BarkingDeathSquirrel
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Dragonblade said:In SW Saga, the fact that Jedi cannot refresh their powers at all in-battle unless they take a talent really bugs me. The talent is not even that powerful, you can spend a full round action doing nothing and refresh one power. Personally, I think a refresh mechanic that weak should just be the default for all Jedi.
It drives me nuts. "Sorry, my character can't use the force anymore in this fight." It feels completely artificial and ruins my suspension of disbelief. Its like Vancian casting all over again.
A couple things:
1. If I remember correctly, you can use an Acti... er, I mean... "Force" Point to refresh a power as a Swift Action (or reaction, can't remember) and there is also a technique that can be used to regain Force Points used during an encounter in one of the Jedi Prestige Classes. This talent can also be taken multiple times, recovering more spent Force Points.
2. If you roll a natural 20 on any Use the Force Check, you regain ALL your expended powers at the end of your turn.
3. The Alter Talent Tree has a talent that lets you recover one Telekinetic power (Force Slam, et al) as a swift action once per encounter, without using a Force Point. And it can be taken multiple times.
4. The one feat that gives you more Force Powers scales with your Wisdom mod. Get more Wisdom, get more powers, quite a bit more if you pick up the feat a few times. You can also take a particular power multiple times to use it more than once per encounter without expending it.
I do agree that particular Talent your mentioned is incredibly worthless, but with the above options and sensible power choice and use, I really don't see how a Jedi could ever actually run out of powers entirely, particularly at the later levels.
And one last point, although this doesn't really have anything to do with 4e or the mechanics of Saga Edition... though, how often did the Jedi in the movies ever actually use Force Powers in a single encounter?
Now, if there is going to be ANY sort of Recovery method in 4e, I'm thinking it will be tied to Action Points or otherwise similar to the above options.
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