GM SFounder's "Murder in Metal City"

Game Master Chris Marsh

Discussion Thread

First things first, this adventure is balanced for four players, and there are six. I'm keeping six. It may take me a bit to hone in on the adjustment. Everyone here is extremely experienced, so don't be shy with suggestions!

I have uploaded the Pre-gens if people are interested.

If you want to make something all your own, awesome!

Excited to play with you all!

Not sure yet if I'm going to play a pregen or make something myself. Is there any player-facing guidance about building characters to hook into the story?

Not yet. The download didn't contain the adventure. I got an email saying it was fixed... it's not. As of this moment no. If that changes I'll update ASAP.

Adventure has been added! So the adventure DOES assume use of the pre-gens.....

So I guess the question then is which pregen do people want? (I'll try to look through them more thoroughly today.)

OK, looking through them, they all seem fine. I'm probably least inclined toward Wildfire (especially since I'd just want to be in the LSH)...

I’m really looking forward to this!

I would prefer to play a pre-gen. Slight preference toward Lunar-17 as she has awesome art and I didn’t play any casters during the playtest.

It really does look like they encourage the pre-gens. One down, 5 to go!

I’m good with any of them, but just for the sake of picking one I’ll grab Wildfire (though happy to switch if someone else has their eye on them). I didn’t try a soldier on the playtest, so I’m interested in learning some of the auto fire nuances.

While I usually only do this with APs, this is my first foray into SF2, so I'd like to dive in as a I learn. So I've made a full on campaign tracker everyone should have edit rights, and every time I make a new one I improve on the last, so by all means stretch your spreadsheet wings!

Kate = Lunar-17
Dennis = Wildfire

four to go

About 90% of the formulae are done.

I will play Vorza Moonshot!

Kate = Lunar-17
Dennis = Wildfire
Harpwizard = Vorza
Mottidor= Jaedana

Shifty and Luke_Parry?

T-3 Days!

Tapkey thanks :)

Well, I have three PCs already made, so I'll bring one of them - probably my Android Operative or my 'Human' Envoy.

Failing that, I guess I have to bring the Witchwarper, since it is the last pregen left?

They do seem to imply the pre-gens are the default for this one.

Failing that, I guess I have to bring the Witchwarper, since it is the last pregen left?

I'm fine switching if you'd be more excited about the soldier. I just picked it for the sake of picking one, and am fine with either.

In my experience, these adventures that come with pregens tend to have built-in story hooks for the pregens, so they are usually better fits than another character would be.

Anyone mind if I don't create a profile for this? I hate when I make pregens that then get a few dozen posts and then never get used again (looking at you L'vanna Saltspray).

Yeah, I was planning on using this alias, which I keep just for playing pregens in this sort of situation (I still need to update it for this adventure).

I certainly don't mind. Putting the name in the line took me all of 5 seconds to get used to.

The advantage of a dedicated pregen alias is you can change the avatar to match the current pregen without altering your main messageboard profile.

My family's visiting for a few days, so not sure how much I'll be able to post until next Wednesday/Thursday. (May get some time in, but not sure.)

OK, back now.

@Chris, do you want us to track XP?

I don't mind doing it. We all have edit rights, so you can update if I don't.

To keep the challenge though, let's see if we can post in initiative order...

I'm having trouble understanding how that fits with the new rules. Isn't the whole point of the PF2/SF2 chase system that the party should post in the order that makes sense for the challenge at hand, because the people who aren't suited for it might get bumped to the next challenge?

Actually, you're right. My bad. I rushed my thought processes. It SHOULD be that if you see posts above you that complete the obstacle, HOLD and don't post. Thank you! I would have blundered on.[/ooc]

Miniconvention this weekend. Posting will be slow.

I will admit that I the player am not really sure where we go from here. Anyone else have thoughts?

It is REALLY vague. You can't go wrong with Diplomacy (Gather Information.) I don't want to add rails, so this is NOT an exhaustive list:

I feel like my Akashic Record stuff should be useful here, but I don't think it is.

If you think of something creative and in line, give it a go. the rule of cool still wins.