New race available!! Yay!!

Jorgen doesn't purr.

There is a problem: Voices are tied to class, and Wookies absolute cannot speak basic at all, most Trandoshans are in the same boat, and Jawas don't usually speak basic. It would wreck the voice over ideals of the game.

In addition, Wookies and Jawas would present a problem because of their height. Already, if you have body type 3 or 4 (for males), the top of your head is cut off in some scenes that type 1 and 2 fit in. If you had a Wookie, you would end up with chest-height scenes. You'd have to re-do the entirety of cut scenes for the game for it to work. The same would apply to Jawas, except they wouldn't be on screen in many scenes.

Gnomes forever!

My girlfriend hates gnomes for that reason. I imagine people will hate Jawas just as much in this game if they were ever playable.

I'd be fine with them adding Jawas...

...so long as they took a 60% reduction to strength and endurance, and a 40% reduction to aim and cunning, to account for their small size and the difficulty in dealing with opponents who are much larger and more mobile. Oh, and prohibit them from using blaster rifles, assault cannons, techstaffs, and lightsabers. Force-using Jawas would have to use mini-lightsabers which do reduced damage. And they would take extra kinetic damage. But, on the up side, they should only take half the normal damage from falling.

And when faced with a realistic portrayal of a Jawa hero, the hardore/elite/griefers/exploiters would move on.

Yeah, the D20 method works for me. Jawas take quite a few hits to stats in the SWD20 game, so why not?

Though, to be fair, Yoda didn't suffer from less strength than his opponents... But then again, his opponents were two old men, one of whom had force-lightning'd himself to near death merely hours before.

Yeah, and Yoda was the equivalent of a Lvl60 fighting a Lvl50. He can hold his own, but short of breaking out the Hand Of God (Brain of Lucas?), there are limitations to his abilities based on simple physics. The Force is great at manipulating energy, but I haven't seen it doing much for modifying the momentum of moving objects or the energy imparted by levers. For any fight with a human, he would need to be using the Force constantly, even when parrying an attack.

...but that's me being realistic again, and the majority of people who want Jawas want them because they think it would be funny. That's just the sort of Lore-corrosive behavior that I didn't want in my Star Wars game.

Just deal with it op. Heck I like Cat races like the Vah Shir from Everquest 1 and the Kerra from EQ2. So ya I will be making a Cathar Scoundrel dps spec.

We're not the ones "dealing" with it. The Bioware employees are the ones that keep getting fired because the game is not making EA enough money. And it's almost as if they don't want to make money with this game. Most desired species by the Community? Togruta. Bioware's Choice? Derp, Cathar...

They bring this on themselves.

People really need to stop using this thread as a reference. It was created after the Cathar announcement and thus people would not ask for a race they know they are getting. Back before the game came out and a bit afterwards Cathar was one of the three most asked for species (that are feasible.) Just because YOU do not want Cathar does not many that many do not want it and did not ask for it.

While I don't mind Cathar as a race, other games have cat-like races already. This was a chance for Bioware to do something unique and they failed. Again.

That thread was created after the Cathar was announced. It was a poll about which species should be added after the Cathar. And you posted this comment after that was pointed out to you in the very thread you linked. And you replied to the post which pointed it out to you.

And then you repeated the same statement here.

And you give Bioware a Derp?