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While we wait to start, please allow me to lay out the ground rules, which are designed for fairness and consistency, while keeping the game moving at a pace to ensure we finish on time.
⚔ Please make it obvious what buffs you have active and what your AC is.
⚔ Miss is always low if a miss chance applies. For example, if there is a 50% miss chance on a melee attack, a result of 1-50 on d100 is a miss.
⚔ I roll group initiative and track character actions. Unless you state you are waiting for another to act, I will adjudicate those actions in the order they were posted as those posting later have the benefit of acting based on what’s come before in the thread.
⚔ You may delay to a later position in the initiative sequence by simply waiting until someone else posts. If you’re doing that, a courtesy post to that effect can keep you from being botted.
⚔ If I make a mistake, please let me know, and I will try to make it right. If it’s too far back, too complex to correct, or too minor to matter, we may have to accept it and move on, with the understanding that I will be fair and equitable.
⚔ I generally prefer PCs to roll their own saving throws, miss chances, and Attacks of Opportunity (AoO). It keeps the game moving, and by reducing my workload it means I may be able to make a quick post when I otherwise wouldn’t have had time.
⚔ I like a relatively fast-paced scenario, However, do be aware that my posting can be irregular. I find when a game loses momentum, the fun is quickly sucked out of it, so I will do my best to keep it moving.
⚔ As such, if you do not post an action within 24 hours from when I invite you to post, I reserve the right to take actions for your character (botting). However, because of my highly unpredictable and erratic work and sleep schedule, that 24 hours is not a hard limit by any means. I encourage, but do not insist, that you have some botting instructions and/or dice macros in your character’s profile especially if you have specific things that they always or never do in combat or have very complex dice rolls for combat.
⚔ If at all possible, please let me know if something comes up that prevents you from posting. Likewise, I will do my best to update you all if I will be much more than 24 hours before my next post.
I’m a long-haul international cargo airline pilot. Many of my work days are spent sleeping as much as I can right up to the wake-up call before a flight, flying one or more 8 to 16 hour legs, then falling into bed at the next hotel. My employer’s jets do not have wifi because the boxes we carry don’t need to check their email or watch movies in flight. So it’s not unusual for me to not be able to post for 30+ hours on occasion. However, when I’m not sleeping or flying, I’m off duty in a hotel somewhere in the world with no responsibilities, and that’s when I can post as much as I need to and keep the game moving along.
Questions? Just let me know. Let's have fun!
I'll be using this alias for the game, and will update the image and header once I know which pregen I'll be playing.
Dotting in, will pick an alias to use later, don't know which pregen I want when they come out.
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We have our players, and they just released the pregens in a pdf. They're all level 6, a fun level to play.
Here's the link to the pdf, but to summarize:
The Face: Aramesh Maager, a Spathinae (humanoid presenting colony creature) Envoy
The Muscle: Barat Oza, an ijtikri Vanguard
The Hacker: Kevan Bokoloff, an Uplifter Bear technomancer
The Thief: Catarina Jurado, an SRO (Sentient Robotic Organism) operative
Talk over the roles you want or don't want. I'll try to find/get/make some bb-code stats for your alias profiles as soon as I can.
Sweet, they are allowing us to play races that you would have to normally buy the boons for with expensive ACP or get from playing special scenarios.
I haven't played either an envoy or a vanguard, and given that these are mid-level characters I should probably stick with the operative or the technomancer.
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Sweet, they are allowing us to play races that you would have to normally buy the boons for with expensive ACP orget from playing special scenarios.
Acknowledging that you didn't reveal any spoilers, I'll remind those of you who know not to discuss this further and ask that there be no questions asked about this at this table.
But yeah, it is cool to be able to play races otherwise not readily or easily available. I know a guy that still has one of the old Uplifted Bear boons from before AcP. He hasn't built a character with it and won't trade it.
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As promised. Here's the link to a Google Doc with bb-code for all 4 of the pregens in one file, in the order presented in the pdf.
Issues:
Envoy: Short 1 language (not corrected). Note that Signature Item is from Tech Revolution, so I added the text since TechRev is not on AoN yet.
Vanguard: None.
Technomancer: I don't have AA2 in HLO so I don't have the Uplifed Bear. I had to build a custom race in HLO, and I can't be sure I got everything right. Please check it over. He seems to have 3 extra ability score points from the point buy than he should. I did not correct this, as I couldn't be sure it wasn't something I did wrong, and didn't want to invalidate the whole published build either way.
Operative: Short 1 language (not corrected), and ranged attack modifier is incorrect (fixed).
Note too that none of them have Engineering tool kits, even though all of them except the Vanguard have ranks in Engineering. I'm deciding here to assume that's an oversight, and each of them should have an additional +2 to their Engineering checks (not reflected in the linked document, so please fix when you build your alias). (Really? None of them bought a kit to do a thing that's kind of important to Thieves? I think the Dev's just forgot.)
@Darkeus, in the linked .doc, copy the stuff from the character you're choosing. Go to your Paizo Account page ... Messageboard Aliases. Click the Make New Alias button, and name it something future-proof like "Darkeus' PBP Alias." You'll paste the copied bb-code into the big Profile box after you create the alias.
I'll play with whatever is left. I need people to pick first and I'll get what is left over. The operative doesn't say how many credits are left on his credstick, what did he spend all of his credits, or did they make a mistake and forgot to say how much he has left over? I sometimes actually spend the pregens credits/gold and buy something good with it, a lot of good stuff for less than 200 credits or in Pathfinder 2e a lot of good stuff for less than 5 gold.
Edit: okay I see, I read from the PDF, but the google docs one shows he has no leftover credits.
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@Darkeus: 2 things left to do for the alias, plus one note about getting notifications.
Back in your Paizo Account page ... Messageboard Aliases, click the Edit button. There you can choose the image for the Alias. I don't think you'll find a Spathinae, so maybe just choose someone that looks Envoy-ish?
Then in the Profile where you pasted all that bb-code (yes, you did that part right), in the Race line put some basic info like the SP, HP and RP. In Classess/Levels don't put class and lavel. Instead put EAC, KAC, and saves. Then in Gender put basic bio info. Have a look at my envoy for reference if you like.
But note that you MUST put a blank space as the first character in both the Clasees/Levels and Gender line. I don't know why.
Lastly, if you use an RSS app, these threads are RSS compatible. At the top of this page, there's 3 orange RSS buttons, one each for the Gameplay, Discussion, and Recruitment threads. I use a simple little android app called Just RSS, and I use that app solely for my PBP game feeds. I get notified on my phone within minutes of someone posting to the games that I'm in. I certainly don't need to reply/post right away, but it helps to keep me in the loop. There's likely better apps, cause this one does have its quirks, but it gets the job done.
Once you create a character and post in the Game play thread, you will be registered in the Campaign. If you go to your profile and click on Campaigns at that point, it will list all the campaigns you have currently active, including which ones have new posts.
I'll take the technomancer.
I Will take the Vanguard, then. Good chance to get familiar with the class. Playing the muscle will be a nice change of pace for me.
That makes me the operative then.
Was able to claim the handle. :) Also, found a somewhat passable avatar image ...
Alright I think I did everything I need to.
I think I'm ready to go, too.
Looking over the character sheet for strategy, between my Entropic ally class ability and the Bodyguard/In Harm's Way Feats, and Attracting Shield/Intervene vanguard disciplines, it will make sense for someone to pretty much always be standing next to me. This is one of the most well-synergized pregens I've ever seen for Starfinder. Usually I find they have abilities they aren't actually built to take advantage of.
I've got Kevan's profile loaded.
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Annnndddd... We're off!
If you would, please connect to the slide deck via this link, the link at the top of this page, or in my GM Nomadical tag line. Then on Slide 1, please put your name under your character's token.
Yes, I could easily do this, but it ensures that everyone can get to and edit the slides before we get into combat.
Done, no problems.
ETA: I may be slow to post this weekend; I'm going to be at a local SF con.
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I guess it got buried in this post, but yes, if you're trained in Engineering, you have a kit. Please adjust your skill bonus to reflect it. I'm going on the assumption that it was an oversight by the Dev's that none of these career professional criminals had the kits they needed to do their jobs.
How about a trapsmith's kit (+4 to Engineering or Mysticism checks to remove traps)?
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They should not have left you with a penalty for not having a kit. The fact that they did it to all three characters that have ranks in Engineering makes this look like an oversight. So I am assuming you should have an Engineering kit so as not to be starting with a penalty.
If your pregen has credits, you can buy kits or whatever for other bonuses.
My ruling is simply that you all (except Barat Oza, the vanguard) have an Engineering kit at no cost and thus do not suffer the associated -2 penalty for not having it.
Alright, got logged into the slides. Sorry so slow today but I will be posting soon for sure.
Also had to dig to understand my skills better. Signature clothes are an interesting class feature. Right now they are on the Bluff mode of things.
I didn't want to make another alias. If I had to make an alias for each pregen I had to play, I'd have one too many, and I have too many already, so I reuse aliases I already have which is about 16 red aliases and change the stats and class and stuff every time I play another game. Most likely LNA-464 is taken, so I would just do LNA-464-1 or something.
Green society aliases I have over 50.
Also, sorry for pushes everyone into combat, I was afraid someone was going to roll a 1 or a 2 on stealth, so I was actually trying to prevent that from happening by taking him out before someone rolled low.
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Ah, that's why I suggested to Darkeus that he name his alias "Darkeus' SF Alias," instead of trying to give it a "normal" name. Then I use the and Bold tags together in the Gender tag line so the character's name stands out, like how I did with Jirelle's name here. It draws the eye to the character's name rather than the words "Nomadical's Pregen."
Though I don't understand what you mean by red and green aliases. What are the color codes?
Organized Play characters have green names when posting in any (AFAICT) of the Online Campaigns subfora. When posting, the default name color for non-OP characters is blue, but I think if you have Oladon's campaign tools plugin you can change that.
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As to posting contingent actions like what you did with Convincing Liar, sometimes it's easier to post that as a Spoiler.
Also, you can (and should) use the Preview button. I say should so that you make sure your formatting is correct. But you can certainly preview the roll and react appropriately. So for instance, if you roll a Nat 1 on a Reflex save vs a grenade attack, and you see that in the preview, you could add some RP text describing your reaction to the grenade's explosion that you know you failed at. Alternately, if you have a reroll available, you could just reroll the save and indicate that you're using your t-shirt reroll to do so.
And, yes, due to the move last year to nearly 100% online gaming, it's now accepted that "everyone" has a t-shirt, especially since there's no reasonable way to verify that for folks online. What that means is that everyone gets 1 reroll per game.
Since you rolled a 4 on the Bluff check, you should re-roll. For Convincing Liar, you have to make the decision based on the result of the roll, before you know whether or not it was successful. Your odds are probably better of getting a higher roll on a re-roll than on the expertise die.
As to posting contingent actions like what you did with Convincing Liar, sometimes it's easier to post that as a Spoiler.
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Also, you can (and should) use the Preview button. I say should so that you make sure your formatting is correct. But you can certainly preview the roll and react appropriately. So for instance, if you roll a Nat 1 on a Reflex save vs a grenade attack, and you see that in the preview, you could add some RP text describing your reaction to the grenade's explosion that you know you failed at. Alternately, if you have a reroll available, you could just reroll the save and indicate that you're using your t-shirt reroll to do so.
And, yes, due to the move last year to nearly 100% online gaming, it's now accepted that "everyone" has a t-shirt, especially since there's no reasonable way to verify that for folks online. What that means is that everyone gets 1 reroll per game.
Used the preview button. PbP is a bit more complicated than it needs to be on this forum lol. I don't need a reroll at the moment though. I have enough rerolls in my class kit.
I will reroll tonight. But yeah Just finding a lot of trivial things I have to get used to. I have done PbP for years without formatting or crazy stuff. Always worked.
There's definitely a learning curve, and it doesn't help that the boards have been basically the same format since I started posting here. That was...good lord, it's been 13 1/2 years. So lots of improvements have passed them by.
Sorry, got really busy. Will post as soon as I can.
Sorry to see that LNA's great trick attack damage probably whiffed, unless this guy's starting KAC is 16. The curse of the operative strikes again. ;)
Can you make a guarded step as part of a trick attack? The description of the trick attack ability seems to indicate that you're only allowed to move normally, and I don't know whether it's been clarified to allow other move actions. (I know there's some dispute about whether an operative with +1 or higher BAB can draw a weapon as part of their movement and make a trick attack, which indicates that the answer may not be obvious.)
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I always thought you could, as trick attack is part of your movement and 5 foot step is movement, if not, then I'll be back where I was.
Trick attack it doesn't specify only normal movement, 5 foot step movement is still movement.
A guarded step is a move action, though. I try not to use the 5' step term, to avoid confusion with PF1e where it's not an action.
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Correct. Guarded step is a move action.
Trick attack is a Full Action.
CRB pg 93 says under Trick Attack: "As a full action, you can move up to your speed. Whether or not you moved, you can then make an attack..." (emphasis added) Note that it does not say "you can take a move action."
CRB pg 244 says "A full action consumes all your effort during your turn, meaning if you choose to take a full action, you can't take any other standard, move, or swift actions that turn."
So you can move up to your speed as part of your Full Action, but that means normal movement, not guarded movement (a separately defined move action) nor any other actions that would count as Move Actions such as crawling, reloading, or standing from prone, for example.
There was previously some debate about whether you could draw a weapon as part of Trick Attack, but that got clarified in the most current printing of the CRB. You can now draw a weapon if you have a BAB of +1 or greater as part of "moving up to your speed." (Notice the similarity of words.)
So, LNA can be where he was (please move the token back, I don't remember exactly where it was), or I can take an AO.
Thanks for the clarification, GM N.
Oh God I forgot we had slide maps.
Yes, but two things:
1. I moved and provoked first, so the guard probably can't make a second reaction against LNA.
2. LNA has uncanny mobility, so doesn't provoke during his trick attack movement.