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How does the Longbow work? Could be a nice alternative, especially for the ewok of our group, but I don't know how its limited ammo works. My problem is, that there are no prices set for arrows. Sure, there is the "extra reload" item for 25 credits, which acts as a really general form of ammunition, but the price is very off then. For example you buy a light blaster for 300 and 1 extra reload, then for 325 credits you can fire until you roll a despair, and then again until you roll a despair. And if I get it right, between encounters the pistol reloads without the use of an extra reload.

With a longbow (cost 120) you can get 8 (8.2) reloads for the same prize. So for the same price of a light blaster you get only 9 shots out of the longbow. So why should anyone take a longbow?

Its been called out on every bow released in its text, if you have to put a cost to the arrows that they cost 1 credit each, for standard arrows.

Oh my god.. I totally did not see that part of text.. Thanks

The Limited Ammo quality just means you need to spend a Manoeuvre after every attack (and before the first attack if appropriate) to notch an arrow.

Personally I wouldn't impose an actual credit cost or start counting standard arrows unless there is a reason they are in short supply. Perhaps time is significantly limited and there is no time to craft replacements, or materials to replace them are unavailable.

That's how I handle it in my Pathfinder group. Standard, non-magical arrows are not counted, but if an attack roll shows a natural 1 (failure in Pathfinder), the typical "grab into the empty quiver" happens, like in so many movies.

16 minutes ago, MasterZelgadis said:

That's how I handle it in my Pathfinder group. Standard, non-magical arrows are not counted, but if an attack roll shows a natural 1 (failure in Pathfinder), the typical "grab into the empty quiver" happens, like in so many movies.

Despair is a good surrogate for nat 1 ?

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Been watching people stream Breath of the Wild for a week, and this mention of longbows in Star Wars makes me want to put together a Jedi Archer of some sort. Does anyone have any good ideas for where to start on such a build?

6 minutes ago, Winchester3 said:

Been watching people stream Breath of the Wild for a week, and this mention of longbows in Star Wars makes me want to put together a Jedi Archer of some sort. Does anyone have any good ideas for where to start on such a build?

Executioner. Hunter. Pathfinder. Probably something in the Warrior book when that comes out.

On 3/10/2017 at 4:43 AM, MasterZelgadis said:

That's how I handle it in my Pathfinder group. Standard, non-magical arrows are not counted, but if an attack roll shows a natural 1 (failure in Pathfinder), the typical "grab into the empty quiver" happens, like in so many movies.

In D&D, where my every arrow was accounted for, my bowstring would snap under similar circumstances. I used my bow as a melee weapon on more than a few occasions.

9 hours ago, Winchester3 said:

Been watching people stream Breath of the Wild for a week, and this mention of longbows in Star Wars makes me want to put together a Jedi Archer of some sort. Does anyone have any good ideas for where to start on such a build?

Make sure you have your bow break in the middle of intense fights. Also carry 5 bows for this very reason,

8 hours ago, Richardbuxton said:

Executioner. Hunter. Pathfinder. Probably something in the Warrior book when that comes out.

Hunter and Pathfinder are Seeker specializations, but where does Executioner come from?

4 minutes ago, Edgehawk said:

In D&D, where my every arrow was accounted for, my bowstring would snap under similar circumstances. I used my bow as a melee weapon on more than a few occasions.

Thing is, a Nat 1 is a 1 in 20 chance on any roll. Despair is only possible in combat in EoE if you're fighting a rival or nemesis, or if your GM flips a fate point, and then it's a 1 in 12, or worse (1 in 6 for at least one despair on two red dice, 1 in 144 for two).

3 hours ago, Winchester3 said:

Hunter and Pathfinder are Seeker specializations, but where does Executioner come from?

Thing is, a Nat 1 is a 1 in 20 chance on any roll. Despair is only possible in combat in EoE if you're fighting a rival or nemesis, or if your GM flips a fate point, and then it's a 1 in 12, or worse (1 in 6 for at least one despair on two red dice, 1 in 144 for two).

Actually, the probability of getting just one Despair on two dice is 22/144, not 1/6 (which is 24/144). This is a common mistake in trying to do probabilities, heheh.

Getting 2 Despair is 1/144

Getting 0 Despair is 11/12 * 11/12 = 121/144

So, getting 1 Despair is what remains of the possible results or 144/144 - 1/144 - 121/144 = 22/144

or there are two ways to roll 1 Despair only, either the first die is a Despair and the second isn't, or the second is a Despair and the first isn't, making the formula be 1/12*11/12 + 11/12*1/12 = 22/144.

3 hours ago, Winchester3 said:

Hunter and Pathfinder are Seeker specializations, but where does Executioner come from?

It's another Seeker spec in Savage Spirits.

2 hours ago, Kallabecca said:

Actually, the probability of getting just one Despair on two dice is 22/144, not 1/6 (which is 24/144). This is a common mistake in trying to do probabilities, heheh.

Getting 2 Despair is 1/144

Getting 0 Despair is 11/12 * 11/12 = 121/144

So, getting 1 Despair is what remains of the possible results or 144/144 - 1/144 - 121/144 = 22/144

or there are two ways to roll 1 Despair only, either the first die is a Despair and the second isn't, or the second is a Despair and the first isn't, making the formula be 1/12*11/12 + 11/12*1/12 = 22/144.

It's been 20 years since my last math class, so I'm a little rusty. but I remember the basics anyway, and the difference between 23/144 and 1/6 is basically nitpicking for any practical purpose.

Just like I'm going to say that there's a 1 in 4 chance of getting at least one despair on 3 red dice when it's really 397 in 1728, which works out to just under 23%. Closest simple fraction.

Executioner is a Seeker spec from Savage Spirits that focuses on killing with critical hits using personal scale weapons, mostly Melee and Ranged Heavy.

6 hours ago, Kallabecca said:

Actually, the probability of getting just one Despair on two dice is 22/144, not 1/6 (which is 24/144). This is a common mistake in trying to do probabilities, heheh.

Getting 2 Despair is 1/144

Getting 0 Despair is 11/12 * 11/12 = 121/144

So, getting 1 Despair is what remains of the possible results or 144/144 - 1/144 - 121/144 = 22/144

or there are two ways to roll 1 Despair only, either the first die is a Despair and the second isn't, or the second is a Despair and the first isn't, making the formula be 1/12*11/12 + 11/12*1/12 = 22/144.

Upgrades are not just for nemesis the GM can upgrade checks for situations. Example jumping over a 2 metre gap may be an qverage difficuly athletics check. As per the rules the difficulty of this check will never change. So in the next game you jump a 2 metre gap it should be average again , however the world has a higher gravity than the last , you get a setback or two. You do it in high winds and you get a few more, but do it in a hurricane and 1000feet of the ground and it may be 2 red with multiple setback. Similarly this can apply in combat, best example I can think of is RotS Anakin / Obiwan fight, all those situational modifers would have made a huge difference. Fighting on moving platforms (add setback) over lava (upgraded) on falling pieces of machinery (upgraded) etc. Its not just Nemesis that you roll red.

1 hour ago, syrath said:

Upgrades are not just for nemesis the GM can upgrade checks for situations...

Not sure what any of this has to do with my comment about statistics of dice.

1 hour ago, Kallabecca said:

Not sure what any of this has to do with my comment about statistics of dice.

sorry misquote as it referred to an earlier post

Thing is, a Nat 1 is a 1 in 20 chance on any roll. Despair is only possible in combat in EoE if you're fighting a rival or nemesis, or if your GM flips a fate point, and then it's a 1 in 12, or worse (1 in 6 for at least one despair on two red dice, 1 in 144 for two).

I was just trying to point out that despair in combat is possible not just when fighting a rival or nemesis or when the GM flips a DP, they can occur when the GM narrates the need.