TheDarkness

You kids get off of my grass: enhanced senses, yard only Social complication: wears dress socks with sandals

But moving it becomes an attack action. That's a big sacrifice.

Ah, that's right, I was worried. To do what I said above would require making the AOE mobile, which would make every time he or she moved it into an attack action. I feel cleansed. But(inner munchkin rallies) there is nothing to stop him from doing resistant defenses and have such a barrier power only when he stands in one place, after all, what's a one point barrier among friends?

My main question is, depending on the nature of the force field, there may be no need at all to build the defense against chokes, it may be included in the force field. So, if the field has resistance defence, that would nullify the NND of the choke. Further, if it has any PD/rPD, then you couldn't do a choke on him or her in the first place without overcoming that, and since the choke itself cannot overcome that, since it's damage is NND upon completion of the grab, then I'm thinking there is no further build needed, because the grab or choke cannot happen. Further, if there is no defense already on the field, then, unless I'm misunderstanding things, one point of PD on the orb effectively nullifies grabs and chokes, doesn't it? I mean, maybe I'm misunderstanding things, but if I have a force field in a sphere around me, you have to bypass or shut down that force field to choke, becuase you need to grab. But, the grab could not do any damage whatsoever to overcome the force field, since the only way it does damage is by first grabbing the neck, and the force field has no neck. So, I suppose, thinking about it, a barrier with 1 point of defense with the limitation(although, I could see this being seen as an advantage) only applies to chokes would nullify all chokes, as far as I can tell. If you really wanted him always immune to chokes, then build two barriers, one that does all the big stuff, and one that is a single point that works against grabs and chokes only. I feel dirty writing that, it's uber munchkiny, but the second barrier, since it effectively doesn't exist for all the attacks that could possibly cause it damage, is a strong defense. I'm thinking there must be a rule against that that I'm not thinking of. There must be.

As an aside, I have found that if I don't want to see awful, hamhanded choreography and awkward posing, I need to avoid looking at the background action during the arena jedi battle in Attack of the Clones. And if I want to avoid seeing a highly manipulative relationship destroying an intelligent woman's confidence in the most hideous way, I need to not look at the foreground action in other scenes. And if I want to avoid being forced to wonder who thought the best cinematic approach to combine the wonder of the force and a totally disfunctional relationship forming was levitating a sliced spam pear before rolling around meadows filled with herd creatures who undoubtedly leave hidden treasures in those meadows, then I need to actually sedate myself. I spend a good portion of the movie telling myself 'I am only here to see storm troopers and tusken raider murder, I will not ask why Yoda never has a talk with Annakin about all that tusken raider murder, there is nothing but storm troopers and tusken raider murder. All but storm troopers and tusken raider murder are the mind killer. They are the little death that brings final anni-alation.'

Doesn't that fall under artistic license?

I'm a bit of an oddball when it comes to this. Often, when I play games that are, in essence, based around worlds with familiar characters, I usually don't want to interact with Paul. I guess I'm funny that way, but I tend to want to adventure in the world/universe, but not be closely tied to the main characters of the novels. Plus, it avoids killing Paul and things like that. Not that there's anything wrong with tying in the characters of a novel, I just tend to avoid it. Plus, as GM, I'd hate to do a crappy job role playing Gurney or Thufir. If I foul up an NPC, I can always say, oh, that guy is awkward. That's just his personality. Brilliant assassin. Terrible conversationalist. But, I would imagine that some sort of unit like that would play out well, regardless of who they are answering to. Plus, you have the advantage that any of them could be royal family members, as many received training from the mentats or the bene Geserit, etc.

The only comparison we have in the OT is Vader, Yoda, and the Emperor. As far as telekinesis, he's on par with almost all the jedi in the prequels except Dooku, Yoda, and the Emperor. So, by ROTJ, fight choreography aside, he does everything jedi knights in the prequels do at about the same level, including deflecting blaster fire on Jabba's barge and leaping. This is why I think most jedi builds are overpowered, if one goes by the movies. That leap is not that long, the choke and telekinesis is not ever shown at Yoda/Emperor/Dooku/Vader level except for by those four, they're the only ones shown to be able to do heavy telekinesis in combat, and those are four of the most powerful AND highly trained of all jedi/sith, not average jedi or sith. Past that, there's just choke, mind control, and fight choreography(plus force lightning for sith, and some sort of ability to absorb that by yoda); the choreography is obviously much more frenetic in the prequels, but that is really more due to the era they were made. Once one figures in that Luke beat Vader in a light saber duel, and Vader was a paragon of the era when there were jedi knights, Luke is on par with other jedi knights, imo. By ROTJ, Luke's leap, control of minds, and choke are depicted as being exactly the same as any other depiction of them that we have from any but the most insanely powerful force using characters. So, for instance, Vader chokes a commander from a great distance(over comm, no less), Yoda, Vader, Dooku, and the Emperor all fling extremely heavy things in combat(or, in Yoda's case, stop those things from being flung), but no other jedi display this strength, and only Luke senses Vader's goodness. As for better at everything, piloting was something he had talent in, not all jedi were, so that plays into it, but we don't actually know if Han was better or not. Han himself, after all, did surprise Vader while he was pursuing the novice Luke in the trenches of the Death Star. Han was portrayed as the better shot, but, of course, this is all relative, as the heroes usually hit and the enemies usually miss. But Luke wasn't really shown as being better at that in the movies, it was never emphasized much, but keep in mind, Han, half blind, shot the sarlacc tongue thing, outdrew Greedo, emphasis definitely went into Han being more a gunslinger than Luke. As for the blasters and damage, I am not suggesting instakill guns, but if we're handing out lightsabers that are on par with the genre, at least a blaster SHOULD potentially knock someone out, including a jedi. Especially if there are concerns with jedi unbalancing things, which, if one uses the movies as a basis, I don't think they would, because they will lack a lot at range, and if blasters aren't nerfed, there will be more situations in which a jedi is in a pinch than almost anyone.

Even with the precogs, the odds of running into one are basically zero at any point. But the shields, I would want the shields as an option, but I could totally get behind the origins of the fremen type story you are talking about. Lots of knife duels, conflict of groups, riding worms into battle.

Most everyone who was shot with a blaster who wasn't a central character died. And at range, a blaster is immensely more deadly than a lightsaber. No one ever threw a lightsaber far enough to change that. And, deflection against simultaneous fire almost never happens. Which is why there was often some running away from such situations. In game terms, I just don't think they're that powerful if one uses the OT. Even the Emperor needed bodyguards. Luke in ROTJ being weak as a jedi seems off, he force choked, lots of levitation, sensed Darth Vader's goodness. Within the context of the OT, he was a strong jedi in that movie.

Should it bug me?

I think the point they made was that the only thing you can actually see that's close is tracks.

But it couldn't be Trump. Trump has the complication 'forgets to cover up obvious ignoramity BEFORE denying it'. Whoever this is has experience disappearing people. Clearly it's Hillary.

I'm not sure if it's in this thread, or the one in the hero system forum, or elsewhere, but I recently read someone make the assertion that, in the Star Wars universe, apparently no one invented the wheel. Thus, AT-ATs.

I believe the current explanation is, the clones were elite, but they were later decimated by biological warfare that targetted only them, I'm not sure if anyone's named the virus, perhaps a form of dysentary called the Django Shuffle, but anyway, they had to be replaced by mass numbers who were not so elite. And then, the First Order, being smaller in size than the Empire, went with high tech and elite, but smaller numbers and more Hitler speeches.

Blame the liberal media! Maybe sneak a picture of him somehow, see if he does not show up. Is George Will a vampire?

Additionally, put this in super hero terms without the associated points. Your character can have deflection(as long as they have their lightsaber), a pretty mild telekinetic push and lift power, and close combat skills better than others. Everyone and their brother can pick up EB off the street. Everyone and their brother can have flight through high speed vehicles. They could have flight through armor, entangle through armor, poison dart guns(NND), higher energy exploding EB(Chewie's weapon), robots with energy shields, grenade type weapons, contacts, et al. Even if a character just has a blaster, if they get the same points, they will be waaaaaaaay better by means of their skill and skill levels and bells and whistles they can put on that than the jedi could ever start at as far as a ranged attack, because he has to pay for much more. Plus, if you make him pay for a dark force power push, he's got even less points to throw in more powers. It's useful to remember that, in the OT, Luke was usually running at the same times as the rest of his party. There aren't really that many scenes of him taking on all kinds of baddies.

Not sure, do you think reading what Kafka says on the matter might give me some hope?

Will it kill me?

A bolwevil infestation?

Can my answer be rhetorical?

George Will, the columnist?

Do I?

I agree in part, but, as someone who spent most of their life being the guy with long experience short on degrees(went to college later in life), there are waaaay more people at the lower end than are needed for production, and the people who have decades of experience know they cannot leave their jobs without often facing a loss of opportunity, because employers can pick and choose, and are not going to ever match the pay that one currently has because of what amounts to tenure. Further, gaining that tenure often ties to generation. It was far easier to achieve if one started one's job by the eighties, far harder after, when the rise in pay often did not keep pace with inflation. Less stability meant greater need to find a new job that did pay what one needed to survive, which meant less job stability due to not being "first in, last out". Many are not particularly compassionate to workers who have less expertise, but the solution is not to not try to allow as many people as possible to reach a level of education, including trade schools, that might allow them more opportunity. And not turn that opportunity into the equivalent of payday loans for an education that is beneficial to society.

The wage difference from the developing world to the developed world means that the manufacturing center of the world will always, assuming the current economic model, be in the developing world. To base the economics of a developed country based on production either requires production models that require far less workers, which means little added employment except in tech, or having wages like a developing country, both of which would be disastrous for consumer spending, unless, in the former, a significant portion of the workforce were actually working in jobs that require higher eduction.