Obi-Wan Kenobi (spoilers)

[Benjamin Olson]

As every Sith apprentice wants to kill the Master and take over, all Dark Force users would want to kill the apprentice and take their spot.

Fair point. Sith having master-apprentice relationships kind of doesn't make sense either. Doesn't bother me though.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I always wondered why the Sith keep using their boring basic lightsabers when they're outfitting their elite mooks with swiss army equivalents. It spins, it splits, it actually has a hand guard!

Edit: Removed colorful language.

The Inquisitor lightsabre compensates for inferior skill.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Look, there is a certain etiquette to combat in the Star Wars universe. Thermal Detonators are only to be used suicidally. To do otherwise would be unsporting.

Who would invent a grenade that has a blast radius greater than you could throw it?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I've seen a few ropy FX in this show, but given that I love old Doctor Who with wobbly cardboard sets and rubber suit monsters I'm inclined to give it a free pass.

 

[Flamestrike]

I guess between then and episode IV-VI, Vader lost a whole lot of power.

Move Object

He's roughly 17th level there, so a +16 to Use the Force (+the best result of 3 x d8's spending a force point). He likely rolls a 33 or so on average.

If he was prepared to spend a Destiny Point (and let's face it, he was) its only a DC 20 Use the Force check to grapple a (Colossal) space transport, but because its moving, he's looking at an opposed roll vs its Grapple bonus (roughly +40, going by other ships of that size and type) so that's a little more problematic for the Dark Lord.

If he succeeds (with the Destiny Point usage) its 16d6 damage as well.

He rolled well and the DM rolled poorly.

 

[Flamestrike]

Who would invent a grenade that has a blast radius greater than you could throw it?

An Evil Empire with countless blindly loyal but woefully inaccurate troops?

 

[Mannahnin]

I recognized it was Hayden straight away. They just didn’t do a good job scrubbing his wrinkles away. (As an aside, Hayden is less than a month younger than me.)

I don't think it was the wrinkles, but more the wider/more filled-out shape of his face and head. In the prequel movies he still had that adolescent "lightness" a person has before their body fills out at maturity.

 

[Jmarso]

Who would invent a grenade that has a blast radius greater than you could throw it?

Farther than who can throw it? A wookie, or a human? I'll bet it has an adjustable blast setting, as well.

 

[BrokenTwin]

The Inquisitor lightsabre compensates for inferior skill.

That may be true, but it's also an objectively superior tool. A master swordsman might be more effective with a wooden sword than an apprentice would be with a metal sword, but that doesn't mean that the swordsman would reach for the wooden sword when the metal one is readily available. The Jedi I can 100% believe using an objectively inferior tool because of tradition reasons, but the "grab any advantage possible" Sith? Eh, not so much.
But, ultimately, Star Wars runs on rule of cool, and it's by far not my biggest nitpick with the series.

 

[ko6ux]

Who would invent a grenade that has a blast radius greater than you could throw it?

People who also invented a grenade launcher.