So I recently had a new player join my game. The concept they came up with was a conman who masquerades as a priest. They took smuggler/scoundrel and topped it with the force adherent universal specialization with the idea they do have some training/knowledge in this sort of thing. They also took the obligation of High Risk. So far we’re still developing the character but I’m trying to come up with some plot hooks/storylines I could use that would tie into their character.

Any suggestions?

One idea I had is a parent coming after her because their preaching lead their child to go off on some “damned fool idea of a crusade”. The parent wants them to make it right and they have to go get the child back from the quest they’ve gone on. Options from there are pretty open.

High risk, posing as a priest -- was a chaplain in somebody's little war to get into the thick of things, a la Hemingway?

The classic con man posing as believer story is one in which the con man becomes a real believer after seeing something numinous or having a religious experience themselves.

They get strong-armed by a reasonably well-meaning Imperial overseer into giving some prisoners their last rites before execution. This could play out as something super grim but also as a really dark comedy.

Their fake priest identity comes with a religious vow of silence that is noted in their ID, so they can't verbally communicate with anyone who could check their fake papers.

Well, the vow of silence is good, but we already established they can speak so that one is out sadly. Everything has been an interesting suggestion so far.

5 minutes ago, Hchar said:

Well, the vow of silence is good, but we already established they can speak so that one is out sadly.

Did you really, though? Or did no one ever bother to actually look at that section of the ID documents, and all it will take is a Despair on the roll to get through customs?

We already had one session where they were talking with the other characters. ID is going to be a problem all round. The rest of the crew botched a robbery and got caught. They met the “priest” after arriving at a dark port having hijacked the prison transport. So they all have a criminal record at this time.

3 minutes ago, Hchar said:

We already had one session where they were talking with the other characters. ID is going to be a problem all round. The rest of the crew botched a robbery and got caught. They met the “priest” after arriving at a dark port having hijacked the prison transport. So they all have a criminal record at this time.

Is the character conning the other PCs? I figured the priest act was directed at rubes & Imperials, not at the other party members. Not trying to tell you what to do, obvs! Just suggesting stuff.

It’s a bit of a mix and making for interesting party Roleplay.

We got a Katoonian slicer in search of God* who found them, totally buys into the Con and brought them to the party to help them with their personal quest.

The Wookie outlaw tech thinks the Conman is running a con, or is part of a con religion, but that the conman believes it herself. Generally just bangs his head on a convent surface when either of the two get on religion.

The Twilek Big game hunter isn’t buying it at all and she makes veiled threats as to what will happen to the priest if she tries to con the crew.

The human doctor just watches all thisso far laughing in the corner.

*Hutt master got killedby an assassin. Klatoonians see the Hutts as gods. Since the only one who can kill a god is another god they reason this would be the better god to follow. As such they are trying to find them.

One thing you could do is have him stumble upon a REAL priest of whatever religion he makes up. He's in a small town trying to extort some folks for tithes and suddenly a higher ranking priest comes up and sees him as a brother, then calls upon him to help with some dangerous mission. If he declines, he'll be outed to the crowd as a fraud, so he's got to go through with it if he wants to keep his cover.

I always love the old sit-com troupe of forcing a character to live the lie they've created, I always find it very funny!

15 hours ago, evo454 said:

One thing you could do is have him stumble upon a REAL priest of whatever religion he makes up. He's in a small town trying to extort some folks for tithes and suddenly a higher ranking priest comes up and sees him as a brother, then calls upon him to help with some dangerous mission. If he declines, he'll be outed to the crowd as a fraud, so he's got to go through with it if he wants to keep his cover.

I always love the old sit-com troupe of forcing a character to live the lie they've created, I always find it very funny!

This really. It depends what kind of priesthood is this character attempting to "be", are they posing as a Jedi or some obscure order? Having someone legitimately from that order happen upon them, perhaps already knowing their fake, and test their mettle by giving a true task.

If they attempt the task and fail; then they have succeeded because they tried, rather then cut and run like many other con artists. They have at least tried to do the right thing; even if they don't necessarily have the tools.

You also mentioned a child. Is that child force sensitive? Or did he literally steal a child? That does sound strange to me so I figured I would ask for elaboration.

On 1/21/2019 at 8:27 AM, LordBritish said:

This really. It depends what kind of priesthood is this character attempting to "be", are they posing as a Jedi or some obscure order? Having someone legitimately from that order happen upon them, perhaps already knowing their fake, and test their mettle by giving a true task.

If they attempt the task and fail; then they have succeeded because they tried, rather then cut and run like many other con artists. They have at least tried to do the right thing; even if they don't necessarily have the tools.

You also mentioned a child. Is that child force sensitive? Or did he literally steal a child? That does sound strange to me so I figured I would ask for elaboration.

I assume the last is in reference to my suggestion in the original post.

The idea was said child got their head full of crazy notions from our Conman and decided to head off to do something foolish. Maybe they went off together and got separated or something inspired the quest afterwards. Either way child has gotten into a crazy situation and the parent want the conman that caused it to make it right.