Non force user blocking blaster bolts with blade

[Mamatried]

I was imagining a "Samurai" type of character with training giving heightened enough sense for the "Samurai" to actually block blaster shots, though to a far lesser degree than force users, and he can redirect them back at the shooter.

I was alo then imaginig some special metal in the blades used, allowing to withstand blasters, maybe even have a very limited ability to block lightsbaers,
something like a Beskar blade or something similar.

any thohoughts on a non force sensitive, "samurai" type of highly trained and dicilpined warrior who can with a blade or maybe some other melee weapons, actually blaock blaster shots?

[Bren]

That ability seems like something that in the Star Wars setting should only be done using the Force. After all it is the essential Jedi trait. The first thing we see Luke do with a lightsaber (aside from waving it around in Obi Wan's hut).

But if you wanted a non-Force method I'd go with one of these approaches.

1. Allow anyone with a sufficiently high skill to attempt the technique, but at an extreme difficulty. Heroic sounds about right. And failure to make the heroic roll means you can't dodge. Failing to make a Heroic roll by 20 or more points means the shot automatically hits you for +1D damage since you stepped right in the path of the shot when trying to block it.

2. Create a new Advanced skill. The earthly samurai equivalent technique would be Arrow Cutting.* I'd probably use the same name for my Star Wars not-samurai Advanced Skill since the technique seems like something that would date back to the time before blasters in whatever culture this technique is from. I'd probably make this a skill of some alien species that isn't ever Force sensitive. I'd also put a very high minimum skill level with sword or melee parry to be able to learn (A) Arrow Cutting. 10D sounds like the right requirement.

[Mamatried]

I was thinking something in the lines of the D20 Monk ability "Deflect Arrows"
Basically using the sword or staff (weapon)

An advanced skill seems maybe the way to go, maybe make it very spesific to a group/species/culture

[MrNexx]

[garhkal]

For me, i say no, it can't be done without the force..
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[ZepDek]

I always viewed that it could be done, the force just makes it far far easier. After all we got people dodging blaster shots, if someone was crazy enough to pick up a lightsaber and try and parry a shot without the force I'd let them. But I'd say it'd be hard as hell. Maybe like Bren suggested a heroic difficulty. Not sure they'd be able to parry it back but frantic waving yea, I could see it.

[Naaman]

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[CRMcNeill]

I'd say a sufficiently advanced non-FS martial artist should be able to deflect/catch muscle-driven weapons (knives, spears, etc), with simple leverage weapons (arrows, slings, etc), being much more difficult, but within the realm of possibility for the upper levels of "normal" human capability. Firearms and more advanced weaponry, however, should be limited solely to those who can use the Force.
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[Mamatried]

[Darklighter79]

In movies that speed changes from scene to scene and it's not coherent whether in character or starship scale combat (TLJ took it to a new level).

Let's keep it simple: 3 meters, 150 km or 75 space units. Bolt still hits in the same round.
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[Mamatried]

[Naaman]

I have argued many times that "dodge" is not a measure of how fast you move out of the path of a flying blaster bolt, but rather it is your ability to make yourself difficult to acquire as a target in the first place.

FWIW, dodge works against firearms/slugthrowers per RAW.

[CRMcNeill]

[garhkal]