Will the community please help me create pre-generated starting characters for our LEGO Minifigure Force and Destiny RPG? Our play group has developed almost a decade-long habit of issuing pre-generated PCs for the first adventure to build system buy-in and avoid power-gaming. Our resources are limited to ALL F+D Core and supplemental books, and presume we can buy or find closely-matching Star Wars LEGO parts to build our representative minifigures.

I’ve decades of GMing experience, and have played F+D for three months before our GM was reassigned from the local War College. I accept the task of building four F+D PCs, with a strong likelihood of a fifth member (who is currently leading a BSA Troop) in two weeks. We meet weekly during the summer for two hours each week. All players have SW dice or the dice app, and are willing to buy Specialization decks themselves (if suggested; does the community recommend the Specialization decks?).

The characters typically follow generic fantasy role playing character archetypes. When we met to plan our next game, players also noted what aspirations they have for this system after casually paging through our books for two hours. These include:

1: A druidic ranger type wants to match their animal companion to a force-sensitive bonded animal. I presume this suggests a Hermit or Pathfinder career, with the player and animal species only limited to this caveat: make the relationship statistically significant. What species make a good bonded animal, using only F+D material? I’ll be looking for LEGO animals that might match, but neither she nor I are too worried about finding an exact match. This character was attracted to another post in this forum about a baby Kryatt dragon in an introductory GM screen.

2: A typical barbarian wants to deal significant damage. They do not care if this damage is melee or ranged combat, or splash damage from explosives. Initially, he does not think a lightsaber will provide as much damage as other weapons, but remains open to the idea. Again, this damage machine should be drawn exclusively from F+D books. The Executioner career made him smile after reading so many words about “critical,” “death,” “kill,” and “lethal.” Is there a better damage option?

3: Our typical cleric wants to deal non-lethal combat damage. Having access to my books, this player and I talked about an Ithorian Armorer wielding a Kimber Crystal lightsaber, with strong attraction to the Suppress Force Power. Ideally, this character wants to manipulate combat and social situations with Force powers (thinking Ithorian bellows should penetrate some typical defenses or Force powers). Usually, she heals as a defensive tank, but healing isn’t a primary focus for her Star Wars character; avoiding a need to heal by having a good defense is her primary goal, and she hopes to balance the Force by being non-lethal.

4: Our regular wizard type wants to test the limits of Force Ratings. He hopes to capitalize on wielding the Force is unique ways, and will adopt whatever party role the Force guides them to being. He will be happy if his character has the highest starting Force Rating (or tied for highest), and can do impressive things with that score. While very open-ended, this choice also presents a lot of options.

5: Our BSA leader juggles his time well, but is MIA about 20% of the time. While he wants to play, he is fully understanding how his PC may become a GMPC when absent. As such, he typically defaults to whatever PC the party needs to be well-rounded or specialized for short introductions and exits. In the past, he has successfully plied trade as several trap-springing ranger/rogues from the same Thieves Guild (many of whom expired while on assignment, and with whom the player replaced with better-configured characters for the NEXT trap). When pressed for preferences, he thought a Sathari Starfighter Ace might be interesting, mostly because of his affinity for building well-matched LEGOS to his previous RPG characters.

Regarding setting, the group hasn’t committed to a starting shared resource or reason for party adventure. They would prefer (in order): a setting with varied environments that includes typical forests with which they are most familiar, an adversary who is recognizable from canon or legends (note: Boushh may fit, both as a customized LEGO and a Guilded Bounty Hunter, pg. 404 in F+DCR, and match the timeline of the game setting.), and to have equal parts of Space Opera and use of the Force that should be expected from specific rules books about Force-sensitive characters. The group would prefer to be effective from the start of the adventure, which might suggest Knight Level of play.

No character can take signature abilities unless all PCs have access to signature abilities. A group of Guardians could have someone with signature abilities, but nobody has access to those if a Healer is also present (since there is no current book for their signatures). While I do not think this will matter during introductory play, it's a house rule designed to be fair to everyone's characters.

Again, I appeal to the community forums to guide initial character generation.

To summarize, I want guidance (not necessarily final creations of):

5 pre-generated Force and Destiny characters that match all/most/some of players’ interests,

With content drawn only from (all) F+D rule books/adventures,

With high probability of matching LEGO minifigure “miniatures,”

And suggestions about (LEGO*) adversaries that likely fuels most episodic, two-hour weekly gaming sessions during the summer.

Thanks in advance! I will attempt to reply responsibly, to answer questions. I can also show off the LEGOS when characters are complete, but that process will take some time for everyone to get their blocks ready for cameras!

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* - LEGO customization suggests that I can cannibalize existing figures using other LEGO minifigures or pieces. For example, the only ‘Lannik’ made by LEGO is Even Piell. However, his head could work (and actually may suggest the Farsight Force Power), but Harry Potter LEGO’s ‘Dobby’ may work, too. Whipids might be more difficult, however. We all have children who love LEGOS, and this is our way of compromising game resources for increased access to various customizable miniatures and shared fun with our kids when the RPG ends.