I'd say make levels 1-3 of dodge (assuming we're still on a five point to max it system) as having no effect on blasters, level 4 as being able to dodge the odd blaster bolt if you get lucky, and level 5 as being able to locate decent cover and make yourself slightly harder to hit on the way to it.

That way you won't have people dodge dodge dodging out in the middle of the street while fighting 10 stormtroopers with heavy repeating blasters.

Also: which weapon category would flame throwers be in? (they're about the only SW weapon that would give a non-jedi a chance against jedis)

And something I forgot about hapans lorrdians and dathomiri... I'll edit this into my other post too.

Edit: Put Hapan history after what they really should be for this RP, just so that people could see my reasoning for making them that.

Hapans-Space Pirates. They're uncouth, male dominated, and known for kidnapping beautiful women and forcing them into marriage... they are, however, amazing pilots for the most part.

(They actually are a female dominated society that is also VERY proud [bordering on chiss like pride]. They were populated by a band of male space pirates who would kidnap and marry the most beautiful women from other galaxies, thus giving the people of the hapan cluster their above average beauty. The jedi order eventually wiped them out, however... and now they hate jedis. I would say that seeming as this is star-wars like... and it seems that the jedi order is just starting up, we'll have them still be space pirates.)

Dathomiri-The planet Dathomir is a barren wasteland for the most part, and those large creatures that jabba kept one of (I'm sure FZ can remember the name), roamed about there pretty freely. The dathomiri WOMEN are able to train them using the force. This is an EXTREMELY female dominated society, men are slaves and nothing more. Used for sex, manual labor, and opening jars. If you're going to be a dathomiri male you should probably be either misogynist, or servile towards women... if you're goind to be a dathomiri female you should be dominant towards men. Also... they don't have technology past medieval europe's levels on Dathomir. Unless you have a reason you got off the planet young you shouldn't be able to use blasters etc. with any real proficiency (just vibro weapons). AND, speaking of getting off the planet... as that this is Star Wars like... I'm going to play with the timeline a bit, and say that the dark jedi have already found the 'nightsisters' clan, and set up a training center to create dark jedi there. You could have been made a slave to the dark jedi and been freed by light jedi or something of that nature...

Lorrdians-Much like black people in our world... they spent a lot of time under slavery. As a result of this, in much the same way that american slaves began to communicate through song, they learned to communicate in a way that others couldn't... VERY subtle sign language. A Lorrdian saying "The plan starts at midnight, prepare to move the heavy blasters" could be something like a certain twitch of their arm muscles. As a result of this they're VERY aware of other people's emotions through their body language... and no one but a lorrdian can 'speak' their language, due to how subtle and complicated it is.

Flamethrower would be a heavy weapon.

Rancors is what your thinking of, they tamed them and used them like horses. The Dathmoir Rancors were also much healthier then Jabba's, and they were a larger, more powerful breed.

And Bullets are another weapon that works against Jedi. In the book Shatterpoint, there is both a melee weapon that works againts lightsabers (It's semi-unique though, so we wouldn't have it), and bullets would go through the beam as well it was established.

I didn't know they ever used bullets in the SW universe. I argued for like half an hour with someone on that MUD about it, actually. "I don't see why they don't just use bullets." "They don't have them." "So you're telling me that they couldn't make a pistol, but they can make plasma weapons?" "They don't bother making them because the blasters are better." "Against jedi? A bullet would just pass through the beam! Even if it melted, a molten bullet would still kill."

(I was the person for bullets)

And yah, rancor. That's what I thought, but my brain was sitting there going "Isn't a rancor that thing in the first forest in Xenogears... that can't be the same name as the Star Wars thing."

A person with a high level in guns can hit a Jedi (With a laser).

There are guns, but they aren't used because lasers are better against everything except Lightsabers, and they aren't used current SW time line because Stormtrooper armor can deflect bullets, but not lasers. Bullets were only used in that book because there was some fungus on the planet that reduced the complicated machinery in blasters to scrap in no time, while normal guns didn't require the wiring and such of a blaster, so they were the only guns that worked. So yes, guns do exist, they just aren't used 99% of the time because the Blaster is regarded as the superior weapon, but a Jedi is also weak against bullets. Note, they will be hard to find since they are never used, so I don't expect everyone in the universe to carry a pistol or machine gun, and in fact I don't expect anyone would actually carry them, but they do exist.

Also, about that MUD, it was taken off line "Indefinitly" for upgrades and reworking the system, so I might look around for another one to look in to...

Bullets may go through a light saber, but a Jedi can always use the force and stop the bullet, or at least redirect it.

And I've decided that you can not use points in Weapons or Skills, then halve those points and transfer to Weapons or Skills (But in Bio, say so) And no rounding up.

Edit - Oh, and because we are on the 'good' side, that means we have that whole "Jedi Code" thing. So no abusing your powers. (Like Mind Controlling other people)

Here's mine.

Name: Suggestions for his name
Age: 26
Sex: Male
Race: Human
Weapons: Dual light sabers, one red and one blue.
Bio: ____ was raised to be a Jedi when he was four years old. Prefering the more destructive side of the force, he trained in saber fighting and the offensive side of the force mainly. He became more of a Spy Jedi, but if caught he can fight off his attackers and live.

Jedi Powers

Force Sense - 2
Force Control - 5
Force Speed - 3
Min Control - 5
Force Jump - 4
Force Choke - 4
Force Lighting - 5

Weapons (2 points not used in Skills, tranfered to 1 point)

Light Saber - 5
Laser Deflect - 5
Vibro-Blade - 3

Skills

Stealth - 5
Awareness - 5

Hmm... I can't decide whether to be a bad-ass gunslinger, or a nerdy computer guy. Someone tell me which I should go with, then I'll make up my bio.

I've decided against force, because I figure nearly everyone will use it... and the urge to twink it into near invincibility is too strong.

Computer nerd will look like this:

No jedi...
Weapon Skills (6):
1 vibro blade
2 pistol
1 machine gun
1 ground fighter vehicle
1 space fighter vehicle.

Basic Skills (I get 35 points here):
5 comp/console.
5 robots.
2 ground vehicles.
1 space vehicles.
3 mechanics for vehicles.
3 medicine and non-force healing
3 stealth
3 stealing
4 awareness.
3 fast talking
3 bullet dodging
----

If gunslinger:
No Force
Weapon Skills (23):
2 vibro-blade
5 Pistols
4 Rifles
5 Machine Guns
3 Heavy Weapons
2 ground fighter
2 space fighter

Basic Skill (26):
2 Comp
2 Ground Vehicle
2 Space Vehicle
2 Medicine
5 Stealth
5 Awareness
3 Fast Talking
5 Bullet Dodging

You could wait until some other bios, and if some one is a gun obsessed guy, you take the computer hacker. If some one takes a computer guy, you take the gunslinger.

Edit - I was trying to choose between Jedi Spy or a non Jedi Spy... I chose Jedi because that was the point why I made this RP.

Oh bow down ye and behold the mighty twinkage.

Name: Salk don jin
Age: 34
Race: Defel
Weapons: Lightsaber (black, hell yeah), DH-17 modified pistol, Wrist rocket launcher, Skothli (spelling?) Spraystick, a flachette launcher. Also wears plate armor.
Bio: Salk began his life on a small star system not too far from Coruscant. At the age of ten he was taken into the care of the jedi order. He always had enjoyed taking advantage of his fellow students fallabilities. He developed odd powers right off the bat and beat his opponents through subterfuge and surprise more often. He broke off from the main jedi task force and now works as informant and special ops.

Force powers

Force control 6
Force Speed 5
Mind Control 5
Force Protect 5
Force Drain 5
Force Seeing 1
Force Immunity 1

Weapons

Light Saber 5
Laser Deflect 2
Heavy Weapons 4
Pistols 1

Non-Jedi

Space Vehicles 2
Ground Vehicles 2
Stealing 2
Stealth 3
Computers 2
Mechanics 1


I assumed that the random weapons in the manuals were amenable to "heavy"