Starting off Characters

[Hellstorm]

"Humm! Max hasn't been helping the group lately"...BLAM!..."in a week diner will be served."

What I meant was that I boost their character a little more (and I don't tell them and they usualy don't notice). 8)
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Tuco: "But if you miss you had better miss very well. Whoever double-crosses me and leaves me alive, he understands nothing about Tuco."
-The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

Peter Griffin: "Embrace The Fear." -Family Guy

[Volar the Healer]

[Maximilian Bernas]

I usually give them more character points if the game calls for a bit more "seasoned" chars.

And, it also matters in what time period the game is set. More Force early on and really late, little Force during the IV, V, and VI times...
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"Let your anger be like a monkey in a pinata"
- Master Tang

[Kabal]

[Maximilian Bernas]

Yeah, the movies allow the "feared across the galaxy" to seem like so many keystone cops with blasters.

I just ignore the DEX penalties. I mean, c'mon... They practically live in their armor; they are going to get used to it and be able to function in it accordingly. The same cannot be said with characters who 'borrow' said armor: ("I can't see a thing in this helmet" -Luke Skywalker)

Don't forget the MFTAS system in their helmets!
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"Let your anger be like a monkey in a pinata"
- Master Tang

[obidancer]

Page 132 of Far Orbit Project:
Veteran Stormtroopers
DEXTERITY 3D
Blaster 7D, brawling parry 5D, dodge 6D
KNOWLEDGE 3D
MECHANICAL 3D
PERCEPTION 3D
STRENGTH 3D
Brawling 5D
TECHNICAL 3D
Special abilities:
Enhanced perception: Veshiv's bodyguard detail has been specially trained to read the body language of potential opponents to determine if the opponent is about to attack, they receiv a +1D bonus to Perception rolls for initiative. If the troopers believe a target to be hostile, they receive a +2 bonus to initiative.
Character Points: 10
Move: 10
Equipment: Standard for stromtroopers.
Note: These stromtroopers atre hardened veterans and not subject to the usual stormtrooper armor Dexterity penalties.


Now those rocks, I should have my player face them more often.
Note: Veshiv is one of the Emperor's Advisor...

[Son of Fire]

I just think that people tend to latch on to idea in ANH where the stormies miss all the time…yet they casually forget that Tarkin and Vader WANTED Han, Luke, and Leia to escape so they could track them to Yavin. So it would only make sense that they miss…they where told to!
Yet once we get a bit later on in the films, like ROTJ for example, we see stormies nail two main characters (R2 and Leia) with shots “from-the-hip” at about 30 meters.
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"My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself." - George Bernard Shaw

[obidancer]

plus the heroes do have quite a high dodge skill, even with veteran troopers, hitting them wouldn't be easy.

[Ray]

And, of course, the Rebel Alliance using the superior tactic of taking cover!

It comes in real handy.

Plinking a Wookiee-Sized target is easy if you can shoot at all of it. If all you can see is a rapidly moving head and forearms (The last of which is carrying a weapon that's shooting back at you), and you start having problems.

The Empire also uses this tactic, but they prefer living shields, as one Imperial Officer shows in ESB.

[Maximilian Bernas]

So, let's all get Defel characters that can effectively be invisible. That will take care of those precious stormtroopers!

Unless of course, their MFTAS gear can see into that light spectrum (and I believe it can).

Oh well, just going to have to surprise them until they clue in to the tactics against them.
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"Let your anger be like a monkey in a pinata"
- Master Tang

[Firehawk0220]

Most of my players are generally advanced, so I give them more complex story lines to work with and pit them against fairly tough challenges, I also generally enjoy higher level characters to start with.

So I am pretty liberal with what they can start with. Although I definatley leave them room for character growth in stats abilities and of course wealth.

Sometimes I do have charactes start out rock bottom. Like the drunken failed Jedi a friend of mine is playing. He started out with whiskey and 7 credits to his name. He was forced to stowaway on a freighter to get to where he was going.

He's also forced to use his force skills and Jedi mind tricks to allow him to rent a room for 2 credits a night.

He usually trys to gamble for the money he needs. Its pretty damned funny as he's pretty much a worthless character other than his entertainment value.

Even thought he's by far the most powerfull PC I've got in the group.

[garhkal]

Normally, 7/5. But on rare occasion i have upped the game 'level' by having them start out at 10d/12cp. No more than 2d+2 in any one skill.
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[Trusty]

18D/7D/5D

Though, I am very, very giving of character points after each adventure. I play the "one-pip-only" rule between adventures though. As for handing out character points, I am silly with it, I know, but I need the characters to get good on all their skills and limiting the "one-pip-only" rule between adventures forces them to increase the "other skills" besides blaster/dodge/etc... I will leave my characters dumbfounded and lost is they can;t beat the difficulty roll for something like Cultures...

Until my characters are at 7D on the least of their skills, I give them 10 times awild die roll. If they roll a 1, they get no character points, if they get a 4, they get 40, if they get a 6, they get 60 and roll again. Sounds ike a lot, but right now the characters are trying to balance between spending them during the game to survive, increasing skills, and also increasing attributes to their max. To go from 3D to 3D+1 on technical, it costs 30 points...so I give them out freely for now. After they reach the 7D mark and the attributes are maxed, I will cut it to 5 times the 1D roll. When they get to 10D on all their skills, it'll be roll 1D to get 0,2,3,4,5,6+ and that's it.

Seems like a lot, but upping attributes takes a lot, and they improve all their skills, which is a plus, so that our campaigns are just combat, but not to silly and easy when trying to make an Alien Species that they couldn't reasonably know and them only having 2D+2 in Alien Species.
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[Jedi Knight Jael Weiss]

That's an interesting way of handing out CPs. Up to 60 and more! That actually doesn't sound like a bad way for me to do my current game, since we only play about once every three months nowadays.

When I started my game a few years ago, I started everyone with 14D in skills, with one skill of the player's choosing at +3D above the attribute, and all the others a max of 2D above.

I tend to be pretty liberal with the CPs, too, because of our rarity of playing (three years, and still only up to Episode VI).

Jael...
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[Trusty]