Reduce injury force power

[all2ezy]

Hi all
Can you please give me your thoughts on the reduce injury force power, how do you determine what type of injury is suffered when the power is used to prevent character death? I know a force point is lost but how severe should the injury be? Should it prevent him from being able to continue fighting etc?
My take on it is the character avoids death, however is so badly wounded that he cannot continue a battle and if conscious must retreat ASAP
Aka Luke Skywalker in Bespin.

Please let me know how you all handle it in your games.

Many Thanks. All2ezy

[Naaman]

I often attribute the Jedi's ability to fall 100+ feet and live (and continue the fight or not) to powers like reduce injury.

I think player and GM should work together to determine the type of injury. There is nothing worse than playing a character whose concept has just gone outside the scope of what the player enjoys.

In all honesty, I think that this is a very "role" playing type of power and a permanent injury should only be resorted to for dramatic value. If the character is "killed" by a mook, as a GM, unless the player was just being ridiculous, I'd fudge the roll and let the character live. In my SWU, only major villains have the "ability" to out right kill a PC. Otherwise, it's a major, fight-ending injury and the PC lives, but has do deal with escaping capture or whatever.

[garhkal]

It depends on what the wound level they were taken to, and what caused the wound..
As the power describes, it lessens an incap, mortal or dead result to just a wound, and gives a perma scar.. So lets say a gammorean wielding their traditional vibro axe thwacked the pc and knocked him down to MW, but he pops remain conscious up, then reduce injury to going down.. I could easly see him losing the arm or even having some permanent shoulder damage (say -2d to actions with that arm), till healed VIA BACTA dunking..

Or say the jedi got shot in the gut by a light repeater (man his LS combat roll musta sucked! ), i could see him having endurance issues (-2d to stamina checks) and some issues keeping food down...
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[CRMcNeill]

In the past, I've considered doing away with this power entirely and making it a general rule that any character can spend a FP and survive a Killed result with some form of permanent injury or disfigurement. If nothing else, it makes for a great explanation as to how a recurring villain can pop up again after the PCs were sure they killed him off last time.
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[Raven Redstar]

[garhkal]

[CRMcNeill]

[CRMcNeill]

[Naaman]

I like CRM's idea for allowing any character to survive by losing a FP, however, as a player there are some cases where I'd rather just roll up a new charracter than deal with a permanent in game effect that puts me behind the rest of the party.

Also, in some cases, Id rather just let the character die because I don't like the idea of the character being a gimp or or horribly disfigured, etc.

If you have to lose a force point, then let that be the "cost" of surviving. Heck, Id rather give up all force points and character points than take a prostetic limb or cybernetic body in some cases.

[CRMcNeill]

It's important to note that the Force Power this rule is derived from specifies that, if it is used to avert a Killed result, the character must also accept some form of permanent disability or disfigurement. I just ported the idea over to general usage.
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"No set of rules can cover every situation. It's expected that you will make up new rules to suit the needs of your game." - The Star Wars Roleplaying Game, 2R&E, pg. 69, WEG, 1996.

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[Whill]

[garhkal]

[Raven Redstar]

[CRMcNeill]

[garhkal]