Holdo's arc wouldn't work for Ackbar or Leia. You aren't supposed to like Holdo at first. The POV character for her arc is Poe. If Ackbar had taken charge or Leia weren't incapacitated, Poe going aga… (View Post)

There is no "training montage" in ANH. In the training scene with the remote, when Han enters, he says "Well, you can forget your troubles with those Imperial slugs. I told you I'd out… (View Post)

There is also a Barbarian warrior kit introduced the Complete Fighter's Handbook (published the year before the Barbarian Handbook). So, in 2nd Edition PnP rules, there were both, a Barbarian kit and… (View Post)

@scriver - Your assertion that I've undergone "experimental brain surgery" because I use Anakin as counter-example to the idea that Rey is too unnaturally talented for the hero in a Star Wa… (View Post)

Both Luke and Anakin have a similar "instant competence" as Rey. Luke is a farmboy, he's flown the equivalent of a cropduster on the farm (his T-16). Yet, at the end of A New Hope, he's jum… (View Post)