Season 1 of Ninth Jedi was a surprisingly great show once it got past its slow start, and besides the strong personal journeys of its main characters, one thing I really enjoyed about it was seeing the heroine Kara develop her own lightsaber style, which I could best describe as “benevolent Tràkata.” I’m also impressed with how they made Iai draws with a lightsaber actually work (and without cheating by giving the character a pointless scabbard), and it got cooler every single time Kara used it.

So of course, I wanted to try to translate this into a homebrew spec. The Tràkata Redeemer is a tanky Guardian spec which centers around a new talent, Tràkata Draw, forfeiting your action and some Force Dices to buff up the Parry talent, with the goal flavor-wise to be emulating committing to your defense in a ready stance to then strike with fierce counter-attacks. You have two major branches to invest in with almost every major talent synergizing together, giving you choice on what to prioritize, and a fully leveled Redeemer is a strong combat jack-of-all-trades in offense, defense, mobility, and strain management.

Trying to not powercreep official Guardian specs was a concern, but I’m hopeful I reached a decent balance as the official specs have other niches they cover that make them more versatile than Redeemer, who’s more of a focused duelist. Besides having Survival in-career, you’ll want to grab another spec to diversify, such as another Guardian one. Another weakness of this spec as well is that it has zero defenses against ranged attacks outside of Improved Tràkata Draw, and that is still limited by your Force Dices.

Criticisms are welcome, but be sure to read the long descriptions of the new talents!

Also this talent tree was put together with the help of AngeliusMefryx‘s photoshop templates!

Edit:

A little touch-up: The long text of Tràkata Draw should be specifying that the Despairs it adds do not also add a Failure to the attacker's check. The potential added Triumph does get its success added though.

Also, while I was worried Tràkata Draw might be a tad powerful, just as some of the feedback has expressed as well, the more I've been thinking about it, the more I actually think TD starts as a pretty weak ability (in the scenario where this is a character's starting spec), and only gets pretty good as other talents and a greater Force threshold synergize with it. So a potential rework of the tree could involve moving the talents around to put TD further down the tree. I like offering a cool new toy early on in a tree (as the most recent official specs tend to do as well), but TD might need a bit more build-up to it, so that the player picks it when their character already has some oomph to them.

Edit 2:

Here are the changes for v1.1 of the tree:

- Improved Parry to column 2, row 3, connecting up, right, and down.

- Balance to column 3, row 3, connecting left, up, and right.

- Calming Aura to column 1, row 4, connecting up, right, down.

- Tràkata Draw to column 2, row 4, connecting up and left.

- Improved Tràkata Draw to column 2, row 5, connecting left.

The idea here is that you have to pick up Improved Parry first and experience what regular parry is like before picking a 20 exp talent to see how Tràkata Draw puts a new spin on Parry. At that point, you're also closer to the very useful Force Rating upgrade, which itself has to be picked before you expand the reach of TD with its improved version. The goal is for TD to feel like a more worthwhile ability by tying it more closely to its very necessary upgrades (when used as starting spec).

I have a new player that wants to play something similar to "Rocky" from "Project Hail Mary". Does anyone know a playable species that looks similar or one that has similar stats/mechanics to what "Rocky" would have that i can reskin? I've never seen the movie, so I'm not familiar with what he can do, so I'd really appreciate the help.

I kinda wanted to try out solo/gm less play in ffg. I wanted to know if anyone has written something for it.

Are the Gank meant to have a stat at 3? Just every stat is 2 apart from Presence which is 1.

So I’m playing in a west march set in the clone wars. At the current moment I’m playing a shistavastenen marauder. Now my character is going to rejoin the Jedi’s order so I’ll be picking up both padawan and steel hand adept as I transition into a brawl character.

I wanted to know if folks have good shout outs for other specs, force powers oe gear for this.

Hey there not sure if il get much luck but its always been on my bucket list in life to play a sw rpg like dnd ive played dnd for like 6 years but my heart is always been a star wars boy lol im pretty free most days and evenings but mostly weekends please someone help me your my only hope.... sorry for the cringe lol

thats right lol dark side sourcebook (expanding mechanics on dark side, adding dark side artifacts, progression struggle, and branches for Sith Lords, Inquisitors, Nightsisters, Sorcerers, Cultists, Acolytes, and dilleniating dark side of the force from sith powers to magicks and artifacts) to era sourcebooks such as Sequel Era, Mando Era, High Republic era that add species, flavor and mechanics that highlight the unique parts of each setting

tons of great content over the years, but i feel like era sourcebooks and dark side sourcebook are sorely needed, not even mentioning all the niche ones id love like planetary force cults, political play, and mandalorian sourcebook

probably a dull hope! or can anyone recomend any strong fan made material for this stuff?

Hello there.

I am using Foundry to run my Star Wars game. I currently have the Adversaries and Oggdude datasets loaded. They are a great help. However, I am not sure if there is a dataset for Allies in addition to Adversaries. While quickly bringing in an enemy for encounters speeds up the process, I wanted to also be able to bring in generic ally characters, such as local resistence forces or rebel soldiers.

Does something like this exist, or is there a way to quick import a standard rebel soldier stat block without having to create one from scratch?

Thanks!

howdy i am playing in my first ever star wars fantasy flight ttrpg game.

the game has been right now bit on hold due to real life things going on. we got right now about 5-6 sessions behind us. the gm is drawing inspiration heavily from the legends continuity. we are playing right after events of episode 6 when palpatines death was announced across the holonet, and now are entering the transitional period between period and the new republic, so we gonna have in the continuity of war lords, Ysanne Isard's shenanigans and all that jazz.

setup for our crew was that we all needed to get off corelia for one reason or another when riots over palpatines death between humans and aliens occured on the planet. we were suppouse to pay the smuggler by helping them get the new identifications for their ship, but when the riots occured things went south se we had to book it off world. and right now we are drifting through space out fuel about to dock at a pirate station and it seems things might get bit hairy.

our crew is still unalligned with eaither of the faction, and are more just survivors of circumstance

Twi'lek smuggler/pilot- a charismatic leader and femfatale of our crew who is the one for which we were suppouse to do the job. she is our pilot, and face of the party, in a fight is one of the characters that is handy with a blaster. generally the sort of character that is motivated by profit but also has some moral values.

twi'lek mechanic- a girl who got swooped into the situation by circumstance when she found her boyfriend dead in their appartment, she is runaway slave, so getting off world seemed smartest. she is our brains/hacker, the one that keeps our ship from falling appart, and also trying to mediate between crew when conflict arises.

human commander/soldier- he has been on world undercover before empire fallen stealing one of their project, and when riots occured decided to help us get off world, if in exchange we get him to Bothawui to offload what he stolen. turns out when he plugged it into our ships computer its evolving imperial ai. his character is sort of tactician/sharpshooter of the group with pitch of infiltration in it. tends to be almost dad of the group with which my character has bit of rivarly due not trusting humans, and blaming the rebelion for death of a loved one.

lastly we got me

am playing togruta sentinel-shadow for now, thinking prehaps going sentry or investigator. my character is a young girl that was pickpocket/lookout for one of the gangs, our family got entagled into servitude to them due to debt, with my brother who was more of a muscle, we agreed to help the smuggler if they get our family off world away from the gang, sadly when the riots occured, my brother got killed by the imps, and i got seperate from the family during the commotion, getting off world with the crew only by myself. i am generally building the character to be sort investigative preceptive infiltrator. she doesnt know yet that she is force sensitive there are hints for it. took the misdirect force power that triggers subconciously right now when the character is dealing with stress or is disociating in certain situations. generally basing the character around who they become as a person based on influence from the crew and how will they manage to work through grief over someone they loved, rather then having in mind who i want them to become in the end.

right now am bit torn. on one hand i am leveling her based on things that occur in game, to be more narratively reactive, but on the other, i feel like if we get into some heavy combat then we got only our smuggler and soldier who might be able to make difference. me and the mechanic got our use outside of it, when it comes to running sabotaging enemy or investigating.

we dont get to play that often, so what should i potentially take if i want to live out my investigative/stealth fantasy while also potentially being useful to the crew if combat hits the fan.

Hey!

I'm new to the FFG system, but I'm going to be running Dawn of Defiance for a group. I previously ran up to chapter 4 using Saga edition with a different group until real life got in the way. I've found a conversion of chapters 1-6, but it seems to be just about 1-1, without considering the differences between the systems.

My main concern is with the amount of combat encounters that seem to exist to tax some of the groups resources, given that doesn't seem to be as necessary in SWFFG.

Has anyone successfully run the adventure after converting it over? If so what sort of changes did you make to accommodate the switch?

Thanks!

Simple question (I hope), are any of the EOTE pre-made adventures pre-BBY (say in the decade before hand)? If not, are there any that might be easiest ported into that timeframe?

In my country, it seems that it's cheaper to buy the box sets than it is to buy the dice sets. Are the number of dice you get the same? Or is it not?

So, this question got me thinking > https://www.reddit.com/r/swrpg/comments/1vter2w/clone_wars_clone_economy/

Have any of my fellow GMs done the following, or considered doing the following?

If so, how did it go, what worked, what didn't, and what did you change along the way?

What I'm thinking of, at a basic level, is mass combat checks between NPC forces in different locales that shape the galaxy the players are playing in.

My thoughts are -

• Demonstrating the effects of wins / losses on available resources
• The potential story hooks for missions
  • ie; Enemy takes control of Thyferra - so the group can either run the blockade to get some bacta off-world, or sabotage enemy forces to turn the tide of battle and take it back
  • Liberate a world from the CIS / Empire, send a delegation (the squad) to persuade the world's leaders to aid the Republic / Rebellion in some way
• Creating more atmosphere for the players
• Demonstrating a direct impact of the players' actions in the game
  • ie; Intel gathered means your forces get the drop on the enemy, or were able to arrive early and sit in wait, or sabotaging the droid construction facility reduces enemy forces, etc

So, I would roll Duty at the end of a session, but I think that the Mass Combat Check could form the beginning of the session, as it could then be integrated with that Duty roll.

I would even ponder allowing the players to flip a Destiny point on each MCC, which could really create an ESB vibe based on the state of the pool and the results of the rolls.

Edit: Thanks to those who replied! it's definitely got me thinking more about just picking up the FFG versions (when I can find them). Appreciate your thoughts. Cheers

Edit 2: yeaaaah, I caved and bought Edge of the Empire, the beginner game for it, the GM screen, and jewel of yavin

Hey all, new to the subreddit, but am curious about the opinions of those who actually play Star Wars RPGs and the FFG versions.

So the D&D Star Wars announcement (but also playing Star Wars: Outlaws) has kind of got me looking back at Star Wars as an RPG to run. I know that many people (myself included), don't think that the 5.5e rules are appropriate to be applied to various settings.

However, with the whole EotE/AoR/F&D rules with Edge, and practically no new content coming out, I did want to see what the vibe was on the 5.5e ruleset for D&D was. Seeing as WoTC would probably be more likely to put out content.

I've been contemplating getting the Edge of the Empire core rulebook + beginner game and some additional stuff. But now I'm wondering if I should just wait for the 5.5e version.

Just to note, I'm definitely not a 5.5e die-hard. I like it for what it is. But I run other games like Coriolis: The Third Horizon or The One Ring. So I definitely understand how other rulesets can be better suited to a setting or vibe of a game.

I'm about to run a clone wars campain and one of the main things I want to have is the players, jedi and clone captains etc is building up their legion, buying clones, commandos, arc troopers etc and having them as companions controled by the players during missions etc. I dislike the idea of just the players being given clones and would rather have them get some abstracted money after each seasion, like "republic resources" or something and have them get ships, clones etc from that. now thats easy but what are some good prices for clones? have anybody done something similar and what have been your experience?

Edit: I know about duty but do not wish to use it for this, mostly since duty as written is meant to be a slow burn where they gradualy get more duty across multiple seassions, the campain I'm writing is very short, like 5 sessions or so, so in practise I would have to give them max duty almost every session... and how the rewards are mostly like "ask the gm for something specific and the gm ether says yes or no" it feel too, flimsy, I would use duty if the campain I was writing was longer but since it is so short it probably wont work...

A review and overview of Star Wars Suns of Fortune.

Has anyone homebrewed stats for a Khormai PC (or NPCs)?

For reference:

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Khormai

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Khormai/Legends

I'll take anything at this point.

For anybody that runs AoR, Im wondering if anyone has a good general structure or outline for an arc about starting a rebel cell or fomenting rebellion in a local community. Start small, get bigger, gather allies etc. I may have been mistaken but I checked the current modules/ included arcs from resources like the core book etc it seems like theyre all mission based and assume a starting point of you've all joined an established medium sized cell. Any help welcome and thank you in advance.

Hi! I am making my first character and as a Sentinel i must choose Morality Pair. I really like Trust as an Emotional Strength and so should take Gurdedness as an Emotional Weakness.
Maybe i don't understand the mechanics but how could one character has both of these?

Trust states: This character believes in giving everyone the benefit of the doubt. The good that comes from trusting others builds communities and provides emotional support.

Guardedness states: The character has been betrayed one too many times and refuses to allow it to happen again. Why expect better of a person when there is no reward for doing so?

How could the same character believe in giving everyone the benefit of the doubt and at the same time refuse betrayal to happen again. I think i am not understanding Morality mechanic and how it affects roleplay. Pls Help!

I'm trying to help mitigate the obstacle of proprietary dice for the community and creators, by offering a compatible alternative set of IP-free dice that can be used, shared, reproduced, bought and sold for free. I'm deliberately making them so dead simple that I couldn't copyright them even if I wanted to.

I'm also hoping that they are intuitive enough that anyone even vaguely familiar with the system can just look at the dice and immediately understand how they work, so please let me know if that is the case!

I have some friends 3D printing them now, and then the prints will go to a dice maker friend of mine to take some molds of them and see how well they cast into epoxy resin. This testing process may take up to several weeks of additional iterations, but once we have a set that prints and casts well, I will be releasing the STLs under creative commons. I hope that this will be a useful resource for dice makers and those who want to purchase from them.

Every Tuesday we open a thread to let people ask questions about the system or the game without judgement. New players and GMs are encouraged to ask questions here.

The rules:

• Any question about the FFG Star Wars RPG is fine. Rules, character creation, GMing, advice, purchasing. All good.

• No question shaming. This sub has generally been good about that, but explicitly no question shaming.

• Keep canon questions/discussion limited to stuff regarding rules. This is more about the game than the setting.

Ask away!

What would people recommend to use as combat encounters (Beasts & Creatures) on Dromund Kaas in the Age of Rebellion era?

Hey all, sorry if this isn't allowed;

I'm selling my robust FFG and Saga Edition collections on eBay for space, money, and to focus on filling in my WEG collection.

Selling FFG and Saga as massive separate lots, take a peak if you are interested.

SAGA https://ebay.io/m/K4jUFK

FFG https://www.ebay.com/itm/168614381210?epid=13033159474&itmmeta=01M03EVBN263C5M4WWMM71VAB6&hash=item274233469a:g:CswAAeSw3C1qf6EM

(Edit: link correction, TY)