Koszul Character Discussion

This thread is for discussing Koszul Character Discussion character other players should only post to this in regards to Koszul Character Discussion's character and story collaboration is included within that.

When outlining your please post the following:

Step 1: Background (okay basically your story)

Step 2: Choose (or outline) the following :
.....Starting Duty : 5 (from Age of Rebellion)
.....Starting Obligation : 25 (from Edge of the Empire)
.....Starting Morality : 50 (from Force and Destiny)
..........Now the above 3 things have aspects that need to be rolled (and/or chosen but prefer if you rolled at least until you got something that fit the concept unless you really feel strongly about one of them) for each and these need to outlined in your Step 2 -- a Note here for Obligation you can assign the 25 to one Obligation or split it among more than one depending on what you feel your character should have

Also in this step if you check I have altered the choices as follows:
...Choose 4 of the following (cannot choose the same one twice)
--OR--
...Choose 2 of the following (cannot choose the same one twice)

So please explicitly list what you chose for this

Step 3: Select Species -- here just out line the crunch bits that are associated with your the Species you chose along with the Species :)

Step 4: Choosing a Career -- please outline what you did in this step

Step 5: Choosing Specializations -- please outline what you did in this step

Step 6: Invest Character Generation XP -- please outline what you did in this step

Step 7: Determine Derived Attributes (if you know how)

Step 8: Determine Motivations

Step 9: Character Generation Gear & Appearance

Step 10: Post-Character Creation XP Expenditures

Step 11: Post-Character Creation Gear

-------------- The ship thing I will be taking care of based on the number of active players

Step 1: Background (okay basically your story)

- The high and mighty: I brought shame upon my family, a proud lineage of famous Jedi.
- A higher calling: I decided to bring something more useful to the galaxy than fight and vengeance, by focusing on healing, and teaching medicine.

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Step 2: Choose (or outline) the following :

- Starting Duty : 5 (from Age of Rebellion)
Space superiority (rolled)

- Starting Obligation : 25 (from Edge of the Empire)
15 Oath: never be the direct cause of physical harm to another living creature. I live to help other, and will avoid causing pain at all costs.
10 Responsibility: tend to the injured

Starting Morality : 50 (from Force and Destiny)
Compassion: The character cares about the tribulations others face, and wants to help those they come across. Their Compassion may lead to self-sacrifice in order to aid those who need it.
Hatred: The galaxy can be a cruel and heartless place, and Compassion can quickly turn to Hatred of the individuals or situations that cause others to suffer. When a character’s mind roils with simmering hatred, that hatred may be all too slow to fade.

- Choose 2 of the following (cannot choose the same one twice):
+10 Starting XP
+2,500 Starting Credits

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Step 3: Select Species -- here just out line the crunch bits that are associated with your the Species you chose along with the Species :)

Zabrak Species abilities:
- Brawn: 1
- Agility: 1
- Intellect: 3
- Cunning: 3
- Willpower: 2
- Presence: 2

- Wound threshold: 10 + Brawn
- Strain threshold: 9 + Willpower
- Starting EXP: 100 XP
- Special ability: Discipline +1

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Step 4: Choosing a Career -- please outline what you did in this step

Colonist

Which role?
- Should this character be a strong combatant? No.
- Should this character be able to handle a starship? Knows the minimum to survive.
- Should this character be a "face" for the group? Yes, if it requires a peaceful face.
- Should this character be the "I know that" guy? Knows a bunch of stuff, but would rather not show off.
- Should this character be the sneaky rogue type? No.
- Should this character be the consummate support person? Yes.

8 defining career skills (gain +1 rank in 4 of them):
- Charm: 0 +1
- Discipline: 1 (from Species)
- Knowledge (Core Worlds): 0
- Knowledge (Education): 0 +1
- Knowledge (Lore): 0 +1
- Leadership: 0
- Negociation: 0 +1
- Streetwise: 0

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Step 5: Choosing Specializations -- please outline what you did in this step

Doctor

Adds the following to career skills (and gain +1 rank in 2 of them):
- Cool: 0 +1
- Knowledge (Education): 1 (from Career)
- Medicine: 0 +1
- Resilience: 0

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Step 6: Invest Character Generation XP -- please outline what you did in this step

Total experience: 100 (Species) + 10 (bonus from step 2) = 110 XP

Improving characteristics:
- Intellect: 3 +1 (40 XP)
- Presence: 2 +1 (30 XP)

Skill training (career):
- Charm: 1
- Discipline: 1
- Knowledge (Core Worlds): 0
- Knowledge (Education): 1
- Knowledge (Lore): 1
- Leadership: 0
- Negociation: 1
- Streetwise: 0
- Cool: 1
- Medicine: 1 +1 (10 XP) = 2
- Resilience: 0

Skill training (non-career):
- Deception: 0 +1 (10 XP)

Acquiring talents:
- Surgeon 1 (5 XP)
- Grit 1 (5 XP)
- Surgeon 2 (10 XP)

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Step 7: Determine Derived Attributes (if you know how)

- Wound threshold: 10 + Brawn = 11
- Strain threshold: 9 + Willpower + 1 (Grit) = 12
- Defense (ranged): 0
- Defense (melee): 0
- Soak value: 1

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Step 8: Determine Motivations

Ambition: Freedom

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Step 9: Character Generation Gear & Appearance

Starting Credits : 500 + 2,500 (bonus from step 2) = 3,000 Credits

- 10 * Bacta (10*20)
- 2 * Medpac (400*2)
- Disguise kit (100)
- Tool kit (350)
- Synthetic Standard Neuroparalytic - 5 doses (5*75)
- Synthetic Standard Anesthetic - 6 doses (6*35)

Remaining credits: 3,000 - 10*20 - 400*2 - 100 - 350 - 5*75 - 6*35 = 965 Credits.

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Step 10: Post-Character Creation XP Expenditures

150 XP

Skill training (career):
- Charm: 1 +1 (10 XP) = 2
- Discipline: 1 +1 (10 XP) = 2
- Knowledge (Core Worlds): 0
- Knowledge (Education): 1 +1 (10 XP) = 2
- Knowledge (Lore): 1 +1 (10 XP) = 2
- Leadership: 0 +1 (5 XP) = 1
- Negociation: 1 +1 (10 XP) + 1 (15 XP) = 3
- Streetwise: 0 +1 (5 XP) = 1
- Cool: 1 +1 (10 XP) = 2
- Medicine: 2 +1 (15 XP) = 3
- Resilience: 0

Skill training (non-career):
- Deception: 1
- Piloting (planetary): 0 +1 (10 XP) = 1
- Mechanics: 0 +1 (10 XP) = 1

Acquiring talents:
- Surgeon 1
- Grit 1
- Surgeon 2
- Resolve 1 (5 XP)
- Resolve 2 (10 XP)
- Pressure point (15 XP)

Upgrades were made through adventures where I needed to get out of brawly situations without having to hurt anyone, and incapacitating them instead. Further focus was put on acquiring information, and talking with people instead of fighting them.

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Step 11: Post-Character Creation Gear

+1 Contribution rank (for the group)

So yes you can have Jedi lineage look at Luke an Leia, then there are the children of Leia and the grand-daughter of Palpatine further there are races where force sensitive is rather strong in the race as a totality such as Yoda's rather mysterious race as well as several others -- and no Jedi's do not marry but then many Jedi were Force Users before they took to the Jedi Order and not all such Force Users became Jedi's -- so it kind of depends on whether your family are just Force Users with many or some having become Jedi's

Did you ever watch firefly?

No. Should I? :)

Well it was the TV Series that led to Serenity the movie (in case you saw that) but I only asked as they had a character called Preacher whose background was cloaked in mystery and you could say he was a spiritual healer of a sorts ;) similar in some ways to what you were purposing of course he did not have any force abilities or another other mystical abilities but then the Firefly universe did not really have much of that anyway basically only one character in that entire universe had anything beyond normal

You got me wondering, should I have done each step sequentially? Like: first step, your validation, second step, your validation, etc.?

Creating a road map of where you want to get to is always helpful to me, but yes we might redefine that map a little but I will try to help you keep its core essentials.

OK I made the changes.

- Added Duty and Morality (Compassion/Hatred makes a lot of sense and I complied)
- Devided Obligation into Oath and Responsibility, as you astutely suggested.
- Changed Species into Zabrak - Updated the characteristics and derived attributes
- Chose +1 Contribution rank, which I finally found in the AoE rulebook (rather than 9K worth of gear)

If you validate all these, I’ll submit my character sheet.

Go ahead and submit the character sheet -- as we can iron out any of the minute details and I can get you into the game regardless -- we are so early on in the game that minor tweaks are still quite possible without effecting story content.

Oh and you do know that once you are in the game you cannot raise Attributes with XP you can only raise them with the initial character creation XP and in your case that 110 -- just pointing that out in case you had not known that?

Done.
Right to the point again. I had overlooked that part, and I’m guessing that’s where most people spend their XP?

I’ll take some time and rearrange XP around, then. This probably won’t change much for you.

Well that is where I would put mine ;) if I were a player -- its expensive so you cannot raise much but they affect everything that the ability can be used for so it generally is pretty solid choice

It has restrictions though maybe

So, Doc... What do we know about each other? Lol.

Kala is fairly quiet most of the time, she doesn't like discussing the past and usually avoids the subject as best as she can. She's been working with the Rebellion for several years, since before the destruction of the first Death Star, but not too much longer than that. Despite being with them for so long, she spent most of her time in the background, avoiding notice. Some people found that to be suspicious, but she never raised any red flags with intelligence and always performed her work diligently. Slowly she rose to a place of recognized trustworthiness, though still avoid as much of the limelight as she could.

What's your history with the Rebellion, because I have a feeling that's going to be where we met?

Just to interject -- my thought was yes you met as members in the Rebellion -- and have worked together on a few missions -- I am going to assume Kozul's character probably took his medical promotions but not sure on that

Note medical ranks work kind of differently than military ranks -- they allow you to order lower ranks to submit to medical analysis and stuff but you cannot command a military unit to do something other than submit to medical analysis -- you can relieve someone of command of below your rank due to medical reasons -- that kind of stuff