Been there, played that. Half alive streets is a good one though. I recommend it to anyone who hasn't played it.
Everybody will get it next round.
Thanks for the evasion roll, TR. After I posted and left my computer, I realized that I hadn't rolled evasion and wanted to get it in there before GMW adjudicated the round.
I've got a very creative meta-idea for getting out of this fix. GMW would hate me.
Oh, GMW, are there conditions to disengage?
Hmm. Nope no conditions to disengage (assuming I'm understanding the question correctly)
A few bonuses to remember:
Bonuses:
Fitch (Ears)
Fitch shows the PCs some of the inner workings of the Master of Stars, which help the PCs better understand other starships. Once during the adventure, all the PCs’ can gain a +4 bonus to any non-gunnery skill check during the same round of a starship combat.
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The PCs can force the crew of an enemy ship to take a –2 penalty to all nongunnery skill checks made during the round. The use of this ability must be declared at the start of the starship combat round.Celita (Anasi)
Pleased with the PCs’ review, Celita outfits the Starfinder fleet with better weapons-tracking software for targeting jinsul ships. Once during the adventure, the PCs gain a +2 bonus to all starship combat gunnery rolls, and that attack does not consume ammunition in the case of a weapon with the limited fire property.
If you want to use it this round (which we've just barely started...) Fitch's first bonus would be useful...
That roll is actually a modified 1 because Power Core glitching :( Brace for impact?
You had a -2 from the glitch and a +2 from the aid token, so the roll the 11 looks correct.
And yeah, we're going to retroactively add in two of bonuses you earned at the start of the game.
You all get Fitch's +4 to each non-gunnery roll this round only. Same with the extra +2 from Celita for gunnery. After this round they are both done.
eijel, I completely understand how you're feeling about the dice roller. I've hit many unbelievably cold streaks myself. I had one character, a PF 1 rogue, his luck seemed so consistently bad that I statted out his first fifty or hundred rolls. His average roll didn't look too bad; it was something like 8 or 9; but he had something like 1 twenty and no 18s or 19s over that span. I was doing victory dances whenever he hit at all.
Anyway, he finally had one awesome combat where he completely out-fightered the party murder machine.
Then lapsed into another round of bad luck.
Sorry, that wasn't as encouraging as I meant it to be.
But I am really sympathetic. I had a caster who would only cast non-dice based spells, because of how the roller seemed to treat him. I had a SFS character who went an entire scenario and scored only one hit.
That's a good looking Half alive streets party, GMW.
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Now that's one solid round of Starship Combat!
If this isn't over after they attack (for us), I hope we can pull another just like this.
That's a good looking Half alive streets party, GMW.
My PC in that table has quite the track record of looking like a complete chump due to terrible dice rolls. I hope his curse doesn't carry over from Discord to here.
Do tell....
Hey GMW, how'd the other crews make out in the combat?
How about that double KO?
I think I've come close a couple times, after long slogging fights when we've just squeaked out a victory.
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It was the Sunrise Maiden first battle, from the Dead Suns AP - I was GMing.
Probably due to lack of experience with the system and terrible rolls from both sides, after a couple of hours we were so exhausted with the combat that the two ships just stood parked in front of each other and making gunnery checks until they both were disabled.
It was rough. Fortunately, by the next combat they already could upgrade the ship and start stuffing it with heavy weapons on the turret mounts, so it was never an issue again.
I haven't had a chance to look at how the others did. I know one table ran through three combats before heading to the planet, and several others were struggling. It seems to have come down to how well the table was set for starship combat.
It was the Sunrise Maiden first battle, from the Dead Suns AP - I was GMing.
Probably due to lack of experience with the system and terrible rolls from both sides, after a couple of hours we were so exhausted with the combat that the two ships just stood parked in front of each other and making gunnery checks until they both were disabled.
It was rough. Fortunately, by the next combat they already could upgrade the ship and start stuffing it with heavy weapons on the turret mounts, so it was never an issue again.
Sounds rough.
I haven't had a chance to look at how the others did. I know one table ran through three combats before heading to the planet, and several others were struggling. It seems to have come down to how well the table was set for starship combat.
Thanks, I was just curious.
And when did Iteration-177 gained divine powers? I remember him as an NPC in a starfinder party...
He's always had them, just not revealed them before now.
TR, we're going to save Staar. Just get stabilized.
Peff, you're right. Spell selection is much more nerve wracking in SF. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's just that we don't know the spell list. Maybe it's that so many spells are situational.
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Biohackers can't really use class abilities to heal at range at level 1-2 (Anasi can heal up to 4 HP but has to be adjacent).
One thing that I was unclear on is if you can administer healing serum via an injection (and thus an injection weapon at range). The injection weapon property says "This weapon or its ammunition can be filled with a drug, an injury poison, or a medicinal compound," but the healing serum text specifically says the serum is "imbibed". Anasi would also have to move to see Staar, and I don't think (like Sonomi said) they could move and pull out a serum in the same move and then injet as a standard. In theory Sonomi could have, but it's unclear (to me) if healing serums work via injetion weapons.
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The Injection Expert ability specifically states that you can use a serum with an injection weapon. So I would say, fire away!
"When you hit an ally with such a weapon, you can avoid dealing damage to that ally, while still affecting the ally with the biohack booster or inhibitor, drug, medicinal compound, poison, serum, or other substance that was loaded into the injection weapon. When you fire a weapon with the injection special property and you have multiple types of ammunition loaded into the weapon,
Gambled that with the hurt Staar and everyone put on it, that an extra blaster shot might put it down.
Looking like that gamble is going to cost me.
We've got healing serums. An envoy would come in right handy about now. Why wasn't there a healing boost from one of the VCs?
The Injection Expert ability specifically states that you can use a serum with an injection weapon. So I would say, fire away!
"When you hit an ally with such a weapon, you can avoid dealing damage to that ally, while still affecting the ally with the biohack booster or inhibitor, drug, medicinal compound, poison, serum, or other substance that was loaded into the injection weapon. When you fire a weapon with the injection special property and you have multiple types of ammunition loaded into the weapon,
Good catch.
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It was pretty, I need a diplomatic word here, gutsy to go tackle the jinsul by your lonesome. I should have had that talk with Casey and you. :-)
I've got a feeling that this jinsul is hanging to life by a thread. We put it down and get Staar on her feet. Agreed that Staar probably needs to play defensively for a while. Necessary, but too bad.
Maybe examine the device and get a clue to what's going on.
I've also got a feeling that the tallest mesa is the most important. It's also high ground. We should charge it pretty quickly. We can fire down on the other jinsul from there.
Sugar! Didn't the dream monster have wings? High ground might not be an advantage against it. It might actually work against us.
Bad choices abound. Last night I had been planning just to run away. (guarded step then flee toward Second-1 and Casey with supercharging to follow next round) But in the cheerful light of morning I decided to double down on my, 'it's almost dead ' theory. ANd miss. ANd the cruelest cut -- the boards wanted to double post and in the second post I would have hit.
Well that just makes me feel more stupid. ;-)
For the love of Pete, somebody roll higher than 10.