Well, I am back from my vacation.  I'll give you guys another round of posts, and then we'll move on to the next section and be 'rid' of the prologue!

I'm alive! I swear!

I just got my friggin' internet back, finally. >.<;

Next updates for Gates and Hex to come tomorrow (friday), today's gonna be a busy day.

Nyra and Kots, you guys are free to post (Ven has one you can reply to, or you can head out of the freighter into the landing bay).

Guess I lied... ended up being a lot more busy than I thought.  Plus, its sweltering out here, and that doesn't do well for my creativity...

You know, as strange as it sounds, you are allowed a life...just not too often. Those of us without one are relying on you :P

Right, so, soon, I'm gonna do a brief timejump which will end the prologue.  Those of you who are a little behind at the moment... don't worry, you're not really missing much.

Sorry, work is destroying me today and tomorrow, I'll get a post up Thursday at the latest.

No rush!  This next update, that brings Chapter 1, will take me some time... especially since I'll be heading back to visit family until fridayish.

*is destroyed*

nvm that, I will post this weekend....I'm finished.

You're always prompt, dude.  You're entitled to a bit of time off when you need it!

...unlike me!

*sobs*

I swear, I'm just having such a writer's-block type of week.  I'm sorry.

Yeah, Gates on the other hand... you should be ashamed.  ASHAMED.

You're lucky I don't make your Aurek hot pink.

All right, that will have to do for a start.  We'll get things under way fairly quickly here, fortunately.

...because interrupting a fight before it can start is a PERFECT way for whoever comes through the door next to introduce themselves!  (I couldn't resist)

Speaking of which, whichever of you finishes your second character first will get to appear first.

And by finish, I don't mean the character sheet stuff.  Get me a solid concept and direction, and you can come in.  The character sheet stuff only needs to be done by the time we start doing some rolling.

Right, I'm hitting up a backstory, such as it will be, tonight or tomorrow. I want Huu Shie in there as fast as possible....

So, I just realized that the regular classes specifically state in their writeups, when calculating their Force Points, that "Any Force Points left over from previous levels are lost."

ALL of the regular classes state that.  NONE of the prestige classes do.  This leads me to believe that the Force Points gained for prestige classes just add to the character's total, each time they're gained, instead of resetting the total.

...which brings me to the question: How do we calculate how many we have currently available, when dealing with at least one regular class's Force Points (however many survived the last character level in that class) added to multiple levels of prestige classes?

Do we just err on the side of awesome and assume we have a full compliment of Force Points?

Catching this wording is the difference between Gates having 11 Force Points, and having 39 Force Points, if we go with a full compliment, for example... which although that seems -absurd-, it makes a lot more sense when you think about the fact that we won't gain any additional ones until we level.

Random question: Do unarmed attacks count as 'light weapon'?  I can't seem to find anywhere that it says, in the books, but one would think it doesn't get any lighter than not having one at all!

Pretty sure it counts as 'unarmed attack'... or 'natural weapons' if your species has claws.

Well then, let me get a bit more specific: In D&D, weapon finesse (which does the same thing) specifies that Natural Weapons are always considered Light Weapons... but I can't find anything that says one way or another in the Saga books.

Ergo, do my natural weapons count as light weapons, oh ye mighty ewok?

“Unarmed attacks and natural weapons are considered light simple weapons in which all characters are proficient.”

Errata/Clarification for the core book.

Yeah, they do.

So, you guys have a choice: we can move along now, your y'all can have some time to introduce yourselves.

Sorry, had one of lifes little wrinkles come out and suck the energy out of me. All should be well now at least :D

I'm cool with moving on.

No worries.  I'll get to it tomorrow or Sunday at the latest.  Until then, feel free to keep posting if you want.

All right, got a proposition for you guys: this initial training session will be done in five simulations.  There's two ways we can do this: run through each one accordingly, or I can make a few rolls and tell you guys how the first few went.  The last one will then be done normally, as it will be the most important.

Your call, just know that the first method will take a fair bit longer, and will end up a tad repetitive, given that the first 4 will be very similar missions.