How would you handle this "Character Concept"?

[willg]

I have a new RP starting soon and I'm running a classic D6.

So I have smuggler captain, a roguish Gambler, a failed Jedi looking for redemption and an alien student of the force, looking to train under the "Jedi Master"....if she can keep him sober long enough.

Finally, one says "Grey Jedi Mandalorian"......and I'm like.....ah.

I don't want to dampen my friend's spirits but, I'm unsure how to play this idea. Perhaps a Mandalorian who is FORCE ADEPT?

But the era is the post-A New Hope, but before Empire strikes back. Not exactly a time when Jedi are prominent, let alone having a Mandalorian Jedi.

I mean I know I can try talking him into something else, that's not the issue.

What I'm really looking for is a way to make it work and maybe make sense given the era.


Any thoughts chaps? What chacter template is the closest fit?

[Mamatried]

I would use a custom force template, maybe something in the lines of a Zeison sha, not give him/her much if any of the classic mando gear other than add a mando style helmet .

I would then strongly urge the player to seek out a master to learn any other force skills, though I would allow him 1 FP and 1 DSP, replacing the normal 2FP of a force user/sensitive.

I would then speak to the player, again urge him to focus on the martial aspects, and the shooting stuff. maybe even keep his force use a secret until he suddenly pulls off a bige enough to notice but not big enough to be game changing force use.

Lets say he goes with a zeison sha, focus on telekiens, he can maybe disarm soemone or pull something to fall over the enemy.

Antoher would be to have him not realize he is actually using the force, cooperate with the player and have him do random stuff showing his actually ability to use the force, but maybe he clings to his skill with the blaster still, maybe even letting his force use be non combat related, it heals, enhances, but do not directly co towards combat, sense here could be cool, he could be a mando who feels he has some sharpened snese, but in reality he has sense, life sense, danger sense and the like,


But it is a hard one.......a final touch can be he is force sensitive, but has no dice to the force skill, and when he realizes he will maybe seek out training.

the grey aspect here being mostly that he is a direct combatant with balster and the like and less so with the force, but he still will adhere to the dark/light rules

[garhkal]

[cheshire]

[MrNexx]

I agree with making him define what he means by "grey jedi".
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[garhkal]

[cheshire]

[shootingwomprats]

Just wanted to point out that there has only been a single Mandalorian Jedi and that was 1,000+ years ago. Also, Mandalorians have an issue with Jedi going back to a conflict with Jedi that permanently altered the homeworld ecosystem. Furthermore, it's my understanding, and I could be wrong, Mandalorian armor was later optimized to fight Jedi.

As for "grey Jedi" I have found that players typically want this so they can have Force powers without the Jedi dogma and associated moral compass. Pretty much someone wanting to play a Paladin but not wanting to be LG. In none of the games I have run or played in successfully integrated a "grey Jedi" in sustained play.

With all that being said, the best explanation I can come up with is a jedi youngling that survived Order 66 and was "adopted" by a group of Mandalorians. This could tie into Rebels and maybe into The Mandalorian. The character could be as young as 23-24, if 4-5 years old at the time of Order 66.

The character would be Force Sensitive and you could trade out 1D of attribute dice for 1D in either Control or Sense and a single Force power. Lastly, I think you and the player should discuss what a "grey Jedi", does, and acts. To be on the same page when it comes to expectations.
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[CRMcNeill]

One potential option is the Mandalorian Royal Guard (later the Mandalorian Protectors) of the New Mandalorian people. While no mention is made of them being Force Sensitive, there is a scene in Clone Wars Season 2 Episode 13: Voyage of Temptation where the Royal Guards repeatedly parry blaster bolts with a Force Staff. The only way this should be possible, strictly speaking, is if the Royal Guards had some degree of Force Sensitivity.

The main problem I see is that a Mandalorian Jedi smacks very strongly of munchkinism, trying to stack the deck and give a single character as much of the "cool stuff" as possible. However, non-Jedi Force Sensitive characters have been a thing since 1E, and with the fleshing out of the Mandalorians, there are some options.

I'm partial to Dredwulf60's Mandalorian Character Creation System, particularly the Career Focus system toward the bottom of the post, which provides the player with some guidance for creating a more specialized Mandalorian PC. It wouldn't be too hard to graft in a Seer/Mystic or Protector career focus, with starting 1D in Sense and Control (not Alter). This would give the Mandalorian character the option of learning a Lightsaber Combat equivalent power for the Force Staff, with which they can then use to parry blaster bolts and inflict Stun Damage.

As an aside, it's been postulated elsewhere that Chirrut Imwe from Rogue One was a minor Force Sensitive, which would go a long way toward explaining his fighting prowess and perceptiveness. Something similar is a possibility for a Mandalorian Mystic (for lack of a better term).

I didn't really keep up with Clone Wars, but the initial New Mandalorian Guard were relatively restrained and defensive in nature (their Force Staves only inflict Stun Damage). This may have changed in later episodes, but that defensive nature may be a possible limiter on what they can and can't do with their Force powers, limiting them to knowledge and defense, like a Mandalorian microcosm of the Jedi vs. Sith paradigm). Maybe you could homebrew some evil Mandalorian Warlocks allied with the Death Guard.

Just some thoughts...
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[cheshire]

[CRMcNeill]

It also opens up the possibility of a Dark Mystic (for some reason, Death Watch Warlock seems an appropriate name) as a foil / nemesis for a Force using Mandalorian...
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[Whill]

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[The Bissler]

I wouldn't allow any more than one force user in my party after running a campaign where there were two. It was a long time before they got any decent powers (probably about 30 sessions) because it was hard to find any mentors, but once they did, they started seriously dominating play. We played over 50 sessions but I know the other players felt frustrated by how powerful the Jedis were by the end of it. After taking a break for 2 years and starting a new campaign with fresh characters, I'm quite pleased that we now have no force users!