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KomradeX posted:According to Wookiepedia the Deathtroopers are an experiment in keeping troopers going after grevious injury, so they should be dead and their mechanical voices give the impression of also being part Droid. Same except I also hope FFG releases those new Rebel ships for X-Wing/Armada Also its Nemesis IIRC
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jivjov posted:The FFG webstore accidently leaked the title and cover of the Consular sourcebook: Bringing this over onto the new page. I'm a huge sucker for any and all career splats.
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jivjov posted:The FFG webstore accidently leaked the title and cover of the Consular sourcebook: Here we goooooo
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I ran theough the EoTE beginner game what should I buy now
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Phi230 posted:I ran theough the EoTE beginner game what should I buy now  All of those
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Phi230 posted:I ran theough the EoTE beginner game what should I buy now Edge of the Empire Core and Fly Casual are the best of that line imo.
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jivjov posted:
No, just get the cores for the games you care about. If a particular class strikes your fancy, consider maybe getting the book for it.
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For our first post holiday Star Wars game, our GM replaced the usual word crawl with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcIpBhcqMwI
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Thomamelas posted:For our first post holiday Star Wars game, our GM replaced the usual word crawl with this: so how was bea arthur
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Which class should I pick for AOR? I'd like at least some combat and non-combat stuff. Leaning Tactician, Saboteur and Sharpshooter. The spies are cool conceptually but don't seem great mechanics-wise, with a big stat-spread and little combat ability.
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Jan 5, 2017 03:26
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Blockhouse posted:so how was bea arthur Not bad. We got a couple of jokes about her ex husbands from her. The musical numbers worked out pretty well. We got bonus +XP for every musical number or variety skit we could work in for that session.
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Thomamelas posted:Not bad. We got a couple of jokes about her ex husbands from her. The musical numbers worked out pretty well. We got bonus +XP for every musical number or variety skit we could work in for that session. I can't tell if you're joking or not and if you are I don't want you to clarify it.
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Blockhouse posted:I can't tell if you're joking or not and if you are I don't want you to clarify it. Nope. Just my GM's homage to the Star Wars Holiday Special. A quirky session in a other wise normal campaign.
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Can someone give me good examples of things for slicers to do in combat? Things scattered around for them to she, etc. Also a few good examples of a combat gimmick for a party would be great. Having trouble thinking of any.
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So this looks really cool, a new adventure for FaD that is also heavy on Hutt underworld stuff: https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2017/1/4/a-wretched-hive-of-scum-and-villainy/
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Sgt. Anime Pederast posted:Can someone give me good examples of things for slicers to do in combat? Things scattered around for them to she, etc. Anything R2 does in the movies or Chopper does in the Rebels TV show. Open/close doors, set off false alarms, turn the gravity on or off, fiddle with the lights, overload powered devices, the possibilities are basically endless.
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FishFood posted:Anything R2 does in the movies or Chopper does in the Rebels TV show. Open/close doors, set off false alarms, turn the gravity on or off, fiddle with the lights, overload powered devices, the possibilities are basically endless. And Rogue One did a good job of clarifying that there are cables that plug right into those SCOMP links.
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rumble in the bunghole posted:Which class should I pick for AOR? I'd like at least some combat and non-combat stuff. Leaning Tactician, Saboteur and Sharpshooter. The spies are cool conceptually but don't seem great mechanics-wise, with a big stat-spread and little combat ability. Without digging in too much, but you don't need much in terms of combat talents to be good enough in most combats. Did you want specific in-combat things to do other than "I shoot the gun", or just be useful?
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LOL https://twitter.com/pablohidalgo/status/817064111599009792
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So quick question on the dice pools What happens if a player only rolls advantage and threats with no success/fail/despair/triumph? Does the action just fail?
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Phi230 posted:So quick question on the dice pools Yeah pretty much. Then spend the leftover advantage or threat on stuff like bonus or penalty dice for the next attempt or something.
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Phi230 posted:So quick question on the dice pools Yeah, 0 net successes is a failure, the roll will still generate advantage/threat which can be spent as normal, the only exception is combat rolls, advantage can only be spent on weapon special qualities on a successful roll, but it can still be spent otherwise even on failure.
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Which is the best part of the game - non-binary results. Success with drawbacks Success with advantages Success with Awesome Triumphant Effects Success with Catastrophic Setback Failure with drawbacks Failure with advantages Failure with Awesome Triumphant Effects Failure with Catastrophic Setback It makes failure still an interesting option, unlike most games where failure is a "no" and can stop gameplay.
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So as the GM what are good ways to spend adv/threat As a player do I spend my adv/threat?
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I tend to translate them out to blue/black dice in proceeding rolls and come up with some narrative reason (eg, clipped in the shoulder, pissed off the npc, etc) to justify it. I like to stack up the black dice on challenges, especially since my players have a lot of abilities that remove them. I'll also make threats translate to strain depending on the situation. I also try to make sure that certain things take several turns to accomplish instead of just "you fix the hyperdrive." EG, for slicing, I do this: Every step starts with a base Computers(Int) Check. 1: Connect to the system. 3x Purp die, and you use blue die for ranks of Stealth (R1 = 1, R3 = 2, R5 = 3) 2: Locate Exploit. 4x Purp Die, blue die for ranks of Perception 3: Intrude on system. 5x Purps, blue die for ranks of Coercion (Then at this point they can get whatever info they're after) 4: Cover Tracks. 5x Purp + 1x Red, blue die for ranks of Cunning Similar stuff with repairs (eg, troubleshoot, find parts, attempt repair, etc) or tracking people. This gives them some incentive to improve other skills besides their core specialization ones, and lets me exploit weaknesses as the GM. Usually the rest of the team has to defend or support the characters performing the whatever-action. TremorX fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Jan 5, 2017 |
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The whole point of the success-advantage-failure-threat system is to condense something like that down to a single roll, which is one of the main selling points over, say, Shadowrun. Do what works for your game, but "I did what we needed but I tripped an alarm" is success with a despair/lots of threat.
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One of my players gifted me Strongholds of Rebellion. Looks like it has some fun ideas. He strongly hinted that he'd like to see "Defiant Core Base," a partially reclaimed crashed Seperatust derilect supercapital ship. I'm game... Apropos of absolutely nothing, where could a guy find stats for B1 and B2 Battle Droids? I have another player who expressed an interest in playing a Jedi, but when I explained for the purposes of AoR it was not a starting point but a lofty and dangerous goal she kind of shied away to be a regular fighter ace. I'm thinking of just foisting the Emergent specialization on her for free later in the campaign and tying her awakining into the story, and letting it be up to her what she does with her Force sensitivity, including refusing the call.
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Phi230 posted:So as the GM what are good ways to spend adv/threat Conditional successes and conditional failures are really just the game's way of encouraging task-resolution that does not negate the premise. As with a lot of modern games, it's just a way of litigating and encouraging the "yes, and..." style of GMing. You *could* do this in any system, of course, but it's good to be prompted. At a basic level, what you're being prompted to say is: success with advantage = "yes, and..." success with threat = "yes, but..." failure with advantage = "no, but..." failure with threat = "no, and..." As the GM, threat can be spent on any of the stuff within your control, so long as it doesn't directly negate the success/failure of the skill check. But really it's just an invitation to keep the narrative moving forward environmentally and circumstantially. Use it to change the terrain or layout of a battlefield, to increase stakes, to complicate the players' goals. If you get overwhelmed and can't think of anything cool along those lines, there are a few tables in the core books that offer generic options, like using advantage/threat to recover/inflict strain. quote:As a player do I spend my adv/threat? The way we've been doing this is that, in general, the players will spend advantage and the GM will spend threat. If a player can't think of anything to do with their advantage, then they can consult the tables for a generic mechanical effect or I can make something up for them If a player has a cool or narrative-significant idea for what threat could be spent on - like something they want to happen to their characters for roleplay reasons - they can bring that up and it can replace whatever I was gonna do. PupsOfWar fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Jan 6, 2017 |
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:One of my players gifted me Strongholds of Rebellion. Looks like it has some fun ideas. He strongly hinted that he'd like to see "Defiant Core Base," a partially reclaimed crashed Seperatust derilect supercapital ship. I'm game... Apropos of absolutely nothing, where could a guy find stats for B1 and B2 Battle Droids? Ace + Force Emergent, shes going to be playing Luke so thats perfect imo. Also I assumed antique droid stats that are in the base book are basically the stats for the B1 droids.
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Enhance Ace is good poo poo. If she never wants to pick up a lightsaber add on Warrior Starfighter Ace and just be the baddest motherfucker ever to don a flightsuit.
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We had two players have to duck out of the first session of the campaign at the last minute due to work schedule changes, so I basically had to scrap my original first session plan (as those characters had been important to it) and pull a completely different one out of my rear end in about fifteen minutes. My players came out of it satisfied, though, so I'm satisfied. They ended up rescuing a Rebel-aligned arms dealer (and, more importantly, their cargo of explosives) from an Imperial customs inspection team. A pretty straightforward operation, except that they also managed to steal an armored personnel carrier, kidnapped one of the inspectors, and blew up a mining-supply warehouse, none of which I had planned for. The party's pilot was one of the people missing, so their getaway transport was provided by an alien named 'B̧͟͢͏͍̤̫͉͔̟̳̱̰͓͍i̴̶͚̱͓̘̖̙͚͚͈̦̳̹͔͙̹͙̘͜ĺ̷̟̞̝͍̺͖̘̦͚̪̘̦̼̦͚̩̰̰l͈͔̪̝͙͕̙͔̬̕ͅ' who understands everyone fine but speaks entirely in tentacle-faced gibberish. He/it was intended to be a one-off, but they liked B̧͟͢͏͍̤̫͉͔̟̳̱̰͓͍i̴̶͚̱͓̘̖̙͚͚͈̦̳̹͔͙̹͙̘͜ĺ̷̟̞̝͍̺͖̘̦͚̪̘̦̼̦͚̩̰̰l͈͔̪̝͙͕̙͔̬̕ͅ enough that he's probably going to end up being a recurring character.
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So Thursday night I ran my first game of Age of Rebellion for my group. I gave them a YT-2400 Outrider they named The Holdout, and are designated Maven Cell and is composed of G3-TH-Was part of an Imperial research program to create a battle droid to defeat the Rebellion by any means. When it was brought online it came to the conclusion that the only way to defeat the Rebellion was to take down the Empire. It escaped the lab, and blew up a supply depot before defecting to the Rebellion. They have fitted him with a restraining bolt in case he's a trap Ander'ekk'asian "Rekkai" - Alias Vaquesai' Zado' Redera "Izander"- A Chiss spy formerly of Imperial Intelligence, after unwittingly witnessing the Destabilization Branch commit a war crime, he fled from Imperial service and after the destruction of Alderaan joined up with the Rebellion using the cover identity of a mercenary that he formerly used under the Empire. Belal Paric- Formerly a middle manager in the Imperial Diplomatic corp he defected to the Rebellion following the destruction of Alderaan where he went to school. Kaz Bri'Ghon- A squadron leader of an Imperial backed planetary militia whose squad was wiped out during a Rebel raid on a near by Imperial Supply depot , she was left for dead in space after her fighter was disabled. After several days she was rescued by an Alliance patrol and defected. Tarnak Scrimp- A Mon Calamari born in space and into the Rebellion, is completely devoted to the cause and desires peace. Episode 0 involved them ambushing an Imperial Army patrol. After blowing up the tank they are left with the infantry that was accompanying them, where after dealing with them they will hopefully escape and be given the briefing for their first "real" mission
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I hope you either gave G3-TH's player bonus xp or a hard slap in the face maybe both
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wiegieman posted:The whole point of the success-advantage-failure-threat system is to condense something like that down to a single roll, which is one of the main selling points over, say, Shadowrun. Do what works for your game, but "I did what we needed but I tripped an alarm" is success with a despair/lots of threat. It definitely depends on the situation. I like a lot of the "Hurry, they're coming/gaining on us/whatever" tropish stuff because it lets me cut back and forth. Sometimes I'll just go with "someone left themselves logged in" or poo poo like having my mechanic roll two triumphs on a repair check to start an AT-ST.... "It's just cold and needs to warm up, nothing else wrong at all." That you can scale things so easily and play with the dice mechanic and it still works is what I really like about this system.
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Blockhouse posted:I hope you either gave G3-TH's player bonus xp or a hard slap in the face I did give him 25 XP and loved the pun
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Just watched Rebels... isn't there an adventure module that deals with Geonosis?
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The extended version of the teemo the hut eote starter adventure, yes. It'll be very hard to keep that canon with rebels though!
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Is there a stat block anywhere for one of these? http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Imperial_Troop_Transport
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Mister Bates posted:Is there a stat block anywhere for one of these? http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Imperial_Troop_Transport Pretty sure they're in that free Rebels Unofficial sourcebook someone put out. For reference its: Silhouette 3, Speed 3, Handling -1, Hard Points 0 Armour 3, Defense 0/-/-/0, Hull Trauma 12, System Strain 9 Twin Medium Laser Cannon (Arcs: All) Dmg 6, Crit 3 2x Light Laser Cannon (Arcs: Front) Dmg 5, Crit 3 kingcom fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Jan 9, 2017 |
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Foolster41 posted:I'm actually working on a ship generator program using this now, though it's going to be a while until I finish it. I'm way behind reading this thread, but did you ever finish this?
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