"Broken" Skills

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[Krapou]

[Ankhanu]

Aye, most of the lightsaber's power comes from a Force Power, not the item itself; enhanced damage and blocking ranged attacks aren't features of the item.

That said, the damage they do to objects when used to parry is a nice bonus (and one that I think doesn't come into play as often as it logically should... I know we rarely thought about it when playing)

[Nico_Davout]

I was always curious why the Vehicle Blaster skill is under Dexterity (and Blaster Artillery). Weapons which falls under this category have fire control, so they use some computer to help character with targeting. It should fall under Mechanical. Even more, vehicle and starship weapons should be under one skill. What is the difference in shooting from Blaster cannon mounted on AT-AT against Starship which have same Blaster cannon (different scale) on Starship. At the same time Starship would be shooting on AT-AT with different skill.
Someone could point that the scale is different, yes, but character can shoot with the Blaster skill from the very small Hold-out Blaster Pistol and from big E-Web.
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Nico,

Han Solo shot first, midichlosomething do not exist, Rebel Alliance was created as in the WEG books and indoctrination theory is the true ending of ME3.

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[hazardchris]

I've had the parry skills merged into their offensive counterparts for years. While from a real-world point-of-view it makes sense to have them seperated, from a Star Wars POV it makes a lot more sense to have the combined in my way of thinking.

I played with Cortex for a while and after playing that I even allow Dodge to be able to avoid melee attacks. It just never made sense to me that someone without any weapons would have to "parry" a vibroblade with their bare hands. I toss in a penalty for using the skill in this fashion but it works out pretty well.

[garhkal]

That is probabily because you are assuming that parrying an attack is forcefully putting your hands in the way (or weapon) to make them miss, when in the description for those skills it even says "EVADING"..
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[Lancil]

[Esoomian]

[ZzaphodD]

[jmanski]

Yes, dictionaries are not the place for rules discussions.

Case in point:

Dexterity

n.

1. Skill and grace in physical movement, especially in the use of the hands; adroitness.
2. Mental skill or adroitness; cleverness.
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Blasted rules. Why can't they just be perfect?

[garhkal]

Well said J.
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[bobenhotep]

star wars d6 is the only game i played where there was a separate parry skill. everything else uses the combat skill at hand for defense.

i thought of having a separate parry skill, but allowing it to do extra effects. so a character can use say, melee combat to block incoming attacks . but if he uses melee parry, he can block or parry in such a way that he can set up for the next attack, kinda like form 5 is described. the same with brawling parry, where if a character with brawling blocks by covering up, the brawling parry sets up the counter attack, like a martial arts type thing. id also allow a lower penalty for brawling parry vs weapons than brawling.

the vehicle blasters thing... id have it be a vehicle gunnery skill where it would be a mechanical skill, used not only for blasters, but to shoot missles, lasers, ion cannons, much like the other gunnery skills.
to fire a weapon you are not physically touching/ moving, like an at-at chin gun, speeder bike blaster , youd use this skill. so it would be the speeder/ walker scale equivalent of starship gunnery or capital ship gunnery.

pintle guns would use the appropriate skill, like blaster or missle weapons.

blaster artillery would fall under whatever gunnery skill was scale appropriate.
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The Chijawa said so, that's why.

[garhkal]