I'm making a Ballad game set in the Star Wars universe. Right now, I'm making the weapons. This basically means trawling Wookiepedia and assigning blasters to Ballad gun statlines. Does anyone have any suggestions on how these guns should be statted? Special Rules or Blaster specific considerations? I'm debating how to handle ammo, and whether to make it the same as Ballad or make it more like canon and have each gas pack hold a couple hundred shots. Races are also a question. I think most of the humanoid races (humans, Rodians, Duros) will basically be all the same stat and PCP wise, but I'm not sure how to do shit like Wookies or droids.
Once this is done, I will of course be sharing it here.
Song of Swords is a a tabletop RPG centered around realistic medieval fightan' with a ludicrous variety of weapons and fighting styles, centered around a dice pool system. It's currently in beta, and can be used for both fantasy and historical games.
Call of the Void: Ballad of the Laser Whales is a pulpy sci-fi tabletop RPG about fighting space-nazis and hunting giant whales with harpoons made out of the moon. Its combat system is more modern, based in the early 20th century, but can probably handle combat up to the present day.
MEGA folder containing current version of the game and all supplementary materials. At this time the latest version is v1.9.9: mega.nz/#F!S89jTT7J!ozFi9GvzaFGHfBa59Ik2-Q
>Ballad to Star Wars Holy shit, most of the material is already there. Void Magic=Force, Way of 5=Jedi fightan
This is genius, mcfucking do it m8
Sebastian Taylor
Wookies have a special racial variant of Big Guy and have access to the Wookie Armory for bowcasters and shit. They have + to physical stats. Throw in a line about how they don't need winter clothes to survive on Hoth or something. Boom, done.
Kevin Lee
While we're on the subject of content and homebrew, one of my players gave into his intense autism and made a table for determining how hard it is to hear a silenced gun. He managed to make it fairly usable too. If you're playing a stealth game it might be useful.
Eli Jackson
Reposting the LaTex pdf since it is overtly superior to the old one.
Hunter Adams
SMASH THE TEETH AND CUT THE EYES THE MEN OF RAHOO RULE THE SKIES
Camden Hughes
SoS damage isn't balanced against Ballad armor right?
Austin Jackson
Not yet, but I think Jimmy said it might be in the future.
Asher Lopez
I respect the autism, but holy shit mate.
Sebastian Davis
Wait, he forgot to factor subsonic loads. I retract the statement, no respect for this autism.
Wyatt Carter
Hey Jimmy, what's the deal with all the Way of Five traditions? Is there a difference between a templar and a paladin?
Caleb Carter
Templars are weird war cultists who hate modern warfare and civilian casualties because it ruins the aesthetic experience of war. So they drink tar to give them ways to beat industrialized warfare. Everyone agrees to basic rules of combat to prevent massive Templar coups.
I don't think Paladins exist in the Void.
Bentley Bell
Granted, its outdated stuff, but there it seems like there's more traditions than just pilgrims and templars.
Jace Bailey
Clerics may be completely blatant ripoffs of those guys from Equilibrium. The guns are already in the game.
Jordan Howard
>may There is no may when it comes to Jimmy ripping something off.
Henry Morales
Wooks are basically burdboo++
Jaxon Turner
I fucking love SoS for this reason. the list of shit that went into this game is so long and so bizarre that it defies description. >Okay so it's like Kingdom of Heaven... Plus Judge Dredd. And that's just the beginning.
Tyler Davis
Way of Five is absolutely intended to be gun kata.
Adam Gutierrez
They can't really dodge bullets, though. So the best they can get is extra strength and toughness beyond a human. Like six or maybe even seven.
Matthew Stewart
In FFG's Star Wars stuff droids start with 1 in everything but get a hamper pack of exp to specialise in whatever they like + bonus skills from whoever their 1st specialisation i.e. Whatever it was they were built to do.
You could create skill packages for Mechanic, Security, Protocol... droids.
/Swg/ have the files.
Jayden Ortiz
O'ER AZURE SKIES AND EMERALD PLAINS WHERE FREEDOM AND JUSTICE PREVAIL WITH COURAGE AND STRENGTH WE'LL FIGHT TO THE END FOR LIBERTY IN OUR LAND
Jacob Scott
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Ryan Parker
>Implying Erusea will ever rule this clay
Jose Barnes
Building a Droid would basically just be building a regular character with that system, since that's what you do in character creation. Probably the best way to start is with prosthetics and implants as the components of the droid. Make them cheaper and easier to apply in exchange for lower stats in general, maybe?
Eli Bell
According to the guy who wrote it, subsonic rounds are apparently intended to be represented by the cold loaded round RS modifier already in Ballad.
I have often struggled with finding good images of far east arms and armour, but years of diligent saving has given me a decent gallery. Want me to post?
Jonathan Bell
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Brandon Gonzalez
pretty fierce, bro.
Hudson Hernandez
Give it a whirl. We all need eastern arms and armor in our lives.
Brayden Morris
Ballad fighter rules when?
Ballad shio rules when?
Kickstarter when?
Henry Clark
Kickstarter this month.
Mason Ross
Unlikely
Isaiah Anderson
>believing the words of the Prince of Lies
See that mountain? You can Kickstart it.
Kevin Powell
Is it actually confirmed anywhere that Gizka is a dyke, or is that just an assumption based off of her haircut and the fact that she fights people?
Michael Peterson
Knowing Jimmy's love of plot twists, Gizka will turn out to be totally straight, marry a normal guy and have a bunch of babies after she gets over her "badass mercenary" phase.
Then some bandits will attack the town she's in, thinking that they'e tough shit, and she will emerge from her kitchen with a rolling pin and beat the entire gang to death with it.
Landon Hughes
YOU BRING A THOUSAND WE'LL BRING A MILLION
Brandon Ramirez
I love the idea of being an ultranationalist for a country that doesn't even exist. Dace has all the trappings of a real nation of self-important psychopaths, so you can basically roleplay as a fanatic Dacian despite there being no Dace.
Mason Murphy
>Dace >doesn't exist SAY THAT TO MY CLAY NOT ONLINE FUCKER, SEE WHO STABS YOU
Isaiah Campbell
So what's the deal with ogres?
Jackson Cook
They may or may not be no longer Canon.
Mason Gutierrez
Earth Gizka was prison gay despite being a practicing Muslim and was wanted for straight and gay prostitution. Also impersonating a pigeon. Tattered Realms Gizka isn't as explicit, but she has a bodyguard made entirely out of identical women.
Nathan Wright
I want this to be my next character.
Logan Richardson
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Gabriel Baker
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Kevin Gonzalez
what a cute ratnigger
Landon Morgan
>Earth Gizka Wait who is Gizka actually based on? All I bothered to learn was that she was a brown womanlet with mary sue swording skill
Oliver Morris
Gizka was originally a fecht character by John Galt, not a setting-lynchpin character by Jimmy Rome.
Justin Smith
She was an Anatolian Muslim during the Renaissance, at that.
Chase Reed
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Alexander Cooper
The historical-world Gizka was some sort of assassin living in 15th century Europe. She was a Muslim who had been through some shit.
Austin Flores
dont talk to me or my wife's vase ever again.
Andrew Williams
we need a FECHT version of this
Isaiah Myers
The original fechts are all canon still, just replaced with the TR versions of the real world names. She assassinated a Ruvian cardinal and got shot in a double cross, not a Roman cardinal.
Parker Stewart
>tired of your shit, knapsack
Justin Jones
So was her name Gizka? I tried looking it up and all I got was star wars pests and how to remove them in KotOR
James Morales
Sarah Gizka. Tasty brown girl-Hitler.
Mason Gutierrez
now all I get is Veeky Forums posts from 2011 and a deep feeling of sadness at how long we've gone and how far we've failed to come.
Camden Richardson
Hey y'all. I have been thinking about the comic and how it will proceed lately and would ask you to help me out with a poll strawpoll.me/12216957
Robert Young
>New story with new characters every chapter If you put that kind of option in, I can't but choose it.
Otherwise, continue current storyline.
Liam Miller
I had to use dumb man words because I couldnt remember the word "anthology".
Justin Barnes
Osprey is garbage.
Julian Cruz
I will cut you
Jordan Gonzalez
a slice of fancy cheese while we discuss taste and why you feel negatively about Osprey in a polite and respectful manner.
Hudson Fisher
I like Osprey, but a fair amount of their Asian stuff is pretty spurious.
The standard bearer's helmet dates to 1606 AD and "surcoat" forms of armor supplanted previous Song styles. Furthermore,the the Ming did not apply lacquer to their armors.
The handgunner's jacket is actually attested in several late Ming military manuals.
Henry Ramirez
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James Anderson
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Jayden Rodriguez
But wait, you say, that aint very historical! to you I say: .....ok......
Nicholas Jenkins
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Xavier Gray
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Joshua Reyes
funfact! japanese were the original towelheads!
Angel Cruz
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Nathaniel Roberts
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Jace Lewis
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Lucas Jenkins
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Carter Cooper
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John Walker
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Justin Allen
as you might have noticed, I mainly got chinese and japanese shit. would love more jungleasian stuff. Khmer, indonesia, siam, taiwan, you know?
Ryan Evans
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Cooper Jenkins
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Owen Phillips
cute girls doing cute things
Thomas Brooks
Do you think this setup could support a homebrew Space Western setting?
There's mecha and stuff in it, so kinda hard just to adapt star wars alone. Also I don't like omni powerful laser swords 1-shotting everything.
Jackson Turner
I mean, yeah it definitely could. The question is if the level of hard realism and the amount of work you'll do getting what you want out of it is what you want.
Josiah Collins
is that a gunpowder and spear bomb-hawk?
Ryder Torres
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James Torres
China did lots of cool shit.
I've had it in my mind that if I ever ran a Japan-focused game in SoS, the prelude is basically gonna be the 1598 Battle of Sacheon.
Liam Wood
that sounds pretty cool
Carson Price
Would blind toss move range or not?
Ian Sanders
No, I don't think so.
Michael Wood
There are two ways to look at it. The first is Blind Toss is performed at the current range of combat. If it hits it will set the range to what the current range of combat was at declaration. The other way to look at it is to say Blind Toss is a unique attack - unlike any other in the system - which is performed without a reach and so does not alter range at all. I think the first interpretation is correct. The example is of no use since it doesn't mention range.
Ian Bailey
They have layers.
Daniel Long
It wouldn't really make sense to change range. What are you going to do, throw fairy dust and teleport away?
Ian Johnson
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Angel Gray
That same complaint applies to any instance of changing range. The only instance in which this would change range is if you declare a Blind Toss but they land an attack before you that is of a different range than the current range.
