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For some of my players....

But really, the books hands out 3 separate boons of "If the PCs die, return them to life and ignore the effect that killed them." If a PC permanently dies in this AP they are really working hard for it.

I didn't hear the story about how Cayden Cailean and his mates drunkenly wandered into the Starstone. Just Cayden.

Look, If 3 halflings in a trench coat can take it and come out the god of murderers, thieves, and assassins, so can your adventuring party. :P

The enemy keeps provoking AoOs, yes. But that doesn't matter if you don't have any AoOs left to make.

I'm actually on the fence about Flat-Footed, I think the RAW is it prevents you.

That follows. They keep provoking. You just don't have the action to take.

I've always taken that line to read "make one for broken wing gambit" even though if attacked you couldn't.

I've never read into it as allowed to attack flatfooted.

Flat footed is a situation that normally prevents you from taking attacks of opportunities.

Paired opportunist (when it triggers) allows you to make an attack of opportunity even if the situation normally prevents you from making AoO, as long as you still threaten the target. By my reading it absolutely works.

Situations that prevent you from making AoO that paired opportunist gets around:

Flat footed
Soft Cover
Out of AoO's
Total Concealment

Situations that Paired Opportunists doesn't get around:

Not holding a weapon
Total Cover
Opponent out of your Reach
Paralyzed/Nauseated/Stunned

If a PC is killed, how does that affect the timeline considering the time travel aspect of the AP?

After book 3 begins I would advise not allowing PCs to die in a permanent manner. There are plenty of time related excuses to keep it from happening, and other ways you can disincentivize dying. But I'm the type of GM that prefers to have consistent characters through out the entire story.

No. And I don't see how cure light wounds wand was even an issue to begin with.

In my experience one of two things happened.

1. Party had enough healing to stay topped off and kept adventuring.

2. Party did not have enough healing to stay at max health at the beginning of encounters and stopped adventuring for the day.

All resonance does is force one of your party members to be a cleric. PFS scenarios are all going to crash and burn now because its impossible to have an adventuring day without a non-resonance source of healing.

I don't see why letting people keep adventuring is a bad thing. People are just going to stop and rest more often when they run out of resonance now.

Ung. No.

The old monster creation rules required faaaaaaar too much work. I much prefer the new method completely divorced from PC generation.

On the otherhand the current numbers seem to be waaaay overtuned. Monsters hit too hard way too often.

I like the system, but the details need to be tweaked a bit.

An Occultist with the Necromancy Implement has multiple methods of creating undead minions that don't involve the Evil descriptor.

http://archivesofnethys.com/OccultistImplementsDisplay.aspx?ItemName=Necrom ancy

With the Bounty Hunter Slayer just blind them with the first dirty trick (when they are flat footed) and then they qualify for future dirty tricks, since they are blind.

Have you considered using a cracked Opalescent White Pyramid Ioun stone for the proficiency? It would free up a feat slot.

Rules unclear, consult GM.

When I run games it does, but Other GM's may differ in their interpretation.

The key thing to remember is that you shouldn't add the same attribute twice. So if you are already getting Int to damage, probably not. If you are not already getting Int to damage (say from explosive missile) then probably yes.

You use it as a small part of a massive alchemical attack!

Hybridization Funnel + Acid+Alchemist Fire+Composite Long Bow+Thistle Arrow+Explosive Missile Discovery+Explosive Bomb discovery+deadly aim+ Red Tears poison

Direct Hit
11-18 Bleed = D8(bow)+ 4(str)+ 1(pbs)+ 1(enhancement)+4(deadly aim)
1-6 Fire
1-6 Acid
1-6 Reoccurring Burn
1-6 Reoccurring poison (save negates)
9-34 Fire (bomb)
------
11-46 Instant damage and 13-30 periodic damage each round after until they make a fort save, spend an action to stop the bleeding, and spend an action to put out the fire.

Also splash damage.

I would gladly trade +2 bonus worth of saves for the vast increase in utility Solarion get over Soldiers via revelations.

SO no, I don't think it is a real problem. I think it is a minor concern that you are blowing way out of proportion.

As someone that actually has a degree in mathematics I can say that MrTsFloatinghead actually has some very good points. Another thing to consider is the distribution of values in damage. Average DPR is great when each damage value is equally likely, but with the way damage is generated in SF you really should take the variance into account. For example 10d4 has a mean value of 25 and a Stdv of ~3.5. 4d12 has a mean value of 26 but a Stdv of ~6.9. You are much more likely to get the average value with d4's than d12's. The d12 will be far swingier with many more attacks at lower and higher values. With larger standard deviations of damage you will see more value out of static modifiers as they will bring that swinginess down.

The fight took us over 4 hours.

Us too. It was stupid. The entire encounter was ridiculous.

Has anyone actually built a solarian with Cha of at least 16? Everyone keeps saying it won't work, but I'm not so sure. Such a solarian would concentrate more on using revelations and less on normal damage in combat, and also concentrate on CHA based skills; probably built to be a captain in space combat.

My PFS solarion has Str 16, Dex 13, Cha 16. So far he has been the highest DPS in combat, and the party face. In fact I have made far more roles that utilized my Charisma bonus than I have rolls that used my Strength bonus.

Gravity hold also keeps them from moving. If you use it on a melee opponent you can lock them down while your friends shoot them. If used on a ranged opponent you can bring them into melee forcing them to provoke to attack anyone.

Charisma is way too low. Your save DCs will be horrible. I would drop the dex and invest in heavy armor prof over skill synergy. Especially since you get Sidereal Influence at 3rd, and the two bonuses dont stack.

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One result of the battery charge rules that I have seen in play so far is that PCs only ever use their batteries for the first encounter. After that we strip the batteries from our opponents guns and use them for the rest of the encounter.

After all, consumables found in the course of an adventure can be freely used without effecting your chronicle sheet, and batteries are consumables. Its stupid, but I am also of the opinion that having to pay to recharge batteries is counter intuitive and anti-fun.

I've tested gravity hold pretty excessively and, quite simply, it's not good. Starfinder isn't like Pathfinder's game of rocket tag. The extra durability characters possess mean that one shot doesn't decide the battle.

But the only thing you are rating as good is stuff that increases damage. That would seem to only be important IF rocket tag was your goal. The longer a battle lasts the more important things like battlefield control become. Especially when the class has abilities that can make hazardous terrain. Controlling where the opponent stands is exceedingly useful. Especially given the importance of cover.

Reactions aren't restricted to off turn. They even refresh at the START of your turn.

That makes sense, and is the interpretation I favor.

HOWEVER. If that is the case, bull rush also provokes, as it does not contain that language. You could bull rush someone, push them back, and then use your reaction to attack them for leaving your threatened space.

Our group has played 3 of the SFS scenarios so far, and in each and every one the Envoy ability to restore Stamina was critical to our survival. They have far more damage negation potential than the mystic does, and it really showed. The 5 per person per level per fight was way more useful than the mystic's 1/day healing power.

I think you are greatly undervaluing many of the Revelations, graviton ones in particular. Gravity hold is amazing for battlefield control. You can use it to trap your opponents in a bad positions, or move them into melee with yourself or an ally. Alternately you can use it to move yourself or your friends into position, potentially giving a melee ally the equivalent of a pounce.

Does forced movement provoke attacks of opportunity? The rules seem to be unclear.

In the combat section it states that if you leave a threatened area you provoke. It says nothing about it having to be willing.

My primary concern is when using the Gravity Hold ability of a Solarion.

If it does provoke you can use it to grab your opponents and move them past friends for AoO's/

If it doesn't provoke you can use it to grab your friends (or yourself) and move them into and out of combat without triggering AoO's.

Either way it's a solid use of the ability, I just need to know which way I should be using it.

I don't understand your point at all. If thug A is about to stab you, rob you, or just be mean to you, you cast charm person on him. He is now your friend and decides not to stab you, rob you, or be mean to you once his initiative comes around. How is that not useful? Especially with the various abilities that make them not realize they were charmed.

Put me in the 30 years gaming, never once to 20 club.

I guess what we need is the latest AR date that is known in the Starfinder era -- we could conclude that the Gap began soon after that date. Note that there are vague legends about various undated events during the Gap, so an exact known date is important for this purpose.

Unfortunately that doesn't work as the Gap is known to have started/ended at different times in different places and to have skipped certain times. Which could mean that

* It might start only a few centuries from pathfinder "now". It references that Absalom Reckoning was used for "nearly 5 millennia". As it is currently 4717, that leaves two options. Either The Gap starts in less than 300 years, or some OTHER event happens in about 300 years that resets the calendar. If the latter is the case, we still have no benchmark for when the Gap starts, but it certainly heralds something major happening.

On the scale of 5 millennia 4500 years is "nearly."

My personal pet theory is that the Gap perfectly corresponds with the period that prophecy stops working, and that both are caused by the same thing. Notice in the book that Pharasma is still listed as the god of prophecy, but nowhere does it mention that prophecy doesn't work. Maybe that's because to the records of SF it never stopped working. (Cause no one can remember that time period)

That is to say all of Pathfinder is during the Gap.

A few comments:
1) Be aware Gravity Hold doesn't play nice with Plasma Sheath and vice versa. Its purely an either or to get combat benefit out of them. It takes a minimum of 1 turn to switch between them as well. If you're currently in Photon, at the start of the turn you drop to unattuned (losing any benefits), then the start of the next turn you can go into Graviton (unless you have a level 11 magic ring).

2)Reflection is Dex based because it makes a ranged attack roll. With starting 10 Dex, you'll really, really want to be in Graviton attunement to have a reasonable chance of hitting. If not, you'll be at -7 to hit relative to your normal melee attacks.

It just means you need some thought put into what you want to do at the very beginning of a fight. At 2nd level there are a couple of powers whose primary benefit doesn't matter on the attunement mode you are in.

Those are: Flare, Gravity Boost, Stellar Rush
Most of the 6th level revelations are both mode friendly, except Corona.

Yeah, even if Plasma Sheath & Gravity hold didn't play well together (I am in the camp that believes you just need generic attunement for Gravity Sheath) I think GH's ability is worth it. Keep in mind that nothing says it is for enemies only. You can use it to move your allies next to opponents for a pseudo pounce. Or you could throw foes off of cliffs. Also Starfinder doesn't seem to have a clause about involuntary movement not provoking AoO's, so that may be a thing as well.

That's a good point on reflection. I may have to reconsider that power, maybe Defy Gravity,

Korasha Lashunta get +2 STR/CHA and -2 DEX so that and Theme it seems to add up alright.

Yup, It's a Lashunta build with the Icon theme. He's a Eoxian reality TV star. =D

That works. Maybe a little low AC for my tastes early on, but perfectly functional.

Thats what the 1st level Heavy Armor Prof is for. =) And as far as I can tell AC is low across the board in Starfinder.

The build I'm looking to play starts with

Str – 18* Dex – 11* Con – 10* Int – 10 Wis – 8 Cha – 16*
*Raise at 5th

2–Gravity Hold
4–Plasma Sheath
6–Reflection
8–Hypnotic Glow
9–Miniature Star & Starquake
10-Crush

Get the ring of resistance for will saves to compensate for the Wis. Grab Heavy Armor Prof at first level. Focus on Bluff & Diplomacy to be the party face. This gives a good deal of battle field control, out of combat utility, and damage.