Testing a House Rule Idea

[MrNexx]

It's a fairly simple one, but I wanted to throw it out there:

Being Force Sensitive is not Free. To become Force Sensitive, you must put 1D in the Force attribute. That makes you Force Sensitive. If you want to acquire Force Sensitivity in play, you spend 20 CP to get 1D in the Force Attribute.

Without any Force Skills, you can't really DO anything with the force attribute, but having 1D in the Force attribute lets you learn force skills and improve the Force attribute.

In this, Force powers are learned, but can also be improved as specialties... so, I have to learn Concentrate to use it with my Control skill, but I could then Specialize Control into Concentrate.
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[Naaman]

I absolutely love the idea of "specializing" in individual powers. However, I feel that paying a "standard" specialization cost makes things a bit too awkward if this rule is meant to drop into an otherwise RAW system.

I've contemplated something similar and came up with the following:

A character can "specialize" in a power by spending 1 CP. Then, when rolling the skill (control, for example), he gets a +1 bonus on the roll. He can keep expending CPs to increase the specialization bonus up to the number of D he has in the skill (so, a character with 4D in control can spend up to 4 CPs--1 at a time between adventures--to raise the bonus up to +4). He'll need 5D before he can raise the bonus to +5.

20 CP seems a little steep to become force sensitive. For that price, maybe throw in a FP when becoming force sensitive to represent the "awakening" to new possibilities?
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[MrNexx]

[garhkal]

I could see that for someone self taught maybe, where they are spec in certain powers, as that's what they, themselves learned. BUT for established jedi, it seems weird to me.
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[MrNexx]

[garhkal]

Which to me would come under learning one of the lightsaber fighting forms, iirc Form 4 deals with blaster fire...
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[Naaman]

I think its way more interesting from a roleplaying perspective to allow characters (Jedi or not) to specialize in force powers.

I know arguments could be made either way for the following, but I'll offer an example from films:

To me, it makes sense the Palpatine would have a higher alter skill than Yoda, but from what we see, it seems that Yoda may be better at telekinesis than Palpatine.

If Palpatine had 15D in Alter, and Yoda had, for example, 13D, he might also have +11 or +12 in telekinesis (if using my suggestion, above) which would allow him to override Palpatine's telekinetic control over an object (and potentially discourage Palpatine from trying to "wrestle" control when he knows success is unlikely).

Specializing in specific force powers also creates ample opportunity for individual Jedi characters to economically focus on their character concept (with regards to force use), which is tremendously helpful in an all Jedi campaign (or even a game wherein more than one player is playing a Jedi or force sensitive). All the templates given in TotJ Companion, for example, become much more diverse if we can expect that the Jedi Healer will specialize in healing powers, setting him apart from other Jedi who may have similar force skill dice allocation.
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