I love this sentence.

A big part of Ven's design is exactly that. Well put.

I'm excited about it... But I agree with Donny, that this should be how most Force Users are. The fact that a guy from a cool promotion for a video game has become the poster boy for how a Force User SHOULD be is a little disappointing. My only hope is that the Sith eventually have access to something like this, and that future, more famous Jedi, will be modeled after him.

Good stat block, but this is what Force Users SHOULD look like. Hopefully designers continue down this path.

He is pretty good, but let's take a cold shower quick and here's why:

Stalwart [Immune to enemy abilities and commander effects that trigger based on a critical hit or or the attack number rolled. Whenever this character takes more than 10 damage from an enemy's ability that replaces attacks, immediately reduce the damage to 10. The reduced damage cannot be prevented or redirected.]

So, some clown cheap minmax piece that is super buffed to be double twin 16 for 40 will still have their way with him if adjacent especially.

Too bad Stalwart had to say "from an enemy's ability...." instead of "from any ability...". He would have been the hands down very best character to ride Thon.

It's true, take that blast bugs!

No, your not.

nah not for me, I know it doesn't counter blast bugs... those things are to stupid to have counters, they just need nerfed lol

hey balance committee i'm point to something you should change.

But back to set 14 seriously... I love this guy. I may come to gencon next year just because this guy exists lol

Designers oppose “equipments” in Star Wars Miniatures for multiple reasons. For one the purpose of the V-Sets is to continue the game, not change its fundamental structure. It's a Miniatures game, not a card game. If we get to the point of “Special Ability” cards that tuck away build points, don’t activate, or do anything on the battle grid . . . then I'll have lost a great deal of respect for this game.

V-set cards should represent playable characters, droids or things that “contain” characters like troop carts and bacta tanks. . . Equipment like, swords, guns, blowguns, and talismans should remain as Special Abilities.

The 2016 GenCon winner wanted to design a Jedi Holocron and a holocron is NOT some ordinary piece of equipment. If you’ve read the novels, comics, or watched Rebels then you know Holocrons “contain” a gatekeeper, the memory remnant or actual spirit, of a Jedi or Sith. You’ve also seen Holocrons levitate and fly around force users, speak to them, cast holographic projections, teach secret knowledge, even physically unlock temple doors.
"Sith holocrons are keys that can open many doors." ―Maul

Holocrons contain characters and do enough active "physical" stuff to justify them as characters. They’re little droid/ cyborgs in a small cube or pyramid that become active around a force user. They're more like a Hellraiser Puzzlebox with its own minds than a freaking pocket comb. Plenty of examples of holocrons doing stuff; even Darth Krayt himself got seriously messed up by some holocrons he ticked off.

(btw... they're levitating around him.)
Krayt possessed not only the holocrons of Bane, Nihilus, and Andeddu (which contained an actual spirit) but even created his own holo. Heck, even Yoda created a holocron. Which leads us to another problem, if holocrons are characters, how many do we need? Do we need to make a “Yoda’s Holocron” over new movie characters? HECK NO!

The solution our team came up with was for the GenCon winner to design a generic Non-Unique Holocron as a platform for future design. Then we can follow the precedent set by “Muur Talisman” and let future characters, like our Darth Baras with “Tulak Hord’s Holocron” SA, make 1 non-unique holocron on his squad something unique.

Other designers can speak more passionately as to the folly of making "equiptment" cards in Star Wars Miniatures.
I can perhaps best speak to the thematic reasons for making holocrons actual characters based upon Star Wars lore.

Here’s the first line in the Glossary Entry for Holocron.
Glossary Entry: Holocron This character is a crystalline storage device for Force Powers.

In NEW Star Wars Canon and in Legends Holocrons are made of force-attuned crystals. These crystals are composed of both organic and inorganic matter. The crystals resonate with the force and exhibit a "collective consciousness", veering on the edge of sentience, and can communicate with both one another and living beings. The crystals grow in an organized way, adding to their prismatic structure one piece at a time. They contain the memories and ancient lessons of the Jedi and Sith. They appeared as palm-sized, glowing polyhedrons of crystalline material and hardware. They could only be accessed by those attuned to the force. Data playback typically took the form of an interactive hologram resembling the person who recorded the information; while some holocrons contain the departed spirit of the Jedi or Sith who created it.

What I got out of that was . . . if mouse droids and force spirits can be characters . . . then so can Holocrons.

Well said DD, I actually wasn't sure how I felt about the holocron being in the game as I'm one of those guys against generic equipment as I think the game is complicated enough as is with all of the CEs, SAs and FP/FAs haha. But holocrons came in all shapes and sizes and did some pretty crazy stuff over the years. Great case and you changed my opinion on it. As far as future equipment, just do more merchants haha.

I have to say, I really, REALLY want to run a squad with four or five Outriders on Speeder Bikes.

Although it does no damage, it would be SO MUCH FUN to just destroy your opponent's organization