Create Character

Develop a character for StarForgeRP’s shared Star Wars: The Old Republic setting, or bring an existing character into its continuity. Start with someone other characters can encounter: a person with a place in the galaxy, concerns of their own, and room for relationships and experiences to change them.

Establish the character’s present life before expanding their history.

• Identity — Choose a name or designation, species or model, formative background, and occupation.

• Place — Identify a home, workplace, community, or regular destination.

• Motivation — Decide what they want and what they would struggle to lose.

• Pressure — Give them a responsibility, difficulty, or competing priority.

• Capability — Explain their useful skills, relevant experience, and need for assistance.

• Connection — Identify a circumstance that could bring someone else into their life.

Let background influence the character without prescribing their personality or loyalties.

Consult Current Setting for the shared present and adopted SWTOR story boundary. That page contains major story spoilers. Use the Galactic Timeline to check historical events that affect the character’s upbringing, training, service, travel, or changing affiliations.

Check that these experiences fit into the available years. Use approximate ages or periods where exact timing is uncertain. A historical event can shape a household or career without placing the character at its center.

SWTOR’s Origin Story concerns the game narrative, while Combat Style concerns combat gameplay. Decide how the avatar represents your roleplay character; game progress, statistics, and equipment do not independently establish their biography or authority.

Choose an opening that follows from the character’s circumstances. A service they offer, a recurring journey, an unanswered question, or an obligation can give another character a reason to approach them. Explain how someone could discover the opportunity and what they might contribute.

Explore the Character Directory for relevant people and connections. RP Hooks provides guidance for developing openings and a place to check for listed opportunities. Confirm participation with the players concerned; a published character or story does not establish availability.

Agree on significant shared history before presenting it as fact. Family relationships, employment, mentorships, rivalries, and previous encounters can affect another participant’s character. Future decisions and responses remain theirs to make.

Use the Character Dossier Guidelines to decide what belongs in the continuing record, then organize it with the Blank Character Dossier.

For an ordinary dossier, tailor optional coverage to the character. An explicitly requested complete dossier development or revision addresses every standard and optional field, omitting only inapplicable Force and Droid / Synthetic profiles.

Introduce the character’s present circumstances clearly. Include history that explains them, meaningful relationships, practical capabilities and limits, and opportunities for interaction. Link relevant records and preserve lasting changes as roleplay develops.

Write with the public audience in mind. Separate factual description from rumors, beliefs, and incomplete accounts. Information available to readers is not automatically known by characters. Keep revealing details off the public page when players also need to remain unaware of a secret.

Include player handles, contact details, availability, and other personal information only when the person concerned intends them for publication. Exclude unnecessary sensitive information.

Check that you are entitled to contribute the writing and images, and preserve required credits. Give meaningful images concise alt text and keep essential information available in the prose.

When you can introduce the character, explain their circumstances, and offer a believable first encounter, arrange a scene with interested participants. Leave space for their choices to produce discoveries, setbacks, relationships, and responsibilities worth recording.