OOC Character Creation Thread

I’m not completely new to the game as I have run a few sessions and played a couple but most of my experience is character building not too much of the actual game play. I was just excited to actually build a force user. They even "although hesitantly" allowed me to make a hutt Ataru Striker.

Ok so just the F&D Core book? I can work with that.

Only game I could find where they let you have Force characters at character creation. The next closest one was a game where you are required to go from knight level XP up to 500 XP and be on the server no less than 4 months and then if they think you won’t abuse it they might let you start towards a force using spec. But then you have to either go through the process of finding a master to train you in a post battle of Yavin world through one of the universal force specs or retire your current character and start at 150 XP again to create a character as an F&D character.

Not to get me wrong I like these games I’m in but man are they gun shy on F&D

Crazy thing to me about this is, in my experience (been playing this game with Force users since 2015), Force users are significantly "weaker" than traditional characters, sometimes significantly so, until late game. 4-600 earned-XP or so?

Would a gungan be an acceptable species? They are from the nexus of power F&D sourcebook.

No. F&D only please.

After reading for quite a while now, I think I will create human sentinel Shien Exper. Will that be ok?

👍🏾 So F&D only means the Core Rule Book only not the F&D sourcebooks. Got it.

Works for me!

After consideration I believe I want to play a seeker: Pathfinder. Tentatively Cerean but not committed yet. Would starting with a sil 0 animal companion be acceptable?

To a degree I would have to agree with you somewhat but not completely, if you get a few abilities that allow adding force die to checks then every force rating you go up is like worth a skill rank in multiple skills. On the other hand I just heard a horror story last night where someone found out that the GM had secretly been giving the force users a ton of bonus XP because they were "too weak". The Force users had 7 I repeat 7 Hundred more XP than the Non-Force Users in the party. And it was lo hidden, only the GM and the Force users knew.

It's extremely discouraging to hear that Force wielders are so much weaker than normal characters - even if this changes after probably well over a year of gaming with Force wielder. That just seems like awful modern game design. Wow.

Only way to start with an animal is if you buy one. Otherwise I can/will work it into the story, in play.

It’s not that they are weaker it’s more that they are designed based around what we saw in the original trilogy, minor influence of the mind, moving small or medium objects. The most impressive was lightning. A lot of people come in thinking they will be like the Jedi in the prequel trilogy from character creation but,the system is more subtle than that.

I’ll see what I can find, and if not, no worries. I’m ok if it takes a session or 2 to get a companion.

Depends on how everyone is spending their XP - and frankly what you consider strong and weak - ofc, but if we're just talking about raw "big" dice pools (lots of Yellows), and if the non-Force users are going for big dice pools, and so is the Force user, the non-Force user is gonna "win" compared to an analogous Force user.

Force Powers are magic tho. They introduce "intangibles" to the narrative that Skills and Talents cannot. Reading minds. Turning Invisible. Jedi Mind Trick. etc.

The mechanical balance is asymmetrical. But the narrative balance - the ability to shine in the narrative - is equal if not weighted to the Force users, I'd say. Many Force Powers bypass the need for Skills or big dice pools completely.

Yeah I tend to focus at character creation and then maybe the first 150 XP, but then I build wide from there. Minimum of 2 things I want to be good at for a character long term anyways.

Are the bonus credits/XP for morality available? I was thinking of buying a https://star-wars-rpg-ffg.fandom.com/wiki/Mantellian_Flutterplume.

Yes, absolutely!

So Pedro's looking at Shien, Rean Pathfinder.

Vespin, you zeroing in on a character concept?