Character Creation
Rangers shall be created using the Star Wars 1st Edition rules and templates. Nearly any human template is available, or a custom one can be created. The only exceptions to the standard rules are as follows:
- There are no Dark Side Points in this game.
- There are no Jedis or Jedi Powers. However, there are PsychoKinetics, called PK's, who wield psychic powers similar to the Force.
- We are using the Advantage/Disadvantage tables from the Star Wars 2nd Edition rules.
Player Questions
Character Formation
Creating a Character
Advantage/Disadvantage rules and list
There are many questions to consider when creating a new character. This list should
take care of the most basic issues.
Music
Foods/drinks
Equipment/vehicles/toys
Many more features of a character is listed and described below. One important idea to remember is that you don't have to create your own character's statistics. The guidelines below are for creating your character with a pre-made template, to be found in many of the West End Games sourcebooks. These are guidelines for your character in terms of persona. A pre-made template will have his or her stats and abilities on it already. And, if you get creative, you can follow the rules in the WEG books for creating a unique template.
Physical Description
Background
Objectives
Connections with other characters
Finishing the Template
What does your character look like? Figure out height, weight, eye color, hair color, and other physical qualities. Is your character in shape or overweight? Attractive or plain? Be sure to list anything unusual about you character, like tattoos, scars, bright blue hair, etc. You can go into a TON of detail if you'd like. The more you make up, the more realistic your character will seem, and the better you can play that character out.
Tells about your character up to the point of the game. This is only for you and the gamemaster, unless you want to share it with other characters. However, if your character is well known, some details may be made public. Remember, you don't have to tell the other players anything. You can even lie to them if you'd like - but keep in mind that allies that trust you, and whom you trust are important when you're getting fired upon.
What does your character want to accomplish? What are his/her motives? Greed, love, money...sex? Your objectives can be whatever you want them to be, but it is to your advantage you make them reasonable because a Gamemaster may give you points for playing your character well...
Connections with other characters
Does your character know someone else in the group? What connections do they have? Remember, you have a Gamemaster that will dictate whether you are being ridiculous...
Choose if your character is Psycho Kinetic, or PK. Pick the character's species. Note: many aliens are discriminated against by many human characters, as are droids and individuals with cybernetic implants, etc...
Select a character template that looks like would be fun to play. grab a pencil and a few six-sided ("normal") dice.
The right side of the characters sheet describes your character's's personality and background. You can change some of these elements, but make sure those changes are approved by the gamemaster.
Each character has six attributes:
Dexterity -- Your character's eye-hand coordination and agility.
Knowledge -- Your character's knowledge of the galaxy.
Mechanical -- Your character's "mechanical aptitude," or ability to pilot vehicles, starships and the like.
Perception -- Your character's powers of observation, and ability to convince others to do things for them.
Strength -- Your character's physical strength, health, and ability to resist damage.
Technical -- Your character's "technical aptitude," or ability to fix repair, and modify all kinds of technology, including starships, droids, and vehicles.
Each attribute has a die code. A typical die code could be 3D. that means roll three six-sided dice whenever the attribute is used.
Skills
Skills are things your character learns and they can get better over time. Skills include things like blaster, dodge, starfighter piloting, and brawling. A skill is listed under its attribute; each skill begins with the same die code as its attribute.
You can add one or two dice to a skill, but you only have seven dice to spend on all your skills. (You can't improve every skill -- you can only pick the ones you think will be important!)
Important Skills
Here are some of the more important skills for characters in the Rangers game. They cover your character's knowledge of a feild or ability to do the following:
Dexterity skills:
blaster: Fire blasters.
brawling parry: Block someone else's unarmed (brawling) attack.
dodge: Get out of the way when people shoot at you.
melee combat: Fight with weapons in hand-to-hand combat.
melee parry: Block hand weapon attacks (only if you're holding a weapon).
Knowledge skills:
alien species: Knowledge of strange aliens -- anyone not of your species
languages: Speak and understand strange languages.
planetary systems: Knowledge of different planets and star systems.
streetwise: Knowledge of criminal groups and people in the Fringe and how to deal with them.
survival: Survive in harsh environments, like arctic wastes and deserts.
Mechanical skills:
astrogation: Plot hyperspace jumps.
repulsorlift operation: Fly vehicles like snowspeeders, airspeeders, landspeeders and cloud cars.
starship piloting: Fly starships, starfighters, etc.
starship gunnery: Fire starship weapons.
Perception skills:
bargain: Make deals.
con: Fast-talk your way out of situations or talk people into doing things for you.
gambling: Gamble.
search: Look for things.
sneak: Sneak around without being seen.
Strength skills:
brawling: Fight with your bare hands.
climbing/jumping: Climb and jump.
stamina: Push your physical limits and resist disease.
Technical skills:
computer programming/repair: Use, repair and program computers.
droid programming: Program droids.
droid repair: Repair droids.
first aid: Knowledge of first aid techniques.
starship repair: Repair starships and fighters.
Advantage/Disadvantage rules and list
The points: The system used in this is pretty self explanatory, your disadvantage points need to add up to or be greater than to your advantage points. I limit characters to 1 and no more than 2 adv. Or disadvantages, otherwise they become too unbalanced and rather freakish.
When first creating characters and assigning skills (the 7D to allot) characters may choose to convert up to 2 of their skill dice into adv.-dis. Points.
Example: a player uses 3D of their skill allotment. They then have 4D to allot to skills, and can take a 2 point or less than 2 point advantage.
This also could work the other way; if a character chooses to take a disadvantage and not an advantage, up to 2 points may be converted 1=1D to skill dice.
Points converted from skill dice can be combine with disadvantages to give a player more points to spend on advantages. NOTE: all of these are up to a GM to "okay." I'd make characters explain something about where the advantage/disadvantage came from in their lives and add it to their background. Many of them are useful in adding to plots of an adventure, such as traumatic flashbacks, drug addiction, sexual fetish, raciest, etc.