Force rules:
When I bought Cracken's Threat Dossier, and then
Endgame for the Darkstryder campaign, I saw the force rules that they had
set out in those two books, in the form of the powers of the witches of
Dathomir, and the Ta-Ree rules. Both of these sets of rules are basically
the same, and are used by specific groups of force wielders. I liked certain
aspects of these rules, but I also liked certain aspects of the basic system
of force rules, so I developed a system which is basically a combination
of the two. This system hasn't been playtested, so I don't know how well
it works, but it seemed reasonable to me. If you use this system in your
game I would be very interested in any feedback.
All force powers fall under the same force skills
as in the rulebook, and are used in the same way, except that the skills
are considered to be similar to attributes such as DEX, and KNOW, and the
powers similar to skills such as blaster and scholar, in that each individual
force power that a character knows can be improved without improving the
base skill. Basic skills are improved in the same manner that attributes
are improved (ie 10X the number before the D, so to improve an alter code
from 2D+1 to 2D+2 would cost 20 character points), but the individual force
powers are improved in the same manner as skills (ie the number before
the D, so to improve resist stun from 4D to 4D+1 would cost 4 character
points). Force powers must still be learned before they can be used, unlike
using the base attribute for skills that you don't specifically have. With
each pip that a force user raises one of his base skills by, he gains 2
force powers under that skill. Otherwise it costs 5 cps to gain a new skill
(10 without a teacher). In the case of powers that use more than one skill,
they are considered to have more than one die code, so if a player wished
to raise his lightsaber combat without raising his base skills, and he
had a control of 3D+1, and a sense of 2D, he would spend 3 cps to raise
his lightsaber combat: control code to 3D+2, and this would also raise
his lightsaber combat: sense code by one pip.
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