Star Wars: Edge of the Empire Rule Book

Customization and Modifications

rquipment and weapons in the Star Wars galaxy are
Cmade in every conceivable way. Some are hand-
crafted, like the custom bowcasters of the Wookiee
homeworld, Kashyyyk. Others might be stamped out
of an assembly line on an industrial world like Corus-
cant. Even the latter may have a drastically different
look from similar products made on other worlds. The
holdout blaster carried by Han Solo looks nothing like
the one carried by Lando Calrissian.
The statistics and rules for gear in EDGE OF THE
EMPIRE are framed in fairly general categories to
present clear, simple, and unified rules for their
use, but the look of your character's gear can
be tailored both cosmetically (meaning it has no
game effect) and mechanically (which changes its
basic rules or statistics).

In general, players can purchase attachments to

customize their gear. Attachments are physical items

that attach to or are installed in items, vehicles, and

weapons to add capabilities or improve performance.

Attachments have a set of base modifiers that they

automatically grant when installed. Installing an at-

tachment is a fairly simple process (as they are de-

signed for easy installation) and simply requires a few

minutes of uninterrupted work.

Attachments slot into the hard points listed in a

piece of equipment's stat block. Each attachment

gives the ship, vehicle, or weapon some sort of bonus

or edge (an extra point or two of speed for a hot-rod

ship engine, or more soak for a suit of armor, for in-

stance). In most cases, that's as far as it goes. The

player spends his money for his new attachment and

he is left with an improved and unique piece of equip-

ment specifically tailored to his needs. However, if the

player wishes to further customize and personalize a

piece of equipment, he uses the mod system.

MODDING ATTACHMENTS

Most attachments have a listed series of mods. These

are additional modifications that a skilled mechanic

can make to the attachment to further improve the

weapon or item's performance. These are listed under

each attachment's modification options

All of these modification options are potential

mods for gear. Some of the modification options have

a number listed before them, indicating that the op-

tion can be installed multiple times. Otherwise, each

option can only be installed once.

Modifications represent dedicated mechanics' and

gearheads' ability to tweak and customize their gear.

They are potential customizations available to those

skilled with devices and gear. Of course, even the

most talented mechanic can only do so much with

a particular piece of tech, which is why each attach-

ment has a discrete list of modification options.

INSTALLING MODS

To install a mod, the user selects one uninstalled mod-

ification option. He then spends 100 credits on com-

ponents and supplies, makes sure he has a toolkit,

spends a couple hours at a work bench, and makes a

Hard (^ 1 Mechanics check

If he succeeds, he successfully installs the mod on

his gear, and the item now benefits from the bonus

provided by the mod. If he fails, however, the mod is

not installed, and he may not attempt to install that

mod again. If he failed and his check generated at

least one ^, the attachment is also rendered useless

by his tinkering.

Each additional mod installed in an attachment be-

yond the first increases the difficulty of the Mechan-

ics check by one, and costs an additional 100 credits

beyond the base cost.

TYPES OF MODS

There are several types of mods, each falling into one

of the following broad categories.

• Damage mods: This mod increases the damage
  dealt by the weapon.


• Weapon quality mods: This mod adds a listed
  quality to the weapon. Some qualities have values
  that can increase; if this is the case, then the mod
  lists it as "Quality (+1)" indicating that it can in-
  crease an existing quality if it is already present or
  adds the quality at rating 1 if it's not there.


• Innate talent mods: This mod grants the user
  the listed talent only when wielding this gear and
  only affecting this gear. For example, if a blast-
  er had the Innate Talent (Quick Draw), the user
  would be able to use Quick Draw to draw or stow
  his blaster, but none of his other gear.


• Skill and characteristic bonuses: This mod
  grants the user a bonus in the listed skill or char-
  acteristic as if he had + 1 rank in that skill or char-
  acteristic when using the modded item.


• Additional mod: Some mods may not fall into any
  of the listed categories. If a mod does something
  specific and unique, it is described in the entry.

GEAR AND EQUIPMENT

EDCE OF THE EMPIRE