Yeah, mate please do. I posted the thread, and I reckon it would fit under the theme here, let's switch things up, instead of debates. Let's now have samples, of the jedi you have created, maybe from inspiration from media or through what you have seen from the iconics.

Oddly enough I used Peace Keeper to begin with given how often I saw her commanding troops, and then went Soresu Defender. I can see that this may be an odd approach, though. From recollection it took me about 150 bonus XP to get her up to what we see on screen. And then the projected adult version I plan to use in the game took her to about 200XP more on top of that. I found I had everything I thought she'd realistically have by that point.

Very interesting choice, and a bit controversial since by fluff Ashoka used Shien, any particular reason you chose Soresu, beside it being a career spec?

How did you spread the points? when i try to build the iconic charcters i am alwsy in doubt how to balance their saber spec with the Force spec, and the skills. I guess that in her adult version you managed to give her at least FR2 (which is a bloody long way in peacekeer)?

Would you care to post your build, it think it would fit with the thread theme.

Sure. I'm working from someone else's copy so my access is sporadic. The reason I went Soresu Defender as I recall was because the description said it was largely about staying alive in dangerous situations and protection and a lot of what I saw Asoka do in TCW when she wasn't leading soldiers, was exactly that. She was always leaping in front of people or surviving some nightmare assault. Additionally the talent tree was full of defensive talents and reflect - again one of Asoka's mainstays. I'm not actually familiar with much fluff, everything I've got is from on screen so I didn't know she was supposed to be Shien. I also needed the extra Force point for her to get some of the abilities I'd seen her use.

I'll post the build if you're interested. Though I may have to mentally backtrack to get to the young version. What I was doing with it though was actually just using the PC rules to get a feel for it, and then I was going to turn her into a Nemesis character as that's how my players will be meeting her. Would you be interested in that version as I think it's most useful? I've not quite finished that but I'm nearly there.

Yeah, mate please do. I posted the thread, and I reckon it would fit under the theme here, let's switch things up, instead of debates. Let's now have samples, of the jedi you have created, maybe from inspiration from media or through what you have seen from the iconics.

Okay. I'll do the Nemesis version rather than a PC build as that's both easier for me and I think more useful.

Just before I do, I'll say I'm very interested in feedback and suggestions. I'm pretty new to this so if you spot a mistake it'll be taken as help, not criticism.

Okay, here goes:

Asoka Tano, adult version. [Nemesis]

Attributes: Brawn 3, Agility 3, Intellect 3, Cunning 3, Willpower 4, Presence 3

Skills: Athletics 3, Brawl 4, Cool 3, Deception 1, Discipline 4, Leadership 3, Lightsabre 3, Melee 2, Piloting (Planetary) 2, Piloting (Space) 3, Resilliance 3, Vigilance 4

Talents:

• Adversary 3
• Force Rating 3
• Enhance (Spend FP to gain Successes or Advantages on Athletics, Piloting (Planetary), Piloting (Space) checks)
• Force Leap (Power check to leap anywhere vertically or horizontally in Short Range as a Maneuver, spend 1FP to increase to Medium range)
• Bind (Spend 1FP to immobilize target in Short range as an action, add 1FP to increase to Medium range, spend 2FP per additional target)
• Move (Spend 1FP to move object of Silhouette 0 to Medium range)
• Second Wind (once per enounter take an Incidental to recover 2 Strain)
• Parry (When hit by Brawl or Melee attack may spend 3 Strain and reduce damage taken by 4 and automatically hit the attacker)
• Reflect (when hit by ranged attack may take 3 Strain and reduce damage by 5)
• Defensive Circle (may make a Hard Lightsabre (Intellect) action and add Defense 1 to seld plus 1 ally in Short range per hit. Increase Defence by 1 per two advantage)
• Field Commander (may make an average Leadership check and suffer one strain to give 3 allies a bonus Maneuver).

Gear: 2x Shoto Lightsabres w. modified Illium Crystals (Green) - Damage 5, Crit 1, Accuracy 1, Breach 1, Sunder, Viscious 2

Notes: We get to see an adult version of Asoka very briefly in the Mortis sequence. She's pretty imposing so I brought her up to Brawn 3. I also brought her up to Force 3 after some deliberation. The Jedi in a published adventure (name ommitted because spoilers) had Force 3 so I'm okay with that. It's a little high possibly, but I calculate by the period my game is set (Ep IV) she'd be about mid-thirties or late thirties.

Adversary 3 was a tricky one. But the published Jedi has Adversary 2 and I think Asoka ranks equivalent to some of the inquistors (or better) so it didn't seem unreasonable.

There were more talents that I should have put in there, really. But it was getting pretty silly for a Nemesis character so I finished up with Field Commander just to reflect her military command experience and called it a day.

I have to say, I hadn't really looked at Lightsabres or the Dual Wielding rules before. Now I've read both it seems to me that Lightsabres can be pretty scary. Not sure if the Shoto is the best choice for her, but my reasoning is that she fought with two sabres and the book says that the Shoto was popular with dual wielders. Also, she left the order when she was young so may have had smaller sabres at the time. Without much opportunity to train with others or build more, she might still have her originals. She'd be pretty comfortable with them by now. I did let her add some mods (but not all) to them as left alone they're a little weak. In her hands now though, she should be critting away like nobody's business. If the PCs get in an actual fight with her (I mostly hope they don't but it's their choice) then I hope a couple of quick swipes will get them to back off!

Thoughts, comments?

KnasserII, after the Enhance Talent it should read "gain successes or advantages".

Other than that I don't see any "errors." Although, didn't Asoka use a 'standard' Lightsaber and a shoto, not two shoto?

Nice one

Maybe swap Ag by Will? Also, can you try to do a more "easy to read" version please?

Also I'm wondering, the maybe she fits more in the Shien role. By the way, good one

Okay, here goes:

Asoka Tano, adult version. [Nemesis]

Thoughts, comments?

It would be great to put each character in a new thread. Might get more eyeballs and focussed commentary.

Overall I like it, I think the characteristics are nailed. Willpower 4 is completely suitable, or ...cue Anakin saying "No one has her kind of determination"*...which makes me think a 5 isn't out of the question. I think she uses a normal and a shoto lightsaber, and I'd expect at least one to be maxed.

* to which Plo replies: "Except you"

KnasserII, after the Enhance Talent it should read "gain successes or advantages".

Other than that I don't see any "errors." Although, didn't Asoka use a 'standard' Lightsaber and a shoto, not two shoto?

Honestly, I'm not sure how I would tell. She was (I have no idea) 14 maybe in TCW series? I'm not sure how long a period its set over. Perhaps say started 14 and then left around 17? In all of this anyway, she was a pretty small person physically. I know Anakin is tall but even next to Obi Wan she was diminutive. So I was saying to myself - probably smaller lightsabres. They look the same size to me, but I could be wrong. Open to changing them. Thought about it. I actually thought that given she's not much of a brute force combatant, the Accuracy quality would actually help her with scoring lots of Crits. I'm not much of an expert with the combat system in this yet, but it seems to me that a (relatively) low Damage weapon but which had Breach 1, would go really well with Accuracy, Vicious a really low Crit rating and a skilled wielder who would score lots of advantages. The fact that she has TWO of them should make her able to slice her way through minions at a rate of knots, which seems to suit the show. And it should give PCs a bit of a fright as well.

But correct me if I'm wrong. I've read the rules, but I only have actual practical experience of low-level fights so far.

EDIT: I've corrected "hits" to "successes". Thanks.

Nice one

Maybe swap Ag by Will? Also, can you try to do a more "easy to read" version please?

Also I'm wondering, the maybe she fits more in the Shien role. By the way, good one

I wasn't quite sure what you meant by "easy to read" but I've put it in a quote box so it's easier to see where it begins and ends and I've put each talent on a separate line. I hope that helps.

Okay, here goes:

Asoka Tano, adult version. [Nemesis]

Thoughts, comments?

It would be great to put each character in a new thread. Might get more eyeballs and focussed commentary.

Overall I like it, I think the characteristics are nailed. Willpower 4 is completely suitable, or ...cue Anakin saying "No one has her kind of determination"*...which makes me think a 5 isn't out of the question. I think she uses a normal and a shoto lightsaber, and I'd expect at least one to be maxed.

* to which Plo replies: "Except you"

Thanks for the feedback. It's appreciated. I'll break this out into a separate thread then if you think that's worth doing.

Peace and coolness,

K.

Okay. As suggested, I've moved the write-up to a different thread:

http://community.fantasyflightgames.com/index.php?/topic/121790-iconic-write-ups/

Please put any feedback, comments, outrage over there, please - for the sake of board coherency.