SWFate-The Force
From Toosigma
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Force Sensitivity
At the cost of one refresh, a character can choose to be Force Sensitive. Being Force Sensitive gives you access to the following basic Force Powers:
- Search Your Feelings - You can make a Force check to determine the probable immediate outcome of a single action. You can only tell whether the results are favorable or unfavorable, and you cannot anticipate results more than a few minutes in the future.
- Sense Surroundings - You can substitute a Force skill check for an Investigation skill check to detect any living creature.
- Sense Danger - You may substitute your Force skill for your Awareness skill.
- Telepathy - You can establish a telepathic link with a distant creature. You can exchange emotions or a single thought, such as "Go!", "Help!", or "Danger!". The greater the distance to your target, the greater the difficulty of your Force roll.
- You can attempt to activate any other Force Power by spending a Fate Point (?)
Any Force Sensitive is also subject to the Dark Side.
Force Training
- Costs two points of refresh
- gives access to all three Force elements (Control, Sense, Alter)
- 1 specialization bonus to one of the elements - either Power or Focus
- You gain access to a number of Instinctive Force Powers equal to your Force skill (that require no Focus role.)
- You may use your Force skill to determine additional Composure stress boxes, instead of Resolve (or keep Resolve as the Force Focus skill?)
- You gain the following basic Force Powers:
- Force Trance - speed healing
- Move Light Object - move object weighing no more than 10kg one zone as a supplemental action
- Sense Force - you can detect major disturbances in the Force automatically, and can make a roll to detect other Force users at a distance (100 km)
Force Technique
Costs one point of refresh - grants an additional 2 specialization points to Force elements, and one additional Instinctive Force Power.
Force Powers
To activate a Force Power:
- Decide how much power to put into it (number of shifts)
- Take Composure stress - 1 point base + 1 point per power above your Force skill
- Roll Resolve to control the power (or Force if using a Dark Side power?) - If Resolve roll fails, the excess energy is either lost (fallout) or damaging (backlash)
Need to create some examples: Force Speed, Lightsaber Defense, Move Object, Mind Trick, Force Push, Repulse, Control Pain
Dark Side
To handle the Dark Side - I thought it would be easiest to maintain the existing Fate Point rules - only Dark Side only applies to characters with Force Sensitivity, and they don't follow the normal rules. You can use a Dark Side point to tag the same aspect twice (first with the normal Fate/Force point, second with the Dark Side point), if you use a Dark Side point to activate a Force Power you don't incur any mental stress, you can always call on the Dark Side even if you don't have any Fate points (treated as an accidental compel). Unlike normal compels, a player doesn't have to spend a Fate point to avoid the Dark Side compel (unless the aspect compelled specifically entails the Dark Side)
Whenever a character accepts a Dark Side point, part of his Refresh pool is permanently tainted with it - i.e. when he refreshes the pool, that Dark Side point will come back. Only by actively rejecting the Dark Side can he atone (i.e. next time the Dark Side compels, he can spend a normal fate point AND the dark side point with no benefit, and that point is no longer tainted.) If a player's entire refresh becomes tainted, he turns to the Dark Side.
This makes the Dark Side very quick, easy, and seductive. The more powerful you become (the less Refresh you have) the more likely you are to turn to the Dark Side. I'll try and create some examples to illustrate how I see it working.
Canonical Uses of the Force
- Farseeing - (Sense)
- Lightsaber combat - (Control/Sense)
- Telekinesis / Move Object / Force Push / Force Grip / Throw Lightsaber (Alter)
- Force Pilot / Force Speed / Force Jump / Enhance Attribute (Control)
- Mind Trick - (Control/Sense/Alter)
- Telepathy / Receptive / Projective / Sense Emotions (Sense)
- Sense Danger / Sense Force Disturbance (Sense)
- Force Ghost (???)
- Force Lightning - (Control/Alter)
- Absorb Energy - (Control)
Maybe canonical powers, but questionable
- Anti-Farseeing ? - Force seems to cloud farseeing vision for Jedi (prequels) and Sith (original), is it a power employed by someone (Emperor in the prequels, Yoda? in the original trilogy), or is it a manifestation of the Force itself attempting to return to balance?
- Create Life / Prevent Death - Sith techniques alluded to, but no direct evidence, unless you count Anakin's immaculate conception
- Force heal - when Obi-wan "heals" Luke after sandpeople attack? Or does Luke just wake up on his own?
- ??? - Obi-wan and Qui-gon hold their breath
- ??? - Luke hits the exhaust port without a computer (Enhance Attribute?)
The Phantom Menace
Farseeing - Obi-wan senses the whole movie series ? ??? - Obi-wan and Qui-gon hold their breath to avoid the dioxin gas Lightsaber combat - deflecting blasters, multiple opponents Force Push - Obi-wan knocks down four battledroids Force Speed - Obi-wan and Qui-gon flee the droidekas - ref Supernatural Speed from Dresden? Force Jump ? - Obi-wan and Qui-gon leap from vent to hanger floor without injury Mind Trick - Qui-gon "convinces" Boss Nass to give them a transport - bonus to deceit? empathy? Mind Trick - Qui-gon "relaxes" Jar Jar into a stupor Force Pilot - Obi-wan manages to avoid the many carnivorous fish? Lightsaber Combat/Force Jump - rescuing the queen, escaping the hanger Mind Trick - Qui-gon tries to manipulate Watto, fails Telekinesis - Qui-gon manipulates the chance cube Force Pilot - Anakin in the Pod Race Lightsaber Combat/Force Jump - Qui-gon vs Darth Maul Receptive Telepathy ? - Anakin reads Mace Windu's mind to pass viewscreen test Sense Emotions - Yoda reads Anakin's emotions? Lightsaber Combat/Force Jump - hanger battle, Jedi vs Maul Telekinesis - Maul force-pushes bit of junk to open blast door to engineering level Force Pilot - Anakin vs droid control ship Force push - Maul knocks Obi-wan into vent Telekinesis/Force Jump - final part of duel, Obi-wan leaps from vent, force-pulls Qui-gon's lightsaber to slice Maul
Attack of the Clones
Sense Danger - Anakin/Obi-wan sense danger in Padme's room - passive? active? Lightsaber combat - Anakin does some crazy precision work, slicing the centipedes without touching Padme Force Jump - Obi-wan leaps out the window onto the droid Force Pilot - Anakin catches Obi-wan as he's falling into traffic, chase through Coruscant Farseeing ? - Anakin accurately predicts shortcut to intercept Zam Wessel Force Jump - Anakin survives major fall to land on Zam's speeder Telekinesis - Obi-wan force-pulls Anakin's lightsaber after it goes flying Force Jump - Anakin survives speeder crash landing? Mind Trick - Obi-wan convinces death stick dealer to "go home and rethink his life" Sense Danger - Obi-wan senses Zam's approach, attacks before she does Lightsaber combat - Obi-wan vs Jango Fett on landing platform Telekinesis - Obi-wan tries to force-pull lightsaber, interrupted Force Jump/Telekinesis - Obi-wan reattaches the cord and swings to safety on a lower level, then TK's the door open Telekinesis - Obi-wan attaches homing beacon to Slave I (or was it just thrown and magnetic?) Farseeing - Anakin foresees his mother's capture by sandpeople Lightsaber combat ? - Anakin slaughters sandpeople Force ghost - Qui-gon senses Anakin's attack, "communicates" to Yoda (or was Yoda doing the work?) Sense Force - Yoda senses Anakin's attack from Coruscant Lightsaber combat/Force jump - Anakin vs Geonosans (bug people) in droid factory Force jump - Anakin leaps onto Reek (horned rhino beastie) Mind trick ? - Anakin convinces Reek to switch sides Lightsaber combat - Jedi assault on arena Force jump - Mace Windu survives fall to arena floor Telekinesis - Mace Windu retrieves lost lightsaber Sense force - Anakin directs missile attack to great effect (or was that knowledge?) Force lightning - Dooku vs Anakin/Obi-wan Lightsaber combat ? - Obi-wan deflects/catches lightning on his lightsaber Lightsaber combat - Dooku vs Obi-wan/Anakin Force push - Dooku pushes Anakin Force lightning - Dooku vs Yoda Absorb Energy/Negate Force/Reflect Lightning - Yoda redirects lightning against Dooku, then absorbs it Telekinesis - Dooku throws objects at Yoda, Yoda catches and deflects Lightsaber combat - Yoda vs Dooku Telekinesis - Dooku breaks pillar to crush Anakin/Obi-wan, Yoda catches and moves Farseeing - everything is proceeding as Sidious foresaw Anti-Farseeing - Yoda can't see future, clouded by Sidious? or by the Force?
Revenge of the Sith
Force Pilot - Anakin/Obi-wan vs droid starfighters Force Jump - Leap from cockpit, into/out of elevator Lightsaber combat - vs droids Lightsaber combat - vs Dooku Telekinesis - Dooku pushes Obi-wan, pulls down balcony, Anakin unlocks Palpatine Lightsaber combat - vs droids on bridge Force pilot - Anakin crash lands cruiser Farseeing - Anakin foresees Padme dying in childbirth Create Life - Palpatine tells story about Plagueis creating life (Anakin?) and preventing death - Sith techniques? Force jump/Lightsaber combat - Obi-wan attacks Grievous and droids Telekinesis - Obi-wan brings a generator down from ceiling Telekinesis - Obi-wan force pulls a blaster to shoot Grievous Lightsaber combat - Sidious vs Jedi Council Force Lightning - Sidious vs Mace Windu Lightsaber combat - Mace Windu catches lightning - reflects onto Sidious, or is the deformity from some other source? Sense Force/Sense Danger - Yoda senses Order 66 in progress, attacks troopers before they do Lightsaber Combat - Youngling vs Troopers, Anakin vs Jedi @ Temple Lightsaber Combat - Yoda/Obi-wan vs Clone troopers at temple Force Lightning - Emperor vs Yoda Force Push - Yoda vs Emperor Lightsaber combat/Force jump - Yoda vs Emperor Telekinesis - Emperor throwing senate platforms, Yoda catches/returns Absorb Energy/Lightning - Yoda catches lightning with his hands Force grip - Anakin vs Padme Lightsaber combat - Anakin vs Obi-wan Force pull - Anakin/Obi-wan both rearm after disarms Force push - simultaneous push, blown apart Force balance - dueling on incredibly narrow pole? Force jump - Mustafar duel, "I have the high ground" Farseeing - Emperor senses Anakin in danger ??? - Anakin somehow survives triple amputation and being burned alive in lava ?!? Force push - Anakin destroys the medical chamber after hearing Padme's dead Force ghost - Yoda mentions to Obi-wan about Qui-gon's ghost trick
A New Hope
Force grip - Vader lifts rebel captain (or is he just strong?) Mind trick - Obi-wan scares sandpeople away from Luke (or was it just a krayt dragon call?) Force heal - Obi-wan returns Luke to consciousness (or was he close to waking up already?) Force grip - Vader chokes Admiral Motti Mind trick - Obi-wan "These are not the droids you're looking for" Lightsaber combat - Obi-wan in the cantina Lightsaber combat - Luke vs Remote Sense Force - Obi-wan feels Alderaan's destruction, "That's no moon, it's a space station" Sense Force - Vader feels Obi-wan's presence on Death Star Mind trick - Obi-wan makes a fake noise to distract Lightsaber combat - Vader vs Obi-wan Force ghost - Obi-wan "If you strike me down..." Force Pilot - Luke bullseyes wamp rats in his T-16, Attack on Death Star (Luke and Vader) ??? - Luke uses the Force to hit to exhaust port
Empire Strikes Back
Force pull - Luke pulls lightsaber from snow Force ghost - Obi-wan "You will go to the Dagobah system..." Force grip - Vader kills Admiral Ozzel over telescreen Force ghost - Obi-wan talks to Yoda, convince him to train Luke Force grip - Vader kills Captain Needa Force jump/speed - Luke's training in the swamp Lightsaber combat - Luke vs Vader illusion? Telekinesis - Luke's camp, R2, X-wing Farseeing - Luke sees Han/Leia in trouble, Yoda can't/won't Absorb energy/Force pull - Vader deflects blaster with hand, disarms Han Force ghost - Obi-wan tries to convince Luke to finish training Lightsaber combat - Vader vs Luke Telekinesis - Vader flips carbonite switch Force jump - Luke escapes chamber Force pull - Luke retrieves lightsaber Telekinesis - Vader throws lots of objects at Luke Sense danger - Luke manages to avoid sneak attack death Projected Telepathy - Luke calls to Leia (or is that a twin thing?) Telepathy - Luke and Vader talk over Force chat line
Return of the Jedi
Force grip - Luke vs Gamorreans Mind Trick - Luke vs Jabba, fails Telekinesis - Luke throws rock at Rancor door control (or was it just a good throw?) Force jump - Luke jumps off plank, up and over guard Force pull - Luke pulls lightsaber after R2 ejects it Lightsaber combat - Luke vs Jabba minions Force jump - Luke, skiff to barge Force ghost - Obi-wan tells Luke about Anakin Sense force - Vader/Luke sense each other on shuttle/command ship Lightsaber combat - Luke vs speeder Telekinesis - Luke levitates C-3PO Sense Force - Leia senses Luke is her brother ? Telekinesis - Emperor unlocks Luke's handcuffs Sense Force/Emotion - Emperor/Vader sense Luke's emotions/thoughts Lightsaber combat - Vader vs Luke Force jump - Luke onto catwalk Throw Lightsaber - Vader cuts down catwalk Force Lightning - Emperor vs Luke Sense Force - Leia senses Luke is still alive Force ghost - Anakin, Obi-wan, and Yoda at the end
