DM Brainiac's Starfinder Society (Inactive)

Game Master Brainiac

@ Karish re stabilizing and getting back in the fight.

Here is the relevant section of the rules.

You can use resolve points to stabilize, but there are other ways to become stable, such as the Stabilize spell and the First Aid use of the Medicine skill.

Luanna used the Stabilize spell on Karish before the point where Karish would have to spend resolve to stabilize.

If you are stable with 0 hit points, you can then spend a resolve point to "stay in the fight." This gives you 1 hp and you become conscious.

That's how I read the rules, anyway. If I'm missing something, let me know. This is an important rule to understand.

Right. Karish didn't spend RP to stabilize. He spent one to gain 1 HP and become conscious. The second was to recover his SP during the 10-minute rest.

I think GM is right

I'm sorry. I thought it was being said that he had to spend the rp to become stable before spending the point to regain consciousness. Spending the RP to regain the stamina points is necessary. Sorry for introducing confusion where none existed.

No worries! Starfinder's still a new system, and we're all still learning as we go. :)

The battle map has been updated.

Can our personal comm units be configured with some kind of earbud to allow us closed channel short range radio communication, like TV cop dramas like NCIS or Scorpion? Today those things might still be at the edge of science fiction, but in the future, I'd think it would be straight forward.

I think that would be fine.

I have a feeling that everyone would like me to deactivate the explosive and nobody dares to go with me. According to what it says in the core rulebook, the deactivation of the explosives is a tough job. I alone without help have a 15% chance to succeed.

Sorry for metagaming!

It is the more dangerous route. The instructions you found would give you a +2 bonus on the Engineering check, but failing the DC by 5 or more would cause the bomb to explode. If even one bomb goes off, you would fail the secondary success condition of the scenario.

Letting the Obsidian Spiders take care of the bombs means you miss out on a potential boon, but it doesn't decrease your other rewards in any way. You can still call them off before going into the AV booth if you want to attempt to disarm the bombs yourself.

Jim, the doors into the booth are on the left side of the map. I moved your icon next to the north door that you indicated.

I think my suggestion may have been misinterpreted. I suggested when we want to indicate we are speaking over our comm units via earphones, we add pointed brackets like so:

"<Testing comm units. 1 2 3.>"

Telepathy can be indicated by bold italics in quotes.

"This is a voice in your head"

My posting may be limited for the next few days. My home computer is in the shop and so I'm limited to using my iPad or my work computer. It's also the start of a new teaching term, so that keeps me a bit busy the first few days. I'm teaching in the morning now, Monday through Thursday, so most post will have to wait to late afternoon or evening.

No problem, Luanna.

I will give Jim until the morning to post, otherwise I will roll his Diplomacy check to aid in order to keep things moving.

How high was DC for disarming the bombs?

The DC was normally 18, but since you found the instructions in the engineering bay, the DC went down to 16.

Before we started I thought DC would be 25 because the core rulebook says that DC for deactivating explosive is DC 25.

I guess they wanted to make it easier for low-level characters in this scenario.

Yes, probably!

Still waiting on Huckle Jim's combat actions. I will give him until the morning before I have him delay to keep things moving,

Karish, remember when you cast magic missile, you shoot two as a standard action or three as a full action!

Tnx! I forgot it! Error corrected

I'll need Kultainen's Society number for reporting purposes.

Congratulations on successfully completing the scenario! You completed both the primary and secondary success conditions. Here is the chronicle sheet for the scenario. You gain 2 Fame and Reputation for the faction for which you have a Champion boon slotted. You also gain 1 bonus Reputation for both the Acquisitives and Second Seekers factions.

If you all want to keep playing as a group, I would be happy to run another scenario for you. I have access to all six that have been currently released. I believe none of you have credit for 1-04: Cries from the Drift, so that might be a good one to choose.

Thanks you guys for this wonderful experience. I'll remember you as a team with whom I played my first Starfinder session.

GM Brainiac, I would like to stay in this team but 1-04: Cries from the Drift I play currently with another character in another PBP session. I have not played all the other scenarios so if you could choose another scenario. I would be grateful!

Sorry for my bad English.

Thank you all, once again!

Damjan

I have played the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th scenarios so far. I'm open to play any other Starfinder scenarios or the Adventure Path.

Thanks for an enjoyable game, everyone.

Profession (Doctor): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7

I'd be happy to play again, but may be difficult to fit in. I have played 01-1,2,3 and 5 now.

That leaves the quest and 01-00 (the level four pregen special).

Kultanien is 100387-701

Many thanks for the game, you ran it very well and smoothly.

Can anyone tell me what I can do with that bonus 1 Reputation for both the Acquisitives and Second Seekers factions? Karish is Wayfinders faction.

Just add it to the reputation section at the bottom of your chronicle where you track your total reputation for each faction.

TNX!

Oh, that reminds me profession bounty hunter: 4 + 1d20 ⇒ 4 + (10) = 14 if I didn't already roll it.

edit: and I'd be glad to play 1-4, just gives us all a few days to fix up the characters now that we have more credits.

Everybody should have the proper credit applied for completing the scenario now.

It appears the quest, the 00 pregen special, and 04 are the ones most of you haven't played yet. I'm willing to run any of these, though depending on which one we choose, some of you may not be able to play again.

I also play the quest right now.

I think nobody played scenario 6 :)

Scenario 6 is tier 3-7, though. None of your characters are high enough level for it yet. :)

Sorry I did not check for which tier scenario 6 is.

I have played scenario 4, so I'll have to wait for something new. Send me a PM if you are looking for players in the future.

I heard that they were going to start publishing Starfinder scenarios at a rate of 2 per month so hopefully there will be more selection soon. For now, I suspect the only way to have a long running PBP Starfinder game is to run the AP or homebrew.

Happy gaming, all.

Is the quest open to level 2s? If so that would be good.

Otherwise my preference is probably for the pregen scenario, as 1-4 has space combat, and not only can that drag on in PBP, but Kultanien can offer little to help with it.

The quests are only open to level 1 characters, unfortunately. So I guess the pregen special would work the best if people are interested in playing it. Otherwise, we'll have to end things for now until more scenarios come out.

I am for pregen special.

Before I forget, I have an Alien Archive if you could please sign off on it.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xTOTF8PMjz4d-noPDtUxnllYTwqlOgAV/view

How does the boons and other rewards for using pregen characters work in SFS?

You get a chronicle sheet that you can apply to another of your characters when they hit level 3.

Scenario 1-07 just came out and it's for tier 1-4! If everybody is still interested, I can run it for this group. :)

OK! I am in!

@Huckle Jim, here is the signed boon for you.

I will be out of town from Friday through Tuesday. I will try to check in if I can, but I likely won't be able to post much until I return.

If more people say they want to play 1-07, I can get the mission briefing up later today at least. Otherwise it will probably have to wait till I get back.

I'm in for module 1-07.

How are we getting our chronicle sheets for the previous module?

Found it above.

I'm available to play any time over the holidays.

Have a great holiday season everyone. Happy Solstice!

Okay, I've posted the beginning on the assumption everybody would like to keep playing! If we lose some people, I'll open recruitment again to fill out the party before you leave the station. :D

I am down to play, but would like to change characters if that is okay with everyone. I am going to switch to a human operative (hacker).

Likewise, but I have a Dataphiles character who enjoys space combat and would be much better in the arena too. She is just in wrap up on her current scenario, and should be free in a day or two.

Sure, you both can switch characters if you would like.

Funny, I too am thinking of changing characters. I have a 2nd level icon envoy 1 / operative (spy) 1 who is a better fighter than Luanna and has mad bluff, disguise, diplomacy, and other charisma based skills. It does mean we could either use a mystic for healing or else folks will need to stock up on healing serums.

See her profile for particulars.