Sound the News Alarm! It’s news time! There’s news! It’s getting harder every week to come up with something to introduce the news! Deal with it!
Video Games
A new Trait Card called Berserker has been rolled out in Battlefront. You’ll have to unlock it via Hutt contract first, which requires you to hit trait level 3 five times.
What Bersker does is essentially do more damage when wounded, but recover health at a slower rate.
StarWars.com put up an article detailing 9 “Easter Eggs” in the Outer RIm DLC for Battlefront. I put Easter Eggs in quotes because… well c’mon StarWars.com. Is Jabba’s throne room an Easter Egg? Really? It’s a whole room! You can’t miss it!
A new arena type thingy has been announced for SWTOR: The Eternal Championship.
“Welcome to the Eternal Championship, a new daily experience that will pit players against some of the galaxy’s most notorious fighters. The Eternal Championship is a solo-able PvE experience that will be available to all players who have played up through Chapter IX “The Alliance” of Knights of the Fallen Empire.”
Tabletop
Bryan Young guest posted on FFG’s website about bringing Ahsoka Tano into your RPG. He covers different ways to incorporate Ahsoka into your games. If you’re into the RPGs, and like Ahsoka, this is worth reading.
So this thing called Intentional Draws was causing a big stir in the competitive X-Wing community a little bit ago. Some people thought they were akin to slavery, some people thought they were fine. Wars were fought over these things and it’s left a rift in the X-Wing community that may never fully heal.
FFG Organized Play has finally made a ruling on IDs, and a level headed one at that. Rules will remain the same, i.e. IDs are legal, until August 1st, at which point draws will be removed from X-Wing (and other games with a similar structure) altogether. No draws. Awesome.