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If you're going to do anything in a roleplaying game, why not overdo it?
- There's a storm. Not any storm, the Mother of all Storms. Rain of blood, lightning that strikes the same spot not just twice but three times. The thunder gods growl your names to the corners of the world.
- The villain monologues. And never stops. Everywhere you go, you hear echoes of their speeches. They release books, podcasts, motivational posters. The villain becomes a cultural phenomenon that you can never escape.
- Why have a group of 20 or 30 goblins raid a town, when you can have every goblin in a 500 mile radius gather into a Single... Unstoppable... Horde?
- You meet in a tavern. Not just any tavern. A Grand Tavern. You meet everyone here. Everyone alive, and everyone who ever lived. They're all here. You just need to find the right private room. The bartender's name is Hilbert.
- You wake up and it was all a dream. Then you wake up again. And again. Every layer of dreams reveals a new reality in a different adventure genre. Make the players start to winder if they're real.
- You enter a dungeon. But it's infinite. A labyrinth that literally cannot be fully explored. The rooms regenerate. Time loops. You meet older and younger versions of yourselves. Some adventurers have lived their entire lives in here.
Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)
Shooting out security cameras; classic move. As part of a prisoner rescue? Even better as an Episode IV call back. Someone deciding to split off to check out/take care of something else on their own? Well..... if I thought Disney would actually be willing to kill Rey off, I'd be worried that that's where we would be heading.
That said, Rey wandering off for some unknown reason fits with the rest of the writing decisions so far. Doesn't seem to have much point given that Chewbacca is the reason the group came here. Kylo's already gone from the ship. I guess it could be a Palpaclone, but that would be really weird to have happen at this point. Especially since (at least in the comic) Kylo and the Palpaclone didn't seem too happy with each other back on that weird water planet.
Transcript
Finn: This way! Cell 327 is down here!
GM: Security cameras lurk on the ceiling.
[SFX]: Pow! {Rey shoots a camera}
GM: Yes... That won’t look suspicious at all.
Poe: Cool!
[SFX]: Pow! {Poe shoots a camera}
GM: A security panel sits beside a sealed door.
Poe: I’ll blast it.
Finn: No! Prisoner cells failsafe to locked. I can open it.
GM: Rey, you get a Force Vibe... A malign presence down the adjacent corridor.
[SXF]: blip blip {behind Rey, Finn presses buttons on the door panel}
Rey: {turning} Can I tell what it is?
GM: A repository of vast evil.
[SFX]: shhhhwp... {behind Rey, the door slides open and Finn and Poe move towards the now open corridor}
Rey: Well I’m definitely gonna go check that out.
Finn: You’re splitting the party?
Rey: For some reason the Force wants this to happen.
GM: You’ve already left the droids behind, Chewie is captured... I’m going for a new record.