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
This message was last edited by the player at 04:00, Sat 04 Mar 2023.

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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