Character Creation

Oh yeah, right, I totally missed that. Yeah, you can only start taking Skill Benefits whe you increase a skill at +10. Good catch @ Viking!

Oh, I thought your animal companion was the referee-approved item. Okay, right now I'm at work, but when I get back hom, I'll see about the implant...

@ Gene: Dral could allow you to communicate with Sorrack's character. Okay for Modern-tech Medical Nanites Implant.

@ Everyone: For the skills you haven't assigned as your starting skills, you'll probably want to note them as Unskilled (or Un, or -20). Unskilled skills are made at -20 AND with disadvantage (yeah, ouch!). Do not forget that any specializations allows you to use your skill at your current level +10 for your specialization (or +5 for broad specializations), and everything else at your current level -10 (or -5). You can even specialize in a sill you haven't assigned any points into...
Not a huge fan of how specializations work, how you'll never roll your skill at the level you actually took it (outside of skill benefits), but I've yet to find any satisfactory solutions to replace them out of ignoring them entirely. So for now we'll use them as is, and if we later find out specializations are too confusing, then we'll just get rid of them...

Squadfather contacted me via PM, he's a bit swamp at work at the moment, so it will take him some time to complete his character. Hope you guys are not in a big hurry or anything?

Oh, I noticed the rulebook suggest leaving other skills blank, so I guess no need to rate than as Unskilled or -20, so long as we all remember that unselected skills are unskilled, we should be fine...

Edit: Oh, also do not forget that you also get 1 free payload or energy for your weapons and scanners, as listed on p.21 of the PHB.

@ Qralloq: You need to roll your dice for your movement rate at character creation. So you'll have to roll 8 (base 7 + 1 for high STR) + 1/2D for your walking speed, and 8 + 1D for your hovering speed. Also, sorry if I'm missing your damage bonus, I'm not seeing them on your character sheet, but melee damage should be at +5, and ranged damage should be at +1.

@ Gene: Shouldn't your Destiny be 3? + 1 for lowest attribute 45-, +1 for highest attribute 60-, +1 for being unskilled in Warrior.

@ Viking1031: Similarly, shouldn't your Destiny be 3 as well? +1 for lowest attribute 40-, +1 for being unskilled in Marksman, +1 for being unskilled in Warrior.

You are correct I read something wrong

No problem guys. I know that despite being rules-lite, your characters have a lot of aspects which one can get wrong...

Ah, I had forgotten about Sorrack's character since he had not submitted it via the character tab. Since you're new here, to submit a character to a game, you need to click on the "Character" tab at the top of the page and create a character sheet (we use "custom" for this game). This will allow you to post as your character in the game threads. If you want to make it public so that other players can view it, you can put it in your library (the book icon in the Character tab).

Elasticity skill: You do not begin with any ranks in the Elasticity skill, unless you assigne one of your three starting skills to it, see PHB p.44.

You could probably also write down your species abilities to not forget about them (Black & White Vision, Water Weakness, Lie Detection). Other than that, it's all pretty good, that was the only mistake I noticed.

On page 29 under elasticity in the magazine it labels elasticity as a species skill that begins unskilled. I was under the impression that unskilled is 0. Is that incorrect?

Sadly no, unskilled is actually -20 and disadvantaged. The table on p.43 will show you the meanings of the various numerical values. +0 would be part of the "Qualified" category (including anything between -5 to +5), and -10 is "Trained".

Thanks for clarifying, I appreciate it, I’ll make the adjustments on my character sheet.

You mean her... err, it? Hmm, whatever... Well, it does fill in your dark secret. So you would be with the group out of a feeling of guilt and obligation? Of course, dark secrets are meant to be eventually discovered... Could make for interesting roleplaying opportunities (and bonus DPs) down the road.

So much fun is how I look at it. Smile. Well it is past history. How can he blame me for 20 years ago!.. winks.

How are we doing GM on thinking about a start time?