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Xenocide wrote:

I was under the impression that Combat Thrusters let you dogfight with fighters. I didn't think they added the -20 for turbolasers to hit. Is that correct.

They do. Check out pg 40 SotG for the Combat Thruster description.

Xenocide wrote:

I also don't use destinys in my games so no destiny points. I find that they're just too powerful. When the BBEG shows up it's a small thing for everyone in the party to auto-crit him.

My players are close to the end of episode II, and so far DPs have been spent to; avoid blows that could down the hero; act out of turn to use the Force on a grenade to throw it back on some storm troopers; when confronted with a band of toughs, one hero spent a DP to act out of turn and another to crit a thug in order to intimidate the group. If DPs are used in a campaign, you'll find they get mostly used up before the BBEG anyway.
May the Force be with you.

I have yet to actually start DoD at all, but I've been reading through all 10 episodes to get a feel for the whole story ... and in my read-through of Episode IX, I noticed a peculiar discrepancy regarding the Force adept Attune Weapon and Empower Weapon talents.

Inquisitor Jorad (Curious Inquisitor encounter, pp 26-27) apparently spends a round igniting his lightsaber and empowering it.

Inquisitor Draco (Torture Chamber encounter, pp 43-45) apparently attunes his weapon while taunting the PCs before the actual combat begins.

My understanding was that those talents only ever needed to be activated once per weapon. I can only assume that this was sloppy writing on the authors' part.

Just thought I'd point it out.



Another issue I noticed is with the Geddis Mine Stereb group. It talks about how the healer doesn't see the Sterebs breaking through the tunnel blockage, only the PCs as they come through ... but if you look at the encounter map, the blockage ends right at the edge of the room the healer is in. If the Sterebs dug all the way through the blockage, surely their kinsmen would've seen them? I'm going to make it so the blockage is further back in the passage and the PCs will have to walk a little ways through the tunnel before coming into the room with the other Sterebs.



Also, the map of the Torture Chamber gives no indication of how Draco is supposed to escape. It looks as though it's a dead end chamber. Where is the "ramp to the upper levels" that the text mentions?

Hello Eli,
I kept Draco at 20th level, representing his greater opportunities to gather power, being generally left to his own devices by his superiors.  Oh, and his connection to the dark side nexus helps here too.
I see no probs with lowering Draco a little, though the reason I made the additions is that the adventures xp falls short.  Lowering a CL here means raising (or adding) one there.  Keep that in mind when adjusting the adventure.
Thank you for your kind words, and I hope my efforts work well for you.  Enjoy!
Matty.

Aug 5, 2011 -- 3:34PM, El-Kabong wrote:

Okay, perhaps I missed something in part 9 (or this is addressed in part 10), but did I read this right: is the discovery of the location of the Sarlac Project site simply handed to the players by an NPC? That they're just passive in uncovering this kind of important tidbit while they were off saving their useless Jedi? "Hey, sorry that your Jedi got killed. Oh, here's the lowdown on the thing you've been chasing for the last 9 chapters!"

Not just no. Hell no! There is no way that they should be passive at this stage of the story arc. Why are they not finding the secret plans while in the Citidel of Evil? They need to be the ones riding with the MacGuffin, not some off-screen contacts!

I just searched back through DoD9, and I don't even see where it says they find out the location of the Sarlacc Project at all, whether on their own, or from somebody else.  But it does say that in the beginning (Lady Aldrete's briefing) of DoD10.  But I agree, the heroes should be the one to find out the location of the Sarlacc Project, even if it's just Denia telling them before she dies.

EDIT: Sorry, my previous post is not very helpful I realized, because I didn't really offer a solution.  Okay, so let's say that in DoD8 instead of Organa learning that the Empire has taken Jedi Master Denia to Prakith (DoD8 pg. 3, Summary) that he finds out that is the new center for planning for the Sarlacc Project, since the heroes destroyed the Imeici Spire in DoD6.  So the heroes are actually heading to Prakith to get the Sarlacc's location.  While they're infiltrating the Citadel Inquisitorius they somehow learn that Denia is there as well (a Jedi among the heroes senses her, or there's information about her in the computer they're hacking to get the Sarlacc's location).  Does this work for you?

Hey all,


No probs, Tomacticus.  I live to give.


Have lots of fun, and remember - always be mindful of your feelings. 


Matty