MOST AWESOME GAME Moment last night
I know not all of you are gamers, but I have to share last night's game. We are playing Star Wars D20, but set on earth about oh, 15 years or so from now. The gist is 50,000 years ago, in this galaxy, there was a mutantity aboard the space station (the moon) and the mutantiers (oh please forgive my spelling) landed on earth and have been hiding on a secret base in Antartica ever since. Their leader is pychotic and evil and has no reservations about killing his own people. Our part in this, basically to get into his base and destroy him. Sounds easy right? (insert sarcastic laughter)
Being that I thought Jedi were cool, I decided to play a Jedi Guardian. Which, after first gaming session, I hated. They are way nerfed, for good reason, but nerfed nonetheless. They have way too many different skills and feats (because of the force) that unless you know every one inside and out, it takes some time to decide what to do in battle. Even then you can't do much. Point is, the whole time we've been playing this game I've felt completely useless as a player. I think you have to be a powergamer in order to effectively pull off a Jedi in this system.
Getting to the good part, so last night we get onto his base. All our troops disembark our shuttles and begin fighting his ground troops/droids. We slice our way through them and get to the big ass battle cruiser, which he had taken from the space station 50,000 years back. I perform a See Force skill and discover he is on the bridge. We head up that way, with one character, our leader who is Senior Fleet Captain (or something like that) who happens to have a higher rank than our bad guy, Anu. We easily get to the bridge and I roll best initiative.
Being that I'm not only a Jedi Guardian, but also an ex-Marine, I enter the bridge and stop to access the situation. The other players follow suit and begin attacking. To make an even longer story short, Anu decides that I must die first as I'm the biggest threat. He talks some smack and tries to get me to join him and rule the galaxy together. Nah, sorry, I stand for Truth, Justice and the American way or some BS like that. At this point he has done nothing but stand there. I slice through his droid and next round head on over to take care of him.
To recap: He is a 50,000 year old Sith Lord. I am a Jedi Guardian (7th level which I guess means I'm now a Jedi Knight) which due to intense training, I've only been for like 8 months or so. Going into this battle I figure this is the last game session and my character is useless anyway, go out in the blaze of glory. I figure I have no chance here.
I step up to attack and tell the GM I'm going to spend a Force Point. At my level that adds 3d6 to my d20 roll for the attack, just not damage. I roll my attack and roll a natural 20! Holy Toledo Batman! I rolled a potential crit against the big baddy! So I roll to confirm the crit and I do confirm! What does this mean? Well in Star Wars you have two set of hit points so to speak, vitality and wounds. Vitality points are where the damage first deducts from and than wounds. Wounds are far more difficult to heal and when you run out of those you die. When you crit in Star Wars, you deal damage directly to Wounds and bypass the fricken vitality all together.
I've confirmed the crit. I roll damage. I use a lightsaber(well duh). Lightsabers are extra special as they deal more damage and bypass DR (damage reduction). Rolling as I did and using the lightsaber, I anhilated him with one fucking hit! I dealt like 25 damage to his wounds which were only 17 points. Apparently he had like 120 vitality, but sorry dude, I rolled a crit. Awwww yeah! I sliced him in two. Pickle was jumping up and down I was so stoked. I killed a 50,000 year old Sith lord with one stroke! Finally I felt like my character was worth something. I guess the cross of Jedi powers with Marine training was just too much for him. It was a beautiful thing indeed. It ended the game. I can't even begin to describe the awesomeness of the whole thing.
I think that may have been the best timed (cinematically) thing I've ever done in gaming. It was my finest moment in rolling, not roleplaying, but yeah, I'm still thinking about how cool it was. If my character had been doing all these awesome Jedi things during the rest of the game I probably wouldn't have been this excited. But she had been so lame and useless during everything else that it was the best ending that I could give her.
That was that. A wonderful thing indeed. Now my belly is all tied in knots since I have to fly tonight. I just hope I can eat sometime in the next couple hours. Toodles all. Have a great weekend.
Being that I thought Jedi were cool, I decided to play a Jedi Guardian. Which, after first gaming session, I hated. They are way nerfed, for good reason, but nerfed nonetheless. They have way too many different skills and feats (because of the force) that unless you know every one inside and out, it takes some time to decide what to do in battle. Even then you can't do much. Point is, the whole time we've been playing this game I've felt completely useless as a player. I think you have to be a powergamer in order to effectively pull off a Jedi in this system.
Getting to the good part, so last night we get onto his base. All our troops disembark our shuttles and begin fighting his ground troops/droids. We slice our way through them and get to the big ass battle cruiser, which he had taken from the space station 50,000 years back. I perform a See Force skill and discover he is on the bridge. We head up that way, with one character, our leader who is Senior Fleet Captain (or something like that) who happens to have a higher rank than our bad guy, Anu. We easily get to the bridge and I roll best initiative.
Being that I'm not only a Jedi Guardian, but also an ex-Marine, I enter the bridge and stop to access the situation. The other players follow suit and begin attacking. To make an even longer story short, Anu decides that I must die first as I'm the biggest threat. He talks some smack and tries to get me to join him and rule the galaxy together. Nah, sorry, I stand for Truth, Justice and the American way or some BS like that. At this point he has done nothing but stand there. I slice through his droid and next round head on over to take care of him.
To recap: He is a 50,000 year old Sith Lord. I am a Jedi Guardian (7th level which I guess means I'm now a Jedi Knight) which due to intense training, I've only been for like 8 months or so. Going into this battle I figure this is the last game session and my character is useless anyway, go out in the blaze of glory. I figure I have no chance here.
I step up to attack and tell the GM I'm going to spend a Force Point. At my level that adds 3d6 to my d20 roll for the attack, just not damage. I roll my attack and roll a natural 20! Holy Toledo Batman! I rolled a potential crit against the big baddy! So I roll to confirm the crit and I do confirm! What does this mean? Well in Star Wars you have two set of hit points so to speak, vitality and wounds. Vitality points are where the damage first deducts from and than wounds. Wounds are far more difficult to heal and when you run out of those you die. When you crit in Star Wars, you deal damage directly to Wounds and bypass the fricken vitality all together.
I've confirmed the crit. I roll damage. I use a lightsaber(well duh). Lightsabers are extra special as they deal more damage and bypass DR (damage reduction). Rolling as I did and using the lightsaber, I anhilated him with one fucking hit! I dealt like 25 damage to his wounds which were only 17 points. Apparently he had like 120 vitality, but sorry dude, I rolled a crit. Awwww yeah! I sliced him in two. Pickle was jumping up and down I was so stoked. I killed a 50,000 year old Sith lord with one stroke! Finally I felt like my character was worth something. I guess the cross of Jedi powers with Marine training was just too much for him. It was a beautiful thing indeed. It ended the game. I can't even begin to describe the awesomeness of the whole thing.
I think that may have been the best timed (cinematically) thing I've ever done in gaming. It was my finest moment in rolling, not roleplaying, but yeah, I'm still thinking about how cool it was. If my character had been doing all these awesome Jedi things during the rest of the game I probably wouldn't have been this excited. But she had been so lame and useless during everything else that it was the best ending that I could give her.
That was that. A wonderful thing indeed. Now my belly is all tied in knots since I have to fly tonight. I just hope I can eat sometime in the next couple hours. Toodles all. Have a great weekend.