Character Creation Challenge (D)6: Star Wars

31 Day Character Creation Challenge

I’ve done a game I worked on, my first game as player and GM, the game I ran my favourite series with, the game I’m currently playing and the game I’m currently running. So, next... the next game I might run. And D6 based for Day 6.

6: Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game D6, first edition

(recently remastered and reprinted for its 30th anniversary, but no official PDF or quickstart, descendants like D6 Space and Mini Six should give you an idea though)

With a D6 dice pool system descended from Ghostbusters and which influenced the likes of Shadowrun and the Storyteller System in turn, D6 Star Wars also added a lot to the original Expanded Universe, and ideas and references appear in the current canon as well. Apart from Chopper due to the Droid rules being odd, you could make the cast of Rebels by picking templates straight from the book.

I’ll DIY a template rather than choose one directly.

Vannik Dahl

Bodyguard

Human (Corellian)

Six Attributes, 18D to split between them. You can divide dice into pips which add +1 each to the collective roll, though you only get three per dice. Humans top out at 4D.

7D into Skills, which add dice to the Attribute roll. Starting characters can add up to two full dice, as well as dividing a dice into three pips.

Dexterity 4D

Blaster 6D

Brawling Parry -

Dodge 6D

Grenade -

Heavy Weapons -

Melee Parry -

Melee -

Perception 3D

Bargain -

Command -

Con -

Gaming -

Hide/Sneak -

Search 3D+1

Knowledge 2D+2

Alien Races -

Bureaucracy -

Cultures -

Languages -

Planetary Systems -

Streetwise 3D

Survival 3D

Technology -

Strength 3D+2

Brawling 4D

Climbing/Jumping -

Lifting -

Stamina 4D

Swimming -

Mechanical 2D+2

Astrogation -

Beast Riding -

Repulsorlift Op -

Starship Gunnery 3D

Starship Piloting -

Starship Shields -

Technical 2D

Comp. Prog/Repair -

Demolition -

Droid Prog/Repair -

Medicine -

Repulsorlift Repair -

Security 3D

Starship Repair -

He is not Force sensitive.

Equipment: Start him out with a Heavy Blaster Pistol, an armoured jacket (+1), a comlink and 2 medpacs

Background: Vannik saw the way the galaxy was going and signed on to a Rebel smuggling freighter to keep the captain and crew alive, and sometimes this means putting himself in the line of fire.

Personality: Vannik takes the cause and the mission seriously, loathes the Empire but keeps his feelings in check as much as possible. He has a rather grim sense of humour.

A quote: “Get behind me!”

Connection To Other Characters: The straight shooter to another character’s wild card, and it’s traditional for a bodyguard in a movie to fall for a client or have to defend someone they can’t stand, if not both.