FAQ

Find answers about participating in StarForgeRP, developing characters, sharing stories, and contributing to the archive. Start with the question you need, then follow its links for more detail.

What is StarForgeRP?

StarForgeRP is a community-created reference and story archive for Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) roleplay, centered on characters played on the Star Forge server. It connects characters, organizations, places, and stories so that established relationships and consequences remain available for future play.

See About StarForgeRP for the project’s purpose and approach.

Is this an official website?

No. StarForgeRP is an independent fan project, unaffiliated with and not endorsed by Lucasfilm, Disney, Electronic Arts, Broadsword, or their affiliates. The Terms of Use provide the full notice concerning third-party intellectual property.

Which guide should I read first?

Start with Getting Started for an introduction to participation. Use the Character Creation Guide when you want help developing a character’s background, circumstances, abilities, and connections.

How much lore knowledge do I need?

Begin with what affects the character you want to play. Their upbringing, work, affiliations, and experiences provide useful starting questions; you can explore the wider setting as those questions arise.

Consult Lore for setting subjects, the Timeline for historical context, and Galaxy for places.

Which server and roleplay formats does StarForgeRP support?

The project centers on characters played on SWTOR’s Star Forge server. Scenes may take place in SWTOR, through Discord, or through another format agreed upon by the participants. The archive preserves connections between those experiences.

Can I begin without joining a campaign?

Yes. A first scene can grow from an ordinary encounter: a delivery, shared workplace, request for help, or professional disagreement.

Must my character match SWTOR’s playable options?

No. StarForgeRP concepts can include civilians, droids, specialists, and other people whose lives do not correspond to a playable class or Origin Story. Species choices can also extend beyond the character creator.

Use game systems to represent the concept where practical. Gameplay options do not automatically establish the character’s biography, authority, accomplishments, or limitations. Their background and capabilities still need to fit the era and shared continuity.

Are exceptional characters welcome?

Yes. Explain where unusual power, authority, resources, training, or connections come from. Give those advantages credible limits and leave other participants room to influence events.

The Character Creation Guide provides fuller guidance on unusual backgrounds and capabilities. A character can be exceptional without becoming central to galactic history.

How can I adapt a character from another roleplay setting?

Preserve the character’s defining qualities while checking inherited history against StarForgeRP’s established circumstances. Dates, ranks, affiliations, accomplishments, and relationships may need reconciliation.

Use Current Setting for the shared present; it contains major SWTOR story spoilers. Continuity & Canon explains how to approach differences between sources and roleplay histories. Coordinate shared history involving another player’s character before treating it as established.

How much of a dossier should I prepare before playing?

Enough for another player to understand who the character is, their present circumstances, and a plausible reason to meet them. Further detail can develop through play.

The Character Dossier Guidelines explain what belongs in the record. Use the Blank Character Dossier as a starting point. For a published dossier, retain the template’s standard sections and include optional subsections where useful; you can begin roleplay with a shorter character concept and develop its details over time.

When should I update a dossier?

Update it when something changes that later roleplay needs to remember. This might include a new responsibility, altered relationship, injury, discovery, affiliation, or place of residence.

Preserve relevant history while making the character’s present circumstances clear. Routine conversations do not all need to become dossier entries.

Does reading a dossier give my character that information?

No. A dossier informs readers; characters need a believable route to learning its contents. A concealed affiliation or private motive remains concealed within the story unless circumstances establish otherwise.

A recorded rumor, accusation, or personal account may also be incomplete or mistaken. Information that must remain secret from players should be left off a public dossier until disclosure is appropriate.

Where can I find possible roleplay connections?

Explore the Character Directory for people whose work, locations, relationships, or circumstances suggest an encounter. Current Storylines provides an overview of developing stories.

Where can I check the shared date and story baseline?

Current Setting maintains StarForgeRP’s adopted present, SWTOR story boundary, and broader galactic circumstances. It contains major story spoilers. Consult the Timeline when earlier events affect a character or scene.

New SWTOR releases do not automatically advance StarForgeRP’s shared present. For a flashback or earlier story, establish when it takes place and what the characters could know at that point.

Which sources shape the setting?

SWTOR and closely related official material provide the primary external foundation. Compatible Star Wars Legends material can supplement it. StarForgeRP also maintains its own established community-created history.

Continuity & Canon explains these distinctions, including how interpretation differs from established information and how uncertain claims are handled.

Does information from another Star Wars era apply here?

Only when its applicability is supported. Later institutions, technologies, customs, or political conditions should not automatically be treated as Old Republic facts. Material from current Star Wars canon does not automatically apply to SWTOR’s Legends setting.

Can we develop original parts of the setting?

Yes. Characters and stories can establish organizations, places, traditions, discoveries, and other original material that fits the shared setting.

Keep community-created history distinguishable from official lore. Coordinate developments that substantially affect another participant’s character or established material, and preserve unresolved discoveries and future outcomes.

Does a scene have to be published to become shared continuity?

No. A development established through coordinated roleplay can become part of StarForgeRP’s shared history before it receives an archive entry. Publication helps preserve that history, but a proposed connection or unapproved change to another participant’s character does not become established merely because it appears in a draft.

How much can our stories change?

Stories can create lasting personal, local, organizational, or regional consequences while respecting established SWTOR history and shared community continuity.

Consider who and what depends on the circumstances being changed. Wider consequences may require coordination with participants beyond the immediate scene.

How are contradictions and alternative outcomes handled?

First check whether accounts describe different periods, circumstances, or points of view. A later update alone does not resolve a contradiction.

What should we agree on before a first scene?

Agree on who is participating, where and how the scene will take place, when it occurs within the story, and any relevant expectations or boundaries. For live sessions, confirm the real-world date, time, and time zone. For asynchronous roleplay, agree on a reasonable reply pace.

Getting Started provides a fuller checklist for arranging and playing a first scene.

What does each player control?

Describe your character’s choices and attempts while allowing others to determine their characters’ important responses within any outcomes or resolution methods already agreed upon.

Roleplay Guidelines explains agency, coordination, and consequences. Character agency leaves room for danger, setbacks, and lasting change.

Do we need a Game Master or dice?

No. Participants can roleplay without a Game Master (GM) or dice. If someone facilitates a story, agree on their responsibilities. If you use dice, game mechanics, or predetermined results, agree on those methods before a contested outcome depends on them.

Can I enter an ongoing story?

Check its participation information and coordinate a believable entry with the participants. An active story is not automatically open to additional characters.

Reading a story does not give your character access to its people, locations, evidence, or secrets. If availability or the proposed entry point is unclear, ask the participants before treating involvement as established.

How do we play conflict fairly?

Characters may oppose, deceive, or fight one another. Agree on any method for resolving contested outcomes before an important result depends on it, and coordinate significant consequences affecting another player’s character.

An attempted action does not automatically establish another character’s defeat. Keep fictional hostility separate from how you treat the people playing.

Can failure have lasting effects?

Yes. Setbacks can change relationships, responsibilities, opportunities, and future choices. Significant effects on another player’s character require appropriate coordination.

Players can agree that injury, capture, loss, or another consequence is possible without deciding in advance whether it will happen.

What should we do when a scene causes disagreement?

Discuss the problem out of character. Clarify differing assumptions, respect boundaries, and agree what needs revision or remains unresolved. A scene can pause, change direction, or end if it is no longer workable.

Respect a participant’s request to stop or avoid material without requiring a personal explanation. Consult Roleplay Guidelines for interaction questions and Continuity & Canon for setting questions.

Where are terms such as IC, OOC, and metagaming explained?

Which section contains the information I need?

• Home — Introductions, featured material, and starting points.

• Characters — Dossiers, histories, affiliations, relationships, and circumstances.

• Lore — Species, cultures, factions, organizations, Force traditions, technologies, and setting concepts.

• Timeline — Significant history and developments whose timing matters.

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

• Galaxy — Worlds, settlements, facilities, strongholds, persistent vessels, and other physical places.

• Guide — Participation, character development, dossiers, continuity, terminology, and site guidance.

What needs a permanent record?

Preserve developments that future stories may depend on, such as a changed allegiance, discovery, damaged facility, or unresolved obligation. Routine conversations do not all need separate entries.

A dossier, location page, or story record may be sufficient. Use the Timeline selectively when the sequence or timing has wider significance. Distinguish established outcomes from beliefs, disputed accounts, and unresolved questions.

How do I prepare and submit material?

For a character, follow Create Character, consult the Character Dossier Guidelines, and adapt the Blank Character Dossier.

Use Contact for submissions, updates, and other archive requests. Identify the material involved, explain what you are providing or asking to change, and include relevant references and credits. Provide material only when you are entitled to share it. Submission does not guarantee publication.

Can I request changes or removal?

Yes. Use Contact to identify your contribution and the requested change. The Terms of Use explain corrections, updates, and public-removal requests.

Removal does not necessarily erase independent references to shared events. Any remaining references must respect applicable rights and the Terms. Removal from StarForgeRP also cannot guarantee deletion of copies held independently elsewhere.

What personal information should I provide?

Provide only what the request needs. A suitable contact method may be necessary for a reply; information supplied privately for an administrative request is not automatically intended for publication.

Include a player’s handle, credit, contact details, or other personal information for publication only with their understanding and agreement. Do not send passwords, financial details, identification numbers, home addresses, or another person’s private information for ordinary participation. If you are under 13, do not provide personal information to the project.

The Privacy Policy explains information handling and privacy requests. Public material may also appear in search results or copies outside StarForgeRP’s control.

What happens to ownership when I contribute?

You retain the original rights you legally hold. When you voluntarily provide material for publication, you grant StarForgeRP non-exclusive permissions to publish, edit, connect, and preserve it as described in the Terms of Use.

Those permissions extend only to rights you can grant. Contributing a shared record does not give you ownership of another participant’s work or the underlying Star Wars material.

Can I reuse material published on StarForgeRP?

You may link to public StarForgeRP pages. Publication does not make another person’s writing, artwork, or other protected material free to copy or republish. Obtain the relevant rights holder’s permission unless the use is otherwise permitted by law. See the Terms of Use for details.

How do I report an error or investigate missing information?

For an error, outdated entry, attribution concern, or broken link, use Contact. Include the affected page, describe the problem, and provide supporting context where available.

A missing search result does not establish that a subject cannot fit the setting. Check relevant records and sources, and preserve uncertainty when the evidence is insufficient.

Where should I go if my question remains unanswered?

Explore Guide for detailed guidance or follow the archive section that matches your subject. Terminology can help with unfamiliar expressions.