Typical OOC thread. Come in and chit that chat.

Hello all!

While we are getting up and running I'll throw out an offer that I dabble in AI generated images so if you would like I can attempt to whip up a character image for you to stick in your description.

Just shoot me a PM if you're interested.

Welcome to Worlds Away!!!

Hello everyone!

Hey all.

Woot! How goes it, everyone?

Good! Struggling with how to allocate my starting xp
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Always. I have a love/hate relationship with creating characters. I love envisioning and creating them. I hate actually spending xp/character points etc. Every point spent seems to waste 4 more in things I cannot afford. So much potential wasted.

Of-course this often requires creating other characters going into the directions I couldn't take the original character in ;-).

In reply to Nerrax Zim (msg # 9):

Yeah, so many hard choices!

Could not find a great Rodian pic, I’ll have to submit one.
Doing pretty good. Starting on my CS.

Been watching this OOC for like a week waiting to say this. Just spend all your points on Characteristics at CC. You can't buy them up later and more dice is better than an upgrade.

Whew... Needed to get that off my chest.

HI! I'm The Squad's party... rogue, I guess? The goal is to be good at everything and one shot all the big bads we'll see how that goes...

Welcome to the groups! Can't wait to see all you guys in action.

This is a good point, I may have to make some changes lol!

I'm not saying you shouldn't do that but here are some counterpoints:

1) It is more expensive because you are upgrading skills you might not use that often.

2) You can earn characteristics from talent trees. They are also very expensive compared to skills/talents/force powers.

3) Spending all your points on that is a very long term view of your character that might not even pay off in a normal game let alone a PbP game. It is a viewpoint of creating an optimal level 20 character, not necessarily an effective level 1 character.

4) Especially for force users there is a lot of XP sinks when it comes to force powers and creative use of force powers can bypass or change the stats of rolls entirely.


Bottom line though it is hard to make a bad character in FFG.

In reply to GM PraguePride (msg # 15):

Yeah I was looking over my sheet and realized that I’d pretty much have to give up all the skills and most of the talents to increase a single characteristic, so it didn’t really seem worth it.

Not that many XP to cap a skill and versatility never hurt. But then we could time scroll forward 10 years and I give us 500 XP and my "build" wouldn't be "complete".

Agreed, I always spend as many starting XP on attributes as possible.

I’ll be a gunner; excited to get started; been meaning to fill out my CS, but busy with RL, my wife just had her BIRTHDAY.  SHOULD GET it done soon.

In reply to Var'Sall Voidstorm (msg # 18):

Welcome, welcome!

 Hi Guys, looking forward to gaming with you all.


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Looks like a big'un! good to have you.

Looks like we just got some more players! Welcome!!

Hello!

Welcome everyone!

Hey people!

How’s everyone’s character gen coming on?

I’m more or less done unless I decide to spend more credits or revise anything

I'm done.
That doesn't stop me from endless tweaking and fuzzing about parts of my character; which I then decide to revert.

Funny story I was actually just talking to a buddy about a sort of "double tidal lock" thing like you describe for Anemis. For basically the reasons you are describing.

I'm pretty sure that the math works out that the satellite would be so far out from the planet that it wouldn't offer notable protection from the star for any sort of earth sized planet.

Obvs doesn't matter much for Star Wars but still funny that I recently discussed it.

It is. Good to know that others share my relative logic concerning what "may" work in real life. I am by no means a physics or astronomical expert. Just a sci-fi guy. Or in this case, a space-opera guy. lol

But a lot of that comes from GMPrague. The base concept is largely different from what was posted.

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Quick questions...Is anybody keeping up with the Mandalorian or any of the star wars series?

I'm behind but, generally yes.

Also Between the two with me IIRC 2 advantage can pass a blue to someone specific. maybe figure out who has the lowest die pool?

I've seen all of the Star Wars shows except Bad Batch and Resistance.  I'm one episode behind on Mando - I Do feel like S3 is getting a little bit of a slow start.

I've kept up with all of them for the most part. Except the bad batch. For some reason I can't get into it. I though at first maybe it was because it was animated but I kept up with Rebels and Clone Wars just fine. Idk

As for the blue die, its up to you. You can edit your post to specify who it goes to.

I like how its getting started this season though. Segwaying into the larger story with the bit about the scientist and whatnot.

Mando- I’m caught up to S3, E3.
Bad Batch - S2E2
Rebels - S2E5 I think
Obi-Won - S1 all
Clone Wars - S2E6, perhaps.

The absolute best Star Wars show (Andor) is missing from this list.
The only possible negative thing I will say is - don't judge anything until you see at least through episode 3.  It's not paced like a show, it's paced like a movie series.  e1-e3 are a movie, e4-e6 are a movie, e7-e10 are a movie, and e11-12 wrap things up.  The arcs in episode 4-6 and 7-10 are some of the best Star Wars content out there.

In reply to Breja Chadran (msg # 37):

Love Andor, caught up 100%.
Boba Fett - 100%
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Andor - Best Show.
Bad Batch - Seen all; wasn't too bad
Clone Wars - Seen all, ranging from medium to Good.
Mando - All caught up. While I didn't think S3 was slow, S3E2's droid arc was a bit superfluous.
Obi-wan - Seen 2 or 3 episodes; too many leaps of logic for me.
Rebels - Seen all.
Tales of the Jedi - Fun if you've seen the Clone Wars.
Resistance doesn't interest me.

My biggest problem with most Star Wars shows (and novels) is the 'Small Galaxy' problem. I really got into Star Wars with the original Knights of the Old Republic 1/2 games, and only there I got the feeling that the galaxy was Big, with lot's of new planets and places to explore. I still miss that feeling with most shows though.

In reply to Nerrax Zim (msg # 39):


Agreed.  Mondo took the droid down with one shot to the head originally but that episode he took, what 4-6?  Also don’t agree with how the writers went with the droid reverting back to its original programming.  If you wipe a computer, it’s wiped.

I enjoyed Obi Wan, though I kind of wish they’d started with like a smaller-stake story on tattooine rather than what they did. Andor was very good. Seen the first 2 seasons or so of Mando but not the latest one. Always been a big fan of clone wars (watched when I was a kid), enjoyed rebels too

I've gotten too old and grumpy to really enjoy Star Wars. Clone Wars had a handful of good episodes but so much of it was filler and too man poor writing episodes that kind of spoiled it. The ones focused on the clone soldiers were A-MAZ-ING but Anakin + Ahsoka were pretty much mary sues (remember when Ahsoka and R2-D2 outfly and outflight every top notch bounty hunter in the galaxy at the same time with no sweat?), the 3-arc "droid platoon" episodes or the one where they personified the force into a family squabble?

Yeah....just...yeah....

Rebels had the potential but then fell into the mary sue trap where the main character can do no wrong and a 12 yr old kid can run circles around the Imperial Elite. I get that its a kids show but in the original star wars Vader was portrayed as an unstoppable monster even though he only brought out his lightsaber twice. The tone and presence when he was on screen was palpable but if it was in Rebels then after his ominous introduction the heroes would drop a paint bucket on his head and escape without any consequences.

Obi-Wan suffered greatly from the fact that we *know* how the story is going to end because we know he can't die and I feel they didn't put enough emphasis on "yeah he survives, but at what cost" which is the real dropped ball from all of that.

Same with Rogue One...the question isn't whether they succeed at their mission, but at what cost. They tried to build it up as the big sacrifice at the end but I didn't really care about 90% of the characters in that movie because they jammed way way too many characters into "the squad" to really attach to. When your top characters are the comic relief droid and the silent monk things have gone off the rails :P

THe ending space battle was cool but it felt more like just fan service. The rebels should not be doing a slug-fest head-to-head fight with the imperial navy at Episode 4. I get the idea is to explain why their fleet is so small in Ep 4 but that didn't need an explanation and kind of ruins it that the reason the rebels are such plucky underdogs is because they completely squandered the resources they had.

Ugh, anyway like I said I'm too old and grumpy to enjoy anything new in star wars :P

I think pragmatic is the word you're looking for. Fiction loves its drama for drama's sake to hook that bottom line. In contrast, people like us who want to 'live' in the universe look at much of that nonsense as superfluous when better things have been done with far less.

My computer died and I have now very limited inet access. Hopefully I will have access again later this week.

Computers isn’t a class skill, but I have a 3 Int, I can try to analyze the signal.