Light Side Force Choke

[Jatrell]

Is there a Light side variant to this? I know this game came out long before but a question I am getting is that Mace Windu Force Choked Grevious (which was made cannon by Lucas) in the Clone Wars cartoon series. Just wondering. Thanks for the assistance.

Jatrell
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[Fallon Kell]

My first solution is to toss the RAW out the window, and just allow people to injure others with the force so long as it's in situations that wouldn't earn them a DSP if they did it using a lightsaber, blaster, or big stick.

If you don't want to do that, maybe it was some special non-LOS telekinesis directly on the air in his trachea?
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[CRMcNeill]

I just allow the Jedi to use the normal TK Kill attack to inflict Stun damage, with the DSP only coming into play if the Jedi inflicts normal damage. After all, Luke used Force Choke on the Gamorreans in ROTJ...

I do have an alternate rule somewhere that allowed Jedi to use certain DSP powers (like Tk Kill or Force Lightning) to inflict non-lethal damage if the Jedi in question succeeds on a Willpower roll to control his negative emotions. Short version; the Jedi's Willpower roll had to beat his Control roll, otherwise he suffered the full DSP effect of using the power.
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[atgxtg]

I asummed that Luke actually used Affect Mind on the Gammoreans. It gets the message across but without actually hurting the guards.

Not that that answers the question about Windu. It does appear than intent is the key factor, but we already had a thread about that.

[garhkal]

Though since the sourcebook for ROTJ shows luke with a DSP or two, who's to say that he didn't get it from the choke.
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[vanir]

In his SWRPG template, Mace Windu has used injure/kill at least once. He is known to have used this power, and has a Dark Side Point.

[CRMcNeill]

IIRC, the stats for Luke are as of the end of the Battle of Endor, at which point he had used the Dark Side in pretty spectacular fashion to beat down Vader and chop off his hand. Also, AFAIAC, WEG giving Luke a DSP in those stats is nothing more than retroactive justification for them making TK Kill a DSP power in the first place. Film evidence would indicate that a Jedi can actually use that power without earning a DSP, as Luke did not appear to be acting out of emotion in that situation (nor would he need to, as optional powers like Affect Mind were also available). However, WEG made a blanket ruling that TK Kill was a Dark Side only power, so therefore Luke had to have gotten a DSP for using that power in ROTJ. But even then, their math is off, since Luke used the power twice (once on each guard, as there are no rules for using TK Kill on multiple targets simultaneously), plus calling on the Dark Side to beat down Vader on the Death Star. Shouldn't that be 3 DSPs, not 2? One more reason why I look at WEG stats as "more what you might call guidelines than actual rules."
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[cheshire]

[garhkal]

I feel the same way Cheshire.. I am one of those old school force believers, that doesn't buy into the vergre centric "oh you can use the dark side as long as you are not dark in emotion without getting any taint" drug..
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[CRMcNeill]

But then the question comes back to: If Luke, a Jedi Knight in all but name, had so many weapons in his arsenal (Force Power-wise), and was not in a situation where he was under emotional stress, why would he resort to using a DSP power? The only logical explanation to me is that WEG, in an attempt to "balance" Jedi PCs, took a canon power that was not necessarily dark and rewrote it so as to weaken Jedi PCs relative to non-Jedi PCs. And I HATE it every time I come across that. IMO, any spin-off product should be faithful to the primary source, not edit it for their own reasons. In this case, I return to my original statement that the power TK Kill should be modified to allow Jedi to inflict Stun damage, but not effortlessly (hence the Willpower roll), so that the Jedi in question may attempt the power, but because of the potentially lethal nature of the power, he is veering into the grey area between light and dark and must tread carefully.
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[garhkal]

But if Tk KILL was supposed to be usable for light side characters, why would it not have been called Tk Subdue
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[vanir]

Our house rule is simple. Jedi remain safe from the Dark Side only by using proxies when using the Force in combat.

The two signature ways of using the Force imho also define how each philosophy is grounded, and why one is light and the other dark.
Force lightning uses the Force to directly attack a lifeform. The Force is generated and bound by lifeforms, so this is evil. Even using telekinesis to directly attack lifeforms, it is evil.

Lightsabre combat uses a proxy. A mundane skill, melee combat with a lightsabre is enhanced by knowledge and insight through the Force. But the Force is never used for attack. Knowledge and defence.
Even though you might be hacking someone to bits at the time you're using the Force for knowledge and defence to enhance your skill.

It is in the Force itself. Created by life, using it to uncreate life is inherently evil. So you have to use a proxy. It's not about trying to be good, it's about not being evil.
Jedi are neutrals, but they are prolife never pro-unlife. The old english word for unlife is evil, and in fact it is all that word really means. Live, spelled backwards inverses the meaning, this is genuine etymology.

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