In addition, a 'condition' imposed to a mook, renders it incapacitated instead of penalised).įor those with experience with the system, do these numbers work? Any unforeseen problems with the values? That gives me a range for Defenses of 11-25 (+ Ability Mod)Īll creatures (Heroic and Non-Heroic) gain those bonuses (including to defences) to allow 'mooks' to scale with the Heroes (however they still only get 1d4 HD/ 2HP per Level, and no class bonuses to defences, or talents, so they still die fast. That gives me a range of +0-15 (+ Ability Mod).Īll skills and weapons would work of the above, and defences would be set at 11 + +. I really like 5E's 'proficiency bonus' and 'bounded accuracy' rules, and want to incorporate something like that into the rules, however I want the bonuses to be slightly higher (to ameliorate some of the problems with 5Es dice roll being the most important part of the check) I want to smooth out that sweet spot to cover most (if not all) of levels 1-20 while still retaining some of the power disparity between levels 1 and 20. What I am looking to do is get the base numbers right. I've been trying for a while to smash out a 'SWSE 2.0' ruleset, incorporating some of the better ideas from 5E DnD (replacing the CT with a single condition - imposing 5E's disadvantage - and also tweaking and refining skills and talents and streamlinging combat and action economy etc). There is also the problem (avoided with bounded accuracy in DnD 5E) where mooks arent really a challenge for high level PCs and High level enemies totally outclass lower level PCs.

This leads to situations where at low level Skills vs Defences are totally off (+13 skill bonuses vs Defences of 13 or so), and at high level, defences are routinely in the region of around 40+ (meaning most attacks and skills miss, leading to protracted and boring fights).īasically SWSE really amplifies the problem with a lot of D20 games, in that it only really works in the 'sweet spot' of levels 7-12.

Defences scale at 10 + (heroic level) + (class mod).

Skills scale at 1/2 level +5 (trained) +5 (focus).

BAB scales at 0-15 (with Multiclassing messing with this more) with soldiers and Jedis getting 'fighter BAB' of 1-20, with +1 for weapon focus.

Looking for ideas and critique on the following for Saga Edition.Īs most of you who play the system know, the scaling is off in Saga Edition.

Star wars saga edition enemies