8th Character, Raimu, Black Star

The second week of the character creation challenge begin! To celebrate the occasion, I went back to Black Star, a minimalist, player-facing RPG made for Space Opera pulpy heroics! A game with space wizard carrying laser swords, dashing outlaw pilots wearing vest with big furry alien sidekick carrying heavy weaponery and Showdown rules where we can determine who shot first. Hmm, sounds familiar, for some reason. Character creation is lightning fast and I started last year by making Kerose the Heeters, a charming bounty hunter and I mentioned maybe giving her a full crew later in the month. I didn't do that, instead doing a different system every day for the whole month. Well, new year, so perfect opportunity to get started on that and I happen to have a bunch of fun little Dragon Ball design, so perfect opportunity!

Raimu, art by Poi 

This time, I went with Raimu, the Hakurei sh...no, different spelling, with an A! Raimu is a techie, your standard good looking mechanic who can turn into a buff crocodilian humanoid and beat you up over the head using one of your friend as a club. Those familiar with Dragon Ball may recognize her as one of Zarbon's Species, the species that mid-tier early villain Zarbon belonged to. I wonder if the name of the species is a coincidence... Her name is what google assures me is how Japanese people say Lime, though I was more looking for the Japanese word for limes, as the theme naming for Zarbon and the one other guy like him we ever saw in Dragon Ball was citrus, respecting the greater theme of Frieza army being all named for food. Maybe Japan doesn't have lime natively and they just took the word as a loan from foreign sailors when the fruit first showed up there? I don't know, I'm just a character creator with a limited schedule.

 While I was certain of picking the Tech archetype from the start, I hesitated a bit for the second one. Ultimately, I gave her the Heavy archetype, she's the muscle of Kerose's little gang! All the Heavy and the Tech talents sound so fun to play with, I had a bit of a hard time settling which one to take! Then, I gave her a talent from the Fighter archetype for her free pick, basically negating the disadvantage from being unarmed in melee with armed characters! To finish with, I used the rules for Alien character, dropping her diplomacy to 0 in exchange for picking up the Rage innate talent, renaming it Battleform, representing her fat crocodilian transformation. She has to keep fighting until she's down or has won not from going Berserker, but because Zarbon threatened his whole race with violence if they let it slip that they can turn into ugly reptile! No one has seen him since Namek exploded, but you never know... 0  Diplomacy, she's off-putting, doesn't like talking and is smelly, so she need Kerose to talk for her.

 And here's the sheet! The middle part is only important if you pick the jediMystic archetype, more or less. The gear system is pretty easy too, you get a link (sci-fi smartphone as the game says), a standard weapon and 3 items, with 2 more that you can select once the game gets going. It include a collapsible 10ft pole, for all your space dungeon crawling need! I love this game, the only real complain I have is that the book is so small I keep losing it between other books!