Recommendation -- post your XP spend here...

Hey all,

I've reviewed a couple character sheets, and it can be a little hard to divine how points were spent during character creation. Since we're all new to FaD (and possibly to FFG in varying degrees), perhaps it'd be helpful if people walked through character creation/point spending in a thread -- you can create a new thread for your character if you want, or follow up as a reply to here. This can help us all learn and make sure we're not missing something or misreading rule (or if we are, that we at least all misread it together!).

So, a potential example might be:

Morality 50, +10 XP
Human - 2 in all abilities, +110 XP
+ 1 rank in each of 2 different non-career skills
Warrior, Sii-cho Knight

Brawn 2->3 = 30 XP
Brawn 3->4 = 40 XP

Athletics rank 1 (career 1/3)
Perception rank 1 (career 2/3)
Cool rank 1 (career 3/3)
Athletics rank 2 ( specialization 1/2)
Lightsaber rank 1 (specialization 2/2)
Resilience rank 1 (race 1/2)
Ranged (Light) rank 1 (race 2/2)

Parry Talent = 5 xp
Toughened Talent = 5 xp
Enhance basic Force power = 10 XP
Move basic Force power = 10 XP
Lightsaber rank 2 = 10 XP

Total XP spent = 30 + 40 + 5 + 5 + 10 + 10 + 10 = 110 XP

I have the ins and out for why I went what I did if interested and I can add but that just makes it a long post.
Meta-crunch:
Morality 50, +10 XP option
Mirilian - Starting Stats 2-3-2-1-2-2 +100XP
+ 1 rank in each Cool & Discipline
Seeker, Ataru Striker
Total XP = 110XP

Brawn 2->3 = 30 XP
Cunning 1->2 = 20 XP
Presence 2->3 = 30 XP

Vigilance rank 1 (career 1/3)
Survival rank 1 (career 2/3)
Xenology rank 1 (career 3/3)
Coordination rank 1 ( specialization 1/2)
Perception rank 1 (specialization 2/2)
Cool rank 1 (race 1/2)
Discipline rank 1 (race 2/2)

Conditioned Talent = 5 xp
QuickDraw Talent = 5 xp
Influence basic Force power = 10 XP
Ranged - Light = (5+5) 10 XP Non Career

XP Spent for creation 30+20+30+5+5+10+(5+5) = 110 XP

Update: GM rewarded 10 XP
Spent on Quick Strike Talent

No force powers?

Hmmm, totally missed that I could do that. I suppose I'd want to go with the Heal/Harm tree to match my other stuff. Cost is 15 though, so I'll stick with what I have for now. (Learn as I go).

I passed on force powers for now because I really wanted to up my base stats. Character creation is the only time you can add points into your base stats. Once those are set they are set.

Although technically Sleight of Hand is a force power, but a Specialization one.

Szemely,

Is your perception to 2 really 20XP + human non-career? Wouldn't it be 2 x 5 + 5 = 15XP? If so that might leave you with 5 XP left over for a 0-1 in a career skill?

Also, medicine from 0 -> 2 - you have 1 from specialization and then it's a career skill so to go from 1 to 2 should just be 2 x 5 = 10 XP. I think that frees up 10XP.

Yes, you can take Discipline to 2 (no skill can be greater than rank 2, but no rule against using your Healer + a bonus skill to get to 2).

So I think you have 15 XP remaining.

Remnant, did I get that costing right?

Yep you got it Falryx.

Ah, I see what I did wrong. Was treating the skills like they were characteristics as far as XP expenditure.

For perception I hit rank 1 for "Human", so I think the jump to 2 would only cost 10. Either way, with 15 I will take the Force Power Heal/Harm and then break even (or have 5 left depending on the Perception thing).

Thanks for the help!

Because Perception isn't a Career or Specialization skill, I think it costs the extra 5XP (so 10+5). I could be wrong though!

Gang -- sorry this is taking time, but good to get our characters sorted. In other news my mom had some surgery earlier this week with some complications. That plus my business travel means I've been a little scattered this week! hopefully we'll get the characters finalized soon and we'll kick it off!

No worries. Such is the crux of play by post. Even in an extended time format like this life makes it hard to stay on it. I've had similar issues GMing my other games. :)

I agree don't rush on our account, I enjoy playing game and all but your life should take priority man. Better to take time for yourself and all of us to figure things out versus we jump in and get confused easily on what's going on.

XP expenditure breakdown. I assumed the +10 XP was added on top of the 110 human starter XP. Let me know if I got that wrong.

Edit: I swapped out the Move force power tree for the Enhance tree. Decided it made more sense for the character.

Morality 50, +10 XP
Human - 2 in all abilities, +110 XP
+ 1 rank in each of 2 different non-career skills (Discipline, Lightsabers)
Warrior, Aggressor

Brawn 2->3 = 30 XP
Agility 2->3 = 30 XP
Willpower 2->3 = 30 XP

Brawl rank 1 (career 1/3)
Melee rank 1 (career 2/3)
Survival rank 1 (career 3/3)
Coersion rank 1 ( specialization 1/2)
Ranged (light) rank 1 (specialization 2/2)
Discipline rank 1 (race 1/2)
Lightsabers rank 1 (race 2/2)

Toughened Talent = 5 xp
Intimidating Talent = 5 XP
Enhance basic Force power = 10 XP
Melee Rank 2 = 10 XP

Total XP spent = 30 + 30 + 30 + 5 + 5+ 10 + 10 = 120 XP

I don't have my book with me, but this looks good. The only thing I'm uncertain about is Coercion rank 2 -- is that part of the specialization benefit (e.g. you start with rank 1 and then took a spec skill to up it to 2)?

Typo. Corrected.

Coercion is a skill for the warrior specialization, so one of those could be the free choice for that, and then bumped to 2 for the cost. But I'm not quite sure where tuk placed those free ranks. Nevermind. He corrected it. :)

updated my post since not everyone can see character sheets.

Sorry for the delay; I'm doing my character work here.
I also had not finished my XP work from character creation, since I'd just used one of the starter set characters, who didn't have morality or talk about starting XP at all. Falryx has helped me with this.

Kaveri had a starting morality of 50, as usual. Then falryx tells me there's the 10 XP that comes with that, plus 10 for halfway, plus 10 for final adventure, for a total of 30 XP. Rolling for morality, emotional strength, and emotional weakness.

Kaveri is apparently a Hunter specialization of the Seeker class. This means that she has a few career skills that were not listed in the starter set version of her character sheet: Knowledge (Xenology), Piloting (Planetary and Space), which just means that she gets a discount on spending XP to gain these skills later.

I'm not really sure how the specialization talent tree works: do I have to choose one of the four "top" items as the start of the tree, and can then only move down, following the "path" or "branch" of that one tree? For instance, Kaveri's tree is on page 56. It looks like I could choose Rapid Recovery, Hunter, Expert Tracker, or Toughened. If I pick Hunter, does that mean I am in that track, and cannot subsequently pick Rapid Recovery? Or does it just mean that I could pick Toughened (5), and then, in order to take Toughened a second time, I would have to either take Rapid Recovery (5) first, or take Hunter (5) AND Expert Tracker (10) to "unlock" that second Toughened?