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I just ran two tables of Sanctuary of Drowned Delight at OutPost and only had one pregen at each table.
I also promised that I would run it again after OutPost, so some folks might be waiting for that game? (I'm the author of the scenario.)
And I still will! I have travel planned, but I will run it again after that.

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I play exclusively on PbP and I am one adventure from hitting level 2. I struggled playing this character in an adventure that I wanted to for a bit because I am trying to avoid other faction quests so I can play them with a character of the right faction. This lead to a struggle because while there are a bunch of 1-4 scenarios out, if you avoid any thing besides second seekers and untagged for any faction, (until yesterday) there were exactly enough scenarios to get you to level 3.

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There are also some characters like myself that are at that level, but are now waiting for PaizoCon to end before committing to anything. I hope to play live with some of the people that I’ve only met here, so Charli is not signing up for any more PBPs unless they plan to start after PaizoCon!
Bret, Jack and myself hope to aim ourselves at GM Poblano’s table of Live Exploration Extreme. (There’s a chance that mustering will force us onto the table of another GM, but we’re hoping to get there.) Last year I got to play in an all PBP players (though playing live) table of the Special, and it was great fun. Although the RP was necessarily shorter, we all roleplayed and quipped through every battle.
Hmm
I too echo HMMs reson for not committing to PBPs of that level until after the Cons.
Thats one reason I am pulling back 'most' of my PbP activity until after the Con I am Organizing this weekend and PaizoCon have ended.
Hmm,
I do hope You, Jack and Bret can sit at my live table of Live Exploration Extreme!, I wonder if I can make a special Request for Muster or something at the Con
GM Poblano

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I just ran two tables of Sanctuary of Drowned Delight at OutPost and only had one pregen at each table.
I was at one of those tables (YAY FUN!). However I was running 1-06 and had to run with three Pre-gens.
I have had hit or miss with getting tier 3-6 games going at my FLGS. Though I think both of the 3-6 tables at my recent con were full enough.

GM Hmm |

Some people go for 'depth' on characters.
Others go for 'breadth'.
So while I've had a chance to play a decent amount of Starfinder, I don't have anyone past 2.1.
I suspect a fair number of folks are in the same boat, either due to 'spreading it around' or getting distracted by altitis.
I think this is a major culprit in Castamir's. We're all in the habit of being in multiple campaigns at once from PFS, and when a GM that you like offers something, we often start up a new character just to be able to play with a group we like. Unfortunately, with so few SFS scenarios, that's making it hard to get all the characters to level three.
I knew that we were on a slow scenario drip, so for months I only had two SFS characters, Charli and Cosmo. I figured that between GM credit and Player credit, that was all that I would be able to support. Two weeks ago, I finally decided that the adventure schedule had grown enough that I could start up Magical Mu (my Nuar!) and Bat Elf (my icon operative crime fighter.) If you don't GM as well as play, the number of SFS characters you can get to higher level is smaller.
But in order to get characters up to level three, you either have to really concentrate on one or two, or you need to run Incident at Absalom Station multiple times. (I recommend that one be run near exclusively with Level Two parties. It's easy for a party to TPK in the final battle in the first book of Dead Suns unless everyone is a sturdier level two character!)
Hmm

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♫ Nanananana Bat Elf! ♫
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GM Redelia |

I agree with Hmm about a lot of us spreading the credits around among many characters as being part of why there aren't a lot of level 3-4 characters around. I have two characters I play with right now, one of them in her last level 1 game and the other in her last level 2 game. I also have two other characters with just one evergreen credit each. There are three more tier 1-4 adventures I have not played, so with what is out now, I could get two characters up to level 3 (this is ignoring the Dead Suns volume 1)comfortably. I think it is going to be quite a while before we can play SFS the way many of us in Flaxseed play PFS.

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I'm similar to Hmm in that I make a conscious decision to stick with two characters early on. Then about a month in I slipped and added a third. But I've been good about not adding a forth yet. Although there are now enough (non AP) evergreen scenarios to get a new character to forth without burning any one time scenario play.
Between GM credit and real play, they are 3rd (almost 4th), 3rd and 2nd. And that is without the adventure path.

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I play exclusively on PbP and I am one adventure from hitting level 2. I struggled playing this character in an adventure that I wanted to for a bit because I am trying to avoid other faction quests so I can play them with a character of the right faction. This lead to a struggle because while there are a bunch of 1-4 scenarios out, if you avoid any thing besides second seekers and untagged for any faction, (until yesterday) there were exactly enough scenarios to get you to level 3.
I peeked at your aliases and realize that you only have one Starfinder character. So... I’m going to give you a bit of advice. Don’t worry about faction missions in Starfinder! Remember that you can flirt with other factions in Starfinder!
So for example, this is at the top of my chronicle sheet:
LEVEL FOUR
SFS # 149000-701
Experience 9
Slotted Faction Wayfinders
Wealth See ITS
Reputation 16 Fame, 20 Global Reputation
Reputation with Acquisitives: 1
Reputation with Dataphiles: 3
Reputation with Exoguardians: 0
Reputation with Second Seekers (Luwazi Elsebo): 1
Reputation with Wayfinders: 15
As you can see, my main faction is Wayfinders, but I’ve also flirted with Dataphiles and did a mission under their banner. In addition, I’ve gained stray fame and reputation with two other factions: Acquisitives and Second Seekers. When you play a scenario with the “Wrong Faction” in SFS it does not seem to impact the boons you receive. (It may impact how useful the boons are to you, as some don’t activate until you reach a higher tier with a faction.)
Since all the storylines link up heavily with one another, and the story that involves one faction can lead to a story that involves another, I’m going to encourage you to branch out — especially once you’ve already picked up an ally or two with fame to shore up your character’s weak skills.
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Same for me too. I also chose to stick to just 2 characters so they I could progress them further rather than just have lots of lower level.
I just literally started a third to play on my home forum (RPGG). My original two are both level 2 (but only just made it that far) and are currently playing The Commencement (which I'd never played /GM'd before) and are doing the missions in a different order to each other so that is cool.
One character (with First Mandate / Claim to Salvation credit) needs to play Live Exploration Extreme & Solar Sortie next (He's a Dataphiles member) which will get him to Level 3.
The other will play Half Alive Streets &, I guess, the new Ashes of Discovery which will get him to Level 3.
Which then opens up all of the 3-6's Ive had to avoid thus far.
My third character is just going to run through the 3 repeatables until I settle on a firm character concept.

DebugAMP |

I have a general rule of thumb that I like to play characters at least once at level 1 so I can get a sense for how they work before making too many further decision, and so I can begin creating their personality starting from their earliest career experiences. Additionally I like to make it a point to play all of my characters at least once at every level. As a result, once I hit 2 XP of GM credit on a character, I'll usually apply the next to a fresh character until I get the chance to play them. Lastly, I always like to make sure I have at least 1 character free for face to face games. As a result, right now I have an Envoy at 2.2 and a Technomancer at 1.2 (currently in game), and am rather likely to roll up a 3rd character the next time I get GM credit. I'll probably be able to keep it at 3 characters for a while though.

kuey |

Interesting discussion thread of how we choose to create our characters. I currently have four, and intend to keep it that way for a while. Each are of a different faction (I'm short of Second Seekers). So far, I've played each with either in scenarios tied to their respective factions, or those with none. Managed to get two to level 2, and two to level 3. But that was also with some GM credits, as well as one run of Dead Suns.
Right now, holding one of my level 3 for the lottery. *crosses fingers* :)

Flush Gurdon, Custodian |

Flush Gurdon, my -701, is a Vesk Exocortex Mechanic Scholar Nerd.
TeeArSeeAich, my -702, is an Android Envoy Icon Fabled SuperVillain
Kiylee Boughdancer, my -704, is a 'Nuar' Tauren Soldier who is going to be shifting to Steward Officer Xenoarchaeologist (based on her roleplay and rolls thus far)
Those are the ones that have credits to them, I have another three that are in 'standby' (one waiting for a Legacy Race Boon or for them to open up eventually)

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I did what Hmm did. I started with my "playing" character and my "GM credit" character. The GM character was going to play its factions missions, but otherwise just level up. But since I run a bit, I got extra quests and commencements. So I do have a 703, 704, and 705 seeded. With the next everygreen and quests coming out, I kind of expect to have a many GM seeds start at level 2 :)

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I'll have my first level 3 after one more scenario with this character (my -701). I'm really hoping to run Live Exploration Extreme with her as her last Tier 1-2, because as an Icon, how could I not?
Even diligently running one game after another with her with minimal gaps in between where she's been idle, and I'm only now just finishing my 5th scenario. Since its been exclusively PbPs, and games take anywhere from three weeks to two months (sometimes slow posters, interruptions, etc slow a scenario down significantly), its REALLY hard to get ahead of the curve.
I'm not sure how people can have level 4 characters right now without either f2f play, a lot of GM credit, or some kind of PbP secret turbo mode. :>

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I just ran two tables of Sanctuary of Drowned Delight at OutPost and only had one pregen at each table.
I also promised that I would run it again after OutPost, so some folks might be waiting for that game? (I'm the author of the scenario.)
And I still will! I have travel planned, but I will run it again after that.
I signed up for GM Aerondor's table of Sanctuary, but it looks like it's not firing right now. I'd love to play at your table when you next run!
On the topic at hand, I have two characters I alternate between, with a third just peeking into an evergreen to try to nab a second race boon before June 14th. Once my OutPost game wraps up (soon) and I run a live game this Sunday, both my main toons will be level 3, where I'll hold them until after PaizoCon now that Aerondor's table isn't firing.

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Lvl 5.0 Solarian
Lvl 2.2 Operative (currently in a game)
Lvl 1.1 Mechanic (currently in a game)
All PbP games. Though I am holding off on the lvl 5 to see if I can get him in on the Author's game.

DebugAMP |

A quick but reasonable PbP game can take about 6 weeks. Starfinder has been out about 8 months now. That means that a character played almost constantly in only quick games, all by PbP, could be in his or her 6th game right now, so almost level 3.
Unless you are also GMing scenarios at the same time. In my case I generally like to play a scenario before I GM it, but if you are looking to devour all content as it appears and put it all on one character, if you GM 1 / Play 1 consistently you could be on 10-12 XP without pushing the pace too hard. Before my son was born I was beginning to get into the groove of playing a game in person, then GMing it on the boards, while at the same time playing a scenario on the boards to bring home and GM for my F2F group. Putting all of the PbP GM/play credits onto the same character had them growing at a rate of ~2 XP / 6-8 wks.

Wolfspirit |

Hopefully with the number of scenarios bumping up, we'll be able to have more level 3 tables. However with the content drought, yeah, it's been hard to get there without chain running the repeatables (which I've started doing.) Of course, now you really can get a level 3 just from repeatable content, so that should help.

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There are not that many yet.
Commencement and into the unknown, repeatable at level 1
Ashes of Discovery, repeatable up to 4th.
Can the AP first adventure be repeated?
There is another repeatable scheduled for a few months time too, but this is still far short of 8th!

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The first book of the AP is repeatable as it is level 1-2. Though as Hmm said. It is very very deadly.

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The Commencement is pretty good. It doesn't have the random elements that some other Evergreens have. And no worry about starship combat.

GM Hmm |

Hey all —
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I want to thank everyone who GMed and Played with us. If your games are still going, please roll for boons and report so that we can close out the convention and do all our Paizo-mandated reporting! You should find all the information you need to report if you scroll below.
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GM Hmm |

Evaluation form link doesn't go anywhere. :(
But on a more positive note... I loved outpost, well run!

Bigguyinblack |

Rules question.
The Known Quality boon, Tier 2 Acquisitives says
Prerequisites : Acquisitives Tier 2
Cost : 2 Fame
Benefit : When you have this boon slotted and
you attempt a Day Job check at the end of a
session, multiply your total earnings by your
Acquisitives Reputation Tier. For example, if you
are Tier 3 in the Acquisitives, you multiply the
result of your Day Job check by 3.
But the guide says you roll your day job and gain double the total in credits. So is this just useless at tier 2 or is it multiplying the doubled total?
So for example let's say I'm tier 3 and roll a total of 20 on my day job check. Normally that would be doubled to a 40 but does this boon just triple it to a 60 doing nothing at tier 2, Or does it triple the earnings granting 120 credits?

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Quick question: Is there a listing of photos for Starfinder characters to choose from when you make your character? When I made this one, all that came up were Pathfinder choices.
On a sort-of seperate subject, this is my first Starfinder character, and I just purchased the PDF last week, so I was wondering if someone could take a moment and look it over to see if he's ok. I used the Lone Wolf(HeroLab) online to make him. I just want to make sure he's ok.

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Not that I have seen yet. Have to chose some Pathfinder ones that come close.

GM Hmm |

Follow up question. How does the boon interact with the retail incentive program?
I’m not certain. As retail incentive is only available for in person games, you might want to check with your local Venture Agent where you play!
Hmm

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Quick question: Is there a listing of photos for Starfinder characters to choose from when you make your character? When I made this one, all that came up were Pathfinder choices.
Want Starfinder Avatars? Lobby for it! ADD YOUR VOICE!
Seriously, it has been ten months! We need to lobby for this again.
On a sort-of seperate subject, this is my first Starfinder character, and I just purchased the PDF last week, so I was wondering if someone could take a moment and look it over to see if he's ok. I used the Lone Wolf(HeroLab) online to make him. I just want to make sure he's ok.
It looks like most of the basics are covered. Here are my humble suggestions:
BOLD SECTION HEADERS for Clarity
You can find an example of this on my character sheet.
INCLUDE A BOTTING SPOILER with pre-prepped rolls and tactics.
It’s helpful to your GM and saves formatting time for you in your own posts. Moreover, it’s VC-approved!

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Thank you for your help, Charli. I was trying to make an over-all usefull character, but I wasn't sure what was used the most as characters so I was looking to fill the least used niche.

GM Bugman |

Up to 3 seats remaining for a trip into Yesteryear! Register here.
Levels 1-4, non repeatable, Faction (Wayfinders), Starship. "A Starfinder expedition's dusty data from an orbital scan shows signs of active technology on a distant, war-ravaged planet. Following up on this old lead, the Society dispatches a team of Starfinder to investigate the far-off world. Between making first contact and exploring the ruins of a dead civilization, long-buried secrets of the past are ripe for discovery."

LoreMaster GM |

I have question for GMs who have run "The Commencement"
During the race section, is there any benefit for critting? And if there is not, is it against the rules of SFS for me to give a reasonable bonus to a crit?

GM Bugman |

SFS 1-03 Yesteryear's Truth recruitment is closed!
Will Redelia, Silbeg, Noral, Dax Thura, MrStr4ng3, and DoubleGold please report to here!

Magabeus |

Outpost reporting is complete! That means that you should see the sessions for your PCs and in your GM session log.
If there is an issue with reporting please contact me at {My username}ATorgplayonline.com and include the session number that has the issue.
If you can not find the session in your session log please first check with your GM if he / she has reported the game to us, we can not report on games that were not reported to us.
Thank you all for participating in our first Outpost convention!

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I have question for GMs who have run "The Commencement"
** spoiler omitted **
For the second question, I think that goes a little beyond normal seat-of-your-pants adjudication. :2cents:

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Am I the only one a little concerned with the number of 3-6 scenarios (and appearance of 5-8 scenarios) while there is so little 1-4 content.
Even with three evergreens now (which can thus get every character to level 2 without burning a real scenario) - and assuming you would want to play them multiple times, that is only enough content to get two characters to level 3. And we now have four 3-6 scenarios.
On top of that, both this months scenarios are 3-6s.
I'm really hoping with the PFSv2 they don't jump into the slightly higher level content quite so early.
Yes, I know there are APs, but they don't appeal to everyone.