Lifestyles of the Privileged and Aimless

[DB 2.0]

We just dropped a bunch of Credits on a Bacta Tank and Medical Droid, we are thinking of drooping the rest of out free cash on getting an Armorer Droid and have it Mod a bunch of Sporting Blasters out the Yin-Yang with Damage upgrades and Targeting Scopes.

[Inquisitor1138]

[CRMcNeill]

[DB 2.0]

GM is handling Lightfoils a but different to the official rules, they have varying difficulties to build and can not have a Kyber Core.

at "Moderate" you can build a "Basic" Lightfoil, they have a Damage cap of 3D and fizile out on a 1 on the wild dice. they cost 4000-7000 (most around 5000) to build ans sell foe 5000-7000

at "Difficult" you can build a "Normal" Lightfoil, they have a 4D Damage Cap (a 3D blade would be at the bottom of the dificalty rank and a 4D blade a t the top), on a 1 roll on your Wild dice you have to make a Lightsaber Construction roll against a Very Easy to maintain the Blade, each subsequent 1 on the wild dice (including the first roll) rises the difficulty of the Lightsaber Construction roll in later rounds. Build cost 5000-10000, sale price 5000-12000 (normally 7000-12000)

At "Very Difficult" you can build an "Improved" Lightfoil have a 4D damage cap and they don't short out, or you can build an improved Lightfoil with a 2nd harmonizing crystal that gives your Lightfoil added abilities, but you go back ti having to make Lightsaber Construction rolls on the wild dice. build cost 10000 plus the cost of the extra crystal, Sale price 15000+
At Very Difficult you could just go out and find a Kyber Crystal and build your self a Lightsaber

At "Heroic" you can build a "Advanced" Lightfoil, still has a 4D damage cap, but you can add a 2nd harmonizing crystal without worrying about it shorting out. Build Cost 10000 (+), Sale Price selling characters can name their price, buying characters likely can't afford it

Imperials treat Basic and Normal Lightfoils as Restricted items, Improved or better are Illegal, but most Imperials cant tell the difference or mistake them for a Lightsaber and will Harass anyone with a Lightfoil.

Basic or Normal Lightfoil 3-4,R-X
Improved or Advanced Lightfoil 4,X


We also treat Stims a bit differently than the TOR source book

[DB 2.0]

[garhkal]

Strange, maybe its been just the groups i've gamed with, but LS repair is NOT the same as LS construction.. The former is a regular Tech skill, the latter is always seen as an advanced skill needing LS repair as its pre-req..
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[DB 2.0]

As I said it was all over the shop and depended on the Writer (and GM).

[Whill]

[CRMcNeill]

I'd very much like to see (A) Engineering redesigned so that it more closely parallels the relationship between (A) Medicine and First Aid. As in, if you want to fix something broken, use the appropriate Repair skill, but if you want to do something more advanced (design and build a new one, cobble one together out of spare parts, or enhance / improve one that already exists), then use the (A) Engineering that attends that Repair skill. There could be some overlap (Example: both First Aid and Medicine can operate Bacta Tanks, but First Aid has a much higher Difficulty).

That way (using the current topic of discussion as an example), if a character wanted to repair their existing lightfoil, they'd use Lightsaber Repair; if they wanted to build a new one out of spare parts, they could use (A) Lightsaber Engineering, or if they don't have it, they can use Lightsaber Repair in its place, just at higher Difficulty ' if they want to modify an existing lightfoil for improved performance or some new feature, they have to use (A) Lightsaber Engineering.
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[garhkal]

[Inquisitor1138]

[DB 2.0]

wensday night had a Solo game and likely my last one for the year, due to "Seasonal" stuff

Started the game in the last round of a Fencing Tournament, dispute a couple of lucky rolls by my opponent I had him easily beaten (my 7D+1 vs his 6D) in combined laser sword skills, but my Tech skills carried the day, since I had the last working Lightfoil.

after the match the Master of the Dueling Society approached me, telling the event was supposedly just for barging rights and any wagering you would choose, but in truth I'd beaten and in some cases embarrassed his best proteges, he was trying to select one to go recover technical manuals from the heir of a recently deceased Armorer who worked for a circle of Saber Rakes years ago, after I agreed to sheer copies of the manuals with him he told me where to find them.

I found out for a return trip ticket on a liner for just me it would be cheaper to just go out and buy an Astromech and fly myself in my Fighter. so I did.

Getting there I find out the heir is a daughter, slightly older than my character, she had sold off the finished Lightfoils, Crystals and most of the high end or high value vintage parts. I tried (unsuccessfully) to charm her out of the manuals (got to work on those Per Skills), to find out the Saber Rakes brought them off her father years ago to help pay for his weapons shop when the circle broke up years ago, but she cuts a deal with me If I take the last of her fathers workshop off her hands she would give me a list of all her fathers former patrons, this costs me all but a bit of walking around money.

After some research I find out most are Dead or moved to distant sectors, but I did recognize the name of a rewound but now retired Saber Rake, I let the guy who started this know where I was heading and am off.

I make better time than expected and rock up the evening before our planed afternoon meeting and talk my way in, we get to talking and he shows me his collection, but sais he doesn't have the manuals, but will put me in contact with the person that dose if I will Fence with him, given all his power cell need a charge I give him my spare Foil so he can use it's cell. I prepare in his grate hall as he swaps out the cell, he enters striped to the waste and I get what he was on about before when he said "A test of Man and Blade", he complements me on the workmanship if conservative engineering of my lightfoil, as I lost my Bracer and Doublet, we fenced , I was outclassed, I did get a few hits but only one stuned, my Lightfoil gave out and I had to concead the match, wile I dressed and swaped out a power cell in to my spare lightfoil my host uploaded a data pad for me.

Back out on the street I get ambushed by a woman in a white latex dress (actually a catsuit with breakaway skirt) with a pair of silver Lightfoils going on about how I've discouraged her Dupe undoing years of her work and how I will tell her how to acquiere the tech manuals or I will die. once I do a bunch of Stims we are evenly matched, my 3D Lightfoil can't harm her and her 4D Lightfoil can't do more than stun me after that first light wound, after out swords frits out she grapple lines away and I scarper off in to a dark alley as the Stormies show up. I'm boasting off world Stim poisoning sets in.

Last world, I can't get my Blaster past customs and would have bean arrested if I tried to get even my busted Lightfoils past Boarder control, still sick after a bad Stim interaction I track down the last person in the chain, to find out he had to smuggle out all his stuff before the weapons crackdown came in to effect, he has a bunch of data files he can give me and one physical book, and he will give them to me if I will cover enough of his gambling debts to get him out of trouble (that I can't do ATM) or can convince his old friend that put me on to him to pay up some of the money he is owed, some time on the Holo-net later wire transfers are done and I'm assured that since I'm not known to the authorities I should be able to just walk the book past coustoms, that I do.

Back home I now have the Tools, Parts, Blueprints and Tech Manuals to construct an Improved Lightfoil, all I need is the Skills, I could do it with average rolls, but don't want to risk 10,000 worth of natural Relacite just yet, think I'll forge some synthetic crystals and upgrade my current Lightfoils and save the natral ones for a new build.

Wile I was at a family Christmas dinner the other players had an adventure without me, when I get the details I might try to post them.

We may have an other game later this week and/or the first week of January before everyone scatters back to their jobs interstate or the far reaches of the state.

[Inquisitor1138]

This gives me a few ideas for my game...
Thanks for sharing!
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[garhkal]

How many of those stims do you guys have left?
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[DB 2.0]

We (or more to the point I) restock regularly, I try and keep between six and ten of each type on me, I tend to use Damage Resistance, Stun Resistance, Dex Boaster and healing Accelerator the most, only used Strength once, never had to use a Cognitive one myself, but the other characters had to use a couple in the game I missed.