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The Starfinder Playtest is online now!
So how do we get credit for playtest? Do we need to make another Pathfinder 2e character, Starfinder character, or do we just make up an SFS #2 number.
There is no character number for the play test.
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So how do we get credit for playtest? Do we need to make another Pathfinder 2e character, Starfinder character, or do we just make up an SFS #2 number.
GMs only report your Org Play number without a character number attached. You get Starfinder ACP, and you check a box on your Starfinder Playtest Tracking Sheet. Said tracking sheet is included in the Playtest scenarios, so your GM can give you one. There's no chronicles and no XP credit toward any character.
So I took the survey sheet on the classes, what abilities do you think is most powerful and such, but there was no place for comments at the end.
Soldier in Starfinder 1e has full bab, but in Starfinder 2e, he is an expert in no weapons.
Operative in Starfinder 1e has 3/4 bab, but in Starfinder 2e, he is an expert in guns.
I put mediocre on the soldiers power with trained in weapons.
In the early levels this evens out in Starfinder 1e, cause an Operatives trick attack in Starfinder 1e makes him flatfooted, so -2 to ac, assuming you roll high enough for both the trick attack and the attack. But considering you have to succeed at 2 rolls instead of 1, the operative hits his target about the same amount as the soldier. At level 4, you are down 1 BAB, but the enemy is flat footed, you still have still succeed at the the trick attack though which is usually a low roll. Past level 8 in Starfinder 1e, The Soldier hits more often than the Operative cause that is when the BAB is 2 difference.
What I'm saying is make the Soldier an expert in something, or give him an ability where can increase his proficiency to expert temporarily.
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Is cosmic Birthday and Empires devoured considered adventures? By the I mean, when you are running an adventure Path, you can run by house rules such as Free Archetype and players get credit. Can the same be said for those two adventures?
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Organised play for second edition hasn't launched yet, there's only the playtest at this point. As a result, whatever I'm going to say now may change once the final rules are released:
For the purposes of the playtest, the GM decides what rules to allow, but it is highly advisable to stick to the core rules to players know what to expect.
For recruitment on Augustana station, we'd expect you to run something close to vanilla rules, since the goal of this group is to bring organised play players/gms together. For adventure path recruitment, the recruitment board is still available.
In additon, on the paizo boards, the usage rules of the paizo boards still apply.
In my opinion:
One of the goals of the playtest is to figure out if the current set of rules if sufficiently balanced. Introducing 'house rules' defeats that purpose, and potentially gives the wrong impression of the new system by introducing imbalances that weren't designed.
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I'm wondering if the spells from the Pathfinder Core rulebook are available for Witchwarpers. There are spells there I would rather use instead of the ones in the Starfinder Core.
Update: I just looked at the pregen. It appears that they do. Looks like I'll be redoing my level 1 Witchwarper before levelling up to 2.
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Hello wonderful players, gamemasters, and community members.
I am trying to pull together some thoughts about what we do in our lodges (the result is hopefully going to become something like a mission statement for our lodges here on the forums, or at least what the VO team is trying to do), and would like to collect any ideas you want to share before I even sit down to start sketching out ideas. If there is anything you would like to share for the forums VO team to think about, please let any of us know. You are welcome to post in any of the lodge discussion threads, send any of us a PM here on the forums, or contact any of us on Discord or by email. My email is on the domain orgplayonline.com and has the same username that I use here without the Spacefarer prefix.
Thank you in advance for any thoughts or ideas you send.
Once we have something written up, we will be asking for your input again. We have an amazing community here, and I want to come up with something that can help us get even better as well as celebrating what we have.
One thing I'd like to see is more DMs and it will take more than boons and additional ACP rewards to create that.
Help Dms be apart of the community. For example, for the first 10 games a DM dms at a convention/gameday total in all the convention he/she has been at, that person gets to submit a new mundane item to Paizo, with 1 out of every 1,000 doing this getting picked and revised. It can be a weapon, an armor, whatever. Example: Joe Dms 5 games at outpost and another 5 at Gen-Con. That's 10, so he submits and item called carboard sword. Bulk light. 1d4 Blunt damage. -1 to hit vs creatures wearing armor as it can't cut through armor, but it is easy to handle, so +1 to hit vs creatures not wearing armor, even if it is natural armor like trolls. Agile, Finesse, simple weapon. Paizo then looks at it for balance and says, okay but the Carboard sword is an advanced weapon and does slashing as they propose a counteroffer to Joe. Joe agrees, his cardboard sword gets submitted along with 999 other contestants. Or his work gets submitted, his name gets picked out of a hat and Paizo then looks at his item after he has been picked and revises it to make it fair.
30 games Dmed, person can submit a magic item if/he she wants up to level 5
40 games Dmed, magic item up to level 10
50 games Dmed, a person can submit a monster
100 games dmed and the person can submit a magic item up to level 20 or a new race or class.
200 games Dmed and the person can write a scenario for Paizo to look at, all scenarios written by these people will be under season 0.
Games Dmed will not be retroactive, meaning the person has to DM games at gamedays and outposts after Feb 2025, not before.
On another matter, please don't forget that today is the last day to register to GM for Outpost VIII and get scenario support.
After today, you can still register to GM but scenario support will not be available.
GMs who are running Outpost games here on the forums, can you please post your threads to the signup spreadsheet before February 6 (the start of general player signup)? If your game is FCFS, what's most urgent is to post your gameplay link, because your players need to be able to dot in when they sign up. If you're doing GM choice or lottery, we need your recruitment link so players can apply as soon as signups start.
If you have any questions about this or if this is your first forum game and you need help setting up your threads and campaign, please post here or ask any of the forum VOs and we'll help.
