SWRPG - The Force

[Pinky]

no, this is generally by-the-canon starwars. i never intended for jedi to be balanced with everyone else, there's a reason why they're the central pillar holding up the galactic republic. that said, the force isn't as zany as what's commonly seen in "expanded universe" novels/games: nobody can reflect half a dozen blaster bolts simultaneously, nobody can rip ships in half with sheer force power (at best, yoda struggled to lift a single stationary one-man craft out of a bog), etc. the force simply enhances one's natural abilities, it doesn't make you invulnerable, particularly in the case of the jedi.

this game was intended to be in line with general movie canon. it's set to begin with the phantom menace and run along the course of the movie series. around that time, the jedi had been wallowing in peace for so long that most of their rank was full of inferior stock. among the jedi, only three were strong enough to fight the sith: obiwan, anikin, and mace windu, and this was because they had all found different ways of tapping the power that's commonly associated with the dark side.

i was going to use this game as an excuse to finally bang out my re-write of the movies (drawing heavily from the movie's novels) while other people just played around doing whatever they wanted. having a balanced game isn't much of an issue here, and if jedi were balanced with every other character type then they wouldn't be jedi anymore.