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WEG Star Wars 1987, fastest chargen ever?

Started by Balbinus, January 23, 2007, 09:19:31 AM

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Settembrini

#15
January 23, 2007, 02:59:44 PM
Star Wars D6 needs a house rule for Blaster-Damage.
After that, it´s teh r0XXorz. I can´t even to fathom why anybody would ever want to play SW with it´s D20 rules.

They are doing it wrong.


--retired SW D6 GM
If there can\'t be a TPK against the will of the players it\'s not an RPG.- Pierce Inverarity

Dr Rotwang!

#16
January 23, 2007, 03:08:17 PM
Quote from: SettembriniStar Wars D6 needs a house rule for Blaster-Damage.
Eh?  What?  Why?  Whattaya wanna fix, there, Humphrey?
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Settembrini

#17
January 23, 2007, 04:30:44 PM
You have to fix the Wookie-conundrum.

Anybody with strength 4D or higher can withstand ridiculous amounts of blaster shots.
I ruled:
the minimum damage from energy weapons is "stunned". Thereby, you don´t have blast-proof wookies anymore.
If there can\'t be a TPK against the will of the players it\'s not an RPG.- Pierce Inverarity

Tyberious Funk

#18
January 23, 2007, 05:55:35 PM
Quote from: SettembriniYou have to fix the Wookie-conundrum.

Anybody with strength 4D or higher can withstand ridiculous amounts of blaster shots.

Worse still, races with particularly high strength can withstand shots from a star ship.

We gave a bonus to damage.  +1 pip for every 5 points the attacker beats the defender's defence.

Other than that minor modification... damn it was a good, simple system.  I played and GMed d6 Star Wars for a number of years.  Very, very happy gaming times.

IMHO, Savage Worlds and Spirit of the Century would also be good substitutes for d6.  But d20 Star Wars?  Blurgh!
 

Dr Rotwang!

#19
January 23, 2007, 08:30:15 PM
Quote from: SettembriniI ruled:
the minimum damage from energy weapons is "stunned". Thereby, you don´t have blast-proof wookies anymore.
You know, I think that actually became a rule.  Let me go check...

Definitely in R&E, minimum damage from anything is "Stunned".  I dunno if it was so in 2nd (which I've heard called "The Blue Trainwreck"), and though I could go dig it out, dinner's almost ready.
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Hastur T. Fannon

#20
January 24, 2007, 04:10:20 AM
I would submit that the character creation rules for my Discworld one-shot were shorter than anything so far mentioned:

"Pick a character from the Discworld novels.  He/she has to have some sort of connection to the Unseen University."

Though I can see an argument that they're actually the longest, because the "rules" for what that character could or couldn't to are implicit in the books.  And there's a lot of them.  The "by the same author" list in Wintersmith now stretches to two pages in rather small writing
 
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