Starfield and My Roleplay Plans

Always wanted to do a Han Solo/Starlord style playthrough

I'd love a follow up to this video about what aspects and tips you'd give to someone selecting backgrounds (and more importantly traits) for a character. The way your selected background effects your character is pretty standard regardless of which background you choose. But some traits significantly change the world of your character. Kid stuff or admiring fan really feels significant whereas something like Alien DNA seems only to effect combat and stats. I've restarted my game 3 times because I didn't either feel like i selected the right background or traits. The feel/vibe of my character is the difference between 100% completing everything, or if i abandon the game after 30 hours.

Roleplaying as Riddick. Cool thing is the game can actually pronounce his name...at least vasco calls me captain riddick. My character actually looks pretty close too. Shouldve made him a little more heavy set instead of muscular but otherwise its pretty good. Looking at him from the side looks exactly like vin diesel. Going to have to get my stealth and melee weapons skills up. My ships going to be the rocinante (legitimate salvage) from the expanse but im not that far yet.

Omg i have found my people 😂. I always do this kinda shit in rpgs especially Bethesda ones. I hope to get a new computer and RP the shit out of this game in the not too distant future 😂

Did a little bit of playing to get a feel for the controls and such.

Gonna go at it with the intentions of doing some Spike Spiegel stuff from Cowboy Bebop with the idea in mind being to create the bebop, the swordfish, the hammerhead and maybe even the red tail if possible.

I love that you can basically create a spacial floatilla of travel companions you can pick and xhoose to do whatever.

I've already created a few backgrounds for certain characters. A long-hauler self-insert, a super soldier from an abandoned project, a diplomat pacifist in hiding, an assassin of the great serpent ( dark brotherhood reference ), cyber runner street rat ( cyberpunk ), and those are just the start. Character creation has always been fun for me and i plan to create to the fullest

Be a chef. Just focus on meals. Incredible storytelling.

I always roleplay in that the choices I make in the game are the ones I would make as myself. I do have to be able to play as a woman and choose my own physical appearance though. I’ve tried playing as a total bar steward and as a thief and payed assassin but I always end up going back to myself. I like your ideas and look forward to your series. Personally I never play on permadeath I could not stand it! That said I only play large rpgs with building, relationships etc.

But if you do this game and record it, I will 100% watch.

I can’t really say what my ideas for RP in Starfield are but mainly an ex-military combat medic, who’s spacer born. Meaning he or she was born and raised on starships most of their life in UC space. But that is subject to change.

I have played Skyrim through at least a half dozen times and I have never played the sneaky Archer thief. I have played the sneaky mage thief, I've played the double dagger thief, never sneaky Archer thief.

But for this game I think I'll start with the guardian type, transporter, bodyguard-esque sort of character.

Can't wait for the alternate start mod

I’m going to be a diplomat and I already have my story of how I ended up mining. I was volunteering to represent the miners in a labor dispute and depending on the details I was down there working with them to talk to them and understand their needs and complaints.

Since the moment I heard there is some smuggling mechanics, I plan to be a smuggler. More sneaky than shooter, and only engaging in combat when strictly necessary

I like to think that i chose a mining job because it was a job that garruntees ill get to see space (my lifelong dream)

This was one of the greatest starfield videos ive ever watched just because ive watched id say about 2000 since ive learned of the games existence and it made me actually wanna go into this with rp in mind im actually scripting one now but its personel maybe ill share it one day

So my advice is to play through the game once and dont worry about your character or their backstory. Just get a feel for the game. After that you can start to think about where your character has been, where they are going and more importantly, what they want.
Starting out. perhaps there is no use for a (insert background here) where they are. Perhaps they decided to get greedy and stole from the wrong person, perhaps they pissed off their superiors, they could have seen something they werent supposed to. Maybe they were framed or are working undercover in order to find someone or something.

My point is there are lots of reasons why people change professions. Get creative.

As for the "honour" system upon dying, it usually leads to players being dishonest. Using permadeath will still allow you to play cautiously but you will care far more about your character or companions should they die. If you plan to use an honour system i recommend using a dice roll to make it fair and to prevent you from cheating. So set out a number of scenarios such as (1) got shot in the leg and unable to continue went to the nearest medical facility.( 2) wounded arm (3) near death but got rescued (4) total death start over (5) knocked out and robbed of all your things (6) evacuated by the UC after they saw you go down.
You then roll a 1d6 and whatever number comes up thats your fate.

I've already came up with my character as well. I'm going to role play as Salvor Hardin from the show Foundation on Apple.

I've got way too many ideas about characters. I'm just going to have to shut and play all of it. ALL OF IT! Maybe I need a good 20 game saves that I play as a specific intended character with a specific intended path. Like, one will be a pirate with a chop shop. Another will be an industrialist. Etcetera, etcetera. I wonder if it's possible to have a Inara Serra type courtesan, riding the space gravy train?

The best mmorpg, I have played was probably Dark Ages of Camelot back in the day from Mythic.

It just worked and wasn't too cartoony.

Really love Bethesda games and can't wait for the 1st of September.

I was a passionate cook (chef) at one time or another a damn good one too people knew me and came all around to my little diner to get a taste of the dishes my inspiration came up with...then someone came to my little place and demanded a perfect steak...i gave him medium rare...he called it raw and threw it in my face demanded well done saying it was the only way to eat a steak and to put some "damn ketchup on it" i threw his ass out and he swore id regret it....turns out the freak was influential and i lost everything, had to take this mining job to stay afloat. there are some people out there who remember me and miss what i brought to people (hero worshiped) but not many care, I also get glimpses of a shine every now and then in the distance. Maybe im just paranoid my guard staying up after i lost everything, what would anyone even want from me now? (wanted) - and thats the backstory i came up with for my first character.

assuming the ronin background has good perks,im going to be a ronin mercenary,who takes on any job as long as they think it'll be exciting.or they sympathize with the person.

I really hope they don't screw up urgency this time. Nothing more immersion/role play breaking than having 10+ quests that all need to utmost urgency. Looking at you Skyrim lol.

I will also be playing as a bounty hunter, although I’m not to sure if I’ll join any faction I want to be against most of them. Still trying to figure out what traits I want.

In one Skyrim runthrough I added scars each time I got killed and had to load a save.

You took my "Boba Fett" roleplay idea right outa my mouth! I am definitely looking forward to rolling as a Bounty Hunter. Complete with an upright ship 🤞

I've already got my character in mind... I'm gonna be creating & playing a Mal from Firefly type who's aligned with the Freestar collective.

I'm gonna create Serenity for my ship (or as close as i can)

My character will take any job... don't much care what it is!

I'll respect my companions & crew but make it perfectly clear that they're on MY ship & must respect MY rules!

Im gonna roleplay as a space cowboy. And name my character Arthur Morgan

Neon street rat, smuggling Arora into UC space. Make a bunch of money, buy an awesome ship then turn bounty hunter and go kill my previous customers for more credits. 😀

I will no doubt be lifting several of your ideas for my time in Starfield- I love nothing more than ‘sitting in’ a character and trying to live in that world as truthfully and rationally as possible. Pretty sure I’ll be going the diplomat route. Too much of today’s gaming is about nothing but mindless gunplay- I’m looking forward to all the writing and character depth BGS builds their games on with regard to this one. For whatever reason, I have a tougher time immersing myself in fantasy or medieval game worlds; I’ve been waiting for a game like this in a universe like this my whole life. And that’s saying something- as I’m old enough to have been in awe of the graphics in ‘Pitfall’.

Went through this video twice for the algorithm. Keep this up, dude. It was a great video. You’ve inspired me to do a RP run when this comes out. I haven’t RPed since SWTOR Online. It was a lot of fun. I think this might be, too. I subscribed and will be back to see your story unfold.

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As an ex-member of the Crimson Fleet, and after watching my family slaughtered for me leaving that group of pirates, I'm forced to lay low as a miner in Cydonia until I can afford to completely change my physical and official identity.

Once achieved, my plan is to explore planets, exploit resources, build outposts and generate commerce enough to easily finance a private army and build a lethal (unregistered) combat ship with all the bells and whistles. 

In the meantime I shall join the Crimson Fleet faction as a spy to garner information and identify internal weaknesses, I shall hit their supply ships incognito to feed my future war machine, I shall even smuggle illegal cargo to sell to these pirates to fatten my war coffers so my brothers in arms can equip themselves ready for the final signal..

..And then I shall strike down upon them with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempted to poison and destroy my brothers. And they will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon them!!

Then I'll have a nice quiet cuppa tea and chockie-chippie biscuit.

A Bethesda game on permadeath sounds like a GD nightmare.

I’m hoping to make a character modeled after Hypatia of Alexandria — philosopher, astronomer, educator, and advisor to the governor Orestes. For a playthrough that means heavily science focused, nonviolent, no romance. Kind of a tossup between Professor or Diplomat backgrounds (wish we could choose both). I plan to name the ships in her fleet after conic sections and other ancient Greek philosophers, with my main ship being the Ellipse.

Hopefully she’ll meet a happier fate than her namesake.

Everybody’s thinking it, but I’m just saying it. Pirates.

Whatever my starting intentions, I always end up playing as a generic nice guy. So for starfield, I really want to push myself to play as a completely nasty, piece of shit human. I usually find it very difficult to take the obvious "bad" choice in these games, even though its not real, it makes me feel bad. But I feel like Starfield opens up the possibility of playing as a space pirate, just roaming the galaxy ripping off everyone you cross paths with. I predict that I won't be able to bring myself to intentionally blow up "Granny" and will have to re-start. In which case, I'll roleplay as a Malcolm Reynolds type character, from the TV show Firefly.

welcome back captain sparrow🤠

Same for me! I used to role play AS MYSELF. Then as the game progressed, I'd give up on role play and move to min/max. But starting with Skyrim I build a character BEFORE I started the game.

I'm doing the same for Starfield, in fact I'm building five characters. That will allow me to play multiple characters at once, and experience a great deal of the game. If I try to cram all of that into one character it gets schizophrenic.

Here are my five characters below. I've got their backgrounds as you mentioned. I can take these guys and have THEM pick their Starfield background, traits, skill trees, faction, and research.

For example you mentioned exploring and feeling the need to explore everything. That's how I am naturally, so one of my characters (Julia Smith) has had bad experiences in home settings, and now they get very anxious when they're in a single location for more than a day or two. They want to KEEP MOVING.

I do have other characters who are more trying to build a life in a certain place, and so don't want to move (see Jane Sylvan).

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Julia Smith: Orphan raised in orphanage age 17
Want to get away, keep moving
Does not want to take orders or work in a structured organization

Good at not caring about others' desires

Quirk: changes hairstyle/tattoo/body often

Has alien DNA
Explorer? Neon Street Rat?
Constellation?
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Sultan Mahire: Kicked out of last year of high school age 18
Want to make some money
Not afraid to steal
Doesn't want to be part of structured organization

Understands how money flows
Understands how people work together

Quirk: likes knives

Diplomat?
Freestar Collective? Crimson Fleet Pirates?
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Etienne Travail: Dropped out of college to create something age 21
Want to get in with / lead something big / make a dent in the universe
Want to make some money

Good at convincing people (Charismatic)
Intelligent
Arrogant

Quirk: speaks Latin

Cyber Runner? Cyberneticist? Professor?
Constellation? Ryujin Industries?
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Jim Brown: Pro Athlete just retired age 29
Want to be a part of a structured organization
Want to have fun

Very hard worker
Has some money
Strength, endurance

Has lost money in the past, cautious about investing

Quirk: separates people into my team / other team, treats other team poorly

Hero Worshipped
Taskmaster?
Bouncer? Gangster? Ronin?
United Colonies? Ryujin Industries?
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Jane Sylvan: Accountant just retired at age 60
Wants "second chapter" in life
Does not want to kill
Does not want to steal

Out of shape (bad at physical)
Has some money
Has some ties (family? House? Religion?)

Quirk: afraid of heights

Professor?
Constellation? Ryujin Industries? United Colonies?

I know ill be playing pirate/smuggler/ introvert/ stealth/ explorer/crimson fleet or free star

New sub here! Loved the video! Gave me some things to think about...
Hope to see more from you in the future! Now gonna go check out your other stuff

I play like that too. This may be the last game I ever play. Hahaha. So much to explore.

The more I see of this game the more interested i get, i am hopping this will cure my longing for an open world starwars game. I am thinking either a bounty hunter or a Han Solo type character.

ya I’m gonna be a pirate

Thank you for responding on my comment. Just subscribed. 😊😊.

Pretty sure I want my background to be assassin (bounty hunter if that’s not available), one of the religions, and wanted. I ended up at the mining company because the weight of my sins grew to be too much to bear. But something keeps calling me back into the life… Will I grow into someone who cherishes life and understands that everyone except the worst people deserve a chance, or will I succumb to the darkness and forsake my god? No idea.

Im gonna be a wanted space cowboy bandit running from his enemies and trying to uncover the secrets of the universe in search of power and a better life. Im gonna go with the wanted trait, freestar native trait, and probably one of the religions idk which one ill choose yet tho.

That's so cool. If I had to think about the way I would want my character to be when I role play in this game..... it'll be a mercenary. Prob from the streets of neon growing up, from nothing but the alleyways poor with no parents or siblings having to fend for his own also leaving him to find it hard on connecting with others and working with them. Growing up causing mischief stealing anything to either reuse as material, or sell to someone else in order to survive. Probably having that one friend they made growing up after finally becoming trust worthy because they are the same shoes that worked together until betraying my character causing my character to flee the city sneaking on a cargo ship and ending up landing at the mining facility where he began a new life.

For background im thinking Cyber Runner would be nice for the techy element of my character. Also because I picture growing up my character wouldve had to sneak into buildings just to sleep with something over their heads, and a way to get away with their crimes or someone from causing bad harm their way they had to have just enough of a silver tongue to get away.

For traits I have 3 in mind being Introvert, Neon Street Rat, and Wanted.

Introvert: I feel it is because my character has spent his whole life not really connecting with people, and the one time he did trust someone they betrayed him staining him in this idea that he has to stay to himself not only to get the job done correct, but to ensure he doesn't go through that again. In the end causing my character to also see loyalty and friendship amongst robots instead of people.

Neon Street Kid: being born in Neon I feel having Neon Street Kid is just fitting.

Wanted: being a mercenary I feel the wanted trait would be a nice way to give the feeling that me taking on some missions depending on what it is (let's say go against a enemy faction or steal something from a group of people) would have consequence of people putting hits on me or seeking back what I did to them. Only time they talk to someone is mainly just vendors for upgrades/new guns, or missions. No hailing over to passing ships to visit, and no visiting stations unless they really need to.

The general energy I want my character to have once they begin their mercenary work is if they have to kill they will kill, gotta smuggle they will, have to sneak into a space yacht of the top elite and steal they will do that too. W.e the mission is that will supply my character the money to get what they need to survive they will get.

Regarding exploration I think itll be very keen on the main cities, outside of a base of operations way out far away practically away from everyone that if I need to make a break for it I can go to.

That's about all I got let me know what u think, or if u think other traits should would work out better. Super excited can't wait for release upgraded my pc for school couple months ago.

I'm definitely going to watch more of your videos!