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<blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 3659312" data-attributes="member: 4720"><p>Not sure that fear slope is in the spirit of the rules, as it were. It's not really personal fear that seems to present problems. It's fear of loss. Dying, after all, is generally getting off light. Once you're dead, you're one with the Force. Loss is only significant if you have to live with it. </p><p></p><p>If you NEED a mechanical basis.... maybe something more like "when you see a comrade fall in battle, you can spend a Force point to ..." well, I'm not sure what you'd do with that Force point, but I imagine you get my drift.</p><p></p><p>Incidentally, as an aside on the difference between the Dark and Light.... I actually read the novelization of Ep3. It spent some amount of time on how Anakin and Obi-wan each fought and interacted with the world in general. Anakin wielded the Force. If he didn't like the outcome he foresaw, he grabbed onto the Force and pushed. Obi-wan <em>surrendered</em> to the Force. He felt impressions of what was oncoming, and subtly shifted himself to intersect possibilities. When he was fighting Grievous' bodyguards, he "felt their destruction" behind and above him, so he backed up and reached out with the Force, dropping that anvil on them (which was clearly an attempt to make anvil dropping cool on the part of the author, and was much appreciated). When he was fighting Anakin in the control room, he "felt death" out on the catwalks above the lava, so he let himself retreat in that direction.</p><p></p><p>I really have no mechanics that grow out of that, but I think it's an excellent way of thinking about system of "normal force point adjustment BEFORE you roll, but you get a Dark Side point for adjusting AFTER you roll." When you surrender to the Force, it <em>might</em> help you at important moments but it's all the Will of the Force. Forcing the issue puts you on the path to red lightsabers and yellow contact lenses.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost, post: 3659312, member: 4720"] Not sure that fear slope is in the spirit of the rules, as it were. It's not really personal fear that seems to present problems. It's fear of loss. Dying, after all, is generally getting off light. Once you're dead, you're one with the Force. Loss is only significant if you have to live with it. If you NEED a mechanical basis.... maybe something more like "when you see a comrade fall in battle, you can spend a Force point to ..." well, I'm not sure what you'd do with that Force point, but I imagine you get my drift. Incidentally, as an aside on the difference between the Dark and Light.... I actually read the novelization of Ep3. It spent some amount of time on how Anakin and Obi-wan each fought and interacted with the world in general. Anakin wielded the Force. If he didn't like the outcome he foresaw, he grabbed onto the Force and pushed. Obi-wan [i]surrendered[/i] to the Force. He felt impressions of what was oncoming, and subtly shifted himself to intersect possibilities. When he was fighting Grievous' bodyguards, he "felt their destruction" behind and above him, so he backed up and reached out with the Force, dropping that anvil on them (which was clearly an attempt to make anvil dropping cool on the part of the author, and was much appreciated). When he was fighting Anakin in the control room, he "felt death" out on the catwalks above the lava, so he let himself retreat in that direction. I really have no mechanics that grow out of that, but I think it's an excellent way of thinking about system of "normal force point adjustment BEFORE you roll, but you get a Dark Side point for adjusting AFTER you roll." When you surrender to the Force, it [i]might[/i] help you at important moments but it's all the Will of the Force. Forcing the issue puts you on the path to red lightsabers and yellow contact lenses. [/QUOTE]
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