Electric Judgment Force Power: Let me know what you think...

[Treefrog]

Electric Judgment

Warning: A Jedi who uses this power for any reason, other than to incapacitate an opponent, gains a Dark Side Point.
Control Difficulty: Difficult, as modified by proximity. Limited to line of sight.
Alter Difficulty: Perception or control roll of target.
Effect: This power was developed by Jedi Master Plo Koon, in order to incapacitate an opponent, rather than to kill him/her. When used, it produces sparks of yellow or green that dances across the target. Armor does not protect a character from electric judgment. These sparks, if used successfully will overload their nervous system, rendering the target unconscious for 2D minutes for each 2D of alter the user has (rounding down: a character with an alter of 7D will cause the opponent to be unconscious for 6D minutes).

[cheshire]

There are a few mechanical elements missing. How do we know if it successfully disables the opponent? Do we roll damage up to half of your Alter dice like Force Lightning? How do we make the difference between disabling the person or killing them?

Just a few questions for your second draft of the power. (By the way, don't get discouraged when you're doing multiple drafts of powers... sometimes it takes me several tries to get it right when I'm doing conversions.)
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[Treefrog]

[Treefrog]

For information purposes, this is the very first Force power for D6 that I've created.


Be gentle....

[garhkal]

Other than adding the bit about ab/dis can absorb it, there is no difference between the first and second write up
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[cheshire]

I'll show you what my problem is.

Jedi Jim has 8D in Alter. Sith Smith has a Control of 3D.

Jedi Jim activates power and rolls a 15.
Sith Smith rolls to resist and gets a miserable 4.
Jedi Jim is 11 over, so... what happens?

Lets say Sith Smith rolls 12. What happens?

Let's say Jedi Jim gets a whopping 24, and Sith Smith gets a 6. What happens?

Is the power meant to be calculated as stun damage, or as normal damage, and Jedi Jim gets slapped with a DSP for accidentally pushing too much of the stuff through the guy?

Don't get me wrong... I'm not getting down on your power. I'm just trying to fill out all of my questions so that you have a solid power at the end of this.
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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.

[Treefrog]

I see what you mean, although I thought that the last sentence of paragraph 2 was pretty obvious about it being stun damage, but I can also see that its pretty vague....



Revision 3:

Electric Judgment

Control Difficulty: Difficult, as modified by proximity. Limited to line of sight.
Alter Difficulty: Perception or control roll of target.
Effect: This power was developed by Jedi Master Plo Koon, in order to incapacitate an opponent, rather than to kill him/her. When used, it produces sparks of yellow or green that dance across the target. Armor does not protect a character from electric judgment. Since this power is Force-generated, it may be repelled with absorb/dissipate energy.

These sparks, if used successfully, will overload the target’s nervous system, rendering him stunned for 2D minutes for each 2D of alter the user has (round down: a character with alter of 7D will cause the opponent to be stunned unconscious for 6D minutes).

[Raven Redstar]

My recommendation is:

[Treefrog]

Good point Raven!

Revision 4:

Electric Judgment
Warning: A Jedi who uses this power for any reason, other than to incapacitate an opponent, gains a Dark Side Point.
Control Difficulty: Difficult, as modified by proximity. Limited to line of sight.
Alter Difficulty: Perception or control roll of target.
Effect: This power was developed by Jedi Master Plo Koon, in order to incapacitate an opponent, rather than to kill him/her. When used, it produces sparks of yellow or green that dance across the target. Armor does not protect a character from electric judgment. Since this power is Force-generated, it may be repelled with absorb/dissipate energy. The target may make a Strength roll to resist.

These sparks, if used successfully, will overload the target’s nervous system, rendering him stunned for 2D minutes for each 2D of alter the user has (round down: a character with alter of 7D will cause the opponent to be stunned unconscious for 6D minutes). If the use of the power exceeds the target’s Strength roll by more than one damage category, the stunning damage is converted to actual damage.

Example: Jorj, who has an control of 4D, and an alter of 3D+1 attempts to use electric judgment on an attacking stormtrooper (who has a strength of 3D and a perception 2D). Jorj makes his control roll (18) and then the following alter roll (8), while the stormtrooper has his perception roll of (7): the power hits. Jorj rolls his stun damage, and gets a (24). The stormtrooper rolls his strength to try and resist the damage, and gets an (8). The stormtrooper, instead of falling unconscious, is instead killed, and Jorj (in shock), falls to his knees while staring at his hands as if in betrayal. If the stormtrooper had made a strength roll of (16), then he would have fallen unconscious for 7 minutes, instead.




Did that example make sense?

[Treefrog]

Or here's revision 5:

Electric Judgment
Warning: A Jedi who uses this power for any reason, other than to incapacitate an opponent, gains a Dark Side Point.
Control Difficulty: Difficult, as modified by proximity. Limited to line of sight.
Alter Difficulty: Perception or control roll of target.
Effect: This power was developed by Jedi Master Plo Koon, in order to incapacitate an opponent, rather than to kill him/her. When used, it produces sparks of yellow or green that dance across the target. Armor does not protect a character from electric judgment. Since this power is Force-generated, it may be repelled with absorb/dissipate energy. The target may make a strength roll to resist.

These sparks, if used successfully, will overload the target’s nervous system, rendering him stunned for 2D minutes for each 2D of alter the user has (round down: a character with alter of 7D will cause the opponent to be stunned unconscious for 6D minutes). If the number of stunning dice exceeds the target’s Strength attribute by more than 2D, then the stunning damage is converted to actual damage.

[cheshire]

I see. Perhaps I was confused by the statement that if the power was used for any other reason than to incapacitate. I thought that implied that you could use it to kill someone.
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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.

[Treefrog]

[cheshire]

So it can be used just the same as Force lightning?
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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.

[Treefrog]

[wolfe]