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Intro:
For your check-in post the following:
Player Name/Alias:
Character Name:
PFS Character Number:
Race, Class and Levels:
Faction:
Initiative:
Perception:
Day Job Roll
At the very least I would like you have your "Class/Level" entry to have: HP, Armor Class (EAC, KAC), Saves, Perception, Initiative
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Also as a quick note:
For Starship combat, I will roll the "initiative" checks for both sides at the start of the round. Everyone can do their rolls at will. And I will resolve things in order.
I will do all the NPC rolls when their ship moves and once both sides made all their rolls I will do all the math and then start the next round.
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One request that I'd like to make is that whoever is rolling Gunnery checks, to do so under a spoiler tag. They're the last to act in a starship combat for a reason.
If you can see the outcome of the die rolls and know your ship's attacks this round are likely going to be misses, it crosses off a bunch of options for the other roles. (Encouraging as a captain, boosting the guns as an engineer, maneuvering to get a better weapons arc as a pilot, or target subsystems as the science officer, etc.)
It'd help keep the element of chance and surprise in resolving combat rounds that playing at the tabletop provides.
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One request that I'd like to make is that whoever is rolling Gunnery checks, to do so under a spoiler tag. They're the last to act in a starship combat for a reason.
If you can see the outcome of the die rolls and know your ship's attacks this round are likely going to be misses, it crosses off a bunch of options for the other roles. (Encouraging as a captain, boosting the guns as an engineer, maneuvering to get a better weapons arc as a pilot, or target subsystems as the science officer, etc.)
It'd help keep the element of chance and surprise in resolving combat rounds that playing at the tabletop provides.
Thanks for the idea. This is my first run for Space Combat in PbP so I am trying different ideas to see what will work.
Also I did get a message from Mavrik that he will be posting later tonight. I have not heard from Donavaan. But we should be good to go either way.
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Hello Dr. Mavrik "Drift" Drix,
I have some good news and some bad news for you.
The bad news is that Bypass, Skill Focus and Skill Synergy are all insight bonuses; so they don't stack with each other.
The good news is that you are still level 1 and can reassign those feats if you wish.
Sorry to break the bad news but it is better to catch it early.
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Wow that is silly that core abilities(Bypass)/given feats(Skill Focus) of the class don't stack. Kind of kills it. Ah well.
Even when the provided build recommends Skill Focus in the 2 skills that Bypass affects and overrides eventually with no bonus like Operative/Envoy, lol.
I will probably do a hefty rebuild and scrap the character since they don't even technically have a BAB at level to switch the Feats to Deadly Aim for example. Makes the Human feat extraneous to either build.
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No worries. I know Things are still new. That took me a while to unwind, that they got rid of a number of bonus types. Many skill boosts are now insight so you have to be make sure they don't over lap.
But you are right, the one "sample" character has skill focus engineering and computers.
Add it up to more early printing errors :)
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SUNRISE MAIDEN (MEDIUM EXPLORER) TIER 3
Speed 10; Maneuverability good (turn 1); Drift 1;
AC 13; TL 13; HP 55; DT —; CT 11
Shields Light 60; forward 15, port 15, starboard 15, aft 15
Attack (Forward) gyrolaser (1d8);
Attack (Port) light laser cannon (2d4);
Attack (Starboard) light laser cannon (2d4);
Attack (Aft) flak thrower (3d4);
Attack (Turret) light particle beam (3d6)
Power Core Pulse Green (150 PCU); Drift Engine Signal Basic; Systems basic mid-range sensors, crew quarters (good), extra light weapon mount (aft), mk 3 armor, mk 3 defenses, mk 1 duonode computer (tier 1, artificial personality upgrade); Expansion Bays cargo holds (2), escape pods, recreation suite (HAC/gym)
Modifiers +1 to any 2 checks per round, +2 Computers, +1 Piloting; Complement 1–6
If Rez it the pilot then the final AC/TL is 14
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Thank you for posting the stats for the Sunrise Maiden, GM.
Even when the provided build recommends Skill Focus in the 2 skills that Bypass affects and overrides eventually with no bonus like Operative/Envoy, lol
The Envoy and Operative skill bonuses are all insight bonuses too. I made the same mistake when I first built my Envoy. On the positive side, I would say that one thing I like about Starfinder is that it doesn't have all the little bonuses to keep track of that Pathfinder has.
Always double check thigns; there are a lot of unexpected surprises in Starfinder. For example Weapon Focus is quite a bit different. It no longer has the +1 BAB requirement and it becomes a +2 bonus around level 9 for partial BAB characters.
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Slotted Boons:
Starship: Sunrise Maiden
Social:
Ally: Publicist
Slotless: Acquisitives Champion, Purveyor of Fortunes,
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The good thing about this ship is that not only does it have a turrent but it has a gun mounted in every single arc. We should always be to have at least two guns pointing at anything regardless of positioning. I think the roles that the GM posted earlier are fine, but I'm also thinking that for the people in the engineering and science officer sections don't be shy about getting behind a gun if our positioning allows for more shots. Guns win fights!
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Only boon this guy has is Acquisitive's Champion. I will toss it on the sheet when I get home. It doesn't like to save at my office computer.
The Envoy and Operative skill bonuses are all insight bonuses too.
Yeah, I know they are insight too. I was speaking about their ability to gain benefit from Skill Focus when their class feature boosts overtakes it like taking 10 no matter the circumstance via Operative feature.
Envoy is a class I haven't played but I believe they get re-rolls for it.
I think the class feature skill boosts were likely untyped or typed differently in an earlier version.
As far as the ship roles it will be my first time in ship combat for PbP but I can rotate to a gun. A lot of his "customers" show up because of guns for one reason or another.
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I've only played through the Q00-Into the Unknown quest pack, but it seems my GM never logged the event? Now that I'm looking through My Organized Play, is there any spot to log session as a GM? I'm relatively new to PFS/SFS, so I'm a touch confused (and I GM'ed a session of the Quest Pack, wrote up everyone's chronicles, and sent them out - do I have to log it in some other way on the website?)
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I think we should just put the floating bonuses into our first two Gunnery checks as the default. If we get into a situation where we have a really crucial check such as the Engineer needing to fix a malfunctioning system we can reassign.
After the first round, I am going to be focusing on encouraging Darillan.
And I do think Mavrik or Yuta-133 should be firing a third gun whenever we can.
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In my experience, if we leave people to use bonuses as they need them, then everyone tends to forget to apply them, which is why I suggested having a default. But letting the captain make calls on where to put the bonuses makes sense.
I'm happy to swap to gunnery as needed, but we only have a maximum of two guns that can point at any given arc, so unless we have multiple targets (asteroids?) it won't be much help, right?
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I want the two duonode +1 bonuses to go to guns. Tamerriv and Darillian should each just factor the bonus into their shots. Like Yuta 133 says, those bonuses are easy to forget if we keep swapping them around each round.
In my last message I also wanted to let everyone know that I would also be using my Encouragement actions to buff Darillian as my default action. That's just in case the GM needs to bot me for any reason.
