Luke's NJO "Emerald Lightning" ability

Does anyone have any official or semi-official stats for the green sparks ability that Luke used in TUF?

It seems (from the book, at least) to be even more potent than Force Lightning...

 

nope, but i for one would like to know who gave the go ahead to use force lightning that's a different colour, as it's a pretty important loose end that hasn't been tied up.

 

What's the problem? So long as you can accept the new direction of the Jedi since TUF, a new color for Force lightening should be no problem. I doubt to see much more of it anyway since Luke is starting to try to reign in some of the not so light side actions that is now becoming common place.


I doubt we'll see it's impact on the rpg

 

It's still Force Lightning, despite their rationale...

 

dp4m is right. Color or rationale doesen't make a difference.

Darth Maul's Force Lightning was red, for instance.

 

aye... it's like plo koon's 'bolt of judgement' bolt of judgement palpatines ass, it was force lightning, he used the dark side of the force, up until it's cleared up, thats what it is, force lightning, which by ALL RPG knowledge, and EU knowledge, is a dark side only power as it draws on negative emotions and most critically is a corruption of the Force

the fact that a lot of people in other forums argue that a certain force user has received sith training because they use force lightning must go someway towards pushing the point home that it's a dark side ability

 

IIRC, followers of the 'potentium' and vergere's apprentices get to use all those fun powers...

Here's a link to Vergere's stats. She doens't get DSP's or penalties for using either side.

 

aye Berkley... I think they're screwed, lol (though i know its canon). It's something that seems to have been put in to then be expanded upon in a later sourcebook which... never arrived.

I imagine they looked at sales for the NJO sourcebook before deciding to axe a complete NJO sourcebook covering the whole era. But because it was OCR and perhaps for that reason didn't sell, thought perhaps an updated one wouldn't work at all.

i can't believe what they've done to this game.

 

Yeah, it's unfortunate, but there's no reason we can't come up with errata for it to compensate.

You'd think they'd at least come out with one more sourcebook to cover all the new stuff from Episode 3 and everything else that's happened in recent expanded universe material.

 

The original sold well because it sucked. The most important thing I wanted when I leafed through it was illustration of which there was scant... and what WAS there was minimal at best. I'd like pictures of all these weird Vong things I've been reading about... as well as pictures of some of the characters (the "Who's Who" bit was probably the best at this yet), starships, etc. Their galaxy map sucked as well, compared to what was available on the inside NJO covers much less anything more detailed.

Secondly, it wasn't organized so well, either. It's been awhile, but I seem to recall having a hard time finding a good events/timeline summary as well as equipment (XJ X-Wing could sure use an official illustration as one specific example).

Being D20 doesn't help as I'm commited to my modified D6 mechanics... but if they could get a good illustrator and and a better editor to subsume the entire NJO arc in there, I'd be willing to pay 50 bucks or so for something on the level of Coruscant and the Core Worlds, etc (IOW, Light on Mechanics, heavy on illustration and summary).

 

I assumed XJ X-Wings looked like this:

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This is the link if it doesn't work

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Hmm,i wonder if a "Mandalorian Sourcebook" would sell. It would have to be smaller, like the Arms and equipment guide. It could have stats on Mandalorian gear, like their armor,wepons tec. It could have a compleate history of them, with stats for Canderous Ordo, Jaster Mereel and more. Couple in some new Data on the clans, and it is a done deal. I would have Karen Traviss help on the project. Of course, it would probably be cheaper than normal, maybe 20-30 bucks at the most. Also, why do you guys spend 40 dollars for sourcebooks? I can get them online from Amazon.com for around 20$.

 

i would have thought that a sourcebook containing the smaller civilisations would have been well received, i don't always wanna mess with major continuity stuff... a sourcebook containing info on the mandos, chiss, hutts (dont have geo + outer rim worlds so not sure if they're already covered) in my mind would have been excellent.

 

This is what made WEG books like "Fragments from the Rim" so spiffy. The downside is that almost every book had the stats for X-Wings and the Millenium Falcon as filler.

 

i am creating Emerald lightning for the game i'm running...

It knocked out up to 5 opponents for an undecided # of rounds, and may or may not do vitality damage...

i know that once it is done, it may be unbalancing, but i plan for it to have very difficult requirements...

 

Perhaps Luke is able to use Force Lightning without gaining Dark Side points simply because he was unaware of the fact that it was specifically a Dark Side power. It was quite unlikely that he had his game books with him, and so had not the opportunity to look it up. Similarly, he would have been oblivious to the Dark Side nature of Force Choke when he casually used it against the Gamorrean guards in ROTJ. To him, it may not have been a Dark Side power, but simply that cool thing his father did from time to time.

 

ROFL

Anakin didn't think what he was doing was bad, did that make him all light and happiness?

there is no ignorance, there is knowledge.

one line of the jedi code, an extremely important one.

 

oh

my

good

god.

check out jedi counselling 78

fun fun fun

 

That ruling makes d20 even more munchkinizable then it already was. I really like the combat system of d20, but rules like that don't even make it seem like Star Wars anymore. It's sad to see WOTC start to step down the same morally relative path that the NJO did. Its safe to say that my group won't be using that.

For while, WEG and WOTC both had serious flaws to me, and I was stuck in between one which one I liked the best. This makes WEG FAR superior in my mind.

[Vader]"Don't fail me again, WOTC."[/Vader]

EDIT: But just to clarify, I really appreciate the effort WOTC has made with the Jedi Council sessions despite the quirky new rule. They've been a tremendous aid for my group in the past.

 

*sigh*

Some of the recent rules in jedi counsiling are just absurd.

I can now see all the munchkins sitting behind their computer desk cheering.

these rules really do take the "Star Wars" out of this RpG.

....we aren't using them....

 

I salute you!

 

Well i have been asking about a rule regarding the new "intent" issue... so they put one out... i got what i asked for... "y e a h Mmm kay" ...

To be objective, at least they have addressed the issue, and that is good to see vs. giving nothing at all or answering basic ?s only.

These saves are WAY to low imo if you did go with this rule...

 

I did notice however that the issue of published Darksiders' # of DSPs was deftly avoided...

 

lol yeah... i think they just come up with a number.

I love it also that Vergere is one DSP away from being classed as 'tainted', even before that new rule comes in, bet she's glad she came upon her revelation when she did eh.