GM Nomadical's Shades of Spite (Inactive)

Game Master Nomadical

From a personal perspective, I was just assuming the 'handwavium' made it all non-lethal, unless of course the scenario says something to the contrary and we have to pull our punches.

It says non-lethal, doesn't say nonpainful - so perhaps it is his nerves feeling like they are on fire, and the bloodloss is more just a fainting effect - a vasovagal syncope to the assault.

#TheDamageisEmotional

I'd assume all the damage from the weapon itself was non leathal. If you had some extra tricks that added damage of a particular type (as opposed to things like over charge which do damage of the same type) then that might not be non-lethal. Given crits happen 5% of the time, I figure non-leathal runes would typically cover them as well.

The intent of the scenario seems to be that unless we bring in other toys (poor technomancers seem to be shorted a bit in this battle), we arn't at risk of killing them.

Either way, Kultanien will get Jopsie to look into the bleeding/unconscious figure next round.

Alrighty. I think we'll go with "anything that Jopsie does is sufficient" combined with the effects of the handwavium fusions, and that'll take care of it. Thanks for the inputs; now back to your irregularly unscheduled adventure.

As we get close to wrapping up, I'm looking to run another high-tier - either a 7-10 or 9-12 scenario (for reasons that will become clear when you see the chronicle for this one.)

@Shifty: I figure it's likely that you have fewer scenarios that you can play or replay. Do you have any requests?

Is there anyone else that has a special request? Like you need Part X of a trilogy that you missed, or a particular scenario set on a character's homeworld, etc.

If it is a 7-10 then Gunnz would be in for 04-09 or 05-03 (she is 8th and keen on anything that lets her fly or drive a mech, but she has played most of them)

Kultanien has wider interests: 7-10 scenarios she would be up for: 03-22; 4-14
9-12 tier: 02-14, 04-07,

I would love to play 4-09 and/or 05-03.

I've already played 4-14 and I'm not rushing to 3-22 because of the starship tag.

I will also be happy to play 2-14 and 4-07 scenarios, but after I play another game with Carlos on the 7-10 tier. He needs one more game - and then immediately a sharp jump in levels ))

#1-29: Honorbound Emissaries.
or
#2-14: Data Purge.

Both work for me!

Never ran or played Data Purge.

Ran (multiple times) 4-09 and 5-03. Have not played it.

I have also never done Data Purge

The only downside with datapurge is burning a rare 9-12 on a level 9. Although depending on the juicy chronicle from this, I could do that with Compucast (L11 technomancer).

Thinking about it, a technomancer might be a better character for something about data purge.

From the listed scenarios above I never played nor GMed any of them.

At the same note Croaker is my highest lvl PC so he is 4 scenarios away from lvl 9 ;) That should not stop you from running them ;)

For the ones that I 'need' it would be:

#1-29: Honorbound Emissaries and 1-39 The Herald's War (both 7-10).

But if I can't find a game to play it I will eventually GM it (I am just finishing running 1-17 Reclaiming the Time-Lost Tear for Ceolor and I think he also needs 1-29 and 1-39)

If we want to keep Croaker in this (and honestly, I do)...let's find a lvl 7-10 that most (or all) of us haven't played maybe.

I have both a Nova replay, a few spots on a sheet from Gencon a few years ago...and depending on the character a few Second Seeker Jadnura faction reruns I can use. So if we go to 1-29, I can find a way to replay for credit.

Yeah 1-29 was the last one I was missing of S1 for the 'collection'.

Sounds like 1-29 would work for at least four of y'all, keeps Croaker on board, and if Carlos can play it gets him up to his big level jump.

Then after that, we do Data Purge. I know someone asked for Cornered Rat (which is a follow-on to Shades of Spite) at some point, too.

So, for starters:

What about 1-29 for Carlos / ‘Eκάτη?
What about 1-29 for Kultainen / Aerondor?

This is why some groups use the  Sessiontracker site. Though with Nova and Faction replays, that's not perfect either.

I have run and played Cornered Rat. Good scenario....I could replay that as well.

My Session Tracker I think is ~95% up to date for SFS, for PF2 probably close to 0% (only played a very few--less than 10), so haven't touched it. PF1...shesh...it probably is ~90% up to date, but I honestly can't remember when I have last put anything on there.

Up to whatever though!

Unfortunately I played 1-29 with Kultanien, so a replay is not an option for me there. It's a good scenario with a nice link back to an earlier scenario as well if I remember correctly.

I have run and played Cornered Rat. Good scenario....I could replay that as well.

My Session Tracker I think is ~95% up to date for SFS, for PF2 probably close to 0% (only played a very few--less than 10), so haven't touched it. PF1...shesh...it probably is ~90% up to date, but I honestly can't remember when I have last put anything on there.

Up to whatever though!

Jim, I couldn't find you in the Sessiontracker site. I created a group called "Nomadical's SFS High Tier group", and the group id is #401. I added Shifty, Aerondor and Mike, but couldn't find the others, though I know not everyone uses it.

Yeah, 1-29 is part of the whole Scoured Stars set. And once you get all 8 scenarios (across any combination of characters), there's a nice AcP boon available., I get it for each of my characters as soon as they qualify!

My session tracker is probably totally out of date. I tend to use my own google doc for tracking things. Every now and then I do a bulk update, but its like once a year or two.

I just did a bit of an update to help :p

I will mention, however, that the full scoured stars set will be reprinted with updates next year in the newly announced AP...just saying :P

Oh nice!

I hope as an upgrade...

I've updated mine as well. It actually wasn't too out of date.

1-29 sounds good!

Okay, everyone except Kultainen is good for 1-29, so I'll start prepping that. Sorry, Aerondor.

Farol is checking with Sedoriku (as Ceolor, likely) to see if he's available to join us as the 6th.

I'll post a wrap up shortly, but feel free to RP.

Chronicles are here. As always, let me know if there's any issues. I'll get it reported today.

Interesting boon!

Which is why I'm going to run some more high-tier sessions for credit on Mahari (my Face Operative.) She's going to make use of that "If you're an Operative..." clause to swap out some of her old low-level exploits.

Ahhh cool - makes sense - not a bad benefit!

I just like it thematically, I could see Roque hanging out with the off-brand Master Splinter.

Everything looks good here. Thank you for GMing, Jim! Great playing with all of you!

Chronicle looks good, thank you for running it Nomadical. I liked this scenario, nice setup.

Thank you very much for running this scenario! It was cool. As always, I got a lot of pleasure from playing at your table, GM Nomadical.

Oh, didn't do day job.
Guess I'll T10 for a 33

Sheet looks good. I can't remember if I still need instructor on Azzirm, or not. But usually my downtime is either 'building' or modifying my power armor, or building weapon/armor upgrades. If none is needed, I will just add a 'take 10' for day job.

I believe (with a GM chronicle sheet I apparently never added to his online character sheet...sigh) I just hit lvl 8. So...I get a 'free' armor upgrade (lvl 3 or lower). Which means I will likely have an opening for a filtered rebreather (so acid 5 resistance, yea!).

But Zir should be ready in a day or two...once I can find all the physical copies of his chronicle sheets and update.

Just an FYI. Croaker is also hitting lvl 8 with this Chronicle.

Campaign page for #1-29 Honorbound Emissaries is up. We're losing Kultainen to be replaced by Ceolor, a solarian 8. You'll be solidly low-tier, with only Roquefort out of tier.

Ceolor is in a game being run by Farol / Croaker, and the GM says they'll be done shortly, so we'll wait until Ceolor dots in for the official start. Of course, you can start light RP or just dot and delete in Gameplay until then.

The Discussion page has a bunch of questions about previous scenarios, encounters, and even a particular boon, so please take your time to answer those.

I'll plan to mark this campaign closed this weekend.

Thanks very much for the game GM, and good luck team!

Take care and have fun, all!

Oh, shoot, I missed that Mike wasn't coming for Honorbound. My bad. But I'll hold a seat for you in Data Purge.

So Kultainen and Chip are out, and Ceolor is in. We need one more. And with Gameday staring this week, it might be hard to recruit. I'll post in the general recruitment thread, unless anyone knows of someone looking for a game.

Party composition is 2 mystics, an operative, a solarian and a power-armor mechanic. Level doesn't matter; even if a level 10 joins, you're still low tier.

We got the slot filled. Still just waiting for Ceolor and Carlos to sign in to Discussion. Although I know that a) it's the weekend and b) PBP Gameday is starting!, so I'm not in any particular hurry.

Before I close this campaign out, let me confirm players for Data Purge (tier 9-12) which will be next after Honorbound: Carlos (after his level jump), Shifty/Roquefort, Jim, Mike, and Aerondor's technomancer. We'll need one more, but can sort that out at the time.

I'll close this one out in a few days.

Confirmed :)

Confirmed for me....I am looking forward for this scenario! I might not be able to do it with this character (I would need 2 more XP), but I have a few in level 9-12. Though it might be possible if I have GM baby credit on a blob that never will get made (I am up to like -27 with characters...the last few are nothing but blob credit....)

Looking forward to it.