Post by capnhayes on Jun 24, 2004 13:19:22 GMT -5
New Actions
Mastery of the Force
Cost Level= Action Number + 8 levels
Description
Force, The
Is an energy that occurs naturally in the galaxy, it springs from all forms of life? It has two "sides," a Living side and a Dark Side, although this is a great oversimplification of the Force's existence. The Jedi Knights believed that the Force had many sides, including a living element and a unifying element, and it binds all things together in a great web of existence. In this way, the Jedi saw the Force as its own end. The modern sith, while acknowledging that they learned of the Force through the Dark Side teachings of the ancient sith, simply saw the singular power of the Force, which to them was a means to an end. The Jedi Knights discovered that the Force was accessible to all living beings through the presence of midi-chlorians in their cells. The more midi-chlorians that inhabited a being's cells, the more the being was able to contact the Force. However, a high concentration of midi-chlorians did not guarantee a being control of the Force. Only through intense study and dedicated training could a being become proficient in harnessing the power of The Force. The Jedi Council discovered that younger beings had an easier time of learning the techniques required to touch and control the Force, and eventually developed a system that actively sought out and identified beings with high midi-chlorian counts at their birth. With, or sometimes without, the permission of the parents, the Jedi took children no more than one year old away for training. Children and older beings, which had already established a set pattern of mental and physical usage, often were unable to complete the necessary training, and were deemed too wasteful of Jedi resources. The Jedi Knights have historically been the most powerful users of The Force, having trained with and learned the three basic techniques: control (the manipulation of one's internal Force strength), sense (detection of the Force in the external world), and alter (manipulation of matter with the Force). These techniques used by them or in combination, allow the Jedi to perform many different activities with the Force. The Sith, on the other hand, gained strength from the Force by focusing their emotional energies - especially strong emotions like anger and hatred - which gave the quick mastery but didn't take much discipline. During the Yuuzhan Vong invasion of the galaxy, some twenty-five years after the Battle of Endor, the foundations on which the Jedi Knights based their knowledge of the Force were suddenly altered. There were several forms of life - primarily the ysalamiri of Myrkr -, which could push back against the Force, but these creatures were assumed to live within the Force in some fashion. The Yuuzhan Vong, however, appeared as a void in the Force, neither projecting nor absorbing or repelling it. Many of the new Jedi Order struggled with the concept of a race of beings, which seemed to lack any contact with the Force, since it was believed that the Force was contained within all forms of life, even if it was in trace amounts. Jacen Solo was one of the first Jedi to discover that the Force acted in many ways, without a true light or dark side, and that there were ways in which it could be attuned to at least recognize the alien invaders. The former Jedi Knight Vergere was instrumental in guiding Jacen to this realization, having spent more than thirty years in their presence.
Dark Side of the Force
The Force, being an energy field, has opposing sides, which normally balance each other. The Dark Side of the Force is the apprentice easily obtains the more seductive of the two, for its power and strength. However, the Dark Side is a cruel master, for in return for its ease of initiation, it continually drains its servants' life-energy. Among the highest achievements in the mastery of the Dark Side is the succession from student to master. While this is also true of the Light Side, the Dark Side requires that the student utterly destroy his master to prove his abilities.
Living Side of the Force
The Force has two opposing energies, which balance and offset each other in the natural world, a Dark Side and a Living side. While the Dark Side is easy to harness, it demands life-energy from its servants. The Living Side, however, takes much more training and persistence to harness, but it does not demand as much life-energy from its followers.
Comments
The Force can be a powerful ally to any character, which is why is cost so much. A Force user is typically a Jedi Knight or a evil Sith Lord.
Rules for Action Box:
- Action number free red stones/Panel
- Combine Force Action with other Actions including Strength, Agility, and Speed attributes
- Can use Force Action in lieu of the following Actions listed here or any the GM feels appropriate. These include the following Actions: Acrobatics, Combat [Close], Combat [Ranged], Concentration, *Drain Energy, Energy Absorption/Reflection, *Force Blast (Lighting), Healing, Telekinesis, Telepathy, Wall Climbing, Leadership, Create Illusions.
- Jedi can also gain the benefit of the following Modifiers equal to Force Action Stones, through the Force they include; Prescience, Sonar Sense, Enhanced Vision,
Lightsaber
traditional Jedi weapon used much like a sword. It consists of cylindrical handle in which sophisticated circuits channel a beam of light through a series of jewels, which modulate the blade's size and amplitude. It was considered one of the Jedi students' final challenges to construct their own lightsaber. Many Jedi Masters stressed the lightsaber as a true test of their apprentice's progress, for the lightsabers power is great. A true Jedi Knight only uses the lightsaber for defense, never attack, and there is a great deal of patience involved with learning this. Some Masters also use the lightsaber as a way to get their apprentices to focus their minds on the Force, for it takes a great deal of skill to wield one. The mechanics of a lightsaber are simple, although the application of them takes great skill and concentration. A novice Jedi Knight should be able to create his first lightsaber in about a month. A trained Jedi Master can, in a hurry, could construct one in a few days. Note that the Star Wars Journal: The Fight for Justice indicates that a Jedi is given his lightsaber on his first day of training. Every lightsaber contained these basic components: a power cell, a handgrip, an activation plate or stud, a safety switch, a blade-length adjuster, an emitter matrix, and recharge socket, a lens assembly, at least one focusing crystal, a power conduit, and an optional belt ring. When activated, internal power cells create photoelectric energy, which is focused through one, two, or three multi-faceted crystals. In the lightsabers of the Jedi Knights, these crystals were found in nature, a task that required the Jedi to focus their concentration on selecting a stone, which would focus the energy and not explode. Early Jedi obtained crystals from the planet Ruusan, but the deposits on the planet were destroyed during the Battle of Ruusan. More often than not, the Jedi Knights of the Old Republic used crystals from the planet Ilum, which emitted blue or green blades. Sith, however, used synthetic crystals formed in incredibly hot ovens, using their emotional control of the Force to assist in the formation of the stone. These sith crystals generated a red blade, which had the unusual strength to cleave a normal lightsaber blade in two. Jedi Knights of the New Republic era did not know of the Ilum deposits, and so many of them discovered other sources of crystals, which produced a wide variety of blade colors. The energy was formed into a tight, parallel beam of coherent packets. These packets are emitted through positively-charges, continuous energy lens which projects the packets away from the lightsaber. The packets are almost immediately attracted back to the lightsaber by a negatively charged, high-energy flux aperture, and then continually recycled to create the glowing blade. A superconductor back into the power cell for re-energizing recycles the packets. The entire process is completely contained. No energy is lost, since the light in the blade is recaptured. No heat is generated, either. The only energy loss occurs when the blade strikes an object. When Obi-Wan Kenobi began teaching Luke Skywalker how to use his father's lightsaber, Kenobi began by showing Luke the basic body positions used by the Jedi. There were seven attack positions, and four defensive positions. Each attack or defense position flowed into the next, creating a smooth, continual motion. To perform them all in sequence takes concentration, skill, and stamina.
WEAPON
Lightsaber +5 (2x Dmg., AP)
New Modifier
FORCE SENSITIVE
Cost Level= Intelligence attribute + 2 levels
Comments
Intelligence Attribute determines total number of extra free red stones character can use once per issue.
Mastery of the Force
Cost Level= Action Number + 8 levels
Description
Force, The
Is an energy that occurs naturally in the galaxy, it springs from all forms of life? It has two "sides," a Living side and a Dark Side, although this is a great oversimplification of the Force's existence. The Jedi Knights believed that the Force had many sides, including a living element and a unifying element, and it binds all things together in a great web of existence. In this way, the Jedi saw the Force as its own end. The modern sith, while acknowledging that they learned of the Force through the Dark Side teachings of the ancient sith, simply saw the singular power of the Force, which to them was a means to an end. The Jedi Knights discovered that the Force was accessible to all living beings through the presence of midi-chlorians in their cells. The more midi-chlorians that inhabited a being's cells, the more the being was able to contact the Force. However, a high concentration of midi-chlorians did not guarantee a being control of the Force. Only through intense study and dedicated training could a being become proficient in harnessing the power of The Force. The Jedi Council discovered that younger beings had an easier time of learning the techniques required to touch and control the Force, and eventually developed a system that actively sought out and identified beings with high midi-chlorian counts at their birth. With, or sometimes without, the permission of the parents, the Jedi took children no more than one year old away for training. Children and older beings, which had already established a set pattern of mental and physical usage, often were unable to complete the necessary training, and were deemed too wasteful of Jedi resources. The Jedi Knights have historically been the most powerful users of The Force, having trained with and learned the three basic techniques: control (the manipulation of one's internal Force strength), sense (detection of the Force in the external world), and alter (manipulation of matter with the Force). These techniques used by them or in combination, allow the Jedi to perform many different activities with the Force. The Sith, on the other hand, gained strength from the Force by focusing their emotional energies - especially strong emotions like anger and hatred - which gave the quick mastery but didn't take much discipline. During the Yuuzhan Vong invasion of the galaxy, some twenty-five years after the Battle of Endor, the foundations on which the Jedi Knights based their knowledge of the Force were suddenly altered. There were several forms of life - primarily the ysalamiri of Myrkr -, which could push back against the Force, but these creatures were assumed to live within the Force in some fashion. The Yuuzhan Vong, however, appeared as a void in the Force, neither projecting nor absorbing or repelling it. Many of the new Jedi Order struggled with the concept of a race of beings, which seemed to lack any contact with the Force, since it was believed that the Force was contained within all forms of life, even if it was in trace amounts. Jacen Solo was one of the first Jedi to discover that the Force acted in many ways, without a true light or dark side, and that there were ways in which it could be attuned to at least recognize the alien invaders. The former Jedi Knight Vergere was instrumental in guiding Jacen to this realization, having spent more than thirty years in their presence.
Dark Side of the Force
The Force, being an energy field, has opposing sides, which normally balance each other. The Dark Side of the Force is the apprentice easily obtains the more seductive of the two, for its power and strength. However, the Dark Side is a cruel master, for in return for its ease of initiation, it continually drains its servants' life-energy. Among the highest achievements in the mastery of the Dark Side is the succession from student to master. While this is also true of the Light Side, the Dark Side requires that the student utterly destroy his master to prove his abilities.
Living Side of the Force
The Force has two opposing energies, which balance and offset each other in the natural world, a Dark Side and a Living side. While the Dark Side is easy to harness, it demands life-energy from its servants. The Living Side, however, takes much more training and persistence to harness, but it does not demand as much life-energy from its followers.
Comments
The Force can be a powerful ally to any character, which is why is cost so much. A Force user is typically a Jedi Knight or a evil Sith Lord.
Rules for Action Box:
- Action number free red stones/Panel
- Combine Force Action with other Actions including Strength, Agility, and Speed attributes
- Can use Force Action in lieu of the following Actions listed here or any the GM feels appropriate. These include the following Actions: Acrobatics, Combat [Close], Combat [Ranged], Concentration, *Drain Energy, Energy Absorption/Reflection, *Force Blast (Lighting), Healing, Telekinesis, Telepathy, Wall Climbing, Leadership, Create Illusions.
- Jedi can also gain the benefit of the following Modifiers equal to Force Action Stones, through the Force they include; Prescience, Sonar Sense, Enhanced Vision,
Lightsaber
traditional Jedi weapon used much like a sword. It consists of cylindrical handle in which sophisticated circuits channel a beam of light through a series of jewels, which modulate the blade's size and amplitude. It was considered one of the Jedi students' final challenges to construct their own lightsaber. Many Jedi Masters stressed the lightsaber as a true test of their apprentice's progress, for the lightsabers power is great. A true Jedi Knight only uses the lightsaber for defense, never attack, and there is a great deal of patience involved with learning this. Some Masters also use the lightsaber as a way to get their apprentices to focus their minds on the Force, for it takes a great deal of skill to wield one. The mechanics of a lightsaber are simple, although the application of them takes great skill and concentration. A novice Jedi Knight should be able to create his first lightsaber in about a month. A trained Jedi Master can, in a hurry, could construct one in a few days. Note that the Star Wars Journal: The Fight for Justice indicates that a Jedi is given his lightsaber on his first day of training. Every lightsaber contained these basic components: a power cell, a handgrip, an activation plate or stud, a safety switch, a blade-length adjuster, an emitter matrix, and recharge socket, a lens assembly, at least one focusing crystal, a power conduit, and an optional belt ring. When activated, internal power cells create photoelectric energy, which is focused through one, two, or three multi-faceted crystals. In the lightsabers of the Jedi Knights, these crystals were found in nature, a task that required the Jedi to focus their concentration on selecting a stone, which would focus the energy and not explode. Early Jedi obtained crystals from the planet Ruusan, but the deposits on the planet were destroyed during the Battle of Ruusan. More often than not, the Jedi Knights of the Old Republic used crystals from the planet Ilum, which emitted blue or green blades. Sith, however, used synthetic crystals formed in incredibly hot ovens, using their emotional control of the Force to assist in the formation of the stone. These sith crystals generated a red blade, which had the unusual strength to cleave a normal lightsaber blade in two. Jedi Knights of the New Republic era did not know of the Ilum deposits, and so many of them discovered other sources of crystals, which produced a wide variety of blade colors. The energy was formed into a tight, parallel beam of coherent packets. These packets are emitted through positively-charges, continuous energy lens which projects the packets away from the lightsaber. The packets are almost immediately attracted back to the lightsaber by a negatively charged, high-energy flux aperture, and then continually recycled to create the glowing blade. A superconductor back into the power cell for re-energizing recycles the packets. The entire process is completely contained. No energy is lost, since the light in the blade is recaptured. No heat is generated, either. The only energy loss occurs when the blade strikes an object. When Obi-Wan Kenobi began teaching Luke Skywalker how to use his father's lightsaber, Kenobi began by showing Luke the basic body positions used by the Jedi. There were seven attack positions, and four defensive positions. Each attack or defense position flowed into the next, creating a smooth, continual motion. To perform them all in sequence takes concentration, skill, and stamina.
WEAPON
Lightsaber +5 (2x Dmg., AP)
New Modifier
FORCE SENSITIVE
Cost Level= Intelligence attribute + 2 levels
Comments
Intelligence Attribute determines total number of extra free red stones character can use once per issue.