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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9768388" data-attributes="member: 4937">You are making unwarranted assumptions here.  The PC wasn't gambling with the smuggler for profit.  The PC was trying to befriend the smuggler who was also a noted gambler in order to get information about the location of a separatist Battlecruiser operating in the area.  Although the PC didn't know it, they were working for the organization which will become part of the Rebel alliance and the Separatist was being recruited for the cause.  Leaving aside the question of whether gambling can be heroic if the ends are noble, the force point was not spent during the gambling.  The force point was spent on a Persuasion roll (not a Con roll!) to convince the smuggler of the honorable intentions of the Hunters, and that they were not in fact working for the Empire to capture the Separatist Admiral (who had a significant bounty on his head). If you are going to argue that the light side isn't aligned with attempts at diplomacy and persuasion, and instead force points properly only should be spent on violent acts in violent conflict, then I'm not sure there is much point in discussing this.</blockquote>