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STRENGTH
Strength represents a character's physical strength, endurance and health. Characters with a high Strength can lift heavy objects, push themselves for days without rest and are good at resisting disease and injury. A character with a low Strength gets winded very easily.
Brawling is the "melee combat" skill used for fighting hand to hand without any weapons. Most creatures have a good brawling skill.
The base difficulty to make a brawling attack is Very Easy unless the target makes a brawling parry roll.
Characters may grapple with their opponents rather than simply slugging them. When grappling, a character is trying to subdue his foe by wrestling him or her to the ground, pinning his/her arms so he or she cannot fight back, or stop him/her in some other...
Without this skill, when a character attempts to wield an item in their non-primary hand (Right/Left, etc), they take a -1D penalty to doing so.
Using a Medium item that normally requires two hands to operate (like a Rifle, Carbine, Lightsaber, etc) incurs a further -1D penalty for using such a large item one-handed, unless the character possesses the One-Handed Fighting advanced skill. See that skill's description for further details.
Upon learning this skill, a character also gains the...
Those who possess Cleave may make a single additional melee or lightsaber attack at the current multiple action penalty (IE: If you have made 3 strikes and are at a -2D MA penalty, even if your first strike drops your target your Cleave attack is at a -2D penalty) to another target provided your strike does enough damage to reduce the first target to an unconscious state at 0 HP or less. The attacker does not take the normal -1D penalty for switching targets. This skill may only be used once...
Jedi Battle Masters, long ago in the days of the Old Republic, crafted a martial arts style to oppose the Sith martial arts that were claiming the lives of many Jedi. The Jedi fighting style, however, was much more defensive than the Sith style, and reflected the philosophy of the Jedi well. After the Sith became extinct (or so the Jedi thought), this martial arts style fell into obscurity, only to be rediscovered occasionally by a Jedi Knight with a special need.
Jedi Martial Arts is a...