Help! Combat Too Slo-o-ow

[garhkal]

[Bren]

[garhkal]

I had a pc in a sw game almost get into a party fight after we took surrender of 8 Imp stormies. All 8 were fresh recruits we took out on their shuttle coming from the training academy. NONE were armed (their gear was on a separate shuttle), and being they were out were not a threat.
Of the 4 other pcs and 7 npcs we had.
3 pcs/3npcs voted to slit their throats and toss them out the airlock.
1 pc was on the fence
4 npcs were on my side about NOT wanting to kill them.
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[Bren]

[garhkal]

IIRC of the group, 3 were non force sensitive, me and the last PC were force sensitive (heck iirc he was wanting to find someone to learn the force from)..
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[vanir]

both me and my main RPG buddy have german family backgrounds and use SWRPG to assuage a little curiosity about the Nazi-theme elements of the game to explore some of our past.

So we've both done a lot of WW2/Nazi research and tend to incorporate it into the game. One of the interesting things we turned up, was the Sonderkommando/Einsatzgruppe teams on the Eastern Front, the concerted efforts to murder literally truckloads of russian children just to wipe the slavic race from the annals of history as anything but serfs.

And the fascinating thing, is that some of the most brutal, the most psychopathic, the most dangerous figures in the entire German arsenal who did these things, were school teachers and football players and things like that back home. They were armchair experts, with university degrees and rank authorities provided by special nazi programs that had everything to do with how you agreed, not how you answered.

Some of the most brutal Holocaust perpetrators, were what would appear no different to some politically active university students today. It's just that you could tell their hate mongering had little rationalé.
But they just looked like dumb kids. In fact the German Army term for these particular SS field commanders was "Golden Pheasant."

That was part of the lesson you know.




here's another thought, anecdotal and totally subjective, my grandma taught me this bless her heart.
you face an army soldier and your goals are basically the same, he just has a different opinion to you.
you face an ss soldier and he honestly just wants to kill you personally, it's very very personal.

[Bren]

[Fallon Kell]

[vanir]

Indeed Fallon is right Bren, although I know you're an inquisitive and smart guy. But there is a danger you sometimes learn the hard way, whereby you start to believe mechanical rationalé behind elective behaviour. The elusive identification of disembodied evil.

There are centuries worth of literary works challenging this all too human wont to believe the best in people, at point blank.
It is not that some people are evil, but all evil people either choose to be, or are misunderstood. There is morality in determining which, but there are no in-betweens.

[Bren]

[Crimson_red]

In regards to speeding up combat, I was intrigued by cheshire's suggestion:

[MacRauri]

[garhkal]

I have seen some gm's like you were who decided it meant jedi could do everything before anyone else. Others who made it where the jedi automatically pics in the round order when he wishes to act.. BUT if doing more than 1 action, still has the chance someone else goes before his 2nd.
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[MacRauri]

Do you know the rationale for the different rulings on combat sense? Our experience was that if the jedi could choose to take all of their actions at once very little was left alive to even threaten the other player characters.

[Bren]