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Well, it's finally over. Someone here was throwing around some seeds for a game, one of them was a Hutt having an ancient Sith body they were trying to resurrect or something and it turned into a 2 and some change year game that started with a heist to steal a bunch of bacta. There were thrills, chills, a landspeeder dropped from low orbit, and some party members almost killing each other all culminating in a fight aboard a Star Destroyer where the party killed two inquisitors and the resurrected Sith. I can't find that post anymore, but thank you, forums user, it was a good seed!
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This thread bump reminds me, if anyone hasn't been paying attention to the Edge facebook page. Probably a good 4+ months out given the state of things, but good news regardlessquote:We are excited to finally be able to share with you the fact that we have received approval for some books to go to print. More will follow, but for now the list below is what we just sent to print: Azhais fucked around with this message at 03:27 on Mar 20, 2022 |
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Mar 20, 2022 03:25
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That is especially good news given the weird articles going around awhile back that they were creating a new game
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Mar 20, 2022 03:44
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I've always hated the EotE intro adventure where the PCs start in a cantina hiding from Temp's goons. I love starting games in media res but that start is boring and I hate it. Is there a modified version out there with a better opener? The rest of the adventure is mostly fine.
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Mar 31, 2022 13:47
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The cantina is just a combat tutorial followed by letting the players know where to go next, set it anywhere
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Mar 31, 2022 14:00
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Yeah, I’d just start them off in the cantina and let then free roam if they have experience. Throw in the thugs if they spend too long discussing possible plans. Or do you still want a structured first few encounters, just snappier?
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Apr 1, 2022 10:52
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It would be a group of people that have never used the system before, besides a couple people that played the (badly run) starter adventure for the L5R RPG which was different enough. I dunno, I need to think about it more I guess.
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Apr 1, 2022 11:53
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Admiral Joeslop posted:It would be a group of people that have never used the system before, besides a couple people that played the (badly run) starter adventure for the L5R RPG which was different enough. I dunno, I need to think about it more I guess. I kind of find it a bit iffy in that one that the Krayt Fang stuff is all delivered in a clunky expo dump after the fight, and the PCs all wind up hiding in the same bar regardless of how they escaped or when. If I was going to rejig it:
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Apr 1, 2022 12:52
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Couple players newish to RPGs but we've been playing a 5e game for about six months and they're getting into the roleplaying part. I have all the pregen folios but I'm considering letting them build their own. Just Edge careers but probably a wide selection of species because they love playing non-humans. Thanks for those ideas, definitely things to consider!
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Apr 1, 2022 17:33
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I honestly like the opening for what it is; the party is meant to open their pregen chars, look at the skills and let their imagination fly in how to solve "find a hiding spot" with the information on their sheet. Do you literally hide with stealth roll? Do you try to climb up into the rafters? Pretend to be a performer or member of the staff? Sweet talk the bartender to let you hide? It's supposed to introduce you to how skill checks are resolved before you get into your first battle.
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Apr 1, 2022 17:46
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Is there an Etsy or other shop that sells more character tokens? I have a bunch from the beginner games and the ability to make my own but I'd rather someone else do the work and I just pay them.
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Apr 5, 2022 14:25
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So, foundry havers, question: is it possible to import custom stuff from oggdude? The import is asking for a zip of the data directory but that isn't where that stuff is stored Also, anyone have any good sources for star warsy maps, ship layouts, tokens, etc? Free or paid, I'm not opposed to spending money if there's good stuff on dtrpg or Patreon or something
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May 2, 2022 02:35
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Azhais posted:So, foundry havers, question: is it possible to import custom stuff from oggdude? The import is asking for a zip of the data directory but that isn't where that stuff is stored Should should be able to do it. Import the normal data first, then Zip up the Data Custom and import that and it should work. As the custom data has the same file structure as the normal data.
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May 2, 2022 02:59
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Azhais posted:So, foundry havers, question: is it possible to import custom stuff from oggdude? The import is asking for a zip of the data directory but that isn't where that stuff is stored I really like Miska's stuff. https://www.patreon.com/miskasmaps I've used several for star wars stuff. At the high tier they're foundry ready with walls and poo poo which is REALLY nice.
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I shall give both of those a shot, thanks!
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I'm putting together an encounter in which I want to have a bunch of individual minions group up as the fight goes on so as to indicate to the players that they need to deal with this problem early on. I can't find anything one way or the other about this in the rules. My main question is one of how to handle the initiative as they group up - is there any guidance as to which slots to remove from the track? Or am I thinking about this all wrong and the slots don't move off the track at all, and it's just the eligibility to use them changes? To give an example, let's say we have three minions, operating in initiative slots 6, 4, and 2 (descending, and very generalized). Two of the minions group up on the first round. During the second round, we would still have NPC slots at 6, 4, and 2, but only two of those slots can be used. Is this a better way of thinking about it?
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Jul 6, 2022 15:37
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I would treat it the same way as an npc dying, you just drop the last npc slot because no npc is available to take it. Or, if you want to be a right bastard, let them act twice 
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Jul 6, 2022 15:55
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PantsOptional posted:I'm putting together an encounter in which I want to have a bunch of individual minions group up as the fight goes on so as to indicate to the players that they need to deal with this problem early on. I can't find anything one way or the other about this in the rules. My main question is one of how to handle the initiative as they group up - is there any guidance as to which slots to remove from the track? If you want to completely murder your players, leave the initiatives in the stack - a minion group is exponentially more dangerous than an individual minion as it grows, and letting a group go multiple times will reduce players to atoms. In-fiction, I think it makes the most sense for the minions to lose initiative slots - after all, what makes them a group is that they're acting in unison, which detracts from the flexibility that acting alone gives you, in exchange for greater focuses firepower. Since that's slower, probably dropping the highest initiative makes the most sense, unless they're some kind of specialist that is extra quick/coordinated/good at teamwork/whatever.
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Jul 6, 2022 15:56
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I would leave same initiative slots, no going twice, but as slots are left unfilled the remaining opponents use the most advantageous initiatives. So if you have three groups of minions opposing the party and one group gets wiped out, one initiative slot would be left unfilled unless reinforcements arrived, the remaining two groups would use the two better initiatives and leave the third empty.
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Jul 7, 2022 16:21
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We ever getting any more books? I am an addict and need a Star Wars RPG dopamine hit.
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Jul 7, 2022 16:36
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Servetus posted:I would leave same initiative slots, no going twice, but as slots are left unfilled the remaining opponents use the most advantageous initiatives. So if you have three groups of minions opposing the party and one group gets wiped out, one initiative slot would be left unfilled unless reinforcements arrived, the remaining two groups would use the two better initiatives and leave the third empty. This is functionally what I was clumsily saying in my example and what I ended up doing last night. I’m happy to say it went well and the message of “take care of this problem before it snowballs” was clearly received.
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Jul 7, 2022 16:47
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Covok posted:We ever getting any more books? I am an addict and need a Star Wars RPG dopamine hit. I just want a book with all the player options collected like species, careers, specializations, equipment, etc. It's not going to happen but I can dream.
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Any word on the Edge Studios reprints? I'd like to get a copy of the Bounty Hunter splat book for less than the cost of a gaming console.
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Nov 2, 2022 15:04
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I have seen that they are going out, at least in Europe
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Owlbear Camus posted:Any word on the Edge Studios reprints? Asmodee's shop has pre-orders up for new books with the Edge branding on them. No Disintegrations looks like it's got an 11/11 release: https://shop.asmodee.com/edge-of-the-empire-5-no-disintegrations-esswe14en
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Rewatching Andor (Andor spoilers coming) the "inciting incident" that sets off the plot really could be read as one of those "what the Hell do I do with this" dice rolls. The GM let Cassian roll some advantage from his previous bluffs into his Brawl roll, and decided this was a narratively tense enough moment to flip a couple Destiny to upgrade the difficulty of the attack. Deigo: "Okay I go for the nonlethal takedown on the one right behind me with a weird reverse headbutt into judo flip move. That comes out to 3 uncancelled successes, 3 advantage, and uhh 2 despair."
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Nov 11, 2022 00:02
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Man, Andor has me jonesing for some FFG Star Wars like nothing else has in years.
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cptn_dr posted:Man, Andor has me jonesing for some FFG Star Wars like nothing else has in years. Right? The books are just sitting on my shelves unloved, and the setting has pretty much never felt more accusable and open from a real lived-in grounds-eye view. And it looks like the Edge reprints are going to start hitting the shelves tomorrow in the US from everything I can see, so good timing on that.
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Nov 11, 2022 00:12
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The only thing that's stopping me from running an AoR game where everyone is ISB agents/probably secret rebels is that I'd have to write so many security briefings
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cptn_dr posted:The only thing that's stopping me from running an AoR game where everyone is ISB agents/probably secret rebels is that I'd have to write so many security briefings *extremely Major Pardagas voice* and I will expect them on my desk this time tomorrow morning.
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cptn_dr posted:The only thing that's stopping me from running an AoR game where everyone is ISB agents/probably secret rebels is that I'd have to write so many security briefings I tried this. People turned into fascist shitbirds real fast and I killed the game because it became gross. EDIT: To clarify, one player became a mega-fascist shitbird and sucked all the air out of the room and drove off the other players.
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Fuzz posted:I tried this. People turned into fascist shitbirds real fast and I killed the game because it became gross. Yeah I can't imagine wanting to run a game where the session 0 buy-in wasn't good guys or at least antiheroes and malcontents, especially after Andor demythologized the Empire's fascist oppression from the evil space wizards and Stormtroopers on your lunchbox to more banal and personal violence and violation.
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Nov 11, 2022 00:50
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I am about a hair's breadth away from reviving my abandoned campaign about surviving Saw's Partisans rebuilding a local rebellion in the Tion Cluster after Yavin. Andor has me so loving pumped about Star Wars it's kind of unreal.
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Nov 11, 2022 01:04
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Owlbear Camus posted:Yeah I can't imagine wanting to run a game where the session 0 buy-in wasn't good guys or at least antiheroes and malcontents, especially after Andor demythologized the Empire's fascist oppression from the evil space wizards and Stormtroopers on your lunchbox to more banal and personal violence and violation. Oh yeah, it would be a game where every PC either starts as or is expected to become (most recent episode of Andor spoiler) Lonni by about game 5.
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I wont run it, but I will play in a game of ISB agents where we all know we're trying to work to destroy it from the inside.
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Elendil004 posted:I wont run it, but I will play in a game of ISB agents where we all know we're trying to work to destroy it from the inside. It would be harder to run, but even funnier to play a game of ISB agents where you are all trying to destroy it from the inside, but no one is aware the other one is a double agent.
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Nov 11, 2022 02:21
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"Paranoia: ISB Edition". Don't forget to say thank you to Friend Sheev
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Nov 11, 2022 02:27
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Fuzz posted:I tried this. People turned into fascist shitbirds real fast and I killed the game because it became gross. Oh poo poo, is that what happened? I'm kinda glad I had to drop out early, then.
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Nov 11, 2022 02:30
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Owlbear Camus posted:It would be harder to run, but even funnier to play a game of ISB agents where you are all trying to destroy it from the inside, but no one is aware the other one is a double agent. star wars man who was Thursday sounds really fun tbh
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Yeah, this is a sick idea.
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