John "Trace" Taylor's page

I will personally invest all of the time of my crew and myself to whichever First Seeker promises to expand our cargo bay situation and let us drive some more mechs.

"Well...I was getting bored anyway."

I apologize that our messaging came out after the rollover deadline had expired and caused many of you unnecessary heartache. Honestly, since exhibitor badges work totally different than attendee badges, the rollover deadline wasn't even on our radar. We simply made our decision and chose to release the details when we did. If we would have realized there was a rollover deadline looming, we would have pushed to get our message out earlier.

Since our announcement, Gen Con has had two more big companies release similar messaging and they've announced that they're extending the rollover deadline to June 25th, 2021. This should allow those of you that still want to rollover your badges to next year's show to do just that.

We look forward to gaming online with some of you this year and we look forward to seeing the rest of you next year in Indy!

Came to share this, you beat me to it!

RIP

The character must have all levels in a single playtest class, and not take archetypes.

Turns out I can't playtest the awful jerk I had in my head.

Vehicles chases, now you're speaking my language!

*sees level range*

Noooooooooo :P

Vehicle chase, now you're speaking my language!

*Sees level range*

:(

F's in chat for no Starship Ops. As a big "Ace Pilot" character, I was hoping to see some feats or something coming out of this for use :P

"Alright Starfinders, if anyone's looking for a pilot make sure to give me a ping! The Flying Tasthari's are back from our latest op and I just got our newest acquisition, a sweet little number from Castrovel, kitted out with all the appropriate transponders. You provide the ship to get us to a planet, and I can handle the rest of your transportation needs."

With the latest AR update I've added a Tactical Dropship and a Drop Pod to Trace's garage. Level 9 Operative looking to fly the friendly and not-so-friendly skies and orbital paths :P

As good press as the Starfinder Society has gotten, we're still murderhobos at our core.

#datchwasright

Let me stop you right there. I'm a Murderhobo *first*. Get it right.

Has anybody let Trusty Trashbot out of the trunk yet?

"Nope."

"Duct tape and a roof what more do you need? "

"I mean, most of the time you need some good mag seals if nothing else. That all said, medbay is thinking like a spacer. You roll out something like an armored transport, you're looking at what, twenty two and a half thosuand creds right? That sucker has an expansion bay though, you can slap a medbay* in there...though really anything that size you can pay another seven thou and just get an actual lab** installed..."

OOC/Rules Notes
*: Gonna have to verify what "Expansion Bay" means for Vehicles vs Starships
**: Medical Lab is a 7k technological item that must be put in a Huge vehicle :P

As a Pact Steward, I found it was only appropriate to buy a Police Cruiser. Now, having a flying cop car hasn't yet been important to one of my scenarios, and the HP on the thing are somewhat lacking for a 9th level character, but damn if it isn't fun! My favorite thing is messing with the passengers in the back seat who can't open the door from the inside.

That was one of my first pickups too! I uh...got it...um...on auction? Listen, it's not rocking any active credentials at this point so it's not like I'm trying to pass myself off as a credentialed agent or whatever.

That said, I have to admit I really enjoy it. Sure, I never quite got all the jinsuls shaped dents out of my fenders but, that's just additional character you know?

Doc Kemple wrote:

"All this hate for red-eyed, white furred Ysoki gets me a bit... nervous. Heh."

"Right, it's like they think we all look alike. "

"Neither one of you two got nothing to worry about. Just you know. Don't sit on any ridgelines out in the open, eating apples... for your health and whatnot..."

"Here's the deal. Me and the boys in the Flying Tashtari? We're all voting together for whoever is going to keep this contract lucrative and exciting. We didn't let the Acquisitives option our contract after the Scoured Star for fun, we did it because it was good business. Right now? Tara Nova keeps us heavy in creds and stocked with fuel and ammo. She's got our vote."

(This is NightTrace posting as my 703 :P)

Half-Elf Operative, Ace Pilot, pilot and defacto leader of a mercenary unit that was originally running guard duty and escort missions but had their contract optioned by the Acquisitives to bring them on full time after the Scoured Star incident.

Known as a flyboy in general, Trace made waves and underwent a mandatory psychiatric evaluation following a recent operation that saw him utilizing a police cruiser to run over multiple Jinsul multiple times He was cleared, but not without seeing a formal notation on methods be applied to his service packet.

Origins was a great source for this.

We launch our attack! Oh no, a Jinsul scout ship breaks off and is going to give our position away to their fleet, we give chase through the drift! Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd, we get stomped on and with our last options being an attempt to run or go for it, I (as pilot) pull off a fly-by and we drill the scout in the rear arc resulting in a double-disable.

Bringing a vehicle to any non-Vehicle scenario is a recipe for fun! So, I bring a police cruiser with me, and while the Jinsul attack in their own cars, I auto-disable one while the other eats a sticky grenade in the interior. 4 Jinsul come rushing out and end up forming a perfect "Arrowhead" formation, which I then drive straight over, with my passenger leaning out the window with a tactical semi-auto to finish one of them off!

edit: Oh, and later on when we were fighting off two Jinsul ships in space, we ended up wrecking one but in the resulting chaos one of our missiles veered off and ended up getting a kill at a neighboring table :D

This moment kept on giving to me both in the long and short term.

Long term, I proudly point to this moment every time someone complains about the fact that every single one of my characters has archetypes instead of (as they complain) "the good abilities."

I was actually really debating Forerunner myself. My Operative (who I'm posting as ATM) considered himself a true master of vehicular operations and that's one thing I don't have atm...hrm...

A certain scenario started an encounter at ridiculously long range, and the enemies were sniping at us. I was playing a brand new dwarf heavy weapon soldier. I measured off the range - 5 range increments out. I told the GM, "OK, I am full attacking with an azimuth artillery laser."

"The penalty is -"
"You heard me."
The funny part is one of the two shots hit, to the shock of the enemies who were barely within sight.

I believe I recently played this one and the enemies were very caught off guard when someone had just as much* (read: technically more) range as they did and just started shooting them back :P

"I mean "assassin" isn't really something that's possible long term while maintaining a presence that Society HR approves of. If your "day job" is "I kill people for credits" you eventually carry that moral stain with you for good. That's not good for the PR spin for any of the factions of the Society as a whole y'know?

That said, I do know a solid Mercenary unit or two. I've seen some people run under the Exo-G symbol as rough riders more or less, and I run a group who the Aquisitives optioned their contracts from temporary security work to full time employment post Scoured Stars."