Darths & Droids

In a fictional campaign setting, almost anything can be a crime. You just need a society or a ruler that deems something dangerous or offensive enough and they can outlaw it. This can be an interesting world-building detail that brings a place to life and highlights how it's different to our modern world.

Here are some interesting things that might be illegal in some campaign worlds:

Owning more than one mirror. To avoid having two mirrors face one another and opening the world to intrusion by doppelgängers.
Trading insults under the light of a full moon. This might attract the attention of fey tricksters.
Wearing yellow clothing. Yellow is the preserve of the monarch, and commoners are forbidden from wearing it.
Naming a ship after a bird. An old superstition lost in the mists of time.
Programming a robot to play poker. AI robots are allowed to play poker and develop their own strategies, but a human assisting one is considered cheating.

Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)

Minor crime spree time? I wonder how that's supposed to play out. Especially if Lando really is on Tatooine. It's a Mad Max-like planet. What sort of law enforcement would go there without serious back-up? Maybe if the party goes for anticrime instead? Breaking and Redecorating probably wouldn't get them shot by the locals, but would also be weird for Star Wars. Even whitemail on the mobsters there could be enough that Lando might stop in just to see what's going on.

Nice to see that the Falcon doesn't appear worse for wear in spite of the fires it had on arrival. Perhaps it's used enough that the damage was essentially all superficial.

Transcript

GM: The Falcon heads off to Tatooine.
Finn: How are we going to find this Lando Calrissian?
Poe: We commit crimes.
Chewbacca: Here we go.
Poe: Minor ones! Just enough to get noticed.
Finn: What kind of crimes?
Poe: I dunno, jaywalking. Bootleg fruit juggling. Miming a bank robbery.
BB-8: That’s... technically not illegal.
Poe: We do it really convincingly.
C-3PO: This feels somewhat unethical.
Poe: That’s the point! Lando’s a cop. He shows up to stop us, we say “Surprise!” and bam! Team reunion!
Chewbacca: Reunion? I suppose he might not shoot me, since I’ve actually met him.
Rey: Does he have violent tendencies towards mimes?
Chewbacca: Doesn’t everyone?