GM Dinketry and the Dead Suns AP (Inactive)

Game Master dinketry

Correct, though I'll check it with the Powers That Be.

I put up a post on the rules questions forum too because when I thought about it my thoughts were, in order:

1)Wait, that can't be right.
2)But it's technically possible.
3)But that's crazy, they must have thought of this.
4)Oh dear, they didn't.

Then I broke out in maniacal laughter.

I will also have Engineering, so I too can backup.

I intend to be able to backup any role except Captain.

You could do add Tensile Reinforcement, but it wouldn't do anything. Your android doesn't have an item level.

By that logic it also means I can't use deflective reinforcement or load lifter since my android doesn't have built in armor absent getting augmentations.

Hence the request for a clarification because I'm certain that it's not something you could do, or that there'd be a note in the item description such as "androids cannot benefit from this upgrade in their native upgrade slot".

Eh, both of those things grant something to you (DR, or increased bulk capacity). I think just about all of the upgrades reference the armor giving you benefits as that's the assumed format for an armor upgrade.

That said, I know no more than any of you guys, just offering up my opinion on my reading of the rules.

No worries! Like many others have said elsewhere Starfinder seems full of these weird little contradictions or disconnects.

I'm sure they've got a huge errata file running but since were in the first SFS wave might as well look for the unfair advantages.

Unless I misinterpret name colors on the forums, Telion needs to get that character registered as a SFS character.

This character is not a SFS character. I'm applying credit to my second SFS character (702), as if playing with a pregen, in accordance with the rules detailed in the AP sanctioning document.

This character is not a SFS character. I'm applying credit to my second SFS character (702), as if playing with a pregen, in accordance with the rules detailed in the AP sanctioning document.

That's cool by me.

Additionally, August, I've been thinking about your armour upgrade question, and until there's an actual ruling on it by someone official, I'm going to interpret that armour upgrade slot rule for androids my way.

Fine by me - just to clarify, can I use mods I can put in any armor or heavy/light armor as well?

Nope. Light armour only. See #1 above.

OK, I think I got it.

This character is not a SFS character. I'm applying credit to my second SFS character (702), as if playing with a pregen, in accordance with the rules detailed in the AP sanctioning document.

I'm not sure that's legal. If we were in Campaign Mode it would, but I thought I read that all characters had to be Society characters?

Of course, the sanctioning document says we get 3 XP for playing it, and I've never understood how PFS characters could play an AP like that. Even if they say double the XP, simply doubling the gp or credits you'd fall behind WBL.

As I said, I'm fine with it. We've gone thru the SFS stuff. We are in Campaign mode.

Jaxom, it is your turn in the Gameplay thread.

Campaign mode it is!

I took my actions just now.

How do you write a telepathic communication? Are bold italics not appropriate? I thought it was:

Italics = thought
Bold = external communication

I play a Faerie Dragon in another game on here. I use bold italics for it.

Yeah, I think you're correct, Telion. My mistake - I don't know why I didn't see the italics.

BTW, I'm also using bold italics for overhead announcements and anything printed on a screen.

"Are you a medic?"

I must admit that I am torn between "No, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night" and some form of "I'm not a doctor, I'm a XXX"

Leaving for my cruise now. Bot mode, activate!

I will generally try to stay down and stick with Telion to get out of here alive. If we have to shoot our way out, I will use get 'em! and fire at the closest enemy each round.

Back on Friday!

Enjoy!

By Friday we may even have gotten out of the docking bay! :D

The dice, they are not on my side.

They do seem to be against you.

I know the feeling all too well.

Bon voyage and happy birthday, Diamaante!

Dang dice roller. I swear 95% of the min/maxing in PbP is a result of the dice roller.

As the guy who wrote the die roller, I promise its statistically fair.

But damn, it doesn't feel that way sometimes.

It was you?!

Hmmm....I should be using Trick Attack more.

Question: as I read it if I fail Trick Attack and make the attack roll I still successfully hit but if I make the Trick Attack and fail the attack roll I don't successfully hit, correct?

Sorry, GM. I didn't realize you wanted initiative order for postings. I was just trying to get my next action up to maintain momentum, but I'll wait my turn in the future.

Sorry, GM. I didn't realize you wanted initiative order for postings. I was just trying to get my next action up to maintain momentum, but I'll wait my turn in the future.

What kind of evil brain kept alive in a vat of green goo are you? (Good brains kept alive in vats only have blue goo, obviously.)

Diamaante is up, right? That's you GM.

Hmmm....I should be using Trick Attack more.

Question: as I read it if I fail Trick Attack and make the attack roll I still successfully hit but if I make the Trick Attack and fail the attack roll I don't successfully hit, correct?

That is the way that I interpret it, yes, August.

Sorry, GM. I didn't realize you wanted initiative order for postings. I was just trying to get my next action up to maintain momentum, but I'll wait my turn in the future.

No worries, Ross. I simply didn't want the other people at your initiative point in order to post their actions before the gunmen fired off their rounds.

Diamaante is up, right? That's you GM.

Yup, I'm on it. Just woke up here in New Zealand.

Would Black Hole be able to pull the 2 behind the barrels out, or would they just bounce into the barrels and not move?

By my reading, they'd hit the barrels and stop moving. If you can get some altitude, maybe you can pull them out and over the barrels? How is your Athletics check? Jumping 5 feet high is a DC 20 check.

It definitely doesn't mention how much of a solid object stops creatures' movement so it's gonna be a judgement call without errata regarding cover.

If they're in partial cover I'd say you can pull them but that's me.

Yup, I'm on it. Just woke up here in New Zealand.

Some day I shall visit Middle Earth myself!

Telion, if you were aligned so that pulling them towards you would not result in them hitting a solid object, I'd rule that you could pull both towards you. Unfortunately, we'll have to try that out at another time, as I pre-empted your action for a different one after August dropped your initial target.

How big do you think the object need to be?

I read it as more a hedge to keep solarions from pulling people through walls, but I could see the argument as long as the can grab on to something to keep from flying they'd be fine.

Grass is technically a solid object but I'd definitely rule grass or a shrubery (no matter how nice or herring proof) wouldn't keep you from being pulled.

I think a barrel is solid enough. Grass isn't.

A herring proof shrubbery would make for a strong argument.

Arguments like this help me to explain why Alexander Hamilton was so confident leading up to his eventually fatal dual. His past experiences at seeming invulnerability never let him realize that he wasn't actually invulnerable, but that what he had was DR 50/Aaron Burr.

I am not throwing away my. Shot.

I need to find some guys conveniently on the opposite edge of a railing-less cliff... =P

Get the GM to send us to a galaxy far, far away: guard rails are apparently banned by law there.

Just realized I could run a Futurama-style Starfinder adventure.

Too. Much. Fun.

What do you think I'm trying to do?

Oh, that's right, figure out my ass from my elbow.

That's all of us as we sort out the rules differences.

Considering how ingrained 3.0/3.5/Pathfinder is in me it'll be interesting.