Children of the Empire

Game Master Talmonis

Often so called "space" has something for you to crash into....

Any chance we get an astromech/repair droid (to help with that situation)?

Often so called "space" has something for you to crash into....

Any chance we get an astromech/repair droid (to help with that situation)?

Not on a TIE Interceptor...

One challenge at a time, squadmate. One challenge at a time...

Starting to think our ships were built by the lowest bidder......

We will figure things out.

Well, when you have to build THOUSANDS of the things, you kinda have to balance quality with quantity, no? Let's hope we're on the high end of that scale, shall we?

Or better yet, let our tech specialists get ahold of those badboys for a few weeks.

Starting to think our ships were built by the lowest bidder......

We will figure things out.

I seem to remember reading in one of the Saga Edition books that all the variety of TIE Fighters were built cheaply in order to create many more of them. The theory being in the overwhelming numbers.

Just sucks for the TIE pilots (like us) :)

So i had this idea about using a vibroaxe for melee, but the idea is that the axe head is large, and the handle which contains the power-packs sticks out a little, but telescopes out when drawn to full length, So it looks like a big headed hatchet on my belt.

DM would have to ok such a thing. That's what tech specialists do right?

*blows out a lung full of cigar smoke*

would appear that we will need to go find a rebel air strip, drop in, and steal some of their x-wings.

be pretty easy to accomplish. Find a rebel base on a fringe planet, air lift on the opposite side using the planet to shield our approach. Have a wave of TIE fighters fly over and attack the base, allowing ourselves to be shot down. We crash about 30 klicks away from the base. Infiltrate our way through the surrounding terrain, hop the fence, set some charges in the armory, and when it blows we hop into some x-wings and fly out of there.
How do you think the rebels are able to steal the shuttle crafts?

*shakes head at Calahan, chuckling*

A-wings for me anyday. It's all about the speed. They can't shoot down what they can't catch.

Well, if we're talking about stealing ships from the New Republic, I'm calling dibs on the Millenium Falcon.

Tsk Tsk Tsk, no faith in good ol' Imperial tech? Come now, the TIE Defender is the pinnacle of space superiority fighter. It's expense is justified when being used by "Proven" pilots. =)

In other words, fly well enough to get promoted to a better craft, pronto.

Tsk Tsk Tsk, no faith in good ol' Imperial tech? Come now, the TIE Defender is the pinnacle of space superiority fighter. It's expense is justified when being used by "Proven" pilots. =)

Of course, give those same TIE Defenders to our squadron techs, and we'll make them even better! :)

Opened up a can of wookie worms that time.......

Bump to get us back on page one.....

Page one? I'm going to try and have the game thread open tonight. Depends on how sober I end up.

Thread's up folks.

Bump so the others notice the gameplay thread is open....

Thanks for the bump, Helrun, didn't see that.

Fair warning: Since I originally applied for this thread, I got put onto a new project at work which makes my posting time during the afternoons virtually impossible (save for lunch hour), so I'll be making pretty much one or two posts per day, max.

Same here. I've been out and about, so forgot to get a look at the thread before.

*grins at Calahan* So I'm guessing we officially "don't know each other", eh?

Huh. I don't check things for a little over a day and a half and things have started already.

Going to read through the game thread to see what's developed up until now and then post.

*grins at Calahan* So I'm guessing we officially "don't know each other", eh?

well, i didnt see any posting that says we dont know each other... so lets say that we do.

You two married or somesuch? Just curious.

nah, we played together in another star wars campaign last year. rather humerous that we should bump into each other in another star wars campaign.

Man, now I REALLY wish there was a more navigable reference document. Just found my new favorite variant rule: gear templates. Prototype gear can have TWO tech specialist mods, but treats a natural roll of 1-4 as an auto-miss and disable on weapons. I'd be savin' that baby for noncombat gear to squeeze an entire kit into one little box, heh.

Or just bring extras in case of a bad roll. lol.

Did some wandering (don't have Scattergun proficiency yet), happened across a collected link of fan resources HERE

I am pretty sure that if Helrun knew anyone previously he would not let on in the least.....

Same with claiming expertise or listing accomplishments....

Any scoundrel should understand that ; )

You ~ALWAYS~ recognize the guy with the big guns.

You ~ALWAYS~ recognize the guy with the big guns.

I wonder, are you referring to Mel with her 15 CHA puppies, or with Kira and the amount of different blasters (and eventually a slugthrower as a backup) she'll be carrying? ;-)

Ianthé Jack wrote:

You ~ALWAYS~ recognize the guy with the big guns.

I wonder, are you referring to Mel with her 15 CHA puppies, or with Kira and the amount of different blasters (and eventually a slugthrower as a backup) she'll be carrying? ;-)

16 now ;) I re-looked at the ability score guidelines and realized I did my math wrong.

Oh snap. +2 to +3, gotta be a least a cup size, yeah?

Might have to bust out the tech specialist feat just to re-size your uniforms at this rate.

Whoops, just saw what I did there...

Ianthé Jack wrote:

You ~ALWAYS~ recognize the guy with the big guns.

I wonder, are you referring to Mel with her 15 CHA puppies, or with Kira and the amount of different blasters (and eventually a slugthrower as a backup) she'll be carrying? ;-)

actually, im sure she was talking about me. =)

Thinking of doing something experimental for the space maps. As Saga Edition tends to use terms like "X spaces" or "Adjacent", I think I'll use a hex map to do space, to give us A.) more room and B.) better scale. "Facing" isn't an issue, so I think this will work well. What do you lot think?

Hmm. Well, the only time I can see facing being an actual issue is during a dogfight, realistically. But since SE is a slightly more casual ruleset than some RPGs anyway, I don't see it as a big issue.

Oh snap. +2 to +3, gotta be a least a cup size, yeah?

Might have to bust out the tech specialist feat just to re-size your uniforms at this rate.

Whoops, just saw what I did there...

Better yet, bump up a cup size (or two!) without resizing her uniforms. ;)

Thinking of doing something experimental for the space maps. As Saga Edition tends to use terms like "X spaces" or "Adjacent", I think I'll use a hex map to do space, to give us A.) more room and B.) better scale. "Facing" isn't an issue, so I think this will work well. What do you lot think?

Ehhh, maybe. Saga is definitely designed with maps and minis in mind, but I'm pretty sure it's intended to be a grid, as shown in all the diagrams in the Core Rulebook. Changing to hex might have weird effects on abilities (and would also mean that blaster bolts arbitrarily zig-zag through the air, what's up with that?)

Smart weapons. lol. Tech specialist to the rescue!

Ok folks, here's the link for Roll20:

Roll20

Please log in and join the campaign ASAP, and we'll get this started.

Which ship is which, again? I can't find the original post laying out who is what call sign.

I'm going to put you each in a ship tied to your roll20 account access. Probably by adding the nameplate under each.

Sorry I didn't have much activity over the weekend. Been busy. I didn't look at this thread until today (kept an eye out on the Game Thread though).

I've created my account and I believe I'm in the game. I should be good to go :)

Roll20, oh man, haven't used that in forever. gotta see if I remember my login...ok cool I'm in.

Ok, so how we doin this?

I'm going to put you each in a ship tied to your roll20 account access. Probably by adding the nameplate under each.

How does that work? Do we tell you our account name or something?

If you've joined the game, I can see your name on the list. I'll go from there when I get home tonight, and modify the permissions and such. This is my first time using the program as a GM, but it's REALLY intuitive. I love this program to a silly degree.

Folks, who is who as far as Roll20 names?

Aaand if you could "launch" the game as most of you already have, that'd be great. I can't see you to add you as a character otherwise. Helrun is the only one I've got everything I need from thus far (Go Helrun!). Soon as we get this, we'll launch.

Created an account and changed my name to Display my characters name.

I know nothing about the cite, but the video helped.

Should be on again in the am.

What is "everything you need" from us? What are people lacking?

Yeah I joined the game, got my display name updated, I can see the map and everything, but I admit I got little time in with roll20 when I was introduced to it. Gonna have to get reacquainted.

What is "everything you need" from us? What are people lacking?

I need everyone to launch the game itself (so I can assign you to a token), and either change your display name to your character name, or let me know what your user name is, so that I can do it for you.

Ok. I launched the game, and changed my name to show Kira's name. Hopefully that's all you need from me.