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In celebration of the historic victory by the United Paizo Workers and the #UnionizePaizo movement, we are releasing our Themes Of Revolution, co-written with Alison Cybe, for free. Solidarity, forever. Starfinder Facts Presents... Unions Can Have A Little Themes, As A Treat
Want to reconcile your love of the new Tech Revolution mech rules with your hunger for #PaizoAccountability? Then check out our latest blog post where we will reward you for throwing in all six! Starfinder Facts presents... Making Things Suck More For #PaizoAccountability!
For June, Starfinder Facts welcomes our second guest blog post - this one by the talented Alison Cybe! She gives us the Firebrand - a new theme for characters steeped in revolutionary rhetoric - and one of three themes as part of a new fundraiser giveaway! "Giveaway, you say?" Yes, a giveaway! The steps are simple: 1.) Make a donation to Black Lives Matter
Not only will you get your very own copy of the Firebrand, you will also receive two other brand new themes by the Starfinder Facts crew: The Dissenter, a canny street-level operative, and The Coordinator, an infosphere-riding manager of information! We hope to see e-mails soon, so you can get to making your very own politically-engaged Starfinder characters post-haste!
Have no fear, an author is here! *trumpet sounds* I'm prepping this to run an online author session myself so this is all awesome things to note. 1. For the encounter in Part B, the Creatures entry states that there are four Keepers that ambush the PCs. However, only 3 Keeper locations are marked on the Encounter B map. The Encounter CR seems to add up to four enemies. Where should the fourth enemy be located? GM's choice? Great question! The fight was originally designed for three enemies, so wasn't on the map we sent in - I'm going to add the fourth Keeper to the northern side so that it's a 2-and-2 pincer attack. 2. In Part C, Area C1 describes a door to the West and a hidden garbage chute to the North. However, the compass indicates the top of the map is North, which would mean that the door is North and the garbage chute is West. What is the correct orientation of the map? Use the compass on map and change the text to match the map - so door to the North and hidden garbage chute to the West. Good question! Until this is clarified a good rule of thumb might be an expert-array creature of CR = APL (so APL 3 would be Cha +4, APL 4+ would be Cha +5). My name is John Curtin and I approve this interpretation - 7 stamina for APL 3 (Cha +4 plus "level" 3), 5+APL for any APL higher than 3. Hope you're enjoying the scenario so far!
Alright, finally found Aurus' sheets - took a little bit of digging. I got the gold to cover both the raise and the restos, so while donations are always agreeable in the eyes of Apsu, if someone wants to make a smaller donation in order to get some sweet piece of gear, Aurus would find that agreeable, especially on the grounds that it would put someone else in the front lines more.
Hey all, work has been busy with the coronavirus finally making it to our school district. I gotta take a look at Aurus' chronicles to see what I have for PP and gold left over from other purchases before I make a call - should get that later today or tomorrow. Hope you're all staying well and healthy!
What do you get when you cross brutish cunning, unrepentant cruelty, and a keyboard? Starfinder Facts presents Infosphere Trolls!
Sometimes, all you need is a helping hand from a nufriend. Sometimes, that nufriend has six hands. Sometimes, that nufriend just wishes that they had six hands. Starfinder Facts presents the Skitterfan, a theme for the PC who just wants to help!
Tiny dinosaurs = tinysaurs. That's it. That's the blog post. Get into a tinysaur sorta mood as Starfinder Facts presents... Chauncey's Renkroda!
Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! ...It's already coming down for a crash landing. This month, we take a look at the slapdash engineering of space goblins and how that translates to space travel! Starfinder Facts presents... Goblin Starships!
Looking for an extra splash of weird and funny in your Starfinder games? Starfinder Facts is a parody account with a daily twitter feed and a monthly blog, constantly making non-canon lore and options for both GMs and players to inject a little surreality into your sci-fantasy! Previous blogs include: Uplifted Raccoons (Playable Race)
Stay tuned for more blog posts, steadily increasing player and GM options for your home games!
Hey gang, I think this is where Manteca is going to step off the ship. I've been getting way busier at work lately, to the point where I'm sometimes working way later (record so far is 2 in the am), plus the missus and I are going to need to help pack her parents up from their house and try to find a new apartment to live in ourselves. I'm dropping down to likely a lurker status on the boards, so I just don't think I can keep up the posting as the quirky lovable shirren, much as he would hate to abandon this awesome little found family. Thanks for an awesome year of RP, and I hope you all enjoy the epic ending of the AP - it's well worth hanging around for. :) I grant full permission to Foxy to use Manteca as an NPC - maybe he stays on the ship as medic, or finally figures out the heaps of innuendo that Imagine has been piling on ;) I'll leave that up to you to decide. See you, space cowboys.
Manteca looks around in wonder at the pirate port. What a wonderful cross-section of scum and villainy! he emotes to the others.
Ahahahahaha, nope - I work at a robotics shop? Worked some software support and sales jobs for a few years and then had a family friend let me know about a job at a company he was an investor in - super-lucky break. I don't play much anymore, but I did bring the saxophone out a few months ago to play a few bars with our wedding band. :) Still got it!
Gardam stands with his hands on his knees, clearly sore from standing. "If you get a picture of the vesk, I will assist you in finding the lizard and avenging you... tomorrow. Not today, I have... Um. A prior engagement." Gardam also purchases an album, more out of a tired confusion over what is going on when they finally get to the front of the line.
Manteca sits down, muttering to himself, and does, in fact, try turning it off and on again.
"Agreed," Gardam says, nodding to Nikon. "To hunt and kill this monster will make the station and it's weak, helpless inhabitants less likely to be in danger. We may... purchase this item for Zigvigix's gift for his intended." The kish looks back at Zigvigix. "Would you not rather have us bring the carcass of the beast we kill, as a sign of the strength of the warband you lead? On Istamak, I was known as something of a 'playboy,' as you station-dwellers say - many an eohi-heart dinner was followed by an eohi-liver breakfast courtesy of my bow... if you know what I mean." The kish winks with two of his eyes.
Just in time for the most AbadarCorp of holidays, Starfinder Facts has cards for the gamer on your list - and in the least Abadarian move, we're making them available for free! Check out our Valentines, print them off, give them to your gaming group, and have a happy Valentine's Day! We're doing a blog post on Thursday with behind-the-scenes commentary on each card.
Aurus growls as he looks between the gnome and the pinned enemy. "Hang in there - and get out of there if you can!" he yells at the gnome as he brings the sword down on the pinned robot.
Aurus sets a foot on... approximately the thing's neck and takes a swing like he's playing a round of golf and really needs to get out of the rough. If that kills the robot: Aurus will then move to threaten the robot that has been savaging the gnome.
From the minds behind parody twitter account Starfinder Facts, we've taken a journey into the Drift and epic levels for a creature sure to amaze and confound your PCs! Is it a terrestrial duck enhanced well beyond it's natural abilities? Is it an extraplanar representation of something from beyond our mortal ability to understand? Will you face the danger of it's laser eyes, or find knowledge in it's impossibly downy feathers? That's up to you - and up the duck, of course. Starfinder Facts Presents: The Drift Mallard
12. Mysterious schematics that defy all Engineering checks to construct them; a Culture or Profession: Artist or a similar check reveals that they're illustrations from a children's book.
Chronicles are At This Link! Thanks for toughing it out with me - that was my first PFS PBP as a GM, and it definitely flexed my organizational skills. (Also, don't tell my IRL players that I reported this scenario already, they have all the chronicles but I have a backlog back til November of unreported scenarios in my Starfinder binder o.O) Any feedback you want to give about my performance would be appreciated! Now to finally stop procrastinating and make Aurus level 4...
Matarno stands alone in his crew quarters, taking apart a sandwich that the culinary synthesizer has put together for him. He pulls out a floppy disk of indeterminate protein that he tosses over his shoulder - but instead of hitting the floor, it drops 10 feet into the pit that he's created in his crew quarters, slapping wetly onto the stasis cocoon that he's storing in the pit. Matarno stares intently at the festooned cocoon for a minute, but sighs as the meatstuff slides off of the cocoon and makes a soft *splat* on the ground. Subject does not appear to be able to voluntarily leave the stasis cocoon for sustenance, Matarno types into his mission notes.
Matarno winds up contributing nothing, mostly just standing with his new cocoon and saying things like Wait, did you check that footlocker yet? to Xesh.
Matarno looks at Xesh in the sudden quiet. That was incredibly foolhardy and I am very sorry I did not film it, the lashunta says simply as he goes to check out the hardware on the bridge.
Matarno purses his lips while examining the magical energies coursing unchecked through the ship. That idiot Aldroxis's effort to activate the Drift engine is causing the destructive feedback loop of planar energies, which risks obliterating the King Xeros in short order. Disengaging all Azlanti modifications would reset the system and avert the disaster, but the ship would then default back to its base programming: sailing back into the Ethereal Plane. Given the lack of time and resources... This is the only reasonable option for saving the King Xeros.
From the minds behind parody twitter account Starfinder Facts, we've expanded into "more than 280-characters" content in order to present a new player race! This one goes out to all the xenodruids with better ideas than execution, to all the people who want to play an uplifted bear that can actually fit through a spaceship door - and of course, to the fans of a certain rag-tag group of superhero-affiliated space cowboys out there. Starfinder Facts Presents: Uplifted Raccoons
J.J. slings his gun and gives a wide grin at the Azlanti captain, giving him a universal signal in sign language before pulling the trigger and opening fire.
Matarno ducks and covers as the grenades begin going off, but comes up with eyes blazing. "I imagine that you're not very good bodyguards when you can't reach your Richard of a boss," Matarno says, twisting his cane as he bends reality to his whims. Suddenly, the black hex guard and purple triangle guard find themselves in a pit, ten feet below where Sauros is beating their commander.
The wife and I are travelling back to our old hometown for a couple of days, so my posting may be scarce - please bot me if I'm holding things up! Happy New Year, everyone!
Matarno sighs at the order. Just once, I'd like for the orders to go "good work, c'mon home and ignore that wildly dangerous artifact," he emotes to JJ from the bridge. Come now, let us round up the others.
That's a-ok - glad you're doing that work. We can wait ^.^
Aww, AP #4 was my favorite one to run. Such good flavor! Though definitely check the boards for errata on the big bad because he was built with the wrong rule set Spoiler: I'm 100% making a kish soldier using the Pact Worlds gear boost that lets you use archaic weapons without penalty - he's gonna be such a surly bad-ass!
I thought Infinite Worlds was a bit lackluster when I first read it but now I realize you can create Hard/Total cover basically anywhere once you can raise/lower terrain. Yeah, my first read was "Oh, that's... weird." But then the teamwork of having everyone have, say, coordinating energy types so the witchwarper can turn an electricity trap into a fire trap and then trigger it safely and freely since everyone has fire protection, or sliding enemies to negate their flying around... ;) This has been a crazy game so far. I hope you're all enjoying yourselves as much as I am! It's great! Really enjoying watching the new classes in action. Biohackers are exactly as much fun to see in action as I though they'd be :)
Matorno stands in the bridge with JJ, smiling tapping his cane along with the music. Up and to the port, he says telepathically by way of encouragement.
Bah, thought I'd get a post up before yet another holiday party, but I wound up getting picky about maps and now YET ANOTHER HOLIDAY PARTY LOOMS (it's our 4th holiday party and it's only December 8th x.x) Post will come tomorrow. Get your subterfuge pants on.
Matarno telepathically asserts agreement. I'm with Xesh. With the soil having extraplanar properties, too... I think we all have some idea of what we'll find in a construction bay, but any surprises are going to come from that greenhouse. We should strike there first.
A tall lashunta man joins the cluster of Starfinders standing around the tea cart, smiling warmly at everyone there. Contemplation sounds wonderful, ma'am. Matarno Imani - I don't believe we've had the pleasure of being acquainted. He is dressed in tempweave, but of very fine material - not the cutting edge of fashion, but more of a 'classic' look, with a number of discrete technological enhancements running through it. He carries a cane with him.
He looks in interest at JJ, and Sauros' reaction to the youth, but can't quite put his finger on the connection - he mentally shrugs. Floating his cup of tea to himself with psychokinetic hand, he looks with interest at the others. Anyone know what we're in for today? he asks. |
