The Dire GM's [SFS] #1-01: The Commencement (OutPost I) (Inactive)

Game Master CanisDirus

I have a +6 piloting and +2 to attack

piloting +9, +4 attack. any other relevant skills?

For the race itself, only piloting and gunnery.

Just so you have it as you decide who will take which role, here are the vehicles available to you!

Hey all. I unexpectedly had to go out of town. I'll be able to post tomorrow. Thanks and talk to you soon.

I'm thinking for the sake of efficiency, I'm just going to roll a bunch of attacks for now, so we can just use them in order. Buster will take a kinetic weapon and he will prioritize shooting Ratrod. The only time Buster will act differently is if someone else pulls ahead of us and Ratrod happens to be behind us. In that situation then he'll transfer shooting that one. But otherwise, all his shots will go towards Ratrod.

This is not the first time I've run this scenario in PbP and I have a way to make it run smoothly dice-wise :) . Bear with me just a bit.

Cool! Didn't mean to jump the gun, I just have family visiting this weekend and I didn't want to hold the group up. I'll repost my shots in the gameplay forum.

No worries! It's also on me for not posting while I was driving all day yesterday heh.

You can keep your dice results from the post here if you'd like.

Unless someone says otherwise, I'd say that Darkrunner should pilot, I'll be a gunner

I'm cool with that.

If I understand correctly we have 6 people and 5 guns? I am only +2 to gunning but if that's good enough for a kinetic weapon, I'll use that if its not I will just sit it out. If I don't hear in a few hours either way I will fire a gun.

Kallus will pilot Lemgem's Junkracer. I'm going to roll Piloting and a Single Shot each round, plus her bonus to speed, correct?

Kallus: Correct

Tyrone: Correct, and that works fine for me.

Note: I do need to know who is on the Energy weapon. So far I know Buster is on a kinetic weapon and Tyrone is thinking about a kinetic weapon, but Brob and D-474 have just said "weapon" without anything more.

Also, because I am not at home until Sunday, I won't be able to tabulate the results until Sunday or Monday, BUT, once I am home it should only take me an hour or two to plug all the numbers into my Excel sheet and get the whole race posted!

D-474 will will be on the energy weapon since story wise that is he would prefer.

Due to an unexpected car issue, I'm not getting home until tomorrow night at the earliest (assuming all goes well with the mechanic *sigh*). Will keep you updated if I'm delayed longer than that. Thanks for understanding.

I'm home and would love to post...but my computer has looked like this https://photos.app.goo.gl/TBGzIzg0z6Eiz7Rp2 since I turned it on once I walked in the door a couple of hours ago. If it's not back to normal by tomorrow I'll risk a hard reset and go from there.

Darkrunner - important question for you as pilot. When (if at all), would you want to try using your Overload Engine power? You don't have to use it if you don't want to.

Ideally as the final burst to pull ahead and win. Hopefully by then we’d have disabled opposing racer weapons. I feel like using it too early you’re just asking to get shot at.

I haven’t looked at the spreadsheet yet but I’ll be interested to see which of our decisions made the difference.

Well, a lot of the decisions are made on the front-end, specifically what you're improving. I played this the first time with a 4-player group. One person wanted to focus on doing sabotage (and got caught), another wanted to improve weapons and armor, I was focusing on diplomacy, and another did various improvements. We had a rough time on it.

I think that too many options are given for improving the racer, when speed and maybe weapons are most important. Trying to improve EAC, for example, is a lot less valuable.

I concur with Brob's assessment, to a point. Too many options allow tons of variables, not all of which are ideal. That said, because this scenario is evergreen and endlessly replayable, being able to have every junk race be totally different is somewhat refreshing :)

Here's the first junk race I ran in pbp - PbP Gameay VI Link - just in case you're curious to compare or something :)

As for the armor, it's up to you all how to decide who gets it, so unless anyone else says anything, Kallus will end up with it.

I hope you're all having fun with the game so far!

Yeah, things are going fairly well :)

Kallus can have the armor.

Definitely having alot of fun. This and one other session are my first forays into Starfinder, so I'm still getting into the change of pace from pathfinder.

I think I need to build a rolodex of trick attack RPs :P

Yeah, this is my fourth Commencement and every time we've done things slightly different. I like adding guns because 1)you need a kinetic gun to hurt Ratrod, 2)It gives more players something to do.

I'm partial to boosting the EAC up a little bit because Ratrod has an energy weapon and he pretty much always shoots at the party. In one of my runs we had something like an 800 ft. speed, but we were also getting hit multiple times a round. We almost always had at least a -8 on our runs, so were often only going half speed.

For the new identity...

Death certificate: darkrunner would prefer the approach of associating her record with an unidentified corpse with a computers check (he is a hacker, after all). He has decent bluff, but somebody with better might help there.

New alias: He could help setup the new alias with culture, but my last roll wasn't great. I'd prefer to reroll it. Darkrunner get's no diplomacy bonus, so would defer there. Finally, he could provide the computers check to forge the final documents.

Since we're drawing close to the end of this scenario, I think it's a good time for our Boon rolls!

You win a boon if you get a 1 or a 20, and my SOP is to roll you all in alphabetical order and then put myself last. Good luck to everyone!

Buster Blitz: 1d20 ⇒ 17
Captain Brobdingnagian : 1d20 ⇒ 19
D-474: 1d20 ⇒ 20
Darkrunner-42: 1d20 ⇒ 4
Kallus Harridan: 1d20 ⇒ 16
Tyrone the Barathu: 1d20 ⇒ 6
GM: 1d20 ⇒ 8

1d2 ⇒ 2

D-474 wins a "Free Captains Affiliation" boon!

In order to qualify for your prize, D-474, please send me a message with your email address!

If you don't want that boon and might be interested in trading it, also let me know! ;)

For this part, how many checks do we get to make?

Each of you can make one roll towards the two parts to this task, either attempting a check or aiding another.

:)

Just FYI - this is our last dice-rolling encounter for the scenario. If anyone has a reroll that they would be thinking of applying to their day job check, go ahead and roll that sometime soon-ish? Thanks! :)

I looked and I couldn't find where or if I did a Dayjob roll.

Profession(Musician): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27

...That'll do, pig. That'll do.

I hope you all had fun playing this scenario! I've just submitted my reporting sheet, and will get chronicle sheets posted for you later today!

It was fun! I posted a question in the game section though... still learning the differences between PFS and SFS.

Thus ends my first starfinder scenario. It was a lot of fun! Thanks!

CHRONICLE SHEETS ARE POSTED!

Once again, it was fun GMing this scenario for all of you! I'll leave the gameplay and discussion threads active for a few days if you need me for anything. I'm planning on running a table of #1-07 in the next week or so and I believe I have 1 opening (last time I looked), so if you're interested, let me know!

Take care, everyone!

Thanks for running!

It was great! Thank you for GMing!

Thanks for running things :)

My pleasure :)

With the weekend about done, I'm going to mark this game as completed and inactive tomorrow. Feel free to shoot me a message if you need me for anything related to it. Thank you all again for playing, and take care!