squad to check it out! And launch PIE fighters!
    Officer: PIEs might be a little cramped in a control room.
    Hux: I mean out there!
    Officer: Yes, General! You need to give clear orders in a military command chain!
  • After Sally has Kylo stab Han, the GM asks if she really wants to go through with it. But the literal second he becomes delighted with the turn of events, they let the scene play out.
    GM: Do you really want to do that, Sally?
    Han: Cooool. Time for some awesome last words!
    GM: Okay... I guess so. Go ahead.
  • Corey cheerfully shows up with pizza mid-session... right after Sally as Kylo murders Han in cold blood.
  • "Either Zeppo is dead, or he just killed a bunch of people one after the other."
  • With Han dead, Jim decides to finally reveal his character's backstory. It makes a "slam" noise when he puts it on the table and Ben thought it was a copy of his thesis.
  • Naturally, reading through that backstory slaughters the time left for the game session. Parting dialogue reveals that Corey's campaign somehow ended with a "global goo of human consciousness".
    Corey: I still don't know how a campaign about giant fighting robots defending the universe ended that way.
    Ben: That's all right. Neither does anyone else.
  • Ham-to-Ham Combat, complete with a pun on that.
    GM: (Finn) slice(s) Kylo’s shoulder!
    [SFX]: Whooom!
    [SFX]: Sliiice!
    Rey: Did someone order a sliced ham?
  • The reveal that Han/Xasha/Yanni/Zeppo/(No Name) isn't Rey's father, but Luke. Pete's reaction sells it.
    Rey: Wait... what?
    GM: Cliffhanger!!
    Rey: No, seriously... What??
  • From the intermission strips, Zeppo's original reaction to being told the base has no door on this side. (Which was apparently based on an actual campaign experience the Irregulars had.)
    GM: It's an ultra-secure military facility. There are no doors here on the side where you've approached from the snow-bound forest that nobody ever ventures into.
    Zeppo: There's a wall, right?
    GM: Of course.
    Zeppo: A wall is just a door I haven't blasted open yet!
  • Another from the intermission strips, the twist where Luke is actually dead, and it's Wedge whom Rey is meeting.

    Han's Backstory 
  • The very premise is that Solo is Jim's backstory for Han. As written by Jim. It's exactly as well-written as that suggests, with the others desperately trying to make sense of it - in as much as that's possible - as they go.
    Corey: This backstory... it's... like watching a train wreck.
    Jim: Oh, we haven't got to the train wreck yet!
  • The Imperial Recruitment ad is just solid gold:
    Be a part of something. Join the Empire. Explore strange new worlds. Learn valuable skills. Boldly go and bring order to the galaxy. Seek out new life, and new civilizations, and teach them who's boss!
  • When describing Han's time in the battlefield of Mimban, Jim asks Ben to play Staz, a character with a major role. Staz is blown up just three panels later.
    Ben: I thought you said Staz had a major role.
    Jim: Yeah, he was a Major.
  • When "Chi'ra" and Qi'ra have a romantic moment, the dialogue used is word for word from Anakin and Padme's scenes in Attack of the Clones! The reaction from the rest of the players is ... accurate.
    Jim: (as Han/"Chi'ra" to Qi'ra) If you are suffering as much as I am, please, tell me.
    Pete: Oh, we're suffering all right.

    Jim: Do you like my romantic dialogue?
    (four panels of deafening silence)
  • This bit:
    Jim: We landed on the noxious industrial Gehenna of misery that is Orron III. Sally, can you tell us what it looks like?
    (panels of the bleak environment of Kessel from the film)
    Jim: Thanks! I couldn't come up with anything that bad myself.
    Ben: I beg to differ.
  • When it's revealed that Chi'ra and Chewie were stuck on Orron III for six months, the rest of the group questions why Beckett's team stayed on the planet as well. Turns out, Lando wouldn't let them take Chi'ra's ship (that'd be theft), there are no supply drops (it's a luxury the prison doesn't afford) and the only cargo pick-up happens once a year.
    Beckett: So we’re stuck on this hellhole prison planet too?
    Jim: Not stuck, you could have left any time you liked. Except you didn’t have a ship.
    Beckett: In what sense is that not stuck?
    Jim: Technically. The best sort of not stuck.
  • Chewie rips a guard's arms off, and Ben says Chewie does not want to do that. Jim says this is when Chewie got his aversion to ripping arms off. . . because he ruined a perfectly good guard uniform.
    Ben: This makes less sense than a boxcar full of snakes.
    Jim: Ooh. . . that's an idea. . .
  • Jim dispenses some advice:
    Jim: Adding humor is a good trick to tell a compelling story.
    GM: I'm ashamed to say he learnt that from me.
  • When it's pointed out how both Alberto and Benito, the first two people whose identity Chi'ra/Enrico/Han stole, just happens to end up in Orron III like him.
    Jim: No, that’d be ludicrously implausible. It’s three, counting Qi’ra.
  • During the chase in the Mutara Maw, Beckett suddenly catches a bad case of Hold Your Hippogriffs. Even funnier if one remembers the detail that Star Trek: The Next Generation doesn't exist in the Darths & Droids world.
  • The GM got an early look at "Han's" backstory (and still let him inflict it on everyone else), but like the good, easy-going GM he is, nabbed an element from it to propagate through the rest of the campaign. Namely, the creature they encounter near the Maw is the Rathtar, which is also the Sarlacc, which is also the rathtars from The Forced-Away Kin. It progresses through time in reverse of everyone else. After several pages explaining this, the players wonder how it can speak to them.
    Pete: Wait, wait, wait. How can we hear the Rathtar? Sound can't travel through space.
    Jim: The gas density of the nebula was high enough to support acoustic waves.
    Pete: Okay.
    Pete: Wait wait wait wait wait. If it moves backwards in time, how can it speak intelligibly?
    GM: It hears words in reverse, so it pronounces them backwards. And it's learnt backwards grammar, so constructs sentences and contextual paragraphs in reverse order. So in your forwards time-frame, everything it says sounds normal.
    Pete: That. . . hang on. . . That actually makes perfect sense.
    GM: It does? I mean. . . thank you.
  • Ah. . . the puns.
    Jim: Savareen was a beach world.
    GM: Okay, desert, snow, swamp, or forest I can see, but a beach world?
    Jim: Endless tracts of sand, all right next to endless ocean vistas.
    GM: There's no other terrain type? It's all beaches?
    Jim: Of course. It wouldn't be a beach world otherwise. All of the land is narrow isthmuses.
    Pete: You'd need an infinite branching fractal. . . Some kind of isthmus tree?
    Jim: Yeah.
    Ben: In fact, the coast of isthmus vast.
    Sally: It's like all our isthmuses have come at once.
  • A glorious metatextual pun.
    Jim: Dryden's contact was, wait for it. . . Darth Maul!
    Ben: What?
    Corey: Who??
    Pete: Why???
    Sally: How???
    Ben: I mean, Obi-Wan killed him!
    Jim: Not quite.
    Pete: He sliced him in half!
    Jim: It was just a flesh wound.
    Sally: Maybe he was two retired Jedi standing on top of one another, in a trenchcoat.
    GM: It is a cheap way to get him into a movie.
  • Han appears in front of Beckett and Chewie, leading them to wonder how he got ahead of them. Jim says Han took a shortcut, Pete points out they're still on a narrow isthmus, and Beckett and Chewie travelled in a straight line along the shore. Jim says they went through a boggy bit that slowed them down, while Han went around it. Pete calls this not a shortcut, but a "longer-but-faster cut." Ben just can't help himself:
    Ben: With which you a marais isthmus had a happy detour.note 

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