The Empire in Exile Discussion thread. A real discussion thread :-)
Hey crew! Slowly reading some of the materials sent me.
I was waiting to see what you would come up with there PC formerly known as Gunnar :-)
I will move us along now and just introduce you into the campaign when you are done with the character creation process.
I'll be shutting the old thread down now.
Forgot to dot in over here.
Gunnar, I can still help out with your character if you need it. I got kind of wrapped up in my new independent contracting work, and then my girlfriend was down for a while after being out of the country. However, let me know if you have any questions about building something specific and I can try and help.
I only have the force and jedi source material so I need a race to be and I need some help with any multi class or optimization ideas.
I'll send you the Race excerpts today :-)
Hey guys, this is a blanket notice going out to all of my games here on the boards. While I am thankfully outside the path of Hurricane Harvey, current projections for Hurricane Irma are sending it barreling up the coast of Florida to sweep much of the eastern coast of the United States. As I live directly on the ocean, I'm already gearing up for a potential evacuation at the moment. While hopefully all I get is a lot of rainfall, it's likely that by the time Irma hits Maryland it will still be at least a Category 3 storm, if not worse. I will have my laptop and such in the case of an evacuation, but I likely won't be able to post with any real schedule or frequency. Moreover, given that I live more or less directly on the ocean, it's more likely than not that if I'm forced to evacuate there will not be a home for me to come back to after the storm passes. The island is not built to withstand that kind of storm, and the last time something anywhere near that deadly swept through, it made an inlet where there used to be a road. My point being, if I'm hit by the hurricane it's very likely I will be off the boards for a long while, or at least my posting will be sparse and intermittent.
I'm sure I'm not the only one following the storm on the news, but I'll do my best to keep everyone updated on my status. It's likely the storm, if it hits me at all, will make landfall here early next week. If you see on the news that the storm has hit Maryland and you don't hear from me, that's probably why. I just wanted to put this message up now as I'm prone to losing power during storms and I didn't want to leave anyone hanging.
Thanks for understanding,
Jon
Good luck, you and your family stay safe!
Sorry for the delay, I've PMed our former Jedi to see how goes the new PC ;_0
Also, anyone who did not level to 9, proceed with doing so!
I was helping him with some stuff, but I haven't had a ton of time. I'm looking for some good support character options using Force powers and such. I'm looking for things that'll let him heal us and do things like give combat boosts. Basically, a Star Wars bard. I just haven't had a lot of time to do so.
Thankfully it looks like the storm may be heading inland, away from me, so I should be able to help him out tomorrow.
Ok here he is so far, needing some skills take a look and make corrections/suggestions please
Ok here he is so far, needing some skills take a look and make corrections/suggestions please
I'll try and give him a more thorough look see tomorrow, from an RP standpoint though, I will bring him into the game tonight!
I am gonna take a look at the spice, but I also have a different question.
Would it be possible to find the required components to upgrade both my weapon, and also Garrett himself, on this station? Since we have some extra cash I'd love to scrounge up the stuff to give him some good upgrades to all his equipment and such. I can also upgrade other people's weapons. armor, or even the ship before we go if that's an option.
I am gonna take a look at the spice, but I also have a different question.
Would it be possible to find the required components to upgrade both my weapon, and also Garrett himself, on this station? Since we have some extra cash I'd love to scrounge up the stuff to give him some good upgrades to all his equipment and such. I can also upgrade other people's weapons. armor, or even the ship before we go if that's an option.
You are on an Imperial Star Destroyer, the pride of the Emperor in Exile's Fleet so yes absolutely :-)
I will keep the other scene going until you post your next set of actions Garrett.
Rai, I got your PM and will try to get to that review of the submission tonight.
I have it in my head that we have 100,000 credits each to spend. Is that correct? And Garrett, any suggestions on equipment modifications you could create or install for Errin, either armor or weapon-wise? My Saga Edition-fu was rusty to begin with, and the game updates so infrequently I have to go and read up on the rules all over again every time I want to take an action. On top of that, the equipment rules are spread across half a dozen different books ...
I have it in my head that we have 100,000 credits each to spend. Is that correct? And Garrett, any suggestions on equipment modifications you could create or install for Errin, either armor or weapon-wise? My Saga Edition-fu was rusty to begin with, and the game updates so infrequently I have to go and read up on the rules all over again every time I want to take an action. On top of that, the equipment rules are spread across half a dozen different books ...
No, I'll go back and check but not that much. You can requisition though and see if the Emperor oks your request :-)
We received 100,000 total. Nothing mentioned that Gunnar took his portion of the money when he left, and considering he was more interested in finding the lost temple it certainly makes more sense that he would leave immediately. That would presumably mean that the four original crew members had 25,000 each to spend on whatever we choose. We can also pool that money for ship upgrades too, obviously.
Errin, I can always plug in some Superior Tech options from Scum and Villainy. Garrett already installed some upgrades in himself for some stat bonuses and I'm planning to upgrade all of my weapons as well. The other big thing I'm planning to buy is some gas grenades and a flechette launcher; while the game isn't PvP anymore it's still possible we'll have fights were more conventional weapons are not as useful. I actually wanted a flechette launcher at the beginning of the game, but I didn't have the money. Since it's firing physical projectiles it can't be deflected by lightsabers at all, and gas grenades automatically move people down the condition track on a failed save. Since I'm immune to the gas, I can then move in and deal with whoever is in the gas cloud without any issues.
Those Cortosis Gauntlets look a must-have :P
If you have the chance Garrett, some Superior Tech for Rennah's Lightsaber and Armor would be great too. Specifically Superior Protective Armor (+2 Reflex Defense) for the Imperial Knight Armor and Superior Damage for the Lightsaber (+5 damage).
If my math is correct, that should take my expenditure to 5,500 credits.
(I kinda want a new crystal for the lightsaber, but I can't find one I want, and it doesn't feel like I've "earned" it yet. As I've yet to pick up any bodies to carbonize :P )
How many skills do I get, and any suggestions besides use the force?
Between Baseball on Saturday and Back pain last night my time on the Boards was limited, I'll egt to you this week Rai Zon, sorry for the delays! Good news is, don't need stats to RP :-)
OK, so you received 100,000 Credits total. Split 4 ways that's 25,000 credits as Rai Zon was not part of that mission. You also have 20,000 credits of requisitioned equipment you may take of course, that stuff, to the extent possible, may be expected back post the next mission. Rai, you can take 35,000 of requisitioned equipment as needed.
Okay, so $25k each to keep, plus $20k (each? as a team?) in requisitioned equipment. I'll take a look at options.
Yep 20k each requisition.
45K in total? Hmm. Not bad, though I think I'll skip on using most of it. I have basically what I need. So Rennah will buy those options (if Garrett can install them) and "bank" the rest for a rainy day.
Here's what I'd like to get for Errin:
Superior Tech upgrades:
Armor - Superior Protective Armor (+2 Reflex Defense, 2,000 cr)
Double-barreled blaster carbine - Superior Damage (+5 damage, 2,000 cr)
Blaster pistol - Superior Damage (+5 damage, 2,000 cr)
Integrated ion pistol - Superior Damage (+5 damage, 2,000 cr)
Shockboxing gloves - Superior Damage (+5 damage, 2,000 cr)
Other equipment:
Double-trigger modification for blaster pistol (double bonus from Careful Shot, 800 cr)
Security kit (used to open doors, etc., 750 cr)
Electro-binoculars (1,000 cr)
Spent: 12,550/25,000 credits
Requisition:
x10 thermal detonators (8d6 damage, 2,000 cr each)
Cause why not?
Here's what I'd like to get for Errin:
Superior Tech upgrades:
Armor - Superior Protective Armor (+2 Reflex Defense, 2,000 cr)
Double-barreled blaster carbine - Superior Damage (+5 damage, 2,000 cr)
Blaster pistol - Superior Damage (+5 damage, 2,000 cr)
Integrated ion pistol - Superior Damage (+5 damage, 2,000 cr)
Shockboxing gloves - Superior Damage (+5 damage, 2,000 cr)
Other equipment:
Double-trigger modification for blaster pistol (double bonus from Careful Shot, 800 cr)Security kit (used to open doors, etc., 750 cr)
Electro-binoculars (1,000 cr)
Spent: 12,550/25,000 credits
Requisition:
x10 thermal detonators (8d6 damage, 2,000 cr each)
Cause why not?
Approved.
I'll just roll the Mechanics checks for this here, in order to keep it simple. Unfortunately, I can't take 10 and none of you can actually HELP me by RAW, as you need Tech Specialist to aid with Superior Tech rolls. If our GM wants to waive that, I can take 10 and with a successful Aid Another, I get the +2 needed to succeed at a DC 30 check without rolling, which means no risk of possible failure. I can roll all the checks here in Discussion if necessary, or if Shadow wants to let you all roll Aid Another, I'll just need you to do that; each successful Aid Another check is an automatic success for me.
On a side note, I'm hoping to get my gear upgraded as such:
Superior Tech:
Garrett - Superior Ability (Dexterity)
Sniper Rifle * - Superior Damage
Sniper Rifle * - Superior Accuracy
Flechette Launcher - Superior Damage
Vibroblade - Superior Accuracy
* Gaining two bonuses via the Prototype Gear template in KotOR
Tech Specialist:
Garrett - Enhanced Intelligence
Droid Upgrades (Scavenger's Guide to Droids):
Internal Grapple Gun
Interference Generator
Silence-Bubble Generator
Sensor Countermeasure Package
Weapon Detector
New Gear (Rebellion Era Campaign Guide):
Flechette Launcher
Flechette Canister (x16)
Requisitions:
Gas Grenades (x15)
It comes out to a total of 20,000 of my actual cash. I think I'll save the rest for later at this point and invest it in something later. I'm thinking of looking into some armor and stripping out the Reflex bonuses to get something else useful for myself... Shadow, would you say I'd still need the Armored Defense talent if the Reflex bonus from the armor is +0? I figured I probably do, just wanted to ask. If so, my next level in Soldier will be to pick that up.
Here's what I'd like to get for Rennah:
Superior Tech upgrades:
Armor - Superior Protective Armor (+2 Reflex Defense, 2,000 cr)
Lightsaber - Superior Damage (+5 damage, 2,000 cr)
Total spend: 4,000/20,000 Requisition. Keeping the remainder 25,000 in cash, stashed in an account. (Realy want to see about saving up for a Predator-class Starfighter. Can't be an Imperial Knight without it. :P
I'll just roll the Mechanics checks for this here, in order to keep it simple. Unfortunately, I can't take 10 and none of you can actually HELP me by RAW, as you need Tech Specialist to aid with Superior Tech rolls. If our GM wants to waive that, I can take 10 and with a successful Aid Another, I get the +2 needed to succeed at a DC 30 check without rolling, which means no risk of possible failure. I can roll all the checks here in Discussion if necessary, or if Shadow wants to let you all roll Aid Another, I'll just need you to do that; each successful Aid Another check is an automatic success for me.
Take 10 and assume a Tech on the ship can aid another well enough for success.
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All purchases and requisitions approved!
Mechanics for sure.
Use Computer.
Knowledge Technology.
Pilot.
That would round out the skill set I think so you could aid the living and the robotic i a crisis situation :-)
Folks, we are going to do a time jump here soon to Chapter 2 just an FYI. The spice scene is, you may have guessed, the lynch pin...
Kaldo is going to keep his credits, and not request anything
I'm currently out of action as some unfortunate road works have cut our internet cable. Feel free to bot Rennah till my return. (Hoping within next 7 days, but I honestly don't know)
A heads up for all my games; I'm going to be camping from Monday to Wednesday, so I won't be able to post. I should have Internet on my phone, but posting from my phone is a real chore (even ignoring the logout issue I still have on mobile) so I will be silent for a few days. I may keep up if I can get Paizo to reliably work on my phone, but if not I'll catch up when I get back.
Yeah, what is the issue with being logged out? I'm experiencing it on desktop and mobile. Really annoying.
No idea, but it's affecting my devices too.
But, on the plus side, at least I have net again!
It was something wrong with a new version of the site's code, from what I understand. They launched a new codebase to fix some old issues from the site, but then this new issue kinda cropped up; however, more issues popped up with the new code and so they made another new base for the site that only fixed immediate and super-pressing issues that caused serious problems, I guess.
It was something wrong with a new version of the site's code, from what I understand. They launched a new codebase to fix some old issues from the site, but then this new issue kinda cropped up; however, more issues popped up with the new code and so they made another new base for the site that only fixed immediate and super-pressing issues that caused serious problems, I guess.
Yep, likely a QA issue as something that drastic should likely have been caught but then again, what company has resources anymore?
Update now.
Yeah, I'm not sure what the exact issue was. I'm guessing it was probably something hidden or interactions between several different bits of code that they didn't notice; I don't have a ton of background in IT, but that's usually how these kinds of things happen.
However, it is being resolved at some point. They've said they were working on it, which is good.
Hey guys, I'm going to take a break from the boards for a while. I know I haven't posted in a long time, and I apologize for that. I'll probably be able to post again in the new year.
Enjoy the holidays. :)
RL been busy for me lately. I'll be updating the game Friday.
Happy Holidays Kaldo.
OK, thread updated.
I'll try to get to updates with less time in between but horrors of RL have yet to let go of me. I'll try to update more frequently though.
I'll not replace Kaldo, if he returns great. If not, he'll be the pilot in the background.
No problem at all. Been busy as wel (with both my dayjob and the freelance writing) sometimes time just disappears.
It’s pretty late at night as I am writing this. I’ve been through a significant amount of struggles through the past two years (actually through the past 41 but especially the past 2). I’ve had worse stretches of time before but I believe that these past struggles were due to my own lack of maturity and self-awareness at the time those events took place.
Likely those events were necessary for me to experience to survive the events of the past two years and get through them as well as I have. Physical ailments, getting older and requiring more sleep, bankruptcy, and ultimately divorce. You know life is not going swimmingly when going to work feels like a vacation.
Regardless, when I first started getting involved in PbP on the boards it was a chance to play, finally! I’d been DMing for the bulk of the time that I’ve played table top that I was enjoying being able to be a player for once. Then with so many damn flaky GM’s I just started running games and well, things snow balled from there.
Life was fairly stable at the time the normal ups and downs. Then about two years ago, I started getting into PbP as a way to escape reality. Sort of the same ways drugs were casual and enjoyable for me as a teen and ultimately led me as close to suicide as I ever want to get again.
I am not saying that PbP has made me suicidal but I am saying that I recognize that I was using PbP as a coping mechanism to avoid a bad marriage. PbP did NOT lead to the failure of my marriage but it did contribute to my ability to tune it out.
I make a decent living but between bankruptcy and divorce I’ve little to show for it (well except for this killer book and RPG collection ). I could point the finger at my soon to be ex-wife but when you point one finger at a person, three more point back at you. I could have prevented things from becoming this bad and I chose not to. I did it, ironically, because I believed that if I had the marriage would have ended and ended badly, so much for best intentions. I am not going to second guess myself, what happened happened. As divorces go, this one has been rather amicable as we have put our daughter first and ourselves second.
Being married to someone who makes as much if not more money then you (depending on sales that year) places one in a position to “take it easy” when it comes to being aggressive about making money (well it placed me in such a position anyhow perhaps because making money does not move me).
Early on in my career I had an opportunity to become a premiere M&A Financial Services Tax Attorney in a Big 4 Firm. It’s a big deal and potentially a lot of money but I did not really want it because I knew I would be working a lot and traveling a lot. My ex agreed that I should turn it down as she did not want to be married to a workaholic and that was not who I wanted to be anyway. Nor do I want to be that person now. (In yet another twist of irony, she has become a workaholic, funny how things turn out).
I do not regret the decision though I do lament the loss of income that such a decision would have brought to me.
All of this rambling nonsense is leading to the point of this post, I need to work more. Not at my current job nor do I want to get a new job, I actually like being there as odd as that sounds (to me). I need to get a second and perhaps a third job, side gigs. At 41 about to turn 42 with no retirement and no savings for my daughters college, I can no longer hope that the ex’s business will come through as an investment plan. Even if it does, I will not be the beneficiary of that largesse. I need to make up for 11 years of being “comfortable” simply working.
Thus, it is with heavy heart that I am announcing that I will need to close down a number of the threads I run and withdraw from a number of the games I am a PC in.
I suppose this decision will not be a surprise to many of you as my posting rates have been abysmal since these events took a turn for the worse (in some respects the better to be honest) since Thanksgiving of 2017.
I am not generally a person that feels remorse or guilt but I do feel a level of disappointment with having to make this decision. I apologize for disappointing many of you who put work into PCs relying on my consistency as a GM/DM over the course of the past several years.
My plan had always been to run a hardcore dose of RPG’s until my daughter was a teenager and then, spend my free time writing the novel I had been working on since before she was born. I had hoped that over the next 9 years or so I could wrap up most of these campaigns and the few that remained would be more manageable.
Life has not worked out that way.
The good news is that I will still run several games but the current load is too much for me to handle in this transition. The further good news is that I believe this will allow for those games to move along much more quickly.
By tomorrow I will have made my decision as to which games I will keep and which I will shut down.
Thank you all for taking the journeys with me despite the lack of length or resolution of so many of them.
I will still be around just in a diminished capacity so this is not goodbye just a “be seeing less of you”.