Introductions
GM introduction: My name is Kevin. I will turn 47 in a few short weeks. I currently live in northern California. I've been a table top gamer since I was 8; before Star Wars was released. My first character was "Dawnstar" the Magic User. We were avid players and more than a little loose with the rules. Dawnstar eventually rose to be a 63rd level Magic User - of course the rules didn't go that high, so he just repeated the upper level from the rule book over and over.
I think that Saga Edition is one of the better SW rules systems. I had limited exposure to WE Games d6 version so I can't judge. I do not care for the new version - mainly because dice with little pictures seems like more difficulty than it's worth.
Thank you all for putting characters together for this run. I hope we collectively enjoy the ride. Welcome and good gaming.
Greetings. Dylan here. I began playing RPG video games around the age of 6, but didn't start d&d until around the age of 17, 2007, when I overheard the group in the theatre group I was in, and asked to join. Since then I have played whenever possible, but I work long hours in a restaurant and have been unable to get a game together in real life for a few months, so I have turned to play by post to fill that void.
As to Star Wars, it was the first movie I remember ever seeing, and am an avid sci fi fan, watching anything to deal with space travel. I am trying to break into writing, and hope to have a 'Space Fantasy' novel on Kindle by this time next year. I think thats about it, I am excited to be in this game with you all.
My name is Ray. I'm 32 and have been into Star Wars since I was a pre-teen. What can I say? Space Wizards with laser swords just appeal to me on a fundamental level.
Saga was my first system for a Star Wars game. And this weird hybrid of 4th Edition and d20 Modern has a warm place in my heart. Although, my favorite system to play Star Wars in was a free Savage Worlds conversion we found online.
I actually played a version of this character in that game. The setting was right smack in the middle of the Clone Wars and we were a neutral group of mercenaries called The Regulators. The campaign ended with Jak blowing up Senator Jar Jar Binks with a grenade launcher.
Good times.
Name's Albert. (OMG a guy playing a chick, what are the odds?) I turn 33 in about a month. I've been gaming off and on for over a decade, and was playing Mario bros on my first NES by the time I could read at age 5. Been a gamer of varying sorts ever since. I got my first taste of actual tabletop roleplaying when I was, I wanna say, 16-16. Little known game called Talislanta. Can you say 'gateway drug?' I knew you could.
I missed out on a lot of RP opportunities, and didn't get to game nearly as much as I wanted at first. I felt I'd hit a gold mine when I discovered PBP in recent years. Got to scratch all kinds of roleplaying itches on the boards.
I'd seen star wars roleplaying systems before SE, but I kind of liked how SE opened up a lot of gameplay options but still kept some consequences intact. It still has a little bit of the 4E corniness that irks me at times, but it's far, far more tolerable than 4E, and it seems to work better for star wars than D&D anyway. Good customization, meaningful choices, and not TOO much feat/talent chain nonsense taking up your vital character choices all the time.
Since we're on the topic of introductions, we should probably take this chance to see if anybody would already know each other in character. I'm thinking there's a fair chance Moroka and Gotal do, at least. Maybe others. I'm open to interweaving if people want to put forth some ideas. Maybe I've fixed a blaster or a droid for you at some point.
I'd make some suggestions, but it's late, and the brain's running on empty for the night...
Hello there.
My name is Stavros. I am 34 years old and living in Athens (the one in Greece, hence my name). I have been playing RPGs for the last 15 years, I think, starting with AD&D and Dragonlance Saga (the one with the cards) before moving on to 3rd Edition and 3.5 and then Pathfinder, which I have only played in PbPs and I have been greatly enjoying myself. Other than that, I have dabbled with a bit of Vampire the Masquerade and, if memory serves, D20 Modern.
As far as Star Wars is concerned, I have seen the movies and the CG series and positively love the world and premise of it all. I have played Star Wars Saga Edition before alongside Gotal's player, though it has been a few years. I am also in another Star Wars game on thsese boards, though that one uses the Fantasy Flight Games system; although we have not played all that much yet really, it does seem to be a solid system. I still think I prefer Saga though, as it is more similar to all those systems I have grown accustomed to.
Here is my character, by the way, a human Force-sensitive scout that will be going Jedi probably at 4th level (despite the serious expression of his avatar picture, he is a pretty fun guy, I assure you). His background is in the recruitment thread.
Link to other relevant information
Also, GM and players permitting, I could give the various profiles/character sheets a look and tell you of any discrepancies I find. Blame my slightly OCDish personality. I do it anyway (look through other people's character profiles, that is), but just out of curiosity and to get a better feel of the PCs rather than actually point out stuff, which I do not do unless given express permission. :-)
Also, not a single soldier. Heh...
Dennis Harry here, I will be playing Gotal the Jedi. Will have my profile up and running later today.
I have been playing RPG's since 1988 starting with the original D&D red box. In high school I ran Dragonlance Campaigns that would cross into Ravenloft though it was hard to get consistent play from players plus I had other interests as well.
From 1997 through 2001 I ran a Vampire the Dark Ages/Vampire the Masquerade game that brought the players from 1190 to 2000. I stopped running to go to law school. Six months later I got the DM bug and starting running D&D 3.0/3.5. From 2002 through 2009 I ran a campaign of home new adventures and modules set in the Realms which too PC'S from level 1 to 37. From 2009 to 2014 I ran a modified Age of Worms campaign bringing players from level 1 to 25. Currently running a Waterdeep campaign at low levels. I have also been running a V20 Campaign on the boards here for a few years now.
I have been into SW since Empire came out in the theater (was a baby when the first came out). Could not afford the West End RPG stuff when I was younger so never played or ran it.
I have played in a few SW campaigns on the boards, the most solid one was the one i was in with Stavros.
Looking forward to this.
Stavros, you have my permission to check my work :-)
Greetings. My name is Phil. I'm 27, and my grandparents had the original trilogy on VHS, so I watched it and decided the movies were great. I was introduced to the novels in 1998, when I found a copy of Heir to the Empire in the attic. I've read a lot of Star Wars since then, and have watched all of the movies plus the CG Clone Wars series. That series get dark, by the way, if you haven't seen it.
Gaming-wise, my parents introduced me to D&D via 2nd edition, and then I got into 3 & 3.5 after high school and into college. I played and ran the Revised d20 System version that was right before Saga, and I like Saga more. One of the biggest barriers to new people coming into gaming was the amount of bookkeeping required for 3.5, and this system streamlined a lot of that, while still running very well. I've played the Fantasy Flight version, and while it's not bad, I enjoy Saga more.
Mostly, I end up running Star Wars games because I've learned so much about the universe. Being able to play in one is always exciting. I was in a few others here on the boards, but they all seem to have stopped running.
Point of note, I will be getting married August 8, so for a couple days before that and the week afterwards my ability to post might be somewhat sporadic.
Stavros, you have my permission to check my work :-)
Cool. Will do once your character profile is up.
Agreed. I can be a habitual stickler for consistency and corrections, so if there is a hole somewhere that prevents us from meshing accurately, by all means point it out (diplomatically) and let's sew it up as a group.
Alrighty then.
Moroka Janis: Well, as far as I can tell, the only thing I have noticed is that you appear to have four trained skills when you should have three, although the parentheses may have something to do with it? Other than that, I believe everything else is fine.
She took Force Intuition, which lets her use the "Use the Force" skill as her Initiative modifier.
Feel free to take a look at my sheet as well. I think I have everything done correctly, but a second set of eyes never hurts.
Ah, gotcha. Thanks. I noticed the talent but putting the numbers next to Initiative kinda threw me off. :-)
Renlo Tacksa: Let me see... Unless I am mistaken, and I could very well be, your Reflex should be 16, not 15. Also, a blaster pistol does 3d6 points of damage, not 3d8 (though a heavy blaster pistol does do that much). Finally, I think you forgot to write down low-light vision as a special ability. I think that is it.
Math, math, math. Always off by 1.
I copied the basics of the sheet from another digital character who does have a heavy blaster pistol, and forgot to change the 8 to a 6.
No idea why I forgot to add low-light vision.
Here's a question: does anyone have a strength score higher than 10?
Also, GM, I have a bounty system for Jedi characters that I used in a game I ran, should you be interested.
I'm cool with having my sheet double-checked. I used a form-fillable PDF to assure the math was right, but I could have transcribed something incorrectly.
And, congrats on your nuptials, Phil.
My character being a Seppie probably doesn't know any of the Jedi at least. but maybe a non Jedi?
Thanks.
It's possible your unit may have purchased some goods from the "independent traders" consortium Renlo worked for, and he was on the crew that made the delivery. He'd look familiar, but they wouldn't be much more than acquaintances.
Heh. You caught me. I'm imagining using the force for a lot of things, especially different skill checks, through talents. The idea occurred to me when I realized that the block and deflect talents basically substituted your UTF check for your AC, and I thought: "what ELSE could I use my force checks for?"
Turns out, there's a TON of talents to apply your UTF checks to other things...spread out across all the splatbooks, of course. Should be fun stuff ahead.
As requested.
Jak Kato: Other than the fact that we are not supposed to have Destinies and Destiny points, the only discrepancies I can see involve your attack and damage stuff. The blaster pistol does 3d6 points of actual damage or 2d6 points of stun damage, not 3d4. As for the vibrodagger, its damage is 2d4, not 3d4, but the thing is that it is an advanced melee weapon and you do not seem to have the necessary weapon proficiency feat to use it without a penalty, which is -5. Other than that, everything else seems fine.
Will have my profile up tonight.
Thanks, Castor. Didn't realize that vibrodaggers were a different weapon group. I switched out the vibrodagger with a regular knife. And I had enough money left over that I was able to exchange the blaster pistol for a heavy blaster pistol. I made sure the stun damage was correct for the new pistol.
I also removed the destiny points. I thought I had done it earlier, but I must have missed it.
Hey, I noticed an errata in my book that said that the "stun" column in the weapon tables should read "Yes", rather than the damage dice. Does that mean stun damage should be equal to lethal damage?
OK done! Castor, let me know if I missed anything and thanks for the assist!
Damnit Jim, I'm a doctor not a mathematician. So go ahead and check my work. Also, wrong universe I know, but I had to use the joke.
IN any universe, that is still a funny joke Oriltoth :-)
Thank you all for working quickly to pull things together.
@F.Castor: Thanks for being willing to check over.
@ Renlo: The bounty rules would be much appreciated. - they will not come into play for a few more weeks of in game time, but I would love to look them over.
Glad to be of service. :-)
Gotal of Umbara: You seem to be missing the Skills section of the character sheet entirely (you should have a total of 3 trained skills). Other than that, since you have an Intelligence of 12, you should add one more language on top of the Basic and Umbarese you know automatically (you should have a total of 3 languages).
Oriltoth: Let me see. You seem to be missing Threshold (which is equal to Fortitude, so it could be redundant), combat stats (that is, melee and ranged options with their attack and damage, although I can see you have put the latter next to the blaster pistol in your gear) and languages known (which should be Basic, Ithorese and 5 more). And that is all, I believe.
Picked em in Recruitment just forgot to put them in my sheet. Thanks Castor.
DM, as a 3rd language I would like to choose a commonly used trade language outside of Basic, any suggestions?
For a commonly used trade language, Bocce or Huttese. They are both listed in the Core Rulebook, and while Huttese isn't technically a trade language, they control enough of space that knowing their language is never a bad thing. Another trade language used in the Outer Rim regions is Sy Bisti.
GM, I'll PM you the rules. They're designed to be simple and able to be applied on the fly, primarily because I created them on the fly during a session.
Here I am. Will post more soon.
Donavaan, just a heads up: We are using 25-point buy, not 20.
Thanks Renlo Bocce it is! Will finalize my profile tonight.
Okay! I'll make the adjustments when I get home.
Out of curiosity, apart from Stavros in Greece, what is everyone else's time zone? I'm at GMT-5 (Eastern US)
Eastern time US.
I live in Puerto Rico, so GMT -4. But since we don't observe Daylight Savings Time, we're on par with US EST, currently. When they "fall back" we'll be an hour ahead.
Gotal:Real quick thing regarding equipment: Power packs charge blasters, lightsabers use energy cells. In case you wanted to change that.
Central U.S. Southeast Texas, actually.
Gotal:Real quick thing regarding equipment: Power packs charge blasters, lightsabers use energy cells. In case you wanted to change that.
Ah, thank you. Will update that as well when I get a chance.
Only have a couple minutes since I'm in class, but has anyone given much thought to tying backstories? Or are we doing this the old fashioned way?
'So, two Jedi walk into a bar..."
I may have met some of you. Everybody needs a medic every now and then.
We might be doing this the old-fashioned way. Renlo has avoided any contact with Jedi (to this point), and the non-Jedi he's likely to have only met in passing, if at all.
Gotal and Moroka knowing each other makes the most sense, even if it's only, "We ran into each other a week ago, recognized each other as a Jedi, and have teamed up for survival."
Actually, what did Corven do during the Clone Wars?
Mostly planet-hopping really, though he did try to avoid the more war-torn planets. He liked seeing new places and experiencing new things, working odd jobs and on occasion selling his services as a scout and survivalist to finance his traveling about. He did not avoid the war entirely of course and did on one time or another lend a helping hand to Republic forces and on more than one occasion to non-combatants and refugees of both sides.
Hi all, my name is Jason. I am currently a high school teacher and a university professor where I teach theology and humanities and history classes. I am 38 and really love the Saga system. I was able to spend 3.5 years in the Eternal City but was never able to make it to Greece.
So, again, Corven may have met Renlo in passing.
Wow. I just realized how lonely Renlo's life is. No family, no friends, only passing acquaintances. That's actually kind of sad.
Well, how about Renlo has met both Jak and Corven in their respective travels and jobs? That way we at least have a couple of predefined connections.
I am wondering how he as a noble character in the Army might fit into this group? I see him kinda as a spoiled brat and a little loose, kinda like the prodigal son. Maybe he drinks and does bad things to numb the visions and stuff that he gets from the Force since he is force sensitive but not trained to deal with it.
I'm cool with that. My character's goal is to be part of a crew. So he'll be actively trying to put together a team anyways. It's not a stretch to think that he'd contact Renlo to see if he has any jobs lined up. And from there we have a link to Corven.
Gotal may have met Moroka when she was a Youngling. During here Padawan training the Clone Wars were raging and Gotal left the Order completely. Still, it makes sense that they would at least recognize each other if they saw each other. Umbaran's are not exactly plentiful in the core systems.
Sounds good to me.
Any crew worth anything's going to need a ship sooner or later. Every ship needs a mechanic to keep her spaceworthy. Pay no attention to the hidden lightsaber under my clothes, you dirty old men...
Also, untrained force-sensitives + talented force-user with confidence in spades= SURE I'll help train you! What could possibly go wrong?
Besides everything, of course...
Donavaan Taar CL 1
"Medium Human noble 1
Init +6; Senses Perception +5
Languages Basic, High Galactic, Bothese, Cerean
Defenses Ref 14 (13 flat-footed), Fort 13, Will 14
hp 19; Threshold 13
Speed 6 squares
Melee by weapon +0
Ranged blaster pistol, heavy +1 (3d8+0)
Base Atk +0; Grp +1
Abilities Str 10, Dex 12, Con 12, Int 13, Wis 10, Cha 15
Special Qualities Bonus Trained Skill, Bonus Feat
Talents Wealth
Feats Force Sensitivity, Improved Defenses, Linguist, Weapon Proficiency (pistols), Weapon Proficiency (simple)
Skills Deception +7, Initiative +6, Knowledge (Bureaucracy) +6, Knowledge (Tactics) +6, Perception +5, Persuasion +7, Pilot +6, Use Computer +6
Possessions heavy blaster pistol, 8000 credits
"
25 pt buy