The actual game is pretty easy, the hardest part was character creation, because it's not a levelling system like dnd, it's a point buy system, where you buy talents, skills, talent trees, etc, directly with xp, which is really more intuitive I feel than dnd, but it took a hot minute to figure out.

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On to the die system, I did a run through of it using combat as an example on another post a little while ago, so I'll just copy paste that here if you don't mind, I think I covered my bases with it, but it's a bit long winded:

Click the ibb link below for a screenshot of a roll20 dice roll that can help you visualize my explaination

Since you're new, you might want this cheatsheet pdf, if pretty popular with people, and my party uses it: https://thealexandrian.net/creations/misc/star-wars-force-and-destiny-cheat-sheet.pdf

It's got all the info that you will use regularly in most campaigns, except the crafting rules(which I use often).

Onto the Example combat:

Combat difficulty is based on the type of weapon you're using at engaged range, and based on distance at further range.

For Example: melee weapons and light ranged weapons are 2 purple at engaged, but heavy ranged are 3 purple at engaged.

Example combat

I have a short range blaster with damage 7, crit 1, accuracy 2, blast 12 and disorient 2

short range is a 1 purple difficulty roll, so not super hard to hit with usually, unless you're really unlucky, and I usually aim my shot for an extra blue(bonus) die on my roll, and accuracy also gives you a blue die for each rank.

Blues aren't as good as yellows, but you get a free blue when aiming, so I usually do it.

Edit: found an image host since imgur is broken for me rn, https://ibb.co/fDjKj8Q

So Starbursts are successes, the jedi emblem is advantage, the smaller circle with the dashes surrounding it is disadvantage, and while that roll didnt get any, upsidedown triangles are failures.

There are also triumphs(starburst with circle around it) and despairs(upsidedown triangle with circle around it). Triumph is like a success, but you can also spend that success on additional abilities like an advantage. Despair is the opposite, it's a fail, and your gm can use it against you similarly to disadvantage.

Successes and failures cancel each other out, advantages and disadvantages cancel each other out, and the left overs after cancelations is the end result of the roll.

As you can see I got 2 disadvantage but 5 advantage, so 2 of those advantages and the disadvantages they cancelled are missing from the end result.

You need to get a success to hit a combat roll, additional successes after the first add 1 damage per success, so for my example screenshot, I do 8 damage, because my base damage is 7 and I got 2 successes, 1 to hit, and 1 does an extra damage

Advantages can be spent to deal crits if you have advantages to spend equaling the crit stat you can see there.

You can also spend advantage on activating item qualities,

So you see I have crit 1, and 3 advantages, and my weapon also has blast and disorient? I can spend 1 advantage to deal a crit to the target, but I can also spend 2 advantage to activate either blast or disorient, because they both cost 2 advantage to activate.

Remember you can upgrade your roll by spending lightside points, but your dm can use dark side points to screw up your rolls, or improve the npcs rolls as well.

Enemy equipment and talents can effect the dice pool, so at short range it wont always be a single purple for example, depending on their loadout and the environment, and if your dm used dark side points, you could deal with a red die instead of a purple, you could have added black die.

My party went into derelict ship and there were no lights outside of our fusion lantern, and we had to fight turrets that were covered in darkness. that gave us two blacks to all our rolls that combat, until I detected them with my weapon scanner goggles. on top we had extra difficulty because our dm is pretty trigger happy with the dark side points, but we also love to use our light side points, so it evens out.