My player wants to be a Jedi, Lightblade spell Options

[Mortax]

One of my players found this online:

[nt326]

Actually, i wanna be a sith.. jedi's couldn't run.. stupid morals and whatnot

[fistandantilus4....]

no on the HqBack BTW, except in that one area w/ the tower. It's the only place where magic works normally. Personally I don't think I'd allow it, but it's up to you and your preference for the feel of the game.
Besides, if a runner has a friggin' laser sword, what the hell do you think the Red Samurai are gonna have?

[Mortax]

[nt326]

[RunnerPaul]

[Liper]

[nt326]

[Tziluthi]

And if the player makes any sort of parry-type defence then he can still expect to get hit, just not by all of his attacker's weapon.

[fistandantilus4....]

there's the laser crescent axe, that has a laser arc along the edge of the blade. nothing dikote cant='t do, except that the lasers on the axe get knocked out of alignment pretty easily. Big difference upping the damage a bit because of a laser arc than having a weapon of pure laser. look at the MP laser for an example, base damage at 12M for the lightest version.

Really, as the spell reads, it's not all the differnet from dikote except for how it is implemented. I guess it's just a matter of the tone of it I don't personally care for,

[PiXeL01]

[Muzzaro]

I'd consider it.

And then just keep track of what the player's doing. I'm sure sometime during the run, the player will make that fatal mistake, and forget he's got the blade out, to do something minor... Maybe patching himself up after a gunbattle. Maybe he reaches out to steady another player who's reeling from magical/matrix feedback. And bam. Carving up flesh like it's a christmas turkey.

[Chibu]

hey, nt, you actually going to play this char? or are you going to drop it after 2 runs becuase it gets boring? ^-^

Character-ADD is bad for you. But, worse, it's bad for ME. meh, I guess I get free contacts from being friends with your characters.

the ad up at the top of the page is for "Woman's Health Book 2Ed." ... wtf


My opinion Mortax: Let is slide. If he's resisting 5D drain at the beginning of every fight, then he's going to be pretty slow on the uptake. Also, a large beam of laser is going to put off a considerable amount of light, so, yeah, he can use it for a flashlight too. But, on the same note, the human with no low-light and an MP-9 is only going to see the guy holding the flashlight =\

It works as a spell. But, I don't think it will be efficient. You'll need an average of 24 dice to take no drain from that beast. Let him use it. I'm going to take unarmed combat... This spell is not nearly as game-unbalancing as me taking unarmed combat. So yeah.

One last note, does using that crazy thing go off Armed Combat? I think it might need to be specialized becuase it's actually kind of hard to know where you're attacking if your weapon doesn't actually have weight.

Anywho, I'll stfu.

[Mr.Platinum]

Then tell him/her to go play star wars then.

[Chibu]

[Mortax]

[Dog]

HB is on the metaplanes. Perfect opportunity for you to give it to him for a metaplane or two, say Masquerade or The Impossible Dream or whatever. Test it out to see if it fits. If he's bored by then or you don't like what he's doing, well... it's just for that metaplane.

As far as the game world, it makes perfect sense to me that there's a mage who's a Star Wars fan and would've created this spell, whether or not it's any good.

[nick012000]

It's a physical spell, so no, it won't work on the Astral, because only Mana spells work on the Astral.

Personally, I'd say that the spell would be a Sustained Touch range Elemental Manipulation (light). Going by the rules in MitS, it would have a power of Force, a TN of 4 for the spell, require a melee attack with a -2 TN modifier to hit, and getting 2 net successes on either will stage up the DL. It would have a drain of (1/2 Force +2)(DL). So a Force 6 Lightsaber cast at D damage would have a drain of 5D. Allowing the use of Edged Weapons (Lightsword) seems appropriate for the particular spell. I'll point out that it will benefit from the Light elemental modifiers from MitS, to whit:

[Apathy]

[EVLTIM]

[Wounded Ronin]

Ah, it's so crass to try and be a jedi outside of Star Wars. Well, like some others have said...the man with the gigantic, shining, luminous phallic symbol probably draws all the fire.

[Mortax]

[Glyph]

Even with the house rules (which are balanced, since you have kept grounding as well), the mage is still sacrificing a lot of effectiveness to be "cool". So, if it's that important to him to play a jedi-like character, why not let him? Sure, he'll be distinctive, but in a game world where you have tattooed trolls with purple mohawks cleaning their cyberspurs during the team's meeting with the Johnson, he won't be too out of place.

I don't think it will be too unbalancing. He is in the unenviable position of going head-to-head with things like hardened street sammies, combat-oriented adepts, elementals with the engulf power, etc. He is matching his skill and Combat Pool against theirs. Compare that to, say, a dwarven sorcerer with the Dragonslayer Totem and a Rating: 6 manabolt focus, using dice from the focus, his spellcasting, and his Spell Pool, along with Totem bonuses, while his target resists only with Willpower. Heck, just compare him to a mage with a weapon focus, who gets to add those dice to his skill and take an astral "copy" of it with them when they project.

[nick012000]

Heh. Delusional spike baby nerd-boy elves for teh win! :rotfl:

I say 'spike baby elf' because there's no other way to be old enough to have actually seen Star Wars, and therefore develop a tradition based around it.

In SR3, I'd just say to play a Magician's Way Adept (following either Dragonslayer or Adversary depending on Light Side or Dark Side), with the Combat Sense, Astral Perception, and maybe Attribute Boost powers. Throw in a Force 6 Sustaining Focus (in the form of a lightsaber hilt) for the Lightsaber spell, and you're ready to go.

[Dog]