[UPDATE 15/12/19] Heroes On Both Sides - An unofficial Clone Wars supplement feat. 300+ NPCs, new playable species and more!

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

13 hours ago, ExpandingUniverse said:

Some of the NPCs you have very kindly made I will simply rename them.. thank you so much

EDIT: Thank you so much for those Rivals and Minions that can be shifted over to use in an Edge campaign

Thanks! Glad to hear you can get some use out of them - I think the upcoming People & Planets section will be particularly useful for stats that can be used in any campaign since most of them are more generic NPCs rather than named characters.

13 hours ago, A7T said:

There's an unnecessary ' after Grans in the second paragraph of the Malastare write up. I'd suggest replacing it with the Gran Protectorate, which is the Gran political faction that governs their colonies.

The wayward apostrophe has been vanquished, but I left out the reference to the Protectorate partly to avoid having to define what it is (and thus making the fluff section too long, since Malastare already has one of the longer ones at three paragraphs).

My printer is starting to worry 😄

10 minutes ago, ExpandingUniverse said:

My printer is starting to worry 😄

Thisbis why i went color lazer.

Today's preview:

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5 hours ago, ExpandingUniverse said:

My printer is starting to worry 😄

I'm saving myself and my printer the trouble. Lulu here it comes.

Pre Visla: Whipcord Thrower from CotR is +1 dam, 5 crit, Ensnare 2. Should he have Armor Master/Improved Armor Master (probably just Armor Master)? Just noticed this, but on the official character sheet, Ranged Defense comes before Melee Defense, but in your profiles, Melee Defense comes first. Should he have "Guns Blazing"?

Bo Katan: Should she really have 3 Brawn? She doesn't seem to be a particularly physically strong character. If you lower her Brawn stat, I would suggest 4 for Brawl, because she seems to be a very skilled martial artist, even if she is not physically strong. Also, since Pre Visla has a 2 in Intellect, that actually puts Bo Katan's characteristic score above his, and lowering her Brawn (or increasing his Intellect) would balance it out.
Same point about the whipcord and Armor Master.

On 10/14/2019 at 10:58 PM, P-47 Thunderbolt said:

Pre Visla: Whipcord Thrower from CotR is +1 dam, 5 crit, Ensnare 2. Should he have Armor Master/Improved Armor Master (probably just Armor Master)? Just noticed this, but on the official character sheet, Ranged Defense comes before Melee Defense, but in your profiles, Melee Defense comes first. Should he have "Guns Blazing"?

Bo Katan: Should she really have 3 Brawn? She doesn't seem to be a particularly physically strong character. If you lower her Brawn stat, I would suggest 4 for Brawl, because she seems to be a very skilled martial artist, even if she is not physically strong. Also, since Pre Visla has a 2 in Intellect, that actually puts Bo Katan's characteristic score above his, and lowering her Brawn (or increasing his Intellect) would balance it out.
Same point about the whipcord and Armor Master.

Both:

Whipcord; I originally looked at the one in CotR but it's a Melee weapon for some reason which didn't make sense to me, so I looked at the Boba Fett statblock in Allies & Adversaries - the whipcord they use is a direct copy of Fett's, which feels more accurate to what we see on screen. Ranged Light, higher Ensnare quality, minimal damage.

Armor Master; I'll consider giving them a rank of Armor Master each - though if I do I will probably just bump the soak value of their armor rather than listing the talent (like Toughened or Grit, it's one of those talents where the NPCs don't have to waste page space listing it, they can just have its effects).

Melee/Ranged Defense: I'm following the template in Allies & Adversaries, which has Melee Defense first.

Vizsla:

Guns Blazing; I deliberately didn't give Vizsla that in an effort to stop him and Bo-Katan just being carbon copies of each other. Same reason I gave them different choice talents from the Death Watch talent tree (Hit And Run for Vizsla, Death From Above for Bo-Katan). I figured she would have Guns Blazing over him since she would focus exclusively on the pew-pewing whereas he would split his time more evenly between his ranged skills and his melee/Darksaber practice.

Bo-Katan:

Brawn: I think she's justified in a 3 Brawn. 3 is only "above average" but also doesn't just mean muscle. The life of a Death Watch exile is physically strenuous and everything we see of her in combat is that she is physically fit - certainly no less so than a standard Death Watch Commando, who also has 3 Brawn.

Characteristics: I wouldn't worry too much about her having 1 extra Characteristic score overall. Vizsla still has higher combat skill ranks, an extra rank of Adversary, higher Melee Defense and higher Soak/Wound values. He is the deadlier opponent, but she just has a slightly sharper mind - which again seems to fit what we see in the TV show.

EDIT: Updated the image in the previous post. They have an extra point of Soak each now, and I added a missing setback symbol to the jetpack missile weapon profile for the Inaccurate 1 quality.

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Okay. The profile for the whipcord was basically considering it being used as a whip (hence whip cord) and is more-or-less in-line with other whips.

As for Brawn, I think 3 Brawn is okay, but for me, I see physical fitness as having high ranks in Resilience, Athletics, and Coordination, and having a high Brawn as being just your natural ability. But that's just me. Everything else looks good, thanks!

Well this is it - the final main update to the project!

16/10/19: SECTION SIX - PEOPLE AND PLANETS IS NOW COMPLETE. PDF LINKS IN THE MAIN POST.

This was by far the largest section of them all, with 45 new pages and over 117 new NPC statblocks in this update alone! Given the sheer volume of content I'm expecting there to be a few errors - whether it be spelling mistakes, grammar errors or incorrect stat calculations so please call out any that you find.

As the final main update, I can now declare the first full version of Heroes On Both Sides officially COMPLETE. Phew!

The full "book" contains 293 NPC/Adversaries for you to populate your Clone Wars games with - I hope you enjoy them.

I still have some plans for more Clone Wars content, though I have not decided yet whether the following will be done as their own releases or as "bonus updates" to Heroes On Both Sides. Ideas include:

- "Before The War" NPCs. More statblocks for prequel-era characters who predate the Clone Wars. Qui-Gon Jinn, Jango Fett, Sebulba, etc.

- Additional Player Options. I might try my hand at statting a few new player species options, again focused on those from the Clone Wars era. For example, the likes of the Talz, Zygerrians and Parwan (unless I'm mistaken, I don't believe these have official stats yet, though I know at least some have been done by other players).

- New vehicle content, e.g. the various Umbaran tanks and ships, etc.

- An adventure module set during the Clone Wars and using content from Heroes On Both Sides.

EDIT: Replaced the Dropbox links with Google Drive. Let me know if there are any issues.

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You can't preview it in Google Drive because it is "too large."

1 minute ago, P-47 Thunderbolt said:

You can't preview it in Google Drive because it is "too large."

Same limitations with Dropbox. The Standard version should be fine though.

Alderaan: This is more of a conceptual issue, but I think that Queen Breha and Raymus Antilles should have their stats increased. Especially when you compare Queen Breha to Queen Julia. Breha just seems very under-statted. I was expecting something more on par (though a little less powerful) than Satine Kryze. Raymus Antilles as a Rival seems like an odd choice, given that he was the one entrusted to ferry the Organas.

Bardotta: It doesn't really effect anything (which is part of why I'm asking), but why do the Frangawl Cultists have 3 Intellect?

Neimoidia: In the stats for the Neimoidian soldier, you list it as having a "Blaster Rifle" but it is listed as having a critical of 4. Should the LEP servant droid has another couple ranks in Charm? One Proficiency does practically nothing.

Coruscant: Cassie Cryar? I get why you would include her, but Nemesis? She seems a little overpowered. Also, her Athletics pool should be YYGG B instead of YYYY B .

Mon Calamari: I know (I think, at least) that those stats are the official stats, but since this is Captain Gial Ackbar (Clone Wars) rather than Admiral Gial Ackbar (OT) should his stats be reduced a little bit? Should Nossor Ri have Coercion?

Thanks!

5 minutes ago, P-47 Thunderbolt said:

Alderaan: This is more of a conceptual issue, but I think that Queen Breha and Raymus Antilles should have their stats increased. Especially when you compare Queen Breha to Queen Julia. Breha just seems very under-statted. I was expecting something more on par (though a little less powerful) than Satine Kryze. Raymus Antilles as a Rival seems like an odd choice, given that he was the one entrusted to ferry the Organas.

Bardotta: It doesn't really effect anything (which is part of why I'm asking), but why do the Frangawl Cultists have 3 Intellect?

Neimoidia: In the stats for the Neimoidian soldier, you list it as having a "Blaster Rifle" but it is listed as having a critical of 4. Should the LEP servant droid has another couple ranks in Charm? One Proficiency does practically nothing.

Coruscant: Cassie Cryar? I get why you would include her, but Nemesis? She seems a little overpowered. Also, her Athletics pool should be YYGG B instead of YYYY B .

Mon Calamari: I know (I think, at least) that those stats are the official stats, but since this is Captain Gial Ackbar (Clone Wars) rather than Admiral Gial Ackbar (OT) should his stats be reduced a little bit? Should Nossor Ri have Coercion?

Thanks!

Alderaan: I considered making Captain Antilles a Nemesis, but from what we see of him in this era (in ROTS) he seems to be of the same sort of level as Republic Fleet Officers or Judicials, both of whom are Rivals. Looking back on Breha I agree with you that she could probably do with some "buffs". An extra rank in each of Charm, Leadership and maybe Perception. I think she could do with a more pro-active special ability as well. I'll wrack my brain some more.

Bardotta: Honest answer to the question "why do they have 3 Intellect" is "because FFG gave them 3 Intellect in Nexus of Power" :P

Cato Neimoidia: That's an error on the rifle's Crit rating, I'll have it fixed thanks. The Charm rank for the LEP droid was supposed to be a nod to the way they seem to unintentionally come across as charming in the show even though that isn't what they're designed for in-universe.

Cassie Cryar: Similar to Greedo, she's a Nemesis mainly to give her a Strain Threshold. She is not designed to be a combat adversary (she has no ranged combat skills, for example) but rather someone who can put up a good chase (as she does in the show). So she needs Strain to spend on things like second maneuvers and using her Dodge talent. Thanks for the catch on her Athletics though - I think that was left over from an earlier version of her special ability that let her run Athletics off Agility.

Mon Calamari: The stats for Ackbar are reduced from his Allies & Adversaries statblock. His Leadership is reduced, and he has completely lost some skills like Computers and Gunnery. He has also lost several of his abilities that relate to space command. If you had suggested Coercion for Nossor Ri yesterday I would have said he didn't seem like the threatening type but as luck would have it I read a new SW comic today in which he features and is definitely more intimidating, I'll consider giving him it.

Ah, I don't have A&A, so I didn't know it had been reduced for Ackbar. Alright then.

Thanks!

Awesome work Kualan!

One thing I noticed, in the low-res version, p 43 is in-between p39 and p40.

I quickly checked the rest of both hi-res and low-res documents and only found the above page in the wrong order. Everything else looks amazing. Looking forward to reading it this weekend.

6 hours ago, imachubchub said:

Awesome work Kualan!

One thing I noticed, in the low-res version, p 43 is in-between p39 and p40.

I quickly checked the rest of both hi-res and low-res documents and only found the above page in the wrong order. Everything else looks amazing. Looking forward to reading it this weekend.

Oops, not sure how that happened but thank you! I will get that fixed.

Updated the links in the main post with new tweaks and corrections suggested both here and over on the SWRPG subreddit.

The page order issue with the standard-res version raised by @imachubchub should be fixed as well.

So I'm starting to draw up potential plans for additional sub-content, and one of them is adding playable species (these won't be full write-ups with History, Language, etc info, but just the main stat profiles similar to the sidebars for Jawa, Ewok, etc in Allies & Adversaries). As far as I'm aware none of the below have official stats (though I know there's fan-created content out there for at least some of these, I'm avoiding looking at them at this stage to avoid it influencing it how I stat them up). Potential species list:

Human (Onderonian)

Kage

Kaleesh

Parwan

Phindian

Pyke

Selkath

Siniteen

Talz

Theelin

Zygerrian

The ones in bold are the ones I definitely want to do, the others I'm not sure about. I'm also keen to use this chance to gain further suggestions before I compile a final list to write up. My only stipulations are that they A) Are a species with at least one prominent character in the Clone Wars era and b) Canon-only would be preferred, but I'm flexible on this second point.

Any CW-era species that don't have official write-ups that you guys think should be considered?

Patrolian (Robonino)? I don't know how useful/necessary it would be, but I think it would be fun.

The only one you listed that I am actually sketchy on is the Human (Onderonian) as I don't see how they would really need a separate species profile rather than just Human.
Is there something in the lore that I just don't know about?

2 minutes ago, P-47 Thunderbolt said:

Patrolian (Robonino)? I don't know how useful/necessary it would be, but I think it would be fun.

The only one you listed that I am actually sketchy on is the Human (Onderonian) as I don't see how they would really need a separate species profile rather than just Human.
Is there something in the lore that I just don't know about?

I was thinking of basically making the Onderonians like the Corellian Humans, who have a free rank in either Piloting Planetary or Piloting Space, and the option to train either skill to Rank 3 at character creation. For the Onderonians, it would be the same except the skill in question would be Survival, to allow them to be natural animal tamers/beast riders in the same way Corellians are natural pilots.

1 hour ago, P-47 Thunderbolt said:

Patrolian (Robonino)? I don't know how useful/necessary it would be, but I think it would be fun.

The only one you listed that I am actually sketchy on is the Human (Onderonian) as I don't see how they would really need a separate species profile rather than just Human.
Is there something in the lore that I just don't know about?

How about these for some first drafts:

Species: Human (Onderonian)
Characteristics: Brawn 2, Agility 2, Intellect 2, Cunning 2, Willpower 2, Presence 2
Wound Threshold: 10 + Brawn
Strain Threshold: 10 + Willpower
Starting XP: 110XP
Special Abilities: Survival +1
Natural Animal Handler: May train Survival skill up to rank 3 during character creation.

Species: Pyke
Characteristics: Brawn 1, Agility 2, Intellect 2, Cunning 3, Willpower 1, Presence 3
Wound Threshold: 9 + Brawn
Strain Threshold: 10 + Willpower
Starting XP: 95XP
Special Abilities: Streetwise +1 and one rank in Black Market Contacts talent.
Family Business: Adds 1 boost on any Knowledge checks relating to the illegal spice trade.

Species: Talz
Characteristics: Brawn 3, Agility 2, Intellect 2, Cunning 2, Willpower 2, Presence 1
Wound Threshold: 13 + Brawn
Strain Threshold: 9 + Willpower
Starting XP: 100XP
Special Abilities: Brawl +1
Tundra Dweller: Remove 1 setback imposed due to cold or arctic conditions.
Primitive: Upgrade difficulty of any checks involving advanced technology (may spend 10XP to remove this penalty).

Species: Zygerrian
Characteristics: Brawn 2, Agility 2, Intellect 2, Cunning 2, Willpower 3, Presence 1
Wound Threshold: 10 + Brawn
Strain Threshold: 10 + Willpower
Starting XP: 90XP
Special Abilities: Coercion +1 and one rank in Confidence talent.
Always Alert: Add 1 boost to hearing-based Perception and Vigilance checks.

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On 10/8/2019 at 6:21 AM, Ebak said:

Fair enough...what about Delta Squad?

You mean "D" squad?

24 minutes ago, Eoen said:

You mean "D" squad?

Delta is one of the clone commando squads

9 hours ago, Kualan said:

So I'm starting to draw up potential plans for additional sub-content, and one of them is adding playable species (these won't be full write-ups with History, Language, etc info, but just the main stat profiles similar to the sidebars for Jawa, Ewok, etc in Allies & Adversaries). As far as I'm aware none of the below have official stats (though I know there's fan-created content out there for at least some of these, I'm avoiding looking at them at this stage to avoid it influencing it how I stat them up). Potential species list:

Human (Onderonian)

Kage

Kaleesh

Parwan

Phindian

Pyke

Selkath

Siniteen

Talz

Theelin

Zygerrian

The ones in bold are the ones I definitely want to do, the others I'm not sure about. I'm also keen to use this chance to gain further suggestions before I compile a final list to write up. My only stipulations are that they A) Are a species with at least one prominent character in the Clone Wars era and b) Canon-only would be preferred, but I'm flexible on this second point.

Any CW-era species that don't have official write-ups that you guys think should be considered?

I'd like to see Zeltrons personally, if they'd be something you fancy.

Why not Kaleesh? I mean Grievous. There's no more prominent species in the CW than him. Maybe exvept the Neimoidians