fosborb posted:

We killed 20 Death Watch last session on our way to their ship. They were staying in a hotel of an on-again-off-again young Hutt benefactor of ours. Pash, whose own bounty far outstrips any conceivable prize money, is about to run in a land speeder race.

jivjov posted:

Eh, I just let em have it because the fight was against a handful of Minions and it was cool. I just made it an appropriately ranged Gunnery shot.

Everblight posted:

Also, question: What's the best book (other than the core) for monsters? I always thought the main problem with EotE is cool monster stat blocks, and the monsters in the back of the book are horrid, ten different kinds of "mooks with a 2 in everything" and too many Imperial Governors who were never meant to fight in a laserblast shootout.

Chill la Chill posted:

Ah ok. I never knew they had print beta versions of the other books too.

I got the flight jockey book and I'm slowly trying to get my x-wing playing friends into it. Problem is we love x-wing so much we end up playing the board game 90% of the time.

Tekopo posted:

Multiple dice rolls to do stuff that has no affect on the mission whatsoever (which we eventually skipped, but there is a section where there are 12 completely unecessary dice-rolls), books assumes successes for certain rolls and doesn't have much guidance for what to do if they fail, there are some forced failure sections where you are meant to lose, the ending is loving awful beyond belief (and we completely skipped it as well).

I haven't had much experience with pre-mades before and I know that ideally you should change stuff to suit you, but the level of stuff that you have to change in order to make the module workable is incredible.

Fuzz posted:

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FuriousAngle posted:

Hey everyone. Sorry if this is a repeat topic. I'm starting a new EotE campaign and it's made me realize that I'm woefully underprepared for game that kind of requires maps. I've got plenty of fantasy miniatures, but not much in the way of Star Wars stuff. It's just the tokens from the base set and that's it.

Does anyone have any experience punching tokens out of foam board? I've got a hole punch but it won't fit foam board. I can try making tokens out of poster board, but it's a little flimsy and I'd like something with more weight and substance.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

kingcom posted:

I wrote up and have been running a conversion system for Eote to X-wing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uRqpFZHiISi5yiP0xD6tbbiiHdoC1W6Ld8HvNLOexV0/edit?usp=sharing

Barracuda Bang! posted:

This is a similar question to the one above: I'm a first-time GM running an Edge of the Empire campaign for a mixed group of experienced pen and paper players and people without experience. The beginner game went pretty well, so that's great. Now I would really like to use one of the three premade adventures as at least a base for a long campaign, but I don't want to get one that everyone thinks sucks. What's the consensus of the best of the EotE adventure/campaign books?

kingcom posted:

The game is about being star wars heroes. Assuming you want to be the kind of character you see in the films, nothing you've done is going to be a problem. For the GM it is super tirvial to just add a stack of HP to any Nemesis/Rival character you need to if for some reason numbers are getting too high (they really shouldn't be too much above normal though) and you should be just carving your way through Minion enemies anyway.

Theres only two PCs then? If so the limited action economy is going to make everything fine to play anyway.

Zodack posted:

I have some pretty heavy metagamers who gripe if things don't go their way

ShineDog posted:

Theres nothing wrong with making your hopelessly outmatched heroes just fail outright.

It seems a little harder to surprise your players with comically stacked odds in SWRPG compared to, say DnD thanks to the open nature of the dice. I do remember the reaction of the players in our 4e campaign when we rolled a 19 on an attack dice only to be told it missed. Lot's of wailing and panic, but of course the GM wanted us to find out like that and to run away. saying "difficulty is (absurd number) red dice" doesn't quite have the same fun to it.

Drone posted:

RE: Boost dice
As a GM I'd probably not allow this because it just makes no sense to me (or at least I'd think about capping it), but as far as I can find in the rulebook, there's nothing preventing this.

Drone posted:

The idea of a Wraith Squadron type campaign is just so good and I've been thinking about doing it for awhile.

nelson posted:

With that being said, playing a melee Wookiee in the middle of a battle royale is ridiculously more fun than sitting behind cover and taking shots from a distance.

Major Isoor posted:

Hey, so, just to confirm, are all vibro-weapons in the SWRPG 'lightsaber-proof' in terms of being melted and/or cut in half at first contact, like normal weapons are? (e.g. during vibroblade v lightsaber fights in KOTOR) Since if that is the case, I might have to arrange an encounter later on in my campaign, as one of my players (a Dashade merc/fighter typed guy; half heavy ranged weapons, other half melee) seems to be entertaining the idea of using his vibroknucklers against a lightsaber-wielding foe (literally punching the lightsaber away, to block/parry blows), although I'm uh, a touch uncertain as to how well that'd go for him, unless he's OK with potentially getting a robo-limb or two!

ProfessorCirno posted:

Giving regular methods of healing that don't involve constantly jabbing yourself with a needle? Doing what other stated and not making it so a hit is a literal moment of getting your rear end shot?

It just doesn't mesh with how I view the movies, like, at all; Han isn't constantly getting zappo'd by the stormtroopes but thankfully keeps his Drug Gun in his other hand to inject into himself every other turn.

Honestly, even in the bigger fight scenes in the movies - like Jabba's barge - the heroes really just aren't really getting hit. And, you know, it's Star Wars. They could've renamed it to Literal Plot Armor and it would've worked better. But then of course the same nerds that go insane for their super specific gear porn probably would've had an ulcer over the lack of verisimilitude.

HOOLY BOOLY posted:

Oh he has a proper rifle as well, but what i mean is that it's ridiculous that he could take just a standard blaster pistol and hit just as well with that as any of his other weapons at extreme range.

jivjov posted:

A lot of sources I've seen, both under Legends and the new Story Group, tend to show that for huge swaths of the Galaxy (basically everywhere besides the Outer Rim) the change from the Republic to the Empire just put new faces on the currency and a new logo on Space-CNN. Even Bloodline, the most recently released Canon novel, has a post-facto imperial sympathizer that says basically "yeah, Vader and the Emperor were insane, the Death Star never should have been built, but there's nothing wrong with a strong central authority"

I think there's some space there for an Imperial-focused campaign that takes place somewhere where the Empire is bringing order and law, without being instructed to shoot aliens on sight or whatever.

ShineDog posted:

This game is going to be super, super vulnerable to min max weirdness, isn't it?

My wookie player just wants to be strong and wave her vibro axe around, blew straight through the dark jedi I intended to be a kind of recurring danger. +40 to crits is a dick.

Lemniscate Blue posted:

You don't have to have them build actual full-fledged Jedi Knights to have Force users running from the Empire. Suggest to them a mixture of "auxiliary" Jedi such as the Medical Corps, the AgriCorps, or other members of the Jedi Service Corps, who are less powerful and skilled in the Force than a Prequel-era Jedi would be. Of course a half-trained padawan or two. Perhaps someone could be a representative of a non-Jedi tradition who was in town on a cultural and knowledge exchange program at exactly the wrong time.

There are all sorts of folks who would be on the run from the Purge. Even if they weren't the original targets of Order 66, the Empire would likely want to kill or recruit Force-users still at large in the galaxy.

Arcturas posted:

I'm thinking of running a short (5-6 session) campaign for my normal D&D crew. It looks like folks would prefer playing the rebel/empire game over EotE. Is there a decent pre-gen campaign I can use as a starter for inspiration and/or a rough campaign outline?

Captain Redbeard posted:

If you were running a game and your players needed to play baseball for some reason, how would you handle that? A single athletics check for each players at bat? Melee checks for batting, ranged checks for throwing, athletics checks for everything?

Blackula Vs. Tarantula posted:

How would that help? And my character is a droid so he is a hidden camera.

Blackula Vs. Tarantula posted:

These are bad guys, they really are a mutual enemy of the party, the empire, the rebellion, the black suns, and the hutts, any plan that doesn't involve going through with destroying them is going to get vetoed by the rest of the party anyway. The question is, how can we make this a blow against the empire at the same time?

Blackula Vs. Tarantula posted:

These guys hate our guts specifically. We were working for them and double crossed them, kidnapped their leader, left him braindead, and sold his comatose body to the empire. Their new leader is a woman who once owned me, and is the ex wife of 2 of the other party members, and all three of us want her dead. This is part of why the rest of the party is ok with working with the empire, we really do want to take these guys out.

Ablative posted:

Another thing to watch out for, at least in my group's experience, is the Sense power.

It's relatively cheap for what it does, which is either read the minds of up to four people simultaneously at long range or give you two free upgrades to the first two attacks made against you every round, plus a single upgrade to your own attack every round, for the low cost of being FR 2 and committing your Force dice. If you give a Guardian an inch, expect them to take the lightyear.