The Dire GM's [SFS] #1-07: The Solar Sortie (Tier 1-4) (Inactive)

Game Master CanisDirus

Discussion thread for The Dire GM's table of SFS #1-07: The Solar Sortie (tier 1-4)

My "Table Rules" -

0 - RL > Game. No other rules trump rule 0! :D

1 - I'd like it if everyone posted once a day Mon-Fri. Friday night through Sunday night is eh-whatever (I am in US Eastern Time, for reference). I'll try to post when I can over weekends, but I know people have lives and won't always be online, so no worries.

2 - If you don't post in the middle of an "action" scene for a day, you get skipped once (or botted if your action would be super obvious or you leave a note to me or another player "proxying" your character). If you don't post a second time, you get "botted" by me to do something simple (usually just attack or aid another). If we get into the 3-5 range, I'll probably drop you a line off-list to see what's up. If it goes on too long...well, I hate dropping people from games, but it unfortunately happens :(

3 - When you've got a saving throw to make, roll that first before posting anything else.

4 - Feel free to roll perception and sense motive whenever you want, and if you have a reroll, feel free to use that anytime as well.

5 - Have fun! Rule 5 trumps all other rules! :P

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Also, please post the following information in this discussion thread:

Player Name/Alias:
Character Name:
Character Level:
Organized Play # / Character #:
Perception Modifier:
Initiative Modifier:
What is your favorite color:
What is your quest Day Job (if any) Roll:

After the briefing and initial info/culture checks, I'll ask you to slot boons and such, but until then - the above is all I need.

Thanks very much, and look forward to running this scenario for you! :)

Player Name/Alias: Betty / Incendiaeternus
Character Name: Kima Taligos
Character Level: 1
Organized Play # / Character #: 95342-701
Perception Modifier: +6
Initiative Modifier: +1
What is your favorite color: purple
What is your quest Day Job (if any) Roll: n/a (I believe)

Player Name/Alias: Steven / PaleDim
Character Name: Darkrunner-42
Character Level: 1
Organized Play # / Character #: 272301-701
Perception Modifier: +5
Initiative Modifier: +5
What is your favorite color: Yellow. NO Bluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuue.
What is your Day Job (if any) Roll: N/A

Player Name/Alias: meloriel
Character Name: Julakesh Starfist
Character Level: 2
Organized Play # / Character #: 276820-701
Perception Modifier: +4
Initiative Modifier: +0
What is your favorite color: Red and purple!
What is your quest Day Job (if any) Roll: HA! Julakesh has no job. Being awesome takes up all her time.

Thanks for the invite, Elektra!

And, hello again, PaleDim! Fancy seeing you here! Haha.

@ GM: Hi, there. FYI, Julakesh just finished a scenario and is waiting on her Chronicle. She'll also be hitting level 2, so her profile is in the process of being updated. It will be done within a day from now this post. Thanks!

Welcome, one and all!

I know at least half of the folks here are coming from OutPost games, so no rush! As Eddie Izzard likes to say, "relaxed and groovy" is what I try to go for.

As a note I forgot to put in my initial post - when I run this scenario in person, I have a bit of a soundtrack playing, which I'll also try to have here (using Youtube and other sites to do the actual hosting/playing)! I'll try to remember to mark which links play sound (for those who check their PbP games from work and such), but just in case I forget, there's a blanket statement for GM liability purposes! :P

Yayy Julakesh! :D

There's a tiny chance some of these numbers will change depending on how many credits Kaylee gets on the chronicle sheet I'm waiting on for her (same one as Julakesh) but most of it will be just this!

Player Name/Alias: Elektra
Character Name: Kaylee Kanta
Character Level: 2
Organized Play # / Character #: 57894-702
Perception Modifier: +5
Initiative Modifier: +3
What is your favorite color: Red
What is your quest Day Job (if any) Roll: Profession(mechanic): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14

Player Name/Alias: meloriel

Character Name: Julakesh Starfist
Character Level: 2
Organized Play # / Character #: 276820-701
Perception Modifier: +4
Initiative Modifier: +0
What is your favorite color: Red and purple!
What is your quest Day Job (if any) Roll: HA! Julakesh has no job. Being awesome takes up all her time.

Thanks for the invite, Elektra!

And, hello again, PaleDim! Fancy seeing you here! Haha.

@ GM: Hi, there. FYI, Julakesh just finished a scenario and is waiting on her Chronicle. She'll also be hitting level 2, so her profile is in the process of being updated. It will be done within a day from now this post. Thanks!

Nice. Can't wait to see what *this* character is like :)

Amazing is what she is. Haha.

Player Name/Alias: Matthew Vertz/Sigma Mu
Character Name: Sigma Mu
Character Level: 3
Organized Play # / Character #: 269516-701
Perception Modifier: 0
Initiative Modifier: 3
What is your favorite color: Green
What is your quest Day Job (if any) Roll: I'm using True Savior of Tasch boon.

One more to check in, and we're good. I'll post a pre-briefing soon so you can all get acquainted in-game, and then off we go! :)

Player Name/Alias:Evertz/Ytchkn
Character Name: Ytchkn
Character Level: 3
Organized Play # / Character #: 274151-701
Perception Modifier: 5
Initiative Modifier: 1
What is your favorite color: Heliotrope
What is your quest Day Job (if any) Roll: I'm also using True Savior of Tasch boon.

Julakesh and I haven't gotten our chronicles from outpost yet just fyi.

Nice. Can't wait to see what *this* character is like :)

She and Danicka are practically twins, I know... Haha.

A lover to puters?

Ahahahahahahaha. I need a while to stop laughing before I can respond again.

You're welcome!

Julakesh and I haven't gotten our chronicles from outpost yet just fyi.

Hrm... would you two like me to wait a bit before the briefing, than?

I'm cool if you want to do it now.The only things that should change for me are some gear maybe!

Sorry don't get to Starfinder as much as I like, so had to get reacquainted with the character again.

No worries!

This table is officially "relaxed and groovy" :)

Julakesh's Slotted Boons are:

Ally - None
Faction - Wayfinder's Champion
Personal - None
Promotional - None
Social - Faction's Friend
Starship - Hero of the Stars
Slotless - Gibran Linguist, Marked Field Agent (Society Subdermal Graft Augmentation), Star Sugar Heartlove!!!, Starfinder Insignia

Full details for each are on my profile.

Social - Faction's Friend
Ship - Automated Defenses
Slotless - Spellgem Cache, Marked Field Agent, Star Sugar Heartlove, True Savior of Tasche, Starfinder Insignia, Ghibran Linquist,

Social - Faction's Friend
Slotless - Ghibran Linguist, Starfinder Insignia, Marked Field Agent, True Savior of Tasch, Tattoo of the Starfinder

What faction boons are Sigma Mu and Ytchkn utilizing, if any? :-)

Were both using Wayfinder Champion.

Hey, guys. My power's going to be down tomorrow. Bot me if necessary (with great panache!). Thanks.

Faction - Wayfinders champion
Social - Streed cred: Absalom station
Starship - Automated defenses
Slotless - Marked field agent, Star sugar heartlove!!!

Personal: Starfinder Society Subdermal Graft
Social: Faction’s Friend

Boons
Slotless
Marked Field Agent: Society Subdermal Graft
Star Sugar Heartlove!!!
Faction
Dataphiles Champion

And Dataphiles champion

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whats the syntax/tags for getting the bold green text w/ dice rolls?

Click on "Show" under the post it will show you, encase it's still bugged. Take out the spaces in the brackets.

Bold [b ] text [/ b]
Italics [i ] text [/i ]

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Thanks!

Wow looks like I missed out on a bit going to bed early, will strive to stay up a bit tonight to RP.

Just fyi, having a bit of a minor medical thing + rough evening, but I'll be back to normal posting by tomorrow afternoon at the latest.

Sorry guys, it seem everytime I play SFS the dice absolutely and totally hate me completely.

I'm hearing from multiple people that it seems this week is a little rough on multiple people, so remember rule 0: RL > Game. NO worries or stressing about this scenario! You are a fun bunch to GM for, so if you want me to take my time a bit more to account for busy stuff on your end of the screen(s), just let me know!

At the very worst I can always catch up after 5pm (US/Pacific). it's been a busy couple of weeks for me, but I'm not feeling dragged along... yet?

No worries if we need to slow down a bit for you guys. I don't mind.

Lol. "For you guys". Pure Julakesh ;)

I'm hearing from multiple people that it seems this week is a little rough on multiple people, so remember rule 0: RL > Game. NO worries or stressing about this scenario! You are a fun bunch to GM for, so if you want me to take my time a bit more to account for busy stuff on your end of the screen(s), just let me know!

It's just been weird, I got server goblins two days in a row, and I learned after last time just go away and come back and hope some wayward adventurers have slayed them.

I should be good after today (well... and then after memorial day weekend because we'll be out of town without internet access).

I meant it way nicer than it sounded, I swear. Haha.

I know, I couldn’t resist though :P

Lol :D

Sigma and I are going to the lake tomorrow through Monday. We'll have spotty internet at best so probably won't be able to post until Tuesday. We'll try to pop in if we can but chances are pretty slim. Feel free to bot us or whatever needs to be done. Have a good weekend!

Have a good time!

Yar, have a fun time! I was just about to update things, but I'm totally cool with us taking it easy this weekend! :)

We're back!

Starship combat in PbP! It can be a little nuts, but the last one I ran went surprisingly smoothly so I'm hopeful that it can here too!

I have uploaded Starship role sheets to my PbP Folder on Dropbox. I also uploaded the stats for the Drake in that same folder, although these both also appear in the Starfinder Society Roleplaying Guild Guide (pages 37-42).

Even though in-game you're being jumped by two fighters, you can take a moment here in the Discussion tab to figure out who wants which ship role (since you would have done that on your flight from Absalom Station to Brilliance, just in case you were attacked en-route).

Once you're all set, here's how I like to run ship combat in play-by-post (copy/pasting from my other PbP) -

GM Instructions for Starship Combat: Because this is PbP and Ship combat can be somewhat slow even in person, I'm going to allow everyone to declare actions and make rolls at once. However, in copying another great GM's idea that I've seen, I'm going to ask that all of your dice rolls be kept behind [spoiler ] tags. When declaring your actions, though, please write those so your fellow Starfinders can see them (to allow you to work together with what each other are doing), and also feel free to post as many contingencies as you'd like, using a similar format as below.

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Example:

Phase: Helm
Role: Pilot
Action: If our ship is forced to move first, I will attempt the "Evade" maneuver to increase our AC/TL and then try to get around very wide to the "south" of target X, making sure our front arc is facing it. If we can move second, I will instead attempt to increase our maneuverability to accomplish the same thing while making sure to not end up adjacent to the enemy.

Let me know if you have any questions. Otherwise, select your battle stations and prepare to blast your way out of danger!

Important note: Something I forgot to mention...I leave this coming Tuesday for the Origins Game Fair where I'm GMing Wed-Sun. This means that I will be offline from June 12th until June 17th. There is an outside chance that we can finish this before that, but that will depend on how quickly ship combat begins, and how well (or poorly) the dice treat you. I will tell you that this is the final encounter of the scenario, though!