The Force and fatigue

[Mogul76]

While reading the Star Wars comics and novels, I noticed that using the Force can sometimes be very tiring to a Jedi. I’m not sure if this is true for all Force powers, but I know for a fact that practicing Battle Meditation (in most instances) leads to physical exhaustion. Also, in The Empire Strikes Back Luke seems to be pretty worn-out after attempting to lift his X-Wing with the Force. Has anybody developed a house rule to reflect this? Perhaps a GM should ask the Force adept to make one or several stamina, willpower or control (whatever is highest) rolls when using certain Force powers. A failure would result in the Jedi being fatigued, leading to -1D penalties, as described in the rules for stamina. Which Force powers do you believe to be particularly “fatiguing”?

[Jedi Skyler]

Remove Fatigue?


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[Ineti]

I thought about adding a fatigue element to Force use, but the movies just don't really support it, except in the case of Luke and Yoda lifting the X-Wing out of the swamp.

You could just use the stamina rules as they exist and call for a fatigue roll from time to time as the circumstances call for it. I don't see a need to create a new rule specifically for Force use and fatigue.

[Karae]

I think the fatigue that Luke was suffering from, is more likely to be related to whatever physical training that Yoda had put him through beforehand.

The screenplay that I have for ESB, has this as the first line of that particular scene -