OOC: Not the Hope We Were Looking For... [Star Wars Saga Edition]

[TridentOfMirth]

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Not the Hope We Were Looking For...
~ A Star Wars Saga Edition Campaign ~

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A spice dealer on some Imperial backwater had the bright idea of getting the local militia hooked on spice. Easy money, he said. Jabba agreed - easy money. He wanted to send your rival Han Solo on the mission but that poodoo brained loser wasn't back yet. Jabba's second, third and fourth picks were all off-world too. That left you and your friends. New smugglers but smugglers nonetheless. The Hutt reluctantly sent you on the mission. Many in the palace took bets on if you would even return alive...

You proved them wrong! Ten crates of spice safely and quietly delivered to the dealer.

Just as the man said, easy money!

You decided to celebrate by heading out to the Mos Eisley Cantina, a local hub for smugglers, star pilots and otherwise shady folk like yourselves. You were flush with money and had a powerful thirst for booze and an equally powerful desire for fun.

You walk into the cantina. It's quieter than usual but, whatever. You take a seat at your usual spot in the corner. Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes were playing some catchy tunes today. Nice.

Out of the corner of your eye, you see one of your rivals. That smarmy foito Han Solo. Such a wiseass. Total blowhard. He and his Wookie are chatting with some old man and his grandkid. The old man looks to be in his seventies. Probably on death's door. Looking at his skin, the desert has not been kind to him. His grandkid looks like a tooka cat that ate the bluebird. Even from here you can tell the brat is a smug little wretch.

The waitress comes over, asks for your order. Then she leans in and tells you how - right before you arrived - the old man you've been staring at cut off Ponda Baba's arm with a glowing vibro sword! "Can you believe THAT!" she quietly exclaims.

You can't help but chuckle. Ole' Ponda probably deserved it.

You look back over at your rival and the old man. There seems to be a disagreement. The kid starts talking loudly, almost loud enough to where you can hear him over the live music. The old man talks the kid down. Then leans in and talks to that pile of rancor poodoo Han. Both look serious, then Han leans back and smiles. Hmm, looks like they came to a deal. You cannot help but wonder how much that son of a bantha is getting for that job!

Regardless, you let it go. Han missed a bigger pay day. Some old man and his snot nosed kid can't compare! The waitress returns with your drinks. You down some shots and declare that the party has STARTED!

KA----BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!

The next morning you bolt awake when you hear a massive explosion ring out. You almost fell out of your bed! It was close by, in the space port. You look out your window, smoke is billowing out of Docking Bay... Hmm, which one would that be... Ninety-Four...? Yeah, probably ninety four.

VROOOOOOMMMMMM

An imperial bomber zips overhead at lightning fast speeds.

Why would an Imperial bomber drop some bombs on some smuggler's freighter...? Jabba's not going to like that!

You shrug. Not my swoop, not my race.

You make breakfast. You are just about to sit down and enjoy when...

THUD! THUD! THUD!

Someone knocks on your door. You ignore it.

THUD! THUD! THUD!

It happens again, this time faster and louder. You grunt and get up. You rip the door open, ready to yell at whoever is bothering you but...

You are greeted by an old red & white R5 droid. Beat up looking. Scuffed everywhere. As the local mechanics are known to quip, this little droid's had a hard space lane to fly, clearly!

The droid screeches in binary. He says things so quickly, you can barely parse it out.

You kick the droid and tell it to slow down.

The astromech sighs in binary, before declaring, "Take me to Aladeraan."


https://i.ibb.co/80B6b84/R5.png

As you can tell, this is an "alternate history" of the movie A New Hope. In this universe, a Tie-Bomber drops its payload on docking bay 94 before Han & Chewie could get the Falcon up into the air. Only R2 made it out of the wreckage alive. He is badly damaged, close to death.

No way to blend in or hide.

Luckily, a pilot in a neighboring bay purchased a recently-repaired R5-D4 droid from some wandering Jawas. R2 gives this R5 unit the plans to the Death Star and Princess Leia's desperate message. R5 then scurries off, mere heartbeats before a squad of Stormtroopers burst into the bay and destroy R2-D2.

That R5 droid could not go to his new master for such a mission. His new master was a moisture hauler, carrying water from all the outlying farms, then selling the water in Mos Eisley or Mos Espa for a profit.

No, the droid needed a true band of scum & villainy to aid it. Based on the rumors it gathered, you and your friends just completed a dangerous mission of your own. You were the perfect team to take R5 to Alderaan!

I am an experienced Play By Poster. We all know how this goes, I post the rules for character building, you take the time and effort to roll up a character, then I have to sort through several applicants. Inevitably, some (or even most) applicants don't make it into the game. I want to respect your time, so I will not ask you to roll up a character during recruitment.

Instead, I just want to get a vibe for your character. A feel for them. Tell me about them.

- You are a spice smuggler in the employ of Jabba the Hutt. How did you wind up working for Jabba?
- What did you do before you became a smuggler?
- What is your opinion of the Empire?
- What is your opinion of the Rebellion?
- Everyone has friends and family. Tell me about one of them. Who are they? Are they important? Which planet do they live on?

The party begins play with their own freighter. Please vote for one of the following:

- G9 Rigger (https://swse.fandom.com/wiki/Corellian_G9_Rigger) (You owe 37,125 credits for this ship)
- Barloz-Class Medium Freighter (https://swse.fandom.com/wiki/Corellian_Barloz-Class_Medium_Freighter) (You owe 14,025 credits for this ship)
- YV-545 Light Freighter (https://swse.fandom.com/wiki/Corellian_YV-545_Light_Freighter) (You owe 28,875 credits for this ship)
- YT 1250 (https://swse.fandom.com/wiki/Corellian_YT-1250_Freighter) (You owe 24,750 credits for this ship)

Feel free to suggest a name.

Your group purchased the ship from a used ship salesman in Mos Eisley. Collectively, you had to take out a loan to afford it. We begin at the used price for the ship, then add 10% because you guys were very eager to get your first ship and the salesman smelled blood in the water, as it were. With your most recent smuggling venture, you have successfully paid off a quarter of the price. So your goal is to avoid the repo men and bounty hunters by ensuring you pay off the loan.


Once the applicants are selected, here will be the rules for character creation:

System: Star Wars Saga Edition
Player Count: 4 or 5, maybe 6
Style of Play: A mix of everything!
Allowed Content: Any official Star Wars Saga Edition Book is fine, just make sure anything you select makes sense in the late Dark Times/Early Rebellion era.

Character Creation:


Backstory: Skirt length is fine. The survey questions above basically answered what I wanted to know
Experience: Level 3
Wealth: 500 + 1d4x50 credits.
Ability Scores: 25 points for Planned Generation
Hitpoints/Health: Normal amount + CON at level 1, roll + CON every level there after.
Alignment: The only restriction is to be a team player and your team is your crew, not necessarily the Rebellion or Jabba the Hutt



Other Notes:- No Jedi or Force Powers
- No Wealth Talent or anything like it - you need to earn your credits like a "respectable" smuggler



Linked Threads
- Recruitment 1 (Not the Hope We Were Looking For... [Star Wars Saga Edition])

[TridentOfMirth]

Few things, please indicate your preferred player speech colors. I will be using Dark Orange and Orange!

I do not have a preference on the site you use to host your character sheet, just make sure I can access it easily :)

[TridentOfMirth]

I seem to have created this thread in the wrong sub-forum. :smalleek:

I PMed the moderators for this forum to see if they could move or delete this thread.

EDIT: Yay! All fixed! Thank you mods! :smallbiggrin::smallbiggrin::smallbiggrin::smallbi ggrin:

[Feathersnow]

I will be using Brown

My character is named Mrd'dh and she wears hooded robes, though, in defiance of tradition, they are clean.

Edit:

My Character sheet


Str 6
Dex 16
Con 14
Int 14
Wis 14
Cha 9



• Small Size: As Small creatures, Jawas gain a +1 size bonus to their Reflex Defense and a +5 size bonus on Stealth checks. However, their lifting and carrying limits are three-quarters of those of Medium characters.

• Speed: Jawas have a base speed of 4 squares.

• Darkvision: Jawas ignore Concealment (including Total Concealment) from darkness. However, they cannot perceive colors in total darkness.

• Desert Dweller: When making Survival checks to resist the effects of Extreme Heat, Jawas can reroll the check, keeping the better of the two results.

• Scavenger: Whenever a Jawa armed with an Ion weapon successfully damages a Droid or Vehicle, the Jawa adds half their Character Level in Ion damage.

• Tinkerer: A Jawa can choose to reroll any Mechanics check, but must keep the second result, even if it is worse. In addition, Mechanics is always a Class Skill for Jawas.

• Automatic Languages: All Jawas can speak, read, and write both Jawaese and the Jawa Trade Language.


Languages: Huttese, Basic, Binary, Jawaese

Level 3 Noble

BAB +2

+1 Fortitude
+2 Reflex save
+3 Will save


30 HP

Skills: deception, gather information, initiative, perception, mechanics, persuasion, pilot, use computer, technology

Feats:

1st bonus (linguist, pistols, Simple weapons)

1st- improved defenses

2nd(bonus)- Skill focus: mechanics

3rd: tech specialist

Talents:




Whenever you spend a Force Point to add to a Skill Check in a Skill Challenge and accrue a failure for that Skill Check, you regain that Force Point.




Whenever you accrue a failure in a Skill Challenge, you grant the next ally to take an Action in the Skill Challenge a +2 insight bonus to a Skill Check, provided that the ally takes a different Action (and uses a different Skill) than you did.


Gear:
Basic data pad 100
Tool kit 250
Vox-box 200

50 credits

[Ancient]

I will be speaking in Rusty Red

"Gramps" or "Owun" aka CT-1301

https://i.imgur.com/UcYKunu.jpg

Str 13
Dex 14
Con 14
Int 12
Wis 12
Cha 8



Ability Modifiers: None. Humans are wide spread across the galaxy, and each with their own strengths and weaknesses.
Medium Size: As Medium creatures, Humans have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.
Speed: Humans have a base speed of 6 squares.
Bonus Feat: Humans gain one bonus Feat at 1st level.
Bonus Trained Skill: Humans are versatile and accomplished at many tasks. A Human character chooses one additional Trained Skill at 1st level. The Skill must be chosen from the character's list of Class Skills.
Automatic Language: All Humans can speak, read, and write Basic.



Level 2 Soldier/Level1 Scout

BAB +2

+8 Fortitude
+8 Reflex save
+4 Will save


32+1d10+1d8+4 HP

Skills: endurance, initiative, perception, knowledge tactics, treat injury

Feats:

1st bonus (pistols, rifles, Simple weapons, light armor, medium armor)

1st- Point Blank Shot, WP: Heavy

2nd(bonus)- Shake it off

3rd: Martial Arts I (bonus), Precise Shot

Talents:

Battle Analysis
Evasion


Gear:
TBD

[Feathersnow]

Rolling for random stuff:

[roll0] Starting credits/50

[roll1] HP

[dancrilis]

Will post in 'black' it that is ok.

Reposting from the recruitment trend.

For a character I am thinking something like:
- You are a spice smuggler in the employ of Jabba the Hutt. How did you wind up working for Jabba?
Jenna is one of the Anzati and when she was young before she really remembers she traveled with her father who had taken a job worked for Jabba as one of his enforcers, as such she grew up working for the Hutt - as a kid running messages, and later learning from her father how to fight, when she was old enough she decided she wanted to make her own money and so decided to try her hand at smuggling.

- What did you do before you became a smuggler?
Before becoming a smuggler she did various work for her parents and ultimately Jabba - running messages, acting as an extra pair of eyes or merely a presence for a shakedown where another body sent a clearer message.

- What is your opinion of the Empire?
She has no strong opinion on the empire - if they are leaving her alone why should she care about them?

- What is your opinion of the Rebellion?
She has no strong opinion on the rebellion - if they are leaving her alone why should she care about them?

- Everyone has friends and family. Tell me about one of them. Who are they? Are they important? Which planet do they live on?
Due to the life cycle of the Anzati most of those who were children when her father arrived on Tatooine are old and dead now, as such her only stable companion was the man himself, around the time she became an adult he took his leave from service to Jabba - she occassionally wonders if it was just an easy job for when he was raising a child - a stern man who enjoyed the trill of the hunt. She does feel she owns the man some loyalty - to a point - but she half suspects she will never see him again.

For the ship I am voting for the Barloz-Class Medium Freighter - for a name I am thinking 'The Soup Kitchen'.

Character sheet for Jenna (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=2812285).

[BloodyMagpie]

https://i.imgur.com/L2lMZac.jpg
Name: Garlocca (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=2811736)
Species: Wookie

- You are a spice smuggler in the employ of Jabba the Hutt. How did you wind up working for Jabba?
On the run from Imperial authorities, I needed work that would let me keep a low profile
- What did you do before you became a smuggler?
Captured and enslaved for five years doing hard labor before I managed to escape and go on the run.
- What is your opinion of the Empire?
Xenophobic monsters all the way down. I will happily kill an Imp lover in a back alley if I think I can get away with it.
- What is your opinion of the Rebellion?
Noble, doomed bastards. If I thought they had a chance in hell of succeeding, I probably would have gone and joined them. But they'll probably just end up dead in unmarked graves like the Separatist remnants after the war. The Empire is just too strong to fight, all I can do is focus on survival.
- Everyone has friends and family. Tell me about one of them. Who are they? Are they important? Which planet do they live on?
Brother was enslaved at the same time as me, we were separated years ago, no idea if he's dead, still enslaved, or also managed to get free like I did. Managed to call home a few times after busting out and verify my parents are still okay at least.

Gaar will speak in dark purple. Vote is for the YT-1250.

[BloodyMagpie]

Some rolls

HP rolls
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Starting Credits
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[BloodyMagpie]

Sheet's in progress. Have a rules question: would the bonus damage from the Hammerblow talent (Brawler talent tree) apply to damage inflicted in a Grapple?

Edit: Also, are Destinies and/or Backgrounds allowed?

[dancrilis]

Just to check 'Ability Scores: 25 points for Planned Generation' I take this to mean that if we want planned generation we have 25 points, but not sure if we can we use rolled generation if we want?

[TridentOfMirth]

Just to check 'Ability Scores: 25 points for Planned Generation' I take this to mean that if we want planned generation we have 25 points, but not sure if we can we use rolled generation if we want?

Planned generation is Saga Edition's weird name for Point Buy. To keep things even between players, we will stick with Planned Generation only :)

[TridentOfMirth]

Sheet's in progress. Have a rules question: would the bonus damage from the Hammerblow talent (Brawler talent tree) apply to damage inflicted in a Grapple?

Edit: Also, are Destinies and/or Backgrounds allowed?

I believe Hammerblow would work that way since the Grab/Grapple Action is an Attack Action.

I do not usually play with Destinies or Backgrounds but this game would seem to be a game that would make use of them. :smallsmile:

[BloodyMagpie]

Alright, Gaar is good to go. Original post updated with sheet and a picture.

[dancrilis]

Credits: [roll0]
HP: [roll1]

[Lexiconjurer]

Hey there! Looking over the characters present it seems like we could use a Scoundrel who can act as a Face?

A smooth talking gunslinger protocol droid could be fun? That's if droid characters are allowed, of course.

[TridentOfMirth]

@Everyone: If you have not listed your vote for the ship class, please do so :)


Hey there! Looking over the characters present it seems like we could use a Scoundrel who can act as a Face?

A smooth talking gunslinger protocol droid could be fun? That's if droid characters are allowed, of course.

Droids are fine. Let's just keep the size to Small or Medium, so we do not have to make big accommodations on the ship. :smallsmile:

[Lexiconjurer]

I would vote for the YT-1250

Roll for hit points
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Roll for starting credits
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[dancrilis]

Think the character sheet is done above.

As a somewhat character discussion on the ship, Jeena's take on why the 'Corellian Barloz-Class Medium Freighter' is the choice to go with is as follows.

It is cheaper then the others for what we will owe on it, it has a better hyperdrive then any of the others (tied with the YT-1250 but the Barloz-Class has a superior backup hyperdrive), it is a tougher ship then the others, it is faster then the others, it has a larger cargo (so in theory can smuggle more).

It does have less passanger space, lacks a navicomputer and lacks some of the firepower - the navicomputer in particular is a bit of a loss, but overall for getting from point a to point b with as much stuff as you can carry it seems the best option (to Jenna at least).

[Feathersnow]

It looks like the YT has the most votes, but I was voting for the most expensive one for a number of reasons.

[TridentOfMirth]

So how are we doing on characters? I would like to start the campaign this week :smallbiggrin:

[Feathersnow]

I should be ready now? I think.

[BloodyMagpie]

As previously mentioned, Gaar is good to go.

[dancrilis]

I can expand on the character if needed, but otherwise I think I am done.

[TridentOfMirth]

Perfect. IC coming today!

[Feathersnow]

Just checking in?