I don't consider episode I-III canon.

And in several books, Luke cut through a meter of solid rock like nothing.

Ah, a severe disconnect we have there.  Don't let meta plot weaknesses overrule evidence.  It's pretty absurd your rebuttal of Qui-Gonn's difficulty is rooted in a) problems with a movie's quality and b) acceptance of some hack writer's "look at the cool scene I wrote" that reached a far smaller audience than said movie.



Well, all I can speak to on a reasonable level then is gameplay and balance.  Lightsabers in my fate game are equipment like a blaster, so I have to balance in that regard.

Considering that in fate any physically dynamic pc is going to have an Endurance of +3 for 3 stress boxes or +5 for 4 stress boxes.  Try running a game where a zero-shift connect is an auto-consequence...very broken.

It is ridiculous to me that a zero-shift connect with a lightsaber MUST result in a consequence or taken out result instead of just physical stress

Usually a Maneuver granting the "Assisted by [insert name]" Aspect is 1-2 shifts lower than the roll the main character will be making. Mind you, this is mostly for helping with challenges that have a static difficulty, and not an opposed roll.

To save die rolling, maybe set the difficulty at three for the manuever (Werewolf's Athletics of 4 minus 1) so just the attacker is rolling.  Maybe even allow the werewolf to invoke appropriately to increase the difficulty?

Bent a friend's ear about his current Star Wars FATE game, and they are counting Lightsabers as equipment (no Refresh) but are charging Refresh for the training to use them properly. Didn't ask what weapon value they used.

Good point.  The stats I posted are no refresh/equipment lightsabers.  All manner of Force powers are necessary for deflecting/redirecting shots, dealing with radiating heat, or learning an advanced lightsaber form.

For me the whole "lightsaber cuts through metal like butter" falls apart when Luke gets a tag in on Vader's arm in ESB.  He had the opening and swung hard. Lo, the arm remained attached...

I missed that latter bit of timing.  Yes, that make it sound very much like Thaumaturgy, though it still could have been an Evocation preceeded by a long string of maneuvers -- with accessing the Ley Line being the final maneuver.

Strong point considering the length of an exchange is so ambiguous. Did anything specific happen in the intervening six paras that would support there were exchanges going on? (Guess who hasn't read Changes)

So, getting back to the original question, here's my response:

When contemplating whether or not a particular skill roll should qualify as being modified by Might and therefore get a bonus due to Strength powers, ask yourself the reverse question, first.  That is, should a person with a low Might get a penalty when making the exact same roll?  If so, then you probably have a good argument for gaining the bonus.  But just keep in mind that "modify" works both ways, so if a penalty for low Might doesn't make sense, then a bonus for high Might (or Inhuman or greater Strength) probably doesn't either.

Hence the awesome group story-telling process of Fate system.  I recently set up a villain with Inhuman Strength and decided in combat he would fight with Fists specifically to bring his Might to advantage...just punishing blows and kicks and stomps and haymakers and...well, you get the idea.  But then I said to myself, "Self, why wouldn't this character, or any character able to modify an attack with Might, ALWAYS attack like this.  Twould get boring."  And I guess it might, but still makes sense how a Troll would fight as opposed to Jet Li or Mike Tyson.  Maybe a counter is that a clever opponent would have easier Declarations or Manuevers against an attacker fighting like that.

On the gripping hand,

Alert the Sector Imperial Fleet that there is a Motie breach of the blockade!

Run for your lives! (Or livable space anyway)

Yeah, Guns actually has a Knowledge Trapping for declarations, just adjust the "target number" for the Guns declaration the more...um...odd the ammo declaration.  Maybe even modify the Guns skill with Lore if the declaration involves ammo something specifically supernatural related.

I'm playing in a straight-up DFRPG and running a DFRPG Star Wars game which is going very well.

Without regurgitating everything, here's some of my ideas (it is a post Endor rebuild the Jedi order game pretty independent of the EU stuff out there)

Lightsabers are Weapon:2 and ignore up to Armor:2
Basic Force Sensitivity is in 2 categories: Discipline and Conviction, each costing -1 refresh and negating the "Pure Mortal" template.  Basic Force Sensitivity allows the PC to complement his other skills if it seems like The Force could aid them in the task (which is pretty frequently).  Discipline can be used if the task is done calmly, defensively, or passively; Conviction if the task is done aggressively.

Taking 1 Force power unlocks the Lore skill and the PC's Force stress track.  Each subsequent power allows another skill to add boxes to the Force track.  No one has gotten that far, but I'll even allow things like Piloting or Weapons to be the skill that factors in, but the trick is that the contributing skill governs how the Force stress track can be used. For example, a particular Jedi may want his Lore +2, Weapons +4 and Conviction +5 to set his Force stress track, so his track would base 2 +1 for Lore, +2 for Weapons and +3 for Conviction along with an additional mild consequence on his Force stress track...total of 8 boxes! Marking off a stress box either allows a power to be used or provides a +2/reroll to a skill.

Control Force power -1
Mark of a Force stress box for bonuses to Athletics, start the healing process for a physical consequence, accelerate the healing of a physical consequence, withstand extreme environmental effects (like holding a lightsaber in a bulkhead and withstanding the radiant heat)

Alter power -1
Mark off stress boxes to use Conviction or Discipline to move objects or strike out with the Force.

Sense -1
Mark off stress boxes for a bonus to Alertness or Investigation and allowing visions throught the Force