Welcome!
I always do my best to run a friendly game. I want people to have fun and everyone to be able to laugh when something crazy happens.
This is part of a special so it will be critical that we run a fast game.
I really want everyone to be able to post at least once a day, preferably more. If you are going to be away from the game for a short period (such as attending a convention, on a short vacation, or needing to do some business travel), I would ask that you please post that here so everyone involved knows.
Chronicle information
In order to be able to generate a PFS chronicle, I ask that each character please provide me the following information:
Player name:
Character name:
Preferred station in Starship Combat:
OPF and character #:
Faction:
Day Job roll (or a note that you have no day job):
At the appropriate time, I will ask that you also post your slotted boons. That will happen after the game starts.
Character Profiles
Please have a profile header displaying a brief overview of your character's current status. At the least it should include current/maximum Stamina, Hit Points, Resolve Points, EAC and KAC, and saving throws.
In the character profile, please include a complete stat block. You may put it under a spoiler if you wish, but if you do so please put it under a single spoiler. I do not want it split across multiple spoilers.
If you have your character sheet on a different site, please have a link to it in your character’s headers. This allows me to pull it up from any post by the character, rather than having to go to the profile and from there to the external sheet.
If you want examples, the PbP GM Kit has the pregenerated characters done in BB Code. Use those as a general guideline.
Botting
Botting is when someone else makes a roll or otherwise does something on behalf of your character. Bot is short for robot.
Please include instructions in your profile and a general tactics in case someone else needs to bot your character. I highly recommend this include the dice expressions used for common actions. It is alright if you put this in a separate spoiler from the stat block, but once again please don't split it over multiple spoilers.
If there are resources you don’t mind being used up by botting, please say so. If there are resources you never want someone using, it is alright to say that as well.
If it makes you more comfortable, you could specify who you want to run your character when you can’t post.
In my experience, creating a bot structure can help with your own posts as well. Assuming you put complete dice expressions in the botting directions, it makes it easy to cut and paste.
Initiative in PbP
I will roll all Initiative checks for PCs and NPCs, sort them, and organize them into blocks. I will bold the names of characters that should act. I will take the NPC actions in order and reserve the right to delay an NPC in order to make them act with a group of other NPCs.
When it is your turn to act, please post. Do not wait for someone else to post just because they had a higher Initiative. If you know what you want to do but want to wait for someone else’s action to go off first, just say that.
Here is an example of how you could post before another player but have it go off after another player:
Sir Cumference waits for the elven mechanic Mister Oakleaf to get done firing his bowcaster before charging the Wily Snark.
I (and most other PbP GMs) do grouped Initiative in order to keep the adventure moving. In PbP people will have different posting schedules and often live in different time zones, Waiting for posts in order could make a single round of combat take days to resolve. Even in a normal game, that slows things down too much. In a special, you would never have time to complete anything.
Within the rules, it is as if everyone within the same Initiative block delayed until they could post.
Rules Questions
If there are rules questions, please post them in the discussion thread rather than interrupting the gameplay thread with rules debates.
In closing
Come join me for a fun and fast game!
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Player name: Mjolbeard
Character name: Desha Doash
Preferred station in Starship Combat: Captain
OPF and character #: 177216-704
Faction: Second Seekers (Jadnura)
Day Job roll (or a note that you have no day job):
Looking forward to gaming with you all! Now let's take the fight back to those jinsul jerks!
Alright, that is all of the players who signed up.
We only have four players, the other 5-6 table on Paizo only has five.
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Added in my Mysticism, forgot magic officer is now a thing, now that the character operations manual is out. Not to mention Chief mate with acrobatics.
Edit: if we have plans to keep our distance and/or get behind them, then magic officer for me, as I can extend the range of the weapons or give the pilot +2 to 70% of the time. Depends upon what numbers others have as it helps to post the modifiers.
Most Magic Officer tasks have DC = 10 + 1-1/2 × your starship's tier, so 19.
A +12 has you making that on a 7 or better, so 70% of the time.
You are Level 5, so you can’t do Mystic Haze.
Your options would be:
Eldritch Shot: Treat a weapon’s range as 5 hexes longer for one shot
Precognition: Give your Pilot a bonus on their check for who moves first
Scrying Use Mysticism instead of Computers to do the equivalent of the Science Officer Scan action. This last one has a different DC.
Also remember people can change stations at the start of each turn of Starship combat.
Just posted in Castamir’s to see if we couldn’t get two more people.
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Hey guys,
I'll join up :)
Uplifted Bear Melee Soldier (Guard)
Player name: James Hargrave
Character name: Teddington
Preferred station in Starship Combat: Gunnery
OPF and character #:258778-708
Faction: Exo-Guardians
Day Job roll (or a note that you have no day job): My Day Job is keeping you lot alive.
Welcome Teddington!
Glad to have another player. Please dot & delete in gameplay so your character shows up in the Characters tab.
Since he put in level 5 on the Outpost III signup slide, I am assuming that he just hasn’t updated his profile yet.
With the start less than 24 hours away, feel free to introduce yourselves to each other in gameplay.
You would be aboard the Master of Stars.
Also, please place your character’s avatar on the first slide. If you need help, just ask.
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Yeah I don't know how to add my avatar!
How I did it:
Selected the image to the right of your text, then copied it into my clipboard.Switched to Google Slides, pasted it into an open area on the first slide.
Resized it, cropped it to a circle. You can select the shape you want, I find circle and square with rounded corners (so you can still see where the lines cross on a map) work well for me.
Select the color of the border and the width.
Moved it to where I wanted it.
You can change around the cropping border and colors, no problem. Those settings come with any time you copy the image within Google Slides.
Hope this helps for anyone else trying to do this.
How did your 5th level character get a chronicle for that?
In any case, I haven’t played it but it isn’t listed anywhere I can find in this special.
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The problem with all those people you just named in gameplay, I think I meet very few.
Started him at level 2 with a certain boon. Here are all the chronicles, but not in order. Dead suns 1 and Against the aeon thrones 2, dms credit. Them softcovers have very few NPCS that the modules have. Played skittershot, so an npc gave this guy credit. 1-12, 1-13, 1-23, 1-33.
I see though 1-23 has one of the boons you mentioned, so a plus.
If you want, I can dig up pictures of each of them and add them to the slide decks.
The leaders of the various factions are described in the Guide.
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Gunnz boons:
Faction: Dataphiles, improved.
Ally: Heartfriend forever
Personal: scoured Starts Survivor
Promotional: t-shirt (reroll)
Social: First Skirmish
Starship: honorhound allies (hope it is as good as computational savant!)
And a number of slotless and unidentified ones (journey to the SS etc).
Please indicate if you have the Surviving Companion (Slotless) boon on your character.
It is unlikely I will care about other slotless boons.
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Boons
Exoguardians to gain rep
personal that got me to level 2
Surviving companion slotless
Star Monster slayer: starship boon-does stuff against enemy living starships.
Cedona (Ally Boon): You earned Cedona’s loyalty by rescuing the former Stewards agent from captivity within an Azlanti prison moon. The android mystic remains focused on the Star Empire, but you can call upon her (and her Akashic connection) as a non-combatant ally for other missions. Once per adventure while you have this boon slotted, you can spend a standard action to call on Cedona to cast one of the following spells: augury, identify, lesser remove condition, or mystic cure (2nd level). Each of these spells is treated as being cast by a 5th-level caster. You must spend 1 Resolve Point if you request Cedona casts augury.
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Problem with it being -708, almost no boons on this one that help.
I do have one though.
Faction - Exoguardians
Promotional - T-Shirt Reroll (and 3 novas)
Starship - Honorbound Allies
Personal - Ursine Heritage (The Uplifted Bear Race Boon)
Ally - Dream Whispers
Social - Live Air Celebrity (Got all of them available)
Since using the rewards from the preparation tasks requires group consensus, I would like the group to agree on how many must weigh in for me to consider it group consensus. Requiring everyone to agree works when everyone is connected at the same time. It doesn’t work very well and can really slow down a PbP?
Basically, how many players have to post in order for me to consider it consensus?
The fastest would be if any one player asks in gameplay, do it.
The slowest (and I do not recommend it) would be requiring all of you to agree.
Something more moderate is two weigh in and agree.
Figure out how you want to do it now, so there are no arguments later.
Thanks!
The problem with all those people you just named in gameplay, I think I meet very few.
I have added slides with the pictures and names of several people connected with the Starfinder Society. Although Iteration-177 isn't a member of the Starfinder Society, he has supported their efforts on a number of occasions and is a part of your current mission.
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The problem with all those people you just named in gameplay, I think I meet very few.I have added slides with the pictures and names of several people connected with the Starfinder Society. Although Iteration-177 isn't a member of the Starfinder Society, he has supported their efforts on a number of occasions and is a part of your current mission.
Thanks, I have meet them all, but this character on the other hand, knows very few, he is about to meet them all.
Looks like people are agreed to first 2-3 as being consensus.
I will interpret this to mean go if the first two posts agree, otherwise wait for a third so hopefully we have two votes that match. Tell me if that is not acceptable and give what you consider acceptable.
Ones I have played and remember:
1-05 First Mandate1-11 In Pursuit of the Scoured Past
For religious experience, I would add:
1-08 Sanctuary of Drowned Delights
I will post in the GM thread to try and get more.
Additional Interration-177 scenario:
1-31 Treading History's Folly
Additional Religious:
2-03 Withering World
HI, i have come to hmm call. I am confused by how the repetable works. I have a character who as done the middle, does that mean, i couldn't do again the middle?
HI, i have come to hmm call. I am confused by how the repetable works. I have a character who as done the middle, does that mean, i couldn't do again the middle?
The official tag from the scenario is:
Repeatable (Tier 1–4, Tier 5–8, Tier 9–12)
I interpret this as meaning you can play it once in each of those tiers, so that would allow you to play it three times.
You could not replay it with the same character. Each time would need to be at a different tier, so you couldn’t play it once with a 5th level character and then again with an 8th level character.
Does that make sense?
That mean i cannot Play it with my level 5. Flûte!
Wait i can ! She is a Jadnura faction!
Our group currently has an Aid Token. I have provided a link to the Aid Token description just below the map link for the campaign.
Boost it or use it!
Below is the effects with the adjustments for our tier figured in.
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Allied Offensive: A nearby Starfinder agent strikes a creature at the same time as a PC, increasing the damage dealt on one attack by 2d8. In addition, the target counts as flanked when targeted by any melee attacks until the beginning of the attacker's next turn.
To Boost: Succeed at an attack roll against an AC equal to an Average skill check DC.
Boosted Effect: +1d8 damage.
First Aid: A Starfinder agent restores 3d6 Hit Points or Stamina Points to each PC—each PC can choose which benefit to receive.
To Boost: Succeed at an Average Medicine check.
Boosted Effect: +1d6 HP or SP restored.
Remote Assistance: A Starfinder crew provides starship assistance from afar. Each PC receives a +2 bonus to all checks required by crew actions for 1 round.
To Boost: Expend 1 Resolve Point.
Boosted Effect: One member of the crew also gains an additional action, just as though the ship's captain had successfully used the orders action.
Timely Inspiration: A Starfinder agent provides the effects of an envoy's Don’t Quit improvisation. Each PC can choose one of the benefits available at 6th level; the effect lasts 1 round.
To Boost: Expend 1 Resolve Point.
Boosted Effect: Choose one PC; remove one nonpermanent condition instead of suppressing it.
Provide Knowledge (must be boosted): Gain the benefit of a successful Culture, Engineering, Life Science, Mysticism, Physical Science, or Profession check to identify a creature or recall knowledge; the difficulty (Easy, Average, or Hard) depends on the table granting the benefit. If the Starfinder fleet alone is providing the boost, the check result is Average.
To Boost: Succeed at a check with one of the skills listed above; the result of the check (Easy, Average, or Hard) should be noted on the Aid Token.
Provide Spellcasting (must be boosted): Gain the benefits of a beneficial spell cast by an ally as listed on the Aid Token.
To Boost: Cast one of the following spells and note your PC's name and caster level on the Aid Token: break enchantment, lesser remove condition, lesser restoration, mystic cure, remove affliction, or remove condition. Only these spells can be granted. Expending resources that produce the effects of these spells can also boost this Aid Token. If used via the Starfinder fleet, you must be able to produce one of these spell effects, even though doing so does not consume your resources.
I will allow it. Please repeat your boons with the change here, so that when I need to go collecting up the list of boons it is clear what has happened.