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Mashallah wrote:

Given that Earthlings were one of the most technologically advanced factions in Pathfinder due to being forced to develop technology in absence of their own magic and didn't seem to show any signs of slowing down, I doubt "insufficiently advanced" would be a valid explanation.

I personally hope to see some really rad tech from Earthlings in
Starfinder.

I was more saying why the idea of every race getting Drift drives doesn't make much sense to me.

As for Earth, there's the problem that Earth is in a different galaxy entirely, and it turns out you can't use Drift drives for intergalactic travel. I had originally forgot that bit of lore when I said the bit about infinite evil armies, so that point is moot.

Also, the Gap is "galaxy wide", not "universe wide". So knowing what year it is on Earth would allow us to know just how far into PFs future we are.

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Travel beyond the Rim: While other galaxies are known to exist, the distances between them and the galaxy of the Pact Worlds are so incredibly large that there have yet to be any confirmed instances of intergalactic travel using Drift technology. Whether this is due to the extreme travel times involved, limits to the reach of the Drift itself, or dangers encountered in the Drift during such attempts remains unknown.

reign of winter sent the group to World war one era Russia to deal with Rasputin (Rasputin must die). so i would imagine that it would be a minimum of 2,216 if that adventure happened just prior to the gap happening. so i would imagine that earth would be somewhere around the time of whats happening in the expanse series technology wise.

So most task on a starship (ie piloting, engineering, etc) have a DC set as (DC= 15(sometimes 10) + 2 x your starship's tier). This seems to scale way faster than party skill.

Take a Pilot for example who is trying to 'Flip and Burn' (pg319). It requires a Piloting check (DC = 15 + 2 x your ship's tier).

the ground vehicles have the same issue i keep thinking why would it be harder to speed up in a more advanced vehicle these should have faster acceleration and controll mechanisms

i think that that where it says "your ship's tier" should be changed to their ship's tier" AND LOWER THE MULTIPLIER DOWN TO 1.5

(DC= 15(sometimes 10) + 1.5 x their ship's tier)

SO Going against an equal

level 1 ship your pilots flip and burn DC = 16
level 10=DC30 =d20+19 would need to roll an 11
LEVEL 20=DC45 =d20+31 would need to roll an 14

I'm more concerned with the 'buy 100% sell 10% all time every time, across the universe'. It makes no sense, and destroys the immersion. It's not required, plenty of other systems have buy/sell that doesn't require non-merchants to be drooling morons.

that's about right when you factor in that modern business are not generally in the business or purchasing from the consumer. i mean your not going to be able to go down to Walmart and sell a shovel you bought at the farm store. yes some specialty stores will purchase used items at a significant loss to you, but those are called pawn shops and you get about 40$ for a a ps4 unless they have a high demand for what your selling them.

why would starfinder be much different?

Was discussing this topic with a gamer in a public library. He said his DM stated that per the rules, some form of combat must be taking place or about to take place. I stated that there were no such rules and as long as you could communicate with the creature, it should be able to follow your orders/requests as long as they didn't go against its base nature. I gave the example of a high level wizard summoning a good outer planar being with healing abilities to restore wounded companions. He said that his dm wouldn't allow it as no combat was currently taking place. Where can I find rules on this sort of thing?

if that were the case then you could always walk up to another player and whack them on the back of the head. then technically its combat. just make sure your companion knows whats up so hes not pissed at you.

does any one have any thoughts on using umbral spell meta-magic feat to qualify the spell level reduction on tenebrous spell meta-magic feat? i can see why it might and also why it might not.

agree i would like to see this line expanded like TSR did back in the day with the basic sets, although that may split the product line. that said there is no reason you cannot keep using the rules from the box set, and just use the adventure paths or modules meant for pathfinder and just throw out the information you don't need from the stat-blocks.

i believe the intent is on the gm to decide whats best for his particular campaign, and discard the rest that is neither pertinent or useful.

i see no problem with adding more options as long as they don't introduce creep and on that point (i have not seen any thing that says this is a required option) i think they are doing a good job.

also keep in mind that not everyone is interested in running in the default setting, many are using home brew settings, or other published settings that are more interesting to them. so for them the argument would be the reverse of your point, keeping that in mind i think the balance is about right. i would rather see a bunch of options that are setting neutral than 90% of the options be set up for their default setting like WotC did with 3.0/3.5 and Forgotten Realms.

Great screen, sounds like it is what your looking for. Got mine last Oct and love it.

Link

thats the one i have, and the reason im looking for a 3 pannel landscape gm screen.

i have looked around on the web and on the boards but have not seen anything close, every thing seems to be portrait 4 panels.

thanks for any help.

I recall in the 2nd edition version of d&d there were elven spell books that were essentially travel sized books that contained more pages per book, looking for something similar for my pathfinder wizard, or a magical book that includes more than the standard 100 pages per book, i'm getting up in levels and want to reduce the number of books hes carrying around....

thanks