FAQ

Quick answers to common questions about StarForgeRP, character creation, dossiers, collaborative roleplay, lore, continuity, and using the archive.

What is StarForgeRP?

StarForgeRP is an independent, community-built roleplay archive and reference resource centered on characters played on SWTOR's Star Forge server.

The site preserves characters, relationships, organizations, locations, stories, discoveries, consequences, and shared history that may continue to matter after an individual roleplay scene ends. Roleplay itself may happen in SWTOR, through Discord, or through another format agreed upon by the participating players.

For a broader introduction to the project and how the archive works, see About StarForgeRP.

Is StarForgeRP an official Star Wars or SWTOR website?

No. StarForgeRP is an independent fan-created roleplay and reference project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Lucasfilm, Disney, Electronic Arts, Broadsword, or their respective affiliates.

Star Wars, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and related intellectual property remain subject to the rights of their respective rights holders. See the Terms of Use for the site's complete notice. 

Where should I begin?

Begin with Getting Started. It introduces the shared setting, explains how much character development you need before beginning, and shows how characters can connect naturally to other people and stories. 

If you already have a concept and want more detailed development guidance, continue with the Character Creation Guide.

Do I need to know all of SWTOR lore before I participate?

No. Knowing the parts of the setting that affect your character is far more useful than trying to memorize the entire Old Republic era.

Begin with questions that matter to the character: species, upbringing, homeworld, profession, affiliations, historical experiences, beliefs, and present circumstances. Use Lore, the Timeline , and Galaxy when those questions become relevant.

Where does roleplay happen, and do characters need to be on Star Forge?

StarForgeRP is centered on characters played on SWTOR's Star Forge server.

Scenes involving those characters do not need to occur exclusively in-game. Players may roleplay through SWTOR, Discord, or another mutually agreed format. StarForgeRP provides the shared reference and continuing archive around those experiences.

Do I need to join a campaign before I can roleplay?

No. A story can begin with a routine assignment, professional introduction, contract, investigation, delivery, favor, disagreement, social encounter, shared location, or unexpected problem.

What kinds of characters can I create?

Characters can come from throughout the SWTOR-era galaxy and do not need to match a playable Origin Story, Combat Style, class archetype, or other character-creation option exactly.

Soldiers, Jedi, Sith, intelligence personnel, criminals, mercenaries, traders, researchers, politicians, medical professionals, explorers, technicians, civilians, local officials, droids, independent operators, and many other concepts can fit the setting.

Characters are also not limited to species available through SWTOR's character creator. What matters is whether the concept has a believable place within the era and StarForgeRP's shared continuity.

See the Character Creation Guide for deeper development guidance.

Can I create an unusual, powerful, or highly connected character?

Yes, when the concept has believable context.

Exceptional ability, influence, wealth, authority, Force training, equipment, information, or important connections should have a credible foundation. They should also leave meaningful room for limitations, uncertainty, cooperation, opposition, and consequences.

A character can be exceptional without becoming responsible for every important event around them or replacing established SWTOR history.

Can I bring an existing SWTOR or roleplay character into StarForgeRP?

Usually.

Preserve what defines the character, then check inherited dates, affiliations, ranks, relationships, accomplishments, political circumstances, unusual resources, and other continuity-sensitive details against StarForgeRP's shared setting.

Material inherited from another roleplay continuity may need adjustment when it depends on circumstances that are not established here. Use Current Setting and Continuity & Canon when reconciliation is necessary. 

Do I need a complete dossier before I start roleplaying?

No. A character needs enough definition to participate coherently, not an exhaustive biography.

Establish who they are, where they belong, what they do, what matters to them, and at least one believable reason they might interact with somebody else. Details that do not matter yet can emerge through play.

Use the Character Dossier Guidelines to decide what is useful to preserve and the Blank Character Dossier as a flexible starting framework.

Can a character dossier change later?

Yes. A dossier is a continuing record of the character rather than a permanent definition of who they must remain.

Relationships, loyalties, responsibilities, affiliations, careers, injuries, reputations, residences, goals, discoveries, and other circumstances may change through roleplay. Update the dossier when a development continues to matter to the character or future stories.

If something appears on a dossier, does my character know it?

Not automatically.

StarForgeRP dossiers are primarily player-facing references. A character should act upon information they could reasonably have witnessed, learned, researched, recognized, inferred, or obtained through their own circumstances and contacts.

Player knowledge and character knowledge may therefore be different. See the Roleplay Guidelines for broader guidance concerning information, agency, and collaborative play.

How can I find characters or situations to roleplay with?

Browse the Character Directory for possible connections through professions, organizations, locations, relationships, histories, and responsibilities.

You can also browse RP Hooks for developing situations that may provide a natural point of entry.

When is StarForgeRP set?

StarForgeRP takes place during the SWTOR era and maintains a shared present so that characters, organizations, locations, and continuing stories can exist within compatible circumstances.

Use Current Setting for StarForgeRP's adopted present-day story baseline and broader galactic situation. Use the Timeline when earlier chronology matters.

What lore does StarForgeRP use?

SWTOR game material and closely related official SWTOR sources provide the primary external foundation.

Compatible Legends material may supplement that foundation where it does not conflict with stronger SWTOR-era evidence. StarForgeRP also preserves community-created characters, relationships, organizations, locations, events, discoveries, and consequences as part of its own shared continuity.

Where established material leaves a genuine gap, careful interpretation may sometimes be useful. When reliable evidence does not establish an answer, uncertainty is preferable to invented certainty.

The full framework is explained in Continuity & Canon.

Can I use information from later Star Wars eras?

Sometimes, but later material should not automatically be projected backward into the Old Republic.

Governments, organizations, titles, technologies, traditions, political circumstances, military structures, cultures, and other conditions can change considerably across different periods. A later-era detail should not be treated as an SWTOR-era fact merely because it exists elsewhere in Star Wars.

Can players create new organizations, locations, cultures, or other setting material?

Yes. Community-created material is an important part of StarForgeRP's shared continuity.

Characters and stories can establish families, businesses, crews, military units, criminal groups, settlements, facilities, expeditions, local traditions, political conflicts, organizations, discoveries, and other developments that fit reasonably within the setting.

Original material should remain distinguishable from established SWTOR lore and should add to the shared setting rather than silently replace its major foundations.

Can StarForgeRP stories change established SWTOR history?

They can create important new history without replacing the major events that define SWTOR.

Roleplay might change a character's life, expose a criminal operation, damage or rebuild a facility, alter relationships between organizations, establish a new group, affect a settlement, uncover important information, or produce consequences that later stories inherit.

StarForgeRP characters should not ordinarily replace established SWTOR protagonists or retroactively become responsible for major events treated as established history.

What if SWTOR lore is uncertain, contradictory, or allows different outcomes?

Preserve the uncertainty until the distinction actually needs to be resolved.

Different accounts may concern different periods or circumstances, established sources may leave a question unanswered, and SWTOR itself sometimes permits mutually exclusive outcomes.

When a shared answer becomes necessary for StarForgeRP continuity, the project can establish the version used here while remaining clear that the decision belongs to StarForgeRP rather than representing the only outcome SWTOR permits.

What does collaborative roleplay mean on StarForgeRP?

Players create the story together rather than treating other player-characters as supporting pieces in a predetermined personal plot.

Characters can cooperate, compete, disagree, deceive one another, fail, change their minds, form or end relationships, make mistakes, and create unexpected consequences.

Control what your own character attempts and chooses. Give other players meaningful room to determine how their characters respond. The Roleplay Guidelines explain these expectations in greater detail.

Can I join roleplay that is already happening?

Sometimes.

Some hooks, events, missions, and campaigns welcome additional participants. Other stories depend upon particular relationships, knowledge, locations, responsibilities, or established groups.

Look for participation information and establish a believable reason for your character to become involved. When joining would directly affect another player's character, organization, or continuing story, coordinate with the relevant participants rather than assuming access.

How should conflict between player-characters be handled?

Character conflict is welcome when it fits the roleplay.

A character may threaten, oppose, deceive, betray, investigate, arrest, fight, or otherwise create problems for another character. The important distinction is between deciding what your own character attempts and deciding another player's significant reaction or outcome for them.

When a result would substantially affect another player-character or shared continuity, coordinate the boundaries and possibilities that matter while leaving room for the story itself to determine what happens.

Can characters fail or suffer consequences?

Yes.

Failure, setbacks, damaged relationships, injuries, lost opportunities, debts, changed reputations, incomplete investigations, political difficulties, and other consequences can create future roleplay rather than ending it.

Consequences should emerge through collaborative play rather than being imposed unilaterally upon another player's character.

What if players disagree about a scene or outcome?

Address the disagreement out of character instead of escalating it through further in-character conflict.

Clarify what each participant thought had been established, what remains undecided, and whether the disagreement concerns character agency, player boundaries, interpretation, lore, or shared continuity.

Where should I look for different kinds of information?

• Characters — Character dossiers, relationships, affiliations, histories, circumstances, and possible connections.

• Lore — Factions, organizations, species, cultures, Force traditions, technologies, history, and setting concepts.

• Timeline — Important established chronology and StarForgeRP developments whose timing matters.

• Roleplay — Campaigns, missions, events, hooks, developing stories, and archived roleplay.

• Galaxy — Planets, settlements, facilities, landmarks, and other physical locations.

• Guide — Participation, character creation, dossiers, continuity, roleplay practices, terminology, and site guidance.

• Home — The current overview, featured material, and recent developments.

Does every roleplay scene need to be archived or added to the Timeline?

No.

Preserve what later roleplay may need to remember: changed relationships, responsibilities, discoveries, injuries, altered affiliations, consequences for organizations or locations, unresolved problems, and other developments that continue to matter.

Many scenes need only an update to a character dossier or another relevant archive page. Timeline entries should remain more selective and are most useful when chronology or broader consequences matter beyond the original scene.

How do I prepare a character or other material for StarForgeRP?

For a new character, begin with Create Character. Use the Character Dossier Guidelinesto decide what information belongs in the continuing record, then use the Blank Character Dossier as a flexible framework.

For publication procedures, updates, corrections, rights concerns, and other administrative matters, consult Contact. Contribution and publication terms are governed by the Terms of Use.

Can I correct, update, or request removal of something I contributed?

The Terms of Use allow contributors to request reasonable corrections or updates to material they contributed and describe the circumstances surrounding requests for public removal of original submitted material.

Collaborative events, relationships, organizations, locations, and other shared continuity may involve contributions from several participants. Removing one contribution therefore does not necessarily remove every independent reference to events or consequences established elsewhere.

Shared events, relationships, organizations, locations, or other collaborative material may affect several participants, and removing one contribution does not necessarily erase every independent reference to continuity already established elsewhere.

See Contact for the site's administrative request information. 

Do I need to provide real-world personal information?

No unnecessary personal information is required simply to document a fictional character or story.

Only provide player-facing information for publication when you are comfortable having it publicly associated with the relevant archive entry. Do not provide passwords, financial information, government identification numbers, home addresses, or similarly sensitive information for ordinary participation.

See the Privacy Policy for the site's complete treatment of personal information and the public archive.

Who owns material that I contribute?

Submitting original material does not transfer ownership of rights you already hold in that material.

Publication does grant StarForgeRP certain non-exclusive permissions needed to publish, edit, organize, connect, and preserve a contribution. A contribution may also incorporate Star Wars intellectual property or material created by several participants, so a contributor's rights extend only to material they are legally entitled to own, control, or provide.

Only provide writing, artwork, screenshots, images, or other material that you created, have permission to provide, or are otherwise entitled to share. The Terms of Use are the authoritative source for contribution and publication rights. 

What if I find an error or cannot find information about something?

Failing to find information does not by itself establish that a character concept, species, organization, event, practice, technology, or other subject does not exist or cannot fit the setting.

Check the relevant archive sections and appropriate SWTOR-era sources before drawing a firm conclusion. When reliable evidence remains uncertain, preserving that uncertainty is better than inventing an authoritative answer.

For a factual error, continuity problem, incorrect attribution, outdated information, broken link, or other site issue, consult Contact.

What if my question is not answered here?

Use the Guide for more detailed help with characters, dossiers, continuity, collaborative roleplay, and terminology.

Questions about a particular character, faction, organization, species, technology, historical event, story, or location may instead belong with the relevant Characters, Lore, Timeline, Roleplay, or Galaxy material.