jivjov posted:

This is a drat sexy OP. I like the rundown of all the released books.

homullus posted:

Of course, that means alg is stuck updating it. With Force and Destiny coming out imminently, that's three product lines popping up new products.

jivjov posted:

But it's FFG, so that's, what, two book a month?

homullus posted:

Two more times a month than most OPs need to be updated.

Regarding Jedi, there's of course still time for them to be different, since it actually is the beta. Personally, I like the generally-weak Jedi, because in a post-Yavin 4 campaign, most of them will be people who started out as something else. I like them still using their guns or whatever. I know it's meant as a standalone, but I think they function much better as an endgame for EotE and/or AoR.

I am also eager to see what signature abilities they come up with for Jedi (if there are any).

jivjov posted:

Sorry for Double Post, but this is completely unrelated to my last one.


What did we find out about the "adversary decks" or whatever they were called? When I first saw a post about them, I thought they were tagged as F&D specific, but the posted picture was a "citizens of the galaxy" deck with generic SW RPG packaging. What exactly are these?

Swagger Dagger posted:

They're exactly what they sound like, decks full of NPCs for your party to deal with. Each one has some artwork and a stat block on it. There are "Scum and Villany," "Citizens of the Galaxy" and "Imperials and Rebels" decks.



They look F&D specific because they use the black and gold color scheme, but they're universal.

jivjov posted:

A guy on FFG's forums bought all 3 adversary decks at GenCon and posted a couple nice closeup pics:

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These look drat good.

jivjov posted:

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Bedurndurn posted:

Missile tubes sound like a recipe for the least fun encounter ever. Although since he's carrying at least 16 encumbrance with a Brawn of 4, rolling 7 black dice on every gunnery check with it means he'll probably miss. The idea of a very out of breath HK droid is kind of funny though. "Question: Has anyone seen my inhaler?"

LumberingTroll posted:

The only thing he is carrying is the Light repeating blaster, everything else is built-in. so no encumbrance on those.

LumberingTroll posted:

Read the rules on creating a droid player character, parts that are "built in" do not count for carrying encumbrance.

EotE p45-47 posted:

EotE p47 posted:

Droid and Equipment

Droids do not typically wear clothing, and many items of equipment that organics would have to carry separately may actually be part of a droid's body. For this reason, droids are allowed to treat certain pieces of equipment differently than other characters. For example, if a droid purchases and wears armor, the player can simply say his character has upgraded armor plates on his body, or a reinforced outer covering. Likewise, he could have an upgraded verbobrain instead of a datapad, or an internal communications device instead of a comlink (although many droids do carry equipment such as datapads and comlinks).

Bedurndurn posted:

So starting on page 45 of the EotE book and continuing through the entire section on Droids, here is every sentence that contains the word 'encumbrance'.


Here's the droids and equipment box from the bottom of p47.


I'm not intentionally trying to be a dick here, but unless you're looking at an different book, there's nothing in here that supports your claim.

Emerald Rogue posted:

I just got the Age of rebellion core book - and it's really neat! Except that I've read the sections on Duty about four times and cannot figure out how you are supposed to increase a character's Duty score. Do you spend XP on it? If so, what does it cost? Does the GM just hand it out in exchange for accomplishing appropriate tasks? What's a good rate to dish it out?

Is there a section on this in the book that I'm missing? Some errata I can't find on FFG's website?

Edit: Haha, "Big Idiot, Bad Post" - is this the new "Stupid Newbie" avatar?

Drone posted:

Looks like I'm going to be GM'ing EotE for the first time this Friday for some strangers on the internet. I've never GM'd before, and really don't have any non-PbP experience in general. Anyone have any tips?

For this first session I want to run it as a group test -- testing myself as a GM, and testing the chemistry of a group of strangers on Skype -- so I want a one-off adventure. If things go well, I'll start off a campaign with the following session, allowing those who stuck around to carry their characters over. Which published module would work best for this as a one-off, or should I try to homebrew something basic in the next couple days?

Drone posted:

Looks like I'm going to be GM'ing EotE for the first time this Friday for some strangers on the internet. I've never GM'd before, and really don't have any non-PbP experience in general. Anyone have any tips?

For this first session I want to run it as a group test -- testing myself as a GM, and testing the chemistry of a group of strangers on Skype -- so I want a one-off adventure. If things go well, I'll start off a campaign with the following session, allowing those who stuck around to carry their characters over. Which published module would work best for this as a one-off, or should I try to homebrew something basic in the next couple days?

alg posted:

I would try Under a Black Sun, it's free and intended to give people an intro to the game. Roll20 would work great instead of Skype, it runs in Hangouts.

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffg_content/StarWarsRPG/edge-of-the-empire/adventures/Under%20a%20Black%20Sun%20HiRes.pdf

SpookyLizard posted:

Is this to say there some sort of integrated functionality between Hangouts and Roll20? Because that sounds neat. I've done a lot Roll 20 + skype though.

alg posted:

I would try Under a Black Sun, it's free and intended to give people an intro to the game. Roll20 would work great instead of Skype, it runs in Hangouts.

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffg_content/StarWarsRPG/edge-of-the-empire/adventures/Under%20a%20Black%20Sun%20HiRes.pdf

alg posted:

The GM chapter handles this.

Age of Rebellion posted:

Since the Player Characters can gain Duty at character creation, as well as earn it though their actions, GMs should make sure to reward players with high Duty scores for their commitment and accomplishment ... the completion of an adventure should alter the amount of Duty the characters and party carry forward.

Emerald Rogue posted:

I am either dense (totally possible) or have a defective book, because I am looking at the core book right now and can't find anything more specific than these lines in the GM section:


Is that it? That's as specific as the book gets? If so, that's cool, but I was sort of hoping for a guideline on advancing Duty, like the book gives for handing out XP.

Drone posted:

Looks like I'm going to be GM'ing EotE for the first time this Friday for some strangers on the internet. I've never GM'd before, and really don't have any non-PbP experience in general. Anyone have any tips?

For this first session I want to run it as a group test -- testing myself as a GM, and testing the chemistry of a group of strangers on Skype -- so I want a one-off adventure. If things go well, I'll start off a campaign with the following session, allowing those who stuck around to carry their characters over. Which published module would work best for this as a one-off, or should I try to homebrew something basic in the next couple days?

alg posted:

Weeeeeird. So in the Beta, there is a sidebar. It encourages a reward of 1-10 duty for achieving the goal of their Duty, with magnitude based on how much they did toward their duty. I'm still searching, but it's not in the "Using Duty" section of the GM chapter.

The Narrator posted:

As someone who also just started GMing - and with a group who have never used the system before - I'd really recommend the Beginner's Box adventure.

The Narrator posted:

In other news, I came up with a cool adventure hook the other night that I'm going to write for my group. It's not exactly canon afaik but I'm going to have an Alliance operative approach the group (possibly without naming himself as such), offering them payment for scouting a planet's feasibility to support a base. That planet? An icy wasteland in the outer rim, the sixth planet of the Hoth system. Of course, something will go tits up on their approach and the group will crash-land, then have to survive a few days on Hoth while they can fix up their ship. I'm thinking this adventure will be able to show off some skills that haven't had much use yet (like Survival), and be able to have them fight a Wampa and ride some Tauntauns while giving them the chance to visit Hoth without Rebellion baggage just yet.

Of course, based on the PC's findings, the end of the adventure will presumably be their contact deciding that Hoth just isn't suitable at the moment, but thank you anyway

alg posted:

Weeeeeird. So in the Beta, there is a sidebar. It encourages a reward of 1-10 duty for achieving the goal of their Duty, with magnitude based on how much they did toward their duty. I'm still searching, but it's not in the "Using Duty" section of the GM chapter.