Rick

Re: Another: StarWars in my Sandbox Oh hello there, an Email about this thread drew me back in! I miss you guys.

Re: Lightsabre Combat! Weird I haven't been here in years it feels like but this just popped in my email. I'm still faithful to my FReD, mainly because I can't afford to buy 6th. I may need to start up, here, again.

Re: Another: StarWars in my Sandbox Oh yeah and I went back to Speed.

Re: Another: StarWars in my Sandbox

Re: Another: StarWars in my Sandbox Holy crap! Look what I found thanks to Question man. What I need to do is colate all of my materials and post them in one package on this site.

Re: Damage for lightsabers

Re: Damage for lightsabers I'm not really sure what you mean here. The Weapon ignores the Storm Troopers 5 points of rDEF (this is where I've set it in my campaign). Against a 2d6K strike (after Martial Arts lets say, I don't add strength to the weapon) 5 points of defense will make it difficult to lop of arms with an average of 7 body meaning a total of 1 body after armor and location modifiers, and what or 2-9 stun. By adding AVLD I'm still not going to lop the arm off, but I am going to do 4 body and 7-14 stun (I can't remember arm stunx, and my write up does -1 stunx). THat is a substancial differnce in the course of combat. Not to meant the higher damage range for 2d6K. My Jedi do run into a lot of armored characters and battle droids. Yeah this is how we keep PCs alive with out having to wear armor and it makes Lightsaber duels far more ciunematic.

Re: Damage for lightsabers I don't get the ego min either. Ego works great for force powers but I always considered a Jedi/Sith's skill comes from superior Dex and the SFX of having Force powers and slight precog that accounts for superior Dex.

Re: Damage for lightsabers Of course there is an arguement to made that if you have a high enough KA that AVLD is over kill. In my game though a Lightsaber does 1 1/2d6 base. SO the AVLD serves to aguement that. Keeps the dice down to reasonable amounts. THe AVLD isn't applied to FF's though, against energy shielding the weapon doesn't work at all. IT applies to Combat Luck, which I use regularly in my games for none armored heroes and important villians. It is about taste and point of view, with my players in my game Lightsaber per my write up work and act just like you see in the films. In terms of points I run starwars using Hero rules so players don't buy lighsabers. They build them in game, or if they start as Knights they already have them.

Re: Damage for lightsabers I treat Deflection in to ways. The common way as a Special effect of DCV. So when someone sends a blaster bolt at you and misses you could have Deflected it. If you want to actively Deflect or Reflect the rules act normally, it is abortable and you can deflect multiple times blah blah blah. You buy the skill in my game that gives you access to the power (as per my Star Wars rules for force powers).

Re: Discussion on costs of Characteristics

Re: Discussion on costs of Characteristics I have nothing to add, just that I find it comforting that even if I take a year off from these boards we are still having the same old arguements. I remember this when Bruce Harlick was still running this board.

Re: Damage for lightsabers

Re: Damage for lightsabers

Re: Damage for lightsabers Alright then...