Alternate Force Point Rules

[Fallon Kell]

Hey guys, I rechecked my rulebook. I was wrong. As far as 2E rules go, a FP must be declared at the start of a turn.
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[CRMcNeill]

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[Fallon Kell]

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[Bren]

[CRMcNeill]

[Esoomian]

To me that sounds like the more Dark Side Points you have the harder it should be to call on the Dark Side so someone like Luke would find it easy and Vader would find it difficult to do.

Hmmm that does seem to support what we see in the film pretty well.
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[Bren]

I am contemplating switching to modified rule for FPs. This will also slightly effect the usage of CPs.

Force Points
A force point (FP) affects one skill or attribute for one round. It can be declared at any time prior to rolling the dice. One FP only affects either attack or defense rolls, not both. So a single force point spent to increase the lightsaber skill can only increase either lightsaber attack or lightsaber parry, but not both. One FP affects all similar uses of a specific skill for that round, so if a FP is used to affect lightsaber attack, it affects all lightsaber attacks for that round. More than one FP can be used in a round, for example a character with at least two force points could use one FP for attack and another FP for parry.

Character Points
After the dice are rolled, but before the result is determined. A character point (CP) may be spent to increase any skill or attribute roll. The only exception is that if a FP has been used for that skill or attribute roll, then a CP may not be used on that same skill or attribute use in that same round. However CPs may be used for any other skill or attribute rolls in that same round.

Where I Need Help
However, I am encountering some difficulty in figuring out how to treat using FP to affect Force Powers.
(1) I'm not sure how to elegantly manage a power like LS Combat which effects lightsaber attack and parry as well as LS damage in line with use of a FP only affecting attack or parry. In other words how do I reconcile the power with the FP usage above?

(2) On the one hand, I am concerned that the FP usage becomes prohibitively costly for Jedi, for example: if LS combat takes 1 FP to double Control and a 2nd FP to double Sense and even then it only counts for offense, taking another 2 FPs to double both for defense. On the other hand, if I follow crmcneil's suggestion to allow 1 FP to affect a Force Power regardless of how many skills it uses, that may be too powerful. What is the best way to treat multi-skill powers and how best to cost the F usage?

I'm hoping one of you folks can formulate a solution that I am just not seeing.

[CRMcNeill]

[atgxtg]

[quote="Bren"]
]In the RAW you don't ever declare two attacks. You declare two actions. After all first actions are resolved, you then decide what your second action will be.[/quoute]

Generally, correct. Thereis ONE instance in the RAWwhere you must declare attacks, but we can ignore it.

But, my point is that by the RAW, charactersCAN spend CPs after they make the rolls. That makes Cps very powerful, since a character can use a Cp to bump up a close roll.

[Bren]