Star Wars Lifepaths
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Galactic Core
The Capital World and a select few key planets form the Galactic Core, home to the bulk of interplanetary commerce, government, and the higher arts. Of course, money attracts a darker element, as well. For all intents and purposes, this replaces the City Dweller setting. Any leads to City Dweller may instead lead to the Galactic Gore.
Acceptable lifepaths from the BW City Dweller setting: Courier, Coin Clipper, Pickpocket, Street Thug, Criminal, Confidence Man, Barkeep, Student, Urchin, Beggar, Hospital Warden, Gaol Warden, Clerk, Shopkeeper, Sculptor, Painter, Composer, Dramaturge, Performer, Scholar, City Guard (Police Officer), Sergeant-at-Arms (Police Sergeant), Guard Captain (Police Chief), Plumber, Apprentice Artisan, Artisan, Accountant, Advocate, Doctor, Physician, Banker, Jeweler, Moneylender, Merchant, Judge, Municipal Minister, Magnate, Ganymede, City Wife
| Lifepath | Time | Res | Stat | Leads |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born in the Galactic Core | 12 yrs | 15 | - | Galactic Fringe, Space, Jedi Academy, Government |
| Skills: 4 pts: General; 3 pts: Literacy, Galactic History | ||||
| Traits: - | ||||
| Junior Executive1 | 10 yrs | 20 | +1 M | Galactic Fringe, Outer Galaxy, Government |
| Skills:6 pts: Bureaucracy, Soothing Platitudes, Corporate-wise, Meeting-wise, Intimidation, Falsehood | ||||
| Traits: 2 pts: Annoying, Unctuous, Scheming | ||||
| Senior Executive2 | 15 yrs | 45 | +1 M | Galactic Fringe, Government, Space |
| Skills: 7 pts: Administration, Economics, Command, Persuasion, Rhetoric, Logistics | ||||
| Traits: 2 pts: No Sense of Humor, Stubborn, Out of Touch | ||||
| Scientist3 | 12 yrs | 15 | +2 M | Galactic Fringe, Government, Military |
| Skills: 8 pts: Science, Bureaucracy, Scientist-wise, University-wise, Scientific Jargon, Composition | ||||
| Traits: 1 pt: Bookworm, Prematurely Gray, Disheveled, Quick Study | ||||
| Engineer | 10 yrs | 20 | +1 M | Galactic Fringe, Outer Galaxy, Military |
| Skills: 9 pts: Engineering, Geometry Training, Architect, Bureaucracy, Metal-wise, Plastics-wise, Jargon, Plumbing, Strategy Games | ||||
| Traits: 2 pts: Meticulous, Rainman | ||||
| Major Celebrity4 | 8 yrs | 50 | +1 M/P | Galactic Fringe, Government |
| Skills: 7 pts: Etiquette, Drinking, Inconspicuous, Meditation, Philosophy, Foreign Languages, Seduction, Soothing Platitudes | ||||
| Traits: 2 pts: Dramatic, Attends all the Best Parties, Charming, Inspirational, Jaded | ||||
GALACTIC CORE NOTES
1: Requires Clerk or Accountant
2: Requires Junior Executive, Major Celebrity, or Minor Celebrity
3: Requires Student or Tinkerer
4: Requires either Minor Celebrity or one of Minor Celebrity's required lifepaths and one of these traits: Beautiful, Handsome, Drop Dead Gorgeous, or Lucky
Outer Galaxy Setting
Most citizens live on established planets outside the Galactic Core, known as the Outer Galaxy. For all intents and purposes, this replaces the Villager setting. Any leads to the Villager setting may instead lead to the Outer Galaxy setting.
Acceptable lifepaths from the BW Villager setting: Kid, Idiot, Pilgrim, Conscript, Runner, Shopkeeper, Clerk, Laborer, Taskmaster, Serving Wench, Hosteller,
Village Guard (Police Officer), Village Sergeant (Police Sergeant), Corrupt Sergeant, Apprentice, Journeyman, Master Craftsman, Vintner, Mining Engineer, Town Official, Merchant, Village Wife
Acceptable lifepaths from the BW City Dweller setting: Courier, Student, Tinkerer, Performer, Plumber, Apprentice Artisan, Advocate, Doctor, Moneylender
Acceptable lifepaths from the Jihad Villager setting: Repairman, Fabricator
| Lifepath | Time | Res | Stat | Leads |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born in the Outer Galaxy | 10 yrs | 6 | - | Galactic Fringe, Space, Jedi Academy |
| Skills: 3 pts: General; 2 pts: Literacy, Galactic History | ||||
| Traits: 2 pts | ||||
| Farm Owner | 8 yrs | 20 | +1 M | Galactic Fringe, Galactic Core, Military |
| Skills:5 pts: Farming, Estate Management, Worker-wise, Crop-wise | ||||
| Traits: 2 pts: Patient, Familiar Face | ||||
| Nerf Herder | 8 yrs | 20 | +1 P | Galactic Fringe, Galactic Core, Space |
| Skills: 5 pts: Nerf Husbandry, Nerf-wise, Feed-wise, Ugly Truth | ||||
| Traits: 2 pts: Scruffy, Irritable | ||||
| Journalist3 | 6 yrs | 10 | +1 M | Galactic Fringe, Government, Galactic Core |
| Skills: 6 pts: Composition, Bureaucracy, Streetwise, Soothing Platitudes, Ugly Truth, Rhetoric | ||||
| Traits: 2 pts: Prone to Exaggeration, Drunk, Jaded | ||||
| Commercial Pilot | 6 yrs | 15 | +1 M/P | Galactic Fringe, Galactic Core, Military |
| Skills: 6 pts: Pilot, Ship Management, Cargo-wise, Passenger-wise, Sensorium, Shuttle-wise | ||||
| Traits: 1 pt: - | ||||
| Minor Celebrity1 | 4 yrs | 20 | - | Galactic Fringe, Galactic Core, Government |
| Skills: 6 pts: Conspicuous, Fashion-wise, Party-wise, Oratory, Seduction, Falsehood | ||||
| Traits: 2 pts: Charismatic, Tall-tale Teller, Pickled | ||||
OUTER GALAXY NOTES
1: Requires Journalist, Performer, Village Wife, Tinkerer, Advocate, Racer, Gambler, Dancing Girl, Outlaw, or Itinerant Performer.
Galactic Fringe Setting
On the outermost edges of the galaxy live the people most galactic citizens don't give a second thought to - the poorest of people and the lowliest of scum. For all intents and purposes, this replaces both the Peasant and Outcast settings. Any leads to those settings instead may lead to the Galactic Fringe.
Acceptable lifepaths from the BW Peasant setting: Head of Household, Lazy Stayabout, Conscript, Peasant Pilgrim, Hunter, Elder, Country Wife
Acceptable lifepaths from the BW Outcast setting: Blackmailer, Kidnapper, Pillager, Vagrant, Cripple, Deranged, Outlaw, Fence, Ratcatcher, Beggar, Urchin, Prostitute, Whoremonger, Itinerant Performer, Insurrectionist, Poisoner, Thug, Desperate Killer, Bandit, Smuggler, Freebooter, Cultist, Thinker
| Lifepath | Time | Res | Stat | Leads |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born on the Fringe | 10 yrs | 5 | - | Servitude, Galactic Soldier, Jedi Academy, |
| Skills: 3 pts: General; 1pt: Literacy, Galactic History | ||||
| Traits: 2 pts | ||||
| Moisture Farmer | 6 yrs | 10 | +1 P | Galactic Soldier, Outer Galaxy |
| Skills:8 pts: Water-wise, Farming, Repair, Droid-wise, Cooking, Speeder Piloting, Womprat-wise | ||||
| Traits: 1 pt: Whiny, Grubby | ||||
| Junker | 5 yrs | 10 | +1 M | Galactic Soldier, Outer Galaxy, Space |
| Skills: 5 pts: Junk-wise, Scavenging, Haggling, Repair, Falsehood | ||||
| Traits: 2 pts: Atravieso, Odd, Entropic | ||||
| Racer | 4 yrs | 15 | +1 P | Space, Galactic Soldier, Outer Galaxy, Galactic Core |
| Skills: 6 pts: Jury-rigging, Pod-racer-wise, Speeder-wise, Pod-racer Piloting, Speeder Piloting, Power-converter-wise | ||||
| Traits: 2 pts: Gloryhound, Lucky | ||||
| Gambler | 4 yrs | 3 | - | Servitude, Galactic Core |
| Skills: 4 pts: Games-wise, Gambling, Falsehood, Soothing Platitudes | ||||
| Traits: 2 pts: Unlucky, Superstitious | ||||
| Cantina Owner | 6 yrs | 10 | +1 M/P | Outer Galaxy |
| Skills: 5 pts: Ugly Truth, Drunk-wise, Smuggler-wise, Gossip-wise, Brawling | ||||
| Traits: 1 pt: Bitter, Pickled, Louis Wu | ||||
| Dancing Girl | 3 yrs | 5 | +1 P | Outer Galaxy, Servitude |
| Skills: 4 pts: Gentleman-wise, Dancing, Tip-wise, Seduction | ||||
| Traits: 2 pts: Lithe, Thick-skinned, Charming, Graceful | ||||
| Traveling Salesman | 5 yrs | 10 | +1 M | Outer Galaxy, Galactic Core, Servitude |
| Skills: 6 pts: Sucker-wise, Haggling, Persuasion, Inconspicuous, Conspicuous, Falsehood | ||||
| Traits: 2 pt: Blank Stare, Glib, Eidetic Memory | ||||
| Prospector | 7 yrs | 15 | +1 P | Outer Galaxy, Servitude |
| Skills: 5 pts: Ore-wise, Mining, Inconspicuous, Falsehood, Haggling | ||||
| Traits: 1 pt: Paranoid Ear, Scheming | ||||
| Mad Scientist1 | 6 yrs | 8 | +1 M | Space, Servitude |
| Skills: 6 pts: Weird Science, Oratory, Ugly Truth, Philosophy, Magnet-wise, Lever-wise | ||||
| Traits: 1 pt: The Fools Laughed At Me!, Overbearing Loony | ||||
| Trained by a Great Master2 | 10 yrs | 25 | +1 M, P | Jedi Academy, Military, Government |
| Skills: 12 pts: Meditation, Lightsaber, Form Training, Survival, Observation, Inconspicuous, Force-wise, Stealthy, Falsehood | ||||
| Traits: 2 pt: Force Sensitive, Outsider, Secretive | ||||
GALACTIC FRINGE NOTES
1: Requires Scientist.
2: May not have taken any previous Jedi Academy LPs.
Jedi Academy Sub-Setting
| Lifepath | Time | Res | Stat | Leads |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Youngling1 | 6 yrs | 5 | +1 M | Any except Clone |
| Skills: 8 pts: Meditation, Doctrine, Jedi History, Jedi Order-wise, Literacy, Lightsaber, Form I Training | ||||
| Traits: 1 pt: Force Sensitive, Devoted | ||||
| Jedi Service Corps2 | 4 yrs | 10 | +1 M | Galactic Fringe, Outer Galaxy, Space |
| Skills: 4 pts: Mechanical Ops, Computer Ops, Droid Ops, Agriculture, Medicine, Cartography, Astronomy, Engineering, Etiquette | ||||
| Traits: 2 pt: Not Good Enough | ||||
| Padawan3 | 4 yrs | 10 | +1 M, P | Any except Clone |
| Skills: 8 pts: Lightsaber, Form Training*, Doctrine, Etiquette, Force-wise, Jedi-wise | ||||
| Traits: 2 pts: Obedient, Naive, Driven, Impatient | ||||
| * Note: The Padawan may only learn one Form Training which is that of his Master's. | ||||
| Jedi Knight4 | 5 yrs | 25 | +1 M, P | Galactic Fringe, Government, Military |
| Skills: 12 pts: Form Training (any), Lightsaber, Piloting, Gunnery, Persuasion, Etiquette, Observation, Republic-wise | ||||
| Traits: 2 pt: Sworn to the Order, Cool Headed, Trustworthy, Truthful | ||||
| Jedi Master5 | 10 yrs | 30 | +1 M, P | Galactic Fringe, Government, Military |
| Skills: 10 pts: Oratory, Rhetoric, Force-wise, Galactic History, Obscure History, Jedi Law, Form training (any*), Instruction | ||||
| Traits: 2 pts: Master, Fearless, Poised, Stoic, Charismatic, Graceful | ||||
| * Note: May take multiple Forms. | ||||
| Jedi Council Member6 | 10 yrs | 30 | +1 M | Galactic Fringe, Government, Military |
| Skills: 8 pts: Administration, Ancient History, Ancient Languages, Symbology, Sith-wise, Planet-wise, Culture-wise, Jedi Council-wise | ||||
| Traits: 1 pt: Respected, Patient | ||||
JEDI ACADEMY NOTES
1: Must be taken as second lifepath, and may only be taken once.
2: Requires Youngling
3: Requirements: Youngling or Trained by a Great Master. Padawan may only be taken once.
4: Requires the Force Sensitive trait, and either Padawan or Trained by a Great Master LPs.
5: Requires Jedi Knight.
6: Requires Jedi Master
