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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8601900" data-attributes="member: 6704184">My last session was Star Wars Saga Edition, for the first time in a few years.&nbsp; &nbsp;It was frustrating. There is a lot to like in SWSE, and a lot of foreshadowing of stuff that now lives in 5e D&amp;D, but the system is just in such a frustrating manner.&nbsp; &nbsp;From things like skills being quantified down to how much it costs in bribes to verify rumors around town, to the accuracy math being designed to make everyone miss most of the time (meaning many turns get “wasted” on missed attacks), to a couple dozen other little things, it got to a point where my wife rolled a 15 on the die for a 21 to attack, missed, and said “I’m sorry what?” We were level 5, and while she is not optimized for attack, she also isn’t exactly outside what would be normal if we used pointbuy and she was a little more optimized. It was the last straw, after all of us running into the weird action economy limitations of the system, fiddly nature of skills (trying to get information from people with gather information) and force powers (lol sorry you wasted your use of that force power and your entire turn by rolling a 12), and the frustrations of the chargen process, my wife just gave up, and I wasn’t far behind.&nbsp; &nbsp;I miss Star Wars, but the things that annoyed me in the past are much more glaring now.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8601900, member: 6704184"] My last session was Star Wars Saga Edition, for the first time in a few years. It was frustrating. There is a lot to like in SWSE, and a lot of foreshadowing of stuff that now lives in 5e D&D, but the system is just in such a frustrating manner. From things like skills being quantified down to how much it costs in bribes to verify rumors around town, to the accuracy math being designed to make everyone miss most of the time (meaning many turns get “wasted” on missed attacks), to a couple dozen other little things, it got to a point where my wife rolled a 15 on the die for a 21 to attack, missed, and said “I’m sorry what?” We were level 5, and while she is not optimized for attack, she also isn’t exactly outside what would be normal if we used pointbuy and she was a little more optimized. It was the last straw, after all of us running into the weird action economy limitations of the system, fiddly nature of skills (trying to get information from people with gather information) and force powers (lol sorry you wasted your use of that force power and your entire turn by rolling a 12), and the frustrations of the chargen process, my wife just gave up, and I wasn’t far behind. I miss Star Wars, but the things that annoyed me in the past are much more glaring now. [/QUOTE]

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