Valley of the Jedi

Revenant · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:50 pm Post subject: Valley of the Jedi

So, I've read about the Valley of the Jedi, and I've even seen snippets of it in JK2: Jedi Oucast.

In Jedi Outcast Kyle Katarn steps into the pillar of power and regains all his Force power after years of not using them. Desann uses it to amplify his powers (even though he is Darkside and the Valley is a Lightside Nexus) and give a bunch of regular Joe's the power of the Force (making them instantly Force Sensitive and trinaed in lightsaber combat)...

Now, I'm not saying this is correct (after all it's a video game), nor am I saying that the Valley should have those powers or that what the books print is accurate...

I thought I'd simply ask you this:

What, if you put the Valley of the Jedi in your games, would you have it do for players who basked in its power?
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Golbez · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:31 pm Post subject:

I dont think I could or would give it a set of abilities that I would apply to each game... it would be very specific for each game.

In my current campaign, I am running an all Jedi party, and it will make an appearance. However, it's not going to do them much good. However, the bad guy's might get some good use out of it, thats for sure.

I was originally planning the Nexus to give the PC a dream test like in the Dark side cave on Degobah. Pass, you get a bonus, fail...well... better luck next time.

Melorn · Cadet Joined: 18 Sep 2007 Posts: 17

Knowledge as a goal/story starter, artifacts(lightsabers for examples, semi-broken holocrons), a force spirit with just enough left for a couple cryptic phrases.

Maybe since it's for light siders, healing and visions are boosted.

Makes me want to replay Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight and the expansion again. Though it makes me motion sick for some reason.
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Golbez · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:29 am Post subject:

Ankhanu · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:44 am Post subject:

I would be loathe to have something like that in one of my games... yeah, it works ok, as a stretch, for a video game, but in terms of RPG... I dunno.

If I were to incorporate it, I'd try to keep the bonuses minimal... and/or temporary. Those without Force sensitivity gain it, and COntrol and Sense at 1 or 2D; Force sensitives get COntrol and Sense at a D higher than non-Sensitives, and Force Users gain an additional D or two in each Skill... but only for a while.
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TheDoctor · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:05 pm Post subject:

I think it would be a great Adventure or Campaign objective as perhaps the only surving accounts of the Valley of the Jedi date back to the Sith War for instance. Where is the Valley of the Jedi? Who knows, find the clues!

It would be great in a Classic Era campaign in which the PC party races against Palpatine's agents to find it, or maybe a quest in a Jedi Academy era campaign in which Master Skywalker sends some students.

I like it.

This is similiar to an idea I once had involving an artifact called the Manabon Amulet which would magnify a person's Force powers ten-fold. Light side characters raced against a Sith Lord I created named Darth Zeal. What Zeal did not know is that because it was oriented to the Light Side, it would destroy a Dark Side user instantly.
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Revenant · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:08 pm Post subject:

One of the PCs in our game was a slave; eventually she would have been forced into the business of 'vice' had a pair of Jedi (a Master and Padawan) not discovered her Force sensitivity.

Recently, after being expelled from the order, her former master (the Padawan who discovered her) returned to her a locket that her owner on Onderon gave to the Jedi when they acquired her.

She researched and discovered the locket was a puzzle and when solved it revealed a star map that led to the planet of Russan where the Valley of the Jedi is located.

She traveled there and learned from a blue glowie force guy that she was a descendant of a long lost bloodline of guardians. The Guardians of the Valley, a sect of 'Jedi' whose purpose was to watch over the Valley and see to it that it never falls into the wrong hands.

To be accepted she must first pass a few tests, locating The Valley was the first and for that she received a boon.

The second is far more difficult because she cannot return to the Valley until she completes it. She must find three people who have 'lost the Force' and help them restore their link to it. In other words whatever wounds they suffered that caused them to turn their back on the Force she must help them heal it.

The third I dunno... I'm still thinking of it... maybe bring Anakin (the blue glowie she spoke to) some chinese take out or something...

For her 1st boon The Valley granted her +1D to all Force Skills. I'm not one for handing out stuff like that to players, but she's an excellent RPer, really hot, and has a great rack...

I'm such a pig...

However the Valley itself I played out like this:

Anyone who is not Force sensitive gains Force sensitivity as long as they remain within 100 meters of the central chamber. They lose this ability if the leave the area. This was actually RPed out very well by my group. They discussed how they could hear and see everything with more clarity and the onslaught of the entire galaxy speaking to them all at once was deafening and giving them a headache.

When they left the two characters that accompanied the ex-Jedi felt depressed and sorrowful. Saddened that they could no longer hear the galaxy they felt as if they had left behind a part of their soul.

Those who stood in the stream of energy who were not Force sensitive immediately became so. Those who were already Force sensitive with no Dark Side Points would feel ‘recharged’ and more at peace gaining D6 Force Points.

The ex-Jedi walked away with 10 Force Points (4 plus the 6 she gained from the stream) and she’s going to need them since she is on her way to battle Looh’ra, Astra, and a Sith Lord… alone.

Tomorrow nights game promises to be interesting.
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