The "UF as a game setting" thread reminded me of a happening that came from my own attempt at playing in UF- to make a long story short, adapting the setting was biting off more than I could chew, but we got a pretty decent Star Wars game out of the scraps.

And in this game we had our resident troll*, Dean. Dean specialized in Droid engineering as well as combat skills. Pretty soon, all the party was begging him to build droids for them.

Which he did . . . but with backdoors in their programming so he could take them over if needed. This came in handy when the party's "Gray Jedi" decided that the fame and fortune being offered by the local Sith Lord was worth more than party loyalty. There were two important lessons learned that day:

1) A lightsaber can parry the laser bolt from an X-Wing's wing cannons; but
2) the astromech droid that reverted to Dean's control after it's "master's" treason can fire all 4 laser cannons at once. Relatedly, Gray Jedi explode just like everyone else when hit with multiple starfighter laser cannons.

I have some other anecdotes to share from this group if anyone's interested, but I bet I'm not the only one who accumulated some tabletop shenanigans, so let's hear 'em if you want to share!

*As shown above, Dean could be a troll in the usual sense, but we called him "The Troll" due to his playing a Troll Hunter in World of Warcraft, which is how we first met him. But mostly for the trolling.

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