here is the problem with Near atmosphere hyperjumps.  Instead of trying to explain how they can be accomplished, think of how they affect tactics in the universe. and where if they used that ability it could of changed how things happened
 
What would have prevented the Rebels in ESB from just amassing their ships inside the planetary shields and hypering out? 
ANH, Han solo has to fly in the Falcon past the Imperial ship
In TPM, the same could have been done with the  Nubian Royal Starship, and it would never had needed to run the blockade.  it prevents the ability to effectively blockade a planet.
And why couldn't Han had use the trick in TFA, in RotJ?
 
and in R1, I saw it twice, and I distinctly saw the lack of the Black of space before the jump.  So using the "kicked up all the debris out of the atmosphere" is not valid
 
Not to mention the "I haven't made the calculations" followed by "Don't care, we got plot armor!"  When Han solo could have done that in ANH.  So many times now the Disney star wars has contradicted details in Pre-Disney Star wars and it is starting to annoy me that assumptions that I have made are now turned around with a careless regard for established continuity

Disney is doing whatever they want. Hyperspace travel is speed of plot, and as long as it is dramatically appropriate, gravity wells don't matter.  Everyone has holonet communications and you can have real-time conversations across the galaxy, and even while in hyperspace with just a wrist comm

Considering my very first job for FFG included conceiving and writing Conical 6 Summit and the Corellian Shuffle, I'm flattered by the scores! I'm not sure Corellian Shuffle deserves quite so high a score, I could have probably handled a few mechanical things better knowing what I know now. Still, I definitely swung big with that one, and wanted to create an easily repeatable smuggling run that would conjure up Han Solo's famous Kessel Run. Glad you enjoyed it!

It is simpler to just make older things weaker, then have to try and figure out how things progressed over thousands of years.
 
if I was doing a Old Republic campaign, i would just use stuff from the sourcebooks, and give it a different name.

Just saw it a few hours ago myself.   Then read all the comments in this thread before posting.
 
What gets me is the Movie industry keeps having to set things up with the boring origin story.  So bad that Lucasfilms is promoting the book "Catalyst" as prequel  to the prequel. Instead using the book to get rid of the boring first half of the movie. Star wars should always start with action... like James bond movies.  instead, we get is boring drama that drags on and doesn't pick up until they reach Jedha
 
Looks like Stormtroopers can only hit themselves while battling a blind man. It also seems stormtrooper armor is completely ineffective against hand weapons like Imwe'sstaff, and Jyn's baton... just like Ewoks.   And for some reason, you no longer need to be outside a planet's gravity-well to activate hyperdrive as long as it is cool, or a good Deus ex Machina moment or Disney's "Do it for the cool"
 
The whole "I am going to assassinate him, and then don't" thing was stupid writing.  Made the Cassian seem rather weak.  As well as the loved one long lost dying in your arms. The whole part of the movie on Eadu was week writing.   And how the HELL does a blind man use a "lightbow" to take out a TIE fighter?  Except as the typical Disney answer "Do it for the cool" we need more coolness... lets send in out our star Fighter squadron! and give the hero's a cargo ship they can use to set up the final battle. COOL COOL COOL
 
K2SO, and Saw Gerrera were both awesome.  Vader OWNED every second he was in the film, and that scene in the hallway of Vader going all Sith-badass, was worth the price of admission. My biggest issue with the Taarkin and Leia CGI faces is i think they got the proportions wrong.  They looked too wide or big for the bodies they were on.   passable to let you know who they were, and recognize them for ANH.  I think the Rebel pilots were done a lot better... but then they had the helmets to fit the proportions down.
 
I could see this whole movie reskinned as a really good one shot adventure in AoR.... as long as your start on Jedah looking for Saw., get clue so you go to Eadu and try to capture Galen, then sneak onto IMPERIAL PLANET to steal the MacGuffin
 
The other thing I like is it seemed there was a lot bigger scope, then just a band of hero's doing stuff, but a Galatic scale struggle going on in the background.  The space battle was one of the best of the movies with just a small rebel fleet, Versus 2 ISDs and a shield gate. As well as a nice scale ground battle with Air support.
 
ESB>RotJ>ANH>RotS>R1>TFA>AotC>TPM

I use the babylon 5 Model.  Every main character has a trapdoor, and can be replaced by another with inventive Writing. The only problem would be the viewers/pcs emotional attachment to said character.
 
if you are not prepared to have them killed, you shouldn't allow the players to interact with them.

I use the babylon 5 Model.  Every main character has a trapdoor, and can be replaced by another with inventive Writing. The only problem would be the viewers/pcs emotional attachment to said character.
 
if you are not prepared to have them killed, you shouldn't allow the players to interact with them.

depends on the game.  But start characters with Force sensitivity are not very powerful, and even at 500 XP they might only get one specialization completed with a dabbling in some others

depends on the game.  But start characters with Force sensitivity are not very powerful, and even at 500 XP they might only get one specialization completed with a dabbling in some others

IMO, they probably shouldn’t have been able to mount anything other than Light Blaster Cannons, and certainly not the autofire variant. I see this as a flaw in the adventure design.
Still, just two or three hits with the weakest vehicle weapon against a cloud car with only 8 HT and no armor, that would probably disable/destroy the vehicle pretty quickly.
Maybe only light Ion weapons instead, where an on-board mechanic could presumably recover System Strain as an action?

"Bah! Pod racing is so pre-clone war, everyone is doing swoopchasing now!" - Unknown toydarian
 
This is my first attempt at "publishing" content for Edge of the Empire.  It is a rules conversion and consolidation including the  "swoopchasing" from WEG "The Black sands of Socorro", the race from the Jewel of Yavin, and the Stellar Phenomena or terrain rules in the EoTE core book.
 
Now with 1% more content (or less)
 
Here is the link to the shareable PDF for SWOOPCHASING!
 
 

"Bah! Pod racing is so pre-clone war, everyone is doing swoopchasing now!" - Unknown toydarian
 
This is my first attempt at "publishing" content for Edge of the Empire.  It is a rules conversion and consolidation including the  "swoopchasing" from WEG "The Black sands of Socorro", the race from the Jewel of Yavin, and the Stellar Phenomena or terrain rules in the EoTE core book.
 
Now with 1% more content (or less)
 
Here is the link to the shareable PDF for SWOOPCHASING!
 
 

"Bah! Pod racing is so pre-clone war, everyone is doing swoopchasing now!" - Unknown toydarian
 
This is my first attempt at "publishing" content for Edge of the Empire.  It is a rules conversion and consolidation including the  "swoopchasing" from WEG "The Black sands of Socorro", the race from the Jewel of Yavin, and the Stellar Phenomena or terrain rules in the EoTE core book.
 
Now with 1% more content (or less)
 
Here is the link to the shareable PDF for SWOOPCHASING!
 
 

"Bah! Pod racing is so pre-clone war, everyone is doing swoopchasing now!" - Unknown toydarian
 
This is my first attempt at "publishing" content for Edge of the Empire.  It is a rules conversion and consolidation including the  "swoopchasing" from WEG "The Black sands of Socorro", the race from the Jewel of Yavin, and the Stellar Phenomena or terrain rules in the EoTE core book.
 
Now with 1% more content (or less)
 
Here is the link to the shareable PDF for SWOOPCHASING!
 
 

Alright, things are a bit slow at the office today so I can kill sometime before I go home and post what I did- hopefully it will be of some use to other GMs   I don't have the Driver sourcebook so I am sure there are several other modifications you can make with more resources. I used JOY and the Core Rulebook mods. JOY presents the option of stripping off the armor to increase speed by1, which I did for all of these cars.
 
1.) Hutt-6- Carbine Carrae
Sil 2, Speed 5, Handling +1, Hull 5, SS 7
 
Heavy Blaster Cannon, Repulsorlift (JOY p47- increase speed by +1 for duration of round by suffering 1 SS)
 
2.) HAWK-1- Stormhawks
Sil 1, Speed 5, Handling +1, Hul 5, SS 8
 
Light Cannons, Augmented Buffer (increase SS by 1, JOY P47), Manuever Thrusters increase Handling by 1, JOY p47, ECM suite- counts as Sil 1 when targeted- CRB P. 269)
 
3.) Lando's Baby- Rayzer
Sil 2, Speed5, Handling +2
 
Light cannons, Augmented Buffer, Manuever thrusters, Repulsorlift
 
I hope you folks can use these in your future adventures.

I really would be hesitant to have players play the NPC bidders.
 
But there was a recent thread about this as well as a spreadsheet to help with the auction process.
The basics are that the players need to find information about the Bidders and use that information to help them convince the Bidders to increase their bid.  Most of it will just boil down to a negotiation roll, or good roleplaying if your players are up to it

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speed of plot.  a good rule of thumb is 6 rounds, that can be sped up with successes on an astrogation roll

speed of plot.  a good rule of thumb is 6 rounds, that can be sped up with successes on an astrogation roll

That IYT-1300 is HUGE.  6 turrets? you would end up with a Silhouette 5 GUNSHIP with that thing

My campaign is pretty detailed in the link to the obsidian portal site in my signature.
 
The campaign is a basic Tramp freighter with crew who was kicked out of tatooine and got a lead that the minos cluster was ripe for opportunity.  It started   mere days after the Battle of Yavin. and i have been running it for a little over 2 years with some friends and my wife that has taken a few months in game.
 
The best part of being in one sector is having reoccurring NPCs and building relationships with them. I have been sprinkling the campaign with clues to a WEG campaign that happens in the Kathol sector, which is hopefully my next campaign.  I have used Byond the Rim, some other one shot WEG adventures, and even started with Long arm of the hutt... and as a prelude to the finale of my campaign i am going to do the Jewel of Yavin

So much this.  I cant even contact or get a reply from the mods/admins about this.  really bad when you go somewhere and only find 8 PbP threads
 

Hey, nifty! Did anyone else notice that they collapsed the Beginner Game forums into sub-forums of the different lines? Helps clean things up a bit!
Now, the big question: will we get a dedicated PbP forum...?
~Phee~

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Throw in Adversary 4