SW SAGA EDITION: Preview 7

[Donovan Morningfire]

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=starwars/article/SagaPreview7
The Fight at the Pit of Carkoon.

otherwise known as Luke running roughshod over everybody. The kid's a dynamo!

also http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=starwars/article/AEPreview6. Stat blocks for NJO Mara Jade (lists some neat Force-related talents) and the blaster shotgun

 

[Kunimatyu]

Wow...

Grapple has apparently been completely redone - it's now a "grab attack" - the grabber take penalties on their attack roll(or bonuses, in the case of Boba Fett's whipcord?) and if they hit, they grab the target. Normal (non-Improved Unarmed Strike) folks can now do grabs without an AoO, though it looks like they rarely hit. Also, when you're "grabbed", your attack rolls are at -2 - it doesn't stop you from using a ranged weapon, even.

I must know those rules, because if there's any one rule that just doesn't work well in D&D, it's Grapple.

 

[Stalker0]

Things I noticed:

1) Yep grapple seems to be very different. -5 to do it, and it's done.

2) Sunder seems to be the same way. Luke sunders two weapons, (one ranged and one melee) without any special thing. He rolls an attack roll and sunders it.

3) One thing I found interesting is that all the main characters had very high defenses compared to offense. In 1-on-1 fights, most of the rounds would be misses.

4) Force points give you an automatic crit.

5) Interesting that Boba took twice his damage threshold but only received a -1 penalty. It must require a LOT of damage to actually take a -2.

 

[RodneyThompson]

I'm the best there is at what I do, and what I do is make snarky comments on message boards.

Seriously, I expected one of you two to call "jinx" on each other.

 

[gstommylee]

I was hoping i would get to see Leia vs jabba and how that would look. But oh well.

 

[iwatt]

One thing I noticed:

Lando was having a really bad night with the dice.

 

[JDragon]

That was cool. I liked being able to see how the game rules were able to reasonably cover most of the actions in the scene.

The new combat system will take a little getting used to though, but it should be an improvement.

JD

 

[Michael Tree]

I'm really curious how deflecting and redirecting blaster shots works. The Use the Force roll seems to substitute for the character's defense, with a certain DC to be able to redirect a shot. The example doesn't give an limits to how often it can be done, except for -5 penalties for each shot after the first. It doesn't say it costs a swift action, just that Luke chooses to use it some rounds and not others. I wonder if there's a reason why Luke didn't try to redirect every round (aside from that it wasn't what he did in the movie scene ).

 

[gstommylee]

I am wondering why does Luke's initiative go down?

 

[GSHamster]

I am wondering why does Luke's initiative go down?

He keeps readying and delaying actions. When you do this, your initiative changes to when you actually do something.