Ewoks (primitive characters)

[Wajeb Deb Kaadeb]

I labeled this thread for Ewoks, but really the thread is about any species that is not educated to the galactic standard.

Should a GM limit the choices a player makes when creating an Ewok? I mean, if you want to play an Ewok, shouldn't the player play an Ewok? What I mean by that, is that an Ewok doesn't know how to pilot a spacecraft.

I'm sure an Ewok could be taught to fire a blaster and do things like fire gun turrets using the Gunnery skill.

But, skills like Command, Starship Shields, Astrogation, Streetwise, Technology, and so on---shouldn't these skills be limited somehow? Or have some penalty applied to them?

I know there are technology levels in the planet generation system. Are there any notes anywhere about barbaric cultures operating off their homeworld?

Now, I guess the player and GM could come up with some story about how the Ewok was taken aboard a trader's vessel when the Ewok was but a cub and now has grown up living on the trader's ship.

But, that's not your standard Ewok, is it? That's a miracle Ewok--an anomaly (and I have no problem at all with a player playing a hero Ewok like that). What I'm talking about here is a standard Ewok, right off the reservation. It doesn't make sense to me that an under-educated Ewok could use any skill as well as a normal player character.

Comments?


EDIT: Maybe Ewoks should be strictly NPCs in normal games?

[Mamatried]

[Wajeb Deb Kaadeb]

[Whill]

[Whill]

I used to be opposed to Ewoks PCs on the basis that primitive characters should have less than 1D in Technical and Knowledge, and I just couldn't imagine an 18D Ewok. But the idea of a cute little character that is always being underestimated grew on me, so now I have Ewoks with the caveat that their background must have included leaving Endor for a few years to be somewhat acclimated to galactic civilization (and thus no longer truly primitive). A non-Force-sensitive Ewok's attributes will be exactly the maximums according to my stats (so there is only one possible template stat-wise for non-Force Ewoks). They still seem kind of far-fetched but Ewok PCs are more for comedy.

[garhkal]

[Mamatried]

[Wajeb Deb Kaadeb]

[Wajeb Deb Kaadeb]

[MrNexx]

[Mamatried]

I think it all comes down to more than exposure.
is the species evolved to be able to fathom the complexities of "modern" tech?

We can with a certain degree say that the average stone age man was no less intelligent than today's man, and thus his tech level and understanding of such is exposure and that alone.

if we go further back and look at the more primitive humans,before neanderthal and modern man, and we start adding fur and ape like features, we see the capability to craft and use basic and surprisingly advanced stone tools, however we recon from the evidence we have interpreted that they most likely had a lower intelligence compared to modern man.
How this would influence their understanding of modern technology is unknown, but they would most likely struggle more than modern man.


Now if we look here and there among the primitive races, we see some are "locked" at a stone aged level, the Dantari of Dantooine stands out to me as the cave dweller link before the neanderthal.
They I think are given a max 1D to all technological skills, and penalties to all rolls with anything above stone age level.

Other primitive species and I think even some human templates ( not sure on the human but think of the tough native)
have the -XD penalty to technonlogical skills, for all attributes, until the GM deems them assimilated.

so I think some species could be by evolution unable to grasp technology compared to a human.

However some may also be very tech intuitive as it to me looked like the ewoks are.

And I think there could be argued that there could exist a combination.

A species, that could maybe fit with the ewoks, are not able to grasp teechnology at the same level as a human, but they are naturally curious and intuitive and thus they can get some bonus under certain situations, like if they see "how and where" the scout trooper uses the controls, they can mimic it and thus use the speeder, that he did not appear to control very well.

[Whill]

[garhkal]

[Whill]

[Wajeb Deb Kaadeb]