Development: Cho
Posted: 30 Oct 2018, 10:50
Thread to collate and tidy up Cho-related discussions via email with Bruce + everyone else.
Starter question: How would I build Game of Thrones' Arya Stark as a Star Wars character?
Favourite Career/Spec start point: F&D's Sentinel - Shadow. Why? Sentinels are pitched at being the spooky Sith-hunting, anti-hero dark jedi types who 'do what needs to be done' to ensure no-one else has to. Seems like best fit for an Arya type, slightly magical sneaking / lying / espionage / stabs in the back rather than gunslinging.
Non-Force alternative: AoR's Spy - Infiltrator. Good espionage skillset, talent tree gives melee murder oomph for when it goes wrong. Don't mind dropping the Force aspect if it doesn't fit the group/game, or if other characters have prior claims to heading that way, but eventually someone ought to be waving around a lightsaber without proper training
Other notes of things which have occurred to me:
Starter question: How would I build Game of Thrones' Arya Stark as a Star Wars character?
Favourite Career/Spec start point: F&D's Sentinel - Shadow. Why? Sentinels are pitched at being the spooky Sith-hunting, anti-hero dark jedi types who 'do what needs to be done' to ensure no-one else has to. Seems like best fit for an Arya type, slightly magical sneaking / lying / espionage / stabs in the back rather than gunslinging.
Non-Force alternative: AoR's Spy - Infiltrator. Good espionage skillset, talent tree gives melee murder oomph for when it goes wrong. Don't mind dropping the Force aspect if it doesn't fit the group/game, or if other characters have prior claims to heading that way, but eventually someone ought to be waving around a lightsaber without proper training
Other notes of things which have occurred to me:
- Chameleonic personality as well as physical form?
- Almost never wears their own face, instead favouring a few well-practiced ones depending on context.
- Clawdites tend not to be strong-willed, cunning but unlikely to directly oppose folks when pushed
- Would see the Force as a source of personal power and thus security
- Hungry for that sense of connection to others he/she's always lacked until recently
- Force-sensitivity could definitely be a liability in Cho tho - lacks a strong sense of self
- Can be anything to anyone, but has hardly ever had anyone get to know the 'real' Cho
- Makes befriending the party both daunting and addictive, Cho's used to be being used but this time round maybe there's a spark of something real.
- Crappy upbringing, slum living, pushed into working for criminals from early on
- Perhaps a barely-trained padawan gone missing after the fall of the Order 20 years ago and dropped back into the criminal underworld while still a kid - being older and jaded now would fit with Cho being Zak's rival/partner in playing 'team mom/dad' like Kanan and Hera do in Rebels.
- Started spying for a criminal cartel, then pressured into causing 'accidents' and built from there
- nothing like a shapeshifting assassin to show nobody's out of reach, after all
- might've been the favourite tool of a Hutt, or worked for the Crimson Dawn or Black Sun syndicates
- Later might've taken (Imperial-backed) contracts to hunt down people with Jedi artifacts or sympathies
- hiding in plain sight, as ever, taking any leads to see what's become of the old order
- aim would be to steal any trinkets and maybe fail the actual hit, but people are often disappointing and failing one's employers too frequently is bad for continued business
- (was it one of those contracts that led to Zak?)
Hi Ross,
Great brain dump and appreciate the early update.
Very happy for you to be force sensitive. As you say someone has to wield a light sabre!
Maybe consider a super solid personality to counter point the super flexible physical? Might be easier to play. Might be easier to stomach as a part member! Happy either way.
If I haven't commented on it I love it!
Hiding in plain site is a risky plan. I love it. You can almost smell the Inquisitors they are that close...
Regards,
Bruce