Friends and Nemeses

Do Polis Massans even have sexes? (Half serious.)

So, just to be sure: Shado, you don't want any preexisting connection between Lanna and anyone else? It's no biggie to alter Vesper's backstory a tad to have her off doing her residency on whatever world Lanna was enslaved on. It'd make sense she wouldn't go to med school and do residency on the same planet, anyway. And it sounds like Stneu is willing to work with you to make his character someone Lanna would hang out with. Of course, if we all met at Echo Base, which is cool with me, too.

Here's another proposal in the case Shado doesn't like the medical scenario above, this time geared toward Stneu: What if your character recruited mine into the Rebellion? My backstory includes Vesper helping victims of an Imperial bombardment of Raltiir. What if your character was on planet at the same time, making some sort of delivery for the Rebels? Our characters meet in both trying to help the victims of the Imperial attack, and Vesper worries she'll never be able to go back to her job. Your character says they might know someone she should talk to (a Rebel contact). One thing leads to another, and you take me to Hoth. Vesper's thus pretty fresh in the Rebellion (which explains Duty 0).

This story wouldn't affect your background all that much except to suggest you were on Raltiir and you flew my character to Hoth. The planet can be changed; it just has to be a world with a Rebel presence that you might have been making a run to or from.

Deepspacer. A quick question. Did you want a force pool set up like what I used in my games where it appears the top of the discussion thread? If so I can add one for your game I just need to know what the current dice pool is. Once it is up it can be edited from the Riders guild page whenever you re-roll the pool. I just need to add the links to the forum rules section so it always appears at the top of the screen in the discussion forums. Your choice. I just wanted to offer.

swrider wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 01, 2017 10:48 pm

Deepspacer. A quick question. Did you want a force pool set up like what I used in my games where it appears the top of the discussion thread? If so I can add one for your game I just need to know what the current dice pool is. Once it is up it can be edited from the Riders guild page whenever you re-roll the pool. I just need to add the links to the forum rules section so it always appears at the top of the screen in the discussion forums. Your choice. I just wanted to offer.

Sure. I think I will wait on rolling it, if you don't mind. Or, you could just make it all black.

SavageBob wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 01, 2017 9:28 pm

And it sounds like Stneu is willing to work with you to make his character someone Lanna would hang out with. Of course, if we all met at Echo Base, which is cool with me, too.

I think I'll probably go with Lanna meeting Vesper at Echo Base. I have to justify, somehow, the gear that Lanna has. In particular the fancy ax. I can't really do that with your character. I can work it in with the pilot (but only if Stneu starts with a ship) or Trip's PC (plenty of slaves, including Wookiees, on Nar Shaddaa).

I am all done with mine for now. I can always add more backstory later if needed.

You can update it from my home page but here is the direct link. Set Update

Do you guys have room for one more? The characters I havw floating around in my head are:
1) human smuggler-gunslinger who will obtain the Force Sensitive Emergent Spec at some point
2) Nautolian or Zabrak Soldier-Trialblazer
3) Human smuggler-gunslinger

SavageBob wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 01, 2017 9:28 pm

Do Polis Massans even have sexes? (Half serious.)

So, just to be sure: Shado, you don't want any preexisting connection between Lanna and anyone else? It's no biggie to alter Vesper's backstory a tad to have her off doing her residency on whatever world Lanna was enslaved on. It'd make sense she wouldn't go to med school and do residency on the same planet, anyway. And it sounds like Stneu is willing to work with you to make his character someone Lanna would hang out with. Of course, if we all met at Echo Base, which is cool with me, too.

Yes, yes they do! Haha! I think we'll probably all just meet at echo base. It sounds good to me.

@kal drahr It's up to deepspacer. He's not online right now, but he'll probably get you an answer soon. If not shoot him a pm

I updated my character concept take a look. I'm on the fence about gender can really go either way.

Stneu73 wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 02, 2017 4:09 am

Yes, yes they do! Haha! I think we'll probably all just meet at echo base. It sounds good to me.

@kal drahr It's up to deepspacer. He's not online right now, but he'll probably get you an answer soon. If not shoot him a pm

So that's a no to your character introducing mine to the Alliance? It just requires you to be on Raltiir when the Empire bombards it (probably making a run for the Rebels, and the location is flexible), and you give me a lift to Echo Base. It might be a nice pre-game connection, and one that doesn't require any changes to either of our backstories, really.

Lanna's preliminary backstory is up. It's not complete yet. I still have to write her getting off of Nar Shaddaa and joining the Rebellion. I'm waiting to see if either Stneu73 or Trip want to tie their characters to her.

Kal Drahr wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 02, 2017 4:03 am

Do you guys have room for one more? The characters I havw floating around in my head are:
1) human smuggler-gunslinger who will obtain the Force Sensitive Emergent Spec at some point
2) Nautolian or Zabrak Soldier-Trialblazer
3) Human smuggler-gunslinger

Hmmm....since you responded quickly enough, I am inclined to say, Yes. The only thing is, we have four players this far: basically, two soldiers and two smugglers. Would you consider another career choice?

What fits the 'best is a Diplomat of some type from Age of Rebellion. One who can work with locals and persuade them to lend support to the Rebellion.

I was going to put my 2 free ranks into Charm and Negotiation on option 1 and 3 as I saw the deficency of a good face character. Can I make a character proposal for you to look at?

Free species ranks as a human do not grant you those skills as career skills, in case you didn't know that. Which makes getting more ranks damned expensive. Also, there's a vast difference between doing some face stuff as a sideline and making a career of it. Without the proper talents to support the skills you won't be a very good face.

The party doesn't have a face. The party doesn't have a tech at all. And the party doesn't have a specialist pilot (Svae has the attributes and some skill, but not any of the talents that a pilot should have). Any of these roles would be useful. Yet another cunning based character or gun-bunny isn't going to help.

Kal Drahr wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 02, 2017 5:29 pm

I was going to put my 2 free ranks into Charm and Negotiation on option 1 and 3 as I saw the deficency of a good face character. Can I make a character proposal for you to look at?

try option number 3. Coercion, cool, and outer rim we'll all be very useful.

Don't overlook Scoundrel, either. It gets a lot of the guns-focus of Gunslinger, but it's got some good Face abilities, as well.

ShadoWarrior wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 02, 2017 5:59 pm

Free species ranks as a human do not grant you those skills as career skills, in case you didn't know that. Which makes getting more ranks damned expensive. Also, there's a vast difference between doing some face stuff as a sideline and making a career of it. Without the proper talents to support the skills you won't be a very good face.

The party doesn't have a face. The party doesn't have a tech at all. And the party doesn't have a specialist pilot (Svae has the attributes and some skill, but not any of the talents that a pilot should have). Any of these roles would be useful. Yet another cunning based character or gun-bunny isn't going to help.

SavageBob wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 02, 2017 6:18 pm

Don't overlook Scoundrel, either. It gets a lot of the guns-focus of Gunslinger, but it's got some good Face abilities, as well.

SavageBob wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 02, 2017 6:18 pm

Don't overlook Scoundrel, either. It gets a lot of the guns-focus of Gunslinger, but it's got some good Face abilities, as well.

I will probably go with Scoundrel, I completely forgot about it.

The disadvantages to scoundrel are that they don't get coercion and outer rim knowledge. In addition, that talent tree is convoluted and very restrictive going down the right and left sides. While Gunslinger, I believe, gives you better skills for the campaign and has a wide open talent tree across all four columns for you to go down. Far more variety and flexibility, Imo.

Keep in mind that having a gunslinger spec, or scoundrel spec, does not make you a gunslinger or scoundrel, respectively. It doesn't make you a person who solves all his problems by lying or shooting, by default. You will be whatever your character is, does, or has done.( in this campaign, anyways.)

For example, I made a aqualish bounty hunter martial artist spec. He's a brawler and I just chose to go something other than Marauder to do so. He doesn't wear a karate robe, he didn't learn from a Sensei master, and he certainly doesn't call himself a martial artist. It is trust that his raw brutality is displayed best through those talents and he makes a little money collecting bounties.

It's your decision either way. Good luck! I'm looking forward to see what you put together.

SavageBob wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 02, 2017 2:26 pm

So that's a no to your character introducing mine to the Alliance? It just requires you to be on Raltiir when the Empire bombards it (probably making a run for the Rebels, and the location is flexible), and you give me a lift to Echo Base. It might be a nice pre-game connection, and one that doesn't require any changes to either of our backstories, really.

Sorry I must have skipped over that somehow. I'm cool with putting that in.

ShadoWarrior wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 02, 2017 2:58 pm

Lanna's preliminary backstory is up. It's not complete yet. I still have to write her getting off of Nar Shaddaa and joining the Rebellion. I'm waiting to see if either Stneu73 or Trip want to tie their characters to her.

And Shado if I were to tie in with Lanna how would you suggest doing so?

Depends on whether Svae possesses a ship. If she doesn't then Svae can't be of any help. If she does then perhaps Lanna could have gotten a lift off of Nar Shaddaa from Svae. Problem with that is why Svae would do so. It pretty much requires Svae to already be in the Alliance prior to going to Nar Shaddaa for some reason. And it further requires some sort of reason for how our characters meet. Lanna doesn't have the money to be looking for a paid ride off the moon. And she lacks any underworld connections or the skill/knowledge to seek out a Rebel contact. Best I can come up with is that one of the prisoners/slaves that she freed (some NPC) was a Rebel or had a Rebel connection of some sort. NPC owes Lanna and helps her out by putting her in touch with Svae (either directly or through yet another intermediary like Sarenda, if Trip wants to connect us).

ShadoWarrior wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 02, 2017 7:14 pm

Depends on whether Svae possesses a ship. If she doesn't then Svae can't be of any help. If she does then perhaps Lanna could have gotten a lift off of Nar Shaddaa from Svae. Problem with that is why Svae would do so. It pretty much requires Svae to already be in the Alliance prior to going to Nar Shaddaa for some reason. And it further requires some sort of reason for how our characters meet. Lanna doesn't have the money to be looking for a paid ride off the moon. And she lacks any underworld connections or the skill/knowledge to seek out a Rebel contact. Best I can come up with is that one of the prisoners/slaves that she freed (some NPC) was a Rebel or had a Rebel connection of some sort. NPC owes Lanna and helps her out by putting her in touch with Svae (either directly or through yet another intermediary like Sarenda, if Trip wants to connect us).

Makes sense. I don't know about owning a ship. I have that as a question mark in my background for DeepSpacer. I also have Svae already in the rebellion kind of in the backstory.

She doesn't have to own it. Just have it. Who actually owns it doesn't matter as far as my backstory. Though it does matter to yours.

Yeah, having Svae hook Vesper up with the Alliance only works if Svae has a ship or is somehow connected to the character in the party the ship belongs to. Seems Svae is the best bet so far.

(And happy birthday, Shado! I didn't know this forum had a spot to list our bdays.)

I think I am going to scrape mine and go back to the drawing board. I think we have too much overlap.