Renatasia:The Outer Rim

TheHumanHydra · 12:28am

Hi Bob,

I have an idea for a character for this game who would be quite self-motivated, but I'd like to know if you think it's too cliché. Also, I would need to work with you to iron out some of the details. I would like to play as a Sith (a member of the Order, I mean, not a soldier), who for [insert reason] has had a change of heart or personality, and does not want to be a Sith anymore. The reason I worry about it being too cliché is because immediately after thinking of it I thought of the Bourne series and similar stories of spies who have a change of heart and are hunted by their organization. Anyway, let me know, and thank you for running a game on Myth-Weavers!

TheHumanHydra

BobtheBiotitan · Jul 18 '12, 12:30am

Hydra,

As long as it's well written it's good by my book. I'm all about a good betrayal. Besides, we're here to be actors and play a role. Who cares if it's been done before? Hasn't everything?

-Bob

Solaris · 12:47am

I'm posting this here so I don't clutter up your other application threads with things that aren't actual applications.

I'm interested in this, though I admit I know practically nothing about the Renatasia System. I'll probably make a pair of characters. How fast and loose are we allowed to play with canon? I'm not talking something goofy like playing a Starfleet officer, of course. I've been thinking of some kind of Iron Knight (may or may not be a Shard, perhaps stolen from its homeworld by a Sith scout) built into a synth-droid/HRD/cloned cyborg body, perhaps as a Sith experiment (by a mad ~~scientist~~ sorcerer intent on making a perfectly loyal warrior). It seems reasonable, given how Galactic technology really hasn't advanced that much in four thousand years and mecha-duru/Sith alchemy can cover the rest.

Not certain about the other character just yet. Might be a Jedi (or commando, ex-Mandalorian or otherwise) who penetrates the Sith blockade, only to have it end badly. Jedi crashes. The Iron Knight (Iron Massassi?) is the first one to the Jedi, the Jedi takes it prisoner (perhaps not realizing what it is - or realizing what it is, and that it's innocent 'cause it was programmed to be the way it is) and they escape into the wilderness.

If it makes you feel better, I'm GM pretty much all the time - so I have no problems with motivating characters to do something.

EDIT: Ooh, I think this can work fairly well with Hydra's idea.

TheHumanHydra · 12:57am

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Originally Posted by Solaris

EDIT: Ooh, I think this can work fairly well with Hydra's idea.

I had the exact same thought. Would you like to apply as "partner" characters? If you want to go with the other character you had in mind, that's fine too of course.

Bob: Thanks. I'll get working on my application, then!

Blakkmonk · Jul 18 '12, 12:54am

I do have a jedi idea that would fit here. funny enough, i hardly ever play jedi but i think it will work. sound like a blast nmw

BobtheBiotitan · Jul 18 '12, 12:57am

Canon is pretty loose in this world. As long as you can make it believable I'm willing to let it fly. Example: I'm really found of droids. At some point in time you may encounter B1 battle droids even though they won't exist until 2,700 years later. GM and player are here to get something out of the game. Lets see what we can come up with. Creativity is the ultimate DM in my mind.

Solaris · Jul 18 '12, 1:01am

Sweet. Bonus points, it'll come with its own villain - the Sith wants its pet monster back, and the pet monster wants it dead.

Who isn't fond of droids? 'Sides, you could just pass 'em off as cheap Sith warbots controlled through a sort of Battle Meditation, replacing the central processor with a mediating warlord - assuming you want to go a high-fantasy instead of high-tech route with it.

Valeiru · Jul 18 '12, 1:20am

The core book droid creation is much to ladking for me to play a droid in the revised edition. But I may do something with a gungan force adept.. not 100% sure yet.

BobtheBiotitan · Jul 18 '12, 1:22am

I'm very open to droid creation. As long as you make it plausible I am completely fine with rolling with it. After all, most droids that you see in the movies/games are made by the lowest bidder. If you're 100% dead set on playing a droid then throw something together, even if you have to use the SAGA edition rules to make a droid that you want.