GM Dinketry and the Dead Suns AP (Inactive)

Game Master dinketry

I have to take a break and crow a little bit.

Tonya W recently wrote up a column on where I was about a month ago. Please have a look-see and see if you can spot me in the green V-L shirt! (I used to be a V-L)

PaizoConOZ 2017

-Paul

Am I the only one who finds first level combat a little wonky? It's either amazingly deadly or maddeningly ineffective.

Or both!

We need bigger guns!

Am I the only one who finds first level combat a little wonky? It's either amazingly deadly or maddeningly ineffective.

A d20 is a big randomizer. As for bigger guns, lets take some from the Vesk.

I'm curious to see how combat plays out in Starfinder. From the developer commentary, it sounded like the expected result was PCs would be high AC, low attack, and monsters would be low ACs, high attack. Pairing monsters and PCs results in combat a lot like Pathfinder, but pairing PCs against PCs and you get a lot of missing.

We don't have a lot of the details, and 1 combat doesn't make for much data, but so far it seems the enemies are rocking pretty hefty bonuses against our relatively low ACs. Perhaps that will change with a bit of money and picking up heavy armor proficiency.

Woo! Nice shot August. Hope that's enough to take the vesk out!

What's the Break DC for a pulsecaster shaped like an umbrella? Idar is about ready to snap this thing over his knee.

I just wish the DC for Trick Attack was lower.

Rationally I know it'll get much, much easier as time goes by but right now rolling a 14 or higher is a tall order.

Diamaante, your tactics in this combat have been fabulous. Game recognise game. All of you have been very strategic in this highly-difficult combat, TBH, but Diamaante, you’ve been stellar.

Thank you! This is my first real firefight and I am just trying not to die!

I think it's Goon #2's turn now since Jaxom moved down in the initiative order?

By the way, we really ought to buy a bunch of serums of healing when this is over...

Idar carries a healing serum and some medpatches, if we need them.

Also, Idar will soon be carrying that Vesk's gun.

This fight definitely made me think of this.

I will be out of town from Friday through Sunday. I will check in if I can, but I likely won't be able to post much until I get back. GM, please bot me as necessary.

I will be out of town from Friday through Sunday. I will check in if I can, but I likely won't be able to post much until I get back. GM, please bot me as necessary.

That seems wise. If I was to bot you, you’d return to find your character married without a prenup.

You cad! I'd tell your mother, but you'd never notice her chastising you with your terrible Perception checks.

It's like an itch I can't scratch - didn't I read that one of the classes has the ability to create cover out of junk that it finds lying around? Why can't I find that rule now?

Ah....I found it.

The Barricade feat

I think the barricade feat lets you create it anywhere (like an open field) but you can find it in areas naturally.

I think the last post in the thread gets to the heart of the utility of the Barricade feat.

And thus we see the natural superiority of the Technomancer class! Without having a feat, I made cover out of Idar!

Spellcasters: Hiding behind the warriors since...we don't actually know, because of the Gap.

So, to practice my use of the Cover rules:

Idar sticks out from behind the table. He has Partial Cover (+2 AC, +1 on Reflex saves).

Jaxom is behind Idar. He has Cover from the table, and Soft Cover from Idar, depending on the direction his attacker is coming from. (Right now the table is more relevant than Idar.)

August is firmly behind the table. He has Cover.

Telion has a wall between himself and our foes. He has Total Cover.

Diamaante, who could really use some medical attention, is adjacent to the wall. She has Total Cover from Ferani and Cover from the Goon.

Jaxom Sandstrom wrote:

And thus we see the natural superiority of the Technomancer class! Without having a feat, I made cover out of Idar!

Spellcasters: Hiding behind the warriors since...we don't actually know, because of the Gap.

Uh huh, I've been slinging laserbolts with everyone else, and taking my fair share of damage! Idar's turn!

I didn't say it was wrong. That's what warriors are FOR.

Although, I AM trying to talk your way out of that damage you just took!

Successfully, I might add.

Jaxom isn't even good at Diplomacy!

Profession (Rules Lawyer) is the way to go.

Profession (Rules Lawyer) is the way to go.

Is that Charisma or Intelligence?

Intelligence - weirdly people with that profession seem to go with low Charisma scores nearly universally.

Idar, I think we know where your rolls for this combat have gone. Telion must have stolen them. That solarian is a beast!

In my other PBP campaigns, I roll like Idar. =P

This is a ‘1st level characters’ alert.

Telion is about to DIE. He has 1 resolve point. He will lose that after his next turn, which is before any of you act in the next turn. Once he loses that, he is dead.

If any of you have a medipack, serum of healing, or stabilisation skill, now is the time to deploy it. Diamaante has already gone this round.

Alert over.

-Your friendly GM

Thanks for the warning!

Not completely up on the Starfinder dying rules.

I’m on it!

Being first level is scary!

August, did you just say that you were a villain? An anti-villain is a villain. Starfinders aren’t villains. You can be an anti-hero - that’s fine. That’s Wolverine.

An anti-villain would be Hank Scorpio.

I do love Hank Scorpio.

Even if the Broncos aren't the Cowboys.

We've got to make a list of Diamaante's movies sooner or later.

Hopefully before we get to Diamaante Does the Diaspora.

We know roughly how many there are.

Mentioned So Far:

Films (91 credited, 6 uncredited):
Escape from EternaScape
Nova Blast
Vixen Void (series)
Lusty Lashunta Lesbians (uncredited, part of the Deadly Sins Heptalogy)

TV Series:
Chrono-Rangers of Castrovel

On an unrelated note: Idar, shoot this b*@%*! :D

Mentioned So Far:

Films (91 credited, 6 uncredited):
Escape from EternaScape
Nova Blast
Vixen Void (series)
Lusty Lashunta Lesbians (uncredited, part of the Deadly Sins Heptalogy)

TV Series:
Chrono-Rangers of Castrovel

On an unrelated note: Idar, shoot this b*$$$! :D

Have you been keeping track?

Nah, I had some free time this morning to go through the gameplay thread and note them all. But I can easily keep track from here on out. :D

On an unrelated note: Idar, shoot this b+%+@! :D

I'm trying!

You guys are so.....close......

Well, those were a couple great hits, so hopefully that finishes this!!!

Best part of playing an android: Data-like inappropriate interjections.

Well that and immunity to inhaled toxins.

Neither should be underestimated in their usefulness!

Getting caught up on the barrage of action, I think I missed something. I should be at 1 resolve, stable at 0 hp, correct? When I went down, I could have spent 1 resolve point to stabilize on my turn, and have one remaining, and you only die if you must spend a resolve point and have none remaining. I didn't miss something and get shot while unconscious or anything, did I?

Side note: Would it be easy to tell when a solarian is dying vs. dead due to their solar manifestation? Do the solar motes wink out immediately upon death?

If Telion has a reserve point left, we should wake him up and let him turn that into Stamina points over 10 minutes.

If he has no points left, he really should drink Idar's serum of healing.