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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 5041782" data-attributes="member: 14159">We know there is a race of them: besides Yoda there was Yaddle (a female of the same race) seen in the prequels.  Vandar Tokere was seen in the KOTOR games, and Minch was the member of the race that fought the Dark Jedi of Bpfassh on Dagobah (the event that created the dark side cave found there, and Lucasfilm has explicitly said Minch was a different person than Yoda).  There was also a statue of a Jedi of Yoda's race in the Valley of the Jedi in Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight.  There was also a trading card that was produced by Topps of a small congregation of beings of that race engaged in some kind of worship service.I was not going to assume his physical prowess while lightsaber duelling was his normal stats, since we saw Palpatine doing inhuman acrobatics as well while dueling, and he probably doesn't have a 20+ DEX either.  His inhuman agility during duels is probably a Force ability.  When not in Force-augmented combat he seems pretty frail (although he's of an old age category, the only one we've seen that wasn't old was Minch, and he seemed to be of average agility).  Honestly, I was debating between the additional +2 to INT or to CHA, just that he should have a WIS bonus, and probably a STR penalty.I was going out of my way to not make fanfic assumptions about their homeworld or past.  This was an exercise in making game rules to reflect the race, not writing speculative fan fiction about them.Yoda's known backstory shows that not all members of the race are Force Sensitive, as he didn't know he was until the Jedi found him, but all members of the race we have seen have been powerful Jedi so they probably do tend to be more powerful in the force than other races.Personally, I wouldn't call his odd speech a completely separate language, since it is intelligible to those who speak normal Basic, albeit it's somewhat eccentric.  Nobody had to use a Language slot to understand Yoda's speech, which they would if it was a separate language like Shriiwook or Huttese.  Vandar Tokere spoke normal Basic without an odd word order, so that's a "usually" and not "always" thing for this race as well.The article on Wookieepedia (the Star Wars reference wiki) about his race gives what canonical information we have about the race (<a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Yoda%27s_species" target="_blank">Yoda's species - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki</a>), which is what I used as the main reference in making these stats.</blockquote>

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