Quote Originally Posted by lacco36 View Post
Well, that's only because he saw the rulebook and had his d20 ready .

At that point I wonder why Palpatine did not just catch and send whatever shiny energy stuff he fell into at Luke.
Well that's easy; he'd have to beat the attack roll with a lightsaber by a small margin, and neither had a lightsaber nor was subjected to an attack roll by the reactor core.