Kiffar Psychometry

[MA-3PO]

I have a player who created a force-sensitive, Kiffar archeologist. He is trying to find old pieces of Jedi lore and artifacts. Pretty cool concept...

Anyway my problem is how should I run his Psychometry? I found two conversions for Kiffar into D6:

http://conversions.swrpgnetwork.com/entry.php?id=779

and

http://www.verminary.com/rebellion/web.html

The latter simply uses the stock Postcognition power from WEG. To be honest I think it sounds more realistic. However as an archeologist this power won't be so useful as the difficulty to see anything beyond a few years is beyond heroic. I was also thinking of using farseeing since that works in the past as well as the future. Does anyone have any thoughts?

[RedFox]

I'd use the Rebellion conversion. In my experience, The Rebellion has much more useful / realistic conversions in general than SWRPGNetwork.

I think Psychometry works fine using Postcognition. The difficulty varies according to how long it's been, but you can shift the difficulty (as the GM) by simply saying that a certain artifact or place has had such a strong emotional resonance from said event that it's maintained through the eons, giving a bonus to the sense roll.
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[MA-3PO]

I am looking for more information on the Kiffar but so far I know only of the comics featuring Quinlan Voss. Unfortunatly I don't have the earlier comics. Can anyone be kind enough as to give me a brief summary of the system and people? I know that there are two planets and one of them is a prison world. The Kiffar guard the prison and are protected by guardians. I think the Republic had an uneasy arrangment with them. Can anyone help me out? Thanks...

[Endwyn]

From what I can tell there isn't a lot of background here. The planets are Kiffu and Kiffex. Planet and prison world respectivly. One source says the planets are close to Korriban, but the guy who does a lot of research for the SW galaxy map has them located fairly close to the Tapanni sector. Since he does seem to know more about planet locations than anyone else I know, I would guess he is more correct. (But who knows, this could be one of those contradiction senarios.)

As far as the people, I have never seen a write up on themexcept this small blurb:

[Hellcat]

Well the second definition of psychometry in the dictionary has it as

[Endwyn]

Oh yeah, about your comment with the WotC version being more useful for the archiologist....I think that the trade off is that WotC has an easier time accessing the past, but there is a danger in exposing yourself to the dark side. The WEG version is harder to access the past but no danger in following along in someone's darkness. Your more an observer than a participant in the past.

Perhaps you might sit down and discuss the possibilities with the player. Perhaps the two of you can decide. After all, the decision can greatly affect the PC.
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[Hellcat]

My comment was not that the WotC version, which whether we like it or not is unfortunately the offical version, was more useful to the archeologist, but that it says that only one in a hundred kiffar have this ability. Meaning that they don't have to be Force-sensitive to have this ability as the conversion suggests. That would suggest more of a story factor than an special ability all members of the species would be likely to have. And since it would mean that they, those born with pshycometery, should use postcognition as a natural ability rather than merely as a Force power they had to learn, it should come a little easier to them so for such Kiffar character's I'd suggest altering the postcognition rules a bit to refelect this.
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[Endwyn]

My fault, I was refering to MA-3PO's comment about the WotC version being more useful to the PC. I should have quoted him before my response. For whatever strage reason your post reminded me of that info I forgot to tell him earlier.
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Luke, I am your father.
That's impossible!
And Leia is your sister!
That's improbable?
And the Empire will be destroyed by..EWOKS!
That's...highly unlikely.
The Force? Bacteria called midichlorians.
If you don’t take this seriously I'm out.

[Hellcat]

Sorry, looked like it was directed at me since I was the only one to actually come out and say WotC up to that point.
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[Endwyn]

Not a problem, you just reminded me of something I forgot, but I was talking to the original poster. Like Isaid, I should have quoted the person I was talking to.

I'll let you slide this time....but you have to cut me slide next time too........
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Luke, I am your father.
That's impossible!
And Leia is your sister!
That's improbable?
And the Empire will be destroyed by..EWOKS!
That's...highly unlikely.
The Force? Bacteria called midichlorians.
If you don’t take this seriously I'm out.

[KageRyu]

I am, more or less, in agreement with Hellcat regarding the Psychometry. Psychometry is a reading of an objects past through metaphysical means and senses beyond the normal, but given that for the Kiffar this is a natural ability, it should not be handled as a force power. That is, the character need not be force sensitive, and need not posess any other force abilities. Simply list the Psychometry on the sheet of the Kiffar as a special ability (remember to deduct appropriate D or CP for it), and allow it to be used. This would not be the first alien with Seemingly force-like natural abilities to crop up in Star Wars. I'd say let the character advance it as a skill or advanced skill even (maybe it adds to his alien cultures, alien history rolls when he "reads" and object?). The character will not be able to aquire other force powers or force skills unless he first becomes force sensitive, and seeks the training of a Jedi Master (this power shoul dnot be a shortcut to the force).
I have always thought the limitations and timeframe restrictions of postcognition were a bit heavy, so you should increase the span of time it sees backwards. Maybe something like this:
A Few Hours: Very Easy
A Few Days: +2
A Few Weeks: +5
A Few Months: +7
A Few Years: +10
Between 10-100 Years: +15
100-1000 years: +20
Greater than 1000 years: +30 (+5 for each doubling)

Hope this helps
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