Getting Started

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.

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.

Describe someone another player could encounter now.

• Who are they, and where did they grow up or begin their service?

• 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.

Explore Lore for relevant species, cultures, organizations, Force traditions, and technologies. Use Galaxy to investigate the places that shaped the character and where others might encounter them.

Consult Continuity & Canon when the concept depends on exceptional authority, rare resources, restricted knowledge, major historical involvement, or connections to established figures.

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, include optional fields when useful and develop the record further through play. If a complete dossier is expressly requested, address every standard and optional field, except inapplicable Force or Droid / Synthetic profiles.

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.

Submit 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.

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. Recruiting Missions identifies missions considering additional participants; read the participation conditions and coordinate a suitable introduction with the players concerned.

For an overview of developing stories and links to their individual records, explore Current Storylines.

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.

Contact the participating players through a mutually available channel. Agree on the format, timing, location, reason for meeting, and relevant expectations or boundaries.

For live sessions, confirm the real-world date, time, and time zone. For asynchronous play, agree on a reasonable reply pace and distinguish when the scene occurs within the story from when messages are sent.

A Game Master or dice are not required to begin. Review the Roleplay Guidelines before planning conflict or significant consequences, and agree on how contested outcomes will be resolved before an important result depends on them.

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.

• 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.