Game Day VI Starfinder Society Special
Discussion thread for: GummyBear, Z,,D,,, PJP, GM Andrew, Xynen, and Gerald.
I will collect character details closer to start (and after hard copies of the CRB are released).
Please dot here and in Gameplay so that I know you are still with us.
Hey, I dotted in. Exited! :)
Here...
Is this the one with a pregens?
Yes. This will be run with the 4th level pregens.
Ok, thought so.
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Hey, excited to be here and to give Starfinder a spin!
I will be travelling the week up to the Gameday, and Friday August 25th will be my trip back, so I may be a little delayed in my opening posts.
OK. :)
Checking in! Thanks for posting in the Flaxseed Lodge, wouldn't have found this otherwise.
EDIT: Are there any special registration things we have to do for Starfinder?
Starfinder registration is now open. You'll find it the same way you make new PFS characters. There's a new option underneath ACG registration. It will generate the -70X character number.
I don't have the pregens yet to share.
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Is this using the standard Starfinder society pregens? If so they're up and ready for download here.
If not, it's still worth checking out while we wait for the official stuff to drop.
I think I'd like to give the technomancer a run, if no one else is feeling it. If so, the Mystic would be my second choice.
I was thinking mechanic or envoy, but will wait until I know what the actual pregens will be.
Yes, 4th level pregens
I'm playing my own android mechanic in a different scenario. I will take the soldier and see how I like this one.
I'd like to play the operative, soldier, or technomancer. Happy to play the others too, but those are my top 3.
Bear, you can take the technomancer and I'll do the Mystic, then.
Looks good to me!
Fine by me!
Yo! GM Andrew, your mechanic here! Started setting stuff up for myself since it will be hard for me next week to do so. Hopefully my stat line will do.
It's also worthy of note I am GMing this in a couple days, so I will be familiar with the scenario.
*BZZ BZZ* I'm Quig's drone.
Sounds good to me
Profile images for space people are real slim right now!
Alias is ready
Someone pointed out to me that Quig's attack bonus on his pistol should be +5 instead of +4, since he has +2 dex and +3 BAB.
Trip starting soon, so will post when I can on Friday when we start.
It probably wouldn't matter too much. When I ran it cold for a table at GenCon, I didn't notice the Info Desk gave me 1st level pregens and the players didn't tell me, and they did fine. I think this special is just to show off the mechanics.
But noted.
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1-00: Claim to Salvation involves Starship combat. If you've read the Starfinder Starship Combat rules, you know that each round is done in phases with each side taking a type of action each phase. Translating it directly to PbP would potentially cause starship combat to take an inordinate amount of time. Therefore, I am going to playtest a sort of pre-rolling modification. It does allow you to get a bit more meta than you probably should be able to be, but I hope it will make things flow much easier.
I should have the final test version ready before we enter starship combat.
Iseph the Operative is ready to go when Gameday hits. Looking forward to see how Space Combat works. Imagine it's going to be an interesting few months while the boards weed out the problems with it, but I'm excited nonetheless.
For starship combat, really the most important thing tactics wise for order of things is the helm phase. Getting a high pilot check and going last with movement is a huge tactical advantage. The engineering and gunner phases are also essential, but order of turn between starships doesn't matter as much for those.
True, but for the Speed-of-Post.
Let's say Starship combat begins at 7 AM on Day 1 and I call for initiative.
Engineer is working days and very busy.
Pilot is working nights and very busy.
Science Officer is working days and very busy.
Let's say I work nights and am very busy.
Pilot rolls for Initiative and looses at 6:30 PM on day 1.
I call Engineering phase at 9 AM on Day 2.
Engineer rolls Engineering to boost engines at 11 AM on Day 2.
Science Officer scans at 9 PM on Day 3.
I report scan results and call Helm phase at 8:30 AM on Day 3.
Pilot posts his move just before work at 4:45 PM on Day 3.
I post enemy Helm phase at 10 AM on Day 4 and call Gunnery phase.
Gunners post last attack at 5 PM on Day 4.
I post enemy attacks at 9 AM on Day 5 and repeat.
4+ days for 1 round of combat.
Obviously, it can be faster than that, but it can also easily be as slow as that, and that's not including the complication of Time Zones.
Put together an alias for the character!
The Pegasus' capabilities have been added to the handout slides.
Ship navigation lights are in play: red = port (left), green = starboard (right). The arrow point is the forward/facing point of the ship. Blue arrow ship is you.
You can change your roles each round of ship combat, but you must change before the Engineering Phase. For our purposes, you choose your roll when you make your pre-rolls, which I will explain later.
There can be only ONE Captain.
There can be only ONE Pilot.
There can be only as many Gunners as there are weapons (4 in this case)
There can be any number of Engineers (minimum 0).
There can be any number of Science Officers (minimum 0).
From what I'm looking, it looks like these are the best roles for each character (with secondary roles in parentheses):
Navasi: Captain (or Science Officer/Pilot)
Quig: Engineer (or Science Officer)
Taia: Science Officer (or Engineer)
Iseph: Pilot (Iseph is really good at everything, though)
Obozaya: Gunner
Keskodai: Gunner (or Science Officer)
I agree. My intention was to get a good scan off to start and then go where is needed afterwards.
I didn't realize we had someone so good at Computers, or I'd have left that to Raia. I'll be happy to take up gunner next round
You can do 2 Science Officer actions in the Engineering phase.
I thought Science Officers ask during the Helm phase, along with the Pilot:
1. Engineering (Engineers)
2. Helm (Pilot/Science Officers)
3. Gunning (Gunners)
... and the Captain comes in when they during one of those phases.
Either way, doesn't matter too much when it comes to scanning. Matters more for targeting.
So do the Science Officers get another roll towards something? I'll happily roll again if so! I'll look at options just in case.
If I'm slowing things down, feel free to bot me. I'm still getting the feel for space combat and learn through example.
No, each character only gets one roll per round. (There's some special exceptions when you have a small crew, but that's usually for crews of 1 or 2 so I wouldn't even worry about those rules)
There's also a very unofficial rule by Thursty that droids can't help in Spaceship combat. (One with I greatly agree with, especially in a larger party like 5-6 players)
Same here as Raia. This is my first space battle, so let me know if I do something wrong.
Andrew is correct: Science Officer does go in Helm phase. My mistake during the crafting of my PbP system. I think it still works best at the end of the Engineering phase, but if you want to hold your Science Officer roll (usually for target enhancement) for the Helm phase after the Pilot has moved, that's fine, just spoil your roll during the Initiative/Engineering phase.
And you guys are all doing fine.
No worries. I'm trying to avoid launching into full explanation mode as I absolutely love subsystems in RPGs. (I loved Mass Combat and Group Chases in Pathfinder)