OOC Star Wars Lost Hope

Sakutian

Destabilized by the deaths of Emperor Palpatine and the staggering casualties incurred during the Battle of Endor, Imperial forces were recalled to the core worlds to support Emperor Pestage. Several high ranking officers have splintered from the Empire, each with their own private armies.

Meanwhile on the forest moon of Endor the Rebel Alliance has been reorganized into the Alliance of Free Planets with hundreds of worlds and civilizations banding together against the tyranny of the New Order. While Mon Mothma continues to expand the new government through diplomatic channels Admiral Ackbar has been tasked with building up their military.

On the Outer Rim an army composed of the native Gungans and Naboo’s Security Forces has launched an offensive against the occupying Imperials. Despite their best efforts they have been unable to drive the entrenched opposition off world and a prolonged siege seems likely. Admiral Nammo of the Defiance has been deployed in an effort to break the stalemate.



Emperor Palpatine has been defeated. The last Jedi Knight has fallen. The Alliance of Free Planets and the Empire are poised to start a war that will determine the fate of all. You may tip be the one to tip the balance.

You are one of the rebels who have joined in the effort to reestablish freedom and peace in the galaxy. As more and more worlds and civilizations stand together the chance of victory seems like something more than a desperate dream.

Composed of the veterans of the Rebel Alliance and new members eager to join the fray you all have your own reasons for fighting. Perhaps you dream of seeing the skies of your world free of Imperial ships once and for all. Maybe you are driven by the hope of living a life without the yoke of the Empire around your neck. You may even be one of those who changes your allegiance as the odds of victory improve.

Whatever your reasons as a soldier of the Alliance of Free planets you have declared yourself an enemy of the Empire. Only time will tell if you chose the right side.

What is this?
This is a Star Wars Saga game set in the Rebellion Era, nearly two months after the Battle of Endor. The game will be taking place during the early days of the Alliance of Free Planets. In this version of events Luke Skywalker did not return from his duel aboard the Death Star II. At this point rebels are becoming organized and armed in a way that has the Empire on the run. However reclaiming the galaxy from the Sith is not an easy goal. It's going to be up to you to make it happen.

Can I play?
Perhaps, I’m giving players who took part in my Dark Times game the first opportunity to sign on for this. If none of them are interested in signing on though I’d be willing to take on some new players. I'm hoping for a group of 3-5 players to volunteer their services for this game. If you have an interest all you need to do is whip up a character sheet and post it in this thread by October 17th.

What are the guidelines for character creation?
*32 point buy system
*Level 5
*You can roll stats as outlined in the core rulebook.
*No Ewoks
*Droid characters are not forbidden but you really need to wow me with your concept to make it in.
*Jedi characters need to have a solid story to validate their presence as there are so few of them left alive at this point in history.
*You do not need to roll/pay for equipment licenses.
*Please include some sort of a backstory of your character, and answer the following questions for you character in you submission post:
1. How long has your character been a part of the Alliance?
2. Why did your character choose to fight against the Empire?
3. How does your character feel about the Empire?
4. What does your character love?
5. What does your character hate?

How often do I need to post?
Please try and post at least once per day. If something occurs that prevent you from doing so fine, I'm realistic and I do understand that sometimes lives are too hectic to plan for everything. If you can't post for more than a day or two though let me know what the situation is. This is an obligation that goes both way and I will make a sincere effort to post as often as possible. If something occurs to prevent me from doing so I will of course try to let everyone know what is going on.

Rolls
You can do your rolls on orokos, invisible castle, or any other online dice roller of your choosing.

The Horseshoe Rule
The Horseshoe Rule is named in honor of the GM who has been running the Clone Wars campaign on this forum for three years.

Simply put the rule is that your actions can, and more than likely will, change the history of the Star Wars universe. For example if you failed to prevent the assassination of Leia Organna…that will probably have a direct effect on the war between the Alliance and the Empire. Just probably though. You are not going to be puppets of the universe we're playing in, you’re the puppet masters. Shape it in whatever way you see fit.

House Rules
1. All PC characters of a species that cannot speak Basic receive a translator as part of their starting equipment. This device is able to translate their native language into Basic.
2. New Plympto was devastated by Imperial forces during the Battle of Bilagen. As such nearly all inhabitants were killed and the planet itself was desolated.



The Party

Jado Der'Merra, Balosar Jedi by El Skid
Arin, Human Scoundrel/Scout/Soldier by Arcanis
Titus Anteras, Human Jedi/Soldier by Heir
Tendau Bendon, Ithorian Scout by Klivian
Kandor Tarkas, Human Noble/Jedi by Solar

Skiddles

Expressing interest, need to find some time to think about a concept and try to build a character (which was a bit agonizing last time). Will post more in a bit.

psolms

potentially interested in this

Sakutian

Let me know if I can help you out with character creation El Skid.

Nice to know I have you potential interest Psolms.

Heir

Definitely interested. Will post something up tomorrow night.

Sakutian

Cool, nice to have you around for another game Hier. I'm excited to see what sort of character you'll run with this time around.

Steelhawk

I wasn't involved in your previous game, but I'd like to throw my hat in the ring too.

Delmain

Absolutely interested in this.

Do your posting requirements have any latitude in them for weekends. I can post generally pretty quickly during the week, but on weekends I'm away from computer a lot. One post a weekend is definitely possible, but one a day would occasionally be impossible.

Sakutian

The post-a-day isn't a requirement, it is just a goal. I realize that somedays it just isn't possible.

Delmain

Just a question, does the group as a whole want a character who is pilot-focused, or will ships and such be a small enough focus of the game that just having someone trained will suffice?

I love piloting, but it's often enough not a large enough portion of any game to be fun.

Sakutian

I'm not sure what sort of characters are going to be put forward for this but as Psolms can tell you pilots have plenty to do in my games.

Owenashi

I'm interested in joining as well but I've never played SW: Saga or participated in a PbP-RPG session before. I can get my hands on a copy of the core rulebook but is there anything I oughta know on either SW:S or PbPs?

Delmain

Owenashi wrote: »

I'm interested in joining as well but I've never played SW: Saga or participated in a PbP-RPG session before. I can get my hands on a copy of the core rulebook but is there anything I oughta know on either SW:S or PbPs?

Saga is pretty great. PbPs though definitely take some getting used to because there's not as much give and take in RPing as there can be in a table game. You get a lot more exposition from each player because in order for anything to ever happen, you have to do a lot without interaction from the others.

Heir

Sakutian wrote: »

The post-a-day isn't a requirement, it is just a goal. I realize that somedays it just isn't possible.

You'll find we're out on the weekends a lot anyways. Except for that guy Heir...he'll obsessively check the thread from his iphone even when driving 16 hours to Denver over the holidays!

Heir

Sak: What books are allowed to be used?

I'm thinking of making an older guy...grizzly...was a padawan but quit before the purge, pretty much lived out a hermit life until the rebellion sucked him back into galactic affairs. Is just now revealing his jedi heritage because he never put much stock into Skywalker restoring the jedi order and defeating the sith.

psolms

mix it up heir: play a non jedi

c'mon...

psolms

actually im thinking about a noble this time around.. maybe someone to bring a little class to the proceedings

Skiddles

Play a mostly-non-combat mechanic! It's fun :P

Heir

psolms wrote: »

mix it up heir: play a non jedi

c'mon...

But...I don't have any jedi characters now. No one wants to GM a game.

Though there might be another starting soon...

Owenashi

Could someone tell me what the classes in SW:S equate to more or less? Soldiers sound like ye standard RPG warrior class but I'm not so clear on the others.

Delmain

Lemme find my books.

Delmain

Jedi: This one is obviously themed very heavily, but it can function as a priest, mage, or warrior, really
Noble: This is like bard or Cha-oriented rogue
Scoundrel: Typical Rogue
Scout: Sniper / Ranger
Soldier: Warrior, but about evenly split between like, Clone Wars trooper heavy-armor, rifle-wielders and Gammorean heavy vibro-ax-ers.

JacquesCousteau

I know I bailed pretty early on last time. But I've taken an RPG hiatus and I think I'm ready to post daily. Ha. Hope you enjoy my app anyway.

Gast Cl'tey, Bothan Scoundrel

A moderately successful engineer on Imperial Centre, Gast had his assets seized by the Empire after the destruction of the first Death Star. Though he hadn't been involved in clan politics for some time, his name had come up on one list or another and his whole life was changed by a handful of keystrokes. Turning to Imperial Centre's less-savoury denizens for revenge, Gast made something of a name for himself as a Holonet information gatherer, saboteur and forger.

With the tumultuous conditions on Imperial Centre following the Emperor's death, Gast decided to leave as Imperial inquisitors turned more and more of his underworld contacts. Using his forgery skills and contacts to get off-planet, Gast has become an information officer in the Alliance's struggle against the Empire and hopes that he has chosen the right side of the war to help him reclaim the relative peace of his former life.

1. How long has your character been a part of the Alliance? Recently joined but fairly long-term accomplice.
2. Why did your character choose to fight against the Empire? Part revenge, part wanting to reclaim his former life, part wanting to show off his talents.
3. How does your character feel about the Empire? He thinks that they have treated him unfairly and is fairly bitter towards them.
4. What does your character love? "Getting away with it", his work, an easy life
5. What does your character hate? Gunfight and other things that "disturb his routine", being treated unfairly, the relative that got him into this mess in the first place

Owenashi

Delmain wrote: »

Jedi: This one is obviously themed very heavily, but it can function as a priest, mage, or warrior, really
Noble: This is like bard or Cha-oriented rogue
Scoundrel: Typical Rogue
Scout: Sniper / Ranger
Soldier: Warrior, but about evenly split between like, Clone Wars trooper heavy-armor, rifle-wielders and Gammorean heavy vibro-ax-ers.

Hmmm, the Noble sounds neat but I've never done a Bard-type before.

Denada

I'm interested in this. Maybe scout? I have to give this more thought. Also I should warn you that I'm cursed, and all PbP games I play in die early deaths. Just putting that out there.

JacquesCousteau

I used to think the same Denada. I actually called it a curse, even. After many a year I realized that it is just the nature of PbP.

Heir

I went to roll a character tonight, and instead played dishonored for four hours.

Now leaning more towards a soldier. We shall see. I might pick Jedi just to annoy Psolms. :P

Delmain

I'm thinking probably a Scoundrel/Noble type thing, but it might end up just being Scoundrel.

Owenashi

Is there any equipment not allowed other then (unless you say otherwise) Legacy-era stuff?

Sakutian

Wow. I was honestly a bit worried by the lack of activity in this thread before I went to work. It was nice seeing an explosion of activity take place when I wasn't around.

Now to questions!

Heir I'm allowing content from pretty much all of the books however certain races and equipment may be treated differently. I lost my pdfs of some of the books so I don't have a handy dandy cheat sheet. If there is something specific you have a question about though throw it out and I'll get back to you. I'm a bit more picky about vehicles than anything else though.

We all know Heir always plays a Jedi of some kind. That is part of his charm.

Psolms we could use a noble since we lost ours last time around.

Owenashi I have to say that Saga is a blast to play and it doesn't take very long to get a hang of the rules you will deal with on a regular basis. PBP format is another matter. As someone already said it is pretty different from a traditional tabletop experience but it is still fun and you get out of it what you put in. Of course the group dynamic also plays a big role.

Delmain

Sakutian wrote: »

Wow. I was honestly a bit worried by the lack of activity in this thread before I went to work. It was nice seeing an explosion of activity take place when I wasn't around.

Now to questions!

Heir I'm allowing content from pretty much all of the books however certain races and equipment may be treated differently. I lost my pdfs of some of the books so I don't have a handy dandy cheat sheet. If there is something specific you have a question about though throw it out and I'll get back to you. I'm a bit more picky about vehicles than anything else though.

We all know Heir always plays a Jedi of some kind. That is part of his charm.

Psolms we could use a noble since we lost ours last time around.

Owenashi I have to say that Saga is a blast to play and it doesn't take very long to get a hang of the rules you will deal with on a regular basis. PBP format is another matter. As someone already said it is pretty different from a traditional tabletop experience but it is still fun and you get out of it what you put in. Of course the group dynamic also plays a big role.

I think I have a nice cheat sheet excel workbook somewhere if you want me to look for it.

Skiddles

Delmain wrote: »

Sakutian wrote: »

Wow. I was honestly a bit worried by the lack of activity in this thread before I went to work. It was nice seeing an explosion of activity take place when I wasn't around.

Now to questions!

Heir I'm allowing content from pretty much all of the books however certain races and equipment may be treated differently. I lost my pdfs of some of the books so I don't have a handy dandy cheat sheet. If there is something specific you have a question about though throw it out and I'll get back to you. I'm a bit more picky about vehicles than anything else though.

We all know Heir always plays a Jedi of some kind. That is part of his charm.

Psolms we could use a noble since we lost ours last time around.

Owenashi I have to say that Saga is a blast to play and it doesn't take very long to get a hang of the rules you will deal with on a regular basis. PBP format is another matter. As someone already said it is pretty different from a traditional tabletop experience but it is still fun and you get out of it what you put in. Of course the group dynamic also plays a big role.

I think I have a nice cheat sheet excel workbook somewhere if you want me to look for it.

I actually could very much use something like this if you can find it!

Delmain

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11290730/SAGA Index.zip

Steelhawk

Are the characters in this game meant to be a pre-exisiting rebel cell or more of a thrown together collection of heroes?

Sakutian

If you guys would like to tie your concepts together I won't stop you. I was thinking more a thrown together collection of heroes though. It worked so well in Dark Times.

That is pretty handy, thanks Delmain.

Skiddles

Thanks

Skiddles

Okay, I'm thinking I'd like to play a young spontaneous force user who gets noticed by the rebellion and snapped up. Sent an PM to sak to start talking about it- will let you know how that goes.

jdarksun

Edit: looks crowded already, never mind!

Delmain

Well if no one else is thinking of making a Noble, I might make my dude up as having been in the rebellion a while (well, longer than the rest of you) such that we have an easy way of being contacted/whatever. Unless Sak had other ideas and doesn't need that.

Owenashi

I was thinking of playing a Noble myself but like I said, I never played Saga or a Bardish class before and I might not be eloquent enough for such a guy.

Delmain

Owenashi wrote: »

I was thinking of playing a Noble myself but like I said, I never played Saga or a Bardish class before and I might not be eloquent enough for such a guy.

I'm not planning eloquent, I'm planning well-connected.

E: I'm going Noble/Scoundrel