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"Obozaya" Female N vesk mercenary soldier 8 | SP 72/72 HP 62/62 | RP 6/8 | EAC 26; KAC 29 | Fort +8; Ref +6; Will +6; +2 vs. fear | Init: +8 | Perc: +0, SM: +0 | Speed 30ft | Active conditions: None.

Woo! 22 HP and 15 stamina!


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"Obozaya" Female N vesk mercenary soldier 8 | SP 72/72 HP 62/62 | RP 6/8 | EAC 26; KAC 29 | Fort +8; Ref +6; Will +6; +2 vs. fear | Init: +8 | Perc: +0, SM: +0 | Speed 30ft | Active conditions: None.

Obo is looking pretty beat up; I'm out of stamina and into HP. I'd like to be able to take a 10 minute rest, if no one else disagrees. I know that time is probably important... but I am worried about future conflict. Thoughts?

"We're gonna get you settled back up in a cell and report this in." Obo shakes her head as she says this. "Either of the two of you know anything? What was the plan once you got out of here?"

Obo groans as she stands up and is ready to get the prisoners back where they should be. The pain is deeper than she expected as the adrenaline of the fight wears off.

"Sharmain, can you patch me up a bit? Got a bit of a nasty wound back there," Obo says.


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"Obozaya" Female N vesk mercenary soldier 8 | SP 72/72 HP 62/62 | RP 6/8 | EAC 26; KAC 29 | Fort +8; Ref +6; Will +6; +2 vs. fear | Init: +8 | Perc: +0, SM: +0 | Speed 30ft | Active conditions: None.

Let's pair up Sharmain and Obo, then Axtin and Pious, then Ishkitik. Sharmain and Obo can on the left, Ishkitik in the center, then Axtin and Pious on the right. It'll allow us to cover everything, balance out good perceptions, and provide backup in case something happens.

Thoughts?

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The best news I've heard all week!

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Recognize the union! I can't wait to point my shelf of books and say yeah, they're union-made. This is a real opportunity to be an industry leader - don't squander it!

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I've always wondered what the big behind-the-scenes looked like! This is great insight into how a broader season is put together :)

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This is amazing! I've been loving this series of web fiction!

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NOOOO, ZIGGY!!!!!! I feel like this next season is going to be a heartbreaker!

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I'm so excited for this!

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I'm so excited this is now public. For those of you interested in soundscapes, I created an adventure playlist. You can find it here!

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wolaberry wrote:

Is this going to be repeatable at different subtiers? I had a bad experience at GenCon and I hope it was just my table. If not, I'll just have to run this at the next con.

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A Personal Response:
I wanted to let you know that at least two other players at your table have seen and read this. I wouldn't be surprised if the GM has seen this either. Whenever a GM has to be switched late in a special, it's going to be rough going. The other choice was for you to not play at all. When leaving feedback like this, you may want to keep in mind that the people you're ranting about can see this.

If you think you other players were inexperienced, please understand that people play Starfinder in all sorts of ways. I can say that I've got some Starfinder experience under my belt, and my two other friends playing at the table have also played a lot of Starfinder. If you have a specific experience you want from the special events, I honestly recommend that you find a group of players that mesh well with your playstyle so you can have a better experience. Doing this has personally made my experiences during specials much better.

In case you're wondering who I am, I played Valen at your table.


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Waiting for Rainesong to post but should do so tonight! The cave is kind of abstraction, so I'll say that all the bodies are conveniently just within the cave.


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Chulyin's summoned flame barely misses the creature, smacking into snow next to it.

Not prone, just back 20 feet.


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You start just outside the island that party is currently clustered around. Feel free to adjust your placement, as you would have been able to done that.


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So sorry about the delay. Regular posting resuming today!


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Lilic, the nature check was recall knowledge. No additional information.

Savan Overland: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10
Raine: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21

The day's travels are smoother than yesterday's, but still difficult with the snow piling up. Chulyin is able to mostly follow the bear's tracks as it also continues down the race's path, but they sometimes get covered as they snowfall outpaces the group's progress.

A small, frigid stream runs between the dense pines, opening onto a frozen pond. To the east, a few small columns of smoke rise above the trees from several small campfires. To the north, a dozen caribou walk along the surface of the ice, snuffling and pawing at the thin grasses poking up from the snowy shoreline. As a race official watches over the small herd, the wind carries the gentle sound of bells.

"Hail," the official says, "and hearten! This is the final task. When Balgrid lost his favored steed in a blizzard, he tracked a herd of caribou across the tundra, and watched their behavior from a distance. He watched day and night for over a week as he sought a beast that he could tame. He nearly escaped death as hundreds of caribou stampeded before he managed to sling his saddle bags over the animal’s back and lead his new companion out of the herd and into the taiga."

"You are to recreate this. Four caribou in the pack have bells tied to their antlers. You must choose an appropriate beast and obtain its bell."

Mechanically, you'll need a perception check to determine which ones have bells on it, then a Stealth or Nature check to approach the creature. Open the spoilers below for DCs after you roll.

Perception DC:
DC is 13. Failing means you'll take a -1 penalty on the next check.[/ooc]

[spoiler=Nature or Stealth DCs]DC is 17 for stealth or 16 for Nature. If you critically fail.... something happens and I'll tell you what.


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Sorry, turns out, moving apartments is hellish! Ended up in the Comcast office today for several hours....


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Rolling for TGI/Rainesong - we're in the process of moving, so time is really strapped over here.

Rainsong dodges the snowball, avoiding hypothermia. He's lithe and manages to nimbly dash across the snow.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 7 + 1 = 26

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Among the tall drifts and dunes of snow and ice, a small hollow reveals signs of life. A large fire pit is encircled by tents and snow shelters as officials stand near the warmth of the blazing fire. Beyond the camp, a large sheet of exposed ice is marked by race banners. In the middle of the ice, a delicate ribbon lies partially frozen in the sheet.

The official, a prim-looking Ulfen woman in leathers, smiles as the team approaches.

"Listen! Once, the winds blew hard in the night as Balgrid slept. When he awoke, his gear was scattered. As he followed the trail of pitons and caltrops, he discovered one of his scrolls was frozen in ice. With great care, he slid across the thin ice to where his scroll was trapped. He crafted a lens from the ice and used the heat of the sun to melt the ice away and free the scroll."

She gives a clap. "Your task is to retrieve the ribbon without damaging it. Be careful, though, for the ice is thin."

How would y'all like to do this? Remember, creative solutions are definitely allowed!

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I'm loving the new quests line that's been coming out this year. They're the perfect option for my group, since we play on a weekday evening. Having them be one quest per chronicle and each have their own product description makes them much easier to schedule than the previous quest packages. Please keep this line going!


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Runa Frostleaf greets Chulyin politely enough, but as he starts going on about the nearby lands their face goes blank.

"I am confused," they say. "Are your grandparents' ghosts with you? I do not know how your lineage will assist you."

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The race officials definitely favor Lilic in the ensuing conversations, easily falling into a conversation about the local area. A half-orc woman starts describing the upcoming forests, including some of the notable caribou trails and the hard-to-spot streams in the woodier areas.

+1 circumstance bonus for the next leg of the race!


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I have a busy day today, so the update will be this evening. For rolls, it's currently diplomacy only when interacting with race officials, locals, or other teams.


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Nina Jaribu:
The champion Faergrim Aexbinder, a silver-haired woman with snowflakes tattooed on her face, gives a wide smile as Nina approaches.

"This is my first year attempting this race, I must say," she says, pride bubbling with her words. "These are my squires, Thosse and Rikkun, and my skald Sassa. Of course, they're mostly here to watch. What team are you affiliated with?

Savna:
One of the race officials is checking the starting line as the gnome walks up to him. He looks at Savna with an air of disgust.

"You're probably here for advice, aren't you? Well, a few years ago, there was a team of lycanthropes that almost won the Balgridtrek. however, they misjudged the moon cycle and spent the last days of the race stumbling through the forest. They had to be rescued." He laughs. "If you're planning on any tricks, make sure you've done your homework!

Dr. Ripfang Muk Muk:
Jori slams her palm against Dr. Ripfang Muk Muk's back, nearly blowing him away.

You come here to learn to lift, yes? Well, before you lift, you stretch!"

She starts to demonstrate the magic of dynamic stretches, starting with one that involves standing on one leg and stretching the other leg behind her back.

GM rolls:
Nina Diplo: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23
Savna: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8
Ripfang: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6


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Given the delayed nature of the glyph-granting system and written standards, I'm going to trust people at their word and permit people to use glyph benefits. All adventures are adventures, so if you've run 10 quests, it's good! I expect we'll see scaled-up credit for APs/Modules, much like previous versions, but that hasn't been announced yet.

I'd prefer to be generous with GM rewards while we wait for the electronic systems to get worked out.


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Hey! I don't know if y'all saw, but there's a big blog up from Tonya that sanctions the Lost Omens line. If you wanted to do a lvl 1 rebuild to use any of that content, now's the time to do it!


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Here’s the list of players for the game. I don’t list alternates, but I will PM people if I need to fill a spot.

TGI / Pregen
Savana Labirym Holt
Lilic
Dr. Ripfing Muk-Muk
Nina Jaribu
Chulyin the Spirit Talker

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If you need some basic "what is nonbinary", the Enby Collective (enby being a term for nonbinary people, as a spelled-out version of nb) has a great 101 page. You can find it here.

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Hello, Actual Nonbinary VC here, ready to help!

Jen hits on most of the big points, but the other thing that you can acknowledge it as appropriate in the scenario. If there's a nonbinary npc, you can say "You see a nonbinary person ahead" just the same as you'd say "you see a man" or "you see a woman". That, honestly, is probably the most normalizing thing that you can do and it's appropriate in those contexts! If someone asks how they know, well, it's a fantasy world! Honestly, imo, the most important thing when presenting enby characters is to avoid misgendering them. People have tendency to want to lump enbies in with either men or women. Please don't do *that*.

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Young Burger King is a Good Dad. A+++. Will play this very soon.

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It's been a heck of a weekend here in VA x.x

It is has. It's very very hard for me to talk about.

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You shouldn't blame yourself. It's called survivor's guilt for a reason... you narrowly dodged a event that could have killed you by a perfectly sane and reasonable happenstance. You have nothing to feel bad about.

Spoiler:
Oh, no. I feel like I should've been there and that I didn't show up when I needed to have shown up. I should've been there.

Also! Gen Con is this week! I'm very stressed out about not being ready!

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I've found with starting HRT that sticking to a keto diet has been very very useful (since my appetite is like 10x worse than it was - though I am adding testosterone, so I'm going through the opposite process). I've also heard of trans women who find it useful to help manage weight (though you have to be careful not to overdo potassium if you're spiro, bc it's a potassium sparing diuretic). Keto is kind of a pain to keep to, but it's really up to you.

Um, in LGBT gaming stuff, I just played Night in the Woods and it was very, very good. It was cool to have a protag who expressed interest in both men and women??? Like that was great! Anyway, it was also a Very Weird games but I love Very Weird games. What Remains of Edith Finch is next on my to-play list.

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VixieMoondew wrote:
The Player Character can also be trans!

I'm just a bit sad that there's not dialog option where you try to hint that you're also trans. The whole "oh, man, I bet that person is trans, let's see if we share this experience" thing.

To be fair, that could be a game in and of itself: sending out queer signals and seeing if they signal back.

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I've been playing Dream Daddy. I have somewhat complicated feelings about it. It's been fun and light, which is a nice option to have on the table!


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It's less a rules question and more a question of what I want to spend time on. Fussing over spellcraft checks for a +1 weapon? Eehhh, that's boring. Fussing over it for some super rare unique loot? Yeah, that's good.

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Tamiro wasn't no ballerina, either.

The woman scowls as a well-armored and angry man falls from the sky.

"This tomfoolery is enough! Out of my lab, now!"

The lab stinks of unwashed flesh and guano, seemingly radiating off of the scaled humanoids.

Each troglodyte has a stench aura, 30 ft DC 13 fort save or be sickened for 10 rounds. Essentially, you'll need to make 8 fort saves once you're in the room fully or you'll be sickened.

Initiative! The Alchemical Lab - Round 1

Aishe, Nel
Ilvarea
Gillian, Tamiro, Orthrus
Troglodytes

Gillian: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (15) - 1 = 14
Aishe: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22
Nel: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20
Tamiro: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13
Orthus: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
Ilvarea: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15
Troglodytes: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (5) - 1 = 4


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And we're back! My hand is... starting to heal up, and it's no longer painful to type. So, let's get this show on the road :) I'll be checking daily and I'm going to be more aggressive about botting if we're in combat, since I want you all to get deep into plot.

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This thread stayed open during the previous political thread shutdown. I think it'll be okay :)

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Honestly, my favorite repeatable is Gallows of Madness.

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Rei wrote:
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Okay, we need to put together a dance pop Starfinder playlist.
YES!
Start it off with Starships?

You ask, I deliver.

(That links to a playlist I made for just this purpose!)

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This is a very frustrating conversation to watch unfold. Why? Because it's dumb and seeks to "solve" a problem that doesn't exist. It's completely devoid of any previous work done by people looking for alternative pronouns. I'm a nonbinary person who has used all sorts of pronouns over the years, and I've found that there's a cycle.

1) I use a distinct pronoun like xe or ne, and people say that they can't learn it because it's too weird.
2) I use "they" (my current mode) and people say that it's not grammatically correct, and that I need to create a new pronoun.

Both parts of this cycle are rooted in the idea that nonbinary genders and pronoun usage is too difficult. I'm also constantly told to be patient regarding people learning new pronouns, and that seriously assumes that I'm not patient already. I'm terrified of telling people about my pronouns, because people react really, really badly. I've had people 1) outright respond with overt transphobia, 2) say "well, you should be called 'it' then", and 3) roll their eyes and then continue to use the pronouns they assigned to me. Being a jerk about pronouns in general reinforces transphobia, particularly in that it continues to define nonbinary genders as something "too hard" for people to accept.

Nonbinary people have been working hard on this lil chestnut for a while. Maybe it's not an issue with the language itself, but instead attitudes around nonbinary people? The whole "jump through hoops to create a PERFECT option" reads more as "you must be exactly the right type of nonbinary person to be valid".

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Okay, we need to put together a dance pop Starfinder playlist.

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THIS IS MY FAVORITE DUMB DAD.
I LOVE OUR POLYAMOROUS SPACE MEDIC DAD.
WE NEED TO START A FAN CLUB.

*gavel sounds*

I call this meeting to order.

Step one: we must decide upon a name.

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THIS IS MY FAVORITE DUMB DAD.

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Rysky wrote:
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.... Did everyone else catch that they announced a rivethun chapter in the Adventurer's Guide?!

Um, yes, please, thanks. I will hand over my money gladly to support this endeavor.

YUS, I'ze excite :3

I greatly support the continued illumination of "traditional Dwarves" in a way that centers LGBT people as part of dwarf traditions! Like, YES, LOOK, YOU DON'T GOTTA BE STICK IN THE MUDS.

Especially since there are a lot of traditional "third" gender or otherwise transgender traditions that exist (well, as much as they exist after colonialism got its hold on things).

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