GM Dinketry and the Dead Suns AP (Inactive)

Game Master dinketry

Silly? I avoided revealing my real name and appearance to a prospective rival for control of the Starfinders.

Silly indeed.

Ah yes. Thanks!

What's the benefit of a space suit over our regular armor? Regular armor has enough air for a whole day, right?

Yup, so I read the entry on spacesuits in the equipment section. It specifically states that you cannot wear a spacesuit over a set of armour.

GM gets stuff wrong, volume 89!

Ignore my comment about y’all wearing spacesuits from the Hippocampus. You all are wearing your own armour. August, I’ll rule that you could be wearing a spacesuit helmet for ‘flare’, but if you’d like to make use of your armour, then you can’t be wearing a full spacesuit as well.

Even Second Skin that can be worn under clothes? Seems like a rule oversight.

Question! Given that I can move up to my full speed as part of a Trick Attack can I take a guarded step as that movement?

Answer(s)! Yes to the guarded step. I’m still going to rule no to the second skin however, as the rules explicitly state that you cannot wear armour under a spacesuit. However, as a partial agreement, you can wear the second skin under the spacesuit but not derive the AC bonus from it while wearing it.

I wonder what the heck they were thinking when they made that rule; August will have set up his outfit/armor to look like an environmental suit then.

Also operative is clearly ridiculous.

Well, for most of us, no space suit is needed in the rules, since almost all armors provide that functionality.

Dont get me started with that! But if so why expressly forbid it especially with armor that is basically just clothes in the CRB?

Well at least it's not the jacked up power armor rules!

Jaxom, daze only works on humanoid creatures. This thing might not be humanoid--I'd guess it's undead.

with armor that is basically just clothes in the CRB?

Same reason the armor that is just Kevlar clothes still gets environmental protection, a commlink, etc.

I'm 90% certain that at some point it was that only heavy armors provided environmental protection, but light armors could be worn under a space suit.

Jaxom, I am pretty sure the goblin is already dead.

Oh, I looked at the map and saw it?

GM has not been removing icons for dead foes, instead they get inverted colors and/or turned upside down, in case it is important where a body is.

I removed the goblin for ease.

It appears that I made a mistake in assuming that Idar was using his rifle and not his laser cannon, but in reviewing posts, it appears that sometimes attack rolls are posted without a weapon identified. *ahem* I'll hand wave it currently, but in the future, I need you to tell me if your weapon is resolving against EAC or KAC. That should make it easier for me. Thanks!

Reference for 'How I do creature identification/knowledge checks'

(I'm putting this in our Campaign Info section as well, for future reference.)

It appears that I made a mistake in assuming that Idar was using his rifle and not his laser cannon, but in reviewing posts, it appears that sometimes attack rolls are posted without a weapon identified. *ahem* I'll hand wave it currently, but in the future, I need you to tell me if your weapon is resolving against EAC or KAC. That should make it easier for me. Thanks!

Apologies. I will make sure to post damage type and AC type in the future.

Query: I rolled a 30 effectively. If I get 4 pieces of info, your system tells me that I beat a DC of 26, right? That would mean the creature is CR 16, which can’t be right.

What am I missing?

What am I missing?

You get four additional pieces of information. The GM already gave you some in the spoiler.

Apologies, Jaxom, I meant to say four categories of information.

August will probably not be the Hardscrabble Collective's favorite person after referring to their friends and co-op members as "snack food".

He's okay with this.

Ugh! I don’t like the new look!

It's definitely faster (the forums were reaching unusability IMO) but its not quite as charming as the old site.

I really miss the account links up top.

I'll echo your sentiments about the account links, August.

Don't listen to the Android, he's just a walking computer; what does he know?

Like the engine room wouldn't also be full of these things.

Maybe not 3 of them however!

How do you get to the "My Games" tab or whatever with the new site? I had to search for this specific thread from my post history.

Go to your account dropdown up top and go to my profile.

This should bring you back to the "people" page for your account and you can select "Campaigns" like you could on the old site.

Hm.... so the old campaign tab of the messageboards is gone? I liked being able to see all the campaign threads that had new messages moved up to the top before.

You can see that in your own campaigns tab under your profile.

I moved you, Jaxom.

Thank you!

I think it should only cost Telion 1 RP to stabilize, not 3.

"If you are dying and you have enough Resolve Points, you can spend a number of Resolve Points equal to one-quarter your maximum (minimum 1 RP, maximum 3 RP) on your turn to immediately stabilize."

It says it costs 3 RP elsewhere but it is a mistake. I believe this was clarified in the FAQ as well.

Thanks for the clarification!

Question! August wants to run a computer map to detect all video pickups at every terminal in the Acreon to create a security camera even if an internal security camera doesn't exist.

Since most, if not all, smartphones/laptops/tablets today have cameras would it be possible to upload spyware designed to turn any cameras tied into the ship's computers such as private terminals or intercom on from the bridge and to be able to swap through feeds? Would there be more than one check? And is that hacking or manipulating a module do you think?

I can definitely see us "combat hacking" comms if we can but is that even a thing? Sorry for the nitty gritty but I played lots of Shadowrun which is essentially a game about entering and escaping elaborate deathtraps so I think about weird stuff like this.

I love your idea, August. I'm down with some extemporaneous Shadowrunning. Here are my thoughts:

The Acreon is a junky miner ship, so the computer terminals aren't going to be souped-up with lots of bells and whistles, but I agree that a basic video pickup would be available at each. You should be able to retrograde hack the other terminals in the Acreon in order to set-up some sort of a crude security cam network, once you get root access.

If I'm reading the rules right for a Tier 2 computer root access hack is DC 41? Computer tier DC +20? Before firewalls?

That’s for root access, yes. Just hacking it for access would be a DC 21. Hacking it to re-program it (i.e. root access) is difficult.

Sorry for the nitty gritty but I played lots of Shadowrun which is essentially a game about entering and escaping elaborate deathtraps so I think about weird stuff like this.

This explains much.

What's the green arrow on the map?

It was your airlock entry site from external to the ship. I’ve deleted it.

There are far too many high skill checks in this AP.

I think that's the flavour of Starfinder, not just this AP. Loads of damage, very high skill checks, lots of challenge for someone acting as a solo person. The interviews with Starfinder designers that I've seen have talked about how Starfinder has been crafted to make an emphasis of the teamwork nature of the group. For example, covering fire as an action that anyone can do in combat, or a lot of the class features (icon, operative) that emphasise teamwork.

It's not a game for (Han) solo play. That's my take.

I also think it's that we're trying to do a lot for low-level characters. We're not supposed to get root access on a moderate computer any more than you're supposed to escape from masterwork manacles at low level.
Similarly for unsealing a diplomatic case without leaving evidence - how high of a Linguistics (Forgery) check would that be in Pathfinder?

Well it'd be a lot lower without a magical camera following us around.

Is this combat not distracting enough? Shouldn't you be cracking that baby open right now? =P

Please! Without me there you'll all die and then I'll be stuck on a ghost ship by myself.

An android's work is never done.

Good to see Idar's tactical sense isn't too far gone.