[Outpost III] SFS 2-00 Fate of the Scoured Stars God 1-2 - GM Xain (Inactive)

Game Master Xain

Welcome!

This table is part of the Outpost III SFS 2-00 Fate of the Scoured God multi-table special. Please make sure you are signed up for this table on the Outpost III sign-up sheet. The game cannot start before Mar 30 but feel free post in the OoC Discussion before then. As this is a multi-table special a fast pace will be especially important.

Chronicle information

Please provide the following information:

Player name:
Character name:
Organized Play# & Character #:
Faction:
Day Job Credits Earned, or note if you have none what other activity you are performing.

At the appropriate time, I will ask that you also post your slotted boons. That will happen after the game starts. There are a number of boons recommended for this special.

Character Profiles

Please have a profile header displaying a brief overview of your character's current status. At minimum it should include current/maximum SP, HP, Resolve, EAC, KAC, & saves.

In the character profile, please include a complete stat block. If you have your character sheet on a different site, please have a link to it.

I highly recommend the following template but it is not required.

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.

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.

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.

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. GM's are teople poo so please do not be afraid to question if I have made a mistake. One of the advantages of PBP is it allows some time to research rules questions.

Greetings!

I spoke with the online VL who suggested I come over to help fill your table. I've already GMed this (and played it at a higher Tier), so I'll leave any in-game decisions up to the group. I'm actually bringing a 4th level PC, but with the three of us the APL is still 2.3 (and with a 1st Level Pregen it'll be exactly 2.0)

Player: Nefreet
Character: Sauros
SFS ID#: 66548-703
Day Job, DCI Tenure: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16
Boons:
• [Faction] Second Seekers (Jadnura), Improved
• [Personal] Scoured Stars Survivor
• [Promotional] Promotional Reroll
• [Social] Deep Cultures Institute Tenure
• [Ally] Duskmire Allegiance (Yetis)
• [Slotless] Scoured Stars Veteran
• [Slotless] Scoured Flora
• [Slotless] Knack for Investigation [X][_][_][_][_][_]

Happy to also offer any assistance I can!

Glad to have you Sauros! Hopefully the other two will introduce themselves shortly and you can also discuss your preferences for a pregen.

My only preference would be to have something that can make up for Sauros's lack of Starship Combat skills =(

Hello all! Brand new character for me here. Been joking about making a Morlamaw Envoy so here he is...

Player name: Joey Martin
Character name: Boris
Organized Play# & Character #: 73425-704
Faction: Wayfinders
Day Job Credits Earned, or note if you have none what other activity you are performing. No day job.

Still finishing him up. Will have him posted up before we start.

OhMyGosh, I was literally just statting out my Level 5 increase and put down Morlamaw as my next language (since Sauros speaks a bunch of aquatic languages). What a perfect in-character reason to study it!

Cool!

Um. Level 5? I may be mistaken but I think this is supposed to be a 1-2...
Not that I won't be happy for a higher level tank, er I mean Vanguard...

I'll be level 5 after this adventure.

Long story short, there were only 2 players signed up for this game, and I was the only player signed up for subtier 3-4, so the tables got combined.

Weird. Thought I had replied here. Oh well. The gist of it was:

Thanks for playing! Glad to have you!

:)

Player name: Abraham Z.
Character name: Shaan Poloo
Organized Play# & Character #: 100198-701
Faction: Wayfinders
Day Job: none

Hi everyone. I'm an experienced PF1 player and GM, but still very new to Starfinder. I've tried to make a pretty simple character but I'll still probably need some guidance from time to time and I apologize in advance for any rules goofs I may make. My profile should be up to date so please feel free to have a look and give me any suggestions you may have, either for now, or for the future of the build. Looking forward to playing this with y'all!

So you've got a soldier, vanguard, and envoy. There was also preference for a pregen that is good at starship combat. I know who I'd pick but I'll leave it up to you guys.

Looks like Raia?

Boris can alternate between Captain/Engineer, Shaan is our Ace Pilot, I'm +5 Gunnery, and Raia can alternate between Engineer/Science Officer.

Then outside of Starship Combat she can roll Computers, Life Science and Physical Science, which we don't have otherwise.

EDIT: Happy to create and control the NPC if it helps you out ^_^

Yep, Shaan can handle piloting or gunnery and not much else. He's pretty lacking in skills generally. But he'll hit stuff for you.

Yes, I was going to ask if anyone would like to volunteer to run the pregen.

Roger!

Fyi, my father is in hospice and he's taken a turn for the worse and I'll be driving back north to try to help on Tuesday. My posting is likely to be irregular for the next several days. Thanks for your understanding and please bot me as needed.

Understood, real life and family come first. Do what you need to do, and stay well.

You're welcome to roll for each of the preparation missions, even if you don't have an appropriate chronicle, which is to be expected at low tier. Also feel free to use aid another (which you can do untrained as the DC is only 10), just declare that you are aiding when you roll. As a general rule, I'm not picky about the order of aid and primary rolls in PbP.

Charli Poshkettle pops into the thread. "Hey, we had an Aid Token and boosted it. It carries a First aid boost! We thought you could make use of it!"

Awesome! Thank you, Charli!

FYI: Table GMs have been asked to think of us poor 3-4 player tables first (us and one other I believe) when passing Aid Tokens, so use them often!

Not that I expect there to be any starship combat in this mod (lol) but we should probably discuss roles. Boris has a decent diplomacy (+8) and not much else. Engineering is at +5 and his attack bonus would be a massive +1...

There is Starship Combat (and potentially a couple). That was one reason we chose Raia.

Boris can alternate between Captain/Engineer, Shaan is our Ace Pilot, I'm +5 Gunnery, and Raia can alternate between Engineer/Science Officer.

Which ship would you like to Captain?

You may also want to keep Fleet Positions and their effects in mind when selecting missions. I didn't share this earlier because the tracker didn't exist yet.

Borris your input?

Sauros do you still and to let the dice decide?

Raia and I are fine with whatever the Captain decides!

Good thought. We should try to stay away from the Jinsul fleet with less than a full table. Since we'll only have one gunner, may as well go with the Pegasus to have a better chance of that one good shot.
That's my opinion... usually any group i've been in grabs the Drake for the extra firepower so....

I used to regularly drive two hours north, south, east or west to find a game, plus my own city and online, and I came to find regional variance and assumptions fascinating ^_^

One city would gripe about a class, one city favored one ship over the other, one city all the spellcasters did the same thing. Then drive to the next city and it's all flipped!

Combination of charismatic GMs/players and a well-balanced system, is what I chalk it up to.

Heh. Agreed. I am fortunate to have 3 nice cons within an hours drive from me spaced out nicely over the year. SFS is hugely popular at one, middling at another and almost non existent at the third.

Now, I'm still hoping this mess is cleared up enough for the next Con at the end of May to happen...

Probably won't be. Yesterday's CDC guidelines suggested we'll need to isolate until June to minimize deaths.

Ah. But i'm in the Carolinas. Our leaders want the states to be open more thant he president does. :)

But sadly, you are probably correct.

Just a quick check in to let you all know that my father is nearing the end I think. Thanks again for botting me as needed. I'll post in gameplay again when I can.

Just looking back through the discussion, I see it looks like Shaan is the pilot. I will give him some time to post if able and if he has not by the time everyone else has posted their rolls for this round we can bot his piloting checks and move both ships.

Hey, all. I just received word that my work is closing permanently and I'm being laid off. I suspected this might happen, so I wasn't caught too off guard, but it still sucks to say goodbye to something I've been doing for fifteen years.

The next X amount of days will probably be a mess as I file for unemployment and get my resume updated and start applying for new work, so please bot me if needed. I'll try to check in every night.

Copying and pasting that message to all of my PbPs, but extra apologies for this game, since we're already bare bones.

Well. Trying times indeed. Shaan, take care of yourself and your family. Sauros, get started on that ASAP for sure. Sadly you are not alone in that circumstance. We'll figure this out.

Tough times for all. Real life comes first, everyone knows. I'm also happy to slow the pace down a bit for a few to hopefully give Sauros and Shaan more time to post if you are able, despite this being part of a special. This table has been keeping great pace so far, already contributing to 2 of the 5 scout missions and I am confident you will contribute to this one as well. The way specials are setup, if every table is pulling their weight none should complete all the missions. We have so far been keeping up with GM Hmm's table and she is known for running fast paced PbP games.

My father passed peacefully earlier this week and I'm now back home. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic, we couldn't have a funeral and I have to self-quarantine from my child, so it's a strange way to mourn.

I'm just starting to get plugged back into my PbP games. I'll try to catch up on the thread for this one tomorrow and post in the gameplay thread to be back in the swing of things. Thanks for botting me so far and I hope it hasn't been any inconvenience.

Sorry for your loss, and the extra difficulties these times impose on an already difficult event.

We are (hopefully) finishing up a starship chase, so the order of movement and stunts have been fairly unimportant.

Gosh, sorry for your loss. And this pandemic truly is making us rethink our habits. Hopefully your family can start finding a new normal.

This has been rough on a lot of people but I feel you've had much more than your fair share. I wish there was something I could do for you.

Here's an internet hug for you.
/hug.

Ok, I'm finally getting caught up now. But I'm afraid my relative lack of knowledge of the Starfinder system is catching up with me. It looks like we're in starship combat? Can someone advise me about what - if anything - I'm supposed to be doing right now? The only starship combat I've done so far was my one other time playing SFS on PbP, and I can't say that I really got the hang of it.

And, Sauros, I'm so sorry to hear this. Such awful times right now. Sending you good thoughts.

Also, not sure if it was noticed but Shaan has the following boon slotted:

Ch. 2: Defender of the Fleet: Pick 1 option: a) Finest Computers: improve starship computers by 1 step (from mononode to duonode, or from duonode to trinode). Or upgrade computer's bonus by +1 (to max of +8); b) Finest Engines: increase speed of thrusters by 1 step (can't upgrade beyond what that size ship can have); c) Finest Weapons: when rolling dmg, reroll any dmg dice with a result of 1 on the die.

I never picked an option because I don't really have the rules knowledge to have a sense of what they mean or which I would likely prefer, but if the GM will allow it I'll pick one now (if y'all have an opinion) and it can apply to this current combat?

There is another Starship Combat later on so pick whichever one you feel Shaan would find most interesting ^_^

That's a great Boon and they're all useful.

I'll probably choose thruster speed - seems like it goes with Shaan's piloting shtick - but what does mononode vs duonode vs trinode mean?

It involves upgrading the Starship's Computers.

Got it - thanks. Yep, confirmed that I'll choose thruster speed.

Finest engines increases the speed of your thrusters by one step. In this case from M10 to M12. A very useful boon in this chase. Unfortunately M12 engines also impose a -1 penalty to piloting. (Almost irrelevant in this particular combat so far. It also would not affect piloting in a Drake, as the Drake would go from M8 to M10.) I should have been subtracting a -2 for the glitching power core but I forgot. Unless Raia patched it somewhere and I missed it.

Ah, thanks, makes sense.

sorry the damage comes off your SP first as normal, I can see where putting -5 HP could have been confusing.

Ok, that's what I thought, but I thought maybe some creatures have abilities where they go straight for the hp. Thanks.

To my knowledge radiation and poison go straight to HP.