GM Friendly Sauce’s Dead Suns

Game Master friendly sauce

Don’t forget about hired help! Porters can carry the food and camp if you pay them.

Trickle down economics?

How much do porters cost?

I'm going to assume the 5 bottles of rum Handsome had since the beginning have been completely consumed and will buy 10 more bottles.

Shopping list:
10 bottles of rum
mobile hotelier
hygiene kit
basic medkit
survival straw
tool kit (personal gravitational redistributor)
tool kit (survivalist's kit)

Justins going to hit everyone with a Life bubble today so that he can keep one going on the entire party for the trip

Purchasing

wisdom +2 crystal

By stripping down to one outfit and leaving you all to your own devices for hygine kits (token spells WILL be mandatory if you want life bubbles) justin has a portable fridge (a habitat box) .6 bulk of alchohol and 2.9 bulk of food. That and his +11 cooking score should get him space in the mobile hoteller...

Justin has a survivalists kit and a navigation kit, if handsom could pick up a portable weather station instead (or if justin could dip into party funds for it) I think we'd have everything to compliment his +13 survival.

Player is flashing back to a day hike in highschool. There was an EMT in the class who insisted on taking an O2 bottle with them and I wound up carrying it. When I handed the teacher my backpack to climb up something he almost fell over.

How much do porters cost?

Looks like Starfinder doesn't have cheap laborers like pathfinder did, but they do have this from armory,

Porter Drone
This sturdy Medium drone is designed to haul loads and assist with laborious tasks. Most porter drones resemble stout humanoids with large treaded wheels at the ends of two thick legs and a smooth faceplate with two optical sensors as their only facial features. A porter drone acts as the combat drone of a 1st-level mechanic, except it has the cargo rack and manipulator arms mods instead of the combat drone’s normal initial mods. Its skill unit is Perception. A porter drone has 20 bulk.

its 2k credits, with 20 charges and 1 charge/ hour. it would have an effective strength of 18 for carrying capacity so I think that means up to 18 bulk? plus is has basic AI so its like a pet!

That'll do, Rat. That'll do.

Hi-C eats junk food for the convenience and the price, but if someone is offering to cook he'll be in Heaven.

He doesn't like those Aeon Stones because he misses the pleasure of eating and drinking.

Eh that's 20 bulk *we* might need to carry back if we can't keep it charged.

Ooof yeah, at 3 bulk the artillery laser might have to stay at home. The pike has work to do though. Hi-C can borrow Dreamer's pulsecaster rifle if you like. I was considering leaving that behind to save on bulk anyway.

*Edit*

Starfinder Core Rulebook pg 198
"Most of the recharging stations that replenish devices, such as batteries and power cells (see page 234), also recharge armor’s environmental protections"

Does this mean that Dreamer's backup generator can recharge our armor's environmental protections?

I don't see why not.

Eh that's 20 bulk *we* might need to carry back if we can't keep it charged.

DR34-M12 should invalidate that from ever happening with her backup generator.

In that case, alcohol for all!

Hi-C still has a bottle of Logan's Rum.

An extra shot for anyone who gets the reference.

self heating pot is back on the shopping list..

Justin has a survivalists kit and a navigation kit, if handsom could pick up a portable weather station instead (or if justin could dip into party funds for it) I think we'd have everything to compliment his +13 survival.

Sounds good. I'll switch Handsome's tool kit purchase from survivalist to weather station.

Oh I just noticed. If no one wants the clear spindle aeon stone on the party loot sheet, Handsome will use that instead of buying one.

With whatever leftover encumbrance Handsome has left, I'll buy some food. I think it'll be 4 or 5 packs of R2E.

Justins going to need to dip into the party fund for 174 credits with the reduction in cash then. Or the liberal arts people will repo his crystal from his brainpan.

Alrighty, selling off some of the more useless items like the baton and the estex suit, then combining the proceeds with the 3200 payment we've received with the 700 already in the pool of not-yet-distributed funds, we've got a total of 3950 to be divided 6 ways.

So that means everyone gets 658 to your personal funds. 660 will go to the Party Common Fund.

So everyone go ahead and add 658 to your personal character sheets.

As for the party common funds, it has increased from 2157.5 to 2817.5.

I believe Dreamz is going to dip into the party common funds to get a snipers sight. Hi-C will do so to get a darkvision attachment. And Justin will do so to get a wisdom personal upgrade.

I have no objection to anyone dipping into the common fund for whatever they need, so I say go for it, then subtract whatever credits you've taken from the total in cell B4 of the loot sheet.

I'm not fussed about having everyone logging exactly how much they've deducted from the party common fund, as long as GM Friendly Sauce doesn't require it.

So everyone go ahead and do your shopping, take from the party funds as needed and afterwards I think we're ready to go trekking in the jungle!! Then probably get bitten by hundreds of mosquitoes and have to fight off malaria.... yikes!!

I took out the 50 for the wisdom crystal.

*shudders at the mention of malaria.* Player had that. Not fun.

In the next city over there's one of those mosquito sterilization facilities. They breed only male mosquitos and then release them into the public after sterilizing them with radiation.

When they mate with a female, the eggs she lays are infertile.

There are promising results using CRISPR gene-edited mosquitos to spread a mutation in females to develop male mouthparts. Males drink nectar; females drink blood. One test eliminated a population of mosquitos after something like seven generations.

But in Castrovel, I'm pretty sure the number one threat from mosquitos is being trampled.

I actually shouldn't need to dip in to the party funds. I already had more than enough to get the Starfinder backpack. I had just held off as I wasn't sure if I would need it. I did count 833 credits instead of 658, removed the additional 175 from my credit total.

Alrighty added infrared sensors and a Basic Riot Shield before leaving town.

With that payment I didn't need to dip into party funds.

Hi-C is 1.2 Bulk over his carrying capacity, but that's including 10 days of food and a mobile hotelier. Anybody have any carrying capacity left? I don't want to leave the artillery laser on the Starship if I don't have to.

He also took the battery out of his cestus battleglove and left the glove part behind.

That means going into the jungle he has:

3 extra batteries
1 battery in mobile hotelier
1 battery in artillery laser
comm unit battery in armor lasts for [armor level] in days?

Dreamer can leave behind her Pulsecaster Rifle and carry the extra 1.2.

NOt sure what to buy Actually still new to Starfinder

Looking over your sheet (you should have Spell Focus as a bonus feat at 3rd level, btw) I would say grab a... nevermind Justin already has all the Library Chips.

Augmentations
Armor Upgrades
Opalescent White Pyramid Aeon Stone
Antitoxin (although they just gave us 3)
Cologne

Or just look through the items on those webpages when you have time and something will jump out that sounds useful.

Justin is unencumbered by virtue of cheating. He's casting might of the ellicoth on himself every morning.

Wanna carry my mobile hotelier? I can carry another week's worth of rations in that case.

Wanna carry my mobile hotelier? I can carry another week's worth of rations in that case.

I don't have any spare carrying capacity, but i COULD might of the ellicoth Hi C and still have 1 spell left per day for healing.

One extra hour is fine. More than that and someone will fail the save and have to stop anyway.

I'm a level away from being able to do anything about exhausted.

My Android, who likes to indulge in alcohol, tobacco and firearms, carries around a case of Castrovelian Sweet Vricinea Cigars ^_^

lol I imagine hes not too friendly with the Castrovelian government though? somehow I think that would be illegal.

Nah they're usually just concerned with Renkrodas. Most of Castrovel's elf population is vegetarian so they have no qualms about poaching plants.

Justin cast lesser remove condition for the sickened condition. Does that remove it until the next disease check or does it just come right back?

If it's until the next check, we should be good to move on after RP. If not, we could give Handsome some time to rest. While we use him as bait and set up an ambush for the bad dog.

I think it's good until the next disease check.

Good until the next check (i asked owen on starfinder wed. during the biohacker segment because they have something with the same weird wordking)

well they have to learn to avoid offkilter SOMEHOW....

GM is about to become a father, posts might be delayed ^_^

congrats/ can i have your books now that you won't be needing them?

Hahah! Nice one, BNW!

Sauce, congrats! Hope the lil goblin doesn't keep you awake TOO much at night these first 6 months or so!!

Congratulations!

Thanks everyone! Last night was a false alarm but I'll make sure to let you guys know if I wont be able to post, or at least text Nefreet to let you know. Fingers crossed it happens over the weekend so it doesn't slow us down!

@ BNW, being a millennial, I forgo books and am 100% digital with a few exceptions I won at con raffles haha

daaaamn you progresss!!

I'll never forget a few years ago at a local con I saw a guy with 2 full travel suitcases full of sourcebooks. Sat down at a table with him and he was saying how he really wished he could just remember to bring what books he needed for each character but most of his characters uses alot of book. I just held up my ipad. Next year he had an ipad too haha.

I'll never forget a few years ago at a local con I saw a guy with 2 full travel suitcases full of sourcebooks. Sat down at a table with him and he was saying how he really wished he could just remember to bring what books he needed for each character but most of his characters uses alot of book. I just held up my ipad. Next year he had an ipad too haha.

My back hurts just thinking about carrying all of that around.

I am a Xillennial I have both paper and code, MUWAHAHAHAHAHA

as Congrats Sauce on your next big adventure..Parenthood

Thanks Everyone, And Congratulations to you all, Slaying that Renkroda puts you into 3rd Level territory so when you wake up from your nights rest you will be level 3.

Hooray for leveling... To the same level we're at!!

Well uh I totally meant it. You don’t officially level to 4 till you’ve had breakfast... ya that makes sense

Lv 4: +7 Stamina, +6 HP, +1 Skill: Acrobatics, Athletics, Computers, Engineering, Perception, Piloting, Stealth.

I love Overcharge ^_^

I decided on Weapon Focus. Next Level will be Enhanced Resistance (kinetic), then 6th level will be Versatile Focus.

For spells I automatically get darkvision (second most useless spell ) , I picked up Lesser Resto and polymorph II

(Mystic cure doesn't really get good after 1 till 4)

Maybe, since you're Ysoki, and this is a homegame, the GM might be nice and allow you to switch out Darkvision for a spell that benefits the party?

*slips the GM a slice of pizza*

I'm all for tweaking, is there a more useful spell you had in mind?

Oh, forgot to level up. I'll have to get on that...

By the way, a tip for ya, Friendly Sauce. If you click the map in the scenario PDF, then do a control-c to copy, you can then paste the map directly with control-v into the google slide. And it'll do so without all the letter and number markings, so you can keep that hidden from us. Also, it'll come out sharper. I did this on a new slide on the maps as an example.

You can do the same thing for other images in the PDF as well, like pictures of NPCs or other artwork.

Full disclosure: As mentioned when we started the campaign, I own the first 3 books of this AP because I was planning on running it as well. Only skimmed the first 1/3 of the 2nd book and never got around to reading the 3rd so I can honestly say I don't know the plot from this point forward. But I figured I'd pull this map out in case you find the tip helpful!

Instead of copying and pasting, if you have the extra time, count the exact pixel dimensions of the map, then format your slide to those dimensions, and set the image as a "background".

No chance for someone to shift it accidentally, or otherwise mess things up.