DM Barcas - Star Wars - Agents of the Empire (Inactive)

Game Master Isaac Duplechain

Maybe it's not going to be as tough as I thought it would be. You guys are pretty beastly!

So I got caught up on the experience chart and you're all around 8000 or so, which is halfway between 4 and 5. Once you get off the skyhook, we'll get you leveled up.

Am I the only one who has been seeing a lot of posts get eaten, especially those around the X50 and x00 mark?

I found a way to recover an eaten post!

If I find the name of the person that posted but can't 'see' the post then I go into their avatar and look for the 'Recent Posts' tab. I can then find the eaten post, usually.

I then just have to choose to 'reply' to the post and I get the post in quote form to add back to the thread.

Yeah, I used Force Whirlwind from the Knights of the Old Republic book. Against his Fort save I didn't imagine I could get it for more than the one round. I didn't realize it was Large to boot!

Trying a simpler approach with Move Object now...

We'll see.

Woooooo! 1000 posts!

Woooooo! 1000 posts!

Huzzah!

Woooooo! 1000 posts!

This is a fantastic feat! Great job DM Barcas - you bring a very entertaining, challenging, and engaging game and the longevity is proof that you are doing a great job!

We are nearing the end of this mission, so be prepared to level up! Everybody know what they want?

We are nearing the end of this mission, so be prepared to level up! Everybody know what they want?

My plans are for another level in Kensae/Jedi.

My feat will likely be Skill Focus - Use the Force (+4 at this level per your earlier decision).

We could surely use a field medic. Any chance of getting some nifty NPC droid that could run around slapping medpacs on everyone? ;D

Change summary:

Kensae/Jedi 4
HP +6 (average)
BAB +1
Saves +1
Skills +1
Damage Threshold +1
Damage: +1 (Lightsaber)
Feat: (4th level) Skill Focus - Use the Force (+4 to skill at 4th lvl)

I'll probably stick with Soldier, though I need to check some books to see what sort of upgrades I'll take.

My plan is to stick with Soldier but I want to look up Advanced Classes to see if I should move towards a more melee oriented fighter class.

After adding everyone in my Kingmaker game, I decided to find you guys as well. Krassus and Urirawa both took me a while, but I think I got everybody.

So if you've got a friend request from some random guy in Houston, that would be me.

After adding everyone in my Kingmaker game, I decided to find you guys as well. Krassus and Urirawa both took me a while, but I think I got everybody.

So if you've got a friend request from some random guy in Houston, that would be me.

I was wondering a bit when I got that friend request this morning. I looked and noticed you liked Pathfinder and figured you had to be someone from these boards.

Sho says "you kill for a living."

Thought about it. Um, as soldiers, so do we.

Still take the moral high road. ;p

Still take the moral high road. ;p

Well, if we don't take it, then he gets to, and he's an NPC. They're not entitled to moral high ground, I mean, their lifespans after they meet the PCs is what, like an hour at most?

Swamped right now. Sorry for the lull in posts. I'll hopefully get some free time tomorrow night to get caught up. Go ahead and level up in the meantime, I'll post the exit and conclusion of the mission tomorrow.

Okay, Urirawa is aiming for the Gladiator prestige class if allowed. This is listed in the Knight of the Old Republic book. I have plenty of stuff in Soldier class; so, not sure if I'll do it at level 8.

Basically it is extending his current focus on Melee weapon skill.

BAB +1
Saves +1 unless armour is better
Skills +1 (even level)
Damage Threshold +1 (matching Fort)
Damage +1 (even level)

Characteristic Increase Dexterity +1, Strength +1

Feat Choice is tough!

Melee Defense increased defense and I can take Whirlwind Attack at level 6

Running Attack can move before and after an attack.

Bantha Rush to knock targets around as I hit them

Power Attack trade -4 hit for +8 damage Ryyk blade

Rapid Strike trade -2 hit for +1 die damage

I leveled per my post above.

I added +1 to WIS and CHA but they are odd numbers right now. 8th level will be nice. ;D

Urirawa - very tough choices. All are great and will make you even more formidable than you already are. My vote is for higher offense.

Now, if we only had a doctor...

I'm having a heck of a time choosing whether or not to go prestige. Elite Trooper is an option, but I'd have to take Point Blank Shot (not bad) and Martial Arts I, which is not a feat choice I'd take. Gunslinger isn't bad, but I'd have to take PBS, Precise Shot and Quick Draw. It's a tough choice. For the next level, I will be raising my Intelligence and taking Pilot as a new trained skill and Skill Focus: Treat Injury as my feat. I figure someone has to keep you mooks alive.

I'm having a heck of a time choosing whether or not to go prestige. Elite Trooper is an option, but I'd have to take Point Blank Shot (not bad) and Martial Arts I, which is not a feat choice I'd take. Gunslinger isn't bad, but I'd have to take PBS, Precise Shot and Quick Draw. It's a tough choice. For the next level, I will be raising my Intelligence and taking Pilot as a new trained skill and Skill Focus: Treat Injury as my feat. I figure someone has to keep you mooks alive.

Call - that is awesome!

I think my next feat choice is Force Boon. I blow through Force points like they are going out of style. Especially with Vital Transfer, I'll need them.

My next talent is going to be Deflect, then Block. My goal is to be an uber-defense master.

I want to eventually go Jedi Knight and take Soresu (reroll failed Block/Deflect), Shii-Cho (-2 instead of -5 for subsequent Block/Deflect), then Redirect Shot (12th level).

I'll be ready for Jedi Master by 13th level. I'll take Shien as my first talent there (+5 on redirect shots).

I may pick up some extra defensive feats between now and then too such as:

Improved Defenses
Martial Arts
Extra Second Wind
Force Training (really want Farseeing and Rebuke)
Melee Defense

Anyone know any others from other books?

EXPERIENCE! +2800 from combat, 310-530 from RP. Everyone will level up. (I think the next level up is at 10K, so we aren't far from that either.)

Urirawa: 9035 (Prior +2800 +530)
Krassus: 8540 (Prior +2800 +310)
Raal: 8615 (Prior +2800 +375)
Sho Larn: 8855 (Prior +2800 +505)

Sorry about the recent lull in posts. My timeliness and quality are both down. I'll get them back up soon. These last few weeks have left me pretty exhausted. I'm also going to multiply the roleplaying rewards by 1.5 from here on out.

Noble 1/Kensae 3

bab +1
saves +1
skills +1
threshold +1
damage +1
hp +7
talent; block
Stats: +1 dex & wis
Force Power: Hawk-Bat Swoop

Proposed Krassus Upgrade:
1d10 ⇒ 10

oooooh! O.o Mara Jade?!?!?! o.O Nice one!

oooooh! O.o Mara Jade?!?!?! o.O Nice one!

Let's just hope she stays friendly. I don't want her as an enemy. Not sure I want to join their 'gang' either.

For the record, Urirawa took the Power Attack Feat.

Hi guys. I'm down with then infuensa right now, just mesured at 39.6°C, can't think straight so I'm gona have to ask you to either play me or skip me. Thx.

Hi guys. I'm down with then infuensa right now, just mesured at 39.6°C, can't think straight so I'm gona have to ask you to either play me or skip me. Thx.

Dude! I had something like that and it was bad news, man. Get better soon!

Slept for 16 hrs and the fever is down to 37.2. So I'm back on the boat unless I get worse again.

When back under last night, went to work and came home worse than I was so I'm taking it easy for the weekend. Don't know how I'll be at posting so don't wait up, at least not for too long...

K I'll run you. Jump back in whenever you can!

Slept for 16 hrs and the fever is down to 37.2. So I'm back on the boat unless I get worse again.

Dang metric system. Don't know how bad that is. No handy calculator handy.

Hope you feel better though! Hope the kids don't catch it either!

Ok. Raals dead. Again. I'm inclined to let him die and make another character. Soldier 2/Jedi 2. Human selected from the ranks of the stormtroopers for kensae training. Can we make it work?

Hang on. Seems I forgott to clear out my sheet since the Vigo fight. Raal's still got 10hp and is -1 CT, he's still kicking but I'd still like to retire him after this set if it's cool.

I can see your thoughts. Raal's hp are not the same as the rest of the group and you tend to run more to the front (or just end up there).

Also, that force poison is pretty harsh.

1/4 chance to save against getting the Dark Side point (yicky but you can at least purge it with force points over time but if you have dedicated light powers then it can cause you problems). It does open the path to dark side powers. Just saying. ;>

1/4 chance to save and end the affliction is the hard part of the equation unless Raal gets the feat Skill training in Force which reduces this to a 1/2.

Still, it means a 'damaged' character (like having a wizard and saying don't use spells or you will suffer problems).

Some would have call it a role-playing challenge but others would find it terrible for their 'character concept'. I've known players that could go either way with such a thing. Some that would happily dive into the idea and see what happens and others that would abandon a game if that happened to their character.

Then again, their might be a cure and this is just the push the group needs to find it.

The force poison realy doesn't factor in to my request, frankly it's rather cool.

The fact that he seems to die in every-other encounter and his somewhat inefectiveness in combat does.

I created Raal solely from a roleplaying point of view and forgott to factor in the roll-play. He just feels week. I'd like to blame my inexperience with the SSE system as he's only my second character generated with it and I still have a lot to learn.

Fair enough.

I know that I keep being surprised when DMing the system as to what combos work and what the impact on play can be.

There are choices that can be much more effective than others; particularly with Jedi.

Though Urirawa is a pretty tough soldier and Call can pack a punch with his heavy weapon.

I rather like the work we've put into Raal. How about we keep the character and simply adjust the character sheet? We can do a time jump of a month or two. Perhaps Raal goes into heavy meditation and training to try to shake the Dark Side taint, comes out with some slightly different levels.

Also, this thing was a CR 8. I guess I should have picked the rancor after all.

Oh, I agree. Raal is cool as far as character concepts go (even if I do say so myself) and he's definately been established as a character it's just his numbers are off.

How much of a re-tooling are we talking? Maybee dump the noble level for a level of soldier? Jedi all the way? What are you thinking?

Whatever you feel like, as long as it's not dramatically 100% different. Keep his stats the same.

I feel like going kensae all the way. Throwing a level at another class seems like such a waste of feets in hindsight. Taking a level of soldier will force him to still spend all his feets on getting his kensae training wheels off.

I'm gona pour over the books to see what I come up with.

Thrak'el Raal'orn
Destiny 2 Force Points 3/6 Dark Side 0
Medium Male Chiss Jedi 4
Init; Perception, Low-Light Vision
Languages; Cheunh, Basic, Binary, High Galactic
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Defenses Reflex 17, Will 16, Fortitude 16
Hit Points 52/52; Condition; Threshold 16
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Spd 6 squares
Melee Lightsaber +7, 2d8 +1
Ranged +7
Base Attack +4; Grapple +3
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Abilities STR 8 DEX 16 CON 12 INT 13 WIS 14 CHA 15

Talents; Block, Deflect

Feats; Force Sencitivity [K], Force Training [1st], Rapid Strike (lightsaber), Strong in the Force [4th], Weapon Finesse [2nd], Weapon Proficiency (lightsabers, simple weapons) [K]
Force Powers; Battle Strike, Negate Energy, Surge

Skills; Acrobatics +10, Initiative +10, Perception +9, Use the Force +9

Possessions; Binder Cuffs x2, Credit Chip (275cr), Hip Holster, Kensae Robes, Kensae Armor(cosmetic), Lightsaber(silver), Utility Belt, DeWry's Lightsaber, stun grenade x2, ion grenade x2, frag grenade x2, thermal detonator x1, security kit, breath mask, electrobinoculars
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Racial – +2 intelligence, Bonus Trained Skill, Low-Light Vision
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Experience; 8615/10000
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Vital Statistics/Appearance:
Age: 15, Ht: 185cm, Wt: 75kg, Hair: Black, Skin: Dark Blue, Eyes: Red./
Tall and slim Raal keeps himself imaculately groomed so as to set an example to others. Clean shaven and his black hair croped short at the top and sides but grown long and braided at the back.
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Background:
Born and bread on the fridged Chiss homeworld of Csilla Raal is born of the Acendancy's higher echelons. His father a General and his mother a diplomat Raal was ever expected to take up a role of leadership. As such he was enroled and graduated from the Naval Academy and expected to build his career as an officer in the Navy. Chance would have it that he was discovred as force sencitive by a Kensae diplomat and now struggles to master the arts of the Kensae.
After surviving the battle of Tatooine with his squad and proceeding to rescue the crown prince from aboard Freedom Station, Raal partook in many missions with the squad formed in that fatefull battle. On one such mission Raal contacted a vicius biotoxin infused with the dark side. Undergoing a straineous program deviced by his kensae masters to purge the malicious toxin Raal emerged a different Chiss after the ordeal, seeming to have forgotten most of his official training by the Chiss Acadamie and having developed a stronger conection to the force.
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Stat Math:
STR 8- 0pt
DEX 16- 8pt (+1, 4th)
CON 12- 4
INT 13 (11 + 2 racial)- 3pt
WIS 14- 5pt (+1, 4th)
CHA 15- 8pt

Seemed I had yet to finish leveling up Raal. His stats are off and so are his defences.

Note the added background.

Looks A-okay. You should have a lot more credits than that, though, between salary and the Emperor's gift.

Was thinking I might add a couple of dark side points, take the Middle Ground talent from the kensae talent tree and add Dark Rage to my force suite instead of negate energy. Or skip Strong in the Force for Force Training 2. And looking at the Kensae Guardian Talent Tree you can select from the Armor Specialist talent tree so I might actually take a level of soldier, just not the first level, and take Armored Defence and Improved Armored Defence.

Well see. But I have actually no clue as to how much money he should have..

Edit; Do you think we'll advance a level before all this?

Was thinking I might add a couple of dark side points, take the Middle Ground talent from the kensae talent tree and add Dark Rage to my force suite instead of negate energy. Or skip Strong in the Force for Force Training 2. And looking at the Kensae Guardian Talent Tree you can select from the Armor Specialist talent tree so I might actually take a level of soldier, just not the first level, and take Armored Defence and Improved Armored Defence.

Well see. But I have actually no clue as to how much money he should have..

Edit; Do you think we'll advance a level before all this?

IMHO, I would not go the armor route. It is somewhat viable as a soldier but a Jedi has better defenses than that.

You have a great deal of viability with Negate Energy, Block and Deflect. Not to mention, your HP are almost up by 20.

I would suggest keeping Negate Energy and sticking soley with Jedi.

LOL. Raal's last post was classic. I didn't know paranoia was a condition in Star Wars. ;P

meh.. junkies are the same across the galaxy I rekon ;P

Surprise paper! Gonna be a little slow for a few days while I finish this up.