The Academy - Character Creation

It requires incredible amounts of invested EXP for the Force to become powerful. From my experience of playing nearly a year in a weekly high EXP campaign (I believe we ended at around 500-600 earned EXP), even at that point, Force Move is hardly a win-switch. High Force Rating and maxing out force powers is so expensive that at the same time, a "mundane" will be so versatile that they can easily keep up with the resident wannabe Jedi all the way through.

Yea, it's definitely not auto-win in most standard situations (especially combat).

But there's times when it can completely "F" the GMs plans (which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but...). Like when you're trying to get a McGuffin: BBEG has the McG in his hands up on the upper deck of the control bridge, and is delivering his dramatic speech, before escaping with it? Well, I've got the "secure mountings" upgrade and Long Range. I yoink it. GM: "Well crap, there went my whole next session where I thought you were gonna have to chase this guy."

Or, "You gotta capture this guy, and he just spotted you walking into the cantina and takes off!", Well, I have the Sil 1 upgrade and Long Range, I yoink him over to us. GM: "Crap. There went my dramatic chase scene!"

Or, "This ruthless black market merchant has your McG, and will only sell it to you if you do this thing for him!", I Influence him to believe that we've done it AND paid him already, give us the Guffin! GM: "Crap there went my next session where you had to do this thing. Which was also the same thing that was gonna hook you up with this plot NPC. Double crap!"

Granted there are sometimes narrative controls like, "Do you really want to show yourself as a Force User in this seedy cantina full of bounty hunters?" But also if the GM is being so restrictive that you can't use this thing that you've invested SO heavily into, it's gonna create frustration...

The Force isn't all powerful, but it can certainly break certain situations in a way that no normal skill or Talent can.

Edit: apologies everyone, this convo should probably be in the cantina...

Someone asked earlier about cold weather gear. No you don’t need to go out of your way for cold weather gear.

Good to know. Thanks!

Just to address the OP Force discussion above. Look to the canon for a guide. The force users we see the most of are Anakin, Kenobi, Yoda, Qui Gon, Dooku, and Luke. Those are along the strongest force users in history. If you’re trying to something those guys couldn’t do, it’s unlikely to work, regardless of rolls. Even Ashoka from TCW would be much stronger than most F&D PCs for a long time. And remember, if you expose yourself as a powerful force user, there is only one thing that can happen. And that’s Vader coming for you.

That's why my "best" Force Sensitive character was a measly FR 1 Ship-Cho knight with his force ability limited to the brawn chain of Enhance. Fluff wise he was a duelist from a backwater planet in the Unknown Regions, and as such he stayed under the radar compared to the guys with FR 3 hurling TIE fighters as their opening move in a fight.

The waking lived, the power characters were hunted down.

Hurling TIE fighters should really always be a last resort thing... And going full Yoda vs Sidious is probably not going to work out for anyone who isn't at Yoda's level, I assume reaching ~2000 EXP is going to take a while :p

Hira definitely won't go for obvious displays of power for a long good while. After all, who needs flashy telekinesis when you can just wield some old sword you found on a flea market with higher effectiveness than other people use blasters?

In the interest of getting your buy-in while things are still malleable, Bardo, I bought a "Hilt-Masking Kit" for my LS hilt, which has a variable cost, based on whatever you're masking it as. And I bought a "Disguise Kit" for my Hilt-Masking (100 cred), which I intend to use as having the Hilt Masked as a part of my Kel Dor respirator. Basically, disguising my Kel Dor mask as an old/cheap model that has filtration tubes running to some sort of filtration/supply bottle (where the hilt is hidden), instead of the "normal" kel dor mask that terminates in the fang-looking things.

A Kel Dor version of this:


The tubes/supply/filtration bottle are all just an aesthetic disguise on top of my real kel dor breath mask (my Kel Dor mask looks and functions as normal with or without the Disguise Kit mask).

Let me know if are/not ok with that, por favor?

I’ll have to read up on that but it it seems ok. Just for clarification you just a have a hilt to have one? You can’t have a lightsaber yet.

Yea, just the hilt, no crystal. Didn't have the funds :)

Going through sheets now

Meribson/Drazz - looks good
emsquared/Sugo - sheet looks good, need some backstory
Ninja/Kelen - looks good
Silim/Hira - looks good
Joress/Lotus - looks good

Will get an IC post up today