Quick question regarding this particular talent.

When making the Lightsaber (Cunning) roll and spending Force points to add failures to opponents next check...

... does this ALSO count as an attack (capable to deadline damage etc. as normal)?

Someone wielding a standard (un-modded) lightsaber rolling and generating 3 successes, 2 advantages and four Force points, would he deal 9 damage and cause a +10 critical injury to his opponent in addition to applaying 4 failures tomhed next combat check, or just the latter?

Yes, the character would deal damage/inflict critical injuries/etc when using Disruptive Strike.

With this talent, you're still making an attack, only with your Force dice added to the roll to potentially generate an additional effect on top of whatever damage is dealt. It's of a similar vein (Lightsaber combat check with Force dice added) as talents such as Draw Closer and Hawk-Bat Swoop, both of which allow the user to spend Force points to do something in addition to making the combat check.

I don't think baseline lightsabers have any ranks of Vicious so that crit would just be a roll without any additions, but otherwise, you're correct. You deal a normal attack and can then add failures for each pip of your alignment (or more by spending Destiny and using opposite ones at the usual cost).

2 hours ago, Silim said:

I don't think baseline lightsabers have any ranks of Vicious so that crit would just be a roll without any additions, but otherwise, you're correct. You deal a normal attack and can then add failures for each pip of your alignment (or more by spending Destiny and using opposite ones at the usual cost).

You are so right. Too used to lightsabers having crit 1

and thanks to both of you.

On 12/30/2018 at 5:53 PM, Silim said:

I don't think baseline lightsabers have any ranks of Vicious so that crit would just be a roll without any additions, but otherwise, you're correct. You deal a normal attack and can then add failures for each pip of your alignment (or more by spending Destiny and using opposite ones at the usual cost).

That depends upon the crystal in your Lightsaber. Some lightsaber crystals do have Vicious as a base quality.

"Baseline" in this case means the standard one in the F&D core book, which always presumes an Illum crystal.