Lightsaber Pulse

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House ruled Force power. Another thread reminded me that I hadn't yet posted it for notes. It's pretty straightforward, but criticism is welcome.

Lightsaber Pulse

Control difficulty: Moderate (note the result)
Alter difficulty: Moderate

Effect:
This ability allows a Jedi wielding a lightsaber to use the Force to make his or her lightsaber emit a single blinding pulse. Characters with eyes (or equivalent) who are facing in the Jedi's general direction, to a distance of 50 meters, may be affected. Such individuals must roll their PER vs. the Jedi's Control result (from above) to resist the attack. Should anyone fail to resist, that being is completely blinded for 1D+X rounds, where X is equal to the total dice in the Jedi's Control (pips do not count). Beings wearing sunglasses, shielding hats, or helmets receive a +1D bonus to their PER for purposes of resisting this attack.
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[Sutehp]

Blind anyone within 100 meters? How friggin' bright a pulse is this? And something that would blind someone at 100 meters would also blind the Jedi holding the lightsaber (he's standing at Ground Zero of this power, after all). Not to mention that this power wouldn't affect stormtroopers and the like because of their helmets. Or the fact that it would affect nearby allies as well enemies.

And what is actually happening inside the lightsaber to justify/explain the light pulse? Does using this power destroy the focusing crystal or somehow overload or otherwise damage the mechanisms inside the lightsaber?

Is creating this light pulse even conceivable without suspension of disbelief? In other words, is this something that most players would find to be Narm rather than cool?

This sounds like an Exalted's anima banner flaring but only alot less cool and far more trouble than it's worth.
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[Dustflier]

I actually like the idea from a lore standpoint. It's creative, but fits in with the powers we see from Obi-Wan in ANH. Like knocking on a distant object, it's a manipulation of a single sense.

Though I agree that 100m is too great a range.

[Sutehp]

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I'll reduce it to like 5 meters per Control die or something then, or just stick it at a static value like 50 meters.

I was trying to imagine this as one of those Space Opera things that I'm not going to explain any further than that. It doesn't blind the Jedi, break anything, or drain anything especially fast. It's a Force-assisted amplification of the light of the Jedi's lightsaber. That's as technical as I'll get What happens in Darth Vader's boots in ESB when he levitates down the stairs during his duel with Luke? lol

You can imagine playing with it that it isn't especially awesome all the time. You could blind friendlies within a group unless you establish a codeword for "Close your eyes!" beforehand. I still think it affects Stormtroopers and the like but anyone with a semitransparent barrier between their "eyes" and the lightsaber do get a bonus to resist.
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[garhkal]

How's about a range. Short 2m per D of control. Medium 4M, long 6M. Affects allies as well as enemies. Jedi holding it is also affected, but due to his intuitition, he gains +1d to his soak roll..
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[Zarn]

Favorite power of Miralukan Jedi.

Also, instead of moving any crystals, how about just compressing them slightly and then releasing them? A 1 on a wild die might mean that the crystal shattered from the stress, though.

[Error]

Range would be more like 1-5/20/50. I realize one might think that's a long ways, and maybe it is, but it still doesn't make it overpowering. It's actually best when you have a single enemy you can surprise with it.

garhkal you could undersell anyone 8)

Zarn does this exist written up elsewhere? I'd love to see another take on it and how it differs.
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[garhkal]

50m is still way overpowered. Heck look at the Luma Flare, or the Thermal detonator. Even those big boys max out at 20m blast radius. Most grenades are around 15-20m blast radi..
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[Zarn]

I used a quip - a humorous aside, if you will. Miralukans have no eyes. They couldn't care less about any Force power that generated a super-bright flash of light.

[Dustflier]

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garhkal, I'd be more inclined to listen to your estimations of what is too much and what is too little if you actually showed how 50m is too far instead of just guessing that a 50m range is overpowered. You haven't played with it, no testing has been done, yet you are absolutely positive 50m is too far. This is why I don't listen to you, usually.

I'm going to say the range is fine at 50m until I run into a situation which disproves that. That's how you test things.

The rest of you guys, I'm not going into anything having to do with crystals or power cells or anything else. The rest of you seem to be the ones who want to discuss that. I already said that this is a Force-assisted amplification of the light of the Jedi's lightsaber.

Why everything on this forum requires thousands of words of explanation, it seems, while the things we see in the movies are not required to be qualified at all, will never cease to amaze me. People care more about the HOW than the COOL here sometimes, and it's really hard to wade through.
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[Dustflier]

[garhkal]

[Sutehp]

My thing is whether the Force can actually create a light pulse from a lightsaber (or any other light source). As Han Solo once famously said: