Your skill set

[Naaman]

This is one of those situations where I'm torn between having separate skills. Though, all things considered, I think the best solution would be to make one skill for piloting space craft, and allow specialization based on ship class (starfighter, space transport, capitol), in much the same way as blaster is divided into the different types of weapons, rather than different models of weapon.

[Bren]

[garhkal]

This is one area i liked how 2nd ed ADND handled things with "skill familiarity".. If you had say Proficiency in weapon X.. You were familiar with weapon(s) Y and Z.. And so suffered less of a penalty to them.

So how I would incorporate something like that into SW..
Fighter pilots are familiar with piloting freighters.
Freighter pilots are familiar with piloting fighters or cap ships (PC's choice).
Cap ship pilots are familiar with piloting freighters.

For each D above base Mechanical your skill is in the requisite piloting skill, your "Familiar" skill roll gains +1 to it.

EG Han has 4d Mech, 9d+1 in Freighter operations. Familiarity was taken in cap ships, but he has no cap ship operations skill.
When he rolls for operating it, he adds +5 to the rolls for his 5d+1 over the Mech that his Freighter skill is.
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[Bren]

[Naaman]

[Naaman]

[Whill]

It's funny when people equate driving cars to flying starships. How many of you have actually flown a starship?

I'm in favor of keeping the three starship skills separate, and I have even made Capital Ship Piloting into an advanced skill.

So a character seems to be good at flying all vehicles? That may come from a high Mechanical attribute (and maybe a substantial pool of CPs and FPs).


OBI-WAN: Can you fly a cruiser like this?
ANAKIN: You mean, do I know how to land what's left of this thing?
OBI-WAN: Well?
ANAKIN: Under the circumstances, I'd say the ability to pilot this thing is irrelevant. Strap yourselves in.
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[Naaman]

Actually, I've flown 12 missions to the moon, and 4 missions to Mars, and, coming up here next month, I'll be taking the first human-piloted craft beyond the asteroid belt, past Jupiter to Titan (one of Saturn's moons). And I can tell you from vast experience that piloting a space craft is almost exactly like driving a car. The biggest similarity is that most space craft are rear wheel drive, like most of the sports cars I drive. Also, space craft and cars have the turn signal controls located in the same place, so it's a perfectly rational comparison; way more rational than comparing piloting space craft to shooting blasters

(I would say that since the space transport is essentially the "car" of the SWU, it's okay to make the comparison. Piloting aircraft or spacecraft is a pretty common skill in SWU. IRL, you'd have to be an astronaught... in Star Wars... you just have to buy/steal/borrow/rent a ship). I mean... if a 9-year-old can get into a starfighter never having seen that particular kind before and win the whole battle in a couple minutes, how hard can it be?

[jmanski]

I've always equated flying starships with piloting boats (or ships). So a fighter or transport would be like a cigar boat or ski boat. But capital ships would be like naval vessels- much more difficult to operate.
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