Hey everyone.
One of my players has expressed interest in becoming force sensitive and obtaining a lightsaber. Not a unique situation, I'm sure. Her character is already skilled with Melee. It is inconsistent to me that your skill with all the other melee weapons does not carry over to using the light saber. Clearly there is a difference to swinging a saber but does it really require a whole new skill, or does it require a sensitivity to the blade through the force?
A house rule I am considering is changing the use of a Lightsaber be covered by the Melee skill rather than it being it's own separate skill.
I am looking for ideas on how to do about this. My initial idea is to increase/upgrade the difficulty of the melee skill check a number of times. The number of times would go down the more force sensitive the character is .
Maybe upgrade the difficulty 4 times, less one time per force rating and one additional time if the saber was built by the user.
Any ideas?