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Seriously want to play a brawling wookie in this now. Want to tear my enemies' arms off.
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Ryuujin posted:Seriously want to play a brawling wookie in this now. Want to tear my enemies' arms off. Wookiee Hired Gun (Marauder) is right up your alley. Starts with a high Brawn score and baked-in Brawl points, gains access to a number of passive damage and critical hit buffs and an active ability to take strain damage in exchange for upgrading attacks. top it all off with a dose of Wookiee rage (deal extra damage when hurt) and you're golden.
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Feb 5, 2013 22:38
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Yeah I'm pretty sure that was what I was looking at when I was browsing the book for ideas, now if only someone would run a PbP of it on the forums here.
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Feb 5, 2013 22:58
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I put together a smuggler who is both a crackerjack pilot, but good sneak/thief who is ALSO a cracker jack shot with a pistol. So basically i dumped like 65% of my EXP into Agility. When it comes to just about every other skill check he has a flat 2 Ability dice. But it looks awesome to have 2 A 2 P on every skill that matters to me.
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Feb 5, 2013 23:05
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I have a question since I just have the starter boxed set. Brawl damage keys off brawn, and can be strain or wound. Fine. If I elect to do strain, does it bypass soak? Does it also mean that the wookiee hired gun (brawn 4) is neigh immune to punching damage since his soak is also 4? That makes a kind of sense, I just want to make sure I am reading this right. Second question is Critical Hits are TOTALLY ABSTRACTED in the basic box, and as far as I can tell it is neigh impossible to get more than one or two unless you are repeatedly shooting an unconscious body. How do they work in the full game?
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Feb 6, 2013 17:51
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Soak does not reduce strain damage from any source except for Stun settings on weapons, so punching kind of makes up for its lack of raw damage that way. Critical hits... I don't know what the basic box tells you about crits, so I'll  . You trigger them when you successfully hit and spend a Triumph or a set number of Advantage to trigger the crit. The amount of Advantage required is dictated by the weapon, although there are a few talents and mods that reduce the amount of Advantage required. In our game Mendrian triggers a crit whenever he gets 2 Advantage, so it happens quite a lot for us.You then roll on the Critical Injuries table and see what horrible thing has happened to the target. As I posted earlier, there are a handful of ways to buff that Critical Injuries roll. Results vary from mild inconvenience such as 1 strain damage, to adding a Setback die to all rolls for the encounter, to "Complete, absolute death."
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Feb 6, 2013 18:16
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Winson_Paine posted:I have a question since I just have the starter boxed set. From what i read in the beta, Criticals pop up under certain rolls ( when a weapon triggers its critical rating ) or when it has certain tags that ensure criticals ( i think vicious does this ). For instance: A light blaster pistol has a Crit Rating of 3. If you had 3 advantages to spend ( or one triumph ) you could spend that to make your attack roll a critical on the chart. I think a triumph can always be converted to a critical.
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Feb 6, 2013 18:17
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I am thinking about trying the four player boxed set crew and two pregenned adventures as a PBP to sort of shake out how to run this on PBP. Would I get any takers from here?
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Feb 6, 2013 18:21
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I guess that means not building our own character?
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Feb 6, 2013 18:23
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Winson_Paine posted:I am thinking about trying the four player boxed set crew and two pregenned adventures as a PBP to sort of shake out how to run this on PBP. Would I get any takers from here? I have still to this day never played in a Play By Post. But i would be interested. It would be good to get my feet wet both in this system and in play by post.
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Feb 6, 2013 18:23
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Winson_Paine posted:I am thinking about trying the four player boxed set crew and two pregenned adventures as a PBP to sort of shake out how to run this on PBP. Would I get any takers from here? If you do that, I'll run a (terrible) MapTool one.
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Feb 6, 2013 18:25
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Talkc posted:From what i read in the beta, Criticals pop up under certain rolls ( when a weapon triggers its critical rating ) or when it has certain tags that ensure criticals ( i think vicious does this ). This is all correct, except for Vicious, which is a weapon quality that makes critical hits nastier by adding 10 times the Vicious rating to the Critical Injuries roll. A lot of the really nasty melee weapons have Vicious, as do disruptors, flamethrowers, and thermal detonators.
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Feb 6, 2013 18:26
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Winson_Paine posted:I am thinking about trying the four player boxed set crew and two pregenned adventures as a PBP to sort of shake out how to run this on PBP. Would I get any takers from here? I'd love to be in on that. I have the beginners box, but haven't been able to assemble enough people in one place to play.
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Feb 6, 2013 18:29
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I'd certainly be interested - I don't have the beginners box, however; while I may pick up the full PDF when that comes out, I can't justify paying lots of money for a game with its own custom materials that I'll probably never play.
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Feb 6, 2013 18:40
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Winson_Paine posted:I am thinking about trying the four player boxed set crew and two pregenned adventures as a PBP to sort of shake out how to run this on PBP. Would I get any takers from here? Yes, this. I am unduly excited for the whole book!
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Feb 6, 2013 18:41
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Talkc posted:I have still to this day never played in a Play By Post. But i would be interested. It would be good to get my feet wet both in this system and in play by post. DiscipleoftheClaw posted:Yes, this. jivjov posted:I'd love to be in on that. I have the beginners box, but haven't been able to assemble enough people in one place to play. homullus posted:If you do that, I'll run a (terrible) MapTool one. OK, I will take you four if you want it. This will more or less be a dry run through the stock Boxed Set adventure and then a followup if it is going well through LONG ARM OF THE HUTT. More or less I want to see if we can hammer out how best to work the whacky dice conventions in a PBP format and how it can be the smoothest. By the time we get done, the full game should be out which will be rad. So who wants what?
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Feb 6, 2013 18:54
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Winson_Paine posted:So who wants what? Are the premades in the box set in the beta materials too? I dont have the box set at the moment just the Beta. So i would need to find the premades somewhere to look at.
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Feb 6, 2013 18:58
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I am not picky and am interested in trying out play by post! I am least interested in being a walking carpet and will let others choose first. A timely reminder: there are two more characters on the FFG website, a technician and an explorer. EDIT: if you don't have the beginner box, choose one from the site! 
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Feb 6, 2013 18:59
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Winson_Paine posted:So who wants what? I'd like Pash the Smuggler please!
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Feb 6, 2013 19:01
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Winson_Paine posted:OK, I will take you four if you want it. This will more or less be a dry run through the stock Boxed Set adventure and then a followup if it is going well through LONG ARM OF THE HUTT. More or less I want to see if we can hammer out how best to work the whacky dice conventions in a PBP format and how it can be the smoothest. By the time we get done, the full game should be out which will be rad. So who wants what? I'd like Sasha, the explorer off the website.
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Feb 6, 2013 19:06
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I'd like Mathus off the website. He seems way cool. Gonna tech it up in here people!
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Feb 6, 2013 19:08
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I think that leaves the droid and the bounty hunter. I'll go with the bounty hunter! (I don't remember her name and don't have the books at work).
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Feb 6, 2013 19:12
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Sold, I will get the PBP up directly. The tech from the website is a good swap for the droid in general, really.
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Feb 6, 2013 19:14
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Winson_Paine posted:Sold, I will get the PBP up directly. The tech from the website is a good swap for the droid in general, really. Just a heads up, I'm about to head to work, so I won't be able to get a first post in til later tonight.
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Feb 6, 2013 19:16
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drat, if you want a fifth I'd love to try one of the downloadable characters and learn about this game.
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Feb 6, 2013 22:23
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I just love the potential in the system too. Need a monster with whacky powers? Have them operate off of Advantage (offensive powers) or off of the players' Threat (defensive powers). Want to have some kind of side-plot where a Bounty Hunter gradually advances on the players? Mark progress with the amassing of Threat. Better yet, give players a choice to spend Advantage to buy off the arrival of such a Nemesis. So many great possibilities.
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Feb 6, 2013 23:03
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OK, my cheap dice solution:    This seems like a good plan, and all of this is about $22 bucks from Amazon for more or less all the dice I will ever need for this game?
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Feb 6, 2013 23:12
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One question - how do you plan to tell which dice are which? Some different die types use the same number of sides in this game, after all .
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Feb 6, 2013 23:26
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http://www.warpathgames.com/wholesale/warpath.php?m=detail&p=91575 MSRP $14.95 I can provide them for $8.55 plus shipping. They are not due out until April though, along with the Corebook, and the GM kit, which seems to just be a screen. LumberingTroll fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Feb 6, 2013 |
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Feb 6, 2013 23:28
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hectorgrey posted:One question - how do you plan to tell which dice are which? Some different die types use the same number of sides in this game, after all That is what the multicolored sharpies are for; Difficulty dice are purple sharpie, challenge are red, setback black, etc.
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Feb 6, 2013 23:41
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Orokos looks like it can work for Star Wars Edge of the Empire, so you could just use an online dice roller. EDIT: Edge of the Empire dice are available as XeY, where Y is the first letter of the die type: Ability, Boost, Challenge, Difficulty, Force, Proficiency or Setback. The result value is successes (S and Tr symbols) minus failures (F and D symbols). Is what Orokos says under Help for Edge of the Empire.
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Feb 7, 2013 00:02
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Winson_Paine posted:OK, my cheap dice solution: This is what I had to do since all the Beta came with was a sticker sheet to put on dice. There's also a dice roller app for your smartphone, that works for the X-Wing minis game too if you're playing that.
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OK guys, test PBP is up. Let's see how this works! http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3532688
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Quick question, is there an official 'blank' character sheet in PDF form? I see people talking about creating characters but that doesn't seem to be present in the beginner set, I assume its a 'beta' thing? I'm quite ok with the Pregenned characters in stat terms/mix but I'd quite like to copy them onto blanks for my players to put their own characters to them.
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Feb 7, 2013 16:48
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Spork o Doom posted:Quick question, is there an official 'blank' character sheet in PDF form? I see people talking about creating characters but that doesn't seem to be present in the beginner set, I assume its a 'beta' thing? I don't think character creation is available until the core rulebook comes out this spring. For now, there are 4 premades in the beginners' box and two more online.
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Spork o Doom posted:Quick question, is there an official 'blank' character sheet in PDF form? I see people talking about creating characters but that doesn't seem to be present in the beginner set, I assume its a 'beta' thing? Bunch here
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Another question - it mentions in the box rules that certain weapons "when triggered" do their thing. Say the Brass Knuckles, which are disorient 3. Do I need to DO anything to trigger, or does socking a guy work for triggerin'?
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Feb 8, 2013 02:51
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LumberingTroll posted:We finished our Spreadsheet magic SW EotE Character sheets Is the only character sheet I have seen. EDIT: And yeah the beta book has rules for character creation.
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Ryuujin posted:Is the only character sheet I have seen. Dude. Rugpisser posted:Bunch here This is two posts up.
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Winson_Paine posted:Another question - it mentions in the box rules that certain weapons "when triggered" do their thing. Say the Brass Knuckles, which are disorient 3. Do I need to DO anything to trigger, or does socking a guy work for triggerin'? You have to spend two advantage to trigger stuff like Disorient or Auto-Fire. Edit: You spend them on a hit, sorry long-ass nips Diane fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Feb 8, 2013 |
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