Star Wars to Spycraft

[Wolfx]

I really like the classes, feats and mechanics in Spycraft more than that in Star Wars. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas if it would be possible to use the Spycraft rules in a Star Wars game.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Magius del Cotto]

It's possible, since both use the defense/VP-WP system, but the main problem with this is the flavor stuff. Sure, the system would work out just fine for the mundane classes (though, flavour wise, the psions might be a bit iffy), but what would be the Jedi? Of course, you could just mix and match what you (or your players) wanted, as long as it remains reasonable (so SW Soldiers aren't going side by side with Spycraft Soldiers). It'll definitely take some work, but it's possible (and a heck of a lot easier than trying to use core D&D classes in SW...).

 

[Omega Lord]

LOL

I saw the post name and somehow my brain processed starcraft to starwars . Must get sleep (although now that i think about it that might be fun (NO!! ALTRERNITY IS EEEEEVIL).

 

[Pbartender]

It's possible, since both use the defense/VP-WP system, but the main problem with this is the flavor stuff. Sure, the system would work out just fine for the mundane classes (though, flavour wise, the psions might be a bit iffy), but what would be the Jedi? Of course, you could just mix and match what you (or your players) wanted, as long as it remains reasonable (so SW Soldiers aren't going side by side with Spycraft Soldiers). It'll definitely take some work, but it's possible (and a heck of a lot easier than trying to use core D&D classes in SW...).

I don't think it'd be all that much work...

A covert Rebel cell or group of Imperial Intelligence agents would be perfectly suited to the Spycraft rules. However, you would have to either set the game in the Rebellion Era to eliminate Force-users, or perhaps use the Shadowforce: Archer psionic rules to emulate Force-users.

Once that's done, all you have to do is add in Blasters (shouldn't be tough), and starship rules (again, shouldn't be tough).

 

[Mal Malenkirk]

You can port directly the combat system with its half action and no iterative attacks. You can port all of the standard feats and use them to replace the Star Wars feats with the exception of the Force feats (who might need reworking to fit)

But we might be talking about a bit more work than that...

What's cool about a Spycraft classes is that there are goodies at each level.

They are all built on a model where each class gets certain type of class abilities at regular intervals and in the end there are no blank levels (levels without class abilities).

For example, they all have a super 14th level abilities. They all have a tough 10th/20th level abilities. They all have a flavor ability every 4 levels. etc.

Part of the balancing factor of these class are their Gadget points and Mission budgets. These can only be ported in Star Wars if you adopt a format of adventure where your heroes are a crack squad of rebels/imperials used for special mission and thus they have patrons willing to outfit them for any given missions.

If you play a freewheeling campaign where PCs have no stable employer and pick up their equipment on the fly, you have to get rid of the budget/gadget points and rebalance some of the class who had more or less than average on these two attributes.

Anyway; the soldier can port as is. The Wheelman can become a pilot. The other classes can all make sense if you work in a special ops kind of game. You then need to design class(es) that are balanced on this model.

After that you need to assign BP value to the star wars equipment and GP to vehicles as well as invent/adapt gadgets.