[SFS/Shifty] The Vast Experiment (A) (Inactive)

Game Master Nik B.

I think critical hits work differently in starship combat. You don't double the damage, but if the damage is applied to the hull of the ship you get to roll a critical damage effect. Since the mining laser has the burrowing property there will be damage done to the hull. It also halves the ship's critical threshold so there is potential for 2 if not 3 critical effects to occur.

Confusing rules, what is the damage threshold? I've only heard of critical threshold.

Damage Threshold is a sort of 'DR' for ships.

Example

The colossal Azlanti death star can essentially bounce off anything that does less than 15 damage. If it does MORE than 15, apply damage normally.

It's so someone in a standard fighter can't just come along and...I dunno fire a torpedo down an exhaust port or something.

Gold - hahaha Cant StarWars in StarFinder.

Hey guys. I'm going out of town on vacation from Sunday through Thursday of next week. I probably won't check the boards and almost definitely won't be posting.

Feel free to bot Chorizal as necessary. You guys all know him well enough to know what he'd do in any situation.

FYI - I will be travelling for work Sunday and Monday and will not likely be able to post those days. If you need to bot me to keep things moving, please do so.

Something's gotta be off here. With a +16 to hit, they basically can't miss.

Even if Vyv was maxed out at 5 piloting ranks, that's still only an AC of 17?

Maybe I calculated incorrectly?

Hey guys, I'm sorry for ghosting you. I was on night float, working from 5 pm to 7 am every day with only 8 hours outside the hospital, all of which were spent sleeping. I'm only just getting caught up on everything that happened while I was away.

I'm also sory for disappearing there for a while. I went on a vacation where I thought I would have more free time to post, but I had way less time than I thought.

Also reading through the threads, we NEED to to have Chorizal take over with driving, that extremely low AC and TL will punish us. I think we also need to line up with their non-weaponized sides.

Is everyone ok?

We're slowing right down - just checking in :)

Maybe there's some confusion about what everyone's doing? My intention is that Chorizal switched to pilot leaving Rastar and Vyv to gun with the others continuing in the same roles they were already in.

But things seem to have slowed down around all the forums. Maybe it's a general end of summer (or winter, depending on location) slump.

I'm back! 54 hours of GenCon Online HQ, plus tons of family stuff leaves Rastar a tired boy.

End of winter here, bring on spring!

Also - GCO killing peoples spare time.

We're moving into the Australian Con Season. We have a con on a cruise ship I am wrangling for November aboard the Carnival Splendor - will be fantastic.

But yeah Vyv up then :)

And I completely missed that I was up for posting, HA!

EDIT: I also copied the stats from the previous discussion page here to the second slide and tried to update them with our decisions...

It would be great if we could get back to one post a day if that is possible. Con on a cruise ship? Has anyone ever done that before?

I believe this is the 2nd or 3rd time Shifty's done it that I know of.

Yep - me :p

It works really well, takes a bit of work, but we were the first dedicated RPG con I have seen going on a cruise.

So sorry, I got buried in a bunch of life stuff and just lost track of all my online games. Catching up now!

I thought things would lighten up after my night float, but I’ve been working 13 hour days and this completely fell off my radar. I’ll try to do better, but after this scenario I may need to step away for a bit until my schedule becomes more manageable. Sorry for the inconvenience.

13 hour days sounds terrible.

We'll miss you, but understand.

All good mate, I know the feeling - I have had protracted periods of this sort of 'lifestyle' over the last couple of years with the fires/floods/covid and completely get the feeling of burn out and fatigue/

I'm taking skill focus in Piloting as my next feat.

I'm going to be at a convention
Reapercon) all weekend starting tomorrow and Monday is Labor Day so I probably wouldn't have been posting again until Tuesday.

Argh do I wish Vyviane was level 6 so she could perform the Orders action as captain, but she does have a +14 for intimidate, and can't fail an encourage check (unless a nat one is an auto failure.)

I'll go science officer next round so I can use J'Shun's starship boon

We should continue to have two gunners though if we can.

Natural 1: This occurs when you roll a 20-sided die as part of a game mechanic and the result on the die is 1. A natural 1 is always an automatic failure if it’s rolled for an attack roll or a saving throw, even if your bonuses might otherwise make it a success

Only specifically fails for an attack or or save, not any other kind of check.

@Chorizal, we might be in position to ram them next round since we will probably lose the initiative roll off.

@Chorizal, we might be in position to ram them next round since we will probably lose the initiative roll off.

I'll re-read the rules but I think we have to win the initiative to ram. We have to end up where they end up.

If I can get it lined up and get the initiative right, I'll do the ramming speed maneuver which will vastly increase the damage done by the ram.

Umm...so apparently I forgot to mention I was traveling this week. OOps. Still not home until thursday, but I'm going to try and catch up and post tonight.

Its ok, we're back in the party's pregerred environment of crawling through space hulks hunting for bad guys.

I'm expecting a four armed insectoid alien to come running at me to steal my DNA at every moment.

Good thing you're in the lead.

Would you be is disappointed if it was a ravenous driftdead intent on eating your brain behind the door?

Hey guys, I'm going on vacation starting tomorrow and won't be back until Wednesday. I probably will not post in that time.

Feel free to have Chorizal continue punching himself in the face or trying to slaughter the rest of the group until I get back!

I'm so sorry for the lack of posting. I hit a week where I was busy and stressed and the only game I was able to keep up with was a table of the special I'm running and then I just did not have the energy or headspace to get back to the boards. I should be okay from now for a bit, but I think I will need to cut back tables in the future as I was over the number I can handle when stressed. I'll read up on what is happening and get something posted ASAP.

I'm so sorry for the lack of posting. I hit a week where I was busy and stressed and the only game I was able to keep up with was a table of the special I'm running and then I just did not have the energy or headspace to get back to the boards. I should be okay from now for a bit, but I think I will need to cut back tables in the future as I was over the number I can handle when stressed. I'll read up on what is happening and get something posted ASAP.

This happens way more often than you may realize. As a VO for the online region, I talk with at least 2-4 people a month that find themselves overcommitted. It is so easy to do with play-by-post/discord) games. Take your time to unfog your mind. We can hold the fort without you for a bit, if needed. Personal and mental health are FAR more important than rolling a few dice. If you think talking about it would help, feel free to send me a message here, or on dicord at bigrin42#2231. Even if that message is just "Go away" ;)

Problem is I'm not (well wasn't) overcommited for normal times, just when I'm stressed. Which I can sometimes foresee and sometimes can't. Luckily some of the games have finished and settled so that list is shorter.

Glad you're back, J'Shun needs someone to keep him in line.

FYI - I will be at AVL Scarefest from Thursday through Sunday and will not likely be able to post much (if any) during that time. If need be, please bot me.

Is this ability drain or ability damage?

Drain.

This thing is seriously bad news.

So these rules apply?

Ability Drain
More severe than ability damage, ability drain reduces your ability score permanently. Note that this affects your score directly instead of penalizing your modifier, so 1 ability drain changes your modifier if your original ability score was even, but not if it was odd. Modify all statistics related to the ability’s new value. This might make you lose skill ranks along with Resolve Points, Stamina Points and other bonuses gained from having a high ability score. If you take ability drain in the middle of a battle, the GM might have you treat it as damage until after the fight so recalculating your statistics doesn’t slow the game. Ability drain doesn’t heal naturally but can be healed by the restoration spell.

In general, if any ability score is reduced to 0 from ability drain, you fall unconscious. If that score is Constitution, you instead immediately die.

Yep. Your wisdom is now 6, and one more shot like that will leave you permanently unconscious until someone can hit you with a restoration. Treat it as damage for now for ease of play, but you may be in deep trouble if it hits you again.

We're all going to die here...but not before going mad.

I got a plan in mind. I hope it works.

Does it seem like the minions have a similar resistance to our weapons as the Amalgam?

Sorry for the lack of posts, and thanks for Botting Vyv! Just a note on her last round of actions. She'll still have to be on the ceiling as that's her 'down' until she takes a move action to set it as the wall or deactivate them, and can't take special move actions within a trick shot.

Falcon boots

I got a plan in mind. I hope it works.

Does it seem like the minions have a similar resistance to our weapons as the Amalgam?

All of these are incorporeal undead.