Over the past couple months, I'd taken a look back over my development notes from back in 2012 up to version 1.3, and it was interesting to see how the talent trees for my three Force-sensitive specializations had grown, changed, and evolved. I've gotten a fair amount of feedback, most of it positive, some of it caustically negative, and some of it pointing things I'd overlooked. That it was, at best, a stop-gap measure to provide players and GMs alike some additional options regarding Force users, including an option for Jedi for those folks that wanted to include one of the most iconic character types of the setting. When I first released this document back in May 2013, I knew from start that this was going to eventually become obsolete in a year or so. Which brings this particularly post back around to my Ways of the Force fan supplement. They've done a bang-up job so far on this system, and the ground rules for Force usage have thus far proven to be effective as well as not subject to being too easily twisted to make an uber-powerful Force user. While there are those that are terrified of the idea of Jedi finally being available as PCs, I'm willing to give the FFG design team the benefit of the doubt. There's also been a lot of discussion (some polite, some heated, and some absolutely worthless) about how things are going to shake out. There's been a lot of anticipation for this book every since it was announced that they were doing three separate core rulebooks for their system, with a focus on the galactic fringe (EotE), the Galactic Civil War (AoR), and finally the force (FaD). One of the big things that I hoping for this year's GenCon is that we will indeed be getting the Force and Destiny Beta for FFG's excellent Star Wars RPG.
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It's also only a few more days until GenCon kicks off, and the anticipation levels are starting to climb rapidly.
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It's the 11th, one day before I get another year older, (and maybe a bit wiser than I was a year before (though I kinda doubt it).