I am doing a whole outline though.

it does remind me that star wars a new hope is just akira kurosawa’s Hidden Fortress.

For the Death Star, I looked at it as two separate plot elements. In the first, the heroes have to infiltrate the base, rescue the princess, and escape. In the second, they have a limited time to destroy a superweapon before it ends the rebellion.

In my story, I treated them as completely separate. My “princess,” a spy that had the information they needed, was imprisoned on an extremely hot prison planet (yes, Crematoria references were made, but in truth it was more like ROTS). The PCs had to break in, rescue her, and get out.

For the second scene, I borrowed elements of TPM and ROTJ. Being the Unknown Regions, the Empire could not commit a lot of stormtroopers to keep the system under control. Instead, they relied on droids. The PCs had to infiltrate an orbiting Star Destroyer with a stolen Lambda shuttle and destroy the droid control center. This would enable the planetary forces to overcome what was left of the Imperial forces. During this scene, I also had my Jedi apprentice PC take on a Dark Jedi that was protecting the generator. They succeeded, the system was freed, and the Queen knighted them for their efforts.

I’d be happy to answer any specific questions that anyone may have.

I had watched Saving Private Ryan on DVD with my dad the day before. I told the players at the end and they all were shocked and impressed taht I had improvised the enitre game but that you could go step by step through what we did and have a pretty close plotline to the movie.

I’ve done this before where you take a film/story from another genre and use it for another genre. Conan the Barbarian became a modern horror solo campaign for a buddy, and the comic The Walking Dead became a sci-fi alien invasion campaign.

Yet what impresses me about what Walt did is that he used Star Wars’ plot to run Star Wars for what I am assuming are Star Wars fans to an extent. That sounds easy to do on the surface, but I don’t know if I would be able to pull it off without drawing lots of comparrisons to the original. Way to go!

Also to learn where the story deviated.