Character Templates for a Clone Wars era Campaign?

[TyCaine]

My players have been really getting into the Clone Wars series, and as we're nearing a stopping point for the current Rebellion era game they wanted to flesh out new characters and do an interim stint in the Clone Wars era.

We've switched eras before with good success, allows everyone to get a fresh perspective of the previous era when we return to it, however, I've looked through the converted books and assume I missed something.

There are all the stats for the ships and droids and even clones as needed, however, has anyone got some good pointers or ideas for Character templates for this era?

I'd like to assume true Masters are out of reach to starting players, though might consider a low-level/recently initiated Master for one player, and the others as Knights or Padawans, some even as 'notable' clones to accompany them.

Anyone? I ask because in the era (Rebellion) I'm more used to and attuned to Force Users are thin on the ground, and Force Powers even more so, however with the Clone Wars era it's far more prolific.


Any help would be greatly appreciated...



T.C.

[Whill]

The stat conversion PDFs are just that. It would be more than a conversion to include original things like PC templates. If any fan has created some Clone Wars templates, I'd love for them share them here too.

IMO a Jedi Master or even a full-fledged Knight would be far too poweful for consideration for a starting-level character. You wouldn't really want to run an NPC Master to travel around with your party or they would have the limelight a lot of the time. And the problem with Padawans without Masters is, why would they not have a master to tag along with? These are things I suggest you consider for running Clone War campaign. Things like this are part of the reason I'm not interested in playing in that era.

Maybe Jedi Master and Knight attrition has been high recently so there are temporarily a few masterless padawans that the Jedi council allows to be assigned to units (such as your PC group) without full-fledged Jedi. Perhaps these Padawans (or their entire unit) are occasionally assigned to units or missions involving Masters or Knights to "check in" and temporily mentor them (and train them for character advancement on long hyperspace voyages or downtime on planets). They could be padawans in between masters with many intermittent temporary masters, and these masters probably even already have a Padawan. A Master even temporarily training two padawans is technically against the Jedi Code, but desperate times call for desperate measures.

Or perhaps the Force PC is a rejected padawan who was assigned to one of the four Service Corps before the War, but then urgently "temporarily" reassigned to serve the Republic military forces (and never even temporarily assigned to a Master since not expected to need to be trained any further).

Or maybe the Force user could be a non-Jedi Force-sensative who was never discovered during infanthood or his parents refused to give their child up to the Jedi. He may be too old to begin training as a Jedi now but that doesn't mean that he wouldn't be allowed to serve the Republic in some capacity. The activities of known non-Jedi Force-sensatives in the Republic would normally be monitored closely by the Jedi Order (to ensure they would not join the Dark Side and become a threat), but hey, it's a war-torn galaxy so they don't have time for that right now.

Or maybe your PC group is fighting on the Separatist side of the war, so any Force-users wouldn't be active Jedi at all. They could be rejected Padawans, former Service Corps members or non-Jedi Force-users. Remember that neither side of the war was the good side, so don't feel obligated for your PC group to be on the side of the Rebublic.
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[TyCaine]

Some good points and some great ideas!

I had already considered that a full-fledged Knight would be too much for a starting character, and that having a Knight or Master as an NPC would detract from the players too much, so I was figuring on having mostly Padawans (perhaps bending the rule that a more experienced Jedi can have no more than one Padawan) with perhaps one or two of the characters with slightly more experienced 'Padawans' who, with the attrition of the Jedi in general, have been knighted before their time in an effort to assist in the war...

Due to the lesser experience they are paired together, two rookie 'Knights' with a number of Padawans between them, and given their orders as a group from there, with a Master or full-fledged Knight looking in on them occasionally, or acting as their overall guide.

Still, the templates I know of are really for the lesser era of Rebellion, having some idea how to gauge a Padawan, a 'lesser' Knight, a full Knight and a Master would be great help...

As far as the CIS side we have already discussed it and are looking at the possibility later, characters could conceivably be anything remotely militaristic commanding a number of droids, so the possibilities are endless there...

Still, they are more interested in the Jedi side right now, but I have a little time before we get to our stopping point in the Rebellion era so have time to try and compile everything together I need. I remember seeing a Clone race template, so figuring Character templates from there shouldn't be too difficult as I know a couple of the party would like be an up and coming 'Rex' or 'Cody' -like character.

All in all I'm looking forward to it, assuming the Character template dilemma can be resolved...

[Whill]

Making up new templates is fun. Try it! You can always post what you come up with for feedback.
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[Raven Redstar]

For a Padawan template, my old crew used to take the "Failed Jedi" and remove the dark side point and then renamed it Jedi Student.

If you're planning on having specialized soldiers. You can always use the templates from Rules of Engagement, and then just change their gear up to match with the times, if they happen to be clone troopers, give them the armor or whatever.

Don't forget, that you can probably use any independent template, and have them be a volunteer fighter. Bounty Hunter, Merc, and even smugglers and Wookiees. Just need to have them have a reason to be fighting with the Grand Army.

[garhkal]

Or use most of those non rebel specific templates and keep it fringe..
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[atgxtg]

In my vcampaign we pretty much used the standard templates, but just tweaked the backstory to remove any Imperial Entanglements. Actualy Imperial Templates were either disallowed, or converted to Republic equivalents (Republic Naval Officer).

For a Padawan we used the minor Jedi template, although I7d certainly let players move things around.

The only real change I made for Padawans and this era is that the PC has a master, and since the Padawan is still growing, he can by assumed to have been training for purposes of attribute improvement. That is, he does not need to spend 2 or 6 months training up a stat to see if he can improve it, but the time spent "growing up" counts as training time.

Not that he has had much chance to improve his attributes.

I wouldn't mind seeing some Clone Wars era templates.


If it helps, am/was working on Clone Wars era ship stats for STAR WARRIORS.

[TyCaine]

Here's a first attempt at some Jedi templates for the Clone Wars era:

[TyCaine]

Send in the clones!

[Raven Redstar]

Only problem I can see at first glance (it's rather hard to read in forum format) Why do the young padawan and standard padawan have a higher strength than the mature padawan?

I can understand how the healer would have 2D strength, but starting off with 3D control seems a little off. Most templates I've seen only give 1D per attribute for starters, I would suggest perhaps a compromise: 2D control/ 1D sense for force attributes.

[TyCaine]

Edited things to try and even it up a little between the Padawans.

As for the Healer, that one was literally taken straight out of the Tales of the Jedi Companion sourcebook, though I tweaked it a little so as to assume Human rather than Miraluka, but otherwise it was basically a straight export and had 3D Control in that sourcebook.

Anyone have any other input?


T.C.

[atgxtg]

[TyCaine]

Not warped at all, in fact the original Republic Clone template I pulled the clone stats from had a number of set attribute dice, and then 2D that could be assigned as chosen by the PC. I had just distributed them throughout by default bringing everything up to a standardized 3D.

Your idea makes more sense and allows for customizable Padawans, and in fact I think I may revert the Clone template back to how it was so that they can be more flexible as well.

With that in mind, how's this:

[atgxtg]