Passive Skills..

[Mamatried]

I have recently been looking into passive skills and how to apply the concept to SWD6.

I see a difference in a deliberate "dodge/avoid" and a instictive reaction or an active "notice" versus simply noticing something, like when you enter a room and all of a sudden there is a vase of flowers on the table, you notice this immately and automatically unelss you are somehow distracted.

So to me a passive Notice is different than someon "trying to" notice.

How to do this I am not sure of yet, but I am working on a Static Value system rolled at the beginning of each day or what not.

For the passive notice I have decided to do it as easy as using the PERCEPTION attribute value, rolling this and applying this number as the static value for the day, adding or subtracting depending on various factors and even skill synergy.

For a Passive Dodge, I see the scenario that I am not trying to avoid the falling branch, I notice it and react immiately I may not succeed or I may succeed, I still did not make a conscoius decition to try and avoid it, I reacted.

I see this to be both a Perception and a Dexterity related reaction and would
give a static as above value on your reaction time and thus your "dodge/avoid" based on PER+DEX/2 where you Add the dice and divide by 2 and ADD any pip for +4

[garhkal]

The game already has that. For "passive' detection, just use PER. For Actively trying to notice something, roll Search.
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[Whill]

[pakman]

Whill covered already the points in the game already representing this, but I wanted to add in that later editions of d6 (space, adventure etc.) had an optional rule to improve passive defense.

Optional Defense Modifier
For every 2D in Agility or Dodge above 4D (round up), a character
receives a +1 to her passive defense value. This modifier does not affect
the character’s active defense total. For every 2D in acrobatics above 4D
(round up), a character receives a +1 to her active or passive defense value
for attacks at Short range or greater. Every six ranks in a Skill Bonus or
Increased Attribute Special Ability that affects Agility, dodge, or acrobatics
provides a +1 bonus, as specified for the skill in question.

Example: A character with 4D in Agility gets no bonus, while a
character with 7D in acrobatics has a +2 bonus

In this context, the "Active defense" is when you dodge....passive is when you don't take a dodge action.

I found it when doing research on my houserules, but decided to not include it.
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[garhkal]

I didn't realize that the passive 'looking' was added to the search skill in the R&E..
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[Whill]

[garhkal]

Completely forgot that thread.... Though my stance from it remains.. Per for passive, search for active. BUT your speed should limit how you can use search, based on the vader cover blue book, not R&E where they seemed to remove that part.
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