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in reply to @graham's post:
A Perennial conversation that @partheniad and I have is how games can affirm how characters face costs for taking action through mechanics. We discuss how in various media such as comics or tv or video games, characters are challenged to sacrifice things that matter to get new things that they want. It's interesting how your fitd comparison, a system which hails from a game about burning out from rough encounters, aligns so well in this analysis through this cost-based storytelling metric.
I think it's definitely one way to set stakes for the story, but there's something scratching away at my rearmost thoughts. There should be more to life and stories than stakes of sacrifice right?
Yeah, for sure! Not every piece of progress needs to be met with complications in a story like this, and doing so too regularly can feel repetitive and contrived. On the other hand, I think keeping the stakes up for a Filoni piece of media can be difficult outside of season finales (I'm being a bit hyperbolic), so I don't fault the writing team for going for this more transactional approach that you might expect from a TTRPG to keep the tension up for this episode
In a broader sense, the themes of this season include forms of imposter syndrome (Sabine as a padawan, and also Ahsoka as a master) which I think helps justify the narrative framing of something like BitD's "underdog(s) barely scraping by", even when involving protagonists who started the season out in galactic power and have in past series been up against a lot worse than they face now.