Making Skywalker!

By DemonDogma, in Star Wars: Edge of the Empire RPG

So I have been trying to find a lot of favorites from the movies and have been having a hard time I don't know if its because people have not tried, have not put them up on here or if its me not looking deep. I have come up with my own Luke he is based off of the end of ROTJ. I hope to even push him to when he calls him self a master 10 years after the battle of Hoth.

Total XP:955

Brawn:2

Agility:3

Intellect:2

Cunning:2

Willpower:3

Presence:2

Career: Ace

Specs Pilot, Force Sensitive Emergent, Shien Expert, Peacekeeper

Ranks in Skills:

Astrogation:1

Cool:1

Deception:2

Discipline:5

Lore:3

Mechanics:1

Outer Rim:1

Piloting-P:2

Piloting-S:2

Resilience:1

Underworld:1

Gunnery:1

Lightsaber:4

Ranged Light:1

Talents:

Command :2

Commanding Presence:1

Conditioned:1

Confidence:1

CounterStrike

Enhanced Leader

Field Commander

Field Commander (Improved)

Force Rating:2

Full Throttle

Full Throttle (Improved)

Let's Ride

Natural Pilot

Parry:2

Rapid Recovery:1

Reflect:1

Sense Danger

Side Step:1

Skilled Jockey:1

Street Smarts:1

Touch of Fat

Toughened:4

Uncanny Reactions:1

Uncanny Senses:1

Force Abilities:

Enhance Basic Power

Control: Force Leap (horizontal)

Foresee Basic Power

Influence Basic Power

Control: Emotion/Belief

Misdirect Basic Power

Move Basic Power

Magnitude

Strength

Range

Seek Basic Power

Magnitude

Control: Skills

Sense Basic Power

Control: Sense Thoughts

Range

Magnitude

Bind Basic Power

Range

Magnitude

Weapons

Basic LightSaber

Armor

Concealing Robes

Gear

Repli-Limb Prosthetic (limb)

Looks pretty decent skill, talent, and Force Power wise, but his characteristics are woefully low. He should have spent all of his starting XP as a human on characteristics. Give him +10 XP for +10 Obligation since he obviously comes with a lot of baggage (daddy issues). Means he should at least start with 3/3/2/3/3/2. Give him at least 1 or 2 Dedication talents and he should be at something like 3/4/2/3/3/3.

Touch of Fat

A talent I try to avoid.

Street Smarts:1

Touch of Fat

Toughened:4

I was going to propose some alternative options, but this just made the build perfect.

Touch of Fat

A talent I try to avoid.

It's pretty good for Hutt characters, I hear...

Characteristics are imho fine, piloting could need some upgrades and you forgot leadership. He does not need to have the squadron commander spec to be a squadron commander, peacekeeper works very fine in that regard, but he needs at least a few ranks in leadership to make use of his rogue squadron.

edit: Oh and I would assume that Luke has the full enhance tree, posting his pilot stats with the force is something he seems to have done at the end of ANH already. (at that time with piloting 2 indeed)

Edited by SEApocalypse

He is supposed to be a better pilot than wedge but perhaps not as good as Han, I'd say in Star Wars he had a better than most piloting skill being able to waltz straight I into Red Squadron puts him better than your average pro ( rank 2 IMO ) so I'd put him at piloting 3 at the end of A New Hope, and 4 later, Han was maybe a 5 , a rank I would also hold for Hera from rebels and Anakin / Vader

I know he could enhance it but he didn't seem to channel the force while navigating the trench,the proton torpedo shot perhaps, but not the flying.

Better than wedge? Not even Soontir Fel is supposed to be better than Wedge :P

And btw, keep in mind with enhance you can increase your ability in piloting, not only by raising agility, but as well by simply rolling force dice as part of the piloting check, which is kind of stronger than just upgrading greens to yellow, just makes Triumphs less likely, while positive rolls more likely. Han, Wedge, Fel, Anakin are all for sure Rank 5, Anakin is unlike his son most likely a Warrior / Starfighter Ace which gives him so very special force abilities for vehicle combat and fits very well the mediocre squadron leader (not the spec), but brilliant piloting from Anakin which we see in TCWs. Shame that he constantly forgets that his squadmates do not have intuitive evasion. His son on the other hand build rogue squadron and seemed to have been quite the good squadron leader (this time the spec as well).

And then there is the option of the GM allowing sense to be used in the death star trench because combat was happening in such close range. *g*

Edited by SEApocalypse

At the time of A New Hope Skywalker surpassed Wedges high score on a simulator (albeitmnwith Wedges help), this is what secured his place in Red Squadron. Given how little. Combat experience Luke had vs Wedge at this time I'd rank him higher than Wedge. Later on as time went on , perhaps not. Certainly by the time of the swing novels Wedge is definitely a 5.

The real differentiation between pilots will be in their Talents. You'd be better off with a Piloting of 2 or 3 and Talents that raise the difficulty to be hit and make Gaining the Advantage easier and Boosts to Gunnery to help kill the other opponent, than just having a 4 or 5 in Piloting.

Making Skywalker?

I think you might need a "hand".

From the source books, the first two ranks represent someone with training but no experience 3 and 4 is an experienced professional, and 5 is Olympiad standard,

Luke even at the time of a new hope is an experienced pilot.

From the source books, the first two ranks represent someone with training but no experience 3 and 4 is an experienced professional, and 5 is Olympiad standard,

Luke even at the time of a new hope is an experienced pilot.

In that case I concede this point. 3 at ANH it is, enhance on top of this and 4 at his later points in his career, never bothering with 5 as using the force to boost his skills seemed sufficient for him.

So making ROTJ Luke space and planetary rank 4 making leadership 3 and Adding Squadron leader with Grit, Let's Ride, Field Commander, and Command was a total of 180 more XP. I feel this is as better Luke then what I had and have not moved his characteristics because it gives him room to train still as he is not yet down with his training and is not yet a master. What do you guys think?