A player had pretty cool Idea for a character based on professor X from the X-men.
He wanted to play a Scholarly type of character with force abilities that's paralyzed from the waist down and rides around in a hover wheelchair like Cleigg Lars in episode 2. He even asked if he could get some extra XP for his disability, which is not unreasonable since we both played World Of Darkness games together, but a merit and flaws system for SW probably deserves its own thread.
I'm thinking its definitely a disadvantage in that without the chair a movement of 5' tops dragging himself along the ground. The character would be prevented from piloting many vehicles. There would also be many simple day to day tasks that would be more challenging. Hovering flying around is definitely an advantage in many situations, his hoverchair could be modded with hard points, a droid intelligence, etc. However the chair would require maintenance like any other gear and could be damaged in combat, an enemy rolls advantages but no successes on attack roll may hit the hoverchair, and re-disable the character, or worse.
Being "handicapped" may also be a advantage/disadvantage in certain social situations. The character may receive boost die when dealing with compassionate types of people, and may receive setback dice when dealing with sith, mandalorian types who may look down on the character for being weak or worthless.
I'm Thinking of giving 15-25 extra XP or a fully loaded up chair with cool gear at Character creation, not sure yet. Or maybe a little of both.
Anyway I'd like to hear your thought's opinions on handling this, another thing I was wondering about this would be regarding athletics checks and the athletics skill. Can a character take ranks in athletics? I think so but, there are some things being paralyzed your never going to be able to do like, jump a chasm, but climb a rope, yes, more difficult maybe but possible.