I'm going to be running an EotE campaign and one of my players wants to play a F&D Jedi.

After explaining to him that it would be okay as long he understands any public show of "force" would most certainly cause problems at a minimum and inquisitors not far behind. I'm also making him buy a EotE spec because he would need a skill set to survive. He's cools with all that and is choosing the scholar.

Because anyone can be force-sensitive but Jedi level awareness tend to be more common along blood lines we were discussing his backstory. He choose to be a scholar because after experiencing what he suspects to be an unusually high awareness of the force he realized that the only way he would be able to enhance those skill was to learn them himself. As such, he choose to study lore, remote systems and the like and hires out his research skills in exchange for passage to places he wants to visit in hopes of discovering something useful to to enhance his force powers.

This is is all fine and makes for a great back story and story arc but here's the complication. He can be a random advanced force user with no family ties or he can be part of a bloodline that he ends up discovering along the way. This is certainly a more interesting route. However, I want to avoid the typical, stuff so instead of being the off spring of a jedi, what if he's a clone?

What if someone, a Hutt, maybe, captured a jedi that had evaded order 66 and was trying to build himself a jedi army by cloning him? Maybe the force wasn't presenting in most of the clones expect for this one. But then, someone involved in the project became terrified of the consequences and stole him, hiding him away?

I don't know, what do you think?

I'm going to be running an EotE campaign and one of my players wants to play a F&D Jedi.

After explaining to him that it would be okay as long he understands any public show of "force" would most certainly cause problems at a minimum and inquisitors not far behind. I'm also making him buy a EotE spec because he would need a skill set to survive. He's cools with all that and is choosing the scholar.

Because anyone can be force-sensitive but Jedi level awareness tend to be more common along blood lines we were discussing his backstory. He choose to be a scholar because after experiencing what he suspects to be an unusually high awareness of the force he realized that the only way he would be able to enhance those skill was to learn them himself. As such, he choose to study lore, remote systems and the like and hires out his research skills in exchange for passage to places he wants to visit in hopes of discovering something useful to to enhance his force powers.

This is is all fine and makes for a great back story and story arc but here's the complication. He can be a random advanced force user with no family ties or he can be part of a bloodline that he ends up discovering along the way. This is certainly a more interesting route. However, I want to avoid the typical, stuff so instead of being the off spring of a jedi, what if he's a clone?

What if someone, a Hutt, maybe, captured a jedi that had evaded order 66 and was trying to build himself a jedi army by cloning him? Maybe the force wasn't presenting in most of the clones expect for this one. But then, someone involved in the project became terrified of the consequences and stole him, hiding him away?

I don't know, what do you think?

I think whatever works for your campaign.

If I say much more, as I have some very plot-specific thoughts on the matter, my players who read the boards will get far more of a preview than I'd like them to.

It's as good as any background.

I have to say I find it interesting FFG hasn't really got into cloning in the game in any way. I wonder if that's direction from the Mouse, or something they're saving up, or what?

I'm not such a big fan of the unknowing clone background. If they don't know their bloodline, have them be a bastard offshoot of a Jedi. He could even meet his father while he is on the run.

I'm going to be running an EotE campaign and one of my players wants to play a F&D Jedi.

After explaining to him that it would be okay as long he understands any public show of "force" would most certainly cause problems at a minimum and inquisitors not far behind. I'm also making him buy a EotE spec because he would need a skill set to survive. He's cools with all that and is choosing the scholar.

Because anyone can be force-sensitive but Jedi level awareness tend to be more common along blood lines we were discussing his backstory. He choose to be a scholar because after experiencing what he suspects to be an unusually high awareness of the force he realized that the only way he would be able to enhance those skill was to learn them himself. As such, he choose to study lore, remote systems and the like and hires out his research skills in exchange for passage to places he wants to visit in hopes of discovering something useful to to enhance his force powers.

This is is all fine and makes for a great back story and story arc but here's the complication. He can be a random advanced force user with no family ties or he can be part of a bloodline that he ends up discovering along the way. This is certainly a more interesting route. However, I want to avoid the typical, stuff so instead of being the off spring of a jedi, what if he's a clone?

What if someone, a Hutt, maybe, captured a jedi that had evaded order 66 and was trying to build himself a jedi army by cloning him? Maybe the force wasn't presenting in most of the clones expect for this one. But then, someone involved in the project became terrified of the consequences and stole him, hiding him away?

I don't know, what do you think?

If you want to "avoid the typical" then go more mundane rather than more exotic. Have him discover that a few distant relatives--certainly not the character's father or mother, and probably not even a relative of that generation--joined the Jedi Order, but none were of particular renown. This actually gives the character a chance to grow on his own rather than in the shadow of a loaded backstory.

Thanks for the feedback, everyone.

I think leaning towards the mundane will be more effective and provide just as much opportunity for adventure and also save me the grand effort of making everyone's backstory a huge story arc.

I might end up using a Hutt trying to clone jedi's as a latter plot though, I think that has potential.

If you want the parents to have a Jedi Order connection, you could always have one or both as former AgriCorps. IIRC, the AgriCorps did get purged too, but it's plausible a few could've escaped.