Advice for Running a game for an all Jedi Party

[Draylo Star]

On Friday we start our first game

The party is all three Jedi Padawans with an established master

Do you guys have any suggestions for running a game with all Jedi?

(or any cool adventure ideas ill always take thouse)

[cheshire]

SWEET! I've played in this kind of campaign and I've GMed this kind of campaign (twice, actually) This can be so much fun because you don't have to worry about the Jedi overpowering the normal characters. So, you've lucked out, my friend.

What time period are you working with? I can give you specific advice from there.

However, generally I suggest having detailed background stories. Have them written down and in a folder. You should be able to refer to them and make the Jedi work through something from their past. The Jedi's journey is not just outward adventure, it is an inward quest to conquer one's own demons. They are mystic and spiritual warriors, and so the quest should contain a personal spiritual component.

Read Hero with a Thousand Faces to help you get broad ideas for your campaign. It helped me immensely in my two-year Jedi campaign, particularly when finishing my second act, and creating my third act.
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[Draylo Star]

We are playing in the legacy era with some of my own changes I have a thread on here about it

http://www.rancorpit.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2775

I have more notes I have not posted yet not sure anyone was all that interested

[Raven Redstar]

Give us all the details. Since it sounds like you've got the cold war thing going on, I recommend a lot of intrigue and trying to undo Sith plots to undermine imperial alliances without showing their hand.

You can do counter assassination plots, stopping industrial sabotage, all sorts of things.

[Draylo Star]

[Raven Redstar]

Wow, the Jedi killed a senator, or the sith did?

[Draylo Star]

[Raven Redstar]

That's a good entry point. Following a lead to discover who is responsible.

[atgxtg]

One idea I'd suggest would be to send them on a mission and then separate them from their Jedi master. The Padawans are forced to work things out for themselves, but at the end they will need to report to their master and explain the reasons why they did what they did.

THis can be expecially fun if you send them on what is supposedly a diplomatic assignment, where they are not supposed to start a fight, but someone else (Sith) is setting them up for one.

[Draylo Star]

Yeah their first mission is to take a Datapad to their masters former padawan thy get tied up with a dark side pirate and a bounty hunter. While their master is off with the senator.

[atgxtg]

Good. That way he can praise or rebuke them on their actions later.

One thing worth doing to Padawan learners is to put them in situations where it would be all too easy to sort things out through Force Powers and/or "aggressive negotiations". The Padawan will need to resist doing so until/unless absolutely necessary.

In some ways it kinda like Star Trek. The PCs have all sorts of abilties that could solve the situation easily, but they are bound not to use those abilities freely due to moral restrictions.

The "big picture" approach is also worth using. For example, in my current campaign, set during the Clone Wars, I have a player character who dislikes things like slavery (no surprise there). So when he goes into Hutt space he is sorely tempted to try and free a slave or two, and maybe put some slavers out of business, as that would be the "good" thing.

Except, doing so would jeopardize the peace that exists between the Republic and the Hutts. If the PC Jedi acted this way, the Hutts could consider it an attack on their culture by the Jedi and or the Republic and
result in the Hutts allying with the Separatists. So the PC has to learn to "See the big picture" and accept such things for the good of the Republic.

[atgxtg]

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[Draylo Star]

Yeah this is going to be a fun group of Jedi all are wild races

Nautolan
Noghri (i took away two of his stat dice and and let him have jedi lore for a knowlege)
Ubese

So this is going to be fun

The Nautolans planet is under Sith control

The Ubese race hates and hunts him

The Ngohri not sure yet

[Raven Redstar]

How many of your Noghri's starting attribute dice got spent on force attributes? 3? If that's the case, then I wouldn't worry so much about him, however, if you gave the players free force attributes, then your noghri might make game balance a bit of a problem. I've played one as a player once, and a Noghri grossly disgusted the other players. Just a warning that some of your players might get upset about all of the Noghri's abilities.

[Draylo Star]

Thanks I think he has 2 total extra dice then the other players I dont think they will notice because the guy who is playing him is ussually the least effective character in most games