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Anaraxes · 06-19-2019, 05:14 PM

What's the character concept, if there's something beyond "stranded spacer"?

What do you want to do with the character in the game?

What's the game about? Combat, exploration, diplomacy, building up the local tech to return home, founding your own empire, kill dungeon dwellers and take their stuff?

You probably want to choose some abilities that you'll enjoy in play, that help you depict and engage with whatever you expect as the character's story. It's possible you just want to kick butt, in which case you just want the most powerful abilities you can get for your budget. But even then, "kicking butt" has different definitions.

It's hard to make any suggestions without knowing something about the character and setting. Possibly it's so wide open you just want us to guess, or come up with whatever we personally might enjoy in some version of the setting we imagine, just as a source of inspiration or ideas. That's okay, too, but it'd be nice to know that it's that sort of hypothetical playground. If there are no constraints, then the answer is literally "everything in the book, plus whatever else you imagine and can talk the GM into".

06-19-2019, 05:14 PM	#7
Anaraxes Join Date: Sep 2007	Re: Suggestions for item enchantments What's the character concept, if there's something beyond "stranded spacer"? What do you want to do with the character in the game? What's the game about? Combat, exploration, diplomacy, building up the local tech to return home, founding your own empire, kill dungeon dwellers and take their stuff? You probably want to choose some abilities that you'll enjoy in play, that help you depict and engage with whatever you expect as the character's story. It's possible you just want to kick butt, in which case you just want the most powerful abilities you can get for your budget. But even then, "kicking butt" has different definitions. It's hard to make any suggestions without knowing something about the character and setting. Possibly it's so wide open you just want us to guess, or come up with whatever we personally might enjoy in some version of the setting we imagine, just as a source of inspiration or ideas. That's okay, too, but it'd be nice to know that it's that sort of hypothetical playground. If there are no constraints, then the answer is literally "everything in the book, plus whatever else you imagine and can talk the GM into".