Lightsabre Throw

[Crell Damar]

Yeah, this is kinda getting out of hand. My best suggestion for lightsaber throwing, is if the character is 1337 (leet, boondock, badass) enough to be able to do it, have the GM just describe his owning everyone with the thrown saber cinematically, and move on.
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[Son of Fire]

I hardly think that adding one new Force power to cover something that has now become a staple in EU (and may potentially become canon if rumours are true) constitutes SW becoming as convoluted Rolemaster.
The game itself advocates creating new Skills if something is not covered in existing Skills. So then how come its taboo if the same is done with a Force power?
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[Ragnar]

But why does "throwing" something need to be a force power!!!
USE THINGS THAT ALREADY EXIST!!!
You don't need a whole new force power to throw a lightsaber!!!
Stick to Thrown Weapons and TK or a combo of both!!!
IT SHOULDN'T GET ANY MORE COMPLEX THAN THAT!!!!!!!!

[Ray]

Come now, children... Let's all play nice now...

Don't want hurt feelings and crying...

Every group will play their game differently. We all have to learn to deal with the differences between us.

[Son of Fire]

Well Rag’s, the reasons that I suggested a Force power for sabre throwing was because of…

1: Damage- if it just was a simple toss, it would do the base sabre damage, now judging by what I have seen base damage just does not reflect the sabre throw.

2: Complexity- the term sabre throw may be a bit of a misnomer, but it’s a lot easier to write that, than “spinning TK controlled ranged attack with a sabre that could nail one or more targets”.

3: Accuracy- it should reflect how it is portrayed in the official material that launched the technique into the spotlight, and TK just does not cut it.

Now the whole reason that I started this thread was to toss around some ideas to figure out how it could be handled, and to get some constructive input as to how such a Power would be laid out. Now perhaps the fault is with me, for not clarifying that initially, or perhaps that was made clear with my consecutive posts. Either way, if you can’t read this topic without getting hot-under-the-collar perhaps you should just avoid from reading and posting in it.
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[VermillionStar]

[Son of Fire]

The thing is that I wanted to get some input from everyone so perhaps we could sort out some mechanics.
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[VermillionStar]

Oh I realize that, mon ami... however, refer to my last post.
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[Ragnar]

My point is still this. It doesn't need to be a force power. If you're worried about damage, then use the rules for lightsaber combat. If your character doesn't have the power then use the lightsabers normal damage. I say all you should have to do is take into account all of the characters multiple action penalties, then have the character decide whether they want to use thrown weapons or TK and then the GM should decide difficulty numbers for how complex the action sounds based on the PC's description of it.

[Rathe Ehtar]

[Hellcat]

[Crell Damar]

The only problem with that is that when you're swinging a lightsaber, you only get the base damage, so why when you throw it, would that change?
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[Hellcat]

The base damage is 5D, right? It says under Lightsaber combat in the revised and expanded second edition that the jedi may add or subtract part or all of their control dice to the lightsaber's damage and give an example of adding 4D control to the lightsaber's 5D damage for a total of 9D damage. To me that says that you can raise the base damage of the lightsaber. Throwing the lightsaber has less finess when/if the lightsaber hits, and it's really all about the speed of the hilt when it hit's, which to me seems to be a strength type of thing.

[Crell Damar]

That's using the force, not brute strength. Name a single energy weapon that does str + x damage. I agree with Rathe if you do happen to make a power, then alter for hit, and control+5d for damage.
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[Jedi master Raziel Shardi]

lightsaber throwing is a power. throwing plus alter to throw and u do add control to the damage. just the other day i thruw my two lightsabers( i got dual and they rock!) and decapatied 3 stromtroopers cut one in half and took anthers leg it was awsome
if u want the diffacultys pm me k
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