The Akwin - A Min-Maxer's delight

[Kytross]

So i recently picked up a ton of old WEG books from a used bookstore, and I'm reading through the Twin Sons of Kiva for the first time. Interesting read. More of a collection of adventure ideas then a standard supplement like the Cracken's books or Galladinium's or Pirates & Privateers. Though I get why it's classified as a supplement rather than an adventure module as it provides a setting for a series of adventures for your players rather than a single adventure module.

Anyway, the book spends time describing the Lazeria system. Lazer-ia. Get it? Lazer! It's like Laser, but intentionally misspelled! Anyway, there is a species native to the planet that lives underwater that the human civilization on the surface know nothing about. These are the Akwin.

Now, I'm not saying that the flannelled one used this as inspiration for the Gungans, he may not have even known about this supplement for the roleplaying game that was published in 1993, six years before the release of the Phantom Menace. I hadn't read it between 1993 and 2024, but then, I didn't have access. Anyway, the similarities are striking. My first thought was the author was ripping off Naboo, then I did a little math and realized if anyone was ripping off anyone else, it was the other way around. Not really the point of this post, just something worth mentioning.

The Akwin have a RIDICULOUS stat block. And I'm saying that as the biggest advocate of min-maxing on these boards. It's crazy. Their maximum attributes are some of the highest for all species. And I thought the Bith were bad. The only thing keeping them relatively balanced is they start with 12D attributes, which is the galactic average. But then, balance is not the word I would use for alien stat blocks in WEG Star Wars. Also, they need a 2D minimum in each attribute, so they can't actually max out two of these attributes.

Without further adieu

Akwin

Dexterity 2D/6D
Knowledge 2D/4D
Mechanical 2D/3D
Perception 2D/5D
Strength 2D/7D
Technical 2D/3D

Okay, so knowledge, mechanical, and technical are pretty normal, but 6D dex, 5D perception, & 7D strength? And I thought the Esoomians were bad. Well, to be fair, the Esoomians are bad, but the highest dex and highest strength caps in the game in one species? That's nuts.

The rancorpit alien collection changes these stats by assigning them to different attributes in what I assume is a typo. The same typo is found in the D6Holocron Wiki.

Imagine a toon that managed to max out all these stats? Crazy.

[FVBonura]

[Kytross]

I do like interviews.

[Whill]