So I can't help but feel odd about Wedge slamming into asteroids with the same frequency as say a gold squadron pilot. I mean serriously, Wedge shouldnt need to steer around asteroids, he should dance with them!

So, i thought of a solution. I have dice laying around, why not find a way to use a d20. So here is the formula I decided on. It gives Wedge a 1/4 chance of hitting each asteroid he flies over, and it gives the worst pilots a 1/4 chance of dodging them.

to dodge you must roll:

Pilot Skill + Printed Agility + 3

What does everyone think? Is this a reasonable House Rule?

Two things. One:

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_foros_discusion.asp?efid=254&efcid=6&efidt=804273

And two:

Avoiding collisions is the responsbility of the player. The game isn't about how good your pilots are, it's about how good YOU are as a player. Just because Wedge is a 9 pilot skills doesn't mean he should be able to fly through an asteroid with impunity.

My thinking is this, when you collide with an asteroid you roll a die anyway, and may or may not take damage. By not taking damage, i imagine what is happening is that the ship has barely missed the asteroid, by flying above or below it so to speak. If we assume a close miss, then it stands to reason that pilot skill would effect the chance. You can think of it this way too: avoiding a pothole in a road. Its true that you could certainly change lanes to avoid it, or you could stay in the same lane and swerve to avoid it. My little sister is less likely to successfuly swerve to miss than your favorite nascar driver.

I still think you're creating too tight a coupling between pilot skill and player skill. Asteroids are a test of player skill, not pilot.

Also, X-wing is a great game in part because it's very simple mechanically, at the cost of additional abstraction. Adding more mechanics and more rules would only serve to slow down the fast pace of the game.

I wish I could upvote you, Tawnos. I wholeheartedly agree.

My other line of thinking with a lot of these rule change ideas is that the game is designed in such a way to be balanced. Once you start modifying the rules it upsets this balance. So on top of getting to move last and fire first, higher skill pilots would have less of a chance to hit asteroids when you so brazenly send them careening into them? That's too overpowered.

Neat idea on paper, sure. But I don't think it makes sense for the purposes of x-wing.