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A number of companies have been emphasizing OGL on the cover of their products with their own logos/etc. Particularly Mongoose with its OGL line.

The idea that AE inspires less roleplaying is funny to me. I run it because its conducive to *more* roleplaying than D&D.

Vietnam Sci-Fi... Interesting thought- aliens are very much alien, and have a psionic/mind control aspect. So, you can destroy the villains without compunction, but can have the more painfully human problems when survivors go intermittently under mind-control.

Star Wars looks very much like it would work well with D20 Modern... which is what you described with generic classes and talents.

The hardest character to build in any fantasy system is the Mighty Spellcaster. Kudos to you for giving it a shot. At low level, the +1 to DC's is nice, but not as good as a lot of other spellcaster choices. Your spell selection does look a little wacky. At low level it is particularly...

And released in four parts to save binding costs...

The boards over there are only as fast as the population can manage. EN World has far more people. But if you start posting there, you will get responses! If you are looking for additional material, have you checked out www.diamondthrone.com? It has dozens of articles of advice for running...

What do you mean, last book? Has the publisher issued an ultimatum or something?

I was throwing off an explanation for it, as the original poster liked that interpretation. I rather preferred the idea that Palpatine was dumping Force Points (darkly spent, of course) into his Lightning in an effort to punch through Windoo's defense.

Hmm... both the Emperor's masking of disformity could be easily attributed to Illusion. And masking himself from Jedi is the obvious use of Force Stealth. So, take both of those up to really high levels... and he can go head to head with Yoda and win on a Take 10. What the Emperor...

Wow! All this time I thought you *had* to take Force-Sensitive at first level. But you do have to take it before picking up Force-User levels, which still leaves you a feat behind. There's a possible compromise here. If they don't take Force-Sensitive at first level, charge them three Force...

This is already RAW. It's really annoying, particularly if you don't start with a force-class for rp reasons. But it is exactly appropriate to the setting. The Skywalker ability allows them to cheat this rule, essentially letting them get Force-Sensitive from the first Force-User class they...

I haven't looked at that for a long time, but 20 for your home town sounds really high. Home metropolis maybe. The reputation rules in WoT was WotC's first go at it. There have been a number of refined variations of it, such as those appearing in Star Wars and Modern.

Well, I think the Power of the Jedi sourcebook has an animal-related force power. Also, I think this should be really simple. Just make Wild Empathy a skill that runs off of Vitality! Elemental Damage can just be Force Strike or Force Lightning with a different energy descriptor.

That seems needlessly complex. Vitality is only slightly less abstract than Hit Points. Its reasonable to handwave that such attacks that must do damage to hit manage to scrape the character for vitality damage, and as such the special mode works. Vitality can be a scrape, and that's all it...

What is the course of study for a Jedi the masters intend to train as a Knight? My instinct is to say that around 13, you are still being taught the moral value of restraint and how to handle lifting pears with maximum delicacy. You try to do much more than that, and your master slaps you...

To help you with a metric, I think the balance of SW would have been served by, say, almost halving the number of Force Skills and merging a few mundane ones. Frex, Handle Animal and Ride have no business being separate skills in Star Wars. Force Lightning could be fused with Drain Energy...

I don't know, I think the XPH has a massive, massive influence of Star Wars on it. Star Wars and comic books. You want a Jedi? Play a Soulknife, Psion, or Psychic Warrior (latter two you can get a Radiant weapon), take a few Psionic buff feats and thematize your powers, and you're there. I'm...

Your best option is to look at the existing Force Skills. Choose the closest one or two powers, and use them as a baseline for balance and mechanics. Remember that about one rank in a force skill is worth, say, 2-3 skill ranks in most mundane skills. Why is this important? Well, if you have...

How did the Original work? As someone who dabbled with the noble for flavor reasons the Revised form was virtually irrelevant to the character. He wasn't much for idle chit-chat, like providing encouragement to others while trying to keep his skin intact.