Character Creation and Backgrounds

Please make a force sensitive character using the Star Wars Force and Destiny Rulebook. Please do not select any force powers prior to creating your character. Each player will get a free force power during game play.

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I have been giving it some thought and in the end I think it makes the most sense that I provide the starting equipment for your characters. Therefore, please do not purchase any starting equipment other than concealing robes, a training lightsabre and 5 stim packs.

I have two questions: do we get to pick our free Force power, and can we later on get specialisations from the F&D career books and/or non-Force&Destiny careers?

You will get to pick your force power within reason. Some of the force trees have force level requirements. You start at force rating 1. If you wish to learn the more advanced powers you'll have to wait until you level up a little.

Also, more martial characters will have the option to get a few talents instead of a force power if they desire it.

And yes to your second question. As long as you select a starting class from force and destiny you can branch out however you like. Just as long as it is consistent with your character development. Please only choose careers and specializations from officially published material. No homebrews please :)

Thanks for the invite Arina, I need to overview the specs, but I'm thinking mystic seer or warrior-something depending on what I see. Will starting equipment be standard?

I am strongly favouring Sentinel-Shadow, with Seeker-Pathfinder as possible alternative.

So I've come up with ideas for a Sentiel-Shien Expert as well as a Consular-Nimaan Disciple.

Arina, you never got back to me regarding Miraluka, also. The Consular build currently uses the Miraluka stats from the Complete Race Guide found on the FFG SWRPG forums (https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/266658-the-complete-species-guide/).

I guess I'll be in the first lines (because that is what I love the most) and be a Guardian - Soresu Defender

To be fair, Vex, a Shien Expert can stand in the front line with you as well. Lots of Reflect and Parry in that build as well as Improved/Supreme Reflect.

Indeed! That I know.

EDIT: Are we going to be allowed to start with a trainign lightsaber? I would like to purchase one but I rather ask.

I'll probably go with Makashi Duelist/Seer, though I'm not sure with which I should begin. Arina, I'm assuming that we're not going to get lightsabers right in the beginning, right? Because in that case, I think I'll probably start as a Seer.

Anyways! What about our characters themselves, guys? We're supposed to know each other for years. What're their species, what kind of personality are you aiming for? Do we have rivals? Lovers? I'll do a small writeup for my character as soon as I can and post here.

Are you allowing content from sourcebooks, namely Savage Spirits?

I’m definitely going with a melee focused character. Seeker/Executioner if sourcebooks are allowed, Warrior/Aggressor if not.

So my two character concepts would be a Miraluka Consular Nimaan Disciple/Sage, one who is very in tune with the Force and feels its presence wherever she goes and in whatever she does. Though depending on how melee heavy we are, I might swap and start out Sage first.

The other is more of an almost rebellious teenaged Togruta Sentinel Shien Expert who wants to know everything, usually the first word out of her mouth is "Why". She's kind of built, in a way, after Ahsoka who she idolized as a Youngling while still in the Temple and who she sort of hero worships. Or at least she had, 12 years ago...

I think I'll pick Seer, everyone.

As for my PC, I wanted to shake things up with a more atypical archetype for this spec. She would be very attuned to the Force(As are most Seers) and all of that. Despite her age, she would still remember her family's condition and what she went through as an infant. i.e They were poor, she was probably sold off as a slave, yada yada.

Anyway, because of all of that, she would grow to be very militant about unfairness and treating others right. The feelings of impotency she felt when she was still a child would shape her to be impatient, the power that the Force grants her making her feel that not only she can help, but that she should help. I imagine that she would feel that staying on the unnamed planet for so long is a complete waste of time. She would understand the need of training, but she would still feel that their Master still operating by the Jedi Order directives(i.e waiting for us to become Padawan) is holding us back rather than doing anything good. Not being able to do anything frustrates her, and it could even make her volatile. She could even be resentful of the Jedi, arguing that they failed to protect the galaxy. As far as the Jedi Philosophy goes, she... Would probably be bored by it. While someone could observe how beautiful, or amazing is that everything is connected to the Force, she would normally remark what a potential the Force has, or how a great tool it can be in the right hands.

She's not a brute, though, or impulsive. Assuming we get to somehow pick our force powers, I am probably first going to get Foresee, and that would explain how she would be more careful about acting. Knowledge is a form of power, after all, and it is only with power that we can affect the universe.

I think my PC and your first PC would be excellent Rivals/Frenemies, Smeeg. Assuming, that is, if she were a "All Jedi" kinda of gal. As for the Togruta, she would probably relate to her.

This is the concept I have:

Human - Soresu Defender
A highly devoted Jedi, willing to place his life on the line at all times to defend the weak and his comrades. Almost blind devotion to rebuilding the Jedi Order and standing to the Sith ruling through the Empire.

He is the silent type, most of the time vigilant and ready to jump into action when someone is in need. However; despite his lack of words, when he does say anything, is in order to defend the Jedi and to proclaim his deep desire to destroy all evil in the name of the Force.

Oh, right! The species! She's going to be a Twi'lek, of course. :)

Hmmm. Vex, I think my character would probably appreciate the promptness of jumping into action and also be incredibly annoyed by all the talk of "destroy all evil in the name of the Force".

Edit: Also! I have another question, Arina. I'm assuming we can buy our own gear? Because, I mean, if we lived on an unnamed planet pretty much all our lives, it's kind of hard to imagine where we got some of our stuff. Maybe scavenging around or something like that?

Hmmmmmm, how old is everyone supposed to be? Assuming that we couldn't have been more than children(I'm assuming five, six years olds top) and that only 12 years have passed, we should be by our late teens/early adulthood?

Hehehe you'll see what I mean by that... and I am glad that it will create some RP elements to enjoy.

About age, I assume my guy would between 22 and 24... perhaps he was an older Padawan when he escaped.