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Honouring the classics is a great approach to gaming. Go back to the original inspirations for the earliest roleplaying games. Dungeons & Dragons was inspired by the sword and sorcery adventures of Conan the Barbarian, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, and Jack Vance's Dying Earth series more than it was by Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. This may surprise some people who assume that Tolkien was the major inspiration.
Those early pulp fiction sources have a very different feel to later fantasy, with grittier adventures and less emphasis on magic, except as an evil force to be opposed.
In general, you can take a roleplaying genre and try basing the vibe on older sources, rather than modern ones. Science fiction along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still or Forbidden Planet or Foundation, rather than Star Wars or Alien.
So if you're looking for a way to bring a different approach to a campaign, consider trying basing it off different or unexpected source material.
Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)
It's the hot potato lightsaber! Rey's got it, now Leia's got it, now Rey's got it; you'd almost think it was a bomb with the attempts to get rid of it. Very odd narrative choice to have it constantly passed around. Definitely meant to be a meaningful moment for some reason though, otherwise it wouldn't have had the screenshots available to clip for the comic. Hm. Leia got out of the picture for the last frame as well. Also rather odd without more context.
And I've been waiting for Rey to lose a limb for 2 Episodes, Sally. I'm starting to think it's not going to happen.
Transcript
Poe: Yeah! I need some relaxation. Had a rough week.
Chewbacca: Oh?
Poe: The university has a new Head of Astrophysics. He’s been giving everyone a hard time.
Chewbacca: Oh. That’s not good.
Poe: He has a goatee. So it’s kinda to be expected.
Chewbacca: Um—
Rey: Tatooine! Let’s go!
Finn: We need a plan for when we get there.
Rey: The Jedi tradition is to boldly go with no backup. I say we honour the classics.
Poe: Now we’re talking!
Leia: Rey, aren’t you forgetting something?
Rey: Huh?
Leia: Your sword. You might need it. To investigate the visions.
Rey: Oh, right, yeah.
Leia: And some of that classic Jedi stuff. Heroism. Destiny.
C-3PO: Dismemberment.