05-13-2012, 04:51 AM | #21 |
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Re: Star Wars: Space Ships, Hyperspace Travel, Blasters, ST
Regarding spaceship combat: Spaceships #7 contains rules for combat in atmosphere, WW-style. There's also the 'Hyperdynamic Cosmos', which is basically atmospheric flight dynamic in spaaace. Between that, tweaking the acceleration values of drives (both a 'true' and a 'pseudo' sAccel), and figuring if you need a custom way of calculating to speed for sublight travel/combat, you might get the effect you want.
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05-13-2012, 05:30 AM | #22 |
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05-13-2012, 08:10 AM | #23 |
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Re: Star Wars: Space Ships, Hyperspace Travel, Blasters, ST
His comment that so and so taught him some tricks (made before he deploys the Cuisinarto Saber Attack Technique) makes the matter ambiguous. Normal tricks or Force tricks?
I would not rule that you need the Force to use lightsabers. You certainly don't need it to turn them on and use them as tools. Neither of the licensed RPGs have made lightsabers Force-only though both have let the Force enhance them greatly.
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05-13-2012, 08:18 AM | #24 |
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Re: Star Wars: Space Ships, Hyperspace Travel, Blasters, ST
Make their damage scale depending on force?
Also, this being SW, why not make sabre damage scale with ST (swing) even though it seems weird to our physics? ST affects damage in both the Knights Of and just The Old Republic. (Okay, Inquisitor damage scales with Will.) |
05-13-2012, 08:23 AM | #25 |
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Doesn't square with Qui-Gon just pushing his saber through the blast door lock instead of swinging it. Probably other examples too.
That said, saber blades are solid enough to parry with and to push agaisnt your opponent in the corps-a-corps. I'd at least let you do Beats and Disamrs against one.
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05-13-2012, 08:45 AM | #26 |
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05-13-2012, 08:46 AM | #27 |
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I don't think Beats and Disarms are incentive enough to invest in ST. Not enough to make much of a difference, anyway.
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05-13-2012, 08:50 AM | #28 | |
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It seems to me the styles and such described above sound like a Beat was used and I felt it was clean and simple yet still got the feel the Op was looking for. However it was passed over with no comment so maybe not. |
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05-13-2012, 09:16 AM | #29 | |
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Beats are useful for these purposes, for sure, but they're not enough, as they appear to take a turn, much like a feint and what I was looking to emulate was Anakin simply striking deliberately and with force, such that blocking his attacks was physically daunting (for which, yes, one could still take striking ST, but I really want the base attribute to work). Otherwise, in response to some others here, lightsabers in my world won't work without the force. The weilder uses the force to contain the plasma that makes up the blade. Without it, you have a single-use plasma ejector at best. Of course, that would be too dangerous, so a force-switch is also built into almost all lightsabers, so that they won't even turn on without the force. In addition, lightsaber blades cut through most things effortlessly, so I don't think ST-based damage makes a lot of sense. |
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