[GM School] SFS - Mentor Poblano (Inactive)

Game Master Gary Pepper

If you happen to be following the news my Home county in California is on fire at this moment and I am in an advisory evacuation location.

Not only this but I am also a County Employee and am being pulled into emergency services and response.

Please Bot me as necessary at this time; I am unsure when I will be able to return. My apologies in advanced and thank you all for understanding.

Hi guys,

I believe that you have just finished one quest and the GM of the second quest is finishing preparations. I also read Poblano's notice above. Are any of you going to be going to Gencon this week? I'm stepping in to help you guys directly while Poblano is unavailable, but I want to make sure I understand the situation.

Stay safe Poblano.

I am not going to Gen Con this year.

Thoughts and prayers are with you Poblano and others impacted by the fires.

I will not be headed to Gencon.

Sorry for the rather tardy response. The first post is up for the second quest, Adrift.

You don't seem to have the discussion thread for Adrift set up yet, so I'll bring this up here.

Poblano may be missing for a while, so I'll be playing at your table until he gets back. I'll bring a pregen, and Poblano can take over the pregen whenever he's ready, and when the next quest starts he can switch to his own character again. The question is which pregen would complete your party best?

I had a discussion post set up that was not allowing me to post to it. I unset the post and tried creating a new one, but am getting an error. I have emailed the webmaster and will get the discussion thread set up as soon as I am able. I look forward to having you at our table.

Until I am able to get the thread set up, should we be using this discussion thread?

I think using this thread is fine.

With +11 in piloting Rig was sorta build to be a pilot. He can also serve as Engineer (+8) or Science 0fficer (Physical Science +7).

I've found Iseph to be awesome for the starship quests and capable of holding their own in the others. I specifically chose a PC with engineering and science skills because the party's ace pilot appeared to be the only one with those skills covered.

I think the starship role still uncovered is Science, which Iseph can cover well, and they can also jump on any extra guns for more firepower.

Jchak would probably be best at captain. If someone else would be better there, she has a rank in Piloting and decent Dexterity, so she can work gunnery if needed.

Hello everyone. Things are starting to calm down a little for me at this time now that they are getting the fire lines under control. For those of you who have seen my little community of Lake County has two fires that have devastated over 90,000 acres and the smoke is measured at more than hazardous.

I appreciate everyone one of you for understanding and am now catching up on my posts as much as I am able to with the limited internet time I have.

It looks like your mentor is back. Yay! Have fun guys, and let me know if you need anything or have any questions.

A discussion thread is now finally set up for Adrift.

What was the issue?

I had to contact the webmaster to fix the issue. I was getting an error splash page when I tried to create a new thread. They pushed a fix.

How will my character be a part of the next quest? Should I include him as a NPC that won't take actions on the ship?

Any thoughts?

That is a very good question and in this case I would say you can have him as an NPC for the time being. Interjecting here and there if you will.

Hello everyone I am sorry that I have been severely absentee from this thread. real life has hit me pretty hard. I did not wish it to be this much of a problem for all of you. I can however tell you that I am back now and ready to give it my all as a fellow player, a GM for the final encounter and also your Mentor.

I do hope that all of you were able to learn something from this as well. Please feel free to give me some specifics and positives of this outcome. I will not require this of any of you though.

I feel I must explain part my absence to you but only if you wish to know.

Wow. If anyone deserves a buy Gm Poblano you do, That said I am glad you are back. I suspect you need what these boards offer in the way of fun and relaxation as much as any right now. Welcome back!

For me the slow down was more about me not understanding the rules of Star Finder as well as I could have and problems of running starship combat in an PBP. I certainly have learned of some of those pitfalls. Had we been playing PFS instead I believe, at least for me personally, things would have been smoother.

Thank you GM Wise One. You are very correct in that thought, I do need these forums for both fun and relaxation from the real world. The friends I have made the bonds I have form help in the worst of times. If it were not for PbP I would have burnt out quite some time ago and never came back to running games again.

Rules formats are always a struggle even with something as old as Pathfinder 1.0. But with working within the confines of play we all understand the learning curve and build our repertoire of skills in role play.

Thank you Wise One for sharing some of what you have learned so far.

OK, as far as I can tell, we definitely still have:
GM Valen/Movruul
Skorn/Wise One/Rig Datarunner
a mentor (I believe at this point this is me again, unless Poblano is ready to take back over)

The next quest is supposed to be Bording run by GM MacShack. Are you still with us, and ready to start when we get a complete party together?

We do also need to talk about how many people you want to recruit. I would strongly suggest recruiting at least on person rather than have the GM run a pregen to get to 4 characters. What does everyone think?

Recruit

I’m still here. I haven’t been posting as frequently, mainly since school started, but I am still willing to run Boarding. About recruiting, I agree that we should recruit to get to four players.

Alright sounds like we still have a good plan to go. We can attempt to recruit or I can also ask around too.

MacShack that's great! We will have you start as soon as you can.

Boarding link here.

Because this is attached to a GM School, I have no problem with us offering full credit to any who want to join at this point.

Hmm

Thank you HMM I will put out a recruitment post to gather some intrepid players.

And to confirm it looks like we have a a GM and three players for the remaining three missions. I will recruit at least one more player but will see if I can get two more.

I'll be joining you with this character, who I will build later today.

Perfect! Thank you Redelia.

If you're still looking for a friendly, floating level one Starfinder, Blibdoolpoolp would be happy to join :)

Pleasure to meet you Blibdoolpoolp.

Just a side note as you may have guessed this is part of GM school. We have GMs lined up for the last three quests so you running is not necessary we just want to finish the quests out strong.

If you will please check in at the Boarding thread so we may begin the next quest.

You still need a player? I have a character available.

Pleasure to make your acquaintance Dax. Yes we are please join us over at the Boarding thread so we can continue along.