Talk:Revised Core Rulebook

Character Statistics
Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker The Revised Core Rulebook was the first publication to feature Darth Vader's Intelligence score as a 14, rather than a 17, as found in the Core Rulebook and Dark Side Sourcebook. Unfortunately, this new inaccurate score has since propagated and can be found in the Villains of Revenge of the Sith online supplement, Star Wars Miniatures stats, and the Saga Edition. Note that a 14 is merely 'High', while a 17 is 'Very High', just below 'Genius', according to the descriptive qualifiers in d20 System's Dungeons & Dragons 3 rd Edition Player's Handbook.

Justification:


 * Mechanic Cay Qel-Droma has an Intelligence score 17 in the Power of the Jedi Sourcebook.


 * Del Rey's Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Characters, p. 164: "[Anakin Skywalker and Anakin Solo] excelled at mathematics and engineering."


 * A fussy and worry-prone protocol droid, C-3PO was cobbled together from discarded scrap and salvage by a nine-year old prodigy on the desert planet Tatooine. Young Anakin Skywalker had intended the homemade droid to help his mother, Shmi. With limited resources, the droid that Anakin built was truly remarkable. &mdash; C-3PO (See-Threepio), Star Wars Databank


 * While in Watto's employ, Anakin learned valuable mechanical and technical skills. He earned the reputation of being able to fix anything. So technically inclined was he that at the young age of nine, he cobbled together a working protocol droid -- C-3PO -- to help his mother. &mdash; Skywalker, Anakin, Star Wars Databank

Yoda On the other hand, Yoda's Intelligence score was boosted from a 14 to a 15 in this book, a more befitting stat. This score is even present in the Saga Edition, which raised his Wisdom score from a 19 to a 21.

(Note: It appears that the Intelligence score represents a character's Intelligence Quotient divided by 10, a convention used in Palladium's Rifts roleplaying game. Observe that a 10-11 is 'Normal' and an 18 is the beginning of 'Genius' in the d20 System. Assuming this hypothesis is correct, the ranking system is much like White Wolf's Exalted, where intelligence is measured by IQ. d20's Trigun reveals that the character Professor Nebraska, who has knowledge of genetics, biochemistry, and surgery, has an Int score 16. Engineers such as Anakin and Cay have Int 17. With West End Games' official conversion to the d20 System in the DCU RPG, the Holmesian Batman has an Int 20. These facts combined lend credibility to this claim.)

--Master Jolee Bindo 01:58, 11 November 2007 (UTC)