2 time GM with upcoming third game on Monday, first time making new PC's. I've been practicing character creation to get the hang of it, ideally trying to make one for each class or make PC's based on existing characters to help.

Trying to write up Talon Karrde as a PC, stuck on the best career/specialisation to classify him as. Ideally Smuggler is too easy a career to fill, I'm leaning more towards writing him up as his Information Broker title. Tossing up Colonist career , but stuck between Politico and Scholar for specialisation. Any thoughts for what makes best specialisation?

PS: Aware now that you can do multiple specialisations, but for arguments sake trying to settle on one specialisation now. Also apologies for any forum etiquette displayed, first post.

On 11/29/2019 at 7:24 AM, Rosco D said:

2 time GM with upcoming third game on Monday, first time making new PC's. I've been practicing character creation to get the hang of it, ideally trying to make one for each class or make PC's based on existing characters to help.

Trying to write up Talon Karrde as a PC, stuck on the best career/specialisation to classify him as. Ideally Smuggler is too easy a career to fill, I'm leaning more towards writing him up as his Information Broker title. Tossing up Colonist career , but stuck between Politico and Scholar for specialisation. Any thoughts for what makes best specialisation?

PS: Aware now that you can do multiple specialisations, but for arguments sake trying to settle on one specialisation now. Also apologies for any forum etiquette displayed, first post.

As one of the best information brokers/smugglers in the galaxy, Karrde would be +300 XP at the very least, probably more like +500 XP. Karrde is a Smuggler first and foremost, stick with that as his career and probably get Scoundrel as a starting spec.

Take obligation for +10 XP, and get 233323 with starting XP. Probably try to get 2 dedications for 233424.

Beyond Scoundrel, I think that Politico is a definite yes. Trader is the best spec for an information broker in my opinion, and you might want to grab Gambler because it’s Gambler and it’s in his career. In my opinion, Scholar is too emphasized on academics to reflect his skillset which is much more suited for underworld business. IIRC he didn’t do much piloting himself, so I wouldn’t buy the whole Pilot tree, although getting a couple ranks in the Piloting skill would make sense.

I like Chamer better than Gambler myself for a Karrde start, but also he would have made a great start as a Diplomat/Quartermaster.

For a PC being made in the theme of Talon Karrde, I'd say good options are Smuggler/Charmer, Explorer/Trader, and Colonist/Entrepreneur. None of those alone is going to cover the very broad range of capabilities that Kardde would have as the head of his own smuggling organization, but they're all fairly decent starting points for various aspects of what the man is capable of. Of those three, I'd probably lean more into Smuggler/Charmer to cover both his social acumen (he's good at getting untrusting folks to trust him and inspiring loyalty in those who work for him) and give him access to the various underworld-themed skills that someone like him should have more than a few ranks in.

Diplomat analyst