Castamir's Flaxseed Station

Game Master Chris Marsh

You can get up to three special counts per scenario.

Wait..so if you GM a special a fourth time it doesn't count toward specials GMed?

Convention Specials will still count towards your total towards your 5th Star / Glyph / Nova. They simply added some normal scenarios that can earn credit towards that 5th Nova 3 times each for folks that can't always make a convention.

Nova Qualifications Blog Post

Ahhh yes - the MTS aren't capped so you can rack specials up :)

Now if only they'd make 1-98 Scoured Stars repeatable...

Ahhh yes - the MTS aren't capped so you can rack specials up :)

Now if only they'd make 1-98 Scoured Stars repeatable...

I think you mean 1-99.

While I really like that the recent MTS have had repeatable options, I hesitate to wish more work on our already overworked teams to make a previously published MTS repeatable. It may sound like it is just a wave of the wand to state that it is so, but I am sure there would be more to it than that.

Sorry yes 1-99, I have been doing a lot with 1-98 of late and have it firmly on the brain.

I think this one is a wave a magic wand though, as the follow up mts is repeatable and in the same format.

Sorry yes 1-99, I have been doing a lot with 1-98 of late and have it firmly on the brain.

I think this one is a wave a magic wand though, as the follow up mts is repeatable and in the same format.

Well I mean... if you have the boon hanging around from completing it, and you make a new Second Seeker (Jadnura) then it is repeatable... from a certain point of view.

Here is the information concerning the outage today and not being able to sign into Paizo. They appear to be back up now, but you have to go into your settings and manually delete you cookies associated with Paizo first to be able to sign in. (May take several attempts. Mine took deleting the cookies three times before it stuck.

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If anyone needs assistance or questions I am on Discord (Tyranius#2300)

Here are a few more instructions from Paizo to try as well.

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I created a Morlamaw Vanguard, who is currently being tested in a run of 'Into the Unknown' but I'm not sure whether or not I got the build right as I'm not familiar with Vanguards.

Here's the character sheet

Any suggestions for improvements please?

I created a Morlamaw Vanguard, who is currently being tested in a run of 'Into the Unknown' but I'm not sure whether or not I got the build right as I'm not familiar with Vanguards.

Here's the character sheet

Any suggestions for improvements please?

You want high Con and either high Strength or Dexterity for Vanguards. They take some damage and dish it right back to the attacker so they really want two high attributes -- attack and Constitution. The entropy points spent to do extra damage only help if you can hit.

I am only seeing +9 in attributes, it should be +11 including the theme bonus or +10 without it.

I don't know why you want a Doshko, but many of them are unwieldy. One of the special things a Vanguard gets is the ability to do multiple attacks of opportunity. An unwieldy weapon would prevent you from being able to make use of that.

You would most likely get a lot more and better advice if you asked about this in the Starfinder Advice area of the forums.

As above, looks ok for L1, but lacking Dex you are going to end up needing to pump that Con to be a damage sponge.

I took a taclash for mine. It's a good reach weapon and you can channel your entropic strike through it.

Entropic strike is another good reason to have a high Con. The damage modifier is based on Con and not Str.

For that matter...you could do high Dex and high Con to make you harder to hit and harder to put down, pick an operative weapon to use your Dex to hit with and always do Entropic Strike, using that damage and your Con modifier.

The only limitation there is that the amount of damage done by Entropic Strike is limited to your level or the level of your weapon, whichever is lower, so you'd want to keep upgrading your weapon...

But then, you're a Starfinder, so you're probably going to keep upgrading your weapon all the time, anyway.

If I didn't dislike multiclassing, I would probably add some operative levels to my Vanguard so that I could add trick attack damage to my Entropic Strikes.

I don't know about anyone else, but I tend to upgrade my armor much more frequently than my weapon. Might have to reconsider that for my vanguard, though...

I recently ran an analysis of available Reach weapons by Item Level versus the Vanguard's scaling entropic strike damage. It's easily possible to keep your weapon up with your damage, but there is an issue at 5th level. Note that at 10th level your entropic strike automatically gains Reach so this analysis ends at 9th level.

Vanguard Entropic Strike damage scales thusly:
Level...Damage
1-2.....1d3
3-4.....1d4
5.......1d6
6-8.....2d6
9-11....3d6
12......4d6
Plus 1d6 each level thereafter.

If you want to use 1-handed Reach weapons:
Weapon.........IL........Source
TacLash...........1..........CRB ......Trip
Plasma Lash.....3.........AR.......Trip
Living lash.......6.........AR........No trip
Neural lash......9.........AR........Stun, not trip

Living and Neural Lashes both have the Unwieldy and Thought properties, so a mindlink circlet or telepathic race is needed to make AOs and multiple attacks with those.

The issue becomes what happens when you hit 5th level. You can't upgrade to a new 1-handed Reach weapon unless you have a Living Lash on a chronicle sheet. So you're stuck with a d4 instead of getting your d6 until you hit 6th and get access to the Living Lash. There's also not any reach+trip weapons above 3 until much later.

Or you look at 2-handed weapons:

Weapon..............IL......Source
Tac Pike............2.......CRB
Burning Chains......3......AR trip
Cryo Pike...........5.......CRB
Meteor Glaive.......6.......AR
Adv Pike, OR.........9......CRB
Burning Chains......9......AR trip

The Cryo Pike fills in the 5th level gap, and since it's from the CRB you could buy it as early as reaching level 4. Or maybe the devs or an AP author could add a one-handed reach item level 5 weapon someday.

Oooh...I just got the Armory so I hadn't even thought about the living and neural lashes. My vanguard is a Formian so she's covered about the telepathy (and it fits in with a Formian using living weaponry instead of tech.)

I still prioritize armor over weapons for some of my characters but I've started to shift away from that. I feel like the design of the system is intended for action and action means things happening so even maxing out your AC doesn't keep up with the intended chances of hitting you.

That's just a feeling and I haven't done a deep analysis but I suspect that a comparison between the best AC a character could have at each level to the charts for monster creation in the Alien Archive would suggest you're going to get hit pretty often and maybe as often as not.

This vanguard used taclash -> meteor glaive -> lvl 10. That progression kept the entropic strike relevant without spending very much credits. The largest reduction of possible damage was between 3 and 6, which at the respective levels wasn't really very significant.

As for armor, I just kept my Con high and upgraded based on armor upgrade slots and the upgrades themselves.

Outpost IV Announcement

Players may now sign up for more games. Table limits have been removed.

Players may also now be at one table of each special, if desired. You still may not be at more than one table of the same special.

Sign up Here! (Link)

PaizoCon 2021 Announcement

Great news everyone! PbP games are going to be incorporated into PaizoCon Online 2021!!!

The VO team is working on the scenario listing with the PaizoCon Committee but for now what you will need to do is read over the Blog for PaizoCon.

PaizoCon Online 2021 (Link)

Then if you are interested in being a GM for PbP you will need to go and complete the PaizoCon 2021 Volunteer Registration at the link below.

Organized Play Foundation website (Volunteer Registration)

Important ((This is important or you will be assigned a VTT table.)) There is not a radial to distinguish PbP within the form so at the end of the questionnaire, underneath additional comments, you need to type in that you are a Play-by-Post GM underneath the question Any other items you would like the organizing committee to consider in reviewing your application?

Also do not forget to join the PaizoCon Online 2021 Discord server. The link can be found in the blog post above.

New update to PaizoCon online. You do not need to pay the $25.00 Badge fee if you only plan on GMing games. You will only need to pay for the badge if you plan on playing.

"No fees are needed unless you plan on playing. When registration opens tomorrow, there are 4 badge options. Player, GM 4+, GM 1-3 Play and GM 1-3 No Play. Player and GM 1-3 Play cost $, the other two are $0."

I was thinking of GMing both/either VTT and/or pbp. For VTT, it depends on the timezone translation.

PaizoCon Online 2021 PbP Update

Tomorrow (March 1st) the Warhorn opens for GMs to begin choosing their games.

We are working through some of the logistics for PaizoCon Online 2021 and differentiating our games on Warhorn. Below is how we are doing that and how to quickly find the PbP Games.

VTT game slots are as follows:
0700 - 1200
1300 - 1800
1900 - 2400

We are going to put all of the PBP games on its own separate timeslot starting at 0600 on Friday the 28th. This will help separate PBP from VTT as well as put us right at the forefront to look for games as players and GM alike.

PaizoCon Online 2021 Warhorn Page (Link)

I presume that's PST?

Yes PST. We will start when Paizocon starts, that is merely a placeholder to sign up for the games and the ability to track them. :)

Are there any restrictions around what lodge the pbp games are run at? Do they need to be Paizo board games only?

Plan on either Paizo Boards, Mythweavers, or one of the Official PbP/PbD Servers (Roll4Combat or Cosmic Crittermanders).

Excellent. Mythweavers is home base, just wanted to check. Thanks, boss.

So right now we have Outpost IV and not a lot of capacity is free, i would love to get started with my Dragonkin buddy and evergreens like #1-01 The Commencement, #1-12 Ashes of Discovery, #1-16 Dreaming of the Future, #1-32 Acts of Association, #2-03 The Withering World and #2-07 Four for the First for level 1 characters would be the best starting point!

This post is also a testpost to see if my formatting for information bars on top are correct.
That's why i did not post into Recruitment.
Sorry if this is the wrong section in Castamir's Flaxseed Station for this kind of post.

Me and my non-dragonkin buddy would like to get in on some games, too.

So right now we have Outpost IV and not a lot of capacity is free, i would love to get started with my Dragonkin buddy and evergreens like #1-01 The Commencement, #1-12 Ashes of Discovery, #1-16 Dreaming of the Future, #1-32 Acts of Association, #2-03 The Withering World and #2-07 Four for the First for level 1 characters would be the best starting point!

This post is also a testpost to see if my formatting for information bars on top are correct.
That's why i did not post into Recruitment.
Sorry if this is the wrong section in Castamir's Flaxseed Station for this kind of post.

I wouldn't mind running a series repeatable in the near future.

Lakritze wrote:

So right now we have Outpost IV and not a lot of capacity is free, i would love to get started with my Dragonkin buddy and evergreens like #1-01 The Commencement, #1-12 Ashes of Discovery, #1-16 Dreaming of the Future, #1-32 Acts of Association, #2-03 The Withering World and #2-07 Four for the First for level 1 characters would be the best starting point!

This post is also a testpost to see if my formatting for information bars on top are correct.
That's why i did not post into Recruitment.
Sorry if this is the wrong section in Castamir's Flaxseed Station for this kind of post.

I wouldn't mind running a series repeatable in the near future.

Great i point my partner in crime solving and peacekeeping ways in this direction.

XperimentalDM wrote:

Lakritze wrote:

So right now we have Outpost IV and not a lot of capacity is free, i would love to get started with my Dragonkin buddy and evergreens like #1-01 The Commencement, #1-12 Ashes of Discovery, #1-16 Dreaming of the Future, #1-32 Acts of Association, #2-03 The Withering World and #2-07 Four for the First for level 1 characters would be the best starting point!

This post is also a testpost to see if my formatting for information bars on top are correct.
That's why i did not post into Recruitment.
Sorry if this is the wrong section in Castamir's Flaxseed Station for this kind of post.

I wouldn't mind running a series repeatable in the near future.

Great i point my partner in crime solving and peacekeeping ways in this direction.

"Great, and I'm not even *dressed* yet!"

"Give me a few to get some proper coverings on and all, please. Some of us among the dragons like to be clothed before going out and doing exploratory activity." There's a hit of snark behind the tone, a gentle ribbing and a toothy smile.

Me and my non-dragonkin buddy would like to get in on some games, too.

I was just thinking about posting something of the same sort.

It is good to see fellow dragokin in the society.

It is good to see fellow dragokin in the society.

The 'vetting' process is real. Can't be just bonding off to some rando and hoping they have an 'unfortunate accident', after all.

It is good to see fellow dragokin in the society.

Yes, perhaps someday we will be assigned to the same task. Given the way such things are done though, it would be just our luck to get assigned a mission involving tiny spaces.

Venizandrikal wrote:

It is good to see fellow dragokin in the society.

The 'vetting' process is real. Can't be just bonding off to some rando and hoping they have an 'unfortunate accident', after all.

*Looks guiltily in the direction of the corpse of the subject of his first partner bond...*

"Aaaaanyway...."

Lakritze wrote:

XperimentalDM wrote:

Lakritze wrote:

So right now we have Outpost IV and not a lot of capacity is free, i would love to get started with my Dragonkin buddy and evergreens like #1-01 The Commencement, #1-12 Ashes of Discovery, #1-16 Dreaming of the Future, #1-32 Acts of Association, #2-03 The Withering World and #2-07 Four for the First for level 1 characters would be the best starting point!

This post is also a testpost to see if my formatting for information bars on top are correct.
That's why i did not post into Recruitment.
Sorry if this is the wrong section in Castamir's Flaxseed Station for this kind of post.

I wouldn't mind running a series repeatable in the near future.

Great i point my partner in crime solving and peacekeeping ways in this direction.

"Great, and I'm not even *dressed* yet!"

"Give me a few to get some proper coverings on and all, please. Some of us among the dragons like to be clothed before going out and doing exploratory activity." There's a hit of snark behind the tone, a gentle ribbing and a toothy smile.

I just reserved the most marvellous neonlimegreen jumpsuit in your size ever! Would be a shame if someone else would buy it because you are away on a Mission for the Starfinders! *equivalent of a telepahty wink* Once Lakritze is in reach again. Knowing too well that the taste of a Shirren for fashion is too advanced for old Ronath First mission for the Society no longer being in training, finally!

"That... sounds interesting. You didn't get a matching outfit, did you? People may get the wrong idea of how this whole bonding thing works... or maybe the RIGHT idea. How much is that reserved outfit going to run? You know I have to allocate a good chunk of my budget to food..."

"I'm cautiously optimistic about our mission, but concerned for what it may be. We have a lot of holes in our skills we need to be working on..."

PaizoCon Online 2021 Player sign ups are now open. Go and get signed up for some great games!

PaizoCon Online 2021 Warhorn (Link)

...and I was deregistered somehow, odd. Have had to re-register.

That is an odd one.

That is an odd one.

Fixed - no idea what happened there.

I'm trying to find out how to upgrade my registration so I can play as well as GM - there's some SFS scenarios I want to get in on such as 3-14, 3-05 and 3-18.

Plus I'm open to GMing more PbP if needed. Only doing 1.

phaeton- For warhorn? Is it not letting you sign up to play games? If o send a message in the Paizocon Discord and they will be able to get you sorted out. Billing and registration will just need to be checked.

Well, I already registered just to GM but I can't see anyway to change that. A message has been sent, still awaiting reply.

phaeton_nz, aside from registering as a GM, sounds like you haven't gone through the steps to pay the badge fee and register as a player.

Take a look at the PaizoCon Warhorn page and scroll down to the "Important Links" section. Then click a link called "Registration Instructions". That should open a doc with instructions on how to register.

You can also send me a PM on Discord

Tyranius#2300

Will see what we can do to get you sorted after you have worked Bigbooms instructions aboe.

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