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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9363933" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 98/157: May 2003part 6/8i, Jensaarai: They’ve finally managed to get some Star Wars material through approvals. We’re off to Suarbi 7/5 to stat out one of the alternate jedi orders from the novels. The Jensaarai reject the rigid binary of light and dark side and use powers from both. Reaching this balance wasn’t easy though, plus they had to deal with extermination attempts by both the old jedi order and Palpatine’s regime. This kept them in hiding until Luke Skywalker’s heroics finally convinced them to engage with the wider universe and send a delegation to his new academy. Unsurprisingly, their unique mix of powers is represented by a new prestige class, the Jensaari Defender. They can block force sensing, scramble electronic surveillance devices, launch telekinetic projectiles plus plenty of things from the corebook selection of powers and bonus feats. On top of that they can create special armor that shorts out lightsabers that hit it, forcing the opponent to waste actions turning it off and on again every single time. Definitely the kind of cheesy and irritating thing that a novel writer would come up with when trying to one-up previous stories without consideration of how that would affect game balance. A decent enough conversion of the source material, but also a reminder that the source material was very inconsistent in quality and increasingly convoluted & ridiculous as time went on. It doesn’t give me any desire to play in that universe. Starships of the Galaxy: A little more Star Wars material before they move onto other topics. The Wayfarer class medium transport may not have a particularly cool name, but is easy to customise, with a detachable section that you can swap for different modules. Unfortunately, the company that created it went out of business and some of those modules can be pretty hard to find. That sounds like an adventure hook to me! So this is much shorter and more low key than the previous article, but also one I’m more likely to find useful, focussing on the day to day space trading rather than the increasingly cheesy secret orders of space wizards that managed to survive the so-called purge in such great numbers that their absence in the movies loses credibility.</blockquote>

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