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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 5206964" data-attributes="member: 54629">Oh sure. It just seemed to me like you were complaining that it was a weakness of the game that it couldn't replicate certain scenes from the Star Wars milieu. EDIT: Sorry, I got mixed up there. For some reason I thought you'd made the comments about specific scenes, but it was actually pawsplay. My bad.In the case of Block and Deflect, you would still use the regular, higher skill modifier because they aren't targeting a defense score. You would only use the UtF skill attack modifier with Force powers and talents that specifically target an opponent's defense score (so mind trick, move object, Vanish, etc).I agree. When I started planning for my first SWSE game as GM, I looked at all the various options for "fixing" the skills vs defenses problem. Some were pretty simple, like limiting Skill Focus to a scaling bonus or a minimum level or something, but that just seems to mess up the whole "nonheroic specialist" concept. And then Raul suggested his house rule and it seemed like a perfect fit. It's not terribly complicated, but it fixes the math all right.I think the SWSE designers realized this fairly early on, considering how they included the Withdrawal Strike and Tumble Defense feats in the Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide. If you're not familiar with them, the first makes it so no one can withdraw from a square you threaten as long as you're wielding a particular melee weapon, while the second makes it more difficult for opponents to tumble through your threatened squares.There's also the Mobile Combatant Jedi Guardian talent in The Force Unleashed Campaign Guide. If you move adjacent to an opponent, you can spend a swift action so that if they move or withdraw, you can move with them and they provoke an attack of opportunity from you.The KOTORCG also includes a Jedi Knight talent, Mobile Attack (lightsabers), that lets you move up to your speed after making a full attack.So my point is: the devs very early on introduced a number of feats and talents specifically to help melee combatants "lock down" their opponents.</blockquote>

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