Force Scream
EnergyDark- Cost
- 3 FP
- Activation
- Action
- Range
- Self (15 ft radius)
- Recommended Lv
- Lv 7+
Effect
As an Action, you loose a wave of raw dark-side energy in a scream of pain and fury. Each creature of your choice within 15 ft of you takes 3d6 Force damage and must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against your Force DC or be Frightened of you until the end of your next turn. To pour grief and rage into the Force this way marks you, and the GM will take note.
At the Table
A Sith acolyte, swarmed by three Stormtroopers in a cramped detention block, drops her guard and lets the grief out. She spends 3 FP and looses Force Scream: every trooper within 15 ft eats 3d6 Force damage, and all three must make a Constitution save against her Force DC. Two fail and recoil, Frightened of her until the end of her next turn, giving her the opening to cut a path to the door. The GM jots a quiet note in the margin, because pouring rage into the Force like that always leaves a mark.
In the Lore
Force Scream is a hallmark of the dark side, an outpouring of pain, rage, and despair channeled into a destructive shockwave of the Force. In Legends it was wielded by fallen Jedi and Sith alike, perhaps most famously by Galen Marek, the Secret Apprentice, whose tortured cries blasted enemies aside throughout The Force Unleashed. It also appears in the Knights of the Old Republic era as a power born of anguish turned to fury. Thematically it sits among the dark-side Alter powers, and using it is canonically corrupting, the kind of act that draws a Force-user deeper into the dark, which is why a wielder's grief and rage do not go unnoticed.