Welcome!
I always do my best to run a friendly game. I want people to have fun and everyone to be able to laugh when something crazy happens.
I really want everyone to be able to post at least once a day, preferably more. If you are going to be away from the game for a short period (such as attending a convention, on a short vacation, or needing to do some business travel), I would ask that you please post that here so everyone involved knows.
Character Profiles
Please have a profile displaying a brief overview of your character's current status. At the least it should include current/maximum stamina, hit points, resolve, EAC, KAC and saving throws. If you can cast spells, listing spell slots is also preferred.
In the character profile, please include a complete stat block. You may put it under a spoiler if you wish, but if you do so please put it under a single spoiler. I do not want it split across multiple spoilers.
If you have your character sheet on a different site, please have a link to it in your character’s headers.
Botting
Botting is when someone else makes a roll or otherwise does something on behalf of your character. Bot is short for robot.
Please include botting instructions in your profile and a general tactics in case someone else needs to bot your character. It is alright if you put this in a separate spoiler from the stat block, but once again please don't split it over multiple spoilers.
Please also indicate if you have a preference for who runs your character. If there are resources you don’t mind them using, please say so.
Initiative in PbP
I will roll all Initiative checks for PCs and NPCs, sort them, and organize them into blocks. I will bold the names of characters that should act. I will take the NPC actions in order and reserve the right to delay an NPC in order to make them act with a group of other NPCs.
When you see your name in bold, please post. Do not wait for someone else to post just because they had a higher Initiative. If you know what you want to do but want to wait for someone else’s action to go off first, just say that.
Here is an example of how you could post before another player but have it go off after another player:
Sir Cumference waits for the elven sniper Mister Oakleaf to get done firing his rifle before charging the Wily Snark.
I (and most other PbP GMs) do grouped Initiative in order to keep the adventure moving. In PbP people will have different posting schedules and often live in different time zones, Waiting for posts in order could make a single round of combat take days to resolve.
Within the rules, it is as if everyone within the same Initiative block delayed until they could post.
Rules Questions
If there are rules questions, please post them in the discussion thread rather than interrupting the gameplay thread with rules debates.
If you play your characters in a different scenario (such as during Session 1 of PBP GD VII) please let the GMs know that you need the game to end before Oct 1st.
You are not allowed to play the same character in two different scenarios at the same time!
If it looks like your game is running late, please let me know so we can come up with some sort of solution.
I have already put together the maps & handouts. Please request edit permissions when it is convenient.
I will collect PFS # and the other information at the time that you are to slot in faction boons.
If you have questions, this is a good place to ask them.
If the character you are planning to bring to this session is currently being played in another game, please let me know.
The problems with the Paizo forums have caused them to shift back the start of Session 2, but I would still like to know of any potential conflicts before we are supposed to start this.
Thanks!
Bret
Just checking, when will everyone have their characters and be ready to start?
Official start date for Session 2 has moved to sometime between Oct 1st and Oct 15th, but the sooner we start the better the chances of finishing before Thanksgiving in the USA.
My character just wrapped up his current scenario, I haven't received the chronically sheet yet, but I definitely expect to have it in time.
It looks like we are still missing two people. I will PM them today and see what is happening.
I would like to start this soon.
Looks like we are still missing Clive Doles / Commodore_RB.
I am going to look for a different player to replace Clive Doles / Commodore_RB.
If he responds before we get a different applicant, super! Otherwise, we will see who we can recruit.
Darkrunner-42 will playing instead of Clive Doles.
I am working on the opening post now.
Time to get the record keeping information from everyone.
I need the following:
Player name:
Character name:
PFS and character #:
Day Job roll (or a note that you have no day job):
Boons slotted this adventure:
Ally:
Faction:
Personal:
Promotional:
Social:
There is no Starship combat in this scenario, so there is no reason to specify the Starship boon.
Also, please let me know if you have credit for #1-00 Claim to Salvation applied to this character.
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You got it, boss!
Player name: Mjolbeard89
Character name: Chikasa "Chik-Chik"
PFS and character #: 177216-702
Day Job roll (or a note that you have no day job):
Boons slotted this adventure:
Ally: N/A
Faction: Second Seekers (Luwazi Elsebo)
Personal: N/A
Promotional: N/A
Social: Faction's Friend
I do not have credit for #1-00 applied to this character.
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Player name:Buckshot Bob
Character name: Seven of Eleven
PFS and character #: 38898-702
Day Job roll (or a note that you have no day job):
Boons slotted this adventure:
Ally: Gun Runner (Ally Boon; Limited Use): Your involvement in reacquiring the Society's stolden drow weapons hasn't gone unnoticed. As a result, you've forged strong relationshipswith the Starfinders responsible for distributing new weapons. While this boon is slotted, you can purchase grenades at 10% discount. Alteratively, at the end of a scenario when you have this boon slotted, you can permanently cross it off this Chronicle sheet to gain a one-time 20% discount on a single weapon purchase.
Faction: Dataphiles Champion (Faction Boon): This Faction boon allows the character to gain Reputation with the Dataphiles faction. A character with this boon slotted at the end of a successfully completed scenario gains Reputation as detailed in the primary and secondary success conditions of that scenario
Personal: N/A
Promotional: N/A
Social: N/A
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Player name Darkrunner-42
Character name PaleDim
PFS and character # 272301-701
Day Job roll N/A
Boons slotted this adventure
Ally:
Faction: Dataphiles Champion
Personal: Starfinder Society Subdermal Graft
Promotional:
Social: Faction’s Friend
Slotless:
The "Contractor’s Respect" social boon is tempting, but also looks worth saving to use at higher levels.
Still missing one, but I’ve waited long enough.
Hopefully Elektra Globes will show up again.
I don't think so.
They had private messaged me asking a few details about their options. I am hoping they post soon.
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No problem, Seven! Take care of that young one first, for sure!
Social encounters like this are pretty tough if you don't have just the right set of skills. There is always the option to aid rolls that others can lead, though. Especially if it's a skill that hasn't been tried yet. Someone might be holding off on something because they don't have a huge bonus in that skill, but a successful aid might help make it that much easier.
As for our current status, here's what I'm seeing:
Ykris Successfully Influenced.
Zo! Successfully Influenced
Royo 1/4 Influence (maybe 2/4 if Vandor's physical science check was high enough)
Naiaj Successfully Influenced
Iteration-177 1/4 Influence
At this point, we have a total of 10 actions left. In theory, that's enough for us to convince both Royo and Iteration-177. I suggest we start with Iteration, since they seem to have more skills we can attempt. Then, with whatever actions we have left, maybe we can aid each to get the checks we need for Royo.
Thoughts?
That or try for a lucky Sense Motive so I tell you more ways to influence them. If you look back through the successes, you should get a very good idea of how difficult it is.
I have already put together the maps & handouts. Please request edit permissions when it is convenient.
We are about to start the first combat. Please request edit permissions.
Just a couple of Rules things:
With the exception of Poisons, all Damage comes off Stamine (SP) before it comes off hit points (HP). This is nice because if you get 10 minutes to rest you can recover all Stamina at the cost of 1 resolve.
Certain actions can result in a person threatinging with a melee weapon to make an Attack of Opportunity. Examples include shooting a ranged weapon, movement other than Withdraw or Guarded Step, and casting a spell. If you are within a creature’s reach, these are not safe to do.
If you have questions about this or other rules, please ask here.
Hello all!
I think we need to pick up the pace a little bit if possible. Play by Post Gameday is going to come to a close in a couple of weeks and at our current rate we will not be done.
The social interactions took much longer than I expected, I am going to have to think about what I could have done to make that run smoother.
In any case, we have a few details to clean up in the engineering bay and then onward to finish the adventure! With the engineering bay, cracking the computer will most likely take long enough that those not involved could make two or three checks to search the area.
Thanks!
Bret
I am waiting for more people to post before resolving actions. I have put the main NPCs and Chikasa in the room, the rest of you at the entrance to the side corridor.
If you have questions, please ask. If you have something that you want to do that isn’t covered by what I wrote, ask and I will discuss how we can do it within the framework of the scenario.
It looks like I will be reporting the game before we have completed it. They want all games reported by November 19th. By reporting on time, all of us become eligible for the gift certificate drawings.
I will wait to issue chronicles until the scenario is complete. You should not play these characters in another adventure until you receive those chronicles.
If everyone could roll for boons, flat d20 and on a 19-20 please roll a d2 to determine which boon you get. If you win a boon, please either send me the e-mail address you want it sent to. You can either post it here or send it via PM.
Thanks all, and let’s see if we can’t get through this last encounter!
Nope.
Those who did get boons, I need an e-mail address for them to be sent to. Please send me that either by posting here or PMing.
Thanks!
Bret