The Scoured Stars Invasion GM Thread (Inactive)

Game Master Tyranius

Reporting in.

Long flight today but I am back in the u.S. and working on getting caught back up.

Hopefully the final timeline change :)

We have yet another timeline change with the latest outage killing two more days. Though luckily since the adjustment was agree upon it open some of our days back up.

• Part 2 will begin on September 04
  
• Part 3 will begin on September 10
  
• Part 4 will begin on September 16
  
• The Special will conclude at the end of the day on September 28th

This has been a rough go with everything going on. Not only to our community of PbP gamers but to all of Pathfinder / Starfinder as folks can't download anything for their own conventions.

Keep up the great work. I am skimming through your threads and everything looks great. Keep up the positive spirit and tell your players to hang in there. There is always light at the end of the tunnel.

WOW. Hmm's table has three successes. Very impressive. Time for the rest of us to up our game!

Redelia caught up to me! She has three too!

One thing that has sped us up this time is using our hangout as a primary discussion thread. My guys like to chat in it, and when I announce that I have made a Gm post, most of them seem to come on. They’ve also been eagerly telling me when the site is up — which I then did in GM emails to all of you.

Hmm

I love writing Ziggy!

Since we have 5 succeses on the Planet of the Dinosaurs, Starship Graveyard and City of the Ancients, and active teams in those. Does this mean that if we finish another mission we move elsewhere?

Once a mission in Part 1 has 6 successes then it will close that location. Once Part 2 kicks off then a new mission will open for each mission that was closed in Part 1.

If a location closes and your team is still completing said mission. i.e. half way through it as it closes then continue on. You success will count towards a success in that respective location in Part 2.

Of course you always have the choice of using the Resolve each to leave via R-TEP though not much of a point as it counts as a future success.

Got it, was just asking because my team wants to go to the Dinosaurs next. Thanks for the rundown Tyranius.

I am in need of a replacement GM to fully take over my 3-4 Table. Due to my wife's recent injury, she broke her leg in two places, I need to spend time with her, care for our two children while she recovers and assume what she does I will not have any extra time.

I am saddened to ask as the table I have are a bunch of amazing people but due to the nature of what has happened I cannot give my players a good show and do not want them to be dragged down. Yet the show must go on of course for them.

Thank you very much for the opportunity to run but it just seems it wasn't in the stars for me to run this between fire evacuations, site outages and a broken leg Desna has no more luck for me.

I have some messages out. We will make sure your table is covered and taken care of. Take all the time you need. That sounds painful.

No worries Poblano. I'll take over for a bit. I'm only available until late next week, but Tyranius has plans. bwhahaha

Hugs, Poblano, and we'll see you back on the boards when life calms down a bit.

Now then since we have three areas all at the highest one will close at random.

Area Closure : 1d3 ⇒ 1

Planet of the dinosaurs it is.

Tyranius, my table just finished the Starship Graveyard mission and I believe that now with 6 successes, it is closed out while opening up the Cracked Mirror evacuation mission?

Correct consider it closed. I’ll update here in a couple minutes once I get back to my PC.

GMs, I've set up a private channel on the Discord server for us to talk if there is another site outage. If you are on Discord but can't see the channel (it will be under events) please PM me either here or on Discord with your Discord name. If you're not on Discord yet, come join us, we had fun while the site was down!

Just checking in here. I'll be available as an additional Backup GM for the special, as needed.

Thanks Cellion! Folks will post here if and when they need a day or so covered.

GM Cellion, I will need my table at 5-6 covered on Sept 14-16 (SkålCon!!), would you be available?

Or any backup, for that matter.

Thank you.

Question: I know that a success on a closed mission in part 1 gets recorded against its part 2 counterpart. But, I don't see that this precludes the team from taking on that mission?

Correct you can still play the mission.

I'll be available to take over from Sep 14 through 16 Silbeg. As we get close, feel free to get in contact with me with the details.

Thanks!

my game play thread.

@Aerondor: Let me know when you want to switch off backing up Poblano's table. I'll be available starting this evening.

I've just finished up their part 1, so jump in when you want. I'll let them know the current options so they should have made a choice by the time you are there.

BTW I've passed on the aid token from Peppers table.

I've also added a column to the aid spreadsheet that shows the date that table last passed over a token. That maybe helpful when looking for which tables have not had a token recently.

Thanks!

Could someone help me clarify what this text from Evac Mission 5 means?

For the purpose of determining penalties to Piloting checks, the

vehicles’ item level counts as being equal to the lowest level in that
subtier (for example, the item level is 3 in Subtier 3–4).

Does this just apply to the modifier that's used to set the DCs for the Pilot Action checks, or does this refer to the vehicle penalties players take on Piloting checks in the vehicles?

If anyone wants a head start on Evac Mission 5, I highly recommend stealing from Mjolbeard's posts on Poblano's game. He did a great job laying them out.

Thanks, Ewok! I'm glad to share. It took me a good bit of reading and pre-writing last night to feel even marginally comfortable with it. LOL!

Does this just apply to the modifier that's used to set the DCs for the Pilot Action checks, or does this refer to the vehicle penalties players take on Piloting checks in the vehicles?

It is just a penalty to the players piloting check.

For example the speed up maneuver reads:

You attempt a Piloting check (DC = 17 + your vehicle’s item
level) to get ahead, moving forward one zone immediately on
a success. If the vehicle encounters any hazards or similar
effects that occur upon entering a zone (see page 285), they
trigger immediately. The vehicle later moves forward one
additional zone in the chase progress phase, even on a failed
check, unless you failed the check by 5 or more.

So instead of the vehicle baseline being item level 6 across the board it is adjusted by the tier.

Got it! That's what I was thinking, but wanted to make sure I wasn't make this more difficult than it had to be on my players.

Thanks!

I know how you feel. Here I was hoping for maybe a single Starship Combat. Instead the scenario contained 4 and a Vehicle Chase!

No time like the present in learning the new chase rules hehe.

I can't even imagine the chaos this had in realtime F2F.

The vehicle rules, you mean? Yeah, at my table at Origins that part was a disaster. I don't know if our GM had even read the vehicle rules. We had to open up our CRBs to those rules and explain things to him.

Our team played through 4 starship combats at GenCon! We were Team Manticore. We drove Silbeg crazy!

I plan to steal Mjolbeard’s posts for Evac Mission 5, because that’s where my group is going next.

Also, I need a backup GM for SkalCon, Sept 14-16, if there is one available still.

Hmm

Haha nice!

Also, I need a backup GM for SkalCon, Sept 14-16, if there is one available still.

I'll find you one as:

Aerondor is traveling during that timeframe
Mjolbeard has officially taken over Poblano Pepper's table.
Cellion has committed to Silbeg's table during the same timeframe.

I have a message out to Ilmakis as well.

Keep knocking out those successes folks! You are doing great. If you happen to finish a mission today do not start up a Part 1 Recon Mission as Part 3 kicks off tomorrow and all Part 1 missions will close.

Lets see if we can up the posting rate just by a little bit and close out a few more of these missions! The bugs are coming soon :)

Part 3 incoming in 4.5 hours!

If we are still in the middle of a recon mission after that Part 3 announcement, do we finish it, or should we abort it?

I would R-TEP out for free as there is very limited time. And we have a lot of missions to close out still.

If you are at the very end of the mission. I.e. finishing up a little RP the clean that up quickly and mark the success. Otherwise hop on over to a new mission.

Hey all —

I am suddenly feeling SICK. Is there a Backup GM in the house who can take over a Vehicle Chase Scene? Or... Maybe I’ll finish it since they’re close, and let you take over something sensible. But I am feeling the need to crash now.

Hmm

@Cellion- Would you mind taking over that one?

I can certainly give it a go, though I won't be able to keep up Hmm's breakneck pace.

Hmm, let me know what you want to do (whether you want me to sub in for the vehicle chase or not). I will only be able to post later in the day tomorrow (say 16 hours from now), in case that affects your decision.

Cellion, I finished out the Vehicle Chase because that would be horrible to be dropped in the middle of as a GM. I’m going to get them started on their next mission and have you get started there.

I’m also going to add you to our Hangout, and give you access to our group’s shared google drive for the special so that you can have everything you need in one place. Then I’m going back to bed.

Hmm

For Evacuation Mission 5, (the vehicle chase), the Break Away DC is 27. The auto-pilot is far superior to my PC's, with a +9 after vehicle modifiers. That seems like a crazy DC. Am I misreading anything? Unless they're terribly lucky, they're going to ride alongside the beast the whole way...

EDIT: Its a +12, not a +9, but still. That's a hard DC.

That is a difficult DC as they would need a 15 on their roll to escape, though reading through the scenario multiple times it does not look as if it shifts with Tier unfortunately.

Though it is Tier 1-2 going against a CR 9 enemy. Best bet may be to slam every thing you have into it to try and do enough damage to scare it off.

Keep up the good works guys / gals. We have 4 days left for this part before the final phase. Let's try to knock out 1 more mission each before they all close.

The statblock is listed multiple times, I suppose it's only to account for the different damage it can take. It's on pages... 51, 56, yada yada.

EDIT: 51, 56, 62, 67. Yep, and compared line by line, they're all the same, it's only so it would appear on each of the subiers Statblocks.