Model 77 rifle at long range with cortosis darts loaded with Ranqor venom vrs Force Users.

Model 77 wins almost every time....

Especially when the only path leading to you is mined with gas...

Also flame troopers Force users can't parry or reflect fire...

a flame thrower is insignifiant in front of the Force

They do seem to say that a lot until the burning and the screaming and the dying begins.

I like the idea of the training lightsabers. I was hesitant to make the lightsabers less powerful because they are flipping lightsabers! They are supposed to be crazy awesome. That's why I went for the tactic of making them harder to use. But I am concerned tweaking the rules will ruin the game play.

As mentioned above, beefing up the npc's seems like the best way to go. I'll have to do that in the long run anyway, when/if the pc's get a lightsaber.

I'm glad to see it hasn't been an issue in your games.

We're playing a FaD campaign. Everyone in the party is a force user and has a light saber. We can be worn down by fighting lots of advisories (whole camp of pirates) for example. Also things can get difficult when the goal is not, "kill everyone". Instead rescue the prisoners from the pirate camp.

BUT, if you want just a few individuals to challenge the party, then you pretty much need them to be other force users with light sabers (like say inquisitors). That's pretty normal and dare I say realistic with the Star Wars universe. Light sabers are super powerful.

As others have mentioned depending on timeline, socially you can punish them for using them in places that would draw too much attention.

All your ideas on how to nerf the use of lightsabers would IMO detract too heavily from the fun factor of what a light saber is suppose to be.

Decorus, on 07 Dec 2015 - 2:04 PM, said:

They do seem to say that a lot until the burning and the screaming and the dying begins.

Funny, character like Yoda or Obiwan dont look like the kind of people you can burn that easely, and I am not even talking about what Vader could do to your flame troopers.

Vader is an excellent example of why fire is bad...