Rycar Alphabeamer
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 Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2025 8:35 pm Post subject: Introduction |
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Hello everyone!!
I’m Rycar Alphabeamer, a Star Wars fan, and in recent years increasingly passionate about the universe that D6 helped to broadly create.
You could know me as a relic collector, because my story seems to have started a bit late in the galaxy. In recent years, I became so drawn to role-playing that with the appearance of ChatGPT, being one of the early testers, I got the perfect excuse to try role-playing with it. I encountered the problem that ChatGPT didn’t know the rules and wasn’t particularly good at “role-playing,” but thanks to it, I created my first character:
Sharr, a Twi’lek smuggler femme fatale with a cybernetic eye capable of seeing through certain objects...
However, to this day, after having done other solo adventures with other OCs and as a GM already using real rules for my siblings, I still haven’t been able to play “seriously” with Sharr.
I am a player of REDUX, the most updated version while respecting the original rules I know.
Currently, I am interested in the outdated world of SW:MB (Miniatures Battles) and creating some personal rules, templates, lore, adventures, and D6 modules.
But my main mission is to travel the galaxy in search of the vestiges of past generations, to learn from them and prevent them from falling into oblivion… my journey has just begun, and I am full of determination…
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From the beginning… Before becoming a Star Wars fan, I have blurry memories of flipping through TV channels and finding the scene of Ben teaching Luke in his home on Tatooine in IV… I remember that at around six years old, I said something like, “Oh, it’s Star Wars,” and apparently continued flipping channels… something that was not only sacrilegious but also condemned me to not be able to watch the original trilogy until far in the future…
My second Star Wars memory, at around eight years old, comes from a box of PS2 games my grandmother gave me for being her godchild. Among many others were SWFU (the original version with Phase 3 clone armor, the version I consider the only valid one, now only playable on PSP), SWHotR (from the Clone Wars series), and SWBII. I tried all three with my brothers and cousins, first at my grandmother’s house. The first was the only one we understood and enjoyed, although we never beat Father Galen. It was very fun to kill Wookiees and empathize with the clones before even knowing who they were. However, I didn’t play those games much more until the last memory that made me a Star Wars fan.
At that time, maybe between 8 and 9 years old, I was following the series Generator Rex on CN (before Disney bought it) and didn’t want to miss the episode, so I tuned in early. There I encountered TCW in a Mon Calamari arc episode, which, with much impatience, I immediately recognized as Star Wars but, for some reason, also dismissed… something I can justify today. Even paying for Disney+, I’d rather watch the Christmas special than sit through the Mon Cal episodes, sorry… However, seeing that made me miss the episode of the other series, which led me to watch the next TCW episode forcibly.
This not only fascinated me with a saga but made me fall in love with a character: the episode where Ahsoka is captured by the Trandoshans seemed extremely cool to me, both in how the series looked and how the narrative was handled. Later came arcs like the Citadel, among others. Of course, I also saw Ahsoka’s exit.
After that, I began exploring the internet at a time when TCW could be almost fully watched on YouTube in any language, but I was still caught up with my games (which I eventually completed and played obsessively with my brothers; we also bought and played the Lego Complete Saga), and repeatedly watched the PT on CN. Some things I knew by general culture, and then came TFA, which connected me more with Star Wars communities and everything I had missed—games, books, comics. I even recall as a child unknowingly watching one of the Ewok movies.
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My role-playing experience can be described as being a Force-sensitive who fought alone for a long time and only recently found holocrons, where things seem very easy and brilliant…
As I mentioned, my first Star Wars role-playing experience was with ChatGPT, which made up the rules and wasn’t consistent with the narrative…
After that, I realized I needed to find the rules online, which at first was very difficult. I downloaded some fan-made rules I no longer remember, which seemed like incomplete summaries, and some modifications for KOTOR (very interesting). But when I found REDUX, I loved the project because it tried to preserve the original essence from before I was born, which conveyed a lot of mystique.
Reading the rules took me time, and technically I’m still doing it because I still don’t want to role-play vehicles, the Force, or large battles until I’m fully comfortable…
Nowadays, I’m more interested in the role-playing complement represented by miniatures. I’m not yet sure if wargame-style rules will be fully useful to me, and maybe I’ll only take some useful elements. But I have high hopes for it.
I have a growing collection of D6 supplements, adventures, modules, conversions, mods, and MB.
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So far, my history:
Adventure with ChatGPT: Twi’lek smuggler Sharr with a cyborg eye that can see through certain objects. She is wanted by law enforcement, accused of a crime she didn’t commit, and seeks a former colleague who can give her information about a relic sought by an Imperial noble who promised to help clear her name… (Unfinished)
Adventure with paper miniatures: I made a puzzle for my sister where a pirate had to search for clues and solve problems to find a hidden treasure. Not very complex, but I made paper scenery. (Completed successfully)
Improvised Battle: I looked for basic rules and set up a battle that progressed in waves. My brother and I were clone survivors of a LAAT crash on Ryloth, and the droids were coming for us… some things weren’t well thought out, but I explained the rules satisfactorily to my siblings, and they used their creativity as I wanted (illusion of freedom Xd), as the book teaches. I was proud to apply these concepts, but I failed in one thing: the encounter’s objective was to be a last-stand defense, more frantic, and for everyone to die XD. (Incomplete… satisfactorily)
Improvised Adventure: I directed the session improvising alongside my sister. She played a “mysterious girl with a pet” character, and I improvised a secondary character that was initially just a funny, caricatured little boy giving information but ended up as a companion helping the PC save her pet from a band of pirates. (Completed successfully)
“Classic” Adventure: As usual, I was GM. This time I used the Imperial Academy adventure as a base but only followed it until episode 1 because some parts seemed too restrictive, so I modified and expanded it, creating a bunker presentation and more interesting combats. My three players enjoyed it. (Completed successfully)
Solo Adventure: This one gave me the most sessions. I designed some secondary characters from scratch following the rules’ recommendations, and the main character, whom I would define as:
A Pantoran negotiator used as a scapegoat by the Pantoran conglomerate against the Empire. She survived, but the experience made her want to go unnoticed far from Pantora and the galactic core.
With this character, I aimed to reach a newly settled colony and have the character “calm down” with social role-playing to gradually return to business. The character was very peaceful, lasting several sessions until I paused it. The story is completely mine and further sparked my interest in fully developing adventure modules. (Unfinished)
For this last one, I had already implemented special rules of my own creation, which I am still refining.
I may revisit some of the mentioned stories once I decide to make scale miniatures (which I’m still working on). I recently settled on a 1/50 scale, which would be 34mm, different from 25mm but more accurate for the level of detail expected today without going up to 50mm, which seems too large… I want a 1/50 AT-AT, which would measure 45cm, and that’s enough…
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