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💬 Vanguard Crew Recap

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Custom Rules Quick Notes

• Inspiration Points - In a lot of D&D games you get a few inspiration, I give 5 out per session to counterbalance my evil GM ways. Achem. There are a slew of things you can use it on like advantage, add a d20 to damage, bribe me for plot reasons...
• “Aether Points” - Spell Points - Rather than spell slots, I use a kind of spell points system. In this setting it's called "aether reserves" or "aether capacity", but really all that matters is that you have more versatility. There are charts below to help figure out aether capacity per level based on class. Some of the Star Wars stuff uses force and tech, but they are mostly spells. If you pick a class that uses those, we'll figure out how to wrap them into the same versatility.
• Feats - The other big custom rule is feat points. In normal D&D you maybe get one feat instead of an ASI at class level 4 / 8 / 12/ 16. In my games you get 1 feat point per level and can use that to buy feats and other options. If you use star wars feats, those are mostly going to be 3 points per feat. I might increase the cost of some or lower the cost of others.
• Items / Weapons / Armor - I also use a more modular weapons, armor, and money system to enable multiple options. Rather than cost per static weapon, we do cost by weapon damage and options. There is still a list so you can just buy something. I also have ranges for types of items. Don't sweat it much. I've also got an items list or you can pull from the star wars / 5e items lists with the basic idea that 1 credit or silver equals about 1 rael in cost. So a 10 gold item is 100 raels. A 15 credit item is 15 raels. If something feels wrong about that, let me know and I'll verify cost.

Character Creation Step by Step

1. Create a Concept – Come up with a concept that first the world setting

2. Pick a species or custom lineage option

   • Humans – 5e Humans. http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/lineage:human
   • Ardennians – 4 arm monkey like beings. https://sw5e.com/characters/species/Ardennian
   • Baanga – Reptillianesque creatures. https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/lineage:lizardfolk o rhttps://i.4pcdn.org/tg/1420656248809.pdf baanga
   • Droids – Synthetic life. https://sw5e.com/characters/species/Droid, Class IV
   • Makkern – Cybernetic humanoids. Most Makkern are just humanoids with integrated circuitry that makes them better with technology. Some makkern implement multiple cybernetic options.
   • Reptilians – Lizardfok, dragonborn https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/lineage:lizardfolk https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/lineage:dragonborn
   • Selkaath – squidlike auquans. https://sw5e.com/characters/species/Selkath
   • Tertiate – (Not available) – A hive like race comprised of 3 sub-races (Pau’an, X’exto (maaaaabye available), Geevin (a shameful vampiric sub-race that the Tertiate don’t talk about). https://sw5e.com/characters/species/Xexto (Some xexto have the ability to increase their mass temporarily).
   • Togorian – Cat people. https://sw5e.com/characters/species/Togorian
   • Warpies – Warped by aether / misc group to capture lots of other things.
   • Warpies – Genasi – Elementally imbued warpies. https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/genasi

     • Custom Lineage Creature type. You are a humanoid. You determine your appearance and whether you resemble any of your kin. Size. You are Small or Medium (your choice). Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet. Ability Score Increase. One ability score of your choice increases by 2 or 2 ability scores increase by 1 .Feat. You gain one feat of your choice for which you qualify. Variable Trait. You gain one of the following options of your choice: Darkvision with a range of 60 feet. / Proficiency in one skill of your choice. (Note, wemay add some things in to a custom lineage to balance it out.) Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and your DM agree is appropriate for your character.

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3. Abilities - Point Buy 27 points

   • 8 = 0
   • 9 = 1
   • 10 = 2
   • 11 = 3
   • 13 = 5
   • 14 = 7
   • 12 = 4
   • 15 = 9
   • 16 = 11

4. Starting Class / Multi-class – Multi-class requirements are mostly ignored, star wars classes are OP but that’s fine. We are starting at level 3.

5. Hit Die / Other Class Options

   • Minimum Hit Die - Minimum hit die is 1d8 (5) instead of 1d6 (4).
   • Take Averages - Don't roll at levels - take the average listed for the class + con modifier.
   • Spell slots / aether points – Spells are “aether powers” and anything that uses a spell uses a spell point variant called aether points.

6. Backgrounds

7. Skills, Toolkits, and Proficiencies (Skills list at end of document)

8. Feat Points (Feats list at end of document)

9. Leveling Up

10. Equipment and Starting Currency

• Starting - You will have 1,000 raels to start with.
• Background - You can add 1d20 x 100 raels worth of equipment related to your background.

Powers and Abilities (Aether Points)

Aether Points by Levels