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Some gifts just keep on giving. If some extremely cool (or humorous) thing arises a couple of times in your campaign, use every opportunity you can to bring it back. Recurring fun is a whole new level of enjoyment, and players will live for those moments when a beloved thing happens again naturally in the course of events.
Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)
They did it! We got Force Arm-Wrestling to come back for the last episode! Let's just hope that the ship stays in one piece enough for Chewbacca to escape.
I suspect that the transport does make it off the planet in this case. It's trying to move itself up, and Kylo and Rey cancel each other out pretty closely. With no other influences, that'd mean it eventually makes it out, right? And as this isn't going to be the final scene in the movie, I really want to know what's going to split the two of them up again and keep them from simply jumping back at each other to fight once the transport is either grounded or has escaped.
Also, that's a pretty close crash landing zone for having been going at the speed of sound. Maybe that was actually a semi-controlled landing.
Transcript
GM: Given the safety harness, inertial damping, and airbags, Kylo takes <roll>... 27 damage.
Finn: {running across the sand away from Ochi’s ship and towards Rey, holding hands around mouth as a megaphone} Rey! They got Chewie!
GM: Engines roar and a First Order transport takes off from behind the rock outcrops.
[SFX]: vrrmm...
Finn: {pointing at the ship taking off} That’s them! Chewie’s on board!
Rey: I Force Pull it back down! {gestures at ship with hand}
[SFX]: vrrhhh... {the ship struggles against Rey’s Pull}
GM: Ambitious. Roll.
Rey: 7.
GM: You hold it, but the engines strain against your pull.
Kylo Ren: I emerge from my crashed ship and stride towards Rey.
Kylo Ren: So. A Force Arm-Wrestle, is it?! {also gestures at the ship, now static in mid-air}
GM: Again?
GM: Remember what happened the last time you two did this?
[SFX]: vrhh... vrhh... rhh... {the ship’s engines grind futilely}
Rey: Yeah, it was awesome.
Kylo Ren: This time I’m in complete control. The pinnacle of my powers! Nothing can control a spaceship like me!
Rey: You crashed your fighter like thirty seconds ago.
Kylo Ren: Controlled! Very controlled.