GM Kate's Commencement [closed] (Inactive)

Game Master Kate Baker

Here you will discuss the Commencement! You can chat in this thread using any alias you like.

Ooh, shiny new thread!

First up: character-building! I'm running this for Society credit, so all characters need to be built using the rules in the Roleplaying Guild Guide. Luckily, for Starfinder that's basically just the Core Rulebook default rules. Please holler if you have any questions at all about building your character.

Gonna make a technomancer with that sun-liker theme from Pact Worlds! Maybe gonna be a minotaur fella!

Haha, I will either also be playing a nuar blitz soldier (if my other game finishes before we get started) or the technomancer I just built (Starfinder Data Jocky archetype, Xenoarcheologist theme). There are worse things than having two technomancers, though.

Hmm, I hadn't thought about archetypes. I should poke through those!

Data Jocky makes the technomancer a worse technomancer, but it has some fun skill-based things.

I was also planning to play a technomancer! An old (150ish) android (roboticist theme) who refuses to give up its failing patchwork body and has turned to technomancy to keep itself going.
Since I’m a bit late to the techno party, I can think about doing something else—if folks are agin’ an all-mancer makeup ;p

I'm aiming to play a vesk mechanic with the roboticist theme. Hooray technology!

You can all be technomancers if you want to! This scenario is pretty forgiving. And seeing how groups manage unbalanced parties is one of my favorite things about organized play!

You be a techperson, Joe, and I'll do a solarian instead. It was a tough choice between the two, so I'm perfectly happy being a starfella!

EDIT: this is like the third time in a week I've posted at exactly the same time as Kate

I'm not tied to technomancer either. I could switch to envoy or something, though I think multiple technomancers would be fine.

I’m also cool with multiple techno buddies (and seeing what happens with unusual party makeup)!

I read through the slides you shared, Kate—thanks! I’ll be ready to post as my character pretty soon; do you have a specific style you’d like for introductions?

Also, one thing I’m considering doing: applying my GM credit for running Dead Suns vol. 1, so that I can start as tier 1 with Dataphiles and get the benefit of the digital presence boon for this scenario. It would mean I’d be level 2, though. Thoughts?

Awesome, I'm glad they were helpful! And I will go over most of it here as well, but it's nice to have the visual references for where to find things!

The only downside to starting at 2nd level is that you won't be able to take advantage of the 1st level rebuild. You can change anything about your character until you play the for the first time at 2nd level. However, starting at 2nd level does mean that you are more durable and you have a lot more money to play with. So it's totally up to you. This scenario is Tier 1-2, so both 1st and 2nd level PCs can play in it.

I'll get a little starting post up for anyone who is ready to do an in-character introduction, and we'll get started for real once everyone's got their character set.

Quick intro to some play-by-post conventions

I will use curly brackets so you can all see the code, but you will use square brackets for real.

{b}Bold!{/b} is used for spoken character dialogue.

{i}Italics{/i} are used for internal character thoughts.

{ooc}Out-of-character{/ooc} is used for mechanical notes or out-of-character comments to the rest of the group. If you have a lot of out-of-character stuff to say, it's probably better to post it in the discussion thread.

{dice=Dice roller}Dice roller: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4{/dice} is your dice roller.

So, example!

{i}We've got to take that thing down before it murders us all!{/i} {b}"Ok, everyone focus on that big slimy thing in the front! Anyone know what it is?"{/b}
{ooc}Move action for git 'em. I don't have Mysticism to identify it!{/ooc}

Triss takes careful aim with with her laser pistol.

{dice=attack, git 'em}1d20+3+1{/dice}
{dice=fire damage}1d4{/dice}

{ooc}If that doesn't hit, we better run!{/ooc}

Now let's see that with the code:

We've got to take that thing down before it murders us all!
"Ok, everyone focus on that big slimy thing in the front! Anyone know what it is?"
Move action for git 'em. I don't have Mysticism to identify it!

Triss takes careful aim with with her laser pistol.

attack, git 'em: 1d20 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 3 + 1 = 19
fire damage: 1d4 ⇒ 3

If that doesn't hit, we better run!

If you hit "Preview," you'll see the results of your roll, so you can add text to match. The results will not change when you hit submit.

Thanks, Kate! One small note on the Preview thing - it "saves" roll results in top->bottom order. So if you're editing after your preview, don't add new dice rolls between pre-existing ones, 'cause that'll move around the check results.

Had some unexpected tomfoolery yesterday, but this morning is SFS character creation time. Space minotaur solarian with a solar mote for a "glass eye," and that's about all I got at the moment!

Thanks for the info, Kate and Andrew!

I should™ have my character done either tonight or tomorrow.

Here's what I'm reckoning for a tagline format (modeled off the one in the slideshow). Any deletions/inclusions you'd like, Kate?

N agender android technomancer 2 | SP 12/12; HP 14/14; RP 6/6 | EAC 13; KAC 15 (AC 12 w/o junk armor) | Fort +1; Ref +2; Will +3; +2 vs. disease/mind-affecting/poison/sleep | Init +2 | Perception +0; low-light vision; darkvision 60 ft. | Str +0; Dex +2; Con +1; Int +5; Wis +0; Cha –1 | Speed: 30 ft. | Conditions: none

Everything I need is there! I don’t particularly care about the ability modifiers being there, but you should leave them in if it is convenient for you to reference them there!

And just so everyone can see a tagline in use, here is my kineticist, Aglynn! I used the gender, race, and class lines for the character to fill out useful information for the GM, like AC and saves.

If you click through on this alias, you can see how I structured it.

I copied Joe's formatting for mine and removed the ability modifiers. Just checking: I included my drone's stats in the tagline too, so just let me know if that's a horrible mistake!

Here's my soldier, for a Starfinder example (I'm going to play him, if the game he's in wraps up in time).

Adrian, for extra fun you could create an extra alias for your bot, if you want to be able to post as them. I've had fun with that for animal companions in Pathfinder.

^_^

Thanks, Dennis! This is the best idea.

Zoomy is an amazing name for a drone!

How is everyone else doing? Any questions on character creation?

Looks like my preferred character, Rogers de Stieren the Nuar Soldier, is about one round away from finishing his current scenario, so if you all don't mind waiting another day or so I should be good to go.

^_^

Thanks, Dennis! This is the best idea.

A word of advice on running that: I have found it very useful to put a link in the companion's profile to the master's, and vice versa. It makes it easy to find what you need on your turn.

I’m good to go when everyone else is ready! And can wait as long as we need—holding off on posting in game until folks are set to join in.

I'm cool waiting, Dennis! I'm a bit behind, as y'all can probably tell ;)

Alright, building the character. Should have a post up later today!

I have been planing to do a Vesk Soldier. I will get it together this evening.

Sounds awesome! Soldiers are really fun. My main SFS character is an android soldier, and my Dead Suns character is a shobhad soldier.

Looking at equipment and ammo and stuff. Is there an option for a solarian to grip a battery and charge it with their fancy energy goodness? 'Cause if there isn't there should be!

hello! I will finish making my character tonight. I think she is going to be a ysoki mystic (who i want to bootleg into a necromancer somehow =D)

Edit: forgot to mention i'll be taking the healer connection, so i can still do general mystic-ey things, but i also want to take all of the available necromancy spells.

Still need to input errthing on the site, but my character's built, equipped, and good to go!
Looking forward to playing with y'all, looks like a good bunch of characters :)

Excitement!

Sounds like fun, Lacy! You should definitely play that character in Into the Unknown; I think they'll really like the Vat Garden.

Sounds like we're probably good to get started in the next couple of days?

Hey, you have slides! They are in my tagline as Comm. I ran out of characters.

Please fill out your PC's Initiative, Perception, and Sense Motive modifiers. It's typical in PBP for the GM to roll Initiative for everybody, since waiting for everyone to roll their own would take a day or two. Perception and Sense Motive are things I might want to roll secretly, and it's handy to have the pre-formatted block.

I amend my timeline until tomorrow as it took longer for me to read though and make final decisions than I meant to. Settled on a Vesk Xenoseeker Solider.

Excellent! We shall smash things together!

We have what sounds like arcing electricity in our bedroom walls, so I flipped the circuit breaker for most of the house. No WiFi, so I’m a phone today, and probably won’t have a post up for a while!

Oh no! I hope the electricity situation can get settled quickly!

Rogers’ other game just wrapped up! I’ll get his profile updated and jump in to the other thread tonight.

So I re-made Rafflesia's alias through the OP character creation, meaning I now have two Rafflesia aliases! Since I'll be posting with the OP character from now on (that first post was the regular alias) is there any way to NOT have both listed in the players/character tabs? ='D

Apologies for the newbieness!

Whoops, I don't think I made mine through Org Play either...

Also, the forum's 1 hour edit limit plus a game with editors D:

Yep, I found out the hard way about the edit limit just now ='(

I just removed Rafflesia (which I can do as GM), so you can post with the right one now!

And yes, posting from mobile and that one hour editing window are pretty rough together!

Welp, first alias is just past the post limit for deletion. Reckon I'll go with one of my name spelling iterations!

Hey, you have slides! They are in my tagline as Comm. I ran out of characters.

Please fill out your PC's Initiative, Perception, and Sense Motive modifiers.

Done!

I had thought I would get my character a Reaction Cannon, light. I'm a bit confused about how ammunition & charges work. Page 177 says the RC has a capacity of 6 rounds usage 1. Page 168 says weapons using standard ammunition come pre-loaded. If I understand table 7-9 on 179 correctly, heavy rounds have 20 charges/cartridges. So the RC comes pre-loaded with 6 heavy rounds, each having 20 charges/cartridges. This means my character can fire it 120 times before needing to obtain more heavy rounds for it or can fire it 6 times because each use takes 1 round which is 20 charges/cartridges each time?