Hey all I could use some help. My group is playing campaign style and we are using the Advancing Characters Special rules from the Ultimate Missions books. Now they have a set up for improving stats but not of adding special abilities. For example giving an improved charater double attack or some other ability. Has anyone made something like this yet? The one in the books just adds HP or Attack from the stat cards. Any idea's would be helpful. I've been searching the forums all morning and haven't found what I am looking for.

This is what is in the Ultimate Mission books.

Characters who engage in missions learn from their successes and their mistakes and accumulate experience. Yadda yadda. It then goes on to state that. When the number of a characters successful missions equals that of his Attack+1 the player may give the character an increase in one of his statistics.

+10 Hit points
+1 Defence
+1 Attack
+10 Damage

This looks cool to me but again I would need a table on adding CE's and Abilities and the other effects in game. I don't want to complicate it too much but any suggestions will be welcome.

I was thinking along the lines of every 2 level upgrades you could choose a special ability?

Maybe it should be in line with what your character could get. Such as a clone trooper gets twin attack. But he can't get a force power?

I'd suggest reading the rules for SWM: Campaign Edition. It's a user-made hybrid of SWM and SW:RPG. You can download the pdf here.

Awesome, reading material, thank you very much i'm going to have some fun with this. Please keep the info comming.

In some cases this would break the game, such as someone with Quadruple attack getting Twin.

Another option would be to increase the character's cost by a greater amount, making it so that while they'd be able to become extremely powerful, they'd become practically your entire squad, similar to Grand Master Luke Skywalker.

Well, in the campaign edition, as characters increase in level they gain the ability to add special abilities, each costing so many points. However, some abilities have synergy with others (for instance, Momentum and Strafe Attack), and thus should have an additional cost imposed on them when placed together. The additional cost would help keep things balanced as it would avoid having over-powered, under-costed minis.

As for the one-man armies, that's what will happen when the players try to give their characters every ability under the sun. But the player can always choose to have a weaker, yet lower cost unit or a cheap specialist (grenadier, door control, etc.) instead.

Also, if they minis get too strong, you can play unbalanced scenarios as well, thus keeping a bit of a challenge.

Thanks again very much for this, it is an excellent resource for us.

Not a bad idea, thanks.