Re: Community Chat
Nope, everybody would start as small fries. Smuggler that never broke a blockade. Diplomat that never got out from behind the desk. Thug that never did anything but be a bouncer. I want to have a huge game on character development, mostly because of twists I have planned. No Force classes, not even the exile/sensitive/emergent. I have big plans to take this game and make a story that grows based on character choice, this means rewards based on roleplay. Or consequences.
Examples of my style of GM: My longest campaign involved the PC group staging a coup on a space station and ousting the administrator in charge. Then most missions thereafter were about building up this base of operations and running their own smugggling/crime ring from it, while dealing with trade from Imperials. One encounter involved their Jawa Mechanic rolling a stun grenade around a corner between unsuspecting troopers. His roll was kinda silly, he failed but with an insane amount of advantage. The result was the grenade was undetected, but inert. Essentially he forgot to arm it. So instead of ignoring it, he RP'ed hard. His little Jawa buddy ran up and slid between the legs of a trooper to manually detonate it while screaming "Utini!" So the rest of that encounter the Aqualish Thug was stuck carrying around an unconscious Jawa.
Another: Swoop race at the end of a particularly difficult story arc. The swoop race was mayhem, a brawl ensued in the observer booth, one PC gambled away all the party's creds and ship, the racer rolled 2 Triumphs and 2 Despairs for the final stretch. Result: He won, but lost both of his legs in a crash that skirted him across the line. BUT, his buddy that gambled had one a favor from a patron that covered all medical costs for him to get cybernetic legs and then incurred some substantial Obligation to pay off.
I am all about story development and characters. I have my own plot goals, but those don't take precedence over the narrative that we work out together. I have plenty of other awesome examples from my past games.