A Talk About Cooperation

Really like the way you're doing factions for SFS!

I am concerned that re-naming Fame and Prestige from PFS to Reputation and Fame for SFS is going to be confusing for those of us who play both.

Thanks for the update.

Really like the way you're doing factions for SFS!

I am concerned that re-naming Fame and Prestige from PFS to Reputation and Fame for SFS is going to be confusing for those of us who play both.

I dunno. Some of us have trouble keeping Fame & Prestige the right way round, so we're already confused :)

Great! I like that it will be possible to gain standing with many different factions. It also seems very handy to have “all factions” services.

However, I do echo -Steve Johnston-’s concerns about the wording being confusing for those who are used to Pathfinder Society or who end up playing both organised campaigns. I think it would be clearer to either use the same words or choose two words different from those used in PFS.

Sounds interesting, and tempting to start right away with the SFS!

One note: the second sentence was "These tenants remain a core foundation ..." Shouldn't that be "These tenets remain ..." instead? :)

Sounds interesting, and tempting to start right away with the SFS!

One note: the second sentence was "These tenants remain a core foundation ..." Shouldn't that be "These tenets remain ..." instead? :)

I hope that the tenants remain the same, so that we will be waken up in middle of the night by a Drendle Brain-in-a-Jar giving us a mission to the Blakros Research Station

Great! I like that it will be possible to gain standing with many different factions. It also seems very handy to have “all factions” services.

However, I do echo -Steve Johnston-’s concerns about the wording being confusing for those who are used to Pathfinder Society or who end up playing both organised campaigns. I think it would be clearer to either use the same words or choose two words different from those used in PFS.

And another vote.

Pathfinder -> Starfinder
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Prestige -> Fame
Fame -> Reputation

This is just awkward and going to cause unnecessary confusion at tables all over.

I am curious about how spaceships are going to work in organized play. I totally grok how they will function for home games, but how will a spaceship's continuity be maintained in SFS? Will every character who had access to a the cutter 'Messy Scramble' in session N-3, where that ship gained a +2 targeting system for its pulse cannon, have the option of using that augmented ship in their next session, be that N-4, or P-17? Or will one particular character have to claim the ship, so that only they can access it in subsequent SFS games?

Thanks to Painlord's PaizoCon bloggery:

The SFS starts with the SFS suffering a major setback in which most of the higher level Starfinder have been killed and the Org Play campaign will need to rebuild from scratch. The player characters will have a voice in restarting the SFS. Year of the Scoured Stars. How will you rebuild the SFS.

Moon glum: from what I understood is that you get options from your chronicles, which allow you to assign that +2 targeting system for a pulse cannon to the ship you are using in the current scenario (I might ofcourse be completely wrong about it, but that's how I understood the chronicle sheets to going to work).

I dunno. Some of us have trouble keeping Fame & Prestige the right way round, so we're already confused :)

It will help if they keep the boxes in the same order on the chronicles!

Pathfinder -> Starfinder
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Prestige -> Fame
Fame -> Reputation

This is just awkward and going to cause unnecessary confusion at tables all over.

I agree it is awkward but I can see the desire on the developers part to make Starfinder Society not just Pathfinder Society in Space.

How about suggesting a different word for Fame. Three that come to mind are Renown or Regard or Honor.

Andy Brown wrote:

I dunno. Some of us have trouble keeping Fame & Prestige the right way round, so we're already confused :)

It will help if they keep the boxes in the same order on the chronicles!

Yeah, that would help a lot I think. I also remember some chronicle sheets not having two boxes, so you'd have to divide the single box yourself.

I'm not too worried about mixing them up though.
You spend one, and the other keeps ticking up, just make sure you use the correct number when spending ;)

"Yesteryear's Truth"'s Faction is already spoiled in the GenCon Events descriptions...rhymes with slaygrinder...you might as well let that cat out of the bag. :)

"Yesteryear's Truth"'s Faction is already spoiled in the GenCon Events descriptions...rhymes with slaygrinder...you might as well let that cat out of the bag. :)

mayminder? clayfinder? saykinder?

Klobbermeister wrote:

"Yesteryear's Truth"'s Faction is already spoiled in the GenCon Events descriptions...rhymes with slaygrinder...you might as well let that cat out of the bag. :)

mayminder? clayfinder? saykinder?

Def the Saykinder Faction...they are all about promoting a kinder, gentler interaction between races and cultures. Motto is "If you can't say anything nice...just say it kinder." :)

dharkus wrote:

Klobbermeister wrote:

"Yesteryear's Truth"'s Faction is already spoiled in the GenCon Events descriptions...rhymes with slaygrinder...you might as well let that cat out of the bag. :)

mayminder? clayfinder? saykinder?

Def the Saykinder Faction...they are all about promoting a kinder, gentler interaction between races and cultures. Motto is "If you can't say anything nice...just say it kinder." :)

yeh - that's my favourite too

Slayfinder faction! We go to exotic new locations, meet fascinating new people, and kill them! For science!

Playfinder faction! We seek to catalogue all the different games people play!

Nayfinder faction! No. Just, no.

lowest level members of the party required to wear red shirts...

JOLLY COOPERATION!

I hope there is a religious order of sol, or similar, to allow all the praising of the sun i intend to do.

This may have been addressed elsewhere, Thurston, but is there any chance we might see Hats make an appearance in SFS? I mean, he could be to Paizo's lines what Stan Lee is to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

:)

This may have been addressed elsewhere, Thurston, but is there any chance we might see Hats make an appearance in SFS? I mean, he could be to Paizo's lines what Stan Lee is to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

:)

::Consults my notes::

Future of Organized Play -- Sunday 5pm

Panelists:. Linda Zayas-Palmer, John Compton, Tonya Woldridge, Thurston Hillman

Before the Panel: John Compton discusses whether Hats can be character in Starfinder. “Hmmm. Interesting question. You do realize that one of the main ways for a creature to survive past the gap is to be undead? We can have Bone Sage Hats!”

Removed a post referencing NDA material. Will add it back once that's been lifted.

My post was about the content of this blog. I didn't give away any NDA information.

My post was about the content of this blog. I didn't give away any NDA information.

Don't feel bad. There's so much out in blogs, interviews, and podcasts that there's probably confusion about what has or hasn't been written or said in public, not to mention the actual rule set was published and shipped a week ago.

I did mention the NDA material I'd received in my post, but only in terms of "I didn't notice this before, but once I saw it in the stuff I received for Gen Con, then I came looking, and noticed this blog that had announced the same thing back in May". So I did mention that I'd already gotten NDA material, but I didn't give away any of what was inside it.

I just don't want to get in any trouble for revealing stuff early or anything.

This conversation should probably happen elsewhere, since continuing to discus the nature of material that was removed to protect NDA risks tripping over the NDA... :)

I didn't get the impression anyone was in trouble.