Character Creation and Backgrounds

Well, assuming that Arina is okay with all of this, so am I. Very much! Anyway, I guess we should all move this discussion to the Char. dossiers thread?

The dossiers section is more for the dry information so we can all keep track of each other. I think we're good to keep putting up character stuff in this thread. Is there a skill for artwork in this system? A lot of Ian's pranks seem to fall under arts and crafts for some reason.

Ah, right, just now I checked it out! And hmmmm, I don't think so. I feel that general craft that is meant for pranks would fall into Skullduggery. If they're more mechanical themselves, I guess then it would be Mechanics. Otherwise, if it's something more proper, like trying to actually paint a good painting that is just a good painting... Discipline, maybe?

Well, in case you missed it, one of Ian's pranks on Taryn would be to make a Taryn doll, like a really nice looking one made out of whatever he could scrounge or salvage and embroider onto the front of it 'I like your Force, let me feel it' and leave it in Ari's bed for her to find. So, what I'm realizing is that Ian is basically a Etsy crafts seller that uses his powers for evil. If it's Discipline that would be amazingly helpful since that's a skill Ian's going to be using a lot anyways.

Oh man, that's... Bad. 🤣 Avi would probably get mad at Taryn, and when she realizes it was Ian all along, she would 100% ask for Zafe to smack his ass.

I feel like we need to RP that scene or something because Ian's response would be "But you're keeping the doll, right? It was super hard to make."

Edit: Also, I think it's safe to say that everyone would assume that EVERYTHING going wrong would be Ian's fault after a while. Like he's their own, personal Loki.

Honestly, Kit is going to think a lot of his fellows are acting like children and not taking the responsibility of being Force sensistive seriously.

Ian's nickname for Kit is now "Less handsome back-up dad."

I feel like that's an appropriate reaction from Kit.

To be fair, we are condensing 12 years of growing up into a few posts. Including the tumultuous years of 13-16 when everything is awful and we didn't ask to be born and we're wearing black eyeliner. That's kind of why I wanted a 'prequel' thread we could do a little bit to get a feel for each other and how our characters fit together. So what we're seeing is a highly concentrated version of events.

Actually, I am going to sort you into a few groups and run a basic encounter to give you a little time to flesh out your relationships. More details to come when I get the chance. Definitely sometime this week.

Agreed. I am going to open one for this purpose shortly.

I have created two new threads. One is for you to begin exploring your character's relationships with the other characters and the other is to discuss your home, starting environment.

Please look at them and let me know if you have any questions.

Alright. I settled on Evelynn, female Miraluka Consular/Niman Disciple. I've updated her dossier with more background info as well. Looking forward to get into shenanigans with you guys!

Oh, before I forget. I want Ian's first language to be Huttese. He'll have an accent when speaking Basic. However there are no language skills in this system. How do?

I think you guys are taking the rebellious teenager thing a little too far. Yes, being raised with 8 "siblings" by one man will make our characters a little more wild than the average Padawan, but the avergae Padawan is WAY more mature than the average earth teenager. Look at the two Padawans we see the most of in TCW, Ahsoka and Bariss. Ahsoka is age 14-17 and Bariss in 18-21 during the series, so Ahsoka is right on target for our ages and Bariss a little older. Yes, Ahsoka is somewhat reckless, but she's also the Padawan to a Jedi Master known for his recklessness. Bariss on the other hand is extremely calm, composed, mature. I think Bariss is far closer to the average Padawan than Ahsoka. Master Selak isn't trying to raise 9 kids sitcom style, he's trying to train 9 warriors to destroy the Sith. I seriously doubt he's going to tolerate pranks and childish behavior. If you guys want your characters to behave like silly children, go ahead, but Kit wants nothing to do with that. Kit isn't a Jedi who acts like a kid, he's a kid who acts like a Jedi, and I think that's more appropriate.

The game designers didn't want something as inconsequential as language in this universe to hinder GMs being able to tell a good story. However, I've seen Xenology be used as the language skill for when not understanding a language facilitates the telling if a good story.

Everyone seems to be multi-lingual in this galaxy. Luke speaks at least whatever Artoo does, as well as Jawa, and I think Wookie later on? Han speaks Wookie, Rodian, Huttese, and i feel like others (space pirate? in Ep VII?).

Basically, you understand what you need to, until you don't.

I suppose. But Ahsoka showed up reckless in the series and she managed to be that way when she was raised by the Jedi Order properly. She had lots of friends she could socialize with, dozens of adults she could go to for problems, a standardized education that helped to promote the behavior the Jedi found important and she still ended up reckless and like a typical teenager. Heck, Ahsoka could interact with the larger society as a whole and saw different people with different faces (or at least different haircuts for the clones) all the time, she was allowed to range about instead of being veritably trapped in some caves and a shuttle.

Our group was one tragic accident happening to our ONLY adult from being 'Lord of the Flies: Space Magic Edition'.

It's a situation that's not even apples to oranges because those are at least both fruit. I'm not saying that one or two of us wouldn't end up 'proper Jedi', I'm saying the range of behavior is going to be a -much- wider gulf than the Jedi would be used to. No focused training or one on one learning except in limited amounts, no adult supervison to speak of compared to the Jedi temple, no structured classes compared to a proper Jedi education. But there's a reason Jedi had a limit of one Padawan to a Knight or Master: it takes a -lot- of attention to grind out a proper Jedi.

I'm not saying Kit wouldn't be -exactly- how you imagine him . . . I'm saying I made Ian's age to be the middle child for a reason. I'm -assuming- Kit's going to look down on the other, non-proper Jedi based on how your posts on the topics have been. If that's not the case then I apologize for assuming but I would actually look forward to that kind of interaction ICly. I think it's a strength of this game to have such a gamut of character types.

Kind of the way Evelynn feels about it all as well. She's patiently tolerant of their antics, but only in the hopes that they will learn to trust in the Force as she does and grow out of the childish phases. Kit and Evelynn probably will get along well, honestly. Both seem as though they're likely mature beyond their respective ages.

Also we have been living together for 12 years. I'm sure we've all learned to speak Huttese to one degree or another if nothing else because you started teaching Avi swear words maybe and our Master was like, "Uh uh, none of that. If you're going to teach them, teach them properly."