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Good start to the RP in Gameplay. As mentioned, I'm away this week, but I'll plan to officially get the ball rolling when I get back circa the 20th.
Okay, thanks for your patience everyone. Briefing has now started in Gameplay.
Does anyone have the Chronicle for # 1-13 On the Trail of History with their character?
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I am moving the conversation to the discussion thread where it belongs.
Thanks for the update Ashtif. I am always on the lookout for +1 for my characters. I need my minions. :)
My understanding is that you have to dedicate feats to controlling your companions or they are restricted to a move action only. Even with feats you have to expend actions to let them take actions (other than a move action) so while it is good it is not as nearly as good as in PF1.
I am trying to figure out if they are any better than Figurines of Wonderous Power which do not require any feats to direct and once activated with a Standard action does not eat up any of your character's actions in the following rounds.
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I agree it's not as good in either PF1 or PF2. Ashtif's explorer concept makes it a pretty natural fit, so I'm probably going to get one at some point, preferably that I can use as a mount ... but that, too, eats up feats to use it effectively.
How useful it is probably depends a lot on context. For example, my Technomancer will likely at some point get some expanded spell range versatility by acquiring a Vorac, but in general I wouldn't expect using a lot of actions to command it ... once it's in position, I'd just use it to sling spells from unexpected angles, possibly from cover. I don't imagine that I'd ever need to use actions to get the Vorac to attack, so it's a case where I could see having the companion without buying any feats to make it more efficient.
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I'm just flagging that, as per the Recruitment thread, I'll be gone for three weeks starting 7 March. We won't finish the scenario by then, but we are making speedy progress.
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Oh, right how many hours did we spend adventuring?
I ask because my Spacer Carapace has 20 hours of capacity. When it runs out, I just replace the battery, as I have several. Obviously it would be turned off when in the spaceship and turned off when we sleep, so I'm only referring to the time we spend on foot.
Okay folks, I'm back! Sincere thanks for your patience.
@Bodo: Unless someone wants to carefully go through the Gameplay thread, I'm going to eyeball it as about 24 hours cumulative you've spent outside the domes (includes the excursion to fix the generators, then the full day and night of the present expedition).
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We left the following morning after fixing the generators, so I assumed we were able to fully charge everything and left the morning with full charge. I am in my cold-weather gear, but since I'm still running on some low-level armor, I will only activate my environmental seals when absolutely needed. And, of course, we have a couple of mobile hoteliers, so we won't need the armor activated while sleeping.
No worries, welcome back!
Sorry, busy couple of days--will update Gameplay within 24 hours.
Okay, we're close to the end! Please roll Day Job checks if you'd like, and let me know if there's anything special I should put on Chronicles.
