Danger Sense (Improved)

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[garhkal]

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[ZzaphodD]

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Danger Sense(Re-edit)

Author's Note: This is an expansion of the Danger Sense RAW to reflect the official ability of Force users to detect threats more than one round in advance.

Sense Difficulty: Varies by Threat Level (see below)

Detect Danger - Very Easy (Allows a Jedi to sense impending danger automatically. Any potential threat registers, so long as the Jedi succeeds on his Sense roll. In game terms, this is treated like a reaction roll, and success means that the Jedi becomes aware of impending danger without conscious choice. On a successful roll, the Jedi simply becomes aware of a danger in his immediate future, nothing more. In game terms, on success, the player gets an initiative roll at -1D against surprise attacks, and is +1D to initiative against normal attacks).

Identify Danger - Very Difficult, and can only be attempted after a successful Detect Danger roll (Once the Jedi is aware of the danger, he may begin to probe his immediate future to seek out its source. A success on this roll identifies the source of the danger, such as a person waiting in ambush, or a series of trip-wire activated automatic weapons. In game terms, on a successful Identify Danger roll, the Jedi is aware of the attack before it occurs and does not need to roll initiative).

Threat Level:

+0 - Direct threats to the Jedi
+5 - General threat to the Jedi (Jedi on Ship’s Bridge: "The bridge is going to be attacked!")
+10 – Indirect threat (Jedi on Ship’s Bridge: "The ship’s engines are about to be attacked!")
+15 and up – Political, or very vague, non-direct attacks. ("It’s not about the mission, Master. It’s something…elsewhere…elusive")

Notes:

When facing a Force-using opponent, Difficulty is as normal plus the opponent’s Control Dice roll.

Danger Sense can be used to sense danger to others, modified by relationship.

When in doubt, Danger Sense always activates soon enough to give the Jedi a chance to avert the danger, but they must make a successful Identify Danger roll to be able to act. Naturally, there may be exceptions for special circumstances (GM's discretion)

This power can be kept "up" with reservations. Detect Danger is always up (subject to a successful roll), but Identify Danger must be re-rolled for every threat.

Effect:
Danger Sense allows a Jedi a minor glimpse into the future, specifically detecting any potential dangers the Jedi may encounter in his immediate future. This power functions like an early warning system, allowing the Jedi to detect any attacks before they are made. This gives the Jedi time to decide how to react to the danger. In game terms, if any character is going to attack a Jedi, they must declare their action before it happens. Characters who are going to attack the Jedi may add their Control skill to increase the difficulty of using the power.

Optional Rule:
For unknown reasons, organic threats tend to resonate more strongly in the Force than other kinds of threats. As such, detecting and identifying inorganic threats, such as droids or remote detonated bombs, incur a +5 difficulty modifier.


Ok, that looks good to me. I trimmed down as much of the numbers gobbledygook as I could and included an optional rule to factor in the argument for a combination of precognition and telepathy, without settling on a specific reason why.

Thoughts?
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[quote="crmcneill"]
Detect Danger - Very Easy (Allows a Jedi to sense impending danger automatically. Any potential threat registers, so long as the Jedi succeeds on his Sense roll. In game terms, this is treated like a reaction roll, and success means that the Jedi becomes aware of impending danger without conscious choice. On a successful roll, the Jedi simply becomes aware of a danger in his immediate future, nothing more. In game terms, on success, the player gets an initiative roll at -1D against surprise attacks, and is +1D to initiative against normal attacks).

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Sorry, now this is too much reading to me, and I cant really follow the changes that are done in each post.

My major point here is that whatever mechanics, difficulties and rules you use, you should roll the Sense check at the time when danger presents itself... The Jedi shouldnt know in advance that I automatically will identify the source of danger and the best way to counter it.
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What i am not understanding though is, if he is getting to act 1 round PRIOR to the 'ambusher', how is initiative even a concern?
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