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I think that's a good guideline. Mechanically, rerolls don't help take tens or take 20's. Just more food for thought.

This is where I'm looking forward to the "acting character always does the rolling" aspect -- gone are the days when the NPC mage throws a fireball, and play stops till everybody reports in with a reflex save... Any one post is enough for the GM to check stats and report all successes or failures.

Even EU canon isn't firm on how many were produced, and a few of the known ones could be spun to have vague histories (though destruction is unlikely), more could be loosely interpreted as having vaguely outlined lives after they fall out of the EU's scope of interest (thought destroyed, but...

The 8600 isn't horrible. I run my 1920x1200 24" Dell on a GeForce 6800GT, and it's fine in older games (Half Life 2, etc) at full resolution so long as I don't get aggressive with my shadows settings. Newer stuff, I can back off to a more modest resolution like 1680x1050 and let the monitor...

As was cheerfully pointed out to me yesterday, carbines have been errata'd to 3d6.

Well, you have to remember, this isn't some Jedi who's concerned with moderation and subtlety. This is a dark side user who's been trained to be brutal, effective, and lethal with the Force. He's not concerned a whit with property damage, and he's not hindered by the faults of the other two dark...

Hence I'd say your proposal isn't strictly balanced. The rules as written set out an attribute-to-skill training balance of 2 attributes to one skill, by making skills from Int retroactive. Perhaps you could argue that increasing Int has other bonuses and thus your sacrificing one attribute for...

Which makes the retractable stock sidebar really confusing: That second bullet-point seems to imply you *can* brace if the retractable stock is extended. But no weapons with retractable stocks (blaster rifles, blaster carbines -- and some blaster pistols, though the blaster pistol entry...

1.) Plenty of options if your players decide they want to play smugglers: a) The Trade Federation has blockaded Naboo. A wealthy busnessman has managed to get in touch with contacts off-planet before the communications blackout went into effect. He will pay handsomely if the party can...

When you get to level 20 and run out of Force points -- you should consider yourself out of luck and due for retirement to a nice, non-stressful beach planet. Seriously. I mean, you're already among the half dozen most powerful beings in the universe, if you haven't amassed enough power to...

This is the only part that's throwing me. As you noted, I eventually came to all the other conclusions. I admit, I haven't gotten to my detail-reading of vehicular combat, but I do see that several vehicle weapons (starfighters, primarily) have autofire capability -- I see the bit about strafing...

So I was flipping through my new shiny Saga Edition, and I noticed something odd. Rapid shot requires a minimum strength? Sure enough, that's what it says on both the table and the feat entry itself. The minimum is pegged at 13, same as the dex minimum in standard d20. I shrugged and wrote this...

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Count me in again! Games, I'm not sure yet -- but I'm definitely going to want in on more of that O.R.C. and P.I.E. action! Perhaps this time, Crothian will be wise enough to not put me in a position to sing... :]

Hussar, I am intrigued by your ideas, and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Indeed. Actually, I take that back. Back in college, the game I played at the FLGS, run by one of the proprietors, had no such shop. Instead, he'd hand out most of the magic items (and certainly the best ones around in the game) via the powerful mage that we frequently did odd jobs for as quest...

/wave Also, another testimonial on Westford Hill -- it's kind of creepy to me to walk into a gaming store that spacious, open, and airy... I'm used to a little claustrophobic and preferably somewhat dim... ;) Too bad they, like all the dang gaming shops around, only devote in-store play-space...

As is mounted combat. And, if your DM is kind and house rules it, Improved Manyshot.

Ugh. Whenever I'm not working. Having a rotating shift stinks for regular events. I work half my weekends, and work the evening shift each day of the week over the course of a month. So no evening is available for weekly gaming. Fortunately, my buddies are tolerant enough to put up with it. If...

My experience has been that against big tough stuff, archery has a bit tougher time scaling damage output. It's got fewer tools available to it to overcome high DR, etc. However, in situations against groups of enemies, it cranks out damage with the best of them, and with the advent of some of...