Conversion - Enter the Unknown - EotE

[cheshire]

Hi guys. I'm not promising a nice looking book (or any book thus far), but I've had it in mind to at least convert the sniper rifle in the book, and I got carried away and decided to do a few others. The process is far different from SAGA conversions. (I.E., there is not consistency in stat correlations like we saw between WotC and WEG.) The result is far more art than science. I'm looking to see if anyone has any feedback on the following stat conversions. I've done a lot of looking at flavor text with some reasonable attention to FFG stat blocks. I've tried to bring in some balance, but I would love another set of eyes, particularly on those stats that have a higher damage value.

[jmanski]

I see no problems
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Blasted rules. Why can't they just be perfect?

[cheshire]

I'm going to guess that the enthusiasm for this kind of prject has wanted a bit over the years.
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Before we take any of this too seriously, just remember that in the middle episode a little rubber puppet moves a spaceship with his mind.

[Xain Arke]

These are great conversions cheshire like all the others you have supplied here. Thanks for all the hard work and efforts you've put into them.

Any more would be greatly appreciated if you are so inclined

Xain

[Raven Redstar]

They seem pretty well balanced to me.

Top shelf work Chesh, you never disappoint!

One question, do they have any artwork for the E-11 sniper rig? I'm picturing the little blasters the stormies carry around with a big scope, which doesn't quite seem right to me.
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[cheshire]

Heh... it's a little different. They've got a longer barrel. Because, we all know that having a long rifled barrel puts more spin on the photons as it... well... forget the logic, it's just Star Wars.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/E-11s_sniper_rifle?file=E11s_sniper_rifle-EtU.jpg

I've had some other feedback on the E-11s on monkeying with the range, dialing the damage back a bit, changing the aiming mechanic a bit, and adding a penalty for trying to make point blank shots, and I think that makes sense. So that may change a bit.

And I hope you guys realize that my comment wasn't fishing for compliments. If there's interest I may do more. If there's not a lot of interest I can focus on things that might hit our community a bit better. And I'm more than willing to hear criticism of the stats to make them better.
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Before we take any of this too seriously, just remember that in the middle episode a little rubber puppet moves a spaceship with his mind.

[Raven Redstar]

Ah, yes... Battlefront...

I can get behind dropping damage a bit. Although a blaster with an ammo capacity of 5 or 6, should be able to do some decent damage. Maybe 5D+1/+2? Which will bring it more in line with the Merr-Sonn sniper's blast rifle from RoE's damage, but then you have the Merr-Sonn rifle with 100 shots to the E-11 sniper rig's 5... so...

I'll quote the closest Rebel equivalent:

[cheshire]

I honestly didn't see the ammo capacity at Wookieepedia. EotE has no ammo capacity. I just saw that the thing had pretty high damage on EotE and wanted to balance it out. I'm thinking maybe 6D+1 can go to 6D. But, yeah, for such limited fire capacity it should be able to have some punch.
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Before we take any of this too seriously, just remember that in the middle episode a little rubber puppet moves a spaceship with his mind.

[Raven Redstar]

Do they have ways of modifying weapon damage in EotE?

If you give the weapon a 5D+2 max damage, that means that with a called shot, it'll likely be doing 6D+2. Also, with +1D+2 possible damage, that means that the rifle will be maxed out at 7D+1 damage (8D+1 for headshot), which is considerable. Or, 8D if you leave the damage where it's at. I think keeping end game after modifications in mind is a wise course of action too.

Now, one positive note about leaving damage where it's at, it means that scout troopers equipped with these have a good chance to at least wound the bulletproof races.
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[Ral_Brelt]

You have talents in your occupation that can modify damage or crit chance. You can also modify weapons to increase crit chance, add bonus die that have the chance to add damage, reduce armor that the target has for soak purposes, etc. EotE works off creating your dice pool of good dice and bad based off circumstances. One roll determines success or failure and if successful, damage. Weapons determine damage off of weapon base stat, occupation bonuses, aiming/circumstance dice successes.

Say a rifle does 8 base damage, point blank adds 1 damage, you get a total of 5 successes (8+1+5) which leaves you with 14 damage to your target before his soak.

[Dromdarr_Alark]

I like these conversions. I think the reason it didn't catch my eye before is because there weren't any pictures. What can I say? I judge books by their covers.

I like the E-11 sniper. I might make it 6D damage and adjust the aiming rule to have something to do with called shots. It seems more characterful to me.
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[cheshire]

Here's another possibility for the sniper rifle (and I did fix the previous one to have 6 shots instead of 5), and I'm checking Wookieepedia for the rest).

Feel free to tell me which version you like better. After all, these will be your conversions when we're all done.

[cheshire]

Okay, I probably spent too much time on this one but there were scant references to similar devices all over the D6 world, but very few stats ever made for anything similar. I wound up eliminating possibilities by digging through quite a few sources (which I'm now REALLY appreciating all the time forceally spent as a research assistant on these.

[cheshire]

Aaand pretty straight forward. More cost (and ergo more damage) than a force pike. Less cost (and ergo less damage) than a Great force pike

[Raven Redstar]

I like the updated E-11 sniper rig.

The other 2 new ones seem pretty straightforward, and look okay to me as well.
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