Star Wars: Live For The Lost (Beginners Welcome)

Creating your character

When you join the community, there'll be immediate resources and guides to the setting and tools we use to make characters as well as our limited restrictions/house rules. You'll have some extra power from the start (300 Earned XP), continuing to grow on the campaign journey with 15-25 XP earned per session! For those coming from other game systems, this is like starting at Level 3-5 in D&D. EOTE, AOR, and F&D as well as their associated sourcebooks will be available for character creation, but some additional sourcebooks may be restricted or unavailable.

Preparing for the session

The only physical equipment you need is a computer and a microphone/headphones. For programs, you will need: 1) Discord (game information will be provided on a safe, moderated server with private group-based channels as well as individual player channels for personal communication so that direct messaging isn't required - engage with the game and group when you want during the week, be able to take a break when you want and just wait until next session, it's up to you) 2) Oggdude's Character Generator (an incredible game resource available for free download that allows you to build your characters completely within it and print PDFs with finished sheets for group upload use. Full download and installation instructions will be provided as well as any needed support to get it working.) That's all - we'll use a free online dice roller that saves our sessions for the rest. Notes are highly recommended due to the roleplay/narrative nature of the game.

What Nitro (Matt) brings to the table

As a Game Master, I bring over a decade of experience running the FFG Star Wars system, which includes the ability to rapidly explain situations or address questions. We'll use ambient music, literal Star Wars music as well as other themed libraries. I'll be providing years of experience narrating scenes and providing characterful voices and portrayals. I am mostly a Rules as Written kind of GM, but I can and will extend the rules to allow for instances of cool moments as long as we can find a way to represent it fairly in the mechanics. You can expect a wide mixture of combat, roleplay and more. Everything is represented, this is a universal Star Wars experience - at the start of a session you might be in a heated starship battle and by the end, half the party could be caught in a diplomatic gala trying to smooth-talk their way out starting a war while the other half is avoiding a bounty hunter in a server vault. Star Wars is an almost limitless setting - the campaign's adventures will adapt to the characters the players create and the choices they make.

Homebrew rules

We will not be using the Obligation/Duty/Morality system as is written. Instead it will be utilized as background biography/personality traits and given a flat +10 Creation XP bonus rather than different options. The Jury Rigged talent cannot be used to change the Advantage requirement on Weapon Qualities. Some other rules may apply to individual campaigns/groups as they develop.

How Nitro (Matt) creates a safe table

There will be a Session 0 provided at campaign start that will give an opportunity for everyone to meet and get comfortable, go over the setting and game rules, and fill out a Lines and Veils document (that can be updated anytime after too). During sessions, there will be a 5-15 minute break about halfway to allow players to breathe, get snack, use the bathroom, etc. Questions or concerns can also be expressed freely at this time. After every session, there will be a channel for Stars & Wishes and I welcome any discussions that those brings about how we can improve the game experience. If time allows, I will be happy to discuss the game session with players afterward in voice, and very much encourage players to discuss the game during the week. The tone and style of this game is PG-13 in nature and the descriptions will largely be as such 95% of the time. As this is Star Wars and a sci-fi/fantasy setting, there should be some expected brushing against content warnings, but I've only included the basics until we see if there's anything players want to avoid in Session 0.