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My players came to the conclusion that they needed to purchase these things as a necessity once they began trading for themselves with the Oliphaunt. If it seems like your group is very resistant to the thought of purchasing that stuff with credits it wouldn't be unreasonable to allow them to purchase it with BP using the galactic trade rules from book 1 I think. Your players can quite quickly end up with more BP than they need so coming up with new ways they can use them to improve their business without making them more powerful in combat is a good use for them.

I've been running book 2 as a book where the party build up their fledgling company in the veskarium while laying low for a few months after the theft of the Oliphaunt, and my players have been really enjoying the "new week, new adventure" theme. I've thrown in the side jobs too to add to that feeling. Coming up to the Adamant Scale part soon and I'm going to run it in the vein of the Cohen brothers' "Burn After Reading". The Adamant Scale are a super paranoid bunch of conspiracy theorists and are obsessed that the PCs are part of some major Pact Worlds plot against the Veskarium. Their secret base will be full of photos of the PCS, posts from their social media and lots of red string linking things together. The joke is that there is no conspiracy at all.

I will probably be running this with my group next session.
From my understanding only the PCs will attempt both checks. The wintermourn crews' actions seem to be accounted for with the obstacles listed.
So each of the 6 rounds would run as follows:
1. PCs solve the obstacle with the listed check and DC in the AP.
2. PCs select a chase action. The DCs are for a CR3 encounter. I can't see anywhere that says when to use the "average" or "hard" DC so I guess which you pick depends on how challenging you want to make it for your PCs. I will pick hard for my players as they have been doing really well so far. So in my game the PC action checks will be DC19 for this encounter. I guess there's also nothing stopping you from mixing up the DCs based on how the PCs describe their actions; alternating between DC 14 and DC19 depending on what they decide to do each round.

I would be interested to hear how it goes for you!

Table 2-3 of the SOM will allow you to determine success or failure at the end of the chase.

Currently running book 2 as GM.

It isn't mentioned specifically in the book. I decided that EJ Corp pays employees monthly, with bonuses based on performance (Tarika mentions bonuses at one point). I won't say how it turned out, as this isn't a GM thread and don't want to spoil anything but my players were happy with how it all panned out.

This contains spoilers for book 2.

I'm a little confused about the origin of the necrografts in part 1. From the side bar I can understand that Rygan Vuul destroyed the Harlequins Prayer, knowing that Rishae would buy the corpses and sell them to him. It looks like this deal has already occured.

Therefore the 50 tons of Black Hearts that the crew of the wintermourn steal from Rishae must come from somewhere else?
Rishae offers to manufacture another 50 tons of Black Hearts for the PCs with a few days turnaround. Again this implies to me that these necrografts are not sourced from the Harlequins Prayer. When Niva steals the hearts Rishae points the PCs to Rygan but doesn't actually mention to them that she has recently sold him a huge shipful of fresh corpses.

Rygan's necroforge has enough frozen corpses for 50 tons of Black Hearts. I presume it is these frozen corpses that are actually the crew of the Harlequins Prayer? Why would Rygan buy so many corpses just to put them in the freezer?

Am going to be running this session next week and I just want to have a clear picture in my head of all the moving pieces. Advice from anyone who has run this section would be much appreciated.

So far FFOD has been my most enjoyable ttrpg experience since I started gaming 9 years ago. My players are having a blast.

Has anyone else downloaded the PDF version of the FFOD pawn set? I bought it hoping to use it for VTT but the image quality is too pixelated to use. Anyone else have similar issues or know a workaround? I can lift images from the PDFs of the AP books themselves but some pawns seem to be unique to the Pawn box.