I'm very much enjoying "Ahsoka". I'll review it over on the other blog once it's done. However, in the meantime, it has given me quite a bit of food for thought regarding the best use of Jedi in RPGs.
Basically, I'm inclined to think that Jedi are poorly served by treating them as just another PC type in a mixed party, or putting them in the standard RPG backdrop. Much as I hate to admit it, FFG may well have been right to make Jedi the focus of an entirely separate game from other PC types.
I'm inclined to think that Jedi are best served with a fairly standard 'quest' approach to their missions. That may be obvious - they are Jedi Knights after all. "Go find the secret master who has been in exile for decades"; "go find the first Jedi temple"; "explore ancient Dathomiri temples to unearth a hyperspace route to another galaxy entirely".
Of course, a good quest never runs quite as you might expect it to, and the object of the quest may well prove to be quite different from the one you set out with. And, of course, the real goal is always enlightenment. But that's all easily filled in.
And it's all great fodder for an RPG. Just not the same fodder as "Andor" or "Rogue One", and that's good too.
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