Danger Sense - Force Power

[worfbacca]

Does the text of this power mean that the Jedi will know exactly who is planning to attack him or her - or does it just mean they know there is danger and can't be suprised?
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[garhkal]

Based on the text and the many threads we've had On danger sense, it tells you "you are getting shot at", or "there's gonna be a trap under your feet"..
BUT based on the many threads we've had about making it BETTER, some HR it, that the higher you roll (or should we say the DM does, since DS is supposed to be a roll you don't know if it worked or not iirc), the better info you get.

Such as, a imp scout team is around the corner, split into 3 pairings. One is planning to toss grenades once they detect the rebels coming in, one is ready to snipe, and the 3rd is planning to activate a floor mounted repulsor trap.

BTB, if a jedi has DS ACTIVE, and the DM rolls successfully, the round BEFORE the imp scout team, gets to do anything, his DS will 'ping', alerting him that he will have danger next round, and will need to make 2 dodge rolls.

Where as if we say had that above mentioned HR..
DS roll equals or beats diff by 4 or less. He get's warning danger will hit next round.
DS beats by 5 to 9, he get's that there is going to be 3 separate sources of danger.
DS beats by 10 to 15, he understands 2 are active attacks, one's a Passive trap.
Ds beats by 16 or more, he understands 2 pairs of troopers are going to shoot at him/toss grenades...

And so on..
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[pakman]

What garhkal said....and...

Think of it as "I am in danger", like quigon and obiwan in EP1 when they are in the waiting room on the trade federation ship, and suddenly stand up and ignite their lightsabers.

The attack that came - was poison gas - clearly not something a lightsaber works against....but they did not know what exactly the danger was - only that a threat was coming....

Now, obviously, the creators of our beloved and much house ruled 30 year old game did not have that scene - but I think it matches what is implied in the rules perfectly - at least from a certain point of view....
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[Mamatried]

I always understood this in a very similar way as what Gharkal says here.

[CRMcNeill]

A couple more points…

The second assassination attempt in AotC (in Amidala’s apartment) indicates that Danger Sense can be used on others, both in proximity and relationship.

The Order 66 scenes in RotS suggest that the Difficulty of Danger Sense increases if the Jedi is in a complicated threat environment, with multiple simultaneous attacks coming from different directions. Add to that the sheer shock of threats from a previously trusted source, and the failure of Danger Sense by almost every Jedi makes more sense (notice it still appeared to work for Yoda on Kashyyyk, even in the midst of a battle, as well as feeling the deaths of dozens or even hundreds of other Jedi across the galaxy).
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[garhkal]

Perhaps Yoda felt OTHER jedi masters dying, that's why His danger sense activated?
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[Mamatried]

I always understood Danger sense to be sensing, not identifying the scourse, of near and immiafte danger.

I am a jedi and I am sneaking throygh caves the dark path to the right doe snot feel right, as I pass it I feel this chill that I know being an ondicator of danger and making me keep my ready.

Now as to being on the attlefied and dangersens not really working, I can easily see this as basically overloading with dangers.

You are in the mods of danger in the battlefied, any danger sense roll is not needed, if you need that rool the jedi is not capable of understand that battlefied is danger.....jedi is lost,

now in those instance maybe combat sense or maybe some tweaks to the danger sense power would work. but to me is a directional and triggered "6th sense" not ust one laying dormant

[CRMcNeill]

Then you understood wrong, because the definition of the power Danger Sense states that the power user is aware of attacks before they happen. At best, what you’re describing would be a GM narrative for a PC who just barely failed the roll to bring the power up.
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[CRMcNeill]

[pakman]

We can't read too much into mapping powers to events in the movies - creative interpretation and all that - at least I don't (this way leads madness...).

The force powers in d6 are a bit...meandering, and as mentioned don't always match later content either...

For many of these instances I turned to house rules - as honestly, it felt easier than the mental gymnastics of trying to match on screen with rules....
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[CRMcNeill]

But rewriting the Force Powers to match what is seen in subsequent films is a House Rule…
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[pakman]

[KageRyu]

I don't think it's beyond reasonable Yoda may have been keeping danger sense up during the battle. There is a scene where he just narrowly jumped away from a blaster impact in that same battle. If you take this in consideration and couple a sudden sense of danger following that feeling of overwhelming loss of so many Jedi it is not unreasonable for him to have realized what was about to happen.

Those are my thoughts.
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[Mamatried]