Fringe

[bountyhunter9]

Here is the complete list of Fringe minis and their accompanying stats from my new custom set, The Living Force. Feel free to comment on anything you like or dislike, and bring to attention an incomplete or inaccurate ability description, or something that needs a rename, etc.

1. King Ozz
2. Rodian Fringer
3. Zabrak Tech Specialist
4. Ugnaught Miner
5. Human Black Sun Vigo
6. Black Heth Thug
7. Black Heth Leader
8. Dark Side Devotee
9. Luxa
10. Twi'lek Force Adept
11. Mercenary Captain
12. Mercenary Scout
13. Bothan Mercenary
14. Mandalorian Mercenary
15. Dark Hellion Swoop Gang Leader
16. Dark Hellion Swoop Gang Enforcer
17. Yinchorri Warrior
18. Rakatan Guard Droid

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1. King Ozz

Cost: 18
Hit Points: 50
Defense: 17
Attack: +5
Damage: 10

Special Abilities:
Unique
Ugnaught
Melee Attack (Can attack only adjacent enemies)
Mines 20 (An enemy that moves adjacent to this character takes 20 damage; save 11)
Munitions Supplies (Replaces turn: Choose 1 adjacent ally to gain Grenades 10 for the rest of the skirmish)
Mining Tribe (Allied Ugnaughts gain Mines 10)

Commander Effect:
Allied characters whose name contains Uganught within 6 squares gain +4 attack and Avoid Defeat.

2. Rodian Fringer

Cost: 13
Hit Points: 40
Defense: 14
Attack: +5
Damage: 10

Special Abilities:
Deadeye
Cunning Attack +20
Stealth

3. Zabrak Tech Specialist

Cost: 12
Hit Points: 30
Defense: 13
Attack: +4
Damage: 10

Special Abilities:
Scramble
Override
Repair 10
Rig Blaster (Allies within 6 squares with nonmelee attacks that deal exactly 10 damage gain Jolt)

4. Ugnaught Miner

Cost: 6
Hit Points: 10
Defense: 14
Attack: +3
Damage: 10

Special Abilities:
Melee Attack
Cunning Attack
Mines 10

5. Human Black Sun Vigo

Cost: 22
Hit Points: 50
Defense: 18
Attack: +8
Damage: 10

Special Abilities:
Double Attack
Cunning Attack
Greater Mobile Attack
Stealth

Commander Effect:
Followers within 6 squares with Greater Mobile Attack gain Stealth.

6. Black Heth Thug

Cost: 5
Hit Points: 10
Defense: 13
Attack: +4
Damage: 10

Special Abilities:
Melee Attack
Momentum

7. Black Heth Leader

Cost: 15
Hit Points: 50
Defense: 16
Attack: +7
Damage: 10

Special Abilities:
Melee Attack
Momentum
Charging Assault +10

Commander Effect:
Non-Unique followers within 6 squares with Melee Attack gain Charging Assault.

8. Dark Side Devotee

Cost: 21
Hit Points: 50
Defense: 15
Attack: +7
Damage: 20

Special Abilities:
Melee Attack

Force Powers:
Force 2
Basic Force Renewal (When this character activates, he makes a save of 11. On a success he gains one Force point)
Force Weapon
Force Grip 1
Force Push 1
Illusion

9. Luxa

Cost: 22
Hit Points: 50
Defense: 16
Attack: +7
Damage: 20

Special Abilities:
Unique
Evade
Opportunist
Pheromones

10. Twi'lek Force Adept

Cost: 12
Hit Points: 30
Defense: 15
Attack: +5
Damage: 20

Special Abilities:
Melee Attack
Evade

Force Powers:
Force 3
Force Push 1
Absorb Energy (Force 2: When hit by a non-melee attack, this character takes no damage with a save of 11. Remove damage from this character equal to the prevented damage)

11. Mercenary Captain

Cost: 17
Hit Points: 50
Defense: 15
Attack: +6
Damage: 20

Special Abilities:
Deadeye
Mercenary

Commander Effect:
Followers within 6 squares with Mercenary get +4 defense against attacks from nonadjacent enemies.

12. Mercenary Scout

Cost: 10
Hit Points: 20
Defense: 16
Attack: +4
Damage: 10

Special Abilities:
Stealth
Recon
Spotter +10
Flanking Support
Mercenary

13. Bothan Mercenary

Cost: 13
Hit Points: 30
Defense: 15
Attack: +7
Damage: 20

Special Abilities:
Mercenary
Cloaked
Cunning Attack
Sniper

14. Mandalorian Mercenary

Cost: 18
Hit Points: 50
Defense: 18
Attack: +9
Damage: 20

Special Abilities:
Mercenary
Twin Attack
Accurate Shot

15. Dark Hellion Swoop Gang Leader

Cost: 19
Hit Points: 50
Defense: 14
Attack: +5
Damage: 10

Special Abilities:
Gang +2 (+2 attack for each other ally whose name contains Dark Hellion within 6 squares of that target)
Rapport (A character named Dark Hellion Swoop Gang Member costs 1 less when included in a squad with this character)

Commander Effect:
Followers whose name contains Dark Hellion within 6 squares get +4 attack and gain Twin Attack.

16. Dark Hellion Swoop Gang Enforcer

Cost: 14
Hit Points: 40
Defense: 13
Attack: +4
Damage: 20

Special Abilities:
Gang +1 (+1 attack for each ally whose name contains Dark Hellion within 6 squares of that target)
Advantageous Attack

17. Yinchorri Warrior

Cost: 18
Hit Points: 50
Defense: 15
Attack: +7
Damage: 20

Special Abilities:
Force-Attuned Armor
Twin Attack

18. Rakatan Guard Droid

Cost: 16
Hit Points: 40
Defense: 17
Attack: +8
Damage: 10

Special Abilities:
Droid
Shields 1
Flamethrower 10
Double Attack

[Jm419]

Lol. Ozz, King of Uggies. Literally. He's gonna be a huge help to them.

The Rodian looks good.

I like Rig Blaster. That's fun, but might be unhelpful here - typical base damage is 20, not 10. That'll only really help old characters.

More Uggies...

That HBSV is a nice compliment of the RBSV. Nice work there.

The Black Heth are nice, but you've overcosted the Leader by a few points.

Dark Side Devotee is a strange name. Maybe Apprentice, or something.

Luxa...that's just mean, BH. Lol. Like Draw Fire and Evade.

The Mercenary Captain is undercosted (that CE!) and the Scout is too. The others look okay.

Why isn't the Mandalorian Mercenary...you know...Mandalorian?

That Gang dynamic is interesting. I like that quite a bit. You seem to be making mini-factions within the Fringe here.

Yinchorri Warrior looks good, if somewhat scary for the cost.

That Rakatan Guard Droid looks nice, and fits well with what it's supposed to be.

This already looks like a good set. I'm very excited to see what you have in store here.

[bountyhunter9]

Yeah, he wouldn't be playable competively, but he makes taking an AoO or moving by the Uggies take a lot more thought.

Thanks. The Rodian is one of the least-creative customs I've ever made, but he turned out alright. For a common.

Yeah, it's not the best ability, but I felt like it had to be on a decent Fringe piece, and not a Rebel one.

Yeah. The HBSV basically completes the ring of Vigos - the Bith BSV gives followers with Stealth Evade, the Twi'Lek BSV gives followers with Stealth Greater Mobile Attack, and the Human BSV gives followers with Greater Mobile Attack Stealth, both for more defense and so they can get Evade from the BBSV. The RBSV would help tremendously in a squad, too.

Good point, I overcosted him a bit because of the CE, but seeing as it provides no damage boost I guess I could drop it a bit. Is 16 good?

I based the Dark Side Devotee around a prestige class in the roleplaying universe of the same name (I'm surprised WotC has not made such a character). It's basically someone who studies the Dark side and learns to understand it and how best to use it, but not focusing too much on the physical world.

Yeah. Either shoot at Luxa from afar where she Evades it, or in close where she uses Pheromones. She has a low defense for the cost, though, which means she'll be hit a lot. Still, it would be killer to pair her with HoloSid. Might need to break out Lord Vader just to counter that one swiftly.

I made the Mercs a while ago, and I'm not sure why I gave them some of the abilities that they have. I want to swap the boring Evade for something better for the Merc Captain's CE (though still staying defensive). Any ideas? All I can think of is Adv. Cover, but I use that ability too much anyways.

I'll up the Scout to 10.

The Mando Merc is a Mando who left the clans after the War, to become a Merc. Basically a non-Unique Bendak Starkiller, but not as skilled.

Yeah, I think up one piece, then follow it with a commander type. Seems to be the way it goes with non-Us.

I hope the rest of the set can be just as good. The Fringe, with mostly non-Us, is much less controversial than the rest of the set, though.

[Jm419]

That's what I figured his role was going to be, yeah.

Lol. If it works...

Oh, it'll help out other Fringe, for sure. The issue is, it won't be all that much help within a faction, aside from the old, old Rebel, Imperial, Separatist, and Republic pieces, like from RS or CS.

Yes. Though the combinations cost a lot, they make for some hard to hit pieces.

Yeah, something along those lines would work well. 16, even 14 or 15.

Huh. I wasn't familiar with such a class.

Oh yes. Holosid would make her formidable indeed, just to reroll saves. That's an interesting combination of abilities that work well in concert.

Oh, an armor type, or maybe even a Defense bonus, you don't see those too often.

Sounds good. That's about right.

Huh. Fair enough.

Generally. Non-Uniques are very difficult to make.

True - but from what I've seen, unless I missed something (!), everything looks good, if it could use some polishing.

[bountyhunter9]

Yeah. I'm thinking of giving him (the Zabrak Tech Specialist) Override instead of Door Gimmick (the GaW R7 provides cheap Fringe Override, so Door Gimmick seems almost useless now).

Okay, I'll set the Black Heth Leader at 15.

Yeah, she's a lot better than she was in the game, but it's a good combo of abilities that work for her.

Hmm. Maybe, for the Merc Captain CE:

Followers within 6 squares with Mercenary get +4 defense against attacks from non-adjacent enemies.

How would this change the cost?

Yeah. Polishing's always good.

[Jm419]

That could work.

Good. That's about right.

It certainly makes for a nice piece - the abilities don't work together directly, but one of them is usually in effect.

Not much. Two or three points. Evade is a better ability in general.

Lol. It is indeed.

[bountyhunter9]

Okay, I'll add in Override.

Yeah. Unless you face Droids...or Lord Vader. Otherwise, she's tough to kill.

Okay, I'll update the Captain.

[Jm419]

Sounds good to me.

True. LV cuts through anything.

Anything else you want me to look at here? I can't have gotten everything.

[bountyhunter9]

Yeah, even GOWK himself. Too bad he's the only one who can kill GOWK in one turn (and he needs IE Thrawn to do it!).

Hmm. What do you think of the Twi'Lek Force Adept? I originally designed it around a single Force Defense use, but didn't want it to be put into a squad with HoloSid or Force battery Palps. Also, does the Bothan Merc look good?

[Jm419]

Well, other pieces can - in theory - kill GOWK in one turn. Anything with Triple and Sith Rage could do it, assuming critical hits.

That's interesting - it's just designed to not be killed by shooters. And that's it. It should have another hook, an ability that it could use while it isn't getting shot. The Merc is interesting - I never thought of giving a sniper cloaked, but it does fit. Very nice combination there.

[bountyhunter9]

Yeah, some can, but I don't think any piece has near as good a chance at killing GOWK as Lord Vader does.

Hmm maybe Force Blast, from the JA Felucian, instead of Force Push 1? It's:

Force 1, replaces attacks: range 6; 20 damage save 11

Lol. Another unintentional combo. I designed it around Cloaked, and Sniper was something of an add-on, but again it turned out really well.

[Jm419]

True. The chance of getting 3 crits in a row is 1 in 8,000. Not much chance there.

Yeah, we could do that. That would work well. Push does okay too, though.

You seem to be really good at unintentional combos.

[bountyhunter9]

Lol. And then GOWK has to roll less than 11 three times, less than 7 once, and less than 3 once, in order for him to be killed.

Lol. It's almost always an add-on, a Mercenary with Cloaked was the basis of the piece. I like how it turned out.

[Jm419]

Okay, then it's a 1 in 720,000. Roughly.

It is nice. You do very well with Non-Uniques.

[bountyhunter9]

LOL. And some SWM players want to bring him back, without any changes...

Thanks. Either I find a gimmick for them, or get lucky and end up giving them a nice combo of abilities without knowing it. Lol.