New Yet More Experienced Characters

Bobknob · Cadet Joined: 11 Mar 2016 Posts: 6

I was wondering what would be the best way to let my players start with a more seasoned group of characters. It is an Old Republic Jedi game and they should at least be at a level that they can travel and enforce law without the accompaniment of a master. This is my first time really GMing anything for a group. Should I just let them start with a few more Ds in Attributes and Skills? Should they create their characters normally and then add in a large amount of Character Points? If either of those, how many of each? Any other tips?

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Naaman · Vice Admiral Joined: 29 Jul 2011 Posts: 3190

Lets just suggest a bunch of force powers that arent even the rules!!!! Very Happy

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Tinman · Lieutenant Commander Joined: 26 Dec 2013 Posts: 110

The nearest I've done to this is given a handful of characters a few extra dice which could only be used for skill specializations. Essentially this was to compensate for certain experienced characters needing to know how to do specific things to fill story roles. In other words, I was making particular requests in terms of character creation, and offered a bit of a booster to compensate for that.

Bobknob · Cadet Joined: 11 Mar 2016 Posts: 6

Thank you all for your help! I will consider all you said. I still have a few weeks until the start of the game.

Bobknob · Cadet Joined: 11 Mar 2016 Posts: 6

I hear what you guys are saying, but my group really wants to start out with a few extra skills and Force Powers. I am the new guy to the group so I want to make them happy.

I gave them 3D extra so they can get a few Force Skills. What would be the best way to give them Force Powers? One for the first D and then one for every pip after that?

Naaman · Vice Admiral Joined: 29 Jul 2011 Posts: 3190

If you want them more advanced, go ahead and give them one per pip (so 3 for the first D).

Be prepared for force powers to be a major gamble at early levels: I've found that things don't really start getting consistent until around 4D in a force skill.

If you just want to jump into the action, you may consider just starting them with 3D-5D in each of their force skills.

Although in such a case, Id recommend 1 power per D (its how I run mine) in order too prevent their lists of powers from being all the same (this helps characters to stick to a cconcept when choosinng powers... if powers are gained too rapidly they end up knowing every power very quickly).

So one guy could be a healer, one could focus on "awareness" powers, one could focus on more combat oriented powers.... etc...

cheshire · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 6:07 pm Post subject:

Every year I would run a "winter campaign" to introduce new players to Star Wars D6. One year I decided to do a force-centric campaign. Note that these campaigns were no more than five adventures long -- just enough to get the feel for the scenario, and play out a few adventures, and experience a bit of the Star Wars flavor.

In the course of my winter campaigns, the Force-centric was the hardest. I gave all the characters a bit of an extra bump in the Force skills. The group consisted of one seasoned player, two that had never RP'ed before, and two that had done one of my winter campaigns. So a decent mix. But everyone had the hardest time remembering their Force power rules. They hadn't spent the time and player experience in developing a taste of how their power worked and how to build on it, or what it was built from.

This was fresh off a community project where I spent six months living and breathing the Force powers rules, and it was even a challenge for me. So, just be aware that you may be spending a fair bit of game time helping people get their sea legs. Much more so than if they'd grown into their characters rather than having built them.
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CRMcNeill · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 6:38 pm Post subject:

If you are just looking to increase starting Force ability, you could convert the existing Jedi templates over to a Force attribute, ala the Metaphysics attribute of D6 Space. We've discussed it here in the past.

Basically, it treats Force sensitivity like any other attribute, except that any non-FS character would have a 0D in that attribute yet still be able to function normally. Rather than having to use three attribute dice at character creation to have 1D each in Control, Sense and Alter, the characters would start with a Force of 3D, with Control, Sense and Alter as skills under it.
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Bobknob · Cadet Joined: 11 Mar 2016 Posts: 6

That seems really neat. I will talk to my group about it.

dph · Lieutenant Joined: 17 Jul 2009 Posts: 95

I agree with most here that a first time GM (with any RPG) or a game with forts time players should keep it very vanilla for their first time. Don't start breaking the rules and home brewing, just play it straight!

I keep track of the XP my players earn and if someone creates a new character (like after a death) or a new player joins, I take an average of all the players and give them 2 thirds of that in bonus XP to spend (as they would for standard characters advancement.

Just look at how much XP you typically hand out a session(s) and use that as a guide.
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