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This game has been absolutely hilarious so far
Bigrin has a really good guide (link) on how to do this successfully
Wow, we are getting close, I will do what I can, how to mask off please, place a blank rectangular above? That's how I usually do it, yes.
For expedience, can you just note your purchases in your next post? Dr. A-Prof purchase is noted!
Momo's hair is pulled toward the gravity inducing monster, but her will focuses on the collapsing star of Aurinkar. She steps up closely and sing to him the song that she wrote for her lost mother.
♫ There's a glimmer in the sky
♫ No need to be bright like the sunlight
It's an abridged version of recruitment fourthday! With Outpost just around the corner, we've got
Can't wait that long?
Navasi again focuses her fire on the what she perceives to be the most imminent threat Just take 'em down one by one, you'll scare off the rest that way!
I’m travelling and probably can’t post until tomorrow. Feel free to bot me if that takes too long
One of the things I like to keep in mind is that the audience, settings and expectation of people may vary a lot. I like to compare it to what happens when I play board games with different groups of people. I used to play a lot of Risk with my friends, and we had an unspoken understanding of what we wanted to do there: everybody played for the win, according to the rules, with a lot of negiotiating going on, and absolutely no softballing. The dynamic changes when you mix up the group: with inexperienced players you'd want to tone down the take-no-prisoners style a bit, and if you find certain players don't enjoy competitiveness or losing, you'd play a different game altogether (I've enjoyed cooperative boardgames a lot, lately). As soon as you sit down to play a(ny) game, you enter into a social contract - everybody at the table is ultimately there to enjoy themselves, but what that means may be different for everybody. The contract requires everyone to compromise a bit to find a middle ground, and that may be easier to find the more familiar you are with eachother, and the smaller the group is. Barry's example is a really nice showing of a group of people that started a bit further away from eachother, with different interests and priorities, but with people definitely showing the willingness to compromise. For Society play, the group is really big: instead of a group of (about) seven players, we now have a campaign with thousands of players all over the world, and we want to be able to freely change up characters between sessions. Ultimately the rules are set from above as a kind of ruleset you can subscribe, which works for a lot of people. By design, Society play works quite differently from a more free-form campaign, an I'm sure my 16-old-year self would have frowned on the way I run campaigns now (but then again, those 16-yo campaigns never went anywhere, and my homebrew stories were bad). He probably would have understood that this is a cool way to play with a lot of different people around the world, quite consistently, and with interesting stories. You sacrifice some flexibility, but you get a lot in return! Even in the constraints of Society, there's a lot of variation in play style and people's preferences. Some people prefer very gritty scenarios, others the bubblier ones, I see people that really go for developing their characters, people that want to banter with other characters a lot, people that are less comfortable in writing out dialogue and prefer to describe what their characters say rather than putting it down literally, people that really go for the mechanics, optimizing their character along the way, and people that just build whatever character fits their flavor. I can accept all of those, as long as you're contributing to the fun of the group and keeping with the social contract.
Hi! This is bright and sparkling Zoey with another special announcement! I've opened up my own game store in the Downlow!
Boons
FAQ:
Turns out that link to the registration form for GM-ing the Specials was broken:
Wow! You beat me to it!
PbP Outpost VII Event # 2715266
Link to official announcement - read more here! ★ ---- ★ ---- ★ ---- ★ Greetings Pathfinder and Starfinder enthusiasts! We’re all very excited to announce the upcoming PbP Outpost VII! I will try to keep this as brief as possible so that folks can find all the information quickly. The theme for this will be The Allies We Made Along the Way. When choosing your scenarios to run, try to choose ones with some sort of focus on allies, friends and collaborators the Society meets and befriends in their adventures! ★ ---- ★ ---- ★ ---- ★ Important dates:
★ ---- ★ ---- ★ ---- ★ As of today, GM registration is officially open! In order for your game to count, it must start on or after March 04, 2024 and end on or before May 13, 2024. If you need scenario support, you must register your game by February 05, 2024. During this convention, we’ll also be offering the following specials.
Vote here for which special you'd want to see! ★ ---- ★ ---- ★ ---- ★
Hi all! For this spring edition of Outpost, the organising team wants to know which special you would like to see run. You can use the form here to vote! (If you don't play a particular system, just select 'none'. We understand you.)
Hello everybody! It's bright and sparkling Zoey here! I heard there are people here who like special games!! That's great, because the people in charge of the Outpost want to know which Special you'd like to play most!!! Vote here on which special you'd like to see. (If you don't play a particular system, just select 'none'. We understand you.)
What you were saying about aliases? Didn't understand.. Oh, me, me, me! Can I answer that one?! You see, you get aliases for every Society character that you register, but you can also set up Aliases that are not Society characters, in case you want to have a different name and picture when posting as a GM, or if you want to run an NPC. I made a short guide here (link)
While you ponder that one, let's review the first assignment. "Wait, what first assignment? All we've done is introduce ourselves!" Exactly! I have to be honest here, and admit that I've never done this in a PbP game! I'm spending months on end with the same people in a social game, and yet I don't do an introduction round. Isn't that a bit strange? Introductions are an important part of any social interaction, and gaming is no different. Introducing yourself, and encouraging the players at your table is a crucial part of startup. More than making sure everyone has dice. More than getting the signup sheet filled in as people sit down. More than just about anything. You want the players to be comfortable with each other and you, as it will set the tone for party cohesion. This is important at a Face to Face (F2F) table, but maybe even more so for PBP, where you are with this group for weeks, months, or even years (for APs and long modules) on end, but have minimal interactions beyond a post or two each day. So make sure you get those introductions done early!
I only dance to the Vercodisco... ---
♫ We're not in Cuvacara
Now that the first reporting of the the new year has come in, I've decided to give this a go as a pilot. For games run off the Castamir station you can use the event code
for reporting with the event name Castamir Station 2024 Q1 Let me know if you're running a game and I can add you as a reporter (the reporting process is the same as with normal reporting). With this code, you and your players can potentially benefit from a little AcP bonus, so everybody benefits!
Hello everybody, it's the first recruitment fourthday of the year. How better to celebrate the start of the than with the fresh release of an annual statement! Everybody loves corporate numbers! In the year 2023, we had 54 starfinder games* recruited and started from the board. 9 different GMs offered games, ranging from bounties to full modules. Also, 58 different players** found a seat at a table! *A game counts as a game mustered or announced through the Castamir recruitment channel, including follow-ups. Each bounty counts as a single game. Outpost/Gameday games are counted separately and not included in these numbers.
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Also, now that the great googly eye shortage is over, we hope to again carry Dirindi and Arabuk plushies, and expect new stock by mid-month.
From the other side of the door, some muffled sounds can be heard occasionally, as well as a radio playing the undead crooning quartet the Carrion Crooner's all-time classic hit:
♫ You never close your eyes anymore
♫ You're trying hard not to show it
♫ You've lost
Hmm... Zoey says in a fake-ponderous voice Breaking lights is not good. We should check that out later, but a light has nothing to do with poisoning... what could be the clue here... She even goes as far as to rub an imaginary beard. Ridiculous! Light starts with an L... Alpha is on the right track! Let's ask Lynthia what sheh knows!
Hello everybody, and welcome to this special Gala occasion of Recruitment Fourthday! While festivities and merriness take over the regular programming of AbadarCorp entertainment, we would want to take a moment to acknowledge all GMs who have taken care of our artists and employees so well. Without further ado, we present the AbadarCorp Entertainment end-of-year awards. The AbadarCorp Entertainment end-of-year awards are sponsored by Akivaz, the sport drink for heroes! No alcohol or meds in the glass, just Akivaz! The AbadarCorp Entertainment awards (in no particular order) go to:
*AbadarCorp Entertainment bears no liability for omissions, and would kindly ask people to refrain from toilet-papering our corporate office ---
The But I came from the right award goes to GM Valen for allowing the Pact world's worst pilot to test expensive equipment (B2) The I see dead people award goes to GM PhaetonNZ for allowing a Grim Reaper to cause a non-accidental death (B6) The Better to have helped and lost award goes to GM Blazej for helping Momo to come to terms with her loss (3-02) The That'll leave a stain award goes to GM Qstor for dealing with the digestive problems of the House (1-03) The The '; DROP TABLE AWARDS; RUN; goes to GM Redelia for teaching a hacker to behave for once (1-22) The We come in peace award goes to GM Hmm for not shooting the blondie (6-01) The It'll help you forget award goes to GM Jhaeman for allowing Saja to serve tea (B5) The Exploding Radish award goes to GM Cmlobue for siccing Zoey at a bunch of unsuspecting students (6-02) The Your contribution has been noted award goes to GM Bretl for showing RZMR the dangers of unattended construction equipment (5-06) The I made it myself award goes to GM Kate Baker for introducing Navasi to home-brew antibiotics (5-13) The If you're a bat, why don't you have wings award goes to GM Numbat, our departing VA of Castamir Station (has the new one been announced yet?), for all the hard work she put into the station!
Thanks to all the players making these games so enjoyable to play and run! Enjoy the festive holidays everyone! --- Recruitment fourthday returns in the new year! In the meantime: - GM Qstor is recuiting for #1-05 The First Mandate here
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These agents managed to stay undetected for decades. At lot has changed since then, but it would be unwise to assume the system is fool-proof now. On the weapon: see this stony creature here? Arvin says, pointing at Lubose on the picture, Let's just say he clocked out of work early some day. When he was killed by a team of our specialists, he yielded a lot of into to us.
Excellent Vitellius remarks as the starfinders finish their various statements Excellent... we should have enough for tonight's broadcast, so that's a wrap!
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- (** Barely audible response from Volitare **) Yes! That is most insightful! - Hello, isn't is a little too soon? Well, isn't the motto of the Society Explore Report Cooperate? That's why I am a reporter! The camera pans out, revealing Felicis giving an expansive lecure about the Cultural value of the Starfinder artefacts on display, with a voice-over explaining The special exhibition is drawing much interest from all over the pact world, which a special contribution from the Starfinder Society drawing large crowds Another shot shows Medbot talking about the dangers of alhocol intoxication The evening was briefly disrupted when a visiting professor became rowdy, but the local volunteers managed to avoid an escalation. Up next! Drift lanes, what are they? Our feature exclusive on the newly formed Dirft Lane, with special interview from the Drift Lab! ================[ASNN LIVE FEED]================
Green lasers? Navasi says, knowing that rubies were used in some old-fashioned red lasers. But still, gemstones... so tacky to make all of that fuss over them.
Isn't the culprit whoever gave you that cupcake? Zoey reacts and then says We need to get to the bottom of this! I have to be the detective, just like in 'murder on the Aucturn Express'. She proceed in providing a rather extensive, dark-voiced fake film-noir voice-over A choking assistant and a basket of cupcakes, but no sign of the culprit. I had seen dark cases in my days, but none as dark as this chocolate cupcake. Every murder case needs a murderer, and every murderer needs a motive. Who would want to harm.. hargh hargh the heavy talking has a bad effect of Zoey's throat as she breaks out in a coughing. With tears in her eyes from the coughing attack, she looks around
Hello Everybody! This is bright and sparkling Zoey! I just discovered that there's a sale in the Freemarkets on this really cool game, it's like you're on Absalom Station, but instead of a station there's a planet, and it's pre-gap, and there's elves and dwarves, and crazy empires. You can't get off the planet though... unless you're a really powerful technomancer.
Thanks, I think I'm mostly set, only 2 things, didn't really understand where OOC goes and I think I wanna attach a stat block, where should I do that? Ninja'd For ooc comments that don't interrupt the game too much, you can just use the [ooc ] tag, . For longer discussions, you can use the separate discussion thread (ooc tends to be more chatty on the discord, I've noticed). You can put a plain text stat block in your profile page (same place as where you edit the tag-line). Alternatively, if you have a pdf, you can link it with a [url = ] tag I have a python code that can create a (mostly fine) bb-board formatted text from a hephaistos profile (I just need an extract of the .json). I just need to get around to cleaning it up and publishing it. PM me (goes for anyone) if you're interested.
More guides are linked at the top of the campaign. Go
I think Numbat's guide is very comprehensive when it comes to setting up. If it feels like a lot of info, I'd recommend at least to: (1) Set up your alias with correct name and an avatar picture
--- *According to the AbadarCorp Entertainment marketing team
I’ll try to post a more specific answer later, but for now I’d say: have a look in Numbat’s guide: here. More guides are linked at the top of the campaign. Go
Hi, just checking in if I signed in OK, didn't try here before. Yes, your name shows up, you're all good. I'll notify you here when the game starts, probably towards the end of the week.
My guess is that by giving reporting priviliges to a handful of house gms on this station, you'd be able to capture about 80% of the games played. I can only speak for myself, but if it's like the setup you have on the Discords (report to the dedicated event to get a %bonus to acp) I'd be happy to have that here!
The Starfinder Society travels to Castrovel to attend a museum gala celebrating the grand opening of its latest archaeological exhibit: a showcase of ancient civilizations of the Vast. With artifacts and belongings from the Scoured Stars in tow, the Starfinders prepare an exhibit display, network with esteemed archaeologists and organizations, and enjoy the event. But when a gang of violent thieves interrupts the gala, it’s up to the Starfinders to save lives, preserve priceless artifacts, and bring the thieves to justice!
With the corrupting influence of the Vorthuul gone, the ship seems to hum back life, the subtle droning of the engines returning. Aurinkar remains unconscious, but alive. Upon returning to the entrance level, all that remains of the many undead is just dust, the creature undone when the drift bubble collapsed. The bodies of the Pinjatar, Rosm, Kelm and Lipuvae are still intact, and can be collected. Crossing back through the umbilical, the starfinders return to the Vigilance where Lulora is present, her ghostly form clinging to the material plane one last time. You have done well... the ghost whispers you have finished what I could now. I am thankful that the sacrifices of my crew were not in vain. Farewell, my guardians... with that, she once again fades, this time for good. In the aftermath, Aurinkar remains unconscious but in the good care of Dr. medevac. Close to the arrival at Absalom station, the Solarian wakes. The lashunta is somber, and barely speaks, and when they speak only talk in mournful tones about their lost crewmates. Ixthia is ready to receive the starfinder upon their return You have dealt with the threat well, and have helped us gain further insights into the nature of the drift, and the beings that dwell in it. A sombre ceremony is held a few days later, in memorial of Lulora and her crew, where many of the captain's former crewmates and team members arrive to see her name, and those of her vigilant crew, entered onto the wall of names. ----
I've got eight sign-ups (yaaay!) for Envar's Expeditions (with four more setas available): Luce 'Stella' Lumen
If it's ok with you, I'd split these into two tables of four: ---
Luce 'Stella' Lumen
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Warah
--- The two tables are linked to the same discussion thread, so we can also talk about switching players around (e.g. into a low and a high table, or played-before/not-played-before?). I'm open to suggestions, though I'll keep the above distribution if nobody offers an alternative.
The colonists have knowledge of Irrigation, Mining and Roads Navasi observes, pointing out the landmarks on the scan
Hello everybody! It's recruitment fourthday! Today, we are promoting many exiciting destinations: ---
All games are 50% off** if you use our special code 'HELPING' ---
The first seeker election results are in! Watch the live-stream from election night here
--- AbadarCorp Entertainment offers the latest in gaming technology. It is our mission to become the undisputed leader in game, and to this end we have appointed 'Mr. Manager' as our head of strategy, who has asked to remain unknown by name. With his vision, he seeks to achieve exponential growth in the market and drive shareholder value to eventually corner the entertainment market on Absalom Station---AbadarCorp statement to shareholders on AbadarCorp Entertainment
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Hello everybody! It's recruitment Fourthday! Today, rather than promoting out own travel, we want to highlight these deals from our partner suppliers: - Chris Marsh is running 5-03: Combatant's Concerto: Fugue of the Traitor [Tier 7-10]
() Participation is free is you bring a picture of your character in halloween costume* *also free if you don't
There's also a recent blog post Meet the authors of Starfinder Enhanced, including our resident demolitionist!
If you like this scenario, please give it a review! Done! Thought the other reviews were a bit grumpy... not justified IMO
Did you all get a chance to meet the first seeker candidates? There is still time to vote until October 31st! If you haven't been able to play 6-06, you can find all information on the first seeker candidates here, which is also the place you can cast your vote!
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