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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 8432972" data-attributes="member: 907">Eh, I like the system's general crunchiness level. I do have one major quibble with the system and a few minor ones. Among the minor ones is having fixed-ish weapon damage, which means you never get a glancing blow with a blaster. You either miss, or hit for a pretty big amount.The major problem I have is that the vehicle rules are, um, bad. And in a Star Wars game, that's a pretty big problem. Most of that probably stems from the decision to have all vehicles fit into a 2-10 size scale where 2 is a speeder bike and 10 is the Death Star (1 is regular humanoids). This means that the lower end of the scale, which is where PC-relevant things usually happen, things get really crowded and there's not really enough differentiation (speeders at silhouette 2, fighters at 3, walkers and light transports like the Millenium Falcon at 4). Among other things, it means that all small-ship weaponry (except missiles) are limited to Close range, which is the equivalent of melee for vehicles. Another thing is that chases really don't work with the regular combat system, although there's a sidebar about how to tweak it to work for chases.&nbsp; Also, shields don't work the way you'd expect shields to work (they reduce the chance of getting hit instead of taking the damage that would otherwise harm the hull).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 8432972, member: 907"] Eh, I like the system's general crunchiness level. I do have one major quibble with the system and a few minor ones. Among the minor ones is having fixed-ish weapon damage, which means you never get a glancing blow with a blaster. You either miss, or hit for a pretty big amount. The major problem I have is that the vehicle rules are, um, bad. And in a Star Wars game, that's a pretty big problem. Most of that probably stems from the decision to have all vehicles fit into a 2-10 size scale where 2 is a speeder bike and 10 is the Death Star (1 is regular humanoids). This means that the lower end of the scale, which is where PC-relevant things usually happen, things get really crowded and there's not really enough differentiation (speeders at silhouette 2, fighters at 3, walkers and light transports like the Millenium Falcon at 4). Among other things, it means that all small-ship weaponry (except missiles) are limited to Close range, which is the equivalent of melee for vehicles. Another thing is that chases really don't work with the regular combat system, although there's a sidebar about how to tweak it to work for chases. Also, shields don't work the way you'd expect shields to work (they reduce the chance of getting hit instead of taking the damage that would otherwise harm the hull). [/QUOTE]

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