Party Creation

[Trip]

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

[DeepSpacer]

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

I hadn't seen a skills array for Svae yet. Sometimes you have skill overlap but not in their ranks or emphasis. You still have Underworld and Computers, which will be somewhat unique. Oops...I was looking at wrong player/pc. A Clawdite would be interesting. Never been in a group with one.

BUT, this is the "Character Creation" phase, so plenty of room for experimentation!

It's why I advised to create 1-3 to begin with. You previous two ideas also had close to the same overlap (Scout, Big-Game Hunter Explorer), both stress Cunning.
Good luck!

[Stneu73]

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

Did you mean scrap the character or the backstory?

[ShadoWarrior]

He's rebuilding the character. Staying with a Clawdite, but the rest is in flux. I've suggested to him that since he's staying with Clawdite that he stay with being Cunning-centric. He just needs to switch specs, and perhaps career as well. Focus on the skills and talents that his primary attribute keys. He won't be able to avoid overlapping your character a bit, but he can focus on different things than your PC. But what he will accomplish is not overlapping my character as well as yours. The Infiltrator is a good spec, but not for someone who doesn't have Brawn as their primary attribute. It's a waste of his 4 Cunning. And we don't need two melee builds. One tank is enough for a party.

[Trip]

Spy Sleeper sounds good. It has Well rounded so I could pick up Resilience.

[ShadoWarrior]

Wow. That's a super-cheap Well Rounded. I also didn't know that book was coming. Thanks.

[DeepSpacer]

Spy Sleeper sounds good. It has Well rounded so I could pick up Resilience.

Do you have the book? It looks great. So many books out to keep track of!

[ShadoWarrior]

Book's not out yet.

[Trip]

I updated my PC to a new one altogether. I could not find a good clawdite career that would allow me to have Resilience.

I instead put together a Shistavanen Soldier Sharpshooter. Heavy on Agility.

Let me know what you think.

[DeepSpacer]

I updated my PC to a new one altogether. I could not find a good clawdite career that would allow me to have Resilience.

I instead put together a Shistavanen Soldier Sharpshooter. Heavy on Agility.

Let me know what you think.

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But having a good Brawn gives you a good Resilience, and you already get 1 Rank from Racial, correct? Having a 2nd Rank in Resilience is ONLY a +5% boost to your chance to succeed. In short, it does not matter so much if you don't have resilience as a career skill.

[ShadoWarrior]

Just so you know, it was Trip's choice to make the radical change. I didn't know about the new build until he sprang it on us. My suggestion to him was a rebuild of the Clawdite to focus on his Cunning. I will say that this build has less overlap with anyone else than even rebuilding the Clawdite would. Vesper comes closest to him, and she's a medic first and a shooter a distant second.

[Trip]

I couldn't find a career that made sense with cunning.

[DeepSpacer]

Oh, I understand. We're feeling out what we'd like to play. The clawdite is varied just in it's racial ability, alone. Otherwise, it's a gunman. I have an Excel sheet with each PC skill list all on one page. It is true that no one has ranks in R:Heavy, even though two PC's already have it as a career skill. That would be a radical different choice.

[Trip]

I am opened to trying something else.

[SavageBob]

Trip, have you looked at Engineer: Saboteur? That would make good use of Cunning but also make you a passable techie. Just a thought if you decide to go another direction.

[ShadoWarrior]

Trip, have you looked at Engineer: Saboteur? That would make good use of Cunning but also make you a passable techie. Just a thought if you decide to go another direction.

That career/spec would make him a better pilot than Svae. Or he could put his '5' in Int instead of Agl and excel at mechanics.

A Cunning build that doesn't include Streetwise or Deception is a poor choice as those are the two best skills to use Cunning for. Streetwise to deal with the underworld, such as the black market. Deception because lying is so commonplace. A Clawdite, for example, really needs Deception.

[DeepSpacer]

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?

oh, and would it be too much trouble for your character to be male? We're not exactly running Charlie's Angels in space, you know.

[DeepSpacer]

The group will be getting on a ship, as it is common for new characters to be in possession of a ship. Whether the ship is party owned or given to us by the alliance, it does not matter to me. Otherwise, the Alliance provides one.

[ShadoWarrior]

How we get one matters a bit in terms of what sort of ship it is. There are pros and cons to consider. If it's owned by one of the PCs then that player would have some say in choosing the model, not to mention modifying it later on. OTOH, not owning a ship doesn't tie a PC, and by extension the entire party, to that ship. Just a couple of things to consider. I could probably come up with quite a few more.

[DeepSpacer]

I have typically seen a Star Wars group as a mixture of male and female party members, so if my pointing out that we were leaning towards an all-female group comes across misogynistic in any way, I apologize.create whatever gender you want to play.

[Stneu73]

oh, and would it be too much trouble for your character to be male? We're not exactly running Charlie's Angels in space, you know.

I'm not entirely set on being female. I'm okay with being male

[Stneu73]

In light of Trip changing ideas and such I have created a Svae 2.0 who is an Ace Pilot who will also probably cross spec into a mechanic.

[Trip]

In light of Trip changing ideas and such I have created a Svae 2.0 who is an Ace Pilot who will also probably cross spec into a mechanic.

Sorry, I totally overlooked the fact that you started as a thief.

[Stneu73]

In light of Trip changing ideas and such I have created a Svae 2.0 who is an Ace Pilot who will also probably cross spec into a mechanic.

Sorry, I totally overlooked the fact that you started as a thief.

No prob man my character is still pretty fluid. I think that pilot might be a better spec for Svae anyway.

[ShadoWarrior]

Trip, it's better for party balance if you play your revised Cunning build and Stneu plays his new pilot/mechanic build. That eliminates the overlap that would otherwise exist. And you'd each be better at your (new) chosen profession/role than the old characters were.