[OOC] Return of the Force 2.

[Kadaeux]

After some discussion a minor reboot of the rules has taken place.

Players interested in playing more "personal" roles (or just not interested in the vast complex rules) can do so using the "easy" rules.

Players looking to burn out their brains with more complex rules and options, please direct your attention to the "Uber Difficulty Rules" hider.

Star Wars: Return of the Force 2



FACTS:
1: In most places being a force user is still considered a crimial offence.
2: Jedi and Sith are, in general, equally persecuted by all sides.
3: There has been no Jedi Temple for 400 or so Years.
4: There has been no Jedi Order for the same length of time.
5: There is no rule of two. When Bane presented the idea he was laughed at.
6: Lightsaber Resistant Materials are near impossible to acquire easily. You cannot and will not be able to start with things like Cortosis or Beskar Armour. Note; Within reason you can start with weapons protected as such. But any Cortosis weapons will not be the sort that short out lightsabers.
7: The Map is "absolute" so to speak. A normal hyperdrive can travel 1 grid square per day. A fast hyperdrive can travel 2 grid squares per day.
8: For every 5 Grid Squares travelled there is a 25% chance of a random event occuring.

Forbidden/Forgotten Worlds: (You do not start with knowledge of any of these locations even existing. You cannot start at them either.)
1: Dromund Kaas
2: Ruusan
3: Typhon
4: Lehon
5: The Maw
6: Byss
7: Ossus
8: Korriban
9: Myrkr

Some of these worlds have been discovered by one or two prior characters, some of them you can, with enough time and work, discover yourselves, and then some are lost to time, for all time.

Rules:
1: No God-Modding. Breaking this will have drastic consequences in-universe.
2: Random Events are part of life. Learn to love, hate and fear the dice. Mostly the last two. Hate. Fear... Remember to.
3: Your starting location will generally be randomised. You may make a request for a starting location if you have your heart set on something, but the GMs will have the final say.
4: On second thoughts. In almost all cases the GMs will have the final say, remember this for they will be rolling up random events ;)
5: Not all, but many of the random events need to be done in co-operation with one or more of the GMs depending on the difficulty. This can come in a combination of manners from steam chat to using roll20.com
6: We encourage banter and participation with the other players, while you can very much go lone-wolf in this it simply isn't as much fun without other people.
7: Keep the "romance" strictly PG-13, whether its rutting with a paid lady or a fifty post love story with another player, keep it clean Mahz not losing google revenue depends on it.
8: Violence is not restricted in the same manner. Feel free to be as graphic as you like short of posting images or posting gory scenes for gory scenes. (Eg: Describing a Saber Fight with a bar patron, sure go ahead be graphic, spending a novels worth of language describing how you defiled the bodies of the dead with your lightsaber is just pointless, a little disturbing, and not very healthy.)
9: You start creating/wanting a super weapon, you suddenly self-implode, it will be messy.
10: BE AWARE! It is 100% possible to get your characters killed totally, thoroughly and irreversibly.

Easy Rules;
Choose one of the three character types below. Once you have chose this you have 16 points to spend on the Physical and Force sections (or Tech and Skills for Forceless) each trait = 1 point unless it specifies otherwise.

Forceless Rules; https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0qYweu36eUHOWI0MTVmbERCVjA/edit?usp=sharing

Jedi Rules; https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0qYweu36eUHeHRBTTJzVC1WZVE/edit?usp=sharing

Sith Rules; https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0qYweu36eUHSGVaX0ItQ0xmaHc/edit?usp=sharing

Then you get 100 points to build your personal ship using only the rules on this page.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkqYweu36eUHdG9sZFotZE9tZjl4THBZUjcyNl9pVkE&usp=drive_web#gid=5
Please PLEASE ignore all the other tabs there. They're not relevant to you ;)

Character Sheet for Easy Rules;

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Name:
Appearance:
History:

Physical Traits:

Force Traits: (Replace with Tech Use and Skills if Forceless character)

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Lieutenant Name:
Lieutenant Appearance:
Lieutenant History:

Physical Traits:
---(Rolled by GM)
Tech Use and Skills Traits:
---(Rolled by GM)

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Ship Name:
Ship Appearance:
General Components:
Weapons:
Storage Components:
Special Systems:

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Once that is done you can choose to either be part of the "crew" of an existing character which is playing on a "larger stage" so to speak. Or choose to go it on your own. While it isn't easy to make your own way in a big bad galaxy at war, it's much easier when its just you, a trusted companion and your barely spaceworthy ship.

Uber Difficulty Rules

Shared Rules; https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0qYweu36eUHdm5ZVzA4TkxMT1k/edit?usp=sharing
^^^ These explain the basics of what you need. Once you have this, you need to choose whether you are going to place as a Forceless, Jedi or Sith character. You can't use the rules for the other two.

Forceless Rules; https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0qYweu36eUHOWI0MTVmbERCVjA/edit?usp=sharing

Jedi Rules; https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0qYweu36eUHeHRBTTJzVC1WZVE/edit?usp=sharing

Sith Rules; https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0qYweu36eUHSGVaX0ItQ0xmaHc/edit?usp=sharing

[b]Character Sheet Template; https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkqYweu36eUHdExCdmdCeWJlYTZwemF1NGtPTFQ5T1E&usp=sharing

Due to the complexity of this, regretfully a Character sheet needs to be made using the Character Sheet template. Some sections have blank space to customise to your needs for history, appearance descriptions, adding pictures.

Do note, a bit of spreadsheet knowledge does help, and you'll need to make a copy of the document for yourself.

History

What came before.:
400 Years prior to the Clone Wars the Sith struck directly on Coruscant by hyperspace ramming a ship into the Jedi Temple.
Force Users were banished from the Republic. Their very existence made a crime and everything that had gone wrong for thousands of years laid at their feet.

Over the centuries Force users remained hunted, trapped, killed, bought and sold like (and sometimes as) slaves to whoever had the credits.

Over time the Clone Wars came to happen again, almost exactly as it would have to begin with thanks to the ministrations and guidance of an organisation that called itself the Architects, though even now neither side is fully aware of the extent of influence the Architects had, but now they are seemingly gone. Driven underground by events.

The events largely being that finally the Sith and Jedi were starting to return vaguely to public perception. Rumours, stories and half-believed tales of their return were subject of much talk. Fewer still realise that they have returned in truth and are no longer fleeing and hiding from the galaxy but have begun taking it in hand an enacting their own will on it, turning events and vast resources to the control of their own means, for the Jedi largely for good, though not as prudish and out of touch as they would once have been, and for the Sith, mostly for themselves as usual.

But they're not alone, a few forceless folk with vast ambition have begun turning their own eyes on carving out their own piece of the universe. Men and women of no allegiance but their own. Men and women who seek money, power, influence or simply a good time.

The CIS and Republic are losing their grips on the galaxy as the web of loyalties begins to come undone and many choose their own loyalties and have begun to carve pieces for themselves. And yet the Architects. Buried and hiding frown at the turn of events. For there was much worse to come, and yet none of those squabbling over the scraps could see it.

Now

Now.:
It has been a year and the Clone Wars rage on harder than ever. Worlds change hands with increasing frequency and the gears of war are turning faster and harder than ever, hundreds of worlds are sites of near planetwide warfare.

In the Republic;
Military Spending is reaching a new high and the military grows daily, there are massive numbers of clones in battle and technological development is changing, Venators are becoming Obsolescent as the new Republic Class Star Destroyers are being rolled out in large numbers. It is even rumoured that the Republic is working on a large multi-kilometre long vessel packing some truly frightening firepower.

Additionally the Republic is now recruiting normal men and women to fight, these 'home defence' units are growing in number and freeing clones from garrison duty for the front. But such measures haven't been without consequence as Separatist Sympathisers join up and then conduct sabotage or even terrorism from within, the worst of which was the poisoning of a large shipment of Bacta intended for the front lines killing nearly twenty thousand clones, while few of the deaths were directly related to the poisoning, most of the deaths came about because of the shortage of bacta that destroying the shipment left the front lines in.

Politically the Landscape has changed as well. Despite Valorum's brave leadership the tired Chancellor retired from his position, and politics, succeeded by Shayla Paige-Tarkin. An adamant supporter of the war and, with her rising to Chancellorship, signalled the rise of the Militancy Faction within the Senate. Those senators more favourably persuaded towards the war to reclaim seperatist space recieved more and more concessions and favourable results for the issues they presented. Meanwhile the more passive and pacifist elements began to be pushed out. And those senators for worlds contested by the CIS, unless staunch followers of the war, were pushed out entirely or even arrested as traitors against the Republic.

The people of the Republic are growing more and more frightened by the wars continuing, and escalation and with good reason. Security is cracking down across the republic and it is taking those they might have called allies once with it.

In the CIS:
The CIS has been fighting to match military spending with the Republic with a little more ease than the Republic has, its firm ties to some of the strongest trade branches giving them more money and resources to throw at problems than had ever been seen before. Millions upon Millions of Droids are rolled out to join the war and fleets of ships are growing.

Lesser craft like the Hardcells have long been phased out of the CIS's military arsenal in favour of new classes of vessel to fill the same lesser roles. But Grievous's massive influence over the CIS military has concentrated less on smaller ships and more on large capital ships with expansive hangar bays. The Subjugator class Dreadnoughts now forming an 'essential' part of the Confederacy's "Wolf Packs"

Grievous has also been growing dissatisfied with the performance of Battle Droids, their lack of real instinct, intuition and the like have given Grievous the excuses he needed to also begin recruiting from the civil populace, though he'd always favoured Kaleesh for his own guards. But recently he has opened up the Confederacy Military to flesh and blood troops.

Unfortunately for the Republic, the CIS Political Landscape has remained somewhat more stable, Mina Bonteri has retained her Chancellorship and an increasing number of disaffected worlds have been defecting to the Confederacy, their fears at an increasingly militant and hard-line republic forcing their hands. And so while many worlds have changed hands militarily, more than a few worlds have been changing hands politicially.

The people of the CIS are staunchly loyal and desperate to fight for their freedoms while those of the Republic have grown disaffected with the war, while security is tight across the CIS there has been no rash of terrorism and sabotage to stain the public perception of the war, while some events have certainly happened, those republic loyalists in CIS space tend to look down on the idea of sabotage and terrorism instead opting for peaceful protests which largely go ignored.

In the Syndicate:
War is good for business. This is a universal truth that any within or connected to the Syndicate would tell you. And this one more than most, since the beginning of the War the Syndicates power and influence has multiplied a thousandfold. Few criminal organisations remain that do not at least pay dues to the Syndicate.

And it's ability to project its force has also grown, people whisper of shadow-fleets beyond the trade lanes moving in secret to the orders of men masked in shadow. The truth being far worse. The Syndicates shadow fleets moving in the open where all can see disguised as trade ships often trading liveries and transponder codes as they cross the red line from Republic to CIS territory and back.

The Hutts remaqin a prime power in the Syndicate though Zann has overshadowed them with his domination of the inner core's more profitable criminal empires. Zann has also by a vote of the Syndicate's inner councils, been chosen to represent its military might, while not as powerful as the CIS or Republic by massive margins, the rag-tag fleet of the Syndicate can make more than a mess of anyone who justifies its use.

Politically, in an unexpected turn, the Syndicate mostly leans on its powerful victims of blackmail to prevent any concerted investigation or action, or in a couple cases, has arranged for them to be ambushed by the opposing side.

Those in the Syndicate remain staunchly loyal to it, the rewards for loyalty are great and the price of betrayal far far too high for comfort. Indeed, the benefits for membership have long been a much higher margin of safety for their activities and more likely to escape 'justice' should he be caught out. But those criminals who remain outside the Syndicate are massively resentful of the organisation and have a great deal of fear of them. The more successful find themselves driven out by Syndicate Enforcers, the less successful find themselves thrown under the proverbial bus to cover up Syndicate work gone wrong.

In other Space:
Mandalore has maintained its independence from the CIS and Republic, sometimes by force, and many other worlds, a thousand or so all told, managing to claim their independence from their example including worlds like Mon Calamari, and more importantly, Thyferra. Thyferra noticing the trend has withdrawn itself from the Republic, and while it continues to supply them, refuses to be drawn into the war and supplies the CIS as well, above Thyferra both the CIS and Republic have a permanent fleet stationed to 'ensure' the independence of the planet. Thyferra, not intimidated in the least, has secure the services of the Mandalorian Fett clan to protect its interests under the public threat that if the CIS or Republic tried to force their hand that they would receive no more Thyferran Bacta for all time.

As worlds go independent so to other smaller communities. Indeed, several small planetoids and moons have gone over to independent control through various circumstances. But without a clear and present threat from them the CIS and Republic have found their hands tied in the matter.

One of the most inexplicable events was a two month long truce during which the CIS and Republic seemingly went on a hunt for an organisation referred to as the Architects. This brutal hunt caused unrest in large areas of space who saw it as a witch-hunt for political enemies of both sides. It came to a head when the Republic and CIS co-operated to destroy a large vessel that the news revealed had escaped Anaxes in battle. But as the craft was destroyed General Grievous took the chance to get in his blows on Tarkin's command ship. Though both escaped, any hope of peace the mutual truce had created was dashed.

Hutt Space, thanks to the Syndicate, has also managed to remain theoretically neutral in the war. Though it is said that for the right price that Hutts of Lower Influence have extorted... I mean allowed... CIS and Republic supply convoys through their space.

IMPORTANT: SPECIAL NOTES:

There are a number of characters returning form the first. While they are not overpoweringly powerful, they do retain some advantages over new sheets. As such they will appear to operate to different rules to the rest of you creating a new sheet. Rest assured they are not actually working to different rules, these are characters "as is" from the last. They have some advantages over new sheets, but they also have a number of disadvantages (like already having pissed off some of the powers that be).

Also be aware you can contact me, Gat or Sarzu at any time (though of course we may not actually be away so there is that.) for advice, help or other questions.

And feel free to post queries here. We'll get to them sooner or later ;)

Thankyou.

[Gat]

Well, might as well put my previous characters sheets up so new players have something to go off as as example. Also each of we GM's have made a sheet using the 'new player' rules, Kadaeux a Jedi, Sarzum a Forceless and myself a Sith, though he's unfinished atm, should be done in the next day or so at most.

Also be aware my sheets differ somewhat from the default template, personal preferences and such but all the same into is there.

Without further ado, my Jedi sheet, Cyphor Fey'lar, Bothan Jedi, expert pilot and frequent smartass.

My Forceless underworld boss, Kuryi Gabriel Saros.Sometime Smuggler, Echani arts expert and member of the Syndicate.

And Narthais, Sith, geiser and assassin.

As Kad already said; Feel free to ask questions, the rules set is not exactly the most simple one around as its been developed and refined over the past year, once you get your head around the basics though it all starts falling into place.

[Andrea]

Like Gat suppose I ought to post my character as a example, Darth Andrea mistress over Kessel and established a Sith presence on Korriban due to events in the previous incarnation of this roleplay on the old guild.

Here she is, Darth Andrea, Human sith, Mistress of Kessel and Korriban and managed to piss off a high ranking member of the Syndicate and a admiral in the CIS.

[Kadaeux]

Ter Korani; Forceless; Private Military Contractor with a sense of humour and a thorough belief that overkill is underrated.

Adelai Niska; Sith; Unlike most Sith for whom power is the be all end all, Niska sees wealth as the be all end all and his power the ticket to attaining it. Goes to exceptional lengths to conceal the fact his is Sith at all.

My Jedi sheet.

Sarace Khen Athan is still in progress, but should be done sooner than later for perusal.

[Kadaeux]

After some discussion a minor reboot of the rules has taken place.

Players interested in playing more "personal" roles (or just not interested in the vast complex rules) can do so using the "easy" rules.

Players looking to burn out their brains with more complex rules and options, please direct your attention to the "Uber Difficulty Rules" hider.

[Asura]

I'm in the process of putting up a crimelord. Looking forward to joining up with this. Expect a sheet soon, once I figure out google docs.

[Gat]

Google docs works in mostly the same way as microsoft excel, for the most part all you need do is fill in the fields that are already there in the template which is simple data entry, click the box and type it out type thing. its just cleaning it up and personalising it that starts getting tricky, at least in regards to the sheets themselves. The brain melting trait/economy system is another hurdle all together, still, as said earlier in the thread, don't be hesitant to ask questions.

[Asura]

Just have a few.

I can basically pick any holdings I want, provided they're in the forceless SP limit, correct? Even ones which say 'require x permission'. It's assumed I already have that if I start with them, yes?

Secondly, where do the traits that don't have the field listed on the doc go? (Like Wealth/Command) Do I list them somewhere else? Or is it not displaying for me?

Finally, are there any restrictions on race? I kinda wanna do an Anzat, fits with my whole 'manipulative bastard' theme, but they're on the more cheesy side of the race compass. Are they alright?

[Gat]

You have 1000SP specifically to spend on holdings (you actually cant use the wealth trait granted SP for holdings) and yes the 'needs permission' bit is assumed for starting assets, be aware though that you're better off picking less prominent worlds for the location of these holdings, less chance of getting embroiled in the war that way :p

the first tab of the template doc has boxes for all 6 trait catagories (this is all assuming of course you're going for the 'uber difficult rules' and not the cut down revised ones kad put up more recently) the only change you'd need to make to the main page of the template is changing force powers to tech skills and proficiencies.

And lastly yes there are some restrictions on race, and I believe Anzat were firmly in the no section. basically the further a race is in capability from baseline humans, the less likely it is to be acceptable, its a balance thing.

[Genais]

Darth Jacoiba

look, its finished, yay. now i just need to get onto the jedi sheet.. i'll get there.. i promise.

[Asura]

Well, Command Physical and Tech are, but where's Wealth and Influence and stuff? Where do I list those?

EDIT; Mother of god Jacoiba is the hulk.

[Gat]

Ah i think i know whats happened, try scrolling to the right, alternatively hold control and press minus a few times.

[Asura]

...

Once I get this red palm print off my face, I'll get to work.

[Kadaeux]

Asura said
...Once I get this red palm print off my face, I'll get to work.

Yeah, the sheet's in widescreen format :p

[Genais]

Asura said Mother of god Jacoiba is the hulk.

she-hulk. and i only just realized just how many physical traits she has. wowee.

[Asura]

I totally knew that. Just testing Gat's ability to help people who might not have. :p

[Kadaeux]

Asura said
I totally knew that. Just testing Gat's ability to help people who might not have. :p

*Gets off the phone with people on the other side of the planet complaining about the volume of my lie detector array.*

I'm sure. ;)

[Asura]

Well that's just overkill.

Since it'll take me a while to finish up my fancy pants crimelord, I'll make a wandering Jedi looking for a replacement master to satisfy my interest for now. Can I get a roll for the Lt? I threw together a basic history to give you an idea of its role.

Jedi

Name: Zabra Anarft
Appearance:

History:
Zabra was orphaned early in her life on the bustling planet of Corellia. Left by her mother after only a few months together, she was raised by the staff of the orphanage which she was left for the first four years of her life. Her adoption came soon after her fourth birthday, a man by the name of Wendolo having come to the establishment in search of a child to call his own. The old man was a widower whom had lost his wife years before, their marriage never producing any children. Despite his human heritage, the man was very adamant about adopting the young Zabra. After the proper paperworks and background check had gone through, the man left with his newly found daughter.

The young Cathar's life with Wendolo was comfortable. He was wealthy enough to afford a large house on the densely populated planet and several luxuries to keep himself and Zabra with nary a need. But as good as a father the man would've made, he did not adopt the girl out of need for a family. He had so adamantly pursued her because he had sensed her latent force potential. A Jedi in secret, Wendolo had never passed down his wisdom to any others over the course of his life. Very rarely had he run into force sensitives, so the chance to take in and raise this girl as his Padawan before time took him from the world was something he sprung at. The long path of a Jedi began for her, the tenets of an order long lost to time drilled into her as she grew.

After years of training, Zabra's skills reached the point of knighthood. Her master's heal fading with time, she resisted his wishes to leave him and explore the galaxy in search of knowledge he could not pass to her himself, for allies he never bothered to look for, for others like them to pass the ways of the order onto. Instead she stayed with him until the day he joined the force as a result of his advanced age. His wealth had withered with him, the inheritance the Jedi thrived off for most of his life nearly all spent. He left Zabra with his loyal droid protector and a ship he commissioned from the Corellian Shipyards with the last of his coinage. Now alone for the first time since her earliest memories, the fresh Jedi set out to explore the stars in a galaxy embroiled in warfare.
Physical Traits:

Double Bladed Lightsaber Proficiency 3
Force Speed 3
Force Jump 1
Force Insincts
Detoxify Poison
Force Concealment 3

Force Traits: (4)

Basic Force Skills
Force Protection
Force Defend
Force Absorb

Lieutenant Name: XN-037
Lieutenant Appearance:
Lieutenant History: XN-037 once belonged to Zabra's master, Wendolo, who had received the broken down droid as a payment long ago. The droid hadn't even been operation when Wendolo received it but with the help of a mechanic friend the two rebuilt the droid and returned it to an operational state. The droid served as a faithful protector to both the Jedi and his young Padawan until Wendolo's life came to an end. The droid's loyalty then shifted to Zabra, acting as her bodyguard and personal escort.
Physical Traits:
---(Rolled by GM)
Tech Use and Skills Traits:
---(Rolled by GM)

Ship Name: Shadow Shrike
Ship Appearance:
General Components:
Fast Hyperdrive (9)
x4 Shield Generators (12)
Armor + Heavy Armor (8)
Support Med Bay (10
Weapons:
None
Storage Components:
Cargo Bay F-5 Metric Tons (1)
Special Systems:
False Transponder Generator (20)
Advanced Censor Relay (10)
x4 Whisper Thrust Engines (20)
Nightshadow Coat (10)

[Sarzu]

Suppose I ought to post my characters in here too...

Darth Gra'tua, Mandalorian Sith Warlord
Tohkran, traditional Jedi Master
Randis Qall, Crime Boss and Freelancer Operative (For funsies)

[Tempest]

Completed Characters-

Sith --
Darth Azazel

Jedi--
Ba'alkyri