TomCollective
Member since: 2007This isn't really a request, but I posted it here because I thought the artists may like to chew on some of these ideas. Such ideas may also make for good RPG characters. You may or may not have seen them before. I'm sure I'm not the only one to mull these things over.
Wolverine Style Force User: Fix a set of lightsabers to some bracers, and you have a few interesting possibilities. Of course there is always the feral Wolverine type. But you could also go for someone like Voldo in the Soul Caliber games. Or perhaps a graceful warrior dancer. Or point the blades the other way and have a Guyver type fighter, although I'm personally not a fan of elbow bladed anything, but that's just me.
The Doctor Octopus Lightsaber user: Whereas General Grievous had very articulated arms, once could also have fun placing a lightsaber in several tentacle like appendages. I don't imagine the user being terribly dextrous with them, but for general swipes and mayhem it can be some good wholesome fun.
The Heavenly Sword Lightsaber: Pretty much like the videogame: lightsaber on a tether. Twirl and spin and kill on a massive scale.
The Lightsaber porcupine droid: Battle droid covered in lightsaber "quills". You really want to stir things up you give it the ability to roll like a droideka.
The Tron Light Disc: Engineer a lightsaber blade to emit around a centralized disc, give said disc a guidance system, and you once again have a very, very deadly weapon. Giant boomerang swaths of death, and a force user may have the ability to time throws with a blaster hit, thereby deflecting shots.
Teepo Paladins: This was something I saw posted on the internet(s) a long time ago on a website far far away. They're force users who use blaster pistols, not lightsabers, as their primary weapon. The guns are highly customized, and they make crazy crack/trick shots all the time.
Light-numchucks: Maybe I'm reaching here, maybe not? Eh? Ehhh?
Agent 47 Sith Assassin: you walk in, you crush throat, you leave. You need no equipment, and you leave no evidence. You mind control your way past guards. Not all villains have to be quasi-ninja types.
The Men in Black Really Tiny Alien piloting a man sized robot force user. I think that pretty much explains that.
The light pole arm: why get in close when you can skewer people with a spear thrust or hack down like a halberd?
The Light Mace: channel the lightsaber blade into a sphere up top, and you have a weapon meant to just melt through everything it touches, as opposed to things more nimble or elegant.
The force sensitive collective intelligence.
Resident Sith: Evil experimentation with miticlorians fails to make artificial force users, but does succeed in making angry force sensitive zombies. Whether or not they eat flesh or are indeed undead is up to you.
A force sensitive Yuhzong Vong.
And lastly, the fanboy special: Mandalorian Armor, and either a double bladed lightsaber, a set of dual lightsabers, or a set of dual double bladed lightsabers (each a very specific color, of course). Other possible additions include a Darth Vador style cape, Zabrak Ethnicity, or a big black Darth Maul style robe that goes OVER the mandalorian armor. Depictions may also consider a giant mandalorian style mecha (equipped with the same lightsabers mentioned above) which also transforms into a super laser equipped super star destroyer.
As I said, these are not requests. I just wanted to stir the pot. I hope someone likes something...
Oooh, some interesting ideas there Tom. I'm particularly taken by the Porcupine Droid, the Tron disc and the Sith Zombies... now that is awesome!
Braaaiiinnss! Yeah maybe they crave to eat the brains of Jedi and other force users in order to assimilate the healthy midichlorians inside and keep themselves alive.
The Men in Black Really Tiny Alien piloting a man sized robot force user. I think that pretty much explains that.
This was mentioned in Galaxy Guide 9: Fragments From The Rim, except that it wasn't a robot Force user, but Boba Fett himself. Well, it was a rumor mentioned in the tabloid-esque periodical Galactic Weekly NewsStack, not to be taken seriously. But I can see PCs being sent on a wild goose chase by someone who believes that this is true.
"Your mission is to steal Boba Fett's Mandalorian armor. Don't sweat it. We're pretty sure he's just a tiny alien controlling the armor using a system of pulleys from within... and he probably has a fantastic public relations officer."
LOL. I wish I had the time to run THAT scenario.
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Seeing as how this is a request, perhaps it should be in the general discussion category...
Wolverine Style Force User: Seen it, and the munchkin player got to have functional wings. So it was a flying wolverine force-user, complete with Adamantium. What was our GM thinking?
The Doctor Octopus Lightsaber user: Ooh, gruesome... I like it! These would be handy on a tentacled droid!
The Heavenly Sword Lightsaber: Does Asajj Ventress have this ability in some video game somewhere?
The Lightsaber porcupine droid: Weird, especially if it rolls...
The Tron Light Disc: I tried to figure this out once, but could wrap my brain around how the user could catch it on the return trip...
Teepo Paladins: Meh... They're like Jedi, only without any buckles to swash!
Light-numchucks: Only if you've got Napoleon Skywalker- er, Anakin Dynamite, or that kid Duke from the Duke movie. Numchucks are what borderline handicapped shut-ins wield. Nunchaku are maybe a step away from that in the "How many light-weapons can we make before we get sick of it?" scale.
Agent 47 Sith Assassin: One thing I've noticed about these types, is if you put them up against any PC worth their sheet they'll die very quickly.
The Men in Black Really Tiny Alien piloting a man sized robot force user. A fun adventure, especially when your players are actually playing Men in Black!
The light pole arm: Two words: Darth Nihl.
The force sensitive collective intelligence. Two more words: Zonama Sekot.
The Light Mace: In other words, just as clumsy and random as a blaster...
Resident Sith: Shh! Don't give away my next adventure! I promise I'll post pictures of it when I'm done!
the fanboy special: Translates to: Just about every request we used to get on this site...
I've seen the laser-nunchuck idea. It appeared in the Grendel: Warchild comic series at one point.
One bar was solid, the other had the energy projector. In essence it was not much different from the 'light mace' you describe, except it was a light-bar rather than a sphere.
Could be a pretty effective weapon in trained hands, though it couldn't be used in the manner of traditional nunchaku stick fighting, which requires re-bounding the weapon off various parts of your own body to achieve the dizzying misdirection that charactierizes the weapon style.
I'm not a fan of droids with lightsabers - - I feel the lightsaber is special because the crystals used to power them are rare and only a jedi or sith knows how to craft them. I don't see them being a mass produced weapon, so say nay to the porcupine droid :o)
As far as the Sith Zombies: The clone wars comic book series, volume 2 features Ventress controlling dead Gungan corpses and sikin em' on our jedi heros.
Nun-chuks: the traditional nun-chuck is bounced off the body and held to the body tightly quite often, I foresee this being to dangerous for any jedi to yield.
The Teepo Paladins are interesting, are they all humans or an "group" ?
Wolverine jedi...what was your GM thinking :o)
Teepo Paladins were presented as a group. I found the article on one of the many star wars gaming sites which may have gone extinct. But even if they were described as a human organization, it's a big galaxy and it's YOUR game. Take what you like and do your own spin on it. (Which is my general GM philosophy...)
As for the droid, it could be unique. Maybe its owner has killed many jedi in the past and now uses this thing with cruel relish.
Yeah, I have to chime in on the Light nunchucks. They're suicidal. There is no way to wield them without severely injuring or killing yourself.