The_Celestial_Warrior wrote:
If the intent was for it to work, then simply add Yuzaahn Vong to the glossary. I don't think that's anything to monumental.
I don't know if that was the intent or not. I'm pretty sure the intent was for Jacen to be able to use lightning against Vong armies. A NR Vong figure isn't really a Vong army and isn't what Jacen would have ever fought as an NR character. He might have fought them as a Sith Lord (don't think he did, but not certain). But either way, it's just one of those odd interactions that the game contains.
Another easy example, Princess Leia in a NR squad via original Jacen. Even if his sister brings a Rebel Han, there are no Rebels in the squad for her to use her CE on. It's exactly the same situation here. Why should we fix it in one case, while ignoring that it's consistent with many other things in the game? Yuzaahn Vong is a faction, I am not interested in making a change that defines it as something else, I don't think the game needs that kind of adjustment, when it would create all kinds of other inconsistencies to do so.
In addition to the "Rebel" issue, we would have to also adjust the name of "Sith" for the purposes of Sith hunter, "Mando" for the purposes of Mando Hunter, "Old Republic Hunter" and on and on and on. Its not nearly as simple as making on small insignificant change Brad.
Further, we'd also have to issue errata to the entire existing Vong characters, to define them as "YV". While a glossary definition could do this, it's a major change to a fundamental rule, and we've generally agreed not to do that to WotC rules.
And most certainly I'm not willing to consider it for one small interaction. We didn't playtest this one, but I was aware of the possibility. I just thought of the issue in the above way and ignored it. Edit - NVM, what Dennis just said