Kev's Star Wars Saga Edition House Rules

[Kev-In]

A couple of trouble spots I've bumped into playing this, and if I ran a convention Star Wars I'd need a tweak or two. Like these:

Star Wars Saga Edition House Rules

Paging Alice Cooper: Since administering anti-toxins seems of comparable difficulty to healing damage or administering first aid, strike the “Trained Only” requirement for the Treat Poison use of Treat Injury.
A New Hope-less: I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that whoever wrote the high jump rules never saw Episodes I, II, III, V or VI. Let’s go ahead and cut that 12 down to a 6. Hey, suddenly its Star Wars again! Speaking of the Jump skill…
Jumpin’ Jedi: the official errata covered this, but since the system is now dead and you might have an early printing, the Jump skill is a class skill for Jedi.

[Gamemaster]

Um... I'm not getting the Alice Cooper reference.

From a real world medical standpoint, I'd say the difficulty with administering anti-toxins is knowing which anti-toxen to administer.

Bill

[Kev-In]

Um... I'm not getting the Alice Cooper reference.

From a real world medical standpoint, I'd say the difficulty with administering anti-toxins is knowing which anti-toxen to administer.

Bill

Alice Cooper's 80s return to the spotlight was a song called "Poison."

From a game world standpoint, poison in Saga is "the Suck" when it gets you.
*Once affected, you begin dropping on the condition track, which means that the poison's effectiveness increases as your defenses drop.
*Because Saga uses the Defense system ala D&D 4e rather than saving throws, you don't even have the option of spending a Force point to boost your save roll, since the poison is rolling.
*No Force powers have the ability to detoxify/slow poison. Say what?!?!?
*The proto-4e rules have eliminated cross-class skills and only two classes have Treat Injury on their class list: Noble and Soldier. And since Noble is about as popular a player character choice as protocol droid, for all intents and purposes there is only 1 class with the capacity to treat a poisoned character.

You could of course multi-class, but that seems an awfully big sacrifice to make just to get the ability to treat poison. Hence my lil' patch job.

[Gamemaster]

I have tickets to see Alice Cooper in September.

But anyway...

I'd recommend not using poison. It's not very Star Wars like anyway.

Bill

[Kev-In]

I'd recommend not using poison. It's not very Star Wars like anyway.

Bill

Zam Wesel would have to disagree