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MrNexx
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For me, the Force is ubiquitous enough that even those who are not Force-sensitive have ways of interacting with it; beyond just spending Force Points and Character Points.
So, for me, I don't see a problem with it being an advanced skill very few people have access to, with a high Melee Parry prereq. This is your one way of sensing the Force; if you're not sensitive, you don't have another.
So, let's say it has Melee Parry 6D. Once you learn it at 1D, you have 1D worth of ability to parry incoming blaster bolts. You're going to want 2D to have a chance, and 3D to have a hope, and 4D to have a reasonable likelihood of blocking blaster bolts... which is a load of CPs on just buffing your Melee Parry.
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| Naaman wrote: | I have argued many times that "dodge" is not a measure of how fast you move out of the path of a flying blaster bolt, but rather it is your ability to make yourself difficult to acquire as a target in the first place.
FWIW, dodge works against firearms/slugthrowers per RAW. |
Your interpretation is in line with 2e Dodge rules where a dodge applies to all attacks that round. Clearly this is making yourself harder to be hit in general. Otherwise it would be one roll to move out of the way of multiple blaster bolts the rest fo the round, which really doesn't make sense.
| CRMcNeill wrote: | | Another reason I'm glad I folded Dodge and Running into an Agility skill: avoiding semantical arguments over the meaning of "Dodge." |
Indeed. There's not much to argue against in 2e (see above), but yeah.
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| MrNexx wrote: | For me, the Force is ubiquitous enough that even those who are not Force-sensitive have ways of interacting with it; beyond just spending Force Points and Character Points.
So, for me, I don't see a problem with it being an advanced skill very few people have access to, with a high Melee Parry prereq. This is your one way of sensing the Force; if you're not sensitive, you don't have another.
So, let's say it has Melee Parry 6D. Once you learn it at 1D, you have 1D worth of ability to parry incoming blaster bolts. You're going to want 2D to have a chance, and 3D to have a hope, and 4D to have a reasonable likelihood of blocking blaster bolts... which is a load of CPs on just buffing your Melee Parry. |
Would you have the parry being just needing to equal the shot's to hit to deflect it? Or would the diff be higher? Say inverse of range mods, + the to hit?
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MrNexx
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| garhkal wrote: |
Would you have the parry being just needing to equal the shot's to hit to deflect it? Or would the diff be higher? Say inverse of range mods, + the to hit? |
I don't see any reason for it to be different than normal defenses... your Blaster Parry skill would either replace the to-hit number, or add to it (for full defense)
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| Naaman wrote: | | https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzhs1Z8Rwnk |
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I have allowed characters to use martial arts advanced skill in place of sense to block ranged attacks, but I always drew the line at reflecting them back. When doing this, I wave the usual way a defense works against all attacks that phase as well. We have been experimenting with "talents" (essentially tricks following the same sort of rules as force powers for advanced skills), and this is one of them.. the basic version blocking missiles, and the advanced one working for projectiles. We have discussed a "gunslinger" advanced skill allowing the "shoot a bullet out of the air" tricks from the old westerns too..
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