Absol197 5,296 Posted October 22, 2017 No, not really. The assumption is that it takes a maneuver to switch modes, and there's single mode (standard saber), double mode (standard double hilt stats), and spin mode (defensive and deflection 1). There's no discussion of the cost or rarity. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Daeglan 5,950 Posted October 22, 2017 37 minutes ago, Absol197 said: No, not really. The assumption is that it takes a maneuver to switch modes, and there's single mode (standard saber), double mode (standard double hilt stats), and spin mode (defensive and deflection 1). There's no discussion of the cost or rarity. It would be restricted. And not for sale... 1 Absol197 reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Absol197 5,296 Posted October 22, 2017 I mean, technically, but kyber crystals are the same, and the black market is a thing ... 1 Daeglan reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Daeglan 5,950 Posted October 22, 2017 23 minutes ago, Absol197 said: I mean, technically, but kyber crystals are the same, and the black market is a thing ... You want inquisitors? Cause that is how you get inquisitors... 1 Duciris reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ASCI Blue 129 Posted October 22, 2017 Inquisitors don't exist. ssssshhhhh. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Absol197 5,296 Posted October 22, 2017 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Daeglan said: You want inquisitors? Cause that is how you get inquisitors... Trust me folks, don't do this! Once you get Inquisitors, you can... Wait...I'm getting the strangest feeling of deja vu ... Edited October 22, 2017 by Absol197 3 Daeglan, JorArns and Matt Skywalker reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Decorus 672 Posted October 22, 2017 I'm assuming that the Mystic book will have the full stat block for it... You know what they say about assumptions.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Random Bystander 105 Posted October 22, 2017 Hmmmm I play a defensive dualist so I am tempted by this new sabre - how do people think about it working for a dualist build? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Seguleh 77 Posted October 22, 2017 Realy? You would change your stylish curved hilt or crossguard sabre with this... swiss army knife abomination? The only force user i would see it fitting to is a mechanic focused guy, so he has a toy to mess arround with. Btw is there any example of underarm attached blades in star wars? Like in the style of marvels wolverine or starcrafts protoss berserker? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blackbird888 4,110 Posted October 22, 2017 http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lightsaber_gauntlet Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stan Fresh 2,465 Posted October 22, 2017 2 minutes ago, Blackbird888 said: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lightsaber_gauntlet There's also this glorious bit of stupidity: Ladies and gentlebeings, behold the knee-sabers. 4 Absol197, Duciris, Mindless Philosopher and 1 other reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Absol197 5,296 Posted October 22, 2017 (edited) On 10/22/2017 at 5:42 AM, Stan Fresh said: There's also this glorious bit of stupidity: Ladies and gentlebeings, behold the knee-sabers. He's a hork-bajir! Made of lightsabers! That's awesome! Edited October 23, 2017 by Absol197 3 rogue_09, kaosoe and Duciris reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Seguleh 77 Posted October 22, 2017 @Blackbird888 Thanks! But somehow it does not fit to starwars, it has to stay in starcraft then... @Stan Fresh what the... i mean... no... what? Just no! 3 Absol197, Matt Skywalker and Stan Fresh reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nytwyng 5,759 Posted October 23, 2017 21 hours ago, Decorus said: I'm assuming that the Mystic book will have the full stat block for it... You know what they say about assumptions.... I'm predicting it'll be in Dawn of Rebellion, myself. 3 Matt Skywalker, Absol197 and Daeglan reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nytwyng 5,759 Posted October 23, 2017 On 10/20/2017 at 2:32 PM, jayc007 said: Personally? I was waiting 30 years for the sequels... I don't count? the prequels in this wait even though they came out in that time span... nor? do i count the remakes of the original trilogy. As to other media... some were good and some bad(novels)? but most made this 30 year wait bearable?... however none negated this wait imho.? Edit Now if there were some movies set after rotj that I'm not aware of please PLEASE??? direct me to them as I am unaware of them? Yeah, but we still had new Star Wars material on screen in the meantime. Not so much with Twin Peaks. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jayc007 209 Posted October 23, 2017 2 hours ago, Nytwyng said: Yeah, but we still had new Star Wars material on screen in the meantime. Not so much with Twin Peaks. Fair enough...? I can concede your pov... which doesn't invalidate my pov. ?... as in the prequels were like getting twin valleys(I know I know... it's a hypothetical title of a hypothetical show related to but not really about twin peaks) while you wanted sequels of twin peaks.? Anyway enough derailleur right? Back to spoilers?? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jayc007 209 Posted October 23, 2017 17 hours ago, Stan Fresh said: There's also this glorious bit of stupidity: Ladies and gentlebeings, behold the knee-sabers. Be careful peeps. Just might have this show up in rebels if it gets too much attention! 1 Absol197 reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nytwyng 5,759 Posted October 23, 2017 6 hours ago, jayc007 said: Fair enough...? I can concede your pov... which doesn't invalidate my pov. ?... as in the prequels were like getting twin valleys(I know I know... it's a hypothetical title of a hypothetical show related to but not really about twin peaks) while you wanted sequels of twin peaks.? Anyway enough derailleur right? Back to spoilers?? 1992’s Fire Walk With Me was a prequel. Still 25 years. But yeah, we know where we’re both coming from. 1 jayc007 reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kaosoe 7,573 Posted October 23, 2017 On 10/22/2017 at 7:17 AM, Absol197 said: He's a hork-bajir! 2 Absol197 and Duciris reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Absol197 5,296 Posted October 23, 2017 (edited) 37 minutes ago, kaosoe said: Animorphs was my first true literary ("literary") love, and my gateway to the wonderful drug that is reading, writing, and storytelling. If D&D is Marcy's deadbeat ex-boyfriend, Animorphs is my middle-school girlfriend that I still keep all the cheesy love-letters we gave each other . I still have the whole series, and I reread it every other year . You very likely would not be graced (for certain definitions of "graced") by my presence I'd it wasn't for Jake, Rachel, Tobias, Cassie, Marco, and Aximili! Edited October 23, 2017 by Absol197 6 Duciris, Daeglan, rogue_09 and 3 others reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Maelora 5,807 Posted October 23, 2017 (edited) I wish I could 'like' this several times, because it makes me feel wonderful and sad all at once. Wonderful because it's so slushy and sweet and lovely Sad because my life-long RPG love is a deadbeat, untrustworthy scumbag who will never return my affections. But mostly because I'm ridiculously old and I have no idea what 'Animorphs' are EDIT: (Okay, had to look it up on this new 'interwebz' thing. Wow, that's... different! And weirdly cool. Although the starfish gal kind of drew the short straw, and the poor guy who turns into the cockroach didn't even get a straw at all. Although I guess he'll still be around when everyone else is dead...) Edited October 23, 2017 by Maelora 1 Absol197 reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Absol197 5,296 Posted October 23, 2017 (edited) 17 minutes ago, Maelora said: I wish I could 'like' this several times, because it makes me feel wonderful and sad all at once. Wonderful because it's so slushy and sweet and lovely Sad because my life-long RPG love is a deadbeat, untrustworthy scumbag who will never return my affections. But mostly because I'm ridiculously old and I have no idea what 'Animorphs' are Aww, Marcy . *Hugs Marcy* Animorphs wasn't an RPG, it was a young adult novel series in...wow, late 90s early 00s? I'll check the dates*. It revolved around an alien invasion of evil brain parasites that control you completely and utterly, and the heroes were five kids (six, with the quick addition of an alien kid) who met a dying member of the alien race that was fighting the brain slugs. That alien, Elfangor, gave the kids some of his technology to transform into any animal they could touch. They came up with the nickname "Animorphs" to give themselves something to call themselves (it was TOTALLY not a marketing ploy ). And for a nominally kids' series, it got pretty darn heavy. By the tenth book, less than a year after they started, you had kids in early high school holding their guts inside their slashed-open bellies while they continued to fight innocent people being puppeted by evil aliens to the death. He was in the form of a gorilla at the time, but still. And that's in addition to PTSD and one of the characters succumbing to a pretty dark bloodlust, as well as a bunch of moralizing on the necessities of war, and how far is too far before you're no better than the enemy. ...Dang. Now I need to read this series again ! * Double-checked. Yeah, June 1996 - May 2001. EDIT: To follow-up on your edit, Marcy, each of them can transform into multiple animals . In fact, every animal form they ever acquire, even if they only did so because they only needed it just that once, they keep forever to use if they ever need it. They just chose morphs that happen in each book (and haven't been shown before) for the covers. I have a list of every morph that every main character has, actually. I re-take the list every time I read the books, because I'm obsessive and I need to make sure I get it right . The one problem is that in one of the later books, after they all go into hiding in the woods, there's a line that says they all acquired "several small, woodland creatures." Werewolf the Forsaken am I supposed to do with that, book?! That's not a concrete list of specific species! >_< Edited October 23, 2017 by Absol197 3 jayc007, Duciris and Maelora reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Duciris 1,347 Posted October 23, 2017 (edited) On 10/22/2017 at 7:17 AM, Absol197 said: He's a hork-bajir! Made of lightsabers! That's awesome! Someone else knows what a hork-bajir is! And, yeah: very apt description. 37 minutes ago, Absol197 said: And for a nominally kids' series, it got pretty darn heavy. By the tenth book, less than a year after they started, you had kids in early high school holding their guts inside their slashed-open bellies while they continued to fight innocent people being puppeted by evil aliens to the death. He was in the form of a gorilla at the time, but still. And that's in addition to PTSD and one of the characters succumbing to a pretty dark bloodlust, as well as a bunch of moralizing on the necessities of war, and how far is too far before you're no better than the enemy. ...Dang. Now I need to read this series again ! I'd say "young adults." I got into it in 5th grade. Loved it. Who got blood lust? How do I not remember that? Was it Rachel? Plus, as far as logistics and the short end of sticks, we have to talk about my favorite character, Tobias. The tech has a two-hour window of operation (@Absol197 correct me when I screw up here). If you're not back to your original form after the cutoff point, you're trapped. One of the characters did this (what, book one, two?), and remained in the body of a red-tailed hawk for the rest of the franchise. Everyone else had a home-life they had to dodge when they went out to fight aliens...except for the one that was an alien, he was free to do whatever. Tobias lived in a mother-freaking field eating small vertebrates raw. Marco had to dodge his bereaved (am I seriously remembering this right?!) father when he skipped out to fight. Only to find out his recently dead mother was one of the head (pun intended) aliens. Yeah, heavy moralizing and questioning of how far is too far. Hunger Games could take a page or two from Animorphs. Holy crap this would be a cool RPG system! Aside from the fact that nobody remembers it and it's not a major IP and that it's a "kid's book," why has no one made a freaking RPG out of this? It's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (only worse, because you're killing the actual abductees) meets Beast Wars plays the Hunger Games!!! Edited October 23, 2017 by Duciris typo 1 Absol197 reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Absol197 5,296 Posted October 23, 2017 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Duciris said: Someone else knows what a hork-bajir is! And, yeah: very apt description. I'd say "young adults." I got into it in 5th grade. Loved it. Who got blood lust? How do I not remember that? Was it Rachel? Plus, as far as logistics and the short end of sticks, we have to talk about my favorite character, Tobias. The tech as a two-hour window of operation (@Absol197 correct me when I screw up here). If you're not back to your original form after the cutoff point, you're trapped. One of the characters did this (what, book one, two?), and remained in the body of a red-tailed hawk for the rest of the franchise. Everyone else had a home-life they had to dodge when they went out to fight aliens...except for the one that was an alien, he was free to do whatever. Tobias lived in a mother-freaking field eating small vertebrates raw. Marco had to dodge his bereaved (am I seriously remembering this right?!) father when he skipped out to fight. Only to find out his recently dead mother was one of the head (pun intended) aliens. Yeah, heavy moralizing and questioning of how far is too far. Hunger Games could take a page or two from Animorphs. Holy crap this would be a cool RPG system! Aside from the fact that nobody remembers it and it's not a major IP and that it's a "kid's book," why has no one made a freaking RPG out of this? It's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (only worse, because you're killing the actual abductees) meets Beast Wars meets Hunger Games!!! You've got it exactly right: Rachel gets drowned in her bloodlust (and it eventually gets her killed), Marco's dad is lonely and thinks his kid is abandoning him too when he goes out to save the world, and Tobias gets trapped as a hawk in book one, almost has a mental breakdown about it in book three, and finally finds most of his peace after that. Plus there's the three-book arc where they have to choose between bringing in David as a new Animorph or killing him after he finds out their secret, and then he turns into a power-hungry psychopath and they have to trap him as a rat and strand him on an island to stop him. And ABSOLutely would it make an awesome RPG setting! I too wonder how no one has done it before... How did we get started on this again? Oh, right, Stan! I blame Stan for this edition of Derailment Theatre ! Edited October 23, 2017 by Absol197 2 Duciris and Maelora reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Desslok 13,571 Posted October 23, 2017 2 hours ago, Maelora said: Sad because my life-long RPG love is a deadbeat, untrustworthy scumbag who will never return my affections. But mostly because I'm ridiculously old and I have no idea what 'Animorphs' are If it makes you feel any better, I have no idea what it/they are either. Although I can only hope that it's related to the Simon MacCorkindale series: 4 Donovan Morningfire, Maelora, Daeglan and 1 other reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
