Proposed House Rules

[Alastor04]

Since I don't have much play experience I will ask you guys opinions on house rules I am thinking about:

From D6 Space:
Melee attacks have a standard difficulty of 10
-Lightsabers would be 15 unless you have 1D in Control and Sense
Parry skills rolled into Melee, Brawling and Lightsaber

From FFG Star Wars:
Increase difficulty of ranged attacks at point blank range by 5 for pistols and 10 for rifles [I'm not sure about this one]

Lightsaber Combat
First Edition rules: Sense used to deflect blaster fire, control added to damage

Possibly static defenses from minisix.

[Naaman]

Not sure how I feel about the static defense, but if you're rolling the defensive skills into the attack skills, then it might make sense to do so.

I much prefer the 1st edition LSC rules, and I omit the LSC force power all together (if the character is a JEDI, and not some other kind of force user, then they get the control added to damage, and the sense is used to deflect; if the character is not a JEDI, then they have to be trained by a Jedi in the Jedi arts in order to "know how" to do Jedi things with the lightsaber).

If attack skills and defense skills are rolled in, does this work for ranged attacks and dodge? Sort of like a "blaster combat" skill?

If you want some kind of realism, then it makes perfect sense to increase difficulty of ranged attacks at point blank, but not with a pistol: a pistol is in its element at point blank range.

[CRMcNeill]

Agreed on the Pistols. I went the other direction and not only kept the Difficulty for Pistols the same at Point Blank Range, I gave them an additional +1D to Blaster to better represent their utility in close.
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[Kytross]

I let players roll brawling parry or melee parry against ranged attacks at point blank range. The person with the ranged attack weapon at a -15 modifier to counter the parry and still make their shot.

I guess this is house rule, as it isn't written down in the books. However, there is good reason to not bring a distance weapon into melee range.

[Wajeb Deb Kaadeb]

You mentioned to me that you were going to play First Edition. My suggestion is to first play the game as written for a few sessions. Get a good feel for it.

Then, once you know and have played how it is written, decide upon any rule changes.

[Naaman]

[ebertran]

Static defenses is the best house rule I've ever done for d6.
Never, ever going back.

[garhkal]

So does that mean melee/brawl parry and dodge go by the wayside?
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[Raven Redstar]

For Static Defenses -

I like the idea of giving the character the option of using passive (static) or active defense.

Static defense from my understanding gives a defense rating of 3/1D + pips + range/cover/situational bonuses to set the difficulty to hit the character.

Active defense in my thoughts would be similar to a full action dodge from RAW - The character may take no actions other than movement.
- Roll Defensive skill + range/cover/situational bonuses.
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[ebertran]

Dodge determines the defense. 3 x Dodge + pips + cover modifier

The attcker’s roll vs Defense is modified by range.

Declaring a full dodge grants +10 to defense.

Soak works the same.

Soak = 3 x STR + Armor. No more rolls to see how you take damage.

One could make it 4 instead of 3. I rounded down from a d6 average, but I guess you could also round up.

[Argentsaber]

[Naaman]

Just curious: what is everyone's definition of "point blank" for purposes of this house rule?

[Alastor04]

Ok I played through a scenario with First Edition rules and second edition rules last night and maybe my houserules are not needed.

I did notice something and I am wondering if it was just the luck of the dice or something. Using first edition rules there were a lot of attacks and no hits. Am I doing something wrong? I'd roll for attack 5D vs stormtroopers at close range so (10+their dodge 3D)

[Kytross]

[Mamatried]