Behold, a discussion thread! Please keep banter and non-game talk to the discussion thread.
[u]Character Building Guidelines[/u]
- Characters begin at Level 2, and will gain experience as normal.
- Characters can be core race, legacy race, theme, class, and/or archetype from the Core Rule Book
- Characters will begin with 2,000 credits and may outfit themselves with any equipment Level 4 or lower from the Core Rule Book
- Characters will gain experience as-presented from the AP (you will likely hit Level 3 at some point during the adventure... prepare for that)
[u]How Combat Will Work[/u]
- "Tactical movement" will be abstracted in favor of a more narrative approach. Maps will be provided, but I don't intend to get hung up on measurements and details.
- To speed combats up (which notoriously bog down PbPs), state what you intend to do that round, and I will narrate a play-by-play once everybody has committed. As a player advocate, I solemnly swear I have the players' best intentions in mind.
- I will resolve combat as quickly (and as often) as possible... if you have not posted in over 24 hours, I will likely bot you if I have access to your character sheet. If I don't have access to your character sheet, enjoy holding your action. :P
[u]How Space Combat Will Work[/u]
- All space combats in this book will also be abstracted. All steps will proceed as normal, though whichever pilot has the highest piloting check may choose the distance and facing of all ships (eg. I would like to be in close range, with our forward arc facing their aft; I would like to be at long range with our port facing their starboard). The lowest piloting check will still dictate their action (I am making the evasion maneuver), allowing the winner to react as normal.
After some consideration, I am lifting the restriction on race selection. Any Core, Legacy, or Alien Archive race is fair game.
Before someone goes through the trouble of making one... I've been working on a loot and experience list that I will do my best to also contribute to.
Logistics!
Game starts tomorrow(!).
I am in the United States, east coast. Expect updates from me between 6-10pm EST on weekdays, and 9am-10pm EST on weekends.
My FLGS has Pathfinder/Starfinder gamedays on Sunday, which means there might be a delay in posting from me tomorrow (and any other Sunday), unless I get to it in the morning.
My intent is to post at least once daily, and it would be great if everybody else could do the same. I will do my best to not leave you guys hanging too long, and I may even be able to update multiple times a day. However; my workplaces' internet security is a hurdle, for example.
If you haven't already, feel free to go ahead and make an introductory post in the gameplay.
I can post daily, though i’m in the UK so expect a difference in times ;p. My group does Starfinder every 2nd Sunday (which will be tomorrow) i have Larp weekends which may prevent posts on Saturdays but can get one Sundays. I will post up with a few days notice before then. Bot instructions are in my profile for combat if needed to speed things along ^^.
No time for a longer intro today. Generally have more time during weekdays though kids will be home most of this week so may still be light until they go back to school.
Can someone direct me to some sort of guide on how to put my character online? Like above I see Sev has all his stats and such which seems super useful. But for the life of me I can’t figure out how to do the same.
There is a guide out there, but for the life of me, I cannot seem to locate it.
For formatting, check out the pregens formatted for PbP here. I believe they are pretty self-explanatory and serve as an excellent guide to formatting your own PCs for PbP.
I also recommend checking out the Campaign Info for Flaxseed Station here if you haven't already. (I could have sworn that one of those links led you to a guide for formatting for PbP, but if so, I missed it).
I hope that is helpful. If you have specific questions, feel free to post and I will do my best to help!
Jax: You use your strength bonus to hit with grenades, but your Dex bonus goes into calculating the saving throw DC
As everyone may have noticed, the Paizo outages have been making things a bit complicated. :P
I have been receiving updates from the PbP organizer via email, and it appears that there may be a few more days of intermittent outages before it is fully resolved.
I shall do my best to maintain some semblance of continuity in the meantime.
WOW. Quite the hiatus. I'm sure that was as frustrating for you all as it was for me.
Figures. I've been checking several times a day for a week, then it comes back when I'm at work and suddenly everyone has already posted the stuff I had written. Sigh. At least this game has active players.
I know it's frustrating. I've had that ratfolk gobble up several posts of mine thinking that the forums were actually functioning correctly. :P
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How are we suppose to continue the AP if the NPC won't let us help or give us any info? As a DM you can railroad us and say you go here or you find out said information. So from a metagaming perspective that knowing this is just a game and there is a DM, it can continue on and we be directed with the DMs help. But from a roleplaying perspective, we don't have any info to travel to our next path to continue the AP, and the NPC is forbidding us to find said info.
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Well, to be fair, I think he is acting like a (fairly reasonable) officer of the law, who doesn't want to be responsible for some random schmucks (who could, theoretically, be arrested for murder/attempted murder) going off on a vigilante crusade. It would create too much paperwork for him.
He did, however, mention that if the Society wanted to pursue the issue, legally, they could, so I think we are being directed *there* to pursue the plot.
How are we suppose to continue the AP if the NPC won't let us help or give us any info? As a DM you can railroad us and say you go here or you find out said information. So from a metagaming perspective that knowing this is just a game and there is a DM, it can continue on and we be directed with the DMs help. But from a roleplaying perspective, we don't have any info to travel to our next path to continue the AP, and the NPC is forbidding us to find said info.
I apologize if I'm not being heavy-handed enough with what you need to do. You start this AP hoping to join the Starfinder Society. There is an someone offering to escort you to the headquarters of the Starfinder Society. The officer is there to act as some additional information, and my intent was to move things along after we'd had a solid day of "not in Paizo server-fire purgatory".
Hi, Site only started working for me last night, so going to play catch up now
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The two gangs are within the city right? If we can't find out where they are located via diplomacy, we go door to door, club to club and spend all day in the city. We start with the big buildings first, and then work our way down to the apartments, then to private houses. We know how they are dressed, unless they don't dress that way in public.
Did we all earn 400 xp or was that pre-split?
The XP was full party. I'm tracking XP in the Inventory Tracker on the second tab for everybody's convenience.
The two gangs are within the city right? If we can't find out where they are located via diplomacy, we go door to door, club to club and spend all day in the city. We start with the big buildings first, and then work our way down to the apartments, then to private houses. We know how they are dressed, unless they don't dress that way in public.
This is correct. You do know that one of the gangs is named "The Level 21 Crew". In the Spike district of Absalom Station, you know that the individual levels number downward (deeper you go, the bigger the number).
I’ve been getting Goblins all weekend. Will catch up and post this evening ^^
I’ve been getting Goblins all weekend. Will catch up and post this evening ^^
That might be worse than getting Ysokis (Ysokii?). :P
I am heading out to a convention early tomorrow afternoon. I will be returning Monday. I expect to be able to get in a few short posts until then, but if not, feel free to bot me.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
So, let's talk timeline. The forum outages hurt real bad, but we're a few days shy of hitting the one-month mark, and a few encounters short of hitting Part 2... not too terribly far behind.
I'm hoping starting everybody at Level 2 helps somewhat with the pacing from here on out, but I may need to trim or abbreviate content for time. There are one or two social and combat encounters that are pretty forgettable or can be condensed for time, but I just wanted to be upfront with everybody, especially if you've ran this one before.
I've been very busy for a day or so. I will update as soon as my baby is having a nap.
I remember those days. Mine's 4 and hasn't napped in like two years. Good luck. :)
Happy weekend!
Venture Captain Hilary Moon Murphy sent out an email to gamemasters with some pertinent information for players... I wanted to share that with everybody.
Hope all your games are going well. This is just a short email to let you know about two things: an extension on the end of Gameday and our midpoint survey.
THING ONE:
PBP GAMEDAY EXTENSION to November 19th!
Due to the site outages early during Gameday, we are moving the end of Gameday to November 19. We encourage GMs of games that are supposed to start on October 1 to find a start date between October 1 and October 15 that works for them and their players.
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THING TWO:
MIDPOINT SURVEY
https://goo.gl/forms/0FSnf0OPFRXk8kvq2
Please take this survey and ask your players to do so as well! We want to know how you are all doing!
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THING THREE:
REMINDERS of IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
EVENT #686641
Main Listing: PbPGameday.com.
Reporting Link: https://pbpgameday.com/reporting.php
When: August 13, 2018-November 19th, 2018
Some important dates for the Specials!
SOLSTICE SCAR has ended.
SCOURED STARS INVASION has ended.
ASSAULT ON ABSALOM begins October 1st - Do your premustering missions!
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BOONS!!!
Tell us what GM boon you earned: Ganzi (PFS), Ferran / Woikio (SFS), or ACG in the note field when you report your game!
ROLLING for Player Boons
Everyone rolls a D20. A 19-20 wins.
Collect the emails of any winners. (If a player wins a boon, be sure to include their email address when reporting, so HQ can send it to them.)
If PFS - Roll a D4 to determine the boon
If SFS - Roll a D2 to determine the boon
If ACG - Winner choice.
Report boons won in the drop-down menu.
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That’s it!
Happy Gaming — PBP is the best!! (No, I am not biased!)
Your VC,
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I will be out-of-town from September 30 through about October 8th. I expect to have limited ability to post during that time. I have botting instructions for Sev in his profile. Feel free to bot him until my return.
Thanks!
Snagged an azimuth laser pistol for Sev from the party loot.
Are PCs limited by item levels on purchases in this run? If not, Sev is considering purchasing a bleeding weapon fusion for his blade.
If so, in this run of "Dead Suns", Sev is considering taking the club and purchasing the disruptive weapon fusion for it.
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Snagged an azimuth laser pistol for Sev from the party loot.
Are PCs limited by item levels on purchases in this run? If not, Sev is considering purchasing a bleeding weapon fusion for his blade.
If so, in this run of "Dead Suns", Sev is considering taking the club and purchasing the disruptive weapon fusion for it.
What the hell, I'll allow it. :P
Was the extra 500 for discretion being offered up front? (so we have 1100 credits to spend from the Eoxian)?
Regardless, I snagged the ammunition for Sev's pistol and previously purchased the wounding fusion to add to Sev's knife.
I am fine with selling off whatever else party members don't claim. Depending on remaining funds, I plan to purchase following:
- 3 tool kits (engineering, hacking, and trapsmith-one each) 60 credits
- ring of resistance 735
- blasting weapon fusion (for his azimuth laser pistol) 360
Sev is not necessarily greedy and would willingly allow other party members to access his funds (about 325 credits) or utilize a greater share for purchases.
The 500 credits for the extra job is upon delivery.
Making the following changes to the loot list (make sure you've claimed your stuff!):
- Removed Jax' claimed Azimuth Laser Pistol
- Removed Sev's claimed Azimuth Laser Pistol
- Removed Dakes' claimed autotarget rifle and long arm ammo (50 rounds total)
- Removed Sev's claimed small arms ammo
- Removed everybody's 200 credits for starting up with the Society
After making some "safe" sales using your new fence, you each will get an additional 67 credits. There are a few big-ticket items I didn't feel comfortable selling yet.
Okay, looks like Sev has to forego a ring of resistance for now.
Sev has acquired:
1) the bleeding weapon fusion now affixed to his blade;
2) the blast weapon fusion now affixed to his azimuth laser pistol; and
3) three tool kits (engineering, hacking, and trapsmith).
Sev has 422 credits remaining (plus a 500 credit bonus in the near future?).
Okay, looks like Sev has to forego a ring of resistance for now.
Sev has acquired:
1) the bleeding weapon fusion now affixed to his blade;
2) the blast weapon fusion now affixed to his azimuth laser pistol; and
3) three tool kits (engineering, hacking, and trapsmith).
Sev has 422 credits remaining (plus a 500 credit bonus in the near future?).
Sounds good. :)
Apparent starship assignments:
Captain: Dakes
Pilot: Nik-a-Nik
Engineer/Science: Sev (Jax can jump to backup Engineering, if we start taking too much damage)
Primary Gunner: Jax
Secondary Gunner: Psyche