A Star Wars RP (version two)

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Re: A Star Wars RP

indeed,

i'd reckon there are a few others like me who are eying this with interest and have yet to post
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oh... that figures... We were waiting for much the same (except the part about us doing it)

*chuckles slightly*

We're honestly not 100% sure about where to start when setting it up... But we'll try to do it... (even if there is no try)
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Re: A Star Wars RP

No try, there is only do, or do not :-D
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We asked for that one... (particularly with the sentence on the end...)

The problem we have is that we can't figure out the beginning for it. After that, it should be easy enough.

We're thinking something utilizing both Jedi & Dark Acolytes... (fallen jedi & force sensitives trained by dark side users)

But just as importantly, where to set it?
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Ok... we sent out a series of PMs to the people that posted in this thread this time around. We'll try to work out a plot from the replies to those PMs.

Here's a copy of what we sent out, just in case anyone who is merely reading the thread rather than posting in it is curious.

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Hai...

We saw your interest in getting the Star Wars RP back up and running, but in order to build a plot that would work, we need to know a bit about what sort of character you have in mind...

The setting for the story we'll cover in this round of the RP is the early parts of the Clone Wars.
What we do not know, is whether it should focus on the war as a whole, a small part (say a few worlds) or something else altogether. The character idea you give might give us an idea of what would work best.

Here are some theoretical concepts for the plot:
- Jedi Temple training of young Jedi, but you are uncertain about your path. Is the way of the Jedi the best path?
- A series of battles ranging across various worlds (1-2 at a time), with characters leading troops on each side
- A story revolving around the Jedi temple, in particular the command areas for the war. You are one of several jedi knights therein, but at least one of the other Jedi there is in fact a fallen one, serving the separatist cause.


If you could think on the above plots, or even suggest another if you think that would work better, then reply, we would be quite thankful.
Remember that the RP is unlikely to get more than eight or so active players, so we can't use a plot that would require dozens of characters.


As a guide, we wrote up a rudimentary character sheet. You can design a character out of it, but you may also add categories to it. Try to write more than one or two sentences, especially on the history. It is a fairly good setup to have about as many strengths as weaknesses, and they don't need to all be major.

We would also prefer it if you avoid using any characters that are central to the canon storyline here, as they have limited development potential and make fitting a story plot much harder. Some of the central characters may appear as NPCs, though. (Non-Player Characters).

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May the force be with you. (or against you, if you'd prefer that...)
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Name: Leo Maronnan (He may be a bit overpowered, I can tweak if needed. Just tell me.)

Race: Sorrusian

Age: 22

Character type/role: Can't be called an assasin, per se, but in reality he pulls off covert operations, as his talents are needed more there than on the main battlefields.

Faction: Jedi

Personality: Excited, although is easily affected by any reprimanding from friends or allies. Anxious to fight.

Strengths: Quick, good two-saber dueler, stealthy, can compress skeletal structure. Can do:
-Breath Control
-Force Speed
-Force Jump
-Force Sight
-Force Stun
-Mind Trick (Only on the most basic of topics, changing ever so slightly a seen sight or opinion.)

Weaknesses: Can't fight with only one lightsaber, not very strong physically, can't use some basic force abilities. (Note the lack of force push/pull, force deflect and any advanced telekinesis or telepathy.)

History/Background: Born off of Sorrus, his parents had hope for him, and wanted him to be raised off of Sorrus so he would learn tolerance of other races. He was raised on Coruscant, (I do not care, spellers.) and it was no mystery that he was to be picked up by the jedi. He showed evidence of force sensitivity long before he was noticed at the age of five. He was kidnapped by a studier of the dark side, but was safely returned. He did, however, take a while to fully recover from the psychological effects of the experiments done to him (I care about my own logic/speaking holes as much as my spelling.). After much hard work, he was granted the rank of Jedi Knight, and sent to do covert operations in the war.
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Re: A Star Wars RP (version two)

we'll see in time whether the character is balanced or not...

and as for the spelling/grammar... its far better than a horror we saw elsewhere yesterday, so its nothing to worry about... besides, we don't make a point of enforcing anything but the use of English here... (the horror we spoke of was a 257-word sentence, covering the equivalent of fourteen normal lines.)

did you find any of the plot concepts particularly intriguing, or?
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I can say from a personal standpoint I would only participate in this if we removed all those non-canon BS powers. Force shield.. jesus...
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Semper wrote:I can say from a personal standpoint I would only participate in this if we removed all those non-canon BS powers. Force shield.. jesus...

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well, the original idea we had yesterday would involve not having an official list of force powers the way a game would have. We're making a roleplay, not a game...

Shield is just a specialized use of telekinesis. Only a computer game would really need to define powers beyond "telekinesis". We've looked over a few star wars RPs elsewhere, and not really seen list of force powers in most of them.

But on general principle, we agree that overly specifying available "powers" is not a good idea. Most jedi have strengths and weaknesses in the various powers, but access to most of them. Rare cases are (in the EU at least) shown to lack ability in certain areas, but that would be exceptions to the rule.
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Well you have to watch it even with that. There is a reason DV can deflect blaster bolts and Yoda can deflect force lightning.. they're two of the most powerful force users ever. Mace Windu could do neither, nor could most jedi.

Using Telekenisis as a force shield i'd even object too.. because it just didn't happen. If it did the arena battle at the end of episode II would have consisted of 200 jedi or so casually walking about with their hands raised deflecting every blaster bolt until they surrounded count dooku. There is a reason Yoda lived for 900+ years and Vader can do that stuff and every other bugger, including Kenobi and Windu and even Palpatine (for example) had to make big uses of lightsabres, armour, tanks, puppets and the likes.

You'll have to seriously rain in on force powers and remember that anyone being a jedi here isn't going to be able to do anything major.

To summerise in as short as possible.. not everyone is the chosen one or Yoda.
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Semper wrote:Well you have to watch it even with that. There is a reason DV can deflect blaster bolts and Yoda can deflect force lightning.. they're two of the most powerful force users ever. Mace Windu could do neither, nor could most jedi.

Using Telekenisis as a force shield i'd even object too.. because it just didn't happen. If it did the arena battle at the end of episode II would have consisted of 200 jedi or so casually walking about with their hands raised deflecting every blaster bolt until they surrounded count dooku. There is a reason Yoda lived for 900+ years and Vader can do that stuff and every other bugger, including Kenobi and Windu and even Palpatine (for example) had to make big uses of lightsabres, armour, tanks, puppets and the likes.

You'll have to seriously rain in on force powers and remember that anyone being a jedi here isn't going to be able to do anything major.

To summerise in as short as possible.. not everyone is the chosen one or Yoda.

Agreed, the force push was the main one used.
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its a bit odd, but we are in agreement. what you wrote were plain facts.

so... to summarize...

No long list of force powers.
Most users aren't very good at most powers, be they light, neutral or dark.
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