Star Wars: Edge of the Empire Rule Book

CONVERTING STANDARD DICE TO TASK DICE linen playing EDGE OF THE EMPIRE, the GM and Wrplayers ideally have access to a full compl ...

symbol $ could potentially be canceled by Failure symbols generated during the same skill check. Secondly, each Triumph symbol c ...

••I First, each Despair symbol ^ also counts as one Failure T, in every means previously defined as a Failure. This means the Fa ...

The type of skill check required is determined by the CM. Once the type of check and its difficulty have been set, the player cr ...

trol. Characters with a high Agility have a good sense of balance, flexibility, and deft hands. Agility is used for a number of ...

TABLE 1-3: DIFFICULTY LEVELS Difficulty Level Dice Example Simple - Routine, with the outcome rarely in question. Usually not ro ...

IMPOSSIBLE TASKS T here are some situations in which the chance of success is impossibly low. In almost all cases, the GM simply ...

APPLYING SKILLS & CHARACTERISTICS The active character's skill training and the skill's as- sociated characteristic are equa ...

APPLYING TASK DIFFICULTY After determining which skill and related character- istic are required to attempt the task, the GM the ...

UPGRADING AND DOWNGRADING ABILITY AND DIFFICULTY Certain rules may call for a player to upgrade or downgrade the ability or diff ...

UPGRADE VERSUS INCREASE Upgrading Difficulty dice (<)) in a dice pool is different than increasing a skill check's difficul- ...

Interpreting the Pool After a dice pool is rolled, the players evaluate the Hresults to resolve the outcome. The first outcome t ...

DESPAIR ^ UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES A Despair symbol ^ also has two effects. First, each Despair symbol $J counts as one Failure s ...

COMPETITIVE CHECKS EXAMPLE: COMPETITIVE CHECKS Sometimes, several people are trying to accomplish the same goal at the same time ...

UNSKILLED ASSISTANCE If the assisting party does not have a higher charac- teristic or skill rating, so that using either rating ...

DESTINY POINTS Player characters are cut from a different cloth than most NPCs that populate the galaxy. Not only do they have a ...

RAISING THE STAKES Destiny can also be used to help keep characters out of harm's way. Characters can call on destiny to make an ...

Obligations Ane of the elements that makes characters in EDGE OF UTHE EMPIRE unique is the concept of Obligation. During charact ...

STARTING EXPERIENCE POINTS Characters begin with a budget of experience points based on their species. The experience points use ...

Derived Attributes S ome character attributes are based on other choices made during character creation or over the course of a ...