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What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back when you throw it? A stick.

You shouldn't be throwing children like that.

The Expanse Season 4 - Official Teaser, premieres December 13th on Amazon Prime Video.

I still haven't forgiven that drelk Crichton for that. They revered me as a deity & king there!

Selene Spires wrote:

Diana Troy blocking Darth Vader....really?

*coughhometownrefcough*

What you are saying is that I will always find proof that Star Trek wins? But someone else may reach a different conclusion.

Bah! One wormhole weapon would take out the entire fleet. Or the entirety of Sector 001.

Star Trek: Picard teaser trailer

Cole Deschain wrote:

Hama wrote:

There will be dozens of theories. I think that Goose is a Flerken, and that they didn't want to use Chewie because of copyright reasons.

But all are owned by the Mouse. The Mouse sees all. The Mouse acquires all...

we are living in a world I tried to stop.

You can't fix all of the world's problems by throwing blizzards and snowstorms at them.

Disney is an AA (or AAA) megacorp; you fix megacorp problems by throwing shadowrunners at them. Or Thor shots.

Weaponizing stars (and wormholes) just leads to an escalating arms race that no starfaring culture can win. I've seen it for myself.

Ooo, neat. Although my brain keeps trying to twist wrikreechees into weekiwatchee (wrikeewatchee?).

Waiting until the PDF releases on the 18th is getting harder.

Sending Kirk to the Neutral Zone just ensures that his next causal relationship will be with a Romulan. (Although, again, that was Spock that flirted with a Romulan commander... Gosh, Spock ninja's all the great plots!)

Now I'm picturing a bunch of xenobiologists and xenosociologists drawing up detailed research grant proposals to send to Starfleet command:

Admiral: {seeing fresh new stack of requests on his PADD} Oh good lord, where do you guys want us to send Kirk now?! No, no, no. I think even Kirk draws the line at hortas.

baggageboy wrote:

Go for the eyes Boo!

Now i want to make a ysoki named Boo....who talks about eyes alot....maybe a medic

Boo is a fine nickname, but name him Hannibal Chew (James Hong vocal impression optional).

{sneaks in, paws through Slyme's stuff for loot}

Watch Farscape and Babylon 5 reruns, taking note of ideas for Starfinder.

So, could I hack a ship's AI and make the artificial personality really obnoxious?

But maybe the AI can hack your PC's personality and make him/her/they really obnoxious?

Weirdly enough, I somehow imagine that drinking a potion of Charisma right before bluffing is probably going to raise a few eyebrows...

I'm sure it would. Which is why you store the potion in nano-carcerands that are floating in your bloodstream (or stomach or squeedlyspooch or wherever) to be released discreetly upon receiving your mental signal.

I really hope that axe isn't like a heat hawk..I would have to be suspicious of lady obo, then.

Suspicious or not of the lady, she's one Obo...

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...who won't be played.

Dominar Rygel XVI wrote:

Wow, this looks pretty damn good. (first trailer)

I'll have to watch this again but my first reaction was... meh.

I've been hearing constant disappointing and bad news about this show since it was first announced, so the trailer reassured me that I don't think it'll be terrible. The Klingon redesign doesn't bother me at all, and I'm super-psyched to see Michelle Yeoh and Sonequa Martin-Green in big roles.

Do we know if it's episodic in nature or if it's serialized like most shows nowadays? That could be the biggest change from previous Trek.

The wiki says:

Star Trek: Discovery is set to debut on CBS with a two-part premiere in "fall" 2017, before moving to All Access. The first season will consist of 15 episodes.

Wow, this looks pretty damn good. (first trailer)

gentlemen, please. We are in the starfinder forums.

It's "fragging". Or "fraking" if you're feeling more galactic.

God.

Yotz! It's "frelling", you zarking drannits!

Necrovite – Eox is home to a wide variety of undead creatures, from simple mindless zombies used as beasts of burden and convenient (if disturbing) forms of automation to powerful intelligent undead, often spellcasters with a focus on necromancy. This particular individual is a necrovite—a futuristic version of the lich from classic fantasy RPGs, created by storing your soul in a special technomagical relic called an electroencephalon that protects your consciousness and allows your body to rebuild itself if destroyed.

Oooo. I wonder if any of the Starfinder creators ever read...

With Eox playing a prominent role, hopefully we'll also see a new bunch mind-affecting spells that work directly on undead

Control Undead – Unable to reproduce on its own, Eox’s undead population imports corpses from other worlds and uses magic to create new mindless slaves or intelligent undead citizens.

Oooo, this gives me ideas for borrowing from ST: Voyager's Kobali (spoilers for "Ashes to Ashes"). Or entirely new personalities and souls resleeved/downloaded into the undead meatware.

Freehold is concerned that whedon may have changed his name and seduced paizo staff to become some kind of diety.

You're practically a living incarnation of Winter, and you're worried about Whedon apotheosizing before you?! I can't tell if this is Stargate or American Gods bleeding into our reality.

I'll bet it was probably pesky adventures using some artifact like a "Berenstein Key" to unlock the walls between unrealized realities. And here I am without a Farscape-1 module.

Fardragon wrote:

Dominar Rygel XVI wrote:

thecursor wrote:

Mine all mine...don't touch wrote:

My problem is with the fact that presumably space combat would take place in three dimensions. There appears to be no consideration for attacking from above or below. Space combat in two dimensions feels like it loses something important.

They apparently do have rules for that.

Also..."If you're wondering how he eats and breathes and other science facts, just repeat to yourself it's just a show, I should really just relax."

As a counterpoint: "He is intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking."

Which is rubbish. Moving "up and down" is still two dimensional relative to only one other vessal.

Wouldn't two dimensional thinking be be as simple as not understanding that a two dimensional plane can shift its position in three dimensional space?

Also, without getting into spoilers, the quote makes more sense when seen in its original context of Wrath of Khan.

Mine all mine...don't touch wrote:

My problem is with the fact that presumably space combat would take place in three dimensions. There appears to be no consideration for attacking from above or below. Space combat in two dimensions feels like it loses something important.

They apparently do have rules for that.

Also..."If you're wondering how he eats and breathes and other science facts, just repeat to yourself it's just a show, I should really just relax."

As a counterpoint: "He is intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking."

If there's ever an inclination to do a Free RPG Day module for Starfinder, I'd be totally psyched for Ratfolk vs. Space Goblins.

Wow, that cover looks awesome.

*Sorry Kanye, but not sorry*

For my theme song
My laser space jeans on
My by any means on
Pardon, I'm getting my scream on
Enter the spacedom
But watch who you bring home
They see a blue man with a raccoon woman
At the top floor they gone come to kill Sky Titan
Middle Bretheda packed in
Came to see me in my blue skin
Number one question they asking
Laser every question you asking!
If I don't get ran out by Triaxans
Here come some conservative Hellknights
Claiming I'm overreacting
Like them lich kids in Eox beach

I have far simpler tastes... ♫♪ SPACE PANTS! ♫♪

Here is some... cool (if slightly risque, due to the clothing on the second person) art.

That's the astreids from the It Came from the Stars Campaign Guide.

GRIGs. In. SPAAAaaaaAAAAaaace.......

In space, no one can hear you scream fiddle.

Edit: Ninja'd by PP!

When will soon be now?

Fixed.

Marcus Cole wrote:

I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'wouldn't it be much worse if life *were* fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?' So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

This same show also flat out stated that: Ivanova is always right. We will listen to Ivanova. We will not ignore Ivanova's recommendations. Ivanova is God.

No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow.

The Doomkitten wrote:

I want this to be my Starfinder theme :P

I knew what that was before I even clicked the link :3

The Sunshine (2007) soundtrack is nicely atmospheric and inspiring. "Adagio in D Minor (Kaneda's _____)" still chokes me up when I hear it.

Purple Dragon Knight wrote:

Underwear of Freshness (warriors and adventurers have come to rely on these accessories, especially during lengthy exploration or during wartime; any waste generated when wearing this garment is teleported 100 miles away in a random direction)

Directly upwards counts.

And now we know why aliens made Golarion disappear in Starfinder... they could never live down the embarrassment of their passing starfleet being severely damaged by a frozen poo Kessler syndrome orbital cloud moving at 4-6 miles/second.

Is a Moof Milker higher or lower in status than a Nerf Herder? Can we FAQ this already or do we need to wait for the game to be released?

Perhaps Starfinder has finally statted up the dogcow? They sound delicious!

DANGIT!

Farscape was just removed from Netflix!

>:(

Yotz!

I like almost everything I'm reading, except the Drift. I'm axing the bits about it ripping out pieces of other planes in any game I run. *shudders*

+1. It's going to be hard enough getting B. A. Baracus the paladin/_G cleric onto a hyperspace-jumping ship as it is. If the known side-effect is always going to be ripping apart the planes, they are going to be very p!ssed off when they wake up from the drugged milk arrive. I can't imagine big picture druids and other means-don't-justify-the-ends party members will be too keen on it either. Which means the good guys won't use it.

(This was tried, and then quickly dropped, as a plot-line in ST:TNG too.)

Now if the "planes ripping" was a side effect of earlier jump drives, or a malfunctioning/patched-together-emergency-repaired drive, then I could see it working. Or it happened by taking design shortcuts in the ship's "shielding"/ex machina compensators. Or it happened when navigators plotted a faster/easier/more fuel-saving shortcut instead of following the normal rules/guidelines (the same kind of thinking that produced defiling magic in Dark Sun).

Edit: Or is the planes ripping what happens when your party doesn't have someone (or an ally/commander) with levels in the Starfinder class equivalent to a melange-prescient Guild Navigator?

captain yesterday wrote:

I also really liked the Veritech Hover Tanks Spartas from The Masters Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross series.

you seem to have been rambling nonsense there friend. I'll chalk it up to hours working for toys r us.

I say we settle this like Hynerians. Super Dimension Trilogy vs. Robotech: The winner is declared for whomever successfully releases a new line of transforming toys into the U.S. mass market starting now. Bonus points awarded for undermining toy sales of M. Bay's upcoming creatively hollow, childhood memories-destroying Vapidformers: Super Masturbatory Explosions sequel.

I'm too old to be this excited about anything. If I die of apoplexy before next August, my blood is on your hands.

Don't worry, some necromancer on the boards will be sure to animate you if that happens. Probably'll strap a bookcase full of print RPG books to your back as some sort of undead servant/librarian.

Jason Bulmahn wrote:

Yeah, the setup includes bits scavenged from a lot of different games. It's just a playtest after all.

We figured. No lie but this has been, as I'm sure you've noticed, kind of a concern among those of us pre planning Starfinder campaigns. I think the general consensus has come down to three options 1) Just use Star Wars/Star Trek ships and try to over look the fact that you're not playing a Star Wars/Trek game. 2) Use a more expensive but less iconic star ship game like Battlefleet or Firestorm Armada. 3) Etsy is your friend and frankly that does me just fine because I found a pretty reasonable Farscape Leviathan for under twenty bucks.

Are papercraft/paper cut-out spaceships acceptable? Some 3PP(s)* should consider looking into it.

* I think Gninja Liz helped start the original paper minis with Callous Jack. I wonder if she'd be interested in making these?

Tried to find Babylon 5 on Netflix and Hulu. No dice. Switching to Farscape instead.

{farts helium in excitement}

That hug at the end just made my heart grow three sizes this day...

Wonder if I'm going to have a doctor check that out.

Yondu's mohawk seems a bit engorged too.

David M Mallon wrote:

Oh, Babylon 5, where have you been all my life?

IMHO B5 is one of the best science fiction TV series ever. I wish I had known that you had never seen it when you were in Savannah, GA. I would have lent it to you.

Soldier through season 1, it really lays a solid foundation for the epic to come.

Hobgoblins would potentially make great analogs for Klingons.

I'd think orcs would be better Klingons. I'd cast hobgoblins as Romulans.

I'm not fond of the holodeck, but I'd tolerate it if it meant the franchise was done with time travel plots. Forever.

Ffffffffaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrssssscccccccccaaaaaaaaaaaaapppppeeee~!

Also, Flumphs. That's the setting.

Pilot is kinda flumph-y already.

Anyone else want to know what happened to the moon and all its succubi? Does Absalom Station orbit the moon? Does it orbit the station? Did the gods steal the moon when they stole Golarion?

The lunar succubi, alu-fiends, and succubi-blooded tieflings rebuilt the moon into a giant interstellar orbship/operahouse, and now they roam the galaxy singing alluring songs and fighting the Mycon armada.

The alias name "Limey Of Barsoom" just gave me a Pavlovian craving for a giant space margarita.

Spiders from Mars Akiton

Here is what we actually know:

Before the Gap, Absalom Station did not exist.

After the Gap, Golarion and its moon were gone and Absalom Station (populated by some number of people of Golarion origin) was orbiting Golarion's sun in their orbit.

Some effect has suppressed all memories and erased all written and computer records of all events that happened during the Gap.

Ah, but I think we're missing the last, critical piece. Humanoid mortals are short-lived and narrowly-focused as a whole; however, they are often quite curious, remarkable at discovering patterns, and tenacious in pursuit of a goal. They are also quite efficient at disseminating information. Individuals will uncover facts about what happened to Golarion and the secret origin of Absalom Station. So I would amend the last statement to:

Some effect has suppressed all memories and erased all written and computer records of all events that happened during the Gap... and some effect actively continues to do so.

Moya, Talyn, and Lo'La (Farscape)

I want Moya, Talyn, and Lo'la as options for ships.

Yotz! This madness must be what it's like living in Crichton's head.

{spots Sharoth, begins dreaming of his huge... hoard}