Okay, here's a thread for questions (and hopefully answers) about the game rules, especially character generation.

I've been building my character, and have had to make some assumptions. It's hard bouncing around in the book to find answers.

So ask away!

In reply to StarMaster (msg # 1):

Hey there.  New guy, looking to join up...

Quick question.  There's been some talk about potential "allied Aliens" on the Team(s).  You gonna place any restriction on the number of Aliens?  I mean, not that I expect it, but if, say, 5 of us ended up wanting to play "aliens", that could be a whole Team of "aliens".

In a related vein, what about us Terrans?  I'm guessing we could be from any of the IOC countries?  Either Military or Non-Military?  Can I be Estonian?  Oh, Oh!! I know! How about Andorran?  Would/is Andorra on the Steering Committee? ^_^

Right now I'm leaning towards, maybe, either an older, male, Polish Professor of Anthropology (and maybe a Linguist) who might be Military (his Soviet-era Red Army Reserve Commission gets activated).

Or, I'm also thinking, maybe, a young, female, Japanese Defence Forces techie (who's actually from their Intelligence Directorate).  For this one, I haven't decided if she'll be fan-obsessed with Hello Kitty, or Space Battleship Yamato ^_^

In reply to Lord Vince (msg # 2):

Okay, next question.

I'm looking at this character record sheet StarMaster put up, and then I'm looking in the SG-1 rulebook, and now I'm wondering -- how are Ability Scores being done?  Am I gonna role 3d6 six times?  Am I spending points, and if so, how many?

Although we haven't put up any restrictions on species, an entire team of aliens would be a bit difficult to justify. Not even General Hammond would go for that.


As for Tauri nationalities, sure, any are valid, as long as you have a good back backstory. You don't have to be just from IOC countries. Political machinations could easily send a 'Ziva David' into the Stargate program... as long as the Israelis think it's a 'deepspace listening' program.



There should be a revised character sheet put up tomorrow, along with our character generation rules. I'm leaning towards preset values assigned how you want. Just need to confer with the other GM.

In reply to StarMaster (msg # 4):

Ooooo...Maltese.  I should definately be Maltese ^_^  And then, I give myself the last name of Falcon...

It looks like four or five of us are looking at non-Earthlings, so it'll probably be 2/5 and 3/5 aliens at least. I like the idea of more non-Earthlings getting involved, but we'd probably feel less special. :)

I have a rules question: do you gain feats at levels 1, 3, 6, etc. and ability score bonuses at levels 4, 8, etc., as normal for a d20 system? I can't find it specifically stated anywhere. The book refers a lot to a Player's Handbook — I assume the D&D 3rd edition book, but I'm not sure how much applies. I suppose it sucks to be someone who didn't play D&D 3.x.
This message was last edited by the player at 10:29, Thu 14 Nov 2013.

We are still trying to find what could be the best solution. When the rules are not clear, we try to fill the hole by putting our own rules. :)
When we will be done, we will release the character creation process to you all. :)

The Stargate game has the unfortunate fate of being based on the now almost impossible to find first edition of the Spycraft rules that have been completely replaced by the Spycraft 2.0 book which is such a big rules change it is no longer compatible with Stargate.

Generally any D&D 3.0 or 3.5 rules will work just fine in the rare case that the Stargate system has not replaced them with something else as all D20 games tend to share a basic level of similarity, particularly in the character generation stage.

On the subject of character creation did we decide on starting as trainees or at something of a higher level?

Characters will not start as trainees, but they've yet to go on their first off-world mission. I am thinking, though, that as trainees, they did go through the stargate at some point as part of their training; they just didn't go through as a team. Clearly, all the aliens had to go through the gate to get to earth... well, not always, but that's probably the way to go.

I was thinking that my character could perhaps start on the first planet you go to, but I guess that's up to the GMs?

She'll be a bit Vala-ish, so the planet you go to doesn't have to be reflective of her own homeworld.

Sure, that works for me.

Now we just have to come up with a good reason why she'd be pulled into SGC.

I could try and rob you? *laughs* You could trust me because you're in a hostile environment? Optionally, you could win me in a poker game?

Little Myth Marker in dragon poker... but would that really be 'winning'?

How's your character coming along?

I haven't created her yet but I can put some work into her over the next day, if that's okay?

I'm overseas (well technically back home, but overseas from where I usually live) on holiday and don't have the gaming book with me. Where can I find the basics I need to create her? Is there a web site or a specific post I can use as a guide? I saw the sheet is under character details now.

It's the Stargate SG-1: Roleplaying Game?