Getting Started
Getting Started
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StarForgeRP preserves the characters, places, relationships, and stories of a shared Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) roleplay setting. The project centers on characters played on the Star Forge server, with scenes taking place in SWTOR, through Discord, or in another format agreed upon by participants.
Begin with enough to introduce your character and a reason to encounter someone else. Their background can deepen and their circumstances can change through play.
Understand the Shared Present
Understand the Shared Present
Read Current Setting for StarForgeRP’s adopted present, story boundary, and wider circumstances. That page contains major SWTOR story spoilers.
Consider how those circumstances affect your character’s household, work, community, or responsibilities. They need not have taken part in major galactic events for those events to matter to them.
Use the Timeline when earlier events affect their background. Check the sequence of experiences and any dates or ages; keep timing approximate when greater precision is unsupported.
Develop Your Character
Develop Your Character
Describe someone another player could encounter now.
Who are they, and where did they grow up?
Where do they live, work, or regularly return?
What responsibilities and affiliations shape their day?
What do they want, value, or need?
What can they contribute, and where do they need help?
What circumstance could bring another character into their life?
An everyday difficulty can provide a useful beginning. A repair specialist waiting for supplies might seek a trader, negotiate with a customer, or ask someone to investigate a missing shipment.
Species, culture, profession, allegiance, and Force tradition can influence the character without determining their personality or choices. Concepts may extend beyond SWTOR’s playable options, while still needing a credible place in the shared setting. Game achievements and equipment do not automatically establish a roleplay character’s history or authority.
The Character Creation Guide develops these questions further, including unusual concepts and adapting existing characters.
Check the Character’s Place in the Setting
Check the Character’s Place in the Setting
Consult Continuity & Canon when the concept depends on exceptional authority, rare resources, restricted knowledge, major historical involvement, or connections to established figures.
Check community history alongside external lore. An established StarForgeRP relationship or event does not need an official SWTOR counterpart. Investigate discrepancies before changing shared history, and preserve meaningful uncertainty where the available information does not resolve it.
Prepare a Useful Dossier
Prepare a Useful Dossier
A dossier introduces the character to other players and preserves information that future stories may need. Use the Character Dossier Guidelines, then work from the Blank Character Dossier.
For an ordinary dossier, adapt optional coverage to the character. An expressly requested complete dossier development or revision addresses every standard and optional field, omitting only inapplicable Force or Droid / Synthetic profiles. The guidelines explain that distinction.
Separate what readers know from what characters have learned. A public description of a concealed affiliation does not reveal it within the story. Leave details off the public page if their disclosure to players would spoil a protected secret.
Publish only material you are entitled to contribute. Consult the Terms of Use for contribution permissions, corrections, and removal requests, and the Privacy Policy before including player information.
Find a Connection
Find a Connection
Browse the Character Directory for people whose work, locations, interests, or circumstances suggest an encounter. RP Hooks offers guidance for developing openings and a place to check for listed opportunities.
A delivery, shared workplace, request for expertise, or unresolved obligation can bring unfamiliar characters together. You can arrange a first scene without joining a campaign.
A published dossier or ongoing story does not automatically mean its participants are available for new roleplay. Check with the players concerned. Agree on proposed family ties, mentorships, employment, rivalries, or significant past encounters before treating that shared history as established.
Arrange and Play a First Scene
Arrange and Play a First Scene
Contact the participating players through a mutually available channel. Agree on the format, timing, location, reason for meeting, and relevant expectations or boundaries.
Review the Roleplay Guidelines before planning conflict or significant consequences. Establish any method for resolving uncertain outcomes before an important result depends on it.
Describe your character’s choices and attempts while allowing other players to determine their characters’ responses within your agreements. Characters can disagree, fail, succeed, and change while their players collaborate. Respect requests to pause, stop, or adjust the scene.
Afterward, preserve developments that future play needs: changed relationships, discoveries, injuries, obligations, affiliations, or circumstances. Update the relevant dossier or shared record without documenting every routine exchange.
Before Your First Scene
Before Your First Scene
We know when, where, and how we will play.
I can introduce my character’s circumstances, motivations, and limitations.
Their background fits the shared setting.
There is a believable reason for the characters to meet.
Any shared history has been agreed with the players concerned.
We understand relevant boundaries and how uncertain outcomes will be handled.
The scene leaves room for everyone’s choices and responses.
Start with an encounter the participants want to explore, and let their characters’ decisions shape what follows.
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