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My gamemaster ran an interesting one-shot idea past a few of us - an adventure where the heroes play as Darth Vader.

How, you wonder?  During combat, Darth Vader would essentially have a version of Draco's uber power in SotE, however each player controls Vader on a different Initiative count.

Non-combat?  When it's time for Vader to make a decision, each player gets to do a Vader impression, then everyone votes (game-master included) on which is the most appropriate and Vaderly thing to say.

Now, the Game master asked me to come up with the Stats for Vader and gave me pretty loose guidelines.  He said pb38 CL 20 and up to 3 completed destinies with w/e equipment, and levels in Imperial Knight were encouraged.  I didn't go that all out, I used two destinies, and only bonuses to abilities, and I avoided tech specialist and superior tech specialist cause I don't think Vader would let other people monkey around with his stuff too much.  I actually tried to build this to kind of seem normal, I still personally assess him at about CL 22 for the PB, the destiny bonuses to abilities, and his equipment.

Darth Vader, Imperial Enforcer CL 22
Medium human (cyborg-hybrid) Soldier 3/Jedi 6/Jedi Knight 1/Imperial Knight 5/Sith Apprentice 1/Sith Lord 3/Force Adept 1
Destiny 5; Force Points (3d6) 10; Dark Side 16
Initiative +12; Senses darkvision, Perception +15
Languages Basic, Binary
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Defenses Ref 41 (ff 39), 39 vs. adjacent foes, Fort 39, Will 38; Deflect, Djem So, fluid riposte, Force shield, Lightsaber Defense, Makashi, Melee Defense, rebuke
Defenses w/ Lightsaber Defense Ref 46 (ff 39), 44 vs. adjacent foes
Defenses w/ Lightsaber Defense and Melee Defense Ref 51 (ff 39), 49 vs. adjacent foes
HP 199; DT 39 (49 w/ Armored Augmentation); DR 10 (w/ Armored Augmentation, Lightsabers DO NOT ignore this DR)
Immune atmospheric and inhaled poison hazards, fear-effects
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Speed 4 squares; Reach 2 squares (w/ lightsaber)
Melee lightsaber +23 (2d8+14) or
Melee lightsaber +18 (2d8+14) with Melee Defense or
Melee lightsaber +29 (2d8+20) with dark rage DC 25 or
Melee lightsaber +24 (2d8+20) with dark rage DC 25 and Melee Defense
Base Atk +19; Grp +21
Attack Options Melee Defense
Special Actions Armored Augmentation II, Channel Vitality, Djem So, Equilibrium, Force Harmony
Force Powers (Use the Force +23) dark rage, falling avalanche, fluid riposte (3), Force grip (3), Force shield (5), move object (3), rebuke (3), saber swarm (4), surge (2)
Force Techniques Improved Dark Rage, Force Power Mastery (Force shield)
Force Secrets Distant Power, Quicken Power
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Abilities (38 point-buy) Str 14 (+2), Dex 14 (+2), Con 10 (+0), Int 14 (+2), Wis 16* (+3), Cha* 26 (+8)
Talents Armored Augmentation I, Armored Augmentation II, Armor Mastery, Attune Armor, Channel Vitality, Djem So, Deflect, Equilibrium, Force Harmony, Lightsaber Defense (3), Stolen Form (Makashi)
Feats Armor Proficiency (light, medium, heavy), Force Sensitive (H), Force Training (6), Improved Defenses, Melee Defense, Skill Focus (Use the Force), Weapon Focus (lightsabers), Weapon Proficiency (lightsabers, simple weapons)
Skills  Initiative +17, Mechanics +16, Persuasion +28 (+30 on checks made to Intimidate), Use the Force +23, Pilot +17
Systems walking locomotion, two hand appendages with stabilized weapon mounts (Darth Vader can double his strength bonus to melee damage when wielding a melee weapon in one hand), jump servos, magnetic feet, improved sensor package, darkvision
Possessions  cyborg chassis, self-attuned phrik-laced heavy dark armor (imposing form), self-built dual-phase lightsaber, zeyd-cloth black robes, utility belt
*completed destinies; corruption (self) +1 Wis, +1 Cha, destruction (jedi order) +2 Cha

Now we haven't discussed anything about what he might be doing, but we imagine it's Jedi hunting rebel squashing awesomeness but at the end of the day it will be left up to the GM what the adventure holds.

yeah so he'll certainly be weaker, even though it's still "four-six" sets of actions just like a traditional party, it would be like a party of identical clone troopers, and they always had to stay in a line the whole time or something.

We've talked about maybe tripling or quading his hitpoints too

trained in pilot and Force points is good enough.

"Three actions? ouch" 

what the hell does that mean?  it's one set of standard, move and swift for each player just as always, except they all built identical characters and there's a movement penalty.

The encounter would obviously be tailored to a party of four 20th level heroes.  Honestly I feel like a regular party of different characters who are equal level would be about 75% stronger.

I'm not sure about Force Points and Destiny Points.  I guess each player would have his own ammount of them, or maybe since he has Channel Vitality he doesn't need any FPs and each player can just have their own Destiny Points

so any thought on how to do Force Points and Destiny Points?


Should Vader have a collective pool they all share or should each player have their own?

This sounds kind of cool. It's been a while since I've seen a Darth Vader spotlight for SWSE.
It got me thinking about Darth Vader, his cybernetics, his armor, and what a re-work of his published stats *should* look like, etc. (all using the proper game-mechanics)

Would you mind if I posted it here or would you prefer I start a new thread?

YIDM

Don't know, that's a good question.

I know if I used my Vader cyborg hybrid version, I'd just use the chemical injectors (treat as hypoinjector wristband with Nyriaan spice), and since a hypoinjector wristband holds 8 doses (that'd give 8 extra second winds); that would more than cover it for triple hit points.

YIDM