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unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

homullus posted:

My books are all packed for a move, but I have a memory of seeing "right tools for the job" as a reason to give a boost die, but it would have been in the boost die section rather than the equipment. It's also possible I invented the memory to deal with the trauma of the discrepancy.

You're...not wrong. Under the description, it says, "A boost die is often enough to represent the bonus provided by useful gear"

# ¿ Aug 30, 2014 17:41

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# ¿ May 5, 2024 00:43

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

I almost had a band game going, but it was ended before it started because someone googled "Star Wars musical styles" and got the name of the sort of music the band played in Jabba's palace.

And basically everyone spent the rest of chargen snickering like 12 year olds so we didn't actually finish.

What I'm saying is Wookieepedia is the worst.

# ¿ Dec 8, 2014 23:25

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

If you get that to work they need to uncover a secret conspiracy about a "Most opulent sail-barge" contest.

# ¿ Apr 28, 2015 13:44

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

ninjahedgehog posted:

So I've seen all six movies more times than I can possibly count (and devoured a unhealthy portion of the EU as well) but for the life of me I can't remember when they have to do this in Episode I.

II: the Geonosis arena
III: Grievous's ship
IV: "my name's Luke Skywalker and I'm here to rescue you!"
V: Butt City
VI: the Sarlacc Pit

I guess when the Jedi rescue the Queen right before they fly to Coruscant?

EDIT: Oh wait, duh, it's when Amidala gets captured, and then Keira Knightley blows the doors open and Padme pulls out the Official Royal Naboo Throne-Guns.

Also in the very beginning of the movie when they lock the jedi in a room and turn on the poison gas.

# ¿ Aug 21, 2015 18:53

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

Mustache Ride posted:

Yeah wasn't there a book due off the ship soon?

The adventure about the lady with the awesome mask or something, IIRC.

# ¿ Oct 27, 2015 00:53

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

Phrik is another lightsaber resistant material- I'm not sure where it originally appeared, but Zayne in the KOTOR comics used a pair of bracers made of it to parry lightsaber hits, and apparently it got referenced in Clone Wars?

# ¿ Dec 14, 2015 14:11

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

I wonder if we're gonna get more ship upgrade stuff with the technician book and they're writing the base stats for ships with that in mind.

# ¿ Dec 20, 2015 00:52

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

As I understand it space combat is generally better in a squadron style game because everyone is doing actual things instead of the one thing they can do that round at their space transport station. It's still not great, but everyone having their own ship is an improvement.

# ¿ Dec 21, 2015 13:42

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

A pilot can wind up a pretty decent ranged combat generalist just from having a high agility, so it's not all bad, really.

# ¿ Dec 27, 2015 15:04

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

I'm pretty sure FFG mentioned having already renegotiated with Disney recently. That's why Rebels stuff is showing up in the more recent books. Whether that'll lead to PDFs, who knows.

# ¿ Dec 29, 2015 12:17

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

Signature abilities are career-based instead of specialization based. They generally show up in the class books, not the core.

# ¿ Dec 29, 2015 19:24

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

jivjov posted:

I question a force user with the Spec tree of "Executioner". Maybe I'm just bringing in too much common-usage-definitional baggage...but that just seems a little dark as a name.

On the other hand, I'm gonna theorycraft at least 3 Hermit characters.

The game's not been shy so far about potential dark-sider-y specializations, really.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2016 23:12

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

Also any F&D character could pick up the Assassin specialization from EOTE if they wanted.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2016 23:34

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

The thing with the morality system, if I'm reading it right, you probably actually want to get a point or two of conflict per session; a conflict of one or two gives you a good chance to actually increase your morality score. Which means light side Steve who always makes the moral choice when RP chances to take conflict come up will mostly get his by...taking strain to convert dark side pips over.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2016 17:42

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

Iceclaw posted:

Kitty Empress has ot right in my opinion.
^ Though if your exemple only ever take the "moral choice", then the problem lies with the GM presenting only "Save or kill the kitten" kind of choices, which is hardly interesting. Conflict should spring of hard choices, with the temptation of getting mad, acting rashly or violently, or having to tap into fear of failure for that extra boost.

E: In addition, getting a couple of points just to maximise your chance of an increase strikes me as gaming the system.
You want your character's morality to change? Then do so! Propel them into situations that challenge their beliefs! Why should someone gain morality from always acting in accordance to their creed without thinking about what it means? True parangonhood should come of having their beliefs and action tested.

Well, yes, but this in context of people banging on about how going dark side is the only mathematically effective choice because of the morality system, so addressing it as a mechanical thing seems perfectly apt.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2016 18:06

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

On the upside, you get a snappy wardrobe and a payraise. On the downside, you have to use a double lightsaber that turns into a goofy propeller.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2016 01:05

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

The vague hints for the setting for all the lines mostly seem to be "Between IV and V", really. Post Alderaan and the Death star, but the implication in Strongholds of Resistance is that the rebel Hoth base is still active as opposed to "fleeing At-Ats and orbital star destroyers"

And they're tossing in Rebels stuff more in the books.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2016 18:14

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

I think they statted up Lando for an adventure once, with a specific note that 'these stats only apply to him for this scenario, if he shows up in another adventure he'll have stats suited to that instead, do not take this poo poo as gospel, goddamn.'

# ¿ Jan 12, 2016 18:41

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

Space Turtles for everyone.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2016 17:02

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

So there was a bootleg pirate Star Wars comic that was the -only- version of Star Wars in China in the eighties for a while.

Gonna be honest, I'd play in this alt-version of the setting.

Jedi Knights as -literal knights-.

A flashback to pre-Cyborg Vader.

Gotta say, I'd play in this alt-setting.

More here; http://www.nickstember.com/chinese-star-wars-comic-part-1-6/

# ¿ Feb 9, 2016 19:42

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

At least according to the article that pointed me at it, it's all one dude named Song Feideng. But he was working for a state-run publishing house and was also like the only dude who'd seen the movie working on it, so he might have been working from memory and also mixed in some Empire (The bounty hunters keep showing up as random imperial troops.)

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/20/asia-pacific/red-star-wars-china-use-pirate-comic-promote-science-1980s/#.VroWEvkrLmg

# ¿ Feb 9, 2016 19:56

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

The seven "actually pretty decent" exes of our Correllian pilot, which started as a "We keep rolling her obligation, it can't be the same one each time" thing and then evolved to "Okay, so every time the pilot's obligation comes up, it's a new ex-wife and/or husband until it stops being funny"

...It took a while for it to stop being funny.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2016 16:43

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

Sushi in Yiddish posted:

Neat, I've got a character or two in the group that's gonna eat this up. Hopefully it's in shops tomorrow? I got a pre-order in with my FLGS last week.

VVVV Sorry, you rolled a two successes and a despair. You created a very good robot....who wants to kill you when you're not looking

So basically, they made Chopper.

# ¿ Mar 17, 2016 19:22

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

Yeah, I think I'm just going to houserule the "You can't do any fancy piloting tricks if your ship is bigger than the Falcon" thing instead.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2016 19:23

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

Airship pirates does this; one of the things that's part of chargen for it is "Decide what sort of crew you are: look up the mandatory skills for that sort of crew. Everyone gets bonus points to spend so that all the skills for that type are covered."

# ¿ Apr 18, 2016 18:48

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

Museum-Worthy does 2 things: It lets you use education instead of lore, so you don't necessarily need to double dip into both skills if you don't want to-Notice that education is usually 'general knowledge/current events in the skill description, while lore is about ancient myths and relics. It also gives more information per success rolled, while extra successes on knowledge skills usually just mean you recall it -faster-.

(It's still a bad talent because an archaeologist is way more likely to have a maxed lore than maxed education.)

unseenlibrarian fucked around with this message at 06:29 on Jun 10, 2016

# ¿ Jun 10, 2016 00:16

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

Eh, the game's pretty fine with bringing in Legends stuff as it is.

# ¿ Jul 11, 2016 01:50

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

And the visual guide to Force Awakens namechecks several planets on Luke's map as Old Republic things. (I think Space Ireland might actually have been Tython, or else Tython was on the itinerary.)

# ¿ Jul 11, 2016 14:42

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

Gonna guess the Heavy is pretty much just the Heavy from the Hired Gun book, but it'll be nice to be able to grab the spec without paying extra if I want to get my SWTOR commando on.

# ¿ Jul 11, 2016 18:51

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

Plus there's always the fun of "Wait, what's in the cargo hold of this ship we repossessed? It belongs to -who-?"

# ¿ Sep 30, 2016 01:22

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

cptn_dr posted:

While reading and writing stuff up for my Arkanis game, I was also struck with the urge to run a police procedural style game about CorSec officers. Has anyone here done that before? How did it turn out? I might add it to the list of "campaigns I will run one day".

There was some talk earlier in the thread about a "Playing the cops on Nar Shaddah" game, I think, but I'm not sure if that actually went anywhere or was just a set up for extended riffing on "Hutt Fuzz" as a campaign name.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2016 11:27

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

Grabbed a copy of No Distintegrations this weekend and FFG continues to just have some of the best 'trigger a character idea' illustrations. Would play or run a game for Skip Tracer Grandma.

# ¿ Feb 14, 2017 05:31

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

I gotta admit, complaining about having a level of gear porn in Star Wars always struck me as weird because like, half the movies are people doing repairs and tinkering with vehicles (and in one case building a weapon) and the whole thing is at least partly inspired by hotrodders.

# ¿ Jun 28, 2017 11:31

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

And honestly until they get some XP under their belt Jedi are actually kind of underpowered compared to other options.

Do not gently caress with the vibroaxe wookie with your force powers and mysticism.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2017 17:20

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

My favorite thing about giant Spock is that they didn't actually kill him off at the end of the episode, they just left a giant Spock Clone on another planet to live with the giant scientist who cloned him to do Giant Spock things.

Which means he could conceivably be still out there in the universe in Next Gen's timeline and I am totally using that if I ever run Star Trek Adventures.

My second favorite thing about giant Spock is that it's one of Walter Koenig's writing credits for Star Trek.

# ¿ Aug 25, 2017 00:10

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

Bigger Luke is sadly way dumber than that. He's just maybe an inch or two taller.

http://biggerluke.wikidot.com/bigger-luke

# ¿ Aug 25, 2017 14:57

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# ¿ May 5, 2024 00:43

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

I'm just dreading the possibility that the various Asian characters that have been cast in the new movies will be revealed to be http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Epicanthix. As opposed to you know, just humans. There were good reasons to bury chunks of the old EU.

On the other hand, no one will ever take Mofference rooms on Moff ships from me.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2017 11:34

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