I love the idea and flavor of GOWK quite a bit, but obviously he's just a bit too hard to kill. And while I don't play competitively, my play group has banned the mini. As such, I'd like to implement a house rule/errata, so that GOWK can be reinstated within my group. Given that context, which of the listed house rule fixes do you guys like best?

1. Get rid of Mettle

2. Get rid of MotF 2

3. Change Soresu Style Master to (+4 Defense and reduce damage from attacks by 10)

4. Change Soresu Style Master to (when hit by a nonadjacent attack, this character takes no damage with a save of 6)

5. Change Soresu Style Master to (when hit by a nonadjacent attack, this character takes no damage with a save of 6; when hit by an adjacent attack, this character takes no damage with a save of 16)

6. Other


IMO, the ideal errata should be simple to implement and understand (straight forward language and fixes to no more than 1 SA or FP), and it should maintain the original "feel" of GOWK. That means the mini should continue to have an ability called Soresu Style Mastery (that accurately reflects the given lightsaber style), and that ability should be better than the regular Soresu Style.

Finally, I must admit that I haven't kept track of all the different suggestions people have given for fixing GOWK. If you have one that completely blows away those I'm considering, please feel free to list it in the thread! Thx!

Which does almost nothing. Clearly you have not playtested this, or even done the most basic of math on it.

I suggest, to start with, drop MotF2.

But that isn't quite enough in reality either. Dean suggests then make SSM work on the first 20pts of damage only as well.

GOWK needs a significant reduction in power to be a good mini. There are no simple errata's that both maintain flavor completely, and reduce his power to an acceptable level. It pretty much has to be something drastic like I posted.

Agreed. He's not invincible. He starts with 2 Force Points and has FR1. After his Force Points are exhausted he's vulnerable, not to mention Makashi, flame, lightning, other sorts of non-attack offensive abilities.

I suggested changing the success rate of the Sorensu to 16. It's still a great skill and at that rate of success should chew down force very fast on him.

My preference would be having the attacker make the SSM save instead which keeps the flavor of the ability, but prevents Kenobi from abusing the MotF/Mettle combo and becoming a tank.

I bet we will see a lot more pieces with direct damage that will take care of the problem altogether without any errata necessary. He needs to be banned until then, though.

Agreed. I would MUCH rather he be banned until the community is ready for him to return in full rather than try to redesign the figure after the fact.

Makashi is the only answer for him. unfortunately, Dooku has it in not so powerful seperatist faction.
the Jedi Academy set should have had atleast an Imperial answer to Soresu, instead of the NR GMLS. but Mickey is on to something with saving on a melee attack 11, and then saving 16 on a ranged, or vice versa.

Oh, sorry. I missed that the first time. In that case, I would suggest letting the enemy make the saves.

I say just kept him banned. If people like him so much, i think they should make a new obi thats fair.