Star Wars (for beginners)

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Since the main system gaming thread is getting a little cluttered, I decided to put this one into a fresh thread, for ease of use. I know we have a few people interested in trying this out, so for those of you who haven't read the main thread, I'm offering to run a short scenario to introduce a particular system game, in this case the Star Wars Saga Edition.

Ideally there should be about 4-6 players. In terms of character creation, I can either assist with the creation, if people have access to the books, or can be given a concept for a character, and make suggestions about how it could be created using the system options.

The game will be set just after the destruction of the first Death Star, so presumably everyone should be reasonably familiar with the setting.

I would like to try running it on mumble, assuming a time slot could be found that suited everyone who was interested. If that's not viable, normal forum play will probably be the easiest.

This is open to anyone who wants to try system gaming for the first time, or indeed anyone who wants to try the Star Wars system.

The characters will be a freshly recruited Rebel cell, being sent on their first real mission.


Can I play a Jedi?
Yes, but I will have limits. Probably a single player will be allowed this (if more than one want it, it will be randomly determined). You would start like Luke in the first movie, untrained, and mostly ignorant of who and what the Jedi were.

Can I play a Droid?
Yes, but they are a bit trickier to play than other options. If you really want to, we can probably sort something out. Again, I will limit it to a single player.
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Blue Leah

This sounds interesting, but unfortunately I don't have access to the Star Wars RPG system books. Is there an online SRD available anywhere, or is it print / pdf only?

HairyHeretic

I don't know about an SRD I'm afraid. If you have a character concept in mind, I can help translate it into game terms though.
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Well, when I still had a copy of Battlefront, I loved to play the scout class. Long range rifles, stealth, and booby-traps are generally my preferred play style.

HairyHeretic

#4
I haven't played Battlefront, but in the Saga edition, there are 5 basic classes, each of which have access to a number of talent trees. These give the players speciali abilities, and are:

Jedi
- Jedi Consular (Ambassadors and Negotiators)
- Jedi Guardian (The martial Jedi abilities)
- Jedi Sentinel (Dark side hunters)
Noble
- Inspiration (Weaken your opponents resolve)
- Leadership (Bolster your allies)
- Lineage (Connections)
Scoundrel
- Fortune (Good luck for you)
- Misfortune (Bad luck for your opponents)
- Slicer (Computer hacking)
- Spacer (Good with vehicles and ships)
Scout
- Awareness (I see you)
- Camoflage (Blend in with your enviroment)
- Fringer (Good at getting by in backwater worlds)
- Survivor (Good for getting out of trouble in a hurry)
Soldier
- Armour specialist
- Brawler
- Commando
- Weapon specialist

Your character could probably fit into the Scout or Soldier class easiest.

In addition, every character has access to the same skills. Different classes get different ones more easily. Some things you can try without being trained in the skill, some you can't.

Acrobatics
Climb
Deception
Endurance
Gather Information
Initiative
Jump
Knowledge (various types)
Mechanics
Perception
Persuasian
Pilot
Ride
Stealth
Survival
Swim
Treat Injury
Use Computer
Use the Force
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#5
Alright, so I'll sign up as best I can:

Leon Jocine
 
-Age: 23
-Desired Class: Scout
-Talent Tree:     Camouflage
-Skills:
-I will probably focus on Deception, Stealth, and Initiative, just from looking. Do any of those skills lend themselves to setting traps / disabling computers / rigging bombs? Sorry I'm causing such a pain with this.

Brief Bio:
Leon was born on the tropical planet of Thyferra, and saw the results of the empire's attacks on the bacta growers and supplies on the planet. Seeing as the production of Bacta is the planet's life-blood, he quickly realized that destroying the rebel faction was of more import to the Empire than protecting the people who lived within it. So, rather than stand idly by and hope to be safe, the young man made his way off-planet, and sought out some way to enlist with the Alliance.

Appearance:
Leon's body is a medium build, about 5' 11" and 180 lbs,  but years traversing through Thyferran jungles has helped him to become very light on his feet. His dark brown hair is cropped short, almost to the point of baldness. He has fair skin and dark green eyes.

I hope this is acceptable? If not, please let me know and I'll add details as needed.

Artema

Hi, HairyHeretic! Thanks for this opportunity.
I'm a new player, never gone much farther in a system game than creating a character.
Speaking of which, will try to create a SWSE character when I'll get the book.

HairyHeretic

Quote from: TKtheExiled on April 10, 2011, 01:10:16 PM
Alright, so I'll sign up as best I can:

I hope this is acceptable? If not, please let me know and I'll add details as needed.

Thats fine to start with. Do you have a preferred species in mind? What about skills? I'll add a bit more info to the post to help people get an idea for what characters can do.
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Quote from: Artema on April 10, 2011, 01:13:28 PM
Hi, HairyHeretic! Thanks for this opportunity.
I'm a new player, never gone much farther in a system game than creating a character.
Speaking of which, will try to create a SWSE character when I'll get the book.

Are you happy to create one on your own, or would you like my help?
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Quote from: HairyHeretic on April 10, 2011, 01:18:47 PM
Are you happy to create one on your own, or would you like my help?
I suppose tomorrow I'll browse the book, try to create the character on my own and then will ask you what's missing/wrong with it.

HairyHeretic

No problem. I have all the books, so if you want to use anything from any of the others, let me know. I will probably have to rule some races out of bounds, given the era, and tech should be from the Rebellian era.
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Edited the character proposal with some of the basic information you supplied. Will probably stick with a Human character, for sake of ease.

HairyHeretic

setting traps - Depending on the type of trap, probably Mechanics or Survival

disabling computers - Use Computer, if you're doing it via the system itself.

rigging bombs - Mechanics
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#13
Ok. So, depending on the setup, would I be able to focus on Stealth, Deception, Initiative, Mechanics, and Computers? Or is that too many skills for one character?

Edit:
Currently looking into getting access to core rules, so hopefully I'll be able to do a bit of this research for myself. Thank you for your patience explaining it all so far. 

HairyHeretic

Deception and Use Computer wouldn't be class skills, so while you could use them, they'd not be as strong as some other skills you'd have. You pick out a number of trained skills, based on your class and intelligence. Some classes get more trained skills than others.
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#15
Ah, I gotcha. So a lot of the PFRPG / D&D rules have their parallels here. Alrighty, I'll see what I can come up with.

Edit:

Might need to change the name, since I am now looking at a Kel Dor Camouflage scout.

Tydorei


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hmmm this might be just what I'm looking for....I have a couple ideas for system games floating around in my own head but haven't felt comfortable jumping into system play here....OK one question for you. Are you allowing the Miralukan Race? I'm looking at a scoundrel maybe an ex-smuggler or ex-bounty hunter. Perhaps he'd progress into a Jedi later but I am not looking to do that right away, if at all.

HairyHeretic

I have no issue with a Miralukan, but I'm only intending this game to be a one off scenario, so people can get a feel for system gaming. I'm not looking at running a full campaign.
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ahh I read your intention to be a short one shot campaign to serve as an intro to system so that you could roll those players into a larger campaign after we had gotten comfortable. My mistake. I'm fine with that though. Is their a specific sheet you want us to fill out?

HairyHeretic

If the group wants to go on into a campaign afterwards, it's certainly possible. I'm just planning to run a few different one off scenarios for different systems, to introduce people to system gaming.

I haven't got a sheet together yet. I'm looking to see if I can find a nice easy to use one online, but most of them are pdfs for pen and paper play, or rather impressive excel files.
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Plothook has a Star Wars: Saga Edition character sheet, if that helps?

HairyHeretic

Throw me the link, I'll take a look
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I once had a star wars droid named Delta 7, basicly he was one of the new seperast commando droids from the Clone Wars Animated series, turned out they could be player characters because they had the capacity to go independent due to their intelligence, they got brainscrubbed after every battle.
Delta fought through that hellish world known as Fulucia, and was in the field so much he developed independence, when the Republic mopped up he avoided capture, and fled to the fringe.
the Republic would scrap him, the CIS would whipe his brain clean...
but he was a badass soldier, weapon specialist type.
mostly our DM was too hyped up on  "it's staaaar waaaars!" to weve a story that did more than had the empire try to hunt us down, and our ship went down on every world he thought was cool.
not good for role playing... but lots of explosions and gun battles...
the only characters I could role play with were an HK droid (going crime lord) and a perverted Force Sensitive we picked up on hoth (she had a thing for droids for some reason... the funniest moment of the game was when she cried out "OH DELTA" while using a vibro knife, he was walking by and thought she was in trouble... he completely ignored that she was butt ass nude and trying to be seductive and just walked away.)
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I would be interested in joining in... I have been theorizing creating a Jedi based off of Assassins Creed, with hidden wrist Lightsabers and training to assassinate the Sith with as little contact as possible.
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Could be an interesting character, but wouldn't really fit with this scenario I'm afraid.
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Prudence, justice, temperance, courage, faith, hope, love...
debate any other aspect of my faith these are the heavenly virtues. this flawed mortal is going to try to adhere to them.

Culture: the ability to carve an intricate and beautiful bowl from the skull of a fallen enemy.
Civilization: the ability to put that psycho in prision for killing people.

Blue Leah

To get the sheet, just go to www.plothook.net, register, and select the character profiler under the tools tab.

HairyHeretic

Quote from: Ironwolf85 on April 10, 2011, 07:42:47 PM
is mine out too?

Ah, sorry, I didn't realise you wanted to offer the droid up as a character :)

You do realise this is just to be a one off adventure, to introduce people to system gaming, right? I haven't planned to run an entire campaign from this. (Though given the way my games go, it could well happen :P)
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I'd like to get the intro to the system, and if this develops into a campain, all the better
Prudence, justice, temperance, courage, faith, hope, love...
debate any other aspect of my faith these are the heavenly virtues. this flawed mortal is going to try to adhere to them.

Culture: the ability to carve an intricate and beautiful bowl from the skull of a fallen enemy.
Civilization: the ability to put that psycho in prision for killing people.

NosCorventius

okay so Looks like Id have a few of the books lying around which books will be using for this?

HairyHeretic

Quote from: Ironwolf85 on April 10, 2011, 08:14:38 PM
I'd like to get the intro to the system, and if this develops into a campain, all the better

That's fair enough.

Quote from: NosCorventius on April 10, 2011, 09:33:43 PM
okay so Looks like Id have a few of the books lying around which books will be using for this?

I'm willing to use pretty much any for talents and races. There will be a few races I'll have to say no to, like the Chiss, Noghri or any others that weren't really on the galatic stage during the Rebellion era.

In terms of gear, the core book, Rebellion era and Force Unleashes should all be ok. Anything else, I'd want to have a look at before saying yes or no. Legacy era would be a no, as it's set well in the future, so hasn't happened yet.
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hey Harry do you want us to roll our ability scores using the dice roller here or can I break out my trusty dice here at home?

Also I found a site that we can use to store our Charater sheets. They have one for the Star Wars Saga Edition as well as most other Rpgs. I'd encourage you and everyone else here to take a look: http://www.myth-weavers.com/forumhome.php. You do have to register but there doesn't appear to be any fees associated with the site.

HairyHeretic

I hadn't discussed stats yet, so now is as good a time as any.

There are two ways of creating the stats for characters. One is through random dice rolls, the other is a points buy method. With the points buy, you have more control over your stats, and tend to end up with generally two or three decently good stats, and the rest average-ish. With the random dice rolling, you can have good luck and get high stats, or bad luck, and end up with poorer ones.

I'm happy to do either.
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Hairy, here is my character: http://plothook.net/RPG/profiler/view.php?id=8456
Now, what did I miss? Is it okay? Thank you.

HairyHeretic

Did you use points buy or dice rolls for the stats?
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Quote from: HairyHeretic on April 11, 2011, 01:47:46 PM
Did you use points buy or dice rolls for the stats?
Points buy, plus race modifications (+2 dex, +2 int, -2 con).

Zaer Darkwail

#38
As note I recommend mythweaver, used to make 'Nilo' and I saw nicely the sheet.

Anycase as star wars fan I would like throw towel in to this :). Also it looks quite bit like 4th edition DnD in someways. I assume Destiny Points are same as Action Points in 4th DnD (meaning free move or standard action or some other special stuff?).

Anycase my concept is following;

Name: Mick 'the Jackal' Vhaldros
Gender: Male
Race: Human (in truth half-human and half-miralukan but statically human but by wookiepedia the half-miralukan often had 'second sight' heritage from their miralukan parent in varied degrees)
Class: Scoundrel
Specialization: Spaceships and vechiles (a must have one in team right?)
Background: Mick 'the Jackal' Vhaldros is known as daredevilling smuggler who has worked to both sides; rebels and empire. Whoever has paid credits the most. But now he has stick with rebels because empire have started to be seriously pain in the ass work with in recent years. He has worked several criminal organizations already and has contacts here and there. He is known for keen insight and instincts which warn him about danger in narrow second, especially in space fight even if his radar is down.

True background:
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But true story starts with his secret parentage; he is son of Empire Commander and secretly blind Miraluka mother. Relationship what imperial commander and Miraluka jedi had been before Empire was born. But when it became real the commander had to make choice; either surrender his secret love and bury his hearth in grief or go exile with her. But when mother showed signs of pregnancy the commander knew living in fringe would be risky for family and miraluka's birthing were difficult when done with humans and he wanted best life for his son and wife.....so he made deceptive story about his wife being human (as visual difference of human and miraluka is minimal so long eyes are covered) and born blind.

So Mick or 'Michael von'Bermirth' as his real birth name goes. He was raised in classic empire family in surface and he whole life believed his mother is human who is blind. Only parents knowing the secret and Mick's mother kept keen eye for Michael to detect any signs for force sensitivity. As she knew Emperor had people watch for force sensitives and she wants educate herself Mick to hide his abilities if such thing occurs. But for her relief Mick did show some keen insight on things but nothing out of ordinary in force meters. Mick was given top education in politics and send to one Empire war academies, as it was natural assume he picks up his father career in military. He however became infamous dropouts; excellent pilot in top degrees and wit but lacked in discipline to point he ended up with fist fight with his trainer regarding 'military philosophies in warfare'. His father was both disappointed and happy, as this kept his son out of dark empire military but disappointed he is spoiling his talent in goofing around.

Mick lived by wealth of his family shamelessly and happily. Then all good things come down when empire inspector, who was truth emperor personal force sensitive scouts detected strong potential force from Mick's mother who had avoided public appearance for years. He got her blood sample and found out she is miralukan and top of it a hiding jedi master! Naturally things went dark and bloody, as firstly father was captured for execution for treason and mother barely succeed escape with her life and with her son. But while flying with airship which engines was blasted by air defense laser turrets she gave her lightsaber to Mick and she used her remaining power in her body to use force rescue Mick from certain death. The ship fell to ground and exploded and the empire investigation squad found the dead mother and assumed Mick was dead.

Mick does not know full story but seeing mother use force and lightsaber knows she was one the so much talked mysterious 'Jedi' which had been hunted by empire for years. He saw his father's execution in public broadcast. Eversince Mick had focused on survival and hiding, keeping always with him the lightsaber from his mother, both as memento and he promised he somedays plunges the damn thing on emperor's back! He used one his contact friends from his goofing rich kid days to buy profile as smuggler and he had created false criminal record and past to cover his true past. He is working for rebels in truth because he desires sees empire's downfall but he acts money greedy jerk to keep his cover up.

btw, are you okay a mixed stat rolls? Like one stat is automatically 17-18 (high) and you need decide where it goes. Then you need decide where 3d6 goes before you roll it. Then same thing with 12+d6. Then you roll 6+2d6 and choose where it goes before you roll next 6+2d6 and repeat it one more time. This gives both control and randomness to stats.

HairyHeretic

Generally when using dice rolls I let the person roll all the dice, and then decide where to assign them after they're all rolled. The standard roll for stat generation is 4d6 and drop the lowest dice. The mixed stats you're suggesting there look a bit odd.

I haven't played 4th ed D&D so I don't know how action points work there. Destiny points are used to give the player an edge in the fulfillment of their Destiny. You get 1 per level, and you can only spend them on something that directly relates to the Destiny in question.
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Damn it! Zaer Darkwail your proposed character and the one I've been working on are close enough to be brothers. Eh, looks like it's back to the drawing board for me. Don't want them being confused in game. time to start looking over species again.

HairyHeretic

Quote from: Artema on April 11, 2011, 01:33:41 PM
Hairy, here is my character: http://plothook.net/RPG/profiler/view.php?id=8456
Now, what did I miss? Is it okay? Thank you.

Given we still have some discussion of the mechanics going on, you may end up revising your sheet if we don't use points buy.

Do you want to expand on your background / contacts a bit more?
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Quote from: HairyHeretic on April 11, 2011, 02:49:48 PM
Given we still have some discussion of the mechanics going on, you may end up revising your sheet if we don't use points buy.

Do you want to expand on your background / contacts a bit more?
NP.

Theoretically yes, when I have time.

NosCorventius

honestly given the choice i prefer to roll stats instead of buy them. Just my preference.

HairyHeretic

Ok, quick vote from everyone.

Stats:
1 - Points buy
2 - Roll 4d6, drop lowest, assign where you want.

Majority decision used, GM makes the call in case of a tie :)
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I abstain (can roll NP), though I may comment that rulebook gives either possibility so I do not see immediate reason why we should choose one of them.

Zaer Darkwail

Quote from: NosCorventius on April 11, 2011, 02:44:28 PM
Damn it! Zaer Darkwail your proposed character and the one I've been working on are close enough to be brothers. Eh, looks like it's back to the drawing board for me. Don't want them being confused in game. time to start looking over species again.

Heh, I do not mind if we wrap backgrounds together and be brothers then if you do not mind :). Twins maybe :D. But personality can differ (and looks too).

Anycase my vote for rolling.

HairyHeretic

Quote from: Artema on April 11, 2011, 03:37:01 PM
I abstain (can roll NP), though I may comment that rulebook gives either possibility so I do not see immediate reason why we should choose one of them.

Generally its best that everyone use the same method of character creation. It keeps it fairer that way (though given the ammount of luck that can crop up in the actual dice rolling, that can be a bit of a relative term).
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i was looking at putting together a ex-bounty hunter full blooded Miralukan Scoundrel who had started to work with the rebellion because of business concerns. His name is Gaxx...strangly I was calling him "the Bloodhound" due to his ability to train in on a single person through forcesight. Just saying it's odd. might make him a half and half and tie him in depends on wether I find any other species that intrique me more.

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Ironwolf85

i know I want to do delta for this game, but i need to know if stats are rolled or allocated, I don't have a preference.
there is no set write up for the B3 commando, so I'm going to have to custom design this one (we played in a diffrent star wars edition)here's what I know

When alone or in a squad they use inflitration and terror tactics against enemies.
They impersionated clones in the series due to their humanoid frame and voice replicator.
when part of a large battle unit they play a supporting role, engaging jedi and clones in hand to hand or striking from cover, they are the only droid to use cover, they have jumping and running abilities on par with padwans, that let them keep up.
they are fast and carry vibro knives in addition to the same weapons as the B1 battle droid which they use with superior ability to their B1 brothers, and as I mentioned, fighting from cover.
their body armor is thicker than the B1, but weaker than the B2

in the series they usually take two or three hits from blasters to kill, the B3 taking much more.

they learn from combat, and make decisions on the fly giving them greater flexability, which is their main strengh, but to prevent them from developing independence they are scrubbed after each battle.
Dispite their superority over the B1, they are far more costly to produce, and the B2 is better as heavy infantry, because of their cost they are never deployed in Massive numbers like most droids, and are therefore support troops.

about their intelligence, they are given objectives by the same computer that controls all the other droids on the battlefield, but they have leeway on how to accomplish those objectives. usually the commands are such as "kill this target, destroy that target, capture location, cover commander, support this unit" and so on.

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Prudence, justice, temperance, courage, faith, hope, love...
debate any other aspect of my faith these are the heavenly virtues. this flawed mortal is going to try to adhere to them.

Culture: the ability to carve an intricate and beautiful bowl from the skull of a fallen enemy.
Civilization: the ability to put that psycho in prision for killing people.

HairyHeretic

The rules for droid characters are in the Scavangers Guide to Droids book. I know at least one of the droids is a military model, so we should be able to get something together for you. I seem to recall Droid PCs are created a bit differently, but I've not created one myself, so will need to brush up on those rules.

Since we seem to have a mixture of roll / no preference, I'll go with rolling.

4d6, drop the lowest, assign where you want them.
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understood, I actually have a the star wars d20 main book.. me and the DM hashed somthing out last time for the other system
Prudence, justice, temperance, courage, faith, hope, love...
debate any other aspect of my faith these are the heavenly virtues. this flawed mortal is going to try to adhere to them.

Culture: the ability to carve an intricate and beautiful bowl from the skull of a fallen enemy.
Civilization: the ability to put that psycho in prision for killing people.

Blue Leah

Cool. I will have to get a character sheet up once I get my computer back up and running. Trying to fill out a character sheet with an iPhone might be very frustrating. :P

HairyHeretic

Trying to fill out a character sheet from an iPhone would drive me nuts I think :)

I can paste in a text only character sheet for people to use, if they don't want to register anywhere else. It won't be as pretty as those others, but it will do the job.

Another question ... forum play or live? Assuming we could find a time that worked for everyone, I would like to try running this over Mumble, but we can always use the forums. What do people prefer?
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NosCorventius

not framiliar with mumble at all and I waskinda hoping to see how a system game played out in forum form anyways so my preferrence is in Forum.

HairyHeretic

Fairly similar to around a table, but slooooooooooooooooooower  ;)
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Blue Leah

Depending on the day, I could probably work out a time to play over Mumble. I am down for either though.

Ironwolf85

no mumble for me.... I have dialup... the high speed like stops about half a mile short of my house
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Civilization: the ability to put that psycho in prision for killing people.

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Zaer Darkwail

I vote for forums as well. Anycase here is Mick's stats done by invisible caste;

STR 10, DEX 17, CON 12, INT 16, WIS 12, CHA 13

Blue Leah

Here is the stat block for the as of yet unnamed Kel Dor Scout:

11 Str, 16 Dex, 12 Con, 14 Int, 12 Wis, 10 Cha
http://invisiblecastle.com/stats/view/26554/

HairyHeretic

Do you guys have access to the books to sort skills and talent trees, as well as racial modifiers, or do you need help with those?
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Blue Leah

I have temporary access to the core book.

HairyHeretic

Ok. If you've any questions, you know where to find me :)
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Zaer Darkwail

Quote from: HairyHeretic on April 13, 2011, 05:58:23 PM
Do you guys have access to the books to sort skills and talent trees, as well as racial modifiers, or do you need help with those?

I have none the books :/. So need guided by hand to hand in char creation.

HairyHeretic

Not a problem. If you use any IM programs regularly, we can go through it there. Failing that, PM is probably handiest.
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Zaer Darkwail

Quote from: HairyHeretic on April 14, 2011, 06:35:10 AM
Not a problem. If you use any IM programs regularly, we can go through it there. Failing that, PM is probably handiest.

Ok, sending PM.....

HairyHeretic

If anyone needs a hand, I can be available via PM or IM. Just let me know what you need.
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Blue Leah

#69
Money roll:
http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2982776/

9 x 250: 2250

My sheet so far:
http://plothook.net/RPG/profiler/view.php?id=8447

Not sure how to start with equipment, though.

HairyHeretic

I give everyone max money and hitpoints to start.

PM me a list of the sort of equipment that you're interested in, and I'll give you prices.
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SinXAzgard21

I saw this and had to add that I have a lot of the books in PDF. Format.  if that would help in anyway.
If you know me personally, you know how to contact me.

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Quote from: SinXAzgard21 on April 15, 2011, 06:52:06 PM
I saw this and had to add that I have a lot of the books in PDF. Format.  if that would help in anyway.

*Ahem*

From the site rules

QuoteThis server is governed by the laws of the United States. You will not link to or provide warez, illegal pdfs or mp3s, and so on.

So, while the offer to help is appreciated, we must refuse :)
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Ironwolf85

type 4 droids genrally have +2 dex +2 con -4 int this would apply to delta too, probably increased armor, sealed, hardcoded, etc I have no idea where those jumping skills come from, but other characters have the skill that aren't jedi... is it just extra skill points?
Prudence, justice, temperance, courage, faith, hope, love...
debate any other aspect of my faith these are the heavenly virtues. this flawed mortal is going to try to adhere to them.

Culture: the ability to carve an intricate and beautiful bowl from the skull of a fallen enemy.
Civilization: the ability to put that psycho in prision for killing people.

HairyHeretic

Your initial skills are dependent on your class. I can't remember offhand if this is any different for a droid PC, but will check tomorrow. It's almost 3 a.m. here, and I'm off to bed.
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Ironwolf85

understood then, I'll try and look it up, goodnight.
Prudence, justice, temperance, courage, faith, hope, love...
debate any other aspect of my faith these are the heavenly virtues. this flawed mortal is going to try to adhere to them.

Culture: the ability to carve an intricate and beautiful bowl from the skull of a fallen enemy.
Civilization: the ability to put that psycho in prision for killing people.

NosCorventius

Hey hairy, Can I be a Clawdite Fringer? I want to build a infiltrater/spy type character.

HairyHeretic

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HairyHeretic

Ironwolf, I've not been able to find that droid listed in the books, so it looks like we'll need to more or less build it from scratch using the standard droid rules.
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Ironwolf85

it was introdouced to star wars cannon after the D20 game came out, so that is not suprising.
last time we based it on the B2's design, but built for speed and smarts not plodding muscle.
no built in weapons either, though weapon holsters would be built in... compartments
Prudence, justice, temperance, courage, faith, hope, love...
debate any other aspect of my faith these are the heavenly virtues. this flawed mortal is going to try to adhere to them.

Culture: the ability to carve an intricate and beautiful bowl from the skull of a fallen enemy.
Civilization: the ability to put that psycho in prision for killing people.

NosCorventius


HairyHeretic

Ironwolf
Do you want me to try and build a droid using the core rules, based on the info we have so far? I can do an initial build, you revise and we go from there?

Nos
Looks like we need to select your trained class skills, starting feats and languages, then move on to gear and stuff.

Do you have access to the core book? If not, PM/IM me and we can go through the rest.
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Ironwolf85

that sounds excellent hairy, I'm all for it
Prudence, justice, temperance, courage, faith, hope, love...
debate any other aspect of my faith these are the heavenly virtues. this flawed mortal is going to try to adhere to them.

Culture: the ability to carve an intricate and beautiful bowl from the skull of a fallen enemy.
Civilization: the ability to put that psycho in prision for killing people.

HairyHeretic

Is there any particular stuff you want me include?
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HairyHeretic

Since the characters seem to be coming along nicely, do you want me to open up a game thread and get us started? The PCs will be able to get to know each other there.
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