It’s been three months since the destruction of the Galactic Empire’s super-weapon known as the Death Star. This victory for the Rebel Alliance helped build their reputation, now seen as an actual threat to the Emperor’s rule. This has led to a rapid infusion of new recruits to the Rebel Alliance cause. One such mass recruitment would be on the planet Pythis, a tourist world in the Mid Rim. A rebel recruiter would attempt an ambitious feat of having multiple factions join the Alliance at the same time, here on Pythis. But these rebel recruits had better be careful, as the Imperial Security Bureau is always watching.



So I want to try and run an actual dice based game on the Guild. I’ve picked Fate Core as I am familiar with it and it is simple to teach. For those unfamiliar with Fate Core, it’s a simple tabletop role-playing game that focuses more on narrative and less on crunchy rules and mountains of stats. If you’ve never read Fate Core before, you can get into it for free: as the PDF edition is pay whatever you want on the publisher’s website, even getting it for free. Here is the link, just select the PDF only drop down.

As for why Star Wars, it’s simply that I love it and I know a lot of other people feel the same. Plus I found a really good Star Wars hack for Fate Core. Which can be found here. We will be using the modified rules found in this fan hack.

Character concept wise, the only thing I’m trying to avoid is Jedi as I feel that there were way too many that survived Order 66 in the current canon. However I will allow Force using traditions, ones that the Empire has yet to crack down on. Most alien races that were actually around in this era will be allowed, as well as custom aliens, as long as they aren’t super powerful.

So if you have an interest in this, please let me know. Also it would be great if you could post whatever character concept, or concepts, that you are considering. A big part of Fate Core is the GM and players forming the setting together during the character creation process. Hopefully at least a few people would be interested in doing this.

May the force be with you.

Never played Fate system before but I'm totally willing to give this a try.

I wish you were using the Age of the Empire or Republic TTRPG rules, my interest is just tentative. I'll keep an eye on this.

I'm back and in front of a computer:

Idea 1 is an older Nautolan woman who works as a medical doctor/counselor. When I say older, I'm talking like... maybe 40s or whatever equivalent that would be for her race. Intelligent, serene, soft spoken - between her age and her personality, perhaps her signing up for rebellion would be a surprise.

Idea 2 is your basic teenager signing up to fight. Short, brash, hungry, and really good with mechanics. Force sensitive, but not in a way they can actually put into direct use. Like, not going to be moving anything with it.

Between the two I am *extremely* partial to the first, just because you rarely see middle-aged people doing stuff. I saw bits and pieces of Andor (I gotta go back and watch from start to finish) and definitely liked it just for being refreshingly out of the norm.

Count me in.

Sorry about the delay in responding, my depression has been real bad this past week.

@Mistress Dizzy
Both ideas would work, however I am more partial to the first one. It would be interesting to see how a doctor would fit into the Rebellion.

@Dark Cloud
If you are referring to the Fantasy Flight RPGs, I literally have no experience with them so I couldn’t run them. But Fate Core is a pretty easy to learn RPG that works for a lot of settings.

@rush99999
Glad to see that you are interested! Do you have a character concept in mind?

Also if anyone is new to Fate Core, here are some helpful videos:

• This is a video explaining how to play the game.
• This is a video of celebrities playing Fate Core, with one of the game designers as the GM.

@Martian I'll give the video a watch, I'm more a fan of playing as scoundrels and bounty hunters but if I have time I'll consider joining.

@Dark Cloud
Scoundrels and Bounty Hunters would work as potential rebels, as long as they have a reason to hate the Empire, or at least be willing to fight against it.

Glad to see that you are interested! Do you have a character concept in mind?

I'm thinking about playing as an Anzat Noble.

@rush99999
Cool, that would work. While I wait to see if any other players are interested, you can watch those videos I posted as they are great reference, even if you already have some knowledge of Fate Core.

@MartianAwesome! Then I'll give you the Doc. She's more complex as far as this kind of game anyway. How do you feel about character secrets as a DM? As a player, I don't like putting everything in the profile. It removes the chance for honest interaction among characters.

@Martian
Is this still happening?

If it is happening, I'd love to get in on it, always up for Star Wars TTRPG. Although my dream is to actually play a campaign of Saga Edition as I have been roped in as the "Forever DM" for that system. Only time I ever got to play it was with a rules-lawyer DM who made me spend 3 of the 6 sessions he ran not able to do anything because "Rules say that if a droid character goes down, they can't get back up unless they are taken to a repair station" and we were in some ancient temple in the middle of a jungle.

@rush99999
Currently this is on hold. I was going through some mental health stuff that took me away from RPing, but I'm slowly getting back into it. Right now I'm not really up to running anything myself. But I still have an interest in doing this at some point and will contact everyone when I'm ready to run it.

@mattmanganon
Cool to see that you're interested. I'll let you know when I'm up to running this.

@Martian
Take all the time you need. We can wait.

@Mistress Dizzy @Dark Cloud @rush99999 @mattmanganon
So I figured due to today being May the Fourth, and I just saw the 40th anniversary re-release of Return of the Jedi in theaters, that it would be a good time to come back to this. So for anyone previously interested, or newcomers to the thread, perhaps you can come up with a character concept. Right now we have a potential Nautolan doctor and an Anzat noble, but that leaves a lot of character types still available. That’s all for now, and may the Force be with you.

The Doctor is IN

Sounds good. I'd love to play a Pilot.

Tentatively interested, might dust off an old concept for a Quarren ex-Sepo

@Mistress Dizzy
Cool. Do you need a refresher of the rules? If so the links in previous posts still work.

@mattmanganon
What kind of pilot were you thinking? Also if you don’t know how to play Fate Core, the first post of the thread has links to both the rulebook and Star Wars hack. Also another post has some helpful videos.

@ErsatzEmpress
Awesome to see someone else interested. Can I get some more info on your Quarren? Also if you’ve never played Fate Core before, please refer to the resources listed above.