Magic Officer was what I built Lenesel for (Mysticism's her best skill by a parsec), but if that's redundant with Science Officer I can try and take one of the guns, even if my BAB is crappy.
I won't always be so responsive, especially with holidays coming up, but I happen to be off work and wanted to take advantage of that while starting this.
Sorry, didn't realize I skipped a day. Had a busy day. Closed on a house this week (sell).
No worries, I was trying to push out content while I was off work.
Besides, this isn't supposed to be a challenging fight so it's an opportunity for us to find a good method of doing ship combat, a challenge I haven't taken on yet in PbP form. There are going to be some hiccups. I rushed a bit to make my day off useful here since my schedule is changing soon and getting folks planetside is where things become interesting.
Nice, Lyle. What price?
Well it was a good chunk of change. I've been in the location for 20 years, so I actually managed to exceed the capital gains exemption for selling a house. Not by much, so the taxes aren't huge.
I already had a house in the middle of nowhere so I live there now and can work remotely. I had an odd form of 'middle of nowhere' which has fiber optic to all the plots, so internet is excellent, but I still am 18 miles of dirt road away from pavement.
This Array thing is kind of frustrating me for a variety of reasons. The biggest is that it reads like the penalty applies even if there is one target, but that's just silly to me if the weapon in question is a Lock weapon. I guess this thing is intended to be like Battletech missiles, where a bunch fly out but not all acquire the target.
Anyway, I'm considering adding a House Rule saying that Array weapons used against a single target do not take the -4. I'm tempted to say they are actually a +1 or 2 bonus to a single shot since a swarm of missiles firing from a battery should have a better chance of one locking on a single target, but I don't know if that makes sense for all arrays.
Any thoughts on that from y'all?
I will hide behind noob status and not comment.
I still find it strange that we get a nice ship at first level, but I come from a Traveller background.
Arrays strike me as more like a shotgun: you just splatter the area and whatever you hit, you hit.
Though, to be fair, it's far from the first thing that Starfinder does really strangely.
I will hide behind noob status and not comment.
I still find it strange that we get a nice ship at first level, but I come from a Traveller background.
That's kind of the thing with Starfinder: given you NEED to have a starship to engage IN starship mechanics, the AP writers are kind of obligated to give you one.
We're PCs, so we're already special by the setting's standards.
In the right editions of Traveller if you're planning for a good ship and optimizing along the way, and with a little luck, you can end up with small military grade ship. But you gotta specifically make the retired admiral that's pushing 100 years old lol. Really better as a Referee NPC patron type, obviously.
I've played the Mongoose new one and the very first edition (yes, I'm old, still have the LBBs). Usually at best you can get a scout ship, a small merchant, or a pirate vessel.
Which is technically what we've got here. Same is true of pretty much any ship in the APs, whether that's the Sunrise Maiden in Dead Suns, most of the military vessels in Attack of the Swarm!, or the Oliphaunt in Fly Free or Die.
FYI - I am starting a new overnight schedule at work, chasing a couple bucks more on the old paycheck, so the next few days I might be spotty/slow on updates.
However, I'm not traveling anywhere more than a day trip for Thanksgiving, so if I am quiet a few days I'll be able to catch up by the end of the week.
Happy Thanksgiving for folks in the States, happy Thursday for folks not, lol!
Happy thanksgiving to you and all as well.
Gonna have to start peeling potatoes soon. Have 10 lbs to do.
REAL cranberry sauce, made by me. None of that jelly cylinder from the can.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Happy thanksgiving to all, now I have some posting to catch up on.
The dice really are being fickle to y'all. Sorry about that, lol, I have a way to hack in some help if that keeps up. It would also streamline your arrival to the Colony and finding out what exactly is going on, so I am thinking now I will plan to call an audible =P
We aint down and out yet!
I'm fairly convinced that the die roller has subbed in a D10 for my D20.
And ze loot! More weapons and armor means less things I need to make with the nanites :D
OY! Don't admit you're about to fudge us like that, DM! it gives away the suspense! Gotta keep us hanging on the edge of our seats! (For a full day at a time)
I said "thinking", not for sure, lol. By the time the current round is resolved though, I believe the momentum will start to even out.
One of my issues with the first book of this AP is that there is a string of combat that the players can have the edge on, but don't really get to avoid before they learn what is happening. That's not so bad live, but it would drag the pace down a lot more in PbP format.
Noticed that Palladia’s AC was off by one because I forgot having an entropy point gives her a +1 enhancement bonus to AC, and she always starts combat with one
Hopefully it means you'll get a ton of nat 20s down the road, but yeesh, talk about payin' your dues. I think Lyle has only broken double digits once in three pages.
Wait, it says I can target Magic missile So one action, or a full action, not a full round. I probably typed full round, but I meant full action. Not even sure Starfinder has spells that take a full round.
Aleon is correct. Spells that say their cast time is “1 Round” are resolved at the beginning of the next turn. Spells with a cast time of 1 full round action just take up your whole turn. It’s a weird nuance but that’s how it works
Ah! That is something I have been misreading for a while. It makes a lot more sense why MM was written that way now that I see what it is actually saying.
I'm totally going to take one of the suits of armor and a pacification rifle since the armor is better than my current gear and the rifle means one less thing I need to use my nanites for.
Hunting rifles aren't bad for anyone trained in longarms, as a backup weapon if nothing else. And the ceremonial plate is an adequate suit of heavy armor. Not great, but it'll do.
Not to mention they'll make a great disguise should we need some Azlanti trooper...escorts...
Sorry I disappeared a bit- booster shot knocked me on my butt
I hear they're doing that a lot. Welcome back.
All good, just exposition, exposition,exposition going on right now anyway lol.
I just realized I had Lenesel mouth a word but no one would have seen that because her face is covered as per kasatha tradition. DERP!
Oh, since Tori isn't currently in the same room as everyone else it might be a good idea to note that I prefer using some sort of symbol for remote communications. A couple of asterisks or plus signs work. So for example:
**This is an example of radio communications, over.**
It makes it easier to read and keep things straight, especially when some characters are in a room together and may be talking while other characters are talking via radio elsewhere
I can work with that. Not used to HAVING radio comms in a PBP but that works for now.
Overnighting at the hotel I work at due to a snowstorm, so my posting is limited to my phone. Please feel free to bot me if necessary.
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Tell me you at least brought a snowboard or a sled or something...
Shoot, my hotel's attached to the biggest Mall in the country, I could have probably bought one!
Sorry I've been quiet- We just had a new baby and my wife was finally able to come home a couple days ago. It's been.. a lot, lol
Congrats!
No apologies needed. This is always always whacky time of year for folks, even without new babies at home!
I'm kind of swinging between almost forgetting to post for a day and trying to not to hog the spotlight and turn this into a single player game while others have their holidays. I could run off with the show but I feel like folks would be kind of miffed that they missed everything, you know? XD
Is there anything you think we should store? I don't want the people we're rescuing to go boom.
I think the only electronics I'm carrying are my comm unit and maybe my toolkits? Not sure if a coil rifle is very electronic; it just fires regular old bullets basically.
I’ll get back into the swing of things tomorrow. I’m on a much-needed break right now and have been trying to recover my energy.
No worries! Holidays are busy and not quite over yet so it is expected that folks are distracted and/or worn out. I'm finally on a new schedule, and it's not the one I was expecting a month ago, so I'm a little behind on things myself.
BTW, regarding Tori's question/observation, if a weapon deals energy damage, consider it electronic. Even though really a coil rifle is big electromagnet, it won't count.
Which leads me to the big question- my nanites. (also, I'm still here. just been a bit allover with new kid and my in-laws here for the holidays)
They're a class feature so they're fine.