Dual Lightsabers rules?

[garhkal]

That depends how the disarming is done.. Kind of hard to fight through the pain of just losing one of your arms!
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[mcbobbo]

[Jedi Skyler]

Exactly; we have three glaring examples of individuals engaged in lightsaber fights who, upon being disarmed (literally), weren't doing much more than moaning and groaning, screaming, or being focused on putting distance between themselves and the one who had disarmed them.

[garhkal]

There's 4 actually. ATOC when Anakin got disarmed by Douku, ROTS when Douku get's disarmed by Anakin. ROTS when Windu gets disarmed by Anakin, and ESB when vader takes luke's hand.
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[cheshire]

And RoTJ when Luke takes Vader's hand! Granted, that situation was a little different.

Aren't there Force powers that allow you to remain conscious and ignore pain? I mean, you'd have to have them up when you were taking the damage, and most people wouldn't opt to take those MAPs when they were in a life and death struggle. So, it's impractical, but it is feasible, isn't it?
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[CRMcNeill]

[DougRed4]

[CRMcNeill]

And Zam Wessell by Obi-Wan in AOTC.

And Anakin by Obi-Wan in ROTS.
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The CRMcNeill Stat/Rule Index

[Jedi Skyler]

[garhkal]

[dicemauler]

For dual wielding anything we've just been increasing the difficulty one stage and adding half the skill rating for the roll. When figuring damage you do single weapon damage.

If PC1 has a Blaster skill of 4D and wants to shoot two blasters at someone then they would roll 6D (4D + 1/2 blaster skill) and do 4D damage (as if PC1 only fired a single shot).

IF PC2 has a Lightsaber skill of 4D and wants to swing both lightsabers at someone they would roll 6D (Very Difficult) and would do 5D damage.

My group seems happy with the rule, but we've only been using it occasionally for about a year. Admittedly we've been doing very little combat encounters lately.

[Tol-Yun]

[Jedi Skyler]

I'm not sure whether or not I'd count Vader continuing on after losing his bionic hand; I personally don't know the quality of his cybernetic prostheses. I mean, what we see in the movies depict them as simply cybernetic arms and legs, without the kind of tech involved to make them look like normal limbs. I'd presume them to at least be capable of transmitting sensations (at least, the ones provided by Palpatine, since this IS, after his Golden Boy, and I would expect him to use his basically limitless resources to provide the best for Anakin...but not going to the basically unnecessary expense of making the limbs look natural. After all, the scarier he looks, the better he can terrorize people).

The reason I would consider Vader's continuation of action as needing a Heroic roll, rather than an easier one, is because of Anakin's affinity for machinery. I know a great many people do not attribute the novels of the EU (regardless of the time frame) as being any good or acceptable source for information about characters or concepts to be used in RPGs. However, I'm currently reading a Clone Wars novel ("Siege"), and I read an interesting passage that lent some insight into why Anakin remained so powerful...not only after losing his first arm, but after Obi Wan sliced and diced him and left him for dead in a caustic, volatile environment. The books says that Anakin's natural affinity for machines basically kept him from losing any of his connection to the Force. Now, of course, this doesn't speak to his connection after becoming Vader, and I personally would think THAT level of cyborging would have to limit him to SOME extent. After all, this IS the Chosen One we're talking about. This young man broke records at the Temple right and left. He's IMMENSELY powerful, being compared to ALL the Masters, including Yoda. Quite honestly, IMO, had he not gotten all chopped up, he'd have been powerful enough to have defeated Palpatine. But instead, he went all whiny Skywalker boy on us and fell to the dark side, which of course led to his going through the Ginsu Gauntlet with Obi Wan.

So, I guess your opinion on how hard it would have been for him to get back up and get back into action after Luke cut off his hand depends on how much you think his cybernetics were a true part of him. Personally I think he was quite attached to them (pun intended, of course), so it would have been heroic, even though it was a cybernetic arm.