#DND 5E HOMEBREW CLASSES JEDI PC#

#DND 5E HOMEBREW CLASSES JEDI PC#

I think you could build a character a number of ways to make a PC 'like a Jedi' but I don't think the ruleset really captures it. when your looking at a Jedi/Sith duel it would really stress the spell slots of a caster with MC levels to grant the martial prowess, some of the feats performed by Jedi on the battlefield of the Clone Wars aren't really mechanically possible I don't think. In fact, I believe they were first in AD&D Unearthed Arcana HC as a way for TSR to say 'you can have lightsabers now.' Beyond that bit of gear, a Jedi/Sith's ranged weapon parries, force pushes and force jumps, etc. Yes, sun blades are basically lightsabers. To the question at hand (wait, didn't this thread die? oh wait, Star Wars, ' no one's ever really gone'), the problem with a Jedi or Sith build is you're sort of making that ellusive 'Gish' that's like the grail of home brewers and new class/subclass advocates (whether there's actually a periodical table of class mechanics where theory crafters will eventually fill in all the gaps is up for the debate, a good Gish would be a big win for that theory). That said, those core rules do pretty much run off the Western/Fringer, WWII/Military, and 'samurai'/disciplined warrior genre roots, it just isolates/compartmentalizes them in a way that's sort of 'not Star Wars.' But yeah, the Star Wars movies are a great way of seeing how you can just lift elements of other genres to ground some currency with your audience in an otherwise freely imaginative space. Yeah, while I'm liking the actual game as I read it, I was little surprised at the lack of consumer backlash over FFG's packaging of its Star Wars rules into a 'scoundrel game' a 'military game' and a 'Force' game (all sharing some redundant mechanics and world lore and are completely cross compatible, hence the Clone Wars sourcebooks being useful for all three games). You can make something feel a lot more “Star Wars” by taking inspiration from those rather than from Star Wars itself.)

(Incidentally, for any other Star Wars DMs out there, the three inspirations for Star Wars were Westerns, WWII films, and samurai films. Monstrous Compendium Volume One: Spelljammer Creatures

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