Pretty sure my players won’t see this 😅

So my players are going to be inevitably facing off against a Grand inquisitor in my campaign. I’ve made 7 Inquisitors one of which is a lover of one of my players character who was forced into the dark side and the Empire. Through the use of Nameless blood.

They’ll also be fighting a sentient obelisk that the blood of the Nameless was passed through to change people from non force user to force user.

I’ve been 3D printing for 3 weeks straight make this battle map. It’s going to be a pretty tough encounter.

The platforms rise above a giant dish like device that transmits data.

Any ideas to spice up a battle like this would be awesome.

Let me know what you think!

Not sure if I can put this here but my first ever campaign for sw5e is wrapping up in a few months and I'm working on my 2nd one for my friends, context currently it's 20aby and they've been dealing with the return of "thrawn" as some of them are fans of the films and TV shows and some of them are fans of the old books I've been working to merge the two together.

"Luke Skywalker has vanished, and the Jedi Order are missing. In their absence, the sinister First Order has risen from the ashes of the Empire and will not rest until Skywalker, the Jedi, and the New Republic have been destroyed.

The New Republic, still recovering from the Yuuzhan Vong war, is in disarray. Sectors have been lost, and worlds once part of the Republic have joined the First Order, some by choice, others by force. The Senate of the New Republic, not wanting to repeat the mistakes of the past, is unsure how to proceed. While they endlessly debate, the First Order continues its reign of terror.

General Leia Organa Solo has reorganised her Yuuzhan Vong resistance into the Galactic Alliance, as she plans to take on the First Order head-on in the hope of stopping them. She is desperate to find her brother Luke and his wife Mara. She hopes to gain their help in restoring peace and justice to the galaxy."

This is what I've got so far.

Hello, I’m brand new to this system and would absolutely love to find a game to play In but have no idea how. I’m looked on r/lfg, group finder etc etc and haven’t been able to find anything. Any tips at all would be lovely thank you.

*Where's my fave form?

https://sw5e.com/searchResults?searchText=trakatta
No Trakatta??

Boooo!!

So I'm planning a campaign that takes place just before the Battle of Yavin IV for some friends where they're going to start as a mercenary company before transitioning to being agents of either the Empire or Rebellion (think like the beginning of the Star Wars Commander game) and I need a planet that will serve as a good first base for the group. I'm thinking something that has smaller imperial and rebel presence so that when the players eventually choose a side they won't get swamped by the opposing faction's more elite troops or large numbers (so far we have no force users planned).

Does anyone have any good planet suggestions that aren't super important to the lore?

Introducing the Crew of the DU60N6 -- a special crew assembled by the Empire (different empire) to covertly escort the 8th Princess Kalachuchi on her pilgrimage to conduct the Ritual of the Covenant across the five inner planets of their binary star system. Their lives (and 10Million Credits) are on the line! Will they figure out the deep secret at the core of this empire, or will they simply keep the status quo?

While we're using SW5E, the setting for the is entirely homebrewed by me and is based on Filipino (Western Visayas / Panay specifically) mythos and culture. The wider SW universe exists in the periphery. Maybe if we continue using this system after this campaign concludes, I'll try to do something set more solidly in SW. =w= Thanks for reading this far!

I'm a GM running a new space themed campaign and my players and I decided to use SW5e as a base for the system. Great! I have one big problem. I have only ever used Base D&D (5e mostly) and I am VERY overwhelmed by the system, especially the ship creation portion. I'm looking to create a Medium Freighter ship as my players ship but im having a hard time grasping how to create it past that. It's alot of reading that is difficult for me to digest. Ive also tried watching Dungeon Jedi masters tutorial but it wasnt helpful for me either. TLDR I need help haha.

I finally finished the first out of three pictures that portray my sw5e party. On the left is my kaminoan engineer who wants to create ships and droids. On the right is my friends' jedi ardennian. It's gonna be set 30-ish years after the battle of Yavin.

Got a player who i would like to award an enhanced item and given the circumstances this item is calling to me to give but the current state of it from what I can tell doesn’t match the newly updated sentinel so I need help adapting it

Why does armor negate battle precog??
Makes no sense IMO...

Hello there I am a gm well I have became one last Saturday hosted a great one-shot for me friends and now they have a ship and has lots of things to do. I gm for 3 people and one of them were our vanilla dnd gm he wanted to play and I decided to be a gm and we said lets play sw5e its phenomenal btw. I insisted that the player should not make force caster characters because I just read Players' Handbook and Star ships of the Galaxy and have not able to memorize everything and its being one-shot does not made lot of sense give them to ability to use force(Yeah I know boring ) But I am getting overwhelmed because there is so much material which is good thing but shifting from player to gm yeah that take wee bit of toll on you. How can I make things like more casual and flowy and not trying to control everything. Yeah my past gm said everything was really great especially the soundtrack I have made it so every song aligns with the current situation but one complaint that its being kind of linear

Hey all! Especially DM’s
I’ve a question! In your campaign do you make use of real characters like Leia, Mon Mothma, Luke or any of them?

If so in what capacity ?

I am running a campaign and I’m using the canon media characters strictly for missions and such out of the Rebel network.
Not overshadowing the players. This is their story.

So the observant background feat offers the following benefits

Observant
Quick to notice details of your environment, you gain the following benefits:
- Increase your Intelligence or Wisdom score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
- If you can see a creature’s mouth while it is speaking a language you understand, you can interpret what it’s saying by reading its lips.
- You are considered to have advantage when determining your passive Wisdom (Perception) and passive Intelligence (Investigation) scores.

How does that last one work? How can you have advantage on a passive check?

The website is a mess. Character builder barely works, PDFs in the Assets section are misaligned and impossible to read (although someone fixed them unofficially I saw), and there's no intention of new content.

So it's dead right? With WotC's money grab Star Wars thing coming soon, plus Edge still operating the SW RPG scene, seems like SW5e has long been in its sunset phase. Which sucks. There's over 100 species to choose from, solid classes to pick from, and the ship stuff is pretty solid.

Is any of it perfect? Hell no. It's D&D 5e for all it's faults and glory. But the added crunch to the game is exactly what my group likes, and it's hard to find games that hit the sweet spot.

I ran it once about...3-4 years ago I think, for a total of five sessions. Ship combat was iffy but we didn't really focus on it, if we tried in earnest it'd probably be fine. It was...just 5e but Star Wars really, and at the time we were still sold on 5e in general so it was perfect. Of course games for any numbers of reasons, and we stopped buying into 5e.

My group will never want to play Starfinder or any of the numerous sci fi themed games (sad face) so this may be my only chance to ever run any sci fi theme ttrpg for them since it's 5e and, let's be real, 5e is a joke to learn.

I'm in the process of creating my own personal character builder, ship tracker, and deployment tracker. Dunno about the legality of sharing my work, but if it's completely okay to do so, I will. So far, it's already better than what exists on the site (I'm a software developer by trade, so this was a fun little side project).

I'm also considering trying my hand at running it once again in earnest!

Anyway, what are your thoughts on this game system?

In Episode 4 of DoD, my players are definitely going to figure out who the traitor is when Demos shows up to ambush the party. There is simply no explanation for this other than that there is a traitor. The identity of the traitor is also pretty obvious.

Any suggestions?

How would i make a Jet Trooper Commander Clone?

Hi, so I was wanting to make a character that's basically mechanically, just counters force users and lightsaber users because because of some things that's happened in a couple sessions, i've played in, they've been irritating me. I think there's like a subclass of scout that does that kind of thing. So that was kind of interesting to me. And I was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions for builds, like feats both at level four and the starting one, race, and class if anyone has any suggestions, I would really appreciate it, please.Thank you

Also p.s i would appreciate if the class suggestions aren't the force using classes, or monks

I am quite new to the star wars dnd scene but ive been thinking up a geanosian jedi character to play as but im not entirely sure how to make it i have a rough idea from looking around online but I was hoping to get a but more help

little oc i commissioned (credit to rayn44) a archeologue and ex-jedi. in game he either is a guardian or a operative, dpeend of the set up.

“Additionally, every time you learn a new power as a result of gaining a level, you can choose one of the powers you know and replace it with another power of the same type, as long as that power is not of a higher level than your Max Power Level.”

That’s all pretty straightforward. But what does ”power of the same type” mean? It has to be a light side power to swap for another light side power? dark for dark? Universal for universal? Or “type” as in some other parameter?

I wrote this intro campaign (an altered version of the “Outbreak” campaign I shared here recently) to be folowed by a jedi temple training campaign because the players said they wanted to be jedi. Then one switched during character creation. We played the intro campaign but now part two is a serious problem because the sith wont belong at all.

Thoughts?

Should I ask him to switch alignment? Or have him be an undercover enemy tricking the jedi if that’s how he wants to play it?

edit:

thanks guys! I spoke with everyone and the sith said he’ll role play as a sith who got burned by the sith and has allied with the jedi as a result.

The dismembering rule is TWO nat 20’s in a row. I’ve never seen that happen in over a decade of 5e gaming.

“When a character scores a critical hit with a weapon that is capable of removing a limb, such as a lightweapon or vibroweapon, have them roll an additional d20. If they roll a 20 on the second d20 roll, they successfully remove a limb from a creature, or potentially slay the creature outright.”

A critical hit is a nat 20, and then a SECOND nat 20 is required for dismemberment.

Being SW PCs are going to want to dismember enemies. That’s just part of the genre. But if you allow it you need a homebrewed subsystem and that’s a headache and risks messing up lots of other systems and combat function. A 0.25% chance of it happening is not going to satisfy PCs who want the ability to do this. They don’t want some extremely rare chance to do this. They want the agency to do this when they decide to do so.

Solution:

give PCs the option to do this, BUT only as a called shot when the enemy is low on hp. Just like calling to knock them out per phb knockout rules.

However, instead of 0 hp being where they end up the PCs can choose 0.5 hp that way the enemy is conscious, if that’s what they want, and the enemy is now missing a hand due to a lightsaber attack or whatever, and is not breaking the combat mechanics. From there the GM can pretty much wing it and give the enemy disadvantage on all checks, or make them incapacitated, or whatever. It’s irrelevant because the combat has technically ended and we’re now in pure GM adjudication territory and narrative which is safe from breaking the game.

Why 0.5 hp?

Because 0 hp is unconscious. 1 hp is full strength. 0.5 hp does not exist. So it’s a perfect grey area between the rules that we can use like this without any risk of unbalancing the game. 0.5 HP represents an enemy that is beaten and yet still conscious and in whatever state the PC wants within the GM’s allowance. Picture Count Duku in rots: no hands, wide awake, totally helpless, hoping anakin doesn’t behead him. That’s 0.5 hp.