[OOC] Star Wars: The New Guard

[Carlyle]

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Only thing I'll add in, because it's something I always forget when playing something like Saga edition: Your character can know a number of additional languages equal to your intelligence modifier.

@webboysurf

Isn't that a Linguistics thing though?

[webboysurf]

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Isn't that a Linguistics thing though?

@Kuro

Linguistics just gives you more additional languages.

[Carlyle]

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Linguistics just gives you more additional languages.

@webboysurf

Yeah, but it's also 1+INT modifier, which is why I asked.

edit: damned guild autosave making me quote twice

[webboysurf]

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Yeah, but it's also 1+INT modifier, which is why I asked.

edit: damned guild autosave making me quote twice

@Kuro

Just gives you even more languages.

On the wiki under languages (and in the rulebook, on page 22), it states that for "each point of intelligence bonus, a character can speak, read, and write one additional language of your choice."

Edit: I looked this up when I was making my character because I wanted to make sure Ralto could speak Droid since he worked fixing them for so long.

[Carlyle]

Posting here to remind anyone who hasn't got a sheet in that there is a week remaining for sheets to be finished.

[Expolar]

Finally finished Yinzeli's backstory. But after finishing it, I might switch one of her trained skills with something else as writing this is making me make the skills reflect what has been written. @Inkarnate, once I decided if I change the selected skills, I'll just make a small post of it here to let you know.

Yinzeli

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Yinzeli life began with a wealthy lifestyle as her parents had a successful business of managing trade on land. There were only a few rich families in the big town that she lived in, but there was none more rich or powerful than the Hutt crime lord, Meru Merdro, who basically owned the town. At a young age she always wanted to help her parents as thanks for all the things they have given, of the various stories of the galaxy shared that were always awe inspiring, and generally being nice to her. But her parents had a bad gambling addiction as they had terrible luck and a casino owned by a Hutt.

Helping them repay their debt seemed like a nice way to help and decided to do some odd jobs. Eventually when she became 15, decided to work try working at the same casino in hopes to gain more money to help her parent’s debt as her past odd jobs weren’t enough to really help at as each new debt would slowly be more than before. Her parents warned her that working there may not be the best solution, but she ignored them thinking that this could be a way to help as she was offered end their debt. But unaware of the papers that she signed when apply for the job, she would come to regret her decision.

After working there as a simple waitress for less than a month, she would return to her home one night to find her parents shot dead by unknown assailant. The following day she was home grieving when a few of the enforcers from the casino said that she had to work, but after telling them of her parents death, her words were ignored and was dragged out and back into the casino. Once there, she was told that the papers that she signed before had a fine print that she did not see that mentions that with her parent’s debt would be placed onto if they were to die and would be under servitude of the Hutt crime lord. She was furious by this tricky arrangement, but was soon knocked out. Once she woke up, she found herself on a medical bed after a surgery and told a small bomb was implanted to ensure she stayed and obeyed.

Years would pass as her anger would grow. She would slave over various demeaning jobs with no pay for the actual work she would do and feel insignificant as rich people would flaunt their wealth. Although she could wait, years for the debt and servitude to end, she felt that crime lord himself would have ways to extend her servitude. So she waited and prepared for the opportunity that she could escape.
During one of her jobs at age 19, she would be serving a human client named Devroy Darseal. She was able to gain some information that this client, was being lured in and assassinated. So on the night of the job, when the guards were not around to hear, informed Devroy of the crime lord’s plan. Together the two were able to surprise the assassin and kill him and the guards. And as agreed, Devroy would assist with her escape on that night and remove the bomb implanted in her. After successfully leaving, she truly felt free and got some revenge along the way.

Yinzeli would even then help Devroy with some espionage jobs throughout the galaxy as she used her skills in charm and nimble moves to gain various information. Things were great as she is finally being paid from her own work and unlike her parents, is a very frugal spender, but still somehow buy the oddest things, and overall enjoyed the freedom that she has than being forced to do things. Eventually, things would catch up with the Devroy that he would eventually find himself dead and would leave Yinzeli without an employer. Now wanting to make some distance from her last job, she finds herself on a cargo ship called, The Falling Star.

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Yinzeli's Character Sheet

Yinzeli's Rolls

Part of me is curious though, but would anyone interested in having their character know another character here? Like they probably just recently met or happened to meet in their past.

[supertinyking]

The Dark Rider

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The dark, death, cold, entropy. The powers of the end go by many names and all are almost universally reviled in some manner. In a portion of the galaxy hidden behind gravity wells, black holes, novas' glows, and hyper-space interference lies those who embrace the end. A secular group of force users calling themselves the Sorcerers of Rhund, masters of corrupting darkness and horrific mind control. These foul, almost lovecraftian magi control a small handful of planets in the unexplored regions of galaxy with an iron grip. However, they are secular and reclusive and before there have never been an instance of one leaving their little kingdom.

Until now. With the destruction of Alderaan and the first deathstar, the sheer amount of lives ground to little more than space dust could be felt across the galaxy, and the followers of Rhund were no exception. While some sorcerers fled to join the likes of Palpatine in his dark empire, some left to agitate and learn from these moments of exceptional destruction. One such young sorcerer was a man named Rondal Lavoish, once human but now something much different. He sought to learn from the civilized galaxy, and return with the power of a fully fledged Sorcerer.

This was a year after the battle of Yavin. Three years came and went and with them, Rondal learned much. He learned things which contradicted his faith in the dark, in the end of all things. With these feelings of conflict in his ideals, came shame, curiosity, and fear. Fear he would die if he ever returned to his old masters, shame at his weakness. Curiosity if there was a better way to be, something better than a death worshiping madman. Before, he was a domineering pawn in a much bigger game, a thug who acted as the Sorcerer's Dark Knight, riding upon a fell creature to deliver demands. Now he was a vagabond wandering the galaxy looking for his chance at a new life.

Rondal booked himself a trip on a ship known as the Falling Star, needing to eventually find himself to a world which he thinks might contain information about the likes of so called Force users of the galaxy. However, fate has now intervened and where Rondal will end up is up to fate. To Rondal, he hopes to be quite lucky and get there unscathed.

However, to some, there is no such thing as luck....

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Character Sheet

Appearance

My rolls

Note: If someone wants to have met up with Rondal in the 3 years he's been about the galaxy, I'd be down.

[HokumPocus]

Going to add the character sheet later, this is just to get a foundation going

Jarren

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There's something about the way Jarren Teeg struts through a room that makes people shove him into a box pretty quick. Everything from the way his red eyes glaze over everyone present to the pungent cologne he wouldn't be caught dead without, the duros has an appearance that people would call confident, or, if you talked to them after a couple of drinks, "really punchable". Despite appearances however, Jarren isn't a morally questionable politician, he's a former morally questionable politician! One who was falsely accused of murder by an adversary and is now on the run, to be more specific.

He wasn't always that way though. The young man grew up in the outskirts of a verdant planet living like most settlers did, tending to the animals and whatever problem of the day his lifestyle threw at him. He wasn't the strongest, nor even the smartest, but he learned early on that it didn't matter. If you phrased things right, then people who were actually those things worked for you. If you spent a little extra time, you could even have them walking out of the deal thinking you were the smart guy. But sweet-talking vendors into giving him a little extra just wasn't enough, and Jarren soon forcefully inserted himself into the world of politics to make that climb to the top. His ambition, while concerning, did have some good to it. He really did want to help out the little guy, it's just that he also wanted his fur boots in twelve different colors.

But politics is a dangerous game. And Jarren, who entered the ring with nothing but a sharp tongue and hungry pockets, crumbled under the temptation incredibly fast. He decided early on that there was no harm in looking the other way when it was someone else's head getting detached from their body, or that taking a bribe here and there never killed anyone. Directly. He made mistakes, lots and lots of enemies, and worst of all, realized that even after all this he was still one of the nicer ones. But the poor duros bit off more than he could chew one fateful day, leading to the murder of rival candidate Aleena Mos successfully pinned on him by another. With a growing mountain of people wanting to join the dog pile and the realization that he was growing more hated by the public by the second, Jarren fled the planet.

He now lives the life of a scoundrel, trailing off to wherever credits may be. It's not a perfect life, but honestly? With the way things used to be, it's actually safer sometimes. As long as he gets to strut around in nice clothing and get paid, then it's just as good as home.

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Rolls

Character Sheet

[mickilennial]

[supertinyking]

I have finished my character sheet. Be amazed! Terrified! Bamboozled!

[Expolar]

@Inkarnate
Curious, I just realized Destiny and Backgrounds are a thing and felt like asking if you had any special rulings on them? Backgrounds seemed simple enough to choose, Destiny seems to have a bit more thought to them and may involve communicating between the player and GM. Looking through them, I'll just choose a background and update my character sheet based on it, but I wanted to hear your thoughts on it.

[mickilennial]

I have admittedly not done much thought in regards to destiny. The information I have has always been that players don't need to choose destinies for their heroes at the start of the campaign. Not every hero has a Destiny that must be fulfilled before the end of the campaign, and even players who want their characters to have Destinies need to give their characters, and the campaign, a chance to develop first. That said, I'm not particularly against incorporating them yet.

If people want to predetermine a sample destiny they'd like to utilize just in case, that's cool, I'm just saying I don't have plans for it yet.

Were I to choose backgrounds over destiny, which I might as it reflects the tone much better, I'd probably inform everyone to add that snippet to their sheet. As it currently stands, I feel like we're using a lossless, theater-of-the-mind approach for this RP. Somewhere between the mechanics of the TTRPG and the freeform play-by-post narrative we're accustomed to. As such I asked people to write up their character's synopsis, which to me is like making a background but without the meager choices of event and occupation backgrounds.

[Carlyle]

Part of me is curious though, but would anyone interested in having their character know another character here? Like they probably just recently met or happened to meet in their past.

@Expolar

I suppose there might be a chance for Lyos to know Yinzeli since they have similar backstories and probably have worked together on some odd jobs. Do feel Lyos would probably regard her distantly, though, given that she seems more childish (at least to me). Plus you have to factor in that Lyos doesn't really stick around people for long.

[Carlyle]

Almost two days left for people to get sheets in.

[NightGhoul]

https://www.roleplayerguild.com/campaigns/653

Strength:10
Dexterity:14
Constitution:9
Intelligence:14
Wisdom:14
Charisma:13

[Expolar]

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I suppose there might be a chance for Lyos to know Yinzeli since they have similar backstories and probably have worked together on some odd jobs. Do feel Lyos would probably regard her distantly, though, given that she seems more childish (at least to me). Plus you have to factor in that Lyos doesn't really stick around people for long.

@Kuro

Then yeah, there will probably be that sense of familiarity of them briefly working together as they had a mutual thing of interest that they were trying to learn about. But again, as you mentioned, it was probably a very brief meeting between the 2 characters.

Note: If someone wants to have met up with Rondal in the 3 years he's been about the galaxy, I'd be down.

@supertinyking

I was thinking if there would be anything that would have our characters cross path. The only thing is that I would imagine is her boss, Devroy, being curious about the actual power of people who were force sensitive. This being before of there once being a Jedi Order which was eradicated because of Order 66, then the empire having their inquisitors to finish any remaining or new force sensitive people, yet Vader and Palpatine. Then there is single jedi confronting Vader and Palpatine, with the jedi escaping with their defeat as the second Death Star is destoryed.

Perhaps Yinzeli happened to hear nearby of someone possibly being a Sorcerer of Rhand, but since they don't really have a uniform appearance, finding Rondal would have been difficult. But would probably kept some description of him as Devroy and now her were curious about any information of force sensitive people.

Part of me feels like I'm rambling now, but those were my floating thoughts to your open offer.

[NightGhoul]

Owen Dawes, Human Scout

Application

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Owen Dawes finally made it.

After many long hours working at his family’s small repair shop on Elrood, Owen had finally saved enough credits to join the Imperial Academy. As soon as he could he made his way to a recruiting center and signed up. He wanted to do his part for the Great Galactic Empire and make his family proud.

He spent 5 years in the academy eventually being accepted into the scout trooper training program. During this time, he learned military discipline and what it would take to survive on hostile worlds. It was during a training excursion that the report came that the Death Star II had been destroyed with the emperor on board. It was a crushing blow to the empire and to Owen. The war was practically over and they had lost before he even had his chance to fight.

Foreseeing the downfall of the Empire without the Emperor he left the academy and the friends he made there to look for some job security. He found some small jobs back on his homeworld, but these didn’t last long. Elrood had allied itself with the rebels, so he decides to keep his head down in case anyone comes looking for ex-imperials. Eventually, he’s able to save some credits from the odd jobs and get a ride off-world on The Falling Star.

Once onboard he makes his way to the bar for a drink to try and blend in, hoping he doesn’t get noticed. There is a nagging itch in the back of his mind though as he takes the first sip and murmurs, “I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”

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[HokumPocus]

Character sheet uploaded

I wasn't able to find the rules regarding dual-wielding so I just wrote down the standard amount of pistol damage which is probably not correct

[Carlyle]

Character sheet uploaded

I wasn't able to find the rules regarding dual-wielding so I just wrote down the standard amount of pistol damage which is probably not correct

@HokumPocus

Dual wielding doesn't have any specific rules outside only being able to use one weapon per turn as far as I know.

Edit: scratch that, forgot about this

As a Full-Round Action, a character armed with two weapons can attack once with each weapon, but the character takes a -10 penalty on all attacks for the Round. This penalty assumes that the character is proficient with the weapon in hand; apply an additional -5 penalty on the attack roll if the character is not proficient with the weapon.

A character armed with three or more weapons still only gains one extra attack, but that character may choose which weapon it wishes to use for this extra attack each Round.

[mickilennial]

Six hours until I make a final decision.