Hiring & Managing NPC Ship Crew

[CRMcNeill]

Pretty straight-forward. As ship sizes increase, you start needing more and more crew to operate them, and only some of those slots can be filled by droids.

Have any of you ever GM'd or played in a game that introduced NPC crew to help operate a larger ship? If so, how did it work, and what rules did you use?
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[Naaman]

Most of the time, it never mattered. Either we had "droids for that" or the crew were incidental to the story and we never really worried about what they did or how much they cost.

Having some charts, though, would be good.

A professional crew (all relevant skills at 4D-4D+2) might cost x credits per day per crew member.

Bump up x exponentially (^1.5 or 2 or so) for each D range above "professional." If x = 100 credits, then a 5D crew might command 150, a 6D crew might command 300 and a 7D crew might cost as much as 1000 per day per crew member.
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[Ray]

Having been in a Far Orbit campaign, I'd have thought we'd have dealt with rules on that, but I can't for the life of me remember.

[garhkal]

[Raven Redstar]

Has anybody checked D20? WotC loves having stuff for everything.
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[MrNexx]

[Raven Redstar]

I don't know why I didn't think of this before. But, typically when crewing a large ship, you can use the loot shares as a pay scale. Each standard crewman gets 1 share, each skilled crewman gets 2 shares, Officers get 3, captain gets 4.

Then you just have to start cutting in your crew on the take for the million credits worth of blasters you sold on the black market.
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[Raven Redstar]

I did some digging around, and I found http://christophedia.com/Repository/3.65-Star%20Wars%20Saga%20Edition/Excel/

If you take a look at the Excel file, it has a tab for services. I'm specifically looking at upkeep: lines 23 - 29.

Luxurious: 10,000
Wealthy: 5,000
Comfortable: 2,000
Average: 1,000
Struggling: 500
Impoverished: 200
Self-Sufficient: 100

I'm assuming these are monthly costs. So, I'd assume that fair wage for a crew member might be Average upkeep plus maybe 25-50% so the person can afford to save up?

Call it 1250 to 1500 credits per month per crewman?
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[Mamatried]

I had a group of four players that ended up owning a corvette with a crew of 35.

We did not go too detailed into how they were hired individually, but we did have a way of running them and their sections of the ship.

We devided the ship into sectors, piloting and astrogation (and communications), gunnery and sensors and shields, Engineering (for general repairs) then we had the Basic Operations acounting for most other mundane tasks rarely needing rolls.

We then made a NPC sort of, called the same as the sector, each ot the players repsosible for their own sector and thus the men serving under them.

the Gunnery/shileds and Sensors NPC would look like this

Main Skill 5D
Trained Skill 3D+2
Skill 2D+2

Here we decide which individal manning wich stations by varying in the skills rolled. The gunner mans the cannons, he rolls for his Main skill.
The ship has taken damage and crew has taken casualties, the shiled operator assistant now has to man the last gun, he is not a gunner but trained in basic ship gunnery, and uses his trained skill to roll 3D+2
etc etc.

maybe the ship is full of gunnery sections and maybe some are primary and some are secondary gunners, then again use the main/trained/and normal skills.

For Untrained skill rolls we used the last category the "operatin skill" something all the other NPCs have by default, and here too we have the same skill ladder in main/trained and normal.
This repalces the normal use of attribute, indicating a trained crew to a degree.

How high are the values of the skill categories.

I tendo to go about it this way:

Untrained Person: 3D+2 main, 2D+2 trianed, 2D normal

Normal trained crew: Main skill 4D+2, trained Skill 3D+3, Normal Skill 2D+2

So when the ship is in combat the player "commanding" the gunnery section rolls his rolls for the crew, the player commanding the pilots will roll for them unless he flies the craft himself.

This is generaally when the players are in a command of crew role more than acting as crew members of a larger crew.

I am also thinking of a way to allow a bonus to rolls from command skill