Hey all. I’ve been running a Clone Wars campaign with two Palawan and a Clone Commander for a few months now. I feel like every session I have, I have more problems than solutions. I come looking for some tips and advice, even a bit of ripping into so that I can improve.

I find my most blatant issue is this concept I have in my head of my players actions not being “Star Wars” enough. I want them to do certain things and I feel like I force them down paths they don’t want to go down. But when I let them run free, I feel like the dice (and also the world I’ve built for them) doesn’t seem to favor them. For example, last session I let one of the players (one of the Palawan’s) break away from the party. He found himself in a room with two B1 Supervisor droids. Not that big of a deal, he’s strong enough to Handel these two, or so I thought. He ended up dying, or as I ruled it, falling unconscious and being captured. He attempted to convince me he was dead, as he likes to follow the rules, but I really didn’t want to punch him since I felt like it was mostly my fault.

Ask questions about how I run if you’d like more examples or ammunition, I’m just looking to become better at letting my friends have fun. I’d also be happy to get them to write their side of the story out and share it so it’s not so one sided.

We play on A VTT Biweekly and I have long standing relationships with all three players.