I'm getting ready to run a new campaign, but with only two players, due to scheduling (technically a third will be available intermittently). The year is 3700 BBY, two and a half centuries since the Dark Wars, and nearly two decades before the Sith Empire makes their full return in force as seen in SWtOR.
This time, we're using the popular and admired system of Star Wars Saga. While the numbers largely work, that doesn't mean it's going to be bereft of house rules.
- Climb, Jump, & Swim are condensed into one skill - Athletics
- The Skill Focus bonus is equal to half the PC's level, rounded up, maximum of +5
- Increase all hyperdrive ratings by two (this is to represent the tech being worse than modern-era Star Wars)
- Every HD is assumed to roll half, rounded up (eg. Jedi gain 6 per level)
- Milestone, Story-Based Advancement rather than XP
- Weapon Finesse applies to damage as well (negating the Ataru talent)
- Use the Force Point as a daily resource optional rule
- Ability scores are rolled via each player rolling 4d6, drop the lowest, repeat six times, pick the best set
Jhum Crits an Ithorian Noble 1/Jedi 5 and heavily focused on a broad range of telekinetic Force Powers.
Byss Ruhinn a Cathar Jedi 6 heavily focused on Dexterity-based lightsaber combat.
The entire scene starts on Coruscant, at the Jedi Temple. Sheets of rain dragged across the central landing pad, soaking our Jedi just outside the front doors. They’re approached by a stranger. She was a pliantly slender Theelin woman dressed in two shades of blue to match her horns, named Jach. Jach implored upon the Jedi to save her Twilek lover, Dobreye Den. A human named Spider obtained a series of incriminating photos of Dobreye and is blackmailing him for a ruinous amount of credits. Neither releasing the photos nor Dobreye attempting to get involved in the criminal underworld necessary to pay off the blackmail are good options for long-term survival, so Jach is asking for help to deal with Spider directly.
The Jhum does a bit of information gathering, dumping 500cr to find the right people, finding out that Spider is an illicit porn “artist” that largely operated independently (barring protection money) from any criminal organization. His “casting couch” could be found deep in Coruscant’s understorey, in an abandoned deathstick refining facility.
Having pulled up in a droid-piloted “car” from the Jedi temple, they continued to get rained upon; this time it’s condensation from an active refrigeration bloc several stories up. A number of destitutes huddled away at the sight of them. They got out and went down the alley along the side of the storefront where Spider’s casting couch was held, then saw a flash of light through a window from a blaster bolt. When they ran in, they found Dobreye mostly naked, tied up, and drugged out of his mind next to the blastered corpse of Spider. Their Perception was good enough to hear the footsteps, so they ran down the hall after the Zabrak they saw; to which they got interrupted by four goons with vibro-axes and carbines, beginning combat.
Byss handily sabered two of them while Jhum telekinetically smashed the other two into each other before they continued their chase of the Zabrak. This was interrupted by a roar and the scraping sound of metal. A Coruscani Ogre had entered the scene, broke the Zabrak’s getaway speeder, and attacked the Jedi. Fortunately, Byss one-shot the ogre and Jhum spent a Force Point on a 30+ Mind Trick to fully convince the Zabrak to surrender and tell them what the scoop was. Jach had hired him to do all of that, intending to set the scene for Dobreye to assume the Jedi killed Spider. Full details can be glossed over, as the Jedi simply turned over all of the details and people to the Coruscant Guard to handle.
At this point, this pilot session is complete. The two Jedi have been approved for their request to patrol the Outer Rim for general peace-keeping activities, and are thus assigned a ship from the Council’s impound lot.
