Taking a swing at combat options for Force Users

[Naaman]

STARSHIP COMBAT

You are able to use the Force to augment your piloting skills. This power may be used with space transports, starfighters and repulsorlift vehicles.

Required Powers: Combat Sense, Concentration, Danger Sense
Effect:

This power has three effects.

You can use the Force to make attack rolls with your craft's weapons that exceed the targeting capabilities of your targeting computer. If you take only a single action (an attack with your craft's weapons; you may not use reaction skills), you may add your control dice to your attack roll instead of using the ship's fire control bonus.

You may re-roll some of your dice when making a piloting roll to navigate dangerous terrain. As long as you (the pilot) make take no other actions in the same round (your crew can fire weapons or use shields if available), you may re-roll a number of your dice equal to the number of dice you have in control. For example, Ret Starslicer has 4D+2 in control and 6D+1 in starfighter piloting. When navigating the asteroid field, he rolls 6D+1 and may re-roll any 4 or the dice, provided he takes no other actions (reactions are allowed as normal).

When in combat, you may use your ability to sense the Force to read the chain of events that is unfolding in battle. When making opposed pilot checks, or when using a starship (or speeder) dodge, add a bonus to your roll equal to +1 for every die you have in sense. For example, Ret has 7D+1 in sense, so he would add +7 to his starfighter piloting skill for a total of 6D+8.

[DougRed4]

This one is very cool, and seems very well-fitting to Force abilities. 8)

Is it too much when a Jedi usese Concentration, though?
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[Naaman]

You raise a good issue with concentration. Reading the second option, it would be more effective to use concentration instead. So, lets add that the pilot may use reaction skills in addition to navigating the treacherous terrain.

Okay, edited the post to account for the new change.

[Naaman]

I wanted to write up the 7 forms as individual Force powers, but I ran into the little problem of a character gaining 1 pip in a Force skill achieving instant mastery of any given form (imagine if Yoda or Qui Gon raised his control or sense after a good adventure, and chose Vapaad as his new power).

So, instead of writing individual Force powers for each form, I'm going to write ways in which the Force can be used to augment the 7 forms. Essentially, each of the forms allows you to apply a familiar Force power in new and unconventional ways. Learning one of these techniques costs 5 character points, or, it can be learned in place of a new Force power when raising the appropriate Force skill.

Essentially, a character who learns to use all of the techniques for his particular form could be considered a "master" of that form.

SHII-CHO
Emptiness
You are able to use your mental focus and inner peace to more effectively overcome your opponents in battle. You may give up some of your damage dice in order to gain additional benefits. At the start of your turn, choose a number of dice to give up. Once this choice is made, it's effects last for the entire battle. You may make a difficult control roll in order to change the effects, if you wish. You may also choose to apply multiple effects, by applying a cumulative penalty to your damage.

Clarity: Decrease your lightsaber damage by 1D. If you are benefiting from the emptiness power, you may re-roll a single die each time your roll. You may re-roll a die on an attack, parry, damage, sense (to deflect blasters), or control (to redirect blasters). If you use this application of emptiness, it's benefit expires at the end of combat, or after it's normal duration, whichever comes first.

Harmony: Decrease your lightsaber damage by 2D. If you are benefiting from the emptiness power, you may make a control roll at the beginning of your turn. Your roll determines the effects. If successful, you may treat a number of dice as having rolled a 6. This ability cannot be used to make the wild die explode, but it can be used on the wild die (if the wild die already exploded, you may apply it to the additional result, but still it stops exploding).

Results:
Moderate: 1D per round.
Difficult: 2D per round.
Very Difficult: 3D per round.
Heroic: 4D per round.

Note that this benefit lasts only for the current turn. You may apply the effect to any number of dice (up to the amount based on your control result) in the round, even boosting multiple dice on the same roll, if you wish.

Balance: Decrease your lightsaber damage by 3D. If you are benefiting from the emptiness power, whenever you trade your damage dice for a bonus on attack and parry rolls, you also increase your emptiness bonus by the same amount (for example, if you trade 3D of damage to gain a +3 to attack and parry rolls, the bonus provided by emptiness to your Force skills increases to +9).

[Naaman]

MAKASHI

Receptive Telepathy
You can use the Force to gain insight into your opponent's feelings and intentions. Using this information, you can dismantle his strategy, foiling his strengths and exploiting his weaknesses and defeat him in combat. You may give up some of your damage dice in order to gain additional benefits. At the start of your turn, choose a number of dice to give up. Once this choice is made, it's effects last for the entire battle. You may make a difficult control roll in order to change the effects, if you wish. You may also choose to apply multiple effects, by applying a cumulative penalty to your damage.

Insight: Decrease your lightsaber damage by 1D. You may roll sense instead of initiative. Choose a target and sense roll (as per the receptive telepathy power, but NOT modified by relationship) against him. For every 5 points by which you beat his roll, you gain a +1 bonus on parry rolls against that opponent. You may give up an additional die of damage in order to include another opponent, up to the number of dice you have in control.

Empathic Probe: Decrease you lightsaber damage by 2D. You may establish a telepathic link with your target (requires a moderate sense roll, modified by relationship and proximity), giving you constant awareness of his mental state throughout the battle. You may use this link to taunt your opponent, triggering his hubris and causing him to make a mistake. The GM determines what the hubris is. Attempting to trigger a different hubris grants your opponent a +10 bonus to his willpower roll to resist the effects. Instead of attacking with your lightsaber, make a con roll, and choose an effect:

Anger: Your opponent gains a +5 bonus on all attack and damage rolls and a -5 penalty to all parry rolls.

[Naaman]

SORESU

Danger Sense: You use the Force to increase your awareness and foil attacks against you with supernatural precognition. You may give up some of your damage dice in order to gain additional benefits. At the start of your turn, choose a number of dice to give up. Once this choice is made, it's effects last for the entire battle. You may make a difficult control roll in order to change the effects, if you wish. You may also choose to apply multiple effects, by applying a cumulative penalty to your damage.

Battlemind: Reduce your lightsaber damage by 2D. When rolling initiative, add a bonus to your Perception roll equal to +1 for each die you have in sense.

Combat Focus: Reduce your lightsaber damage by 1D. This ability gives you the option to boost your reflexes further by trading your remaining damage dice for a bonus on sense rolls to deflect blasters. Each additional die of damage you give up grants you a +1D bonus to your sense roll to deflect blasters.

For example, Gable Carras has 6D+1 in control and 8D in sense. His lightsaber damage is 11D+1. He decides to give up 1D of his bonus (control) dice in order to activate this power for the duration of battle. This means he can only add 5D+1 to damage, for a total of 10D+1. Of the 5D+1, he can now use any of those dice to add 1D to sense when deflecting blasters instead of to control when rolling damage. He may allocate these dice on a turn by turn basis.

Prescient Parry: Reduce your lightsaber damage by 3D. You may add a bonus to your parry rolls equal to +1 for each die you have in sense.

[Naaman]

ATARU

Enhance Attribute: You are able to use the Force to boost your strength, speed, and agility to increase the effectiveness of your attacks. You may give up some of your damage dice in order to gain additional benefits. At the start of your turn, choose a number of dice to give up. Once this choice is made, it's effects last for the entire battle. You may make a difficult control roll in order to change the effects, if you wish. You may also choose to apply multiple effects, by applying a cumulative penalty to your damage.

Enhanced Prowess: Reduce your lightsaber damage by 2D. If you activate the enhance attribute power, for each D you would have gained, you instead gain +1 pip. However, the bonus lasts for the duration of combat and it applies to both your Dexterity and your Strength.

Acrobatic Combatant:Reduce your lightsaber damage by 1D. If you activate enhance attribute and apply it to your Strength (or when using enhanced prowess, above), you may use your acrobatics skill in place of certain reaction skills. The skills you may replace are melee parry, dodge, and brawling parry. You may also roll acrobatics in place of lightsaber when parrying with your lightsaber, if you wish.

Overwhelming Assault: Reduce your lightsaber damage by 4D. If you are benefiting from the enhance attribute power (either the normal version or enhanced prowess, above), you may declare as your only action for the round a single attack (you may use reactions normally). If your target does not (or cannot) use a full reaction to defend himself, he must immediately choose to take either a -5 penalty to his parry total or lose his next turn (if he chooses to give up his next turn, he may defend himself normally). If the opponent successfully defends against this attack (either with a full reaction or his penalized parry roll), there is no additional effect.

[garhkal]

To me, the forms should be Advanced skills.. Not just base skills.
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[Tupteq]

[Naaman]

[Naaman]

[Tupteq]

[Naaman]

Yeah, I don't want any Jedi (or just plain Force user) to be uber-awesome at every single task. The way we compensate for this, though is to slow down the rate at which Force powers are gained.

We allow 1 new Force power at each whole D. So instead of having all Force skills at 2D and knowing 18 Force powers, a character would only know 6 Force powers.

I also added a bunch of powers to all three Force skills (especially alter), in order to provide variety and allow different characters to be much different from each other based on Force powers selected.

So a character who wants to be great at melee combat won't be able to "afford" to take starship combat (especially if we break it up into multiple powers).

Anyway, I use so many house rules that it's almost hard to call it D6 Star Wars anymore... except that we still use D6s. So some of my posts may seem to not fit quite properly if the rest of the rules set is not taken into consideration.

[DougRed4]

Yeah, I was going to say something similar to Tupteq, but it sounds like your modified house rules already have this considered.

My concern would be in making the Jedi better pilots than the hotshot pilots, but making it so each Jedi has to focus on the disciplines and particular Force skills does seem to take that into consideration (so that every Jedi isn't just a super hero in every way).
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