Heading down the Path

The Minions have played Basic D&D, Star Wars, Heroscape and Heroclix. I’m now going to try and bring their roleplaying up to date using Pathfinder. Despite the fact that I consider Dungeons and Dragons THE definition of a Roleplaying game, I’m drawn more to Pathfinder than I am to 4^th ed. D&D. Besides I already own a couple of the Pathfinder books, whereas I don’t have any of the 4^th edition books, and if there is one thing I have plenty of is books. 

Ive been on the lookout for a series of modules to run them through and I decided to go through the series set in Falcon's Hollow to start.

On Vacation

On Vacation

On Vacation

On Vacation

On Vacation

On Vacation

The minions shook the hold of Nintendo DS and actually learned something this weekend

We had a stay-in -Lair day yesterday, thanks to heavy rains in the area. I looked out amongst my throng of Minions and noticed that their eyes were all glued to little tiny screens. I thought this would be a perfect time for a forced learning experience. I ordered all electronics turned off and then told them all that their would be a block of instruction on the a facet of the American West.  I started with a brief lecture on ranching, the cattle industry, and the logistics  of getting beef from the rural ranches to the cities in 19th century America. I then wrapped up the lecture with a showing of John Wayne's western classic: The Cowboys.  

For those of you bereft of a classical education, The Cowboys is the story of a rancher who is forced to use schoolboys to help move his cattle 400 miles from his ranch to the rail lines. The movie is a wonderful coming of age tale and one of "The Dukes" best performances. 


The Minions enjoyed the movie and at Sunday breakfast they regaled  "She who must be obeyed" with a review of the movie and how folk in the big cities got their beef.  So all in all, the lesson stuck.


Next week we'll be taking a look at the tensions between Norman and Saxon in Merrie Old England with a showing of Errol Flynn's - The Adventures of Robin Hood.

What are the best Star Wars tales out there?

Here's the deal.
I'm in pre-game planning for a Star Wars mini campaign for my Minions.
I'm using 1st edition Star Wars WEG.  I have the rulebook and the Sourcebook.


I want to start the game the morning after the big "Yub, YuB" party on Endor.


For my first arc I'm going to take a cue from a Marvel SW story I remember from way back-

I loved this story back in the day. But then y'all know I have a fondness the The Magnificent Seven.  Special thank you to Zen Tiger's Superblog for the .cbr download of the Marvel series.

Also, as far as inspiring reference material-
Can any of you guys  guide me to the better offerings of Star Wars literature? As a big Sword & Sorcery geek, I know that there is a lot of Schlock out there waiting for the unwary.  

The only tip I have is that the "Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina" is a nice set of stories. Any others??