Stahr Wors RPG Story: The Farce Awokends

This RPG story comes from a game of the fantasy flight Star Wars RPG. The story is about Sidara, the Bounty Hunter, a secretive smuggler, a Hutt Jedi, and our attempts to keep the fractured group together.

[@danielhale1]

Copyright strike from Disney: "How did you get your hands on our script?!"

[@TheGuardDuck]

There it is! Yup.

[@kly8105]

It was lying around in a motel..................

[@TheGuardDuck]

With lipstick smudges on it.....

[@matthewdykeman8149]

Woah now, that's uncalled for. This one was well written.

[@Viperspider1]

It was so close that it had me thinking this was an elaborate diss on the DT.

[@Sturmjaeger]

"The butt of a blaster held against your head..." Um, why would they hold their blasters like that? The shots don't come out that end.

[@kin-3877]

He's threatening to kill himself lmao

[@InviWasTaken]

Stormtroopers

[@ryankunst668]

@@InviWasTaken how else will they manage to miss at point blank range lol

[@Khadharphak]

Mass Effect Andromeda would disagree

[@PlebNC]

That moment when Stormtroopers are so inaccurate shots they have higher accuracy via suicide than shooting at targets.

[@bulletsunderpressure]

"Even though we didn't finish it, it doesn't mean i can't just make up a end right?" PROCEEDS TO REPEAT THE STORY OF RISE OF SKYWALKER.

[@exiegelastweekgamer1571]

But better. And in a way that didn't make me want to burn my DVDs. (The Force Awakens is the most viable movie of the latest trilogy in my opinion)

[@davizitopa7252]

Yeah, except he made it at least quite funny 🤣

[@viniciussardenberg706]

@@exiegelastweekgamer1571 it is....not because of it's competency, it's successors's incompetence

[@metagames.errata7777]

@@viniciussardenberg706 Abrams set a low bar. Johnson dropped his bar on the ground. Then they both dropped the last bar onto the second one, so one end was sticking up slightly higher but only because it was resting on something.

[@viniciussardenberg706]

@@metagames.errata7777 the Mystery box is an interesting and compelling story device, but only when you know what's in there, but if you're JJ Abrahams you make it up as you go along setting up plot points that even you have no idea of how to resolve, he is truly one of the writers/directors i distaste the most for it.

[@josephdickson3531]

That Gungun reveal was a pretty cool character idea.

[@StarkMaximum]

"We couldn't figure out why any of our characters would work together." "The sessions just kinda ended after that!" Can't imagine why.

[@tatersalad76]

"You can be Force-sensitive, but have literally nothing that normally comes with it." What? That's like saying "Yeah, you can play a wizard, but you have no magic until level 5." Lol

[@Abxiximab]

It's outrageous, it's unfair... like saying "we grant you a seat on the Jedi council, but we do not grant you the rank of a master"

[@GaelinTheBeast]

@@Abxiximab Take a seat, young Abxiximab.

[@JM-mh1pp]

To be honest I like it, makes it feel earned. In one of my campaigns of d20 sw rpg there was force sensitive guy who could (sometimes, not often, usually out of his control) see glimpses of the future. He had all the bad parts of being force sensitive (being hunted by empire, being followed by inquisitors etc.) without any cool parts. When he did training and gained a lightsaber...dude it was a moment.

[@whydoesmeexiss2883]

Or “you can play d&d but none of you deal any damage until level 20”

[@ckali8702]

you can play a ttrpg but you can’t roll any dice until level 11

[@nebulan]

"Sad John Williams music"

[@MonkeyJedi99]

At least it's not Danny Elfman...

[@tekumeku2244]

"Meesa Gonna Cut Yur Fingers Off One by 1" Somewhere in the background: *I Warned You!*

[@Pixal_Dragon]

Every goddamn time

[@potatobrain8379]

Nice

[@justdags6611]

I love that sword

[@tekumeku2244]

@@justdags6611 It is truly the best character he has ever made

[@austinhensley6553]

i dont know why but i literally had to do the bag thing to stop hyperventialting from laughing so hard at this

[@xiahoupaul19]

8:03 A psychopathic Gungan!? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Now the memes will never stop!

[@nooneinparticular5256]

I for one, welcome this new take on Gungans, without Jar Jar Binks.

[@NexusProductions-rz1sv]

On the one hand it's a hilarious and clever idea. On the other hand, yousa have no fingers.

[@scrunkms]

I- I am NOT used to puffin cussing-

[@shannonsilaphath9097]

Puffins end story for his character was just a re-telling of the Rise of Skywalker

[@biscuitboi3561]

Except the MC is actually entertaining

[@arnox4554]

That's the joke...

[@Astromancerguy]

Puffin: Uses the term "Star Wars." Disney: CEASE AND DESIST YOU ARE GOING TO JAIL YOU OWE US BILLIONS OF DOLLARS!!!1

[@skylerstevens8887]

I just read that all in the puffin voice lol.

[@Observer29830]

@@skylerstevens8887 Fuck you, now I did it too >_

[@trentonarney6066]

Or they force him to turn this into a real script.

[@1987MartinT]

Puffin. Not Piffin.

[@Astromancerguy]

@@1987MartinT Thanks. Fixed.

[@darthlego8370]

You know it's gonna be good when it's a video of Puffin playing Star Wars.

[@ShoutingDerek]

This comment was taken for transgression of the 'Fair Use' act by Disney Compagny for the use of 'Star Wars' brand name.

[@masonwheeler6536]

Yay, more Puffin! We've missed you!

[@Tribozom]

Nobody caaaaaaaaaaares. XD

[@SirWulfrick]

"The butt of the blaster against their heads..." ... Well that's not the dangerous end so you're good. ;)

[@emberfist8347]

It is called pistol whipping.

[@SirWulfrick]

@@emberfist8347 not when it's setting against their heads like he probably meant barrel.

[@danielcharland1374]

Was that last part parody of the sequel Trilogy or Jupiter Ascending? I recognized elements from both.

[@TheGuardDuck]

Ok, you asked for it... *Yes.*

[@Faabiyen]

Tatooine Ascending

[@GrugGangGrugGang]

Wasn't Star Wars heavily based off of The Princess of Mars?

[@ChibiKami]

@@GrugGangGrugGang and Hidden Fortress

[@antonlowe5370]

@@GrugGangGrugGang and Flash Gordon, and they shot for shot plagiarized an old WWII movie to do the tie fighter pursuit sequence. Lucas is a hack.

[@Shaljroan30750]

Thank you for sharing your intellectual attributes with us through this digital projection into the digital dimension of youtube. You're a great youtuber, i appreciate you.

[@vancebocas7626]

That last "neh neh na" really hit me in the feels.

[@gustavopagan8921]

I love how he feels like he needed all these blood ties to use the dark side abilities, when rly she just needed to be very berry angy

[@jadianradiator2761]

1:02 Technically means Pash was a courier, and *not* a smuggler. Edit Although that's from an in-character viewpoint.... Unless his character honestly believes smugglers abide by the law. In which case he would be a dumb or naive courier that romanticizes smuggling.

[@sarosp9330]

I wonder if his first job was bringing a poker chip to New Vegas

[@RPGzus]

Courier is actually a talent tree in this game.

[@26th_Primarch]

@@sarosp9330 wouldn't that be New Canto Bight? * proceeded to be beaten to death with toy lightsabers*

[@emberfist8347]

He was a Smuggler class. He would actually be called a free-trader if he was legitimate.

[@lolimmune]

Literally nothing in this whole world is as truly beautiful and majestic as Puffin singing Star Wars theme

[@Mr.Foxhat]

I am starting to create a homebrew Star Wars campaign, and a friend of mine recommended this channel for references. This is beautiful.

[@rhysofsneezingdragon1758]

All jokes aside, Ben's group sounds rad as fuck. The DM is really good at narrating, the players are pretty good and fun, and they seem to really have a blast together

[@halfbakedblake]

My wife heard the intro and she immediately said "I want that as my ringtone."

[@claudiuspulcher2440]

It FEELS like Ben always wants to be the special player...

[@jordanmcc8629]

10:30 now that’s just reminds me of the finger guns gif from MGS4

[@flydye45]

When you put it like that, it makes Rise of Skywalker seem even more fangirlish and risible.

[@reecelongden3500]

My first SWd20 character is still my favourite. We were running a campaign set during the Jedi Purge, with the players being a pair of Jedi padawans running from the Empire, a smuggler risking his life to get them off Tatooine, a clone trooper who removed his control chip... and my character. Now, it's important to note here that the GM had asked each of us to play with a secret agenda, which we all ran by him before we started. Since I had to miss the first session, my character joined the group on Irillia, the planet they initially escaped to, making her introduction by wiping out a fireteam of Stormtroopers that had cornered the two padawans. They took her back to the ship, where she introduced herself as a Jedi Knight, she offered to train the two padawans, and the group set themselves up as a rebel cell who would travel the local sector disrupting Imperial activity, with the smuggler as the de facto leader. But as time went on, the group started to notice that she wasn't making much progress in teaching the padawans to use the Force and just focussed on their lightsabre training, and that she very rarely used the force in combat herself. They also noticed that, while she would aggressively protect the padawans, she would usually avoid protecting the others. As time went by, the Empire started to take notice of our little group, until eventually Vader himself arrived with a Purge squad. Shortly before the final confrontation, my character mysteriously disappeared in the middle of a mission. Once Vader finally tracked down the rest of the group, he was accompanied by four Purge troopers and an Inquisitor. Cue combat, with the Purge troopers going down fast, leaving the group against Vader and the Inquisitor. Now, remember that I said every player had been asked to give their character a secret agenda, which the GM approved before we began this campaign? All the other players had completed and revealed theirs. Our smuggler wanted to rescue their parents from Imperial prison, for example. My secret agenda was the only one that was still only known by myself and the GM. So imagine the players' faces when the Clone trooper gets a good shot on the Inquisitor and destroys the faceplate of her helmet, revealing my character. I'd asked the GM if he'd allow me to play an undercover Inquisitor tasked with converting the padawans and bringing them to the Inquisitorius. Once Vader arrived, she realised that her mission was scrubbed and joined the Purge team. That session ended with the players escaping and my character being left with Vader on Irillia. At this point, our GM's other SWd20 campaign had begun falling apart due to scheduling issues, so one of the players brought his Jedi over to our campaign and I ported my character from that campaign across, a droid tech, who happened to also be a droid himself. He was fun too, doing things like installing receivers into deactivated Dark Troopers so he could control them remotely, hardwiring himself into an AT-ST, uploading his mind into a new body every time he died, or putting his mind into a mouse droid in order to map out an Imperial base before we assaulted it. Making matters better, while Vader himself never showed up again in that campaign, my Inquisitor (now entirely in the GM's hands) became the campaign's big bad to "atone for her failure". It was a lot of fun. But ever since that Inquisitor reveal I can't play a morally grey character without someone shouting "Reece is an Inquisitor". It's become an in-joke, our own version of "It's a trap!" And I love it.

[@surge1229]

funny how Corellia in both canon and legends is a planet whose people are staunchly loyal to the empire usually

[@Kfroguar]

Can't decide what the best part of this video is: timid hutt office worker or Ben's beautiful vocalizing of John Williams' score

[@TheArcSet]

From the moment you started ab libbing, I was certain you were going to end with "and does this make more sense than the movies."

[@qawsqawslol3997]

9:59 What a complex family tree this may or may not mess up the entire state wars ploy and could mean obiwan has sith lightning

[@amazinggman4353]

OK the music was making me laugh so hard at the absurdity of it lol, it was great

[@jay.p.w]

BEST NOTIFICATION OF THE WEEK

[@alpharius3661]

A now hoop Te fandom man-ace Te lest airsprinter

[@Punintelligent]

The puppet show was very cleverly animated. Well done, sir. Well done. This may be your finest work yet.

[@maddnd9721]

Not sure if this is a mid life crisis but I flipped love this to a distant galaxy and back!

[@chrisleonard2066]

He still put more thought and effort into this video than they did into the entire sequel trilogy lmao

[@jessjackdaw]

As someone that only has a minuscule understanding of the Star Wars universe, this feels... completely accurate.

[@emberfist8347]

Not completely. Hutt's can't be force users, Corellia was very firmly in the Empire's pocket and they made sure to keep it that way, Hutts have three names, there is no paper.

[@Orktapus]

That outro music though...had a tear in my eye

[@Epocseer]

yet again....story telling skills... *Chefs Kiss*

[@emson07]

Easy, she was born when vader died. Making her the new chosen one, she has the same potential as Anakin did before the turn

[@someguy5003]

I had a game where none of our characters wouldn't normally stay together, then we realised that it's because my charter would actually stalk and kill them if they ever leave. He's very possessive.

[@Altherix]

Had to check the date on the video at the end because thinking, "Wait a minute. This sounds like Rise of Skywalker."

[@mr.batsquatch967]

Yay! Puffin lives!

[@davidperte62]

1:05 Fun fact, Jedis used normal Swords with carvings to infuse them with the force before the discovery of Kyber Cristals and the invention of the proto-sabers (an ancestor of the lightsaber, it had an external battery and a chord)

[@vendusmortem1433]

Wow, been a sec since I've looked at the sub count. Remember back in the 100k days. Good job Puffin. Here's to the next 250k.

[@clockworkphysicist]

“No Sith or Jedi, no force powers, no lightsabers.” So you want Star Wars without all of the cool stuff in Star Wars? Then just say you wanna play Star Trek.

[@FriskyD.]

"No Borg, no galactic federation, no sci-fi"

[@darkon4442]

To be fair, Stark Trek and Star Wars have a very different tone, and you can still make an interesting campaign with non-force sensitive characters.

[@Bluecho4]

Loads of people are flabbergasted by the idea of play Force sensitive characters without being Jedi/Sith, having powers, or using a lightsaber. But I think it's an interesting idea. Playing a standard Jedi or Sith is played out at this point. Playing as a character who has a low-level sensitivity to the Force is something we've never seen in the Star Wars films, except a tiny bit at the end of Episode 4. It's a different kind of story. Where the characters are otherwise normal people, but who find they get a small edge in their adventure. They still have to solve their problems with weaponry and wits, rather than leaning on Force powers or lightsaber skills as a crutch. Plus, it makes the Force mysterious and awe-inspiring again, because any manifestation of it is a big deal for the characters.

[@michaelstrasser9010]

Playing a Hutt office worker sounds like a truly lovely notion.

[@thefinalstair]

I like that you made some structural licenses with this one! Especially the puppet show at the end. Looking forward to more of your videos!

[@JimBob4233]

To be fair to Fantasy Flight vis-a-vis the two years between Edge of the Empire and Force and Destiny, it is set in the timeskip between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, so Force-users are probably pretty thin-on-the-ground in-setting anyway.

[@jamesgordon364]

The newest player in our 5e campaign had a bones for starwars and wanted to run a game. We were excited(he knew a lot about the lore and was passionate) we started playing and took care of some tarskans and a sandworm for some villagers. And then disembowed a crate dragon and then..... we met the blue bastard. Wrapped in madalorian plot armour with damage resistance and iron will. We... attacked him? Repeatedly and knocked him prone and had druids rush him and explode and shot him with a turret from a ship..... and expended points to cast different damage types. While overcoming random dm ability Che KS for things we shouldn't have had to. We successfully pinned him under a star ship. He was fine by the way and had no intention of bargaining with us. We all just kinda left at that point lacking our wounds and never invited this poor guy back to any of our games since. Rouge this wasn't the fist time he didn't respond to feed back. But that Is another story

[@hollowmstr]

That really would be ironic and kind of cool of Disney used your story in a Star Wars movie.

[@zakronthesheep]

WHY IS THAT ENDING LITERALLY JUST THE MOST RECENT STAR WARS MOVIE

[@4444ez]

what are your block hands hahaha I just can't stop noticing them hahha..........good story. Now we need more!!

[@davivignola5895]

I've missed your videos so very much!

[@mattd923]

Ben: So I'm a powerful Jedi, but I've cut myself off from the force so I don't know how to use my powers. GM: Great, I'll put you down for Kotor 2 backstory.

[@MrFullCrumb01]

My longest-running character was Bie Wan, who was a Reprogrammed B1 Battle Droid. He was a smuggler, a PILOT, and basically became the horrifyingly effective combat unit of the group (THis was a group that consisted of myself, a reprogrammed IG who basically had a kill-count like Chopper from REBELS, a human junkie who was... unfortunately our best engineer, and the Face, the BEST Bothan in existence, as he could LITERALLY knock people out by SHOUTING AT THEM!) He carried, and I QUOTE: Modified Blaster Rifle with a Scope, Motion Tracker and Bipod (Basically wanted the freaking M41 Pulse Rifle, except blaster) Blaster Shotgun (Blaster Carbine with Spread Barrel and Forearm Grip) Flame Carbine A bandolier of Stun Grenades. SEVERAL INJECTORS OF FAST-ACTING ANESTHETIC I, uh... hold the record in my group for vehicles hijacked in a single session: 7. 1 Swoop Bike (Which I put a Pintle-Mount Hvy Blaster Rifle as a rear-facing weapon so someone on the back could sweep an area with blaster fire) and a LOT of Landspeeders. I had a beautiful ship. I also managed to snipe two Wookies out of a stolen AT-ST with a Disruptor Rifle? Scared the crap out of the IG player when all he heard (in character) was FZZZT as two Wookies melted in front of him. Bie Wan also copied his programming into a bunch of old B1s and took over a crashed Lucrehulk-turned-black-market with them, and now they get a cut from all sales from the BM. AND the B1s are as sassy as my droid. Oh, I forgot! He was basically, personality-wise, the sassy bastard child of HK47 and Bender. "Eat my chassis, meatbag."

[@TheOwlsofSilver]

"But Palpatine didn't actually die!" Didn't know this was Rise of Skywalker

[@dressedbear296]

wow I think your adlib at the end would make a great movie

[@russia5228]

Saved this to my soundtrack for the opening theme

[@cammp5075]

HOW AM I NOT FIRST ITS BEEN 10 SECONDS

[@PRStuntin6693]

I jumped in at 33 seconds and was surprised to see over 10 comments lol

[@cammp5075]

@@PRStuntin6693 ppl be crazy

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

8:45 Anyone else thought he was going to say ’Friendship’?

[@masterbuilder7577]

We need a full version of that intro song

[@warhawk9566]

You could've done something along the lines of, through a series of shenanigans, multiple factions are gunning for you and your only safety is to stick together

[@LostWallet]

i think the Star War new trilogy maker saw this video and say "hey, its sound cool. let do it exactly the same"

[@mbalazs3544]

1:40 why S that GM why would anyone ant to play Star wars no as a Jedi or Sith or force powers lool

[@daganisoraan]

Its incredible how much some GMs can miss the point of certain RPGs. I had a GM that for his first GMing had a game of Star Wars RPG d6 with no jedi, you know, the one thing that make SW special and for his second game, had a game of Shadowrun with aliens, you know the one thing that Shadowrun doesn't has and doesn't need since the world is already really, really funky.

[@Prinny9000]

ironically someone in my dnd group wants to play a Hutt Jedi

[@goofygoober779]

That ending was much better and funnier than the ending of Episode 9.

[@MrElielsebastian]

Heck yeah, THIS is the content i suscribed for!

[@notenoughmemes1847]

10:56 this is giving me the same vibes from the cutscenes from BattleBlock Theater and I love it.

[@strangerakari2836]

Character sheets for hands? Now that's convenient!

[@katherynnephrite5115]

10\10 story. A definite must watch.

[@RossPitSharkHunter]

The Gungan reveal had me rolling

[@spencersonnefeld]

The last like 3 minutes feels kind of like a BattleBlock Theater cutscene.

[@Wingspand1]

Had a Hutt jedi on one game i was in and the dude wore power armor and used the force to throw himself on enemies for massive damage. Was pretty funny at the time.

[@emberfist8347]

Well not really fitting with the lore. Hutts can't use the force and they wouldn't be Jedi even if they did.

[@wlewisiii]

Good grief. Glad I still have my copy of WEG "Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition" Star Wars book.

[@ethanrobbins5008]

If I ever get this game I'm playing a Harch, weather it's a legal charachter or not.For those of you who don't know, thats the same race as Admiral Trench

[@jibjabby9964]

A modern masterpiece!

[@royhenning7867]

Your content is so good man.

[@iantaran3681]

The characters in this were amazing

[@RazorTreewise]

I want a "Puffins sings famous movie theme songs* album

[@schmakos6658]

I choked on my milk when I heard the theme. Nice play

[@thebolas000]

I want a slice of life show all about an office worker hutt

[@The00Chipmunk]

This story was quite ABSERD!!

[@Forcystus85]

It's probably a really bad sign this video made me want to play Star Wars The Old Republic again

[@kristiantumber1564]

Ah yes, everyone feared the great and powerful hyuh huh! The dread, on behalf of the known galaxy, I thank you for your valiant deed of defeating him 👏👏👏

[@LaydayEruanna]

Turned into Battleblock Theatre there for a sec. Am very ok with this unexpected development. xD

[@OliverurFace]

I'm adding the opening and ending music to my Spotify

[@jameslinardic5434]

How did he almost guess the next movie script, it’s a bit weird but he almost guessed the whole thing!

[@thetruegoldenknight]

OH! Good timing, I just started a Star Wars D6 game series (West End rules, specifically), involving my girl doing crazy science shenanigans and basically beating all the bad guys harder than the Powerpuff Girls. It's awesome. Oh, and hoping to somehow tailor a Force-Sensitive BLOODLINE! So if you thought your GM is super stingy, I got blessed with the POLAR OPPOSITE! Still, though, the antics sent her into an alternate timeline for mucking SO HARD that "The Sequels NEVER HAPPEN", but that's gotta be AT LEAST a 1 on "THE Henderson Scale". 2:55 WHERE WAS I when that was happening?! AND why was I NOT invited?!

[@KHfan0011]

This is basically the plot of Rise of Skywalker

[@d.nightone5673]

My GM nightmare: The problem with "You randomly are thrown together!"-plot starts. How to keep the group together... have been there,... and probably will be there again... the "No Lightsaber" rule can be cirumvented by using the ancient blade (this at least allows you to use the lightsaber skill and All the lightsaber talents* [*except for deflection - get the shield gauntlet for that ])

[@FrPeter81]

So... Sidara is basically Rey? Also, great sound effects! I haven't laughed so much in ages 😊😊😊

[@NevermindThee]

I kind of wonder if Sidara was inspired by a certain other character from a certain not-so-well received Star Wars trilogy.

[@bonbonpony]

Did Disney just take inspiration from the ending of this video for their new Star Wars episodes? :q

[@MadNitr0]

I give you my thumbs up with one hand and a face palm with the other

[@thomastakesatollforthedark2231]

A sith... Jedi... A sith... Whose à Jedi... Yes. That would be amazing! I'd love to see one of those red bastards study under yoda or something