Star Wars - Wrath of the Rebellion is now COMPLETED

[Dr Midnight]

The website- www.rigaming.com/kotsq/starwars

Woonie's too much fun. Woonie was especially fun this last session, as Jill felt like she didn't have enough to do, so she made mischief. Woonwooken's great with the mischief. Kinda like a 7 foot tall, 400 lb., furry, fanged Tasslehoff.

Thanks everyone- I live to serve.

In two weeks' time, we'll start to see the tip of the plot iceberg.

 

[Rel]

Woonie was especially fun this last session, as Jill felt like she didn't have enough to do, so she made mischief.

Tell her that next session she ABSOLUTELY MUST eat a stormtrooper! And then poop him out!

Man, those Wookiees and their zany hijinks!

On a more serious note, I guess this sort of confirms the issues I raised in my post at the bottom of page 1. Despite the helpful hints in the rule book, keeping all the heroes involved during starship sequences is a tall order.

Personally, I think that this is the reason that almost all (or maybe even all) the character classes have Pilot as a class skill.

 

[LostSoul]

I ran my second session of Star Wars this weekend and used the Starship Combat rules for the first time. The battle was brief and had good tension, but I had a tough time keeping everyone involved because the characters were not all optimized for space combat.

Here's what I would do (in d6 Star Wars):

Make sure that a co-pilot is there, rolling for something (shields, speed, sensors, whatever).

Make the other characters know that they can attempt to jury-rig a system. This will give it a small, temporary bonus; it also runs the risk of frying the system.

And then there's always the option of having the players roll for the NPCs.

Edit: Here are a couple of things that a co-pilot can take care of:

Increase range
Decrease range
Change speed category
Resist/escape tractor beam

You could also let him use the Sensors to get a "lock" on another ship. Handle it just like a Missile Lock, but give the gunners a +1 to their attack rolls for hitting the DC, and additional +1s for every 5 (or 10) points you roll above said DC.

 

[EvanPan]

GREAT

wow that was great. after a hard day of finals, coming back to my dorm to a nice story time really makes my day. espcially when woonie does some crazy wookiee stuff.

"No woonie, it's not a good disguise" (paraphrased line)




-EvanPan

Like PeterPan, but...evan.

Kinda like a 7 foot tall, 400 lb., furry, fanged Tasslehoff. -posted by DR.midnight

 

[fenzer]

Okay. There will be none of this page two nonsense.

 

[Lela]

Hay all,

You know Dr. Midnight, it's rather rude to move and forget to tell anyone. Think of all the people who could have called! It's a good thing I stopped in to mention this or I would never have known you had closed the other thread.

I refuse to comment on how marvilous and breathtaking this instalment was. In fact, I most certinally won't mention that I thought this line

T’ek swept in and killed the trooper with his lightsaber just as Zybor came into view.

actually said:

T’ek swept in and killed the trooper with his lightning just as Zybor came into view.

I will mention none of that, not for a pie, not up high. Not for a gold, not if I was immune to cold.

[Edit: Added the following to conserve page count.]

Dr M, let me know if you got my e-mail. I know it's a presumtuous question to ask but the image in my head just wouldn't go away. Besides, I don't get to use the word presumtuous often enough.

 

[Dr Midnight]

Lela- wha? wha!? I put a link at the end of the last thread to this one- what do you want from me?!

Fenzer- Sorry. *shuffles feet, ashamed*

Hey there everyone, sorry the thread's been just sinking to the bottom of the list like a drowned mob informant weighted down with a cinderblock, but the campaign is biweekly and I finished last game's writeup early. There's still another full week to go before the next session.

Plus (by way of another heads-up), this campaign is finite... the end is on the horizon. The end is on the NEAR horizon. I conceived of this campaign as being not unlike a SW movie- with "chapters" separated by long periods of inactivity. In three, two, or maybe even one more session, this campaign may well be wrapped up for a while.

Juuust telling you now.

 

[Lela]

Hay Dr M, NP about the E-mail thing. I just thought the idea would be cool to see.

I now see that you did post the new thread and I hereby apologize. My subscriber's page must not have picked it up, so I never saw it. That happens far too often. I blame cheese.

Anyway, I just thought I'd up your post count.

 

[fenzer]

Plus (by way of another heads-up), this campaign is finite... the end is on the horizon. The end is on the NEAR horizon. I conceived of this campaign as being not unlike a SW movie- with "chapters" separated by long periods of inactivity. In three, two, or maybe even one more session, this campaign may well be wrapped up for a while.

Juuust telling you now.

Oh, man! Doc would you stop teasing. This old ticker of mine can't take the strain.

Hey Lela, whereabouts in Utah are you?

 

[Lela]

Hey Lela, whereabouts in Utah are you?

Currently, I'm down in Orem, though I'll be moving back up Rexburg, Idaho in the fall.