Character Creation and Backgrounds

I was going to have him -mostly- keep it 'secret'. Not in a 'ooooo, I'm special' way but more that the others hear him using it when he talks in his sleep or if he's thinking outloud and then shuts up about it like how he refuses to talk about where he was before the shuttle.

I haven't sensed the kind of closeness from any of the other characters yet that would really encourage him to share this specific thing, but I'm not opposed to the idea either if it can be made more organic, somehow.

For reference, I could also see Computers, Education, Core Worlds, Our Rim, or even Streetwise (for some sort of "Thieves Cant") being appropriate language skills depending on the narrative situation.

The character sheet actually has space dedicated to custom skills like Musical Intruments, Crafts, Sith lore...
You can even make them career skills with the Well Rounded talent.

Also, that doll prank would not go over well at all, and Taryn would spend some time showing Ian that he went a bit too far in a lengthy series of retaliatory pranks, he'd be particularly fond of making Ian's pranks fail and backfire on himself.

See, but we don't actually know that! We are just assuming at this point. To me, it was more an act of mercy or preservation than an act of preparation. In fact, until you mentioned it, the idea that Master Selak was training us to destroy the Sith never occurred to me.

I'd even argue that Master Selak himself may not be the most Jedi-est of the Jedi. After getting his vision, he did voluntarily decide the best course of action was to kidnap a shuttle of recently recruited apprentices, isolate themselves in a world in the middle of nowhere and raise them in a cave - Instead of bringing that information to the Jedi Council so they could better prepare. Heck, had him done so, he could have potentially saved many more Jedi lives! That's why I think it was more an act of mercy: In my mind, he didn't save us so he could reorganize a new Jedi Order and destroy this supposedly new enemy, but because he didn't want a bunch of children to die - And sure, to also preserve Jedi ideals, as an extension.

That's all just speculation, of course.😁

I pictured it in my head that he got there in the nick of time and saved us from being greeted at the temple by Anakin but you might be right. What if he had more than enough time to warn the Jedi and he didn't because he's really a vindictive prick and he thought he could do better?

At the very least that's probably, how some of the students would see it.

Personally, I think Selak is fairly Dark Side leaning.
He's not even a proper Jedi. They kicked him out for basically being a maniac who treats his own soldiers as expendable resources. Which is maybe he decided on nine Padawans instead of the more traditional one. So he has spares when one of them doesn't work out.

I'm anxious to find out what exactly he has been teaching us about what a Jedi is supposed to be.

Well, according to the game's summary, he got us in the "(...)nearest hub of intergalactic space travel. There he commandeered a shuttle carrying several force sensitive children bound for Coruscant." Even if he made to us just in time, he did decide to save a bunch of apprentices and exile themselves into the unnamed planet instead of trying to reach other Jedi. 😊

Selak: "Okay, today we're going to figure out who all of you would sacrifice first when it comes ti- IF! IF such a choice has to be made!"

I forgot to reply to this...
I think you've already put way more thought into Lighsaber colour than George Lucas ever did.
His rule was "all good guy sabers are blue, all bad guy sabers are red", without any in-universe reason for that.
We only ever got green because ILM couldn't make blue look good against a blue sky background in that fight over the Sarlacc. And that of course opened the floodgates for all sorts of colours in comics and games and whatnot.
Well, according to current canon, a crystal attunes to your personality, not your current mood, and it doesn't change again once it's attuned even if your personality changes or if the crystal gets a new owner.
Yeah, I love how he just glorifies in his villainy. Iain McDiarmid is a treasure who frequently seemed to be in an entirely different film than his po-faced opponents.

I don't know what color Ian's lightsaber would be then, paisley? What -I'm- looking forward to is when we recover our first, single, functional lightsaber and a 5 way argument breaks out over who gets to wield it.

Hahaha, man, that's going to be annoying.

Edit: Whoops, completely forgot to say what I was going to say. Everyone, check the OOC thread whenever you can.

Why do you think I said I was 63% sure our first party death would be at our own hands? Lol

Nah, I'm sure we'll just go to illum or some old Jedi temple and pick up all the stuff there.

It's whatever colour you feel is cool or fits your character or is just plain aesthetically pleasing.

I know what atypical colour Taryn's is going to be.

Agreed about Iain McDiarmid. More of him was the only good part about the prequels. Though I always thought they could have been improved tremendously by just having had Maul live and replace Count Dooku with him the whole time. That way it actually makes sense for Anakin to off the guy. He kills Qui Gon, he cuts off Anakin's arm. Heck you could've had Obi Wan awake for that and then have him -not- tell the Council Anakin killed someone in cold blood because he wanted the guy dead too.

Hi everyone! I'm new, Arina added me. I'm going to be playing a Zabrak female. Wasn't sure where to introduce myself, so I did it here. I'm really new to this system so I will probably be making a lot of mistakes. Also, you might notice that Cep100 and I seem to know each other. That's because we're married lol

I'm looking forward to playing with you all!

I commiserate with your pain, being married to Cep, by welcome to the game. Looking forward to meeting your Zabrak.

Welcome. Don't worry too much about being new. This is my first time GMing SWFFG too! We can learn together.

Oh, hey Ukchanak! I hadn't seen your post before. Well, I hope you have fun with the game! I'm having. 😁