OOC & Character Creation Discussion

We will use this thread to discuss any questions and concepts with character Creation

Are we looking for any particular archetypes in particular? E.g. should we be kinda fighter squadrony, spec ops-y?

I figure we'd want to take different archetypes at least. Did you have any preferance between the Ace, Diplomat, Engineer, Commander, Soldier, & Spy? I'm probably not going to go with the Soldier for whatever I pick since it might be a blend of my other two characters if I did.

I guess it depends on the kinds of missions we're running. If we were a Y-Wing squadron, I could imagine wanting a fair number of pilots (and co pilots?) as an example.

The base you guys are going to isn't outfitted with many ships so don't expect a ton of space but having a couple of people capable of piloting would be a really good idea

I've not done the pilot thing yet -- so I might be tempted to go that route. Will nose around the trees...

I'm looking at the Engineer still deciding on species (Verpine, Squib, Sluissi, Shistavanen, or Noghri) and specialization.
Edit: Engineer Sabotuer

I ended up with a Human Scientist with a bit of a medical leaning. I plan to head more towards the inventing side of the tree later, though.

I am having a real issue making a final decision, so I will turn to the group. I am leaning hard toward Soldier, but not sure whether to go Medic or Sharpshooter...but Commando isn't out of the question if the group thinks it would be more useful. There is also the question of race. I'm leaning toward Droid, but might go human to keep things simple. Thoughts?

You couldn't go wrong with either so far. You guys have some medical presence as is but there's always use for more but theres also a hole to fill as is when it comes to someone with a good amount of gun skill.

I think I may head 'squadron commander' over 'ace' since I like the talent tree better and it gives access to the requisite piloting skills.

Are we slowly becoming....The A Team??? in Star Wars?

Could be .. but I'm not sure I like being Murdoch.

I thought you wanted to be Hannibal? Dibs on Murdoch. XD

i'm considering ace again.. :)

I know very little behind how vehicles 'work' in the system but I think between my character and Kilbert66 we can hopefully patch it/jury rig it. Hopefully we don't stress out As530 on driving, fixing, & breaking them.

Interestingly, Vehicle combat is pretty similar to other combat.. but mostly I figure we'll need /someone/ who can drive us places when the time comes to be driven somewhere. I thought briefly about being a Gungan ace, because the very idea amused the heck out of me.

"Meesa thinking we should be going through dis gorge!"

"Uh, are you sure you can fit?"

"Meesa do this aaaall de time. Meesa can fly dis ship through anything!"

At first vehicle use is going to be very limited. Not as in I wont let you use vehicles its just the ship youre coming in on is previously damaged and land vehicles are hard to get by due to the small populace of the base youre ending up in. Youll have some vehicles but parts to repair will be scarce at the beginning

As a side note Id ask around anyone you knew on here and see if they wanted to play. We are one character short and can play as 4 but id love to see a nice party of 5 going

I figure due to the time frame and ops tempo of the Oh Shi! Event starting out we'd be cannibalizing equipment constantly that we find if it isn't better than what we have just to keep going until we figure out what is going on and what to do about.

I'll have the other two character sheets posted tomorrow afternoon. I've been a bit busy the past two days so I haven't gotten them all done

Naatkinson if you need any help with character creation feel free to message me or post here as I or anyone else in the game could help!

Welcome aboard Naatkinson -- happy to help with character creation. There's a pretty reasonable character generator here:

http://bit.ly/15dSR5g

Thanks, I'll begin work on this tomorrow if that's OK, weekends are usually crazy

same here man its no pressure just get it done when you can

Make sure for Bas Unax you select a different career or specialization skill from mechanics. Currently due to your racial ability youre at 3 mechanics.

Also Killbert please check up with me as to how you want to fix your xp situation.

Other than that your sheets are ready to be posted!

Didn't I fix the discrepancy? I removed the 5 xp Research talent.

Youre right sorry about that!

Ok, so I appear to be the last one getting ready here. Any suggestions on a class or role that would be helpful here? Maybe we're lacking something specific?

I updated my build.

@ Nat, fixing things is covered by the engineers I'm decent at computers skulduggery and mechanics for now, the scientist is got medical coercion and smart people stuff. We have a pilot and muederbot too. Sounds like the military leadership is npcs with us so whatever you like no one is a diplomat, commander, or spy though.

Yeah, a face would really come in handy. Threats and violence only take you so far.

Pssht. I'm a hotshot pilot. I can get us through ANY situation.

;)

Delivering quintuplets?

A vagina is basically a starship

Not sure what my starting Duty value would be. I've already chosen Political Support as mine, just don't know where it starts.

Alright, I have started designing my character, a human diplomat. Any advice on what would be some good skills to choose?

I guess it depends on what social skill you wanted to be good in or a combination of charm, deception, coercion like Killbert's Scientist, negotiation, or streetwise? some combat skills would make sense since 'we're all gonna die!' That plus look through the skill trees for Ambassador, agitator, quartermaster or the three from the sourcebook, advocate, analyst, or the propagandist.

charm, coersion, deception, leadership, negotation, and streetwise of the Agitator or the charm, computers, deception, leadership, negotation, Skulldugery, and vigilance of the Quartermaster seem the most useful options in my opinion. But the knowledge skills may prove usefu depending on the missions we get.

Thinking Ambassador is probably what I'm gonna go with

Everyones Starting duty value is starting at 10

If you could, please also post in the "post your builds here" section. It helps me format my own sheet of your character, gives you extra starting credits, and lets me know how you spent your free career/species/specialization skills among other things.

We should be starting this by Sunday if everything works out correctly!

I just do a Google Images search. Terms like 'star wars' and 'human' actually pull up a fair number of options.

Okay we should be all set to go!

Foolsmask, did you purposely make your designation "Mate"? Because that's awesome

naatkinson, yes I did, and I'm a sucker for "l33t" speak. I was looking at naming conventions for droids and found a site that classified security droids and battle droids as 'Type M' (no idea if that was ever part of the canon) and then gave them a number and a dash and some other numbers and letters. And with Force Awakens and the origin of Finn's name fresh in my mind I could't pass up the chance. So feel free to call him 'Mate' for simplicity.

Sooo... Call Signs for on comms: I'm going with Southern Snake

Morjak insists on being referred to as "Doctor Lisalc".

When there's a check we want to make, should we guess a difficulty for the roll or just make an unmodified roll and let you figure it out for us?

Most of the time the dificulty will be 2 unless I tell you otherwise in red chat. If i need to add ill just add the purple dice to the roll

Works for me, thanks :)

as a side note please make sure to keep track of strain and wounds on your character sheet for quick reference!

A question on the current Perception check for Bas...Can more than one of us help?

as far as my interpretation goes when a skilled assistance takes place it takes the highest of characteristic and highest of the specific skill between the two characters performing the check. So player a being cun 3 perception 0 and player b cun 2 perception 2 would equal a roll of cun 3 perception 2 (2 yellows 1 green)

I reviewed the character sheets and we all had Perception 1 -- so opted to be the die-roller. I think only one character can provide a skilled assist.

Skimming the book, I didn't see the rules on assisting...but I'm not able to hunt through the book right now. I'm cool either way and I'm not sure its worth rolling another die, the number of failures and threats he rolled would be difficult to beat.

Would a computer skill check be what I'd need to see if his explanation is legit, this sounds like a trap...

If you can reason the computer check well I might allow it. It can be reasoned here or dialogued out. Otherwise you may need to chose something else to determine the plausability

I'm unsure mechanically how emission, frequency, and telecommunication securities would work. Maybe it be more protocol but that's not a skill either. Lt doesn't seem to have his chops in Bas' opinion since he's opting to do maintenance's job. The captain would have at least told us in advance of a contact I would think. Otherwise to Mr this guy seems to be fishing.

Protocol for a field would follow under the skills domain all you would have to do is just flesh it out a bit with dialogue and roleplay for me to count it.

Beren doesn't have any charm, deception or coercion skills to speak of. Anyone highly ranked there want to try and not make this a firefight?

Oh WOW that roll.

Welp. WELP. At least we got advantages. So that bluff about you guys already readying a killshot wasn't..totally off.

Well Gomer pile the Snake was right?

Oh I figured out from reading through the skills I think what I wanted was Warfare to figure out what he was saying on the technical side or Streetwise to read his body language/attitude.

My character has a high Agi -- so he's more primed for piloting and conflict than negotiation -- so I'll happily chip in if things degrade, but otherwise will be part of the woodwork to let the speakers make the Right Stuff happen. :)

Is it bad I feel like I'm browbeating this old man with Bas' level of denseness to social queues or how he's following what's going on. On a side note if they let us in unattended maybe we can have a look around (For a hidden cache) and fix the place up once we find out why the rebels left. Hopefully not due to the notice of Imp forces knowing it's location to bomb it...

*flops over*
In the meantime optimum warm moist weather just like the bog by Grampy's we use to go to for vacation.

Also God forbid M4-T3 has a transforming sequence...

Also we were suppose to catch a chipper smiling guy coming up to us in balmy hot rainy weather that human's hate... that's a human right? Plus stating our Captain by name and if he's alone on the ship... Bas' sensor for Stranger Danger started going into overdrive.

I figure we were checking different rooms or one was checking upstairs while one was checking in the dining room/living area.

Anyone seen Killbert? Or should Bas do the talking at the bar.... XD

Oh. WE'RE at the bar. I was rather confused as to who was where doing what.

Also, I am..entirely unsure what the hell we're supposed to be doing--both groups are getting the exact same medical supplies? That seems completely counterproductive. Wasn't one group supposed to be looking for other materials?

The problem is that we don't have much time and we're not all that sure where to get what we need so we're taking the chance on getting duplicate supplies to increase our chances to save the sergeant.

In regards to other materials, it wouldn't be a bad idea to get something that might help us to repair the ship.

I figure more medical supplies would be better since it's the primary thing we need, everything else we purchase or steal find is gravy on top... plus Imps in the area is news, maybe we might find out who they'll looking for and find them first. Oddly enough our squad sticks out less than them.

Orderwise getting emergency medical supplies is priority objective, fixing the ship secondary, everything else we do to improve our situation not focused in that area is based on ops tempo. Once objectives one and/or two have been completed mission overview might change.

hey guys im going to be absent for awhile. My sister was diagnosed with leukemia last week so with all the time at the hospital I cant run the game at the moment. Ill let you know when I'll be back.

No worries, family first. I'll keep your sister and family in my prayers!

Yeah as stated deal with your life and fam man. I'll listen to some country in the meantime to get a better flesh out of Bas.

Sorry to hear this. Take care of your family first and come back only if and when it makes sense.

Going to step out of the game for now to save space on my forum list. Please re-invite me if it gets started back up.

Ibid! Tidying up my games. I'd be excited to get this one going again if it gets rolling once more.