JalekZem
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As much as Mr. Angry, was responsible for instigating the situation, I hate to say that your siblings were just as responsible for escalating it.
Is it ok, for them to have been drawn on, it depends. If it was in the wilderness, they would have a right to be wary and draw on them to cover then while approaching and firing a warning shot would also be acceptable, as Mr. Angry, would think he was not spotted. Your siblings would seem to have escalated it at that point by NOT walking in closer with their hands up so they could talk.
Was Mr. Angry wrong? yes but so were your siblings.
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Thanks....why forager talent over Durable. I don't see any reason that they would be any better at looking for food then any other race. The durable makes more sense to me as they are regarded as fierce warriors and their culture seems more geared towards fighting and ignoring pain
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In my game, I only tend to make the PCs roll for any Restricted items they want or any regular item over 6 in most places. I even had a new player (a sniper) pick up a badly damaged ES-11 Sniper rifle on Raxus Prime after the Imperial attack at the end of the module, after 3 players had failed to find one prior to the fight.
They then spent about 90% of the cost of the rifle sourcing replacement parts over the next 3 sessions.
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what are your reasons for the stats, the justification for mechanics and lore as a skill choice and the battle rage? The only 2 NPCs in SWTOR that are Ratataki seem afar cry from flying off the handle for no reason. Kylio, while crazy, is more likely to get even the got bat **** on some one and the Lady of Pain, is more likely to be cold and calulating about wrighting a wrong.
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I have a player that would like to make one of these. For those not familiar they are in Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO.
I am leaning towards giving them base human starting Attributes, a free rank in brawl or melee and a freerank of the durable talent (or what ever the name of the talent is that reduces crit results by 10). Starting wounds 1 higher then a human and starting strain 1 less.
As they are a very brutal warrior culture I feel that this would be appropriate.
does this sound fair?
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i would highly suggest at least heavy clothing or padded armor, a few stim packs, encumberance gear, and other basic gear over the ID
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Posted Today, 09:28 PM
JalekZem, on 04 Jun 2016 - 9:22 PM, said:
In my last session, a younger player with a young character (who is playing a mandalorian Bounty Hunter working for the Rebellion) decided to try and get another job from their contact. He rolled multiple failures and a disrepair.
The contact tossed him a pair of boots, put them on the desk and said he your pay 10 credits for him to shine him. The player took a swing at him and missed. The NPC (Rolling 1 triumph and several successes and several advantages) drew his vibrorapier from his cain, swept the PC's legs out from under him with the cain knocking him on his back, and carving a Z into his armor. The next round he lays into him with a terrifying Scathing Tirade leaving the PC with 1 strain left and backs off to give the PC a chance to stand down.
The PC got up and started fumbeling for his blaster and the other 3 PCs drew on him and shot the rouge PC with blasters on stun leaving him with a total of 27 strain (out of 12)
Doesn't sound like that could've gone much worse for him haha (without actual death)
Well..let me see as I didn't actually bother to count the successes, but there were at least 5 from a S+1 pierce 5 weapon...so that would have been a base 4 dmg +9 ignoring 5 points of soak against a Brawn 2 PC wearing padded armor with 12 or 14 Wounds, plus the crit, plus activating sunder on the armor....
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Also, back to the OP's original scenario a SOS as a possible trap.
The vast majority of people WOULD stop, even if they expected a trap. Most of the time it is an actual emergency and most people are not pirates. The other reason would be a combination of Maritime law and Karma.
In our world and in most space based games, it is the law that you need to offer assistance to disabled vessels (in Canada, the trains even have to stop if the see someone trying to flag them down to offer assistance or take them on as a passenger). Can and do some people take advantage of this, sure. Can your PCs disregard the law, sure they can. However, it is actually something that your PC would do, or is it something that YOU, the PLAYER does not like.
Your typical spacer PC would most likely be overly cautious when doing so, but WOULD render what aid they could as they would want someone else to do the same if it happened to them.
Also, that particular module encounter allows for the PCs to over power the NPCs or vice versa AND has a very decent reward as well.
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In my last session, a younger player with a young character (who is playing a mandalorian Bounty Hunter working for the Rebellion) decided to try and get another job from their contact. He rolled multiple failures and a disrepair.
The contact tossed him a pair of boots, put them on the desk and said he your pay 10 credits for him to shine him. The player took a swing at him and missed. The NPC (Rolling 1 triumph and several successes and several advantages) drew his vibrorapier from his cain, swept the PC's legs out from under him with the cain knocking him on his back, and carving a Z into his armor. The next round he lays into him with a terrifying Scathing Tirade leaving the PC with 1 strain left and backs off to give the PC a chance to stand down.
The PC got up and started fumbeling for his blaster and the other 3 PCs drew on him and shot the rouge PC with blasters on stun leaving him with a total of 27 strain (out of 12)
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Jareth Valar, on 03 Jun 2016 - 12:23 AM, said:That, however, is not necessarily an issue with the species, it's more of a player/gm issue. The gm needs to emphasize what type of game he/she wishes to run and then needs players that are able to follow the guidelines the gm has set.
Not really, unless of course I tell my players "I want to run a game where you choose your species based only on the roleplay aspect of the race, don't pick it purely on what attributes it starts with". That would be fine if everyone was normally starting with combatants when I intended to run a social/political game or visa-versa, but not for my current point.
This is more of your "hang up" than a real issue. Even in Bab5, Humans are the base line.
Centauri would have a innate higher cunning as their culture is much more Machiavellian then anyone other culture portrayed in that universe.
Mimbari would have higher base in most stats then humans, as they were genetically stronger, and faster then humans, their culture was more disciplined as well so they could have a higher Willpower and Intelligence as well.
Narn would also have brawn 3 and a lower presence
That is just the major 4 races. Forget about what ever race Voss was even being anything close to balanced.
SEApocalypse, on 03 Jun 2016 - 12:09 AM, said:
eldath, on 02 Jun 2016 - 10:30 AM, said:
Perhaps I haven't explained myself properly. I don't actually mind anyone making a high-stat character. My issue is when a species is only chosen because of its best stat. I would prefer if the race was chosen because it fitted into the character concept. To me, species is which prosthetics you are wearing.
Perhaps I was not clear enough. A player who picks a species for his threes is not doing it right from a min/maxing point of view as those stats are already paid by the starting xp. You can take a species without those threes and just min/max even better based on the racial abilities. And I will not deny that people will still pick species for its characteristic stats lines, but in general this usually a poor choice from a powergaming AND roleplaying perspective.
Sticking with the Brawn option; starting with a Wookiee with brawn 3 it would cost the player 90xp to start with Brawn 5, if the same player chose a human it would cost him 120xp to achieve the same effect. While I can appreciate that players want to make the best character that they can and those extra 30xp (assuming that they can manage to start with 120xp) will make a huge difference allowing for talents and/or skills, if the only reason that the species was chosen was for that reason that doesn't work for me.
In each of these cases they hypothetical Brawn 5 at start Human will have 0 starting XP (base 110 + 10 for obligations/ Duties) and the Wookie would have 10 XP to do stuff with which is not an awful lot to do anything meaningful with.
It is also your predisposition that said player is taking the wookie soley because he is making a marauder. This is akin to poo-pooing an elf wizard in a high fantasy setting. Yes, they may be sightly better then the human at the start but some people like playing elves over humans. Just out right denying or having a negative pre-dispostion to an elf wizard because they are "min/maxed" and being delighted to have say a halfling one because they are not "the best race for a wizard" is just wrong.
Also, in Bab5 this would be less of an issue as aside from the Minbar most of the races sensibly bring lasers to their space gun fights not swords.
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Well they can...but there are 2 simmilar but different issues this could be a symptom of
1) They players are purposefully being difficult or obtuse or otherwise using their "Free Will" to circumvent the adventure
2) The GM and the Players not coming to an agreement prior to the campaign
In the case of 1) too many players rely of the "That is not what my guy would do" to avoid something they as a player do not like (or similarly to use the "That is what my guy would do" to be dicks to the NPCs or the GM).
As I stated earlier, how exciting would the Hobbit have been if Bilbo had not followed Gandalf and the Dwarves to Moria and then to Lake Town to kill Smaug? It was not in Bilbo's nature to be adventurous in the slightest. If that were a RPG, the player could have easily said "No, I'm not going" and ended at least that session right there.
Simmilarly, Luke's player refusing to accompany Obi-Wan to Alderaan, as it is not what my guy would do, would have ended that session as well
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ok so I have it now. Races: Anx, Ithorian, and Quermian.
Specializations: Executioner, Hermit, and Navigator. None train Lightsaber. Hermit has 2 Force Rating increases
Signature Abilities: Unexpected Demise spend a manuver to add a triumph to a combat checks and crits take out a rival as if they were a minion
Unmatched Persuit: may spend strain to maintain Persuit of a target that disengaged.
Rules: Beast Riding and wildness survival.Edit: Fixed an error
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mine is behind the counter at my LGS, but I cannot get it yet as there is only 1 person on and they are helping some build a commander deck and thy guy wants specific hard to find artwork on cards
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Also, in this particular case. A derilict vehicle emmiting an SOS or a beacln doing so, it is most likely interstellar law to stop and offer assistance.
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OOC:
Roller Jalekzem Character Sting Wango Campaign Hutt Space Chronicles Description Resiliance Check Results 3eA+1eD+1eC: 2 successes, 1 advantage [3eA=S/S, A, S/A] [1eD=-] [1eC=F/Th]
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Sting wallowing in a bottle of Corellian Whisky sits alone in the common area slowly drinking his time away. He hears the exchange between the Captain and the Engineer. Well, at least if I die in space I won't have to work for those smelly Hutts again. He sighs and downs another shot of whiskey.
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OOC:
Roller Jalekzem Character Sting Wango Campaign Hutt Space Chronicles Description Resiliance Check Results 3eA+1eD+1eC: 2 successes, 1 advantage [3eA=S/S, A, S/A] [1eD=-] [1eC=F/Th]
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Here are some popular stories to remind you players of:
1) A group of 4 pre-teens visit their relative in rural England during WW2, they find a magical wardrobe and decide to not go through
2) A peaceful, lazy Hobbit has his lazy Sunday summer afternoon crashed by an old wizard and a bunch of dwarves, they offer him a chance to come with them to slay a dragon and gather a bunch of treasure to make him and his heirs rich for generations....and the Hobbit provides them with a nice dinner and says no...
3) A farm boy on a desert planet buys some new droids, that seem to want to find a crazy hermit. Once he meets with the hermit, he offers the farm boy a chance to come with him to a civilized planet to seek out a resistance cell. The boy declines the offer and the Galactic Empire still has a powerful planet destroying battle station.
4) A NYC police officer visits his estranged wife and children in LA for Christmas. His wife tells him to come to their office Christmas party. While he is cleaning up from his long flight, the building is over run by terrorists. He decides to hide in the office and does not do anything to interfere with their plans....
5) In the near future, out prospective dark-horse hero of the dark web is offered a choice to take the red pill and experience the world as it really is or the blue pill to forget every thing, and chooses the blue pill
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quick start vote also
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Money Roll 1:
Roller Jalekzem Character Sting Wango Campaign Hutt Space Chronicles Description Money Roll 1 Results 1d100: 67 [1d100=67]Money Roll 2:
Roller Jalekzem Character Sting Wango Campaign Hutt Space Chronicles Description Money Roll 2 Results 1d100: 24 [1d100=24]I'll go with the first roll
Destiny Roll:
Roller Jalekzem Character Sting Wango Campaign Hutt Space Chronicles Description Destiny Pool Results 1eF: 2 Light Side [1eF=LS/LS]
P.S. PCs you are welcome
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Also keep in mind that the rarity of some mods will be higher then that of the weapon, and most manufacturers need to build to accommodate the laws.
The best example of this is street racers in our time. You do not and cannot go into your local dealership and buy a vehicle that is ready for street racing for a couple of reasons:
1) The end activity is not legal in most places
2) The demand for such machines are not high enough to justify stocking them in any non-zero quantity even if the above is not the case.
So prospective street racer needs to acquire the chassis of the vehicle, usually buying the lowest cost frame that will suit their purpose. They then find a bigger engine, suitable transmission, upgrade the suspension, better tires and flashier rims, paint it in non-standard colors, and possibly put other mods on like NO2 injectors, real time computer monitoring of the fuel injection and so on.
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Good afternoon,
Sting Wango is a Rodian Enforcer. He was hired on by Bargos to be a loan shark and collector for the organization. He is looking to redeem his reputation that was soiled in a turf war a few years ago. He is looking out primarily to make sure that people that owe Bargos pay up, he is not too concerned about the morality of the situation.
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The only problem that I see, is that what may be obvious to you may not be so for the players to figure out, even with good clues.
Imagine the Fellowship trying to open the door to Moria and not getting the "Speak Friend and Enter" clue....ohh well looks like Sauron will win as we can not bypass the mountain range....
Sarone's Star Wars: Hutts Space Chronicles (Season 1) OOC
in Star Wars: Edge of the Empire RPG
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I guess Sting could go help with the piloting roll, his other options are to go "lean on the captain" to coerce him to getting the droid out (with his talent it would downgrade the roll to DDDSS vs PAB, or to go "fix" the issue in engineering by banging on something with his gaffi stick. Which would you guys prefer?