Love the Thread Necro. I still think that the campaign needs clarification that, yes, you can absolutely bring along your vehicle and or mecha on a Starfinder Society Starship, and remove some table variation.
The address of the store has changed. In 2022, we have regular Starfinder and Pathfinder 2e games in-store. We will be doing an event for Free RPG Day 2022. Signups are at https://warhorn.net/events/ga-pfs-starfinder-online
Full Store information again, as I cannot update my previous posts:
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This forum is for both SFS and PFS games scheduled at Level Up Games in Duluth. Advanced registration is appreciated and helps us to make sure we have enough GMs for everyone to play.
Schedule:
Most Mondays - Pathfinder 2e Society @ 6:00pm to 9:00pm - Signups mostly in this forum
Every Tuesday - Starfinder Society @ 6:00pm to 9:00pm - Signups mostly on the GA PFS Warhorn
Once every couple of weeks - Pathfinder 1e AP. For times and dates, see the Level Up Games Discord, in #nates-pathfinder-table
Level Up Games
3700 Satellite Blvd #9A
Duluth, GA 30096
Event Organizer: Glen Parnell aka The Masked Ferret. Feel free to send him a PM if you have questions!
The venue offers comics, miniatures, war gaming, and tabletop RPG merchandise, including Pathfinder and Starfinder. They also have drinks and snacks available.
@thursty How do you plan on handling player choice? Will you only take into account what the entire society as a whole does (via the tracking sheet), or is there some way for player choices to have some ramifications (Player X offended the hobgoblins, but the society as a whole did not, so... Player X still has a penalty).
There are not that many boons with choices like that, but... choices can define your character, and I don't know if the ACP boons can reflect the choices players make (without a lot of development).
Another question... Won't online boons cause more paper waste, with people having to print out the boons themselves? Online games and players won't really be effected, but offline players... won't have the same access to the boons that they did before.
I'm not complaining, I just want to make sure all of the ramifications have been thought about.
The morlamaw smiles.
"I heard from rumors that those humans used to be a part of a gang called the Downside Kings, and they were kicked out for sentient trafficking. Rumor is that someone told the Android Abolitionist Front who they were and where to find them, with predictable results."
Brightwater shakes his head.
"Predictable."
I think there might be an error with the following boon.
Fate of the Fifth Chronicle:
Terminus Wild (Starship Boon) wrote:
You can only slot this boon in a Tier 5–6 scenario, and everyone at the table must agree to you slotting this boon. When you slot this boon, rather than choosing the standard starships presented in the Starfinder Society Guide (such as the Drake or Pegasus), you can instead choose to take the Terminus Wild further modified by the Society to include a Drift engine. The statistics for this hull are presented below. This ship can be further upgraded with Starship boons from other characters in the group as normal.
When used in Tier 5–6, the PCs crewing the Terminus Wild gain a bonus reroll that can only be used on a d20 roll made during a starship combat encounter. This reroll is meant to give the starship a slight bonus when outmatched by more powerful encounters. This reroll can be used by one PC, and does not count towards the reroll limit for that PC. Otherwise, this ability functions following the rules for rerolls as detailed in the Starfinder Core Rulebook on page 243
The boon says that the ship can only be used in a tier 5-6 scenario, but the reroll boon suggests that maybe it was intended to be played in tier 3-4, too?
Thanks for looking at it!
Also, please note that these are not currently reportable.
Boons are very interesting. That is definitely an interesting thing to do for the final boon, and the second
Spoiler:
starship
boon - wow, that is a great one! I love what you did there!
I have a player that just did the interactive and made a new character that is 2nd level with the boon and was questioned about the credits do we have an answer on that is it the listed amount or do they get another 1000 like all new society characters?
They get the starting 1,000 credits plus the rewards from 1-99.
I'm waiting for our additional resources folk to finish their review, and following that I'll be combining it with my pass and reviewing it with some folks internally. I hope to get it out ASAP once that's complete.
Don't forget that shields will now be money sinks for most characters that get them, and may possibly delay armor and weapons purchases, which will probably balance out all but the extreme cases.
"I don't have any particular accent, and I fled Arniselle to get away from the lines. I have not personally met Calder yet, but I expect there to be a confrontation of morlamaw proportions when we do."
Says the multicolored morlamaw in a bowler and a hawaiian shirt, surrounded by a bunch of thugs.
I've finished my work on them.
I'll see where they're at?
COM, as stated, will take a bit longer (especially since I want our AR Review folks to get a good look at them)
What about Attack of The Swarm?
Star Daddy Thursty on the OP Discord wrote:
I'm currently waiting on getting the full AP in my hands; that way I can wrap all the sanctioning in one go.
"I spent some time this morning considering what to do with her, if I ever caught her. I think I will cryofreeze her permanently and put her somewhere she cannot be found. I considered taker her into the Perplexity, but my wife pointed out that would be a great way to end up with a super villan."
I'd hate to be "that jerk that ruined things and now Starfinder Society can't have nice things."
Definitely not you! There are some concerns that there may be people who don't look at the character and their story but instead look at the player of the character, and vote based on the player not the character.
We run Starfinder AP legs in 2 4-hour slots at a store, and I was at a convention this past weekend where they scheduled a bunch of APs and modules for play.
Will the new chronicle allow for multiple levels of XP? I love campaign mode and can just mandate copying PFS characters for it. But I don't understand why a module this long only offers 1 level of rewards.
I love GMing modules usually, but this reward structure won't encourage me to do modules. Given that I have limited time to GM, I am going to want to focus my time on PF2 adventures that allow me to progress my GM sigils. (I'm absurdly motivated by my table count. I love the story, love helping others, love being a GM... but this is too little reward for my time.) I'm likely not going to choose to GM this module because there will be other content that allows me to better use my time.
I just don't understand the reasons for a compressed reward structure. I could accept all the other changes happily but the compressed rewards just don't make sense to me.
Please forgive me if I am overlooking something, I've only ever done modules in campaign mode.
What is stopping people from playing their PFS characters in Campaign mode? Just make an identical copy of your PFS character, call it your campaign character, and play that? Then assign credit to your identical PFS character after the game is over?
Is that not identical to playing it in PFS mode?
The main difference is the character level vs challenge rating of the scenario. A level 1 PFS character would not do very well against content designed for level 3 characters.
Hot take after looking at the Chronicles and reading the blog post: I can see why you might want to write it the way you did to save time, but as an event organizer and GM... I'm going to be running the module in 1 hour chunks, due to the needs of some of my players to come late for the Starfinder game. This means it will take roughly 16 sessions to complete. Due to the way things are scheduled at the store, this will take me roughly 8 months to complete the content, yet at the end, I can only give 1 chronicle sheet with 12xp on it. That will make tracking who made it and who all players during the 16 week period a huge headache. Planning on 12 weekly sessions, with a chronicle after every 4 would be challenging enough... But now, this content gives less rewards per time played than a dozen quests (from an XP perspective)
Also, how many GM points towards glyphs will be given out per report? 2?
Why not just break it up into a number of sections based off the milestones in the book?
2-11 Descent into Verdant Shadow by Larry Wilheim - Jungle ice wells on Aballon"
2-12 Colossus Heist (7-10) by Amanda Hammond - Kaiju fight on Daimalko
2-13 Storm of the End Time by Christopher Wasko - Visit to Wealdrid (mentioned in Into The Unknown)
2-14 Data Purge (9-12) - Break into the Lorespire Complex
2-15 The Infernal Gallery (1-4) by Jessica Catallon - mansion in a swamp in the Drift, from Hell
2-16 A Scoured Home (5-8, SSJ) by Christopher Wasko - Jadnura sends you back to deal with the Izallgunn
2-17 Cost of Living (3-6) by Andrew Mulia - Medicinals or "Big Potion", will relate to big setting change on consumables
2-18 Forbidden Tides (7-10, Exoguardians) by Kate Baker - Visit Arniselle, home of the Morlamaws, and do archeology... that requires the Exoguardians
Zo Jr. smiles.
"We are currently hosting Calder Soren on The Zo! Jr. Experience podcast. If any of the other candidates would like to be interviewed, please contact us so we can schedule an interview at a mutually convenient time!"
"I'll still vote for that line-loving gentlemaw from Arnisalle. Calder Soren for First Seeker!"
says another morlamaw.
"I'm gonna try to become the next one, though I am a bit busy managing that club right now."
