[SWd20] To those who want Episode III goodies

[wingsandsword]

From the replies of the author on the WotC boards, it looks like the next article is going to be coming out next Thursday on the heroes of Episode III (including some minor characters), and starships later too, as well as a Jedi Counseling article providing errata/rules updates to reflect Episode III.

I'd rather see it in print, but this is still pretty neat.

I know I for one will be combining this with some of the other stats posted (like Asaji Ventress, added in a minis article) and printing out my own de-facto Episode III sourcebook at least.

 

[3d6]

Anyone else think that new blaster is rather powerful? 3d8+3 damage is quite a bit for a heavy blaster pistol. It even has a reasonably good (DC 18) stun setting.

 

[Blue Prism]

GM Sarli forgot to put Ani's Knowledge (sith lore) skill down, but the points were set aside for it so he does qualify for Sith Lord. Sarli also says Ani just traded in some Jedi Guardian levels for the Sith Lord levels.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

I also don't like the idea of Anakin gaining 6 or 7 levels during the Clone Wars (the version of him in the RotS Minis book is Fringer 1/JG 11, this is F 1/JG 5/Jedi Ace 2/Jedi Weapon Master 3/Sith Lord 2), and his Episode II version was Fringer 1, JG 5. Movie characters gain levels pretty slowly in Star Wars, and by all the other EU materials Anakin was only knighted as a Jedi about 6 months prior to Episode III, although it has been suggested that maybe the council withheld his Knighthood longer than it should have been (in other words, they didn't confer it at Level 7), giving Anakin real reason to be upset. The only other character who gains levels at a rate of about 2/year was Luke (who went from Fringer 2 to Fringer 2/Jedi Guardian 7 during the 3 & 1/2 years of the original trilogy).

Well, there was that montage in the second Clone Wars series where he just kicks butt and takes names.

Seriously, he would've been in a lot of nasty fights; since he was starting from such a low level, effectively, he could've gotten quite a bit of XP while Obi-Wan, who was with him most of the time, was proceeding forward much more slowly.

Brad

 

[Darrin Drader]

Also interesting to note that they say Darth Plagueis trained him… Weren’t we debating that sometime ago?

I knew it! I knew it! I knew it! I knew it!

You know what that means, don't you? You do understand the signifficance, and the sublety involved here, don't you? Darth Plagueis was Palpatines master, and he could manipulate the midichlorians to create life. Anakin had no father. Plagueis was dead by the time Anakin was conceived, therefore Palpatine used the force to create Anakin and Luke was therefore his grandson.

Ha! Ha! I knew it!

 

[Alzrius]

I thought the stats for General Grievous were cool. He was seriously the biggest badass of Episode III to me. It makes me wish I'd seen him on the Clone Wars cartoon series before I saw the movie.

Did anyone note that, according to Star Wars Galaxies (the online game), Grievous survived the events of Episode III, and is still around when the game takes place between Episodes I & II? I don't know what he's up to during all that time, but it's seriously cool that PCs could possibly meet and fight him.

 

[Timeron Malachi]

Yah, that is interesting...but probably appropriate, given the level of combat expertise Palpatine displays in RotS, something that there was never even a hint of in the other films.

If they'd have made the fight between Palpatine and three Jedi Masters last a little longer, it might have made the movie run long. But, when I saw him slay two Jedi Masters, one swing each, pretty much outright, I was like, "Wow...what's he need Vader for?"

I'm sure this has been said before, but that's one of my bigger complaints about the Star Wars movies. They have a pretty long track record of killing off otherwise very interesting looking characters, or people who seem badass, very easily.

Darth Maul, Boba & Jango Fett, Kitt Fisto, Dooku, Mace Windu, Qui-Gon Jinn.

Everyone I knew when I saw Ep. 1 the first time was very disappointed when both Qui-Gon and Maul died...the theatre just about screamed when Jango went down against Mace...Boba was killed by a stupid accident, even though Expanded Universe fixed that...I don't think Dooku was as big of a deal, because he at least had two or three good scenes...Mace, I think, was one of the biggest let-downs of the new trilogy...they say he's this total badass...he can take anybody, all that, and then we only see him fight once, and then he gets sneak attacked by a guy who he was already very suspicious of?

...and he could manipulate the midichlorians Force to create life.

Heh...sorry, I don't like that word.

 

[Darrin Drader]

Midichlorians just indicate the presence of the force and sometimes work with it. They are not the force itself. Remove the midichlorians entirely and you still have the force.

 

[CrusaderX]

I thought the stats for General Grievous were cool. He was seriously the biggest badass of Episode III to me. It makes me wish I'd seen him on the Clone Wars cartoon series before I saw the movie.

Did anyone note that, according to Star Wars Galaxies (the online game), Grievous survived the events of Episode III, and is still around when the game takes place between Episodes I & II? I don't know what he's up to during all that time, but it's seriously cool that PCs could possibly meet and fight him.

Really? Ick. Yet another reason to dislike Star Wars Galaxies. :\

 

[Dark Jezter]

I knew it! I knew it! I knew it! I knew it!

You know what that means, don't you? You do understand the signifficance, and the sublety involved here, don't you? Darth Plagueis was Palpatines master, and he could manipulate the midichlorians to create life. Anakin had no father. Plagueis was dead by the time Anakin was conceived, therefore Palpatine used the force to create Anakin and Luke was therefore his grandson.

Ha! Ha! I knew it!

Not to sidetrack the thread, but I've never bought the whole "Sideous and Plageus created Anakin" theory that's been popping up since Episode III came out...

"Hey master, I've got an idea: Let's go to some backwater planet on the outer rim, use the force to knock up some random slave girl, hope that the kid encounters a Jedi knight at some point who recognizes his potential and takes him to Corusant to be trained, and then we'll lure him to the dark side so he can become the greatest Sith Lord ever!"

"You know, Lord Sideous, you're supposed to take the plastic wrapper off the cigar before you smoke it."