About StarForgeRP

StarForgeRP is a community-built archive and reference resource for collaborative roleplay set in the era of Star Wars: The Old Republic.

It gives characters, stories, locations, relationships, lore, and shared history somewhere to persist beyond the individual scenes in which they first appeared. Roleplay may happen in-game, through Discord, or through another format agreed upon by the players involved. StarForgeRP provides the lasting record that connects those experiences and gives future stories something established to build upon.

StarForgeRP is built around the idea that roleplay can create a persistent history.

Characters do not need to return to the same starting point after every scene. Relationships can develop or deteriorate. Loyalties can change. Careers can advance or collapse. Missions can succeed, fail, or create new problems. Organizations can gain allies, enemies, responsibilities, or reputations. Locations can acquire histories of their own.

When those developments remain important beyond the scene that created them, the archive gives them somewhere to persist.

A change might be recorded in a character dossier, a campaign or mission record, a location entry, an organization page, or the Timeline. Larger developments may affect several parts of the archive at once.

StarForgeRP does not need to preserve every conversation, minor action, or passing detail. A useful question is whether something may matter to another character, player, or story later.

• Did a character gain or lose an important relationship, affiliation, responsibility, reputation, injury, obligation, possession, or opportunity?

• Did a story create consequences that may affect later roleplay?

• Did an organization, community, or location experience a meaningful change?

• Did the scene establish information that future players may need in order to understand the current continuity?

• Did an unresolved problem, promise, rivalry, mystery, debt, or objective create possibilities for another story?

If so, some part of the archive may deserve an update.

Each major section of StarForgeRP answers a different question about the shared setting. They are intended to work together rather than function as isolated collections of pages.

• Home — What is happening now? Find the current overview, featured material, and recent developments.

• Characters — Who? Discover the people inhabiting the shared setting, their backgrounds, affiliations, relationships, circumstances, and potential connections.

• Lore — What? Research factions, organizations, species, cultures, Force traditions, technology, history, and other concepts that help characters and stories fit the Old Republic era.

• Timeline — When? Follow established SWTOR history alongside significant StarForgeRP events and consequences.

• Roleplay — What stories are happening? Find active and completed stories, campaigns, missions, events, and opportunities for involvement.

• Galaxy — Where? Explore planets, systems, settlements, cities, facilities, strongholds, landmarks, and other physical locations.

• Guide — How? Find practical guidance on participation, continuity, character dossiers, collaborative roleplay, terminology, and using the archive.

These sections become most useful when they connect.

A character might belong to an organization documented in Lore, work from a location recorded in Galaxy, participate in a mission preserved under Roleplay, and experience a consequence that later appears in their dossier and the Timeline.

StarForgeRP supports roleplay; it is not intended to replace it.

The website does not require every interaction to occur through a particular platform or format. Instead, the archive provides context before a story begins, useful references while it develops, and a lasting record when something happens that may matter afterward.

Nor should an archive entry determine the outcome of a scene in advance. Character dossiers, histories, organizations, locations, lore entries, and roleplay hooks establish circumstances and possibilities. They create things for characters to respond to without deciding exactly how those characters must respond.

Characters can disagree, fail, change loyalties, damage relationships, make mistakes, abandon plans, or produce consequences nobody expected when the story began.

For the shared expectations surrounding player agency, cooperation, conflict, and lasting consequences, see the Roleplay Guidelines.

Stories at Every Scale

No single player-character needs to become the center of the galaxy for their actions to matter.

StarForgeRP has room for military operations, political conflicts, intelligence work, criminal enterprises, exploration, archaeology, dangerous expeditions, and larger campaigns. It also has room for professional rivalries, disputed contracts, family complications, damaged friendships, local investigations, ordinary employment, social encounters, and two characters simply having a believable reason to speak.

A routine assignment can create a debt. A failed investigation can damage a reputation. A chance meeting can begin a friendship. A disputed contract can become a rivalry. A discovered secret can change a relationship. A local crisis can permanently alter how a community or location is understood.

A persistent setting needs enough consistency for different characters and stories to coexist, but continuity should create possibilities rather than close them off.

StarForgeRP uses established SWTOR lore as the primary foundation of its shared setting. Compatible Legends material may provide supplementary context, while community-created history and reasonable interpretation can expand areas where established material leaves room to do so.

Those different kinds of information should remain distinguishable. Established lore should not quietly become headcanon, and community-created material should not be presented as though it came from an official SWTOR source.

At the same time, community stories do not need to rewrite major galactic events in order to matter. A character might change the future of a family, military unit, business, settlement, expedition, criminal operation, local institution, organization, or relationship without replacing an established protagonist or becoming responsible for the fate of the galaxy.

The full source hierarchy and approach to established lore, Legends material, interpretation, uncertain information, and StarForgeRP-created continuity are explained in Continuity & Canon.

An archive is most useful when it helps create new roleplay rather than only preserving old roleplay.

Character dossiers, organizations, locations, stories, and historical entries should make meaningful connections easier to discover. A player researching one character might find someone with a shared employer, opposing affiliation, common homeworld, overlapping profession, mutual associate, related investigation, or reason to frequent the same location.

Those connections do not need to exist before roleplay begins.

Sometimes the most useful discovery is simply a believable reason for two characters who have never met to encounter one another.

The Character Directory provides a starting point for discovering characters and possible connections. RP Hooks highlights open problems, rumors, needs, opportunities, and situations that may give characters somewhere to begin.

You do not need to read the entire archive or know every detail of SWTOR lore before becoming involved.

Begin with enough context to understand the current setting and where your character fits within it. Give that character a believable connection to the world around them: a profession, organization, location, relationship, responsibility, problem, opportunity, or other circumstance that gives them reasons to interact with other people.

From there, allow the character and their connections to develop through roleplay.

The Getting Started guide provides the best practical introduction to understanding the current setting, establishing a character, checking lore and continuity, creating a dossier, finding connections, and discovering roleplay opportunities.