I know Shipfag's rules are popular, but what do people think of the Snap Roll houserule to make fighter combat less fragile without sweeping rules changes?
It's just a single out of turn incidental action, here's the rules.
>SNAP ROLL - Out-Of-Turn Incidental >Pilot Only: Yes >Silhouette: 1-4 >Speed: 2+ >Quick reflexes and fly-by-wire systems are not only important in maneuvering a ship into a superior attack position, but are also helpful to quickly respond to enemy fire blasting away a ship's shields and hull. Snap Roll allows pilots to utilize the maneuverability of their ship and their own exceptional skill to suddenly react to incoming fire. The pilot quickly rolls, dives, or climbs to avoid part of the incoming attack as soon as his shields and armor start getting hit by a volley of blaster bolts, or he times his maneuver so only part of a missile's detonation affects his ship. >When his ship is successfully hit by a Gunnery combat check, the pilot can elect to take a Snap Roll Incidental action and reduce the damage of the attack by the sum of their ship's Handling plus the pilot's Ranks in Piloting (Planetary or Space, whichever is applicable to the vehicle he's controlling). This sudden dodge puts the ship, and the pilot, under extreme stress and g-forces; when this incidental action is taken the ship suffers 3 System Strain (bypassing Armor) as the high-G maneuver taxes on-board systems and support surfaces. Additionally, the pilot suffers 3 Strain (bypassing Soak) as those same G-forces pull, crush, and exhaust him. >If a person is wearing a flight suit that reduces the amount of Strain incurred from Critical Hits to the ship, they reduce the Strain they take from a Snap Roll action to 1. Droids are immune to the personal Strain damage as long as they are at a station, locked in a droid socket, or have some other means to prevent them from being bounced around the ship's interior.
Elijah Thomas
Everywhere.
Dominic Martin
I legit love this design. It's going to be my go-to Mandalorian image from now on.
Jeremiah Lewis
That's one I haven't heard in a long time...
Lincoln Hall
Just barely beating out this one
Eli Lopez
Spurred on by that other user, I did a lot of work adding the new ships and pilots the 1d4chan X-wing page didn't have, and fixing obviously outdated information I caught. Complete with images too. Anybody who cares about it feel free to double check it.
I'm also thinking about maybe adding a section between the ships and the tactics to talk about upgrades, because I've realized that the article really doesn't explain the significance of upgrades, explain the symbols or any of that - and upgrade selection is pretty key to the game right now, once you pick the right ship or pilot (for you) and learn how to fucking fly that ship.
Nolan Sanders
>little mermaid man'do
Jeremiah Baker
I feel the same way.
Kayden Watson
Are we doing sexy genderbent boba fett now?
Carson Robinson
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James Peterson
So just out of curiosity, does anyone have good Star Wars images that can be used as bookmarks? Certain series of works I read, I like to have bookmarks to match them (for example, a black paper feather that reads "dark wings, dark words" for a song of ice and fire)
I've got Catalyst and Rogue One, but don't want to start them until I have a relevant bookmark. Ridiculous, I know
Tyler Hughes
If only Captain Phasma looked like this
Adrian Hernandez
Just edited an image for you, user.
Christian Lopez
Those proportions are nightmarish.
Gabriel Price
Nah, user, this is the look Captain Phasma should be pursuing.
Hunter Russell
Gwendoline Christie's hair is still pretty short.
David Gray
I wasn't talking about the proportions. Gwendoline Christie is built way differently. I just meant the general design.
If she took her helmet off, this is what we'd see anyway. See:
Jordan Rivera
Shit, I'd take a thicc Manda over Cpt. Snoregasma.
Charles Barnes
Hello darkness my old friend
Levi Richardson
/swg/ what the fuck is up with pic related?
Droids made to emulate the Emperor, going around with his secret messages to people? What the fuck?
Robert Garcia
Sometimes, e-mail and holocomms aren't theatrical enough.
If there are any images of Luke and Mara being lovey-dovey in front of the NJO, someone needs to do a "Rosh, get the hose" edit.
Lucas King
Yeah, it's fuckin' weird. I understand the purpose of couriers, if you can't trust end-to-end encryption to get a confidential message someplace without a man-in-the-middle or something. That's not the issue.
The issue is that (a) it's a droid, which the Empire has traditionally left underutilized, (b) it's a droid, which Palpatine himself has found distasteful, (c) it's a droid with a dome face thing where the Emperor's face could appear, rather than just using a hologram, which would be reasonable and like... anything we've seen before, (d) the design looks stupid, (e) they missed an opportunity to reference the mechno-chair from The Phantom Menace. Y'know, 'cause we've already had a walking holoprojector in canon.
Ryan Rivera
Bless you, you wonderful being
Lucas Morris
Imagine if that's the Emperor's take on the Decraniated with a political dissident instead.
Ryan Russell
>Anything that ends with "Explained" Absolutely Haram.
Leo Scott
You know, i can't find any holes in your argument.
Joshua Hill
>Any lightsaber combat explanation that uses any words other than "Akira," "Kurosawa," "Toshiro," or "Mifune" Also absolutely haram.
Ethan Torres
>it's a droid, which the Empire has traditionally left underutilized
We see plenty of Imperial droids all over the place in Legends and nu-canon material. Where do you get the idea that they're underutilized?
>it's a droid, which Palpatine himself has found distasteful,
Gonna need a source on this. I've never heard anything like this, Legends or canon.
>it's a droid with a dome face thing where the Emperor's face could appear, rather than just using a hologram, which would be reasonable and like... anything we've seen before,
Reasonable? The Emperor? This is a man who cooked up a plan to fight a galactic-scale war against himself just to consolidate his power. This is a man who cackles while he shoots people with lightning from his hands. This is a man who has contingency plans to burn HIS HOME PLANET among others to ash when he dies, just because he can.
What part of ANY of that makes you think he'd do anything remotely reasonable?
>the design looks stupid
Opinion. Looks fine to me.
>they missed an opportunity to reference the mechno-chair from The Phantom Menace. Y'know, 'cause we've already had a walking holoprojector in canon.
The mechno-chair actually showed up again in TCW.
Bentley Murphy
I think in that case, I'd rather have had them walking around with no head-dome-thing at all, and just a holoprojector at the shoulders. Or even better, a holoprojector at the waist.
And then a hologram of Palpatine can fill in the rest of the "body" of the de-torso-inated or whatever.
Or even better, just have spider droid legs holding a holoprojector.
Austin Rivera
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Jacob Roberts
Ah yes, ifunny.co. Real credible source, that one.
Wyatt Edwards
Anyway, this is clearly the right way to do it.
Lucas Gonzalez
I would contend that "Jidaigeki" is also acceptable
Ryder Rogers
Rey/Norra has been my favorite X-Wing list since HotR came out, but I have some questions about my Rey build: 1. Should I change her EPT from VI to Determination now that Kylo is in the game? 2. If she's not at PS10, is it still worth giving her Smuggling Comppartment/Inertial Dampeners?
Sebastian White
After months of protests from some backwater planet, a very prominent voice and face of defiance of the corruption of the Empire disappears. They themselves were the hope for the disenfranchised, and now without them, any sense of rebellion is snuffed out. What few embers remain are no threat, as they don't carry the same flaming passion and are suffocating from the pressure.
Meanwhile that powerful political voice is cut out, along with their personality and individuality as they are repurposed into the Emperor's own slave, a droid with a mortal life. A shell. A warning.
Jeremiah Bennett
Think of the implication though
>I can strip you of your very being if you ever speak out against me, turn you into a mechanized slave, and replace your voice with my own in a pants-shittingly terrifying way
Aaron Gonzalez
You're missing >"Chanbara" But otherwise I agree
John Garcia
>Where do you get the idea that they're underutilized?
We see combat droids in the prequels, then zero in the OT era until K-2SO. We see the Empire with droids, but briefly. Usually in passing, in hallways. They're not combat models, just scouts or interrogation probes. The Rebels, however, USE droids - to fly, but also for everything R2 and C-3PO do. They're not combat droids either. The various scum factions definitely use droids though - Jabba has plenty, while we've got two assassin droids hanging out in ESB.
It might not just be the Empire, but it seems the whole setting underutilizes droids when compared to how they're used in the prequels.
>Gonna need a source on this.
I could have sworn Palpatine expressed something like "just a droid!" about R2, maybe in RotS? But I'm not sure.
>What part of ANY of that makes you think he'd do anything remotely reasonable?
Because he's not jump-the-shark-retarded most the time.
>Opinion. Looks fine to me.
Opinion. Looks like ass.
>The mechno-chair actually showed up again in TCW.
Right, so it's definitely in canon as an option, which they neglected to come up with this shitty thing.
Nathan Young
Do you think there'd be any way to leave the consciousness of the person so that they know what is going on with their body and everything they do, while being utterly helpless to stop any of it?
Benjamin Lee
>We see combat droids in the prequels, then zero in the OT era until K-2SO. They use combat (well, "security") droids in Rebels.
Carson Rogers
>then zero in the OT era Probably because large numbers of convincing, non-shit combat droid costumes/props would have been a hassle. I can see droid costumes also being horrendously uncomfortable while filming in, say, Tunisia.
Also, Dark Troopers are still canon.
Zachary Hernandez
So my plan is for my players to finish Long arm of the Hunt and eventually go into Hutt Space and work for a low ranking Hutt to help him climb the social ladder. I'm slightly stumped for quests, any ideas?
Blake Wood
>I could have sworn Palpatine expressed something like "just a droid!" about R2, maybe in RotS? But I'm not sure. You're definitely misremembering. Palpatine doesn't really have any interactions with the droids at all in the movies - the scene in the picture above from the crash of the Invisible Hand is quite literally the only one where he's with R2, and one of only a handful of scenes where he's got a droid in the room with him that isn't a camera drone - basically that, the meeting with the Jedi leaders at the beginning of AotC, and the end of RotS in the medical center are the only three scenes I can think of with him and a droid on-screen together - and he definitely never expresses displeasure at the use of droids.
You might be thinking of a scene from an episode of TCW where they try to get Anakin to leave either R2 or 3PO to be destroyed, and he adamantly refuses (obviously).
>Right, so it's definitely in canon as an option, which they neglected to come up with this shitty thing.
It could be that he's not using it because it's a non-human design. Remember that he lead the Republic/Empire to war against those dirty bastards.
Read the nu-canon Lando comic.
Robert Martinez
Debts to Pay from the GM Guide is good.
Nathaniel Sanders
Cheers, this is very similar to what I was hoping to do. I might tie it in with a Rancor Hutt and the Grand Dinner
Adam Harris
Well what about the point actually raised; the canonization of lightsaber blades having mass, or at least an approximation of mass, and the "saber blades in contact kinda stick together a bit" thing also being canon now too?
Michael Powell
>the Grand Dinner I ran this encounter with my group, it was great. The bit with the cocktails is especially fun.
Matthew Rogers
Debts to Pay (GM), Trouble brewing (Core) and Crates of Kraits (Beta) can all be edited and chained together for one arc working for an up and coming hutt
Hunter Jones
I've got 2 generic "filler" adventures that could be adapted. coinsandscrolls [dot] blogspot.ca/2017/02/star-wars-adventure-seeds.html
The Hutt could be annoyed at the "School" muscling in on his turf, or attracting unwanted Imperial attention. Gurzo could be a rival Hutt.
Isaac Jones
Thanks to everyone for the advice
Gabriel Johnson
Happy to help.
Colton Price
Yeah, similar to Lobot, but with maintaining the look of the decraniated
Andrew Lopez
Ship to ship melee combat when?
Jose Smith
Does anyone have dark obsession and predator and prey mission rules for vader and boba fett in imperial assault?
Title - Light Spacetrooper Armor, 2p, You gain the Boost action You can not equip this card if your Pilot Skill value is "3" or lower
Prototype Zero-G Assault Stormtrooper PS1, 10p Death Squadron PS3, 12p "Nartissteu Raid Leader" PS4, 14p, Elite, When you are destroyed one enemy ship at Range 1 suffers 1 damage face up "Rom Mohc" PS6, 15p, Elite, After executing a maneuver, one enemy ship that you are touching suffers 1 damage face up
Dial would be similar to the TIE Striker butt replace the S-Loops with a white 0 and red 1 K-Turn
Robert Moore
NAR SHADAA BEST ECUMOPOLIS! CORUSCANT WORST ECUMOPOLIS!
Benjamin Johnson
Is it only starfighter combat that is super lethal or is light freighter vs light freighter also really dangerous?
Asher Kelly
How should I start my Edge of the Empire campaign?
Levi Clark
Well, that depends entirely on what your players are playing.
Are they all bounty hunters? Smugglers of different types? A mix?
Jose Jones
Could you give more details on the campaign and players? What kind of EotE campaign would you like to run? And have you already played with the Beginner Box adventure?
Owen Cruz
They're pretty much your typical spacer scum. Bounty hunters, smugglers, mercs, etc. Currently unaffiliated with each other, so something which ties them together and gives them good reason to stick together would be great. We haven't run anything yet.
There is a slight twist to the party makeup though; one of them is a Rebel agent, essentially doing undercover talent scouting and trying to win over capable underworld elements to the Rebellion's cause.
Luis Torres
Oh, and timeline wise it's set about ten months after the Battle of Yavin.
Mason Sanchez
Well I mean in EotE, unaffiliated scum are pretty easy to affiliate - they're all contacted for their various skills to undergo some basic bitch job. And then at the end of it, they're betrayed, and adversity brings them together.
It's not exactly original, but it works.
Isaac Kelly
I love this little guy.
Ian Williams
So one of your players is Cassian Andor?
Logan Roberts
Am I the only one who doesn't like the magnetic droid bodies?
Brody King
It is a pretty major break from traditional Star Wars designs, can't really blame you.
Jack Phillips
Yeah I cant really see what would be the advantage of it. Seems pretty easy to damage, in comparison to old astromechs.
Gavin Roberts
It looks like a droid assembled from junk
Josiah King
>tfw players are reverse murderhobos and do everything to avoid conflict >this also means they won't do anything with as much as a sliver of a risk
Ryder Martinez
Throw them in jail
Justin Cruz
Make the risk come to them, user. Do any of them have backstory or obligations that might warrant being hunted?
James Rodriguez
She wished for legs because nobody was making armor that fit a fish tail.
Xavier Richardson
Get the fuck out of the Coriolis thread!
Noah Martin
Yes and the market they're shopping at is going to get carpet bombed by the bounty hunter they pissed off last session, with a Despair and everything, now hired by the guy from Imperial Customs that has a vendetta with one of the characters, at the start of the next session
Thomas Rivera
How rare is a rarity ten object?
like spend half the campaign looking for it rare?
Adrian Long
Anyone missing Boba Fett in the new canon? He hasn't been in anything aside from a lame appearance in the Star Wars and Darth Vader comics that was severely underwhelming and failed to explain some things about Fett and Vader's relationship like Kieran Gillen promised (the "no disintegrations" line, etc.). Slightly off topic but I feel that the Vader comic really went downhill after those spectacular first two issues.
I'm definitely a fan of Boba Fett (to be specific, his original, Man-With-No-Name-esque persona in TESB, complete with Wingreen's voice). That isn't to say that I like how much of a Mary Sue he turned into back in the EU, but I still want him to be cool. I think he's a character with a lot of potential to be awesome, and I would really love to see him done well. Unfortunately, he hasn't been done that well since his appearance in TESB, with a couple exceptions.
Dominic Powell
I thought boba fett was good in the han solo heist book, it made him properly competent and cunning.
IMO, Boba needs a guy ritchie style story or at least fill the vinnie jones role in such a story.
Joshua Martin
I would pay to see a Boba Fett movie done in the style of Snatch or Real Rockin Rolla.
Ethan Thomas
Light freighter staffed by a party is fine, it was (kinda) balanced around this
Julian Robinson
There was supposed to be a Boba Fett movie, but latest word is that it's on hiatus. The original director is no longer part of the project and they're still looking for a new one.
Luke Ortiz
Dammit I DLed it to my phone and now I can't fucking find it in my DL history.
Nolan James
Probably won't happen since Disney hates legacy characters for some reason. Boba isn't even a mandalorian anymore. It isn't just Boba they have been shitting on either. Look at Wedge, Lando and Thrawn. Kyle Katarn doesn't even fucking exist anymore. It's quite the shame.
Luis Diaz
>Lando To be fair, Billy Dee Williams' health issues make using the character a bit harder. Also, wasn't the Lando comic actually really well-received?
Colton Collins
The comic was good and no I wasn't talking about him not being in tfa. Its how he is portrayed after rotj in nucanon. The fact he went back to cloud city forgot about Han and leia having a kid shit like that.
Logan Ross
Going to add bookmarks, OCR, and reduce the size of No Disintegrations for the folders. You guys get to pick, crop pages with the thumb or leave it in:
Title: Heavy Munitions - 0 pts When you equip this card, place one of your equipped [Missile] upgrade cards on this card. Game effects can never cause you to discard the equipped card.
Cost: 18 pts for generic PS2 pilot, 22 pts for PS7 Maarek Stele with his usual ability.
Included card
Seeker Missiles - 1 pt Attack: Perform this attack at one target inside your firing arc. Range: 1-3 Immediately after rolling your attack dice, change all your [crit] results to [hit]. After performing this attack, discard this card.
Seeker missiles are needed as an option, because otherwise a stress hog could keep the missile boat from ever getting a focus token or target lock and render it completely unable to fire.
