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Does sidereal influence work in starship combat?
You can tap into stellar forces outside of battle, using the
properties of gravitons or photons to affect your skill use. At 3rd
level, choose two skills from the lists below, one from the graviton
list and one from the photon list. At 11th level and again at 19th
level, choose two more skills. Each time you pick skills, choose
one from the graviton list and one from the photon list.
To use your sidereal influence, you must spend 1 minute in
meditation, then choose either graviton skills or photon skills.
When attempting a skill check with one of your selected skills
of the chosen type (either graviton or photon), you can roll 1d6
and add the result as an insight bonus to your check. This ability
lasts until you enter combat, fall unconscious, sleep, or meditate
again to choose a different skill type. You can reactivate this
ability by meditating again for 1 minute.
D Graviton Skills: Bluff (Cha), Disguise (Cha), Mysticism (Wis),
Sense Motive (Wis), Stealth (Dex)
D Photon Skills: Culture (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Intimidate (Cha),
Medicine (Int), Survival (Wis)
The argument why I think it should:
Starship combat is different from regular combat, there are no real combat rounds and while people take actions those are not associated with a classical turn.Currently, Solarians are not in a great space when it comes to skills since (at least at lower levels) players find it difficult to invest much more than 12 points into Charisma, and their attack stat is likely going to be Strength.
In theory, you could go for a ranged Solarian, but a lot of your class features only really work in melee combat, and while operative weapons might be an option they are hardly ideal.
Investing in Wisdom and Intelligence is also hard if you need at Strength, Dexterity (you are going melee and need every AC you can get) and at least 12 Charisma so you don't have to live with a single point of resolve at the lower levels.
So really, everything helps (and the Solarian issues become less troublesome with level increases and personal upgrades.
Class abilities CANNOT be used in starship combat unless the ability in question specifically says it can. This is expressly called out in the Core Rulebook on page 322:
Does Sidereal influence mention starship combat? If not, then it might as well not exist when flying around in a space-age dogfight.
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Class abilities CANNOT be used in starship combat unless the ability in question specifically says it can. This is expressly called out in the Core Rulebook.
Does Sidereal influence mention starship combat? If not, then it might as well not exist when flying around in a space-age dogfight.
It's actually super unclear whether skill bonuses count for that restriction. No pregen or any other character has a separate 'Spaceship Piloting' modifier or anything like that, including Operatives and the like.
Personally, I think it's clear that such bonuses are intended to apply, but the RAW do make it super unclear whether they actually do.
Skill bonuses don't affect crew actions, so applying them should be fine.
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Class abilities CANNOT be used in starship combat unless the ability in question specifically says it can. This is expressly called out in the Core Rulebook.
Does Sidereal influence mention starship combat? If not, then it might as well not exist when flying around in a space-age dogfight.
It's actually super unclear whether skill bonuses count for that restriction. No pregen or any other character has a separate 'Spaceship Piloting' modifier or anything like that, including Operatives and the like.
Personally, I think it's clear that such bonuses are intended to apply, but the RAW do make it super unclear whether they actually do.
Skill Bonuses from your class don't affect the action itself - just the check to attempt it.
I'd disallow it simple because it's an out of combat ability. At best, you get to use it on your first ship turn.
And why does it seem like every skill bonus is Insight? I have to rewrite at least 3 characters since class bonuses and skill synergy are both insight.
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I have the exact same question. I'm under the impression starship combat is different than normal combat. Even the time scales are different. From the adventures that are being written, there is enough of an emphasis on starship skills that this would be the case. I'd honestly allow it in my home game. This power seems like a balance issue where Solarians would have something useful to do in starship combat aside from being a gunner. I'd really like to have this FAQed as well.