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With the SFS2e Boon store now active, there are the basics like mnemonic editor and resurrection of course as well as access to the Core Legacy ancestries (dwarf, elf, etc.)
But one basic boon that hasn't been added yet is Hirelings. They're very useful especially for those characters that maybe can't invest in Social or Tech skills to at least be able to contribute in certain Society situations. So, can we please get the Hireling boon(s) added?
I just want to make sure that this topic was never revisited and if not, would like to ask if it can be. That's the restriction that one cannot play a character in a PBP and then also play them in a F2F or VTT (i.e. single session) event.
I don't see this restriction in the Lorespire Guides for any of the current Campaigns covered by that, but I also don't know that the rule was or wasn't rescinded from general PBP guidance either.
So what's the rule? Can we play the same character in a F2F or VTT while they're active in a PBP game?
tl;dr arguments for allowing:
It seems to me that this was a rule imposed in 1e to prevent characters from either leveling mid-PBP-adventure or more importantly from dying mid-PBP. Clearly leveling simply "doesn't happen" until the chronicle is applied, and you just need to make sure that you won't level out of tier of your PBP.
But in 1e, getting resurrected cost Prestige Points and Cash, and you might not have enough. Then technically you could have died without being resurrected in that F2F session even as you continued to finish out your PBP.
But with the advent of ACP, this really isn't as much of a concern. As long as I-the-Player have enough ACP to pay for a raise dead (and I commit to doing so if needed), then there's no interruption in the continuity of my character's life if they die in a F2F/VTT before they finish their PBP.
My memory is such garbage. Yep, I've played that on my -2001 when she was still level 2. I'll just have to keep an eye out for it to be run again. Thanks for the reminder.
As the others said, the link to the folder does not work.
I tried using the sheet in the second post, and it is not calculating Proficiency Bonus for anything correctly. It is 1 off. Changing the character level to 1 level higher than the actual level fixes it across the entire sheet, but then that box is wrong.
I would love to sign up, but without a copy of the SF Core or published sanctioning and allowable character options, it's kind of hard to build a character. Personally, I'm going to have to wait until the 31st just to get my paws on the pdf, and that assumes Society character generation guidance will be published concurrently.
As I read it, if they Fail at the first check to Approach the Elemental, they still arrive just without impressing them. Crit failing still carries the penalty of losing 1 Peacemaker Point.
So for example, if someone does Athletics to Swim up to Vesimer: Crit Success and Success get their appropriate Peacemaker Points because they had strong strokes and looked like they knew what they were doing. Failing the check means they made it across the water, but Vesimer was unimpressed. Crit Failure means Vesimer had to scoop the PC out of the water to save them, and they lose a Point though they still arrive to make their case.
Both for me. I find the 3-action system to be simpler than getting wrapped up over "move" actions that are not actually moving.
Also, nearly no enemies have AOs (called Reactive Strikes) in the early levels. It comes online for players and enemies at later levels.
There's no free 5-foot step, nor are there Swift actions, but the whole system is just cleaner overall.
And of course, in PbP you have time to look things up. If you want, I can PM you when I run another table. PaizoCon Online PbP play just started this week, so it won't be for another couple months before I do.
Oh, and there's no multi-classing the way Hep (or even Holan-Ji) was built. You can mix features of classes, but it's harder and less rewarding than the 1-level dip everyone did in 1e.
Gotta say it's an unusual situation to be GMing for a 4-glyph GM the very first he ever plays (as a player) face to face. But he RPed a lot, and his character was a lot of fun, even if he had to step back a bit having run and played the scenario before.
I ran Silver Bark, Golden Blades, and I think I chose all the options that no one else ever uses. Even GM Tiger was caught off guard (non-mechanically) by some of them.
The set up:
I went with Mama Tofu in the Tofu Shop with the Hopping Heads and the Greased Floor. We had to skip the Optional Encounter due to time.
It was an honor and a joy to get to play with this new local Manila / Alabang group. I hope Tiger is able to keep the group going so that I can return later in the year when I get back to Asia.
I mean, someone has to GM for him so he can do his own characters' silly voices. :)
GM Tiger did a great job. Especially given that the other 4 players have only ever played once or twice each and only one was playing the same character they'd played before. Lots of learning by everyone!
Hopefully next weekend, I'll be GMing, and he'll get to play F2F for the first time and show these youngun's some serious RP!
Does it allow for adventure mode (or whatever it's called now) with options like Free Archetype allowed? Either way, you know what, I'd be down also. Especially to play a class I've never used and/or don't plan to keep as the final build.
Bramblespine consults his map and everyone checks down the western path where you find what is obviously the exit - a bright tear in the fabric of space/time. However, knowing that you've not finished mapping and clearing the Nether Citadel, you return to the path leading from the room where the locked door was.
The hall leads to a large room that seems to be a crypt or catacomb, its walls full of niches. A ladder hangs partway down from the center of the largest chamber, though the area above it seems to have collapsed as its exit is entirely obscured by rubble. Cruel laughter echoes off the walls, and the shadows seem even deeper than elsewhere in this shadowed place, the room even colder.
As soon as you enter, the laughter cuts off ominously. As you pause to see what's about to happen, Lesley and Melania both realize that the collapse is certainly similar and related to the intentional collapse that you found earlier.
Suddenly, you hear a slight swishing sound from both of the corridors and darkness seems to literally rush forward towards Qigiq and the Cap'n!
Calaverthorna ("Cal to all his friends and lovers") is a scoundrel (in more ways than one) rogue: high Cha, intimidation build.
He's at 8.2 (92 xp) currently, but I need to update his PBP profile. I have not played or run any of the scenarios in this series. He is available now, and is the only character I have that would fit into the level ranges.
I've got a 9 that doesn't get enough play, and an 8 that might level up soon. Would love to get some play for them, but would have to look over the various scenarios to see what I've played already. I could even run something in exchange depending on the timing.
Most of my characters get mentor boons from 2 different factions. Usually Horizon Hunters for the saving throw bonus since I start all my blobs in HH anyway. Then a second one from a faction more related to the character. That way if another player at the table only has one to give, then I have a second boon for a low lever character to use, or at least an option.
So how do we get credit for playtest? Do we need to make another Pathfinder 2e character, Starfinder character, or do we just make up an SFS #2 number.
GMs only report your Org Play number without a character number attached. You get Starfinder ACP, and you check a box on your Starfinder Playtest Tracking Sheet. Said tracking sheet is included in the Playtest scenarios, so your GM can give you one. There's no chronicles and no XP credit toward any character.
The Anchoring trait says: "You can use abilities with the anchoring trait only while your quantum field is activated. If you use the ability on your turn, in addition to their stated effects, they automatically Sustain your quantum field." (emphasis added)
Warp Wounds is a reaction with the Anchoring trait, and is the only one of the WW's 6 reactions to have the trait. But Anchoring seems useless on this particular reaction if the benefit of Anchoring is limited to being used "on your turn."
Quantum Recycle lets "You regain an expended spell slot one spell rank lower than the triggering spell." As written, if I cast a rank 3 spell, I can only regain a rank 2 slot, but not a rank 1 slot. This seems unnecessarily limiting. Why not say "... at most one spell rank lower..."
I'm not seeing the "Starfinder Playtest Tracking Sheet" on the playtest site. Are we still supposed to use that, or is the reporting system all that's needed?
Wow! I didn't realize you all had been going that long. Looks like Holan-Ji joined in March of 2021, so I've only been here for half.
Okay, Origins is a wrap. I GMed both SF Specials and a PF2 Bounty. Played a bunch and saw several folks from previous cons and traveling games. Hillary and Bret (Hmm and bretl) were here, as was Ivis and Alex among many many others. Some nice news "coming soon" on the Paizo hiring front (we got an early announcement, but it hasn't been officially announced.)
Back to this session, we've just got some RP to deal with the Shadow, Sergeant Major Sumidagawa.
@Lady - Can you add a list of Org Play and character numbers to the Scenario list for the other GMs' reference, and edit the Scenario list to show who has volunteered to GM which scenarios coming up, please.
I am still interested, but with PaizoCon this weekend and Memorial Day for the US residents, it may be a couple days until you get more interest.
I'm putting together my titan nagaji Commander, Captain Kullan. (Yes, the character this gets held for and applied to has a nagaji boon.)
Formerly a Marine in the Nagajor anti-piracy patrols, he was sent to Absalom and became Captain of the Nagajor Embassy Guards. When he received a new assignment back to the capital, he opted to retire instead as he didn't want to make his new-found wife relocate. As a halfling, while she wouldn't be shunned, it would be harder for her there than it is for him to pick up work in Absalom. So he took up the name of Captain Kullan after the main mountain range in Nagajor, and proudly wears the national flag on his shield.
Front-line melee Commander. This will play very differently from how Tepin was in my Battlecry! playtest game.
I'll endeavor to get his properly-formatted profile up in the next couple days.
I really want to get in on this, but I need a couple days to finalize a character. I've got a freshly built level 2 nagaji water/air kineticist with a swim speed. She'd love to go explore a shipwreck, but I haven't put all the finishing touches on her or set up her profile page, and I'll be working a flight back to Korea today.
Disregard. I've already played this, and it's not Repeatable.
A Pathfinder Society Quest designed for levels 1–4 (subtiers 1–2 and 3–4).
Venture-Captain Bjersig Torrsen calls the PCs north to the town of Iceferry in the frigid Land of the Linnorm Kings. There, Bjersig informs the Pathfinders that he has a request from the family of a storied and long-dead Linnorm King. The family's patriarch, the warrior Hlavard Grenskuldr, appears to have perished in a shipwreck while wearing the family's heirloom, the gorget of the Linnorm King Grehunde the Sunchaser. For one hundred generations the family has passed this heirloom down from parent to child, until Hlavard sought to wear it on a journey to Valenhall as Grehunde herself had intended to do before perishing with the task unfinished. Unwilling to leave the relic to rust away in a watery grave, Hlavard's family has requested the Pathfinder Society's assistance in locating the shipwreck and retrieving the family treasure.
I really want to get in on this, but I need a couple days to finalize a character. I've got a freshly built level 2 nagaji water/air kineticist with a swim speed. She'd love to go explore a shipwreck, but I haven't put all the finishing touches on her or set up her profile page, and I'll be working a flight back to Korea today.
If I bring Shaq and our 6th player (joejungers?) brings anything other than a 5, we're high tier anyway.
If I bring Shaq and our 6th player brings a 5, APL is 6.5 exactly, and it's up to party vote.
If I bring Skorp, we're automatically high tier.
The operatives have ranged and skills covered, the Envoy is the Face, and we've got a mystic healer. I'll still wait to see what joe brings, rather than pick one and end up duplicating roles.
...it's good job security to be the only one able to do what I do, but I could sure use someone(s) to share the work load.
I was in that type of situation in different jobs several years ago on active duty and in the civilian sector. It sucked. Being "indispensable" meant not being able to do the career enriching activities I needed to expand my skills or remain competitive for promotion.
Now there's literally 1500 other copilots that can do my job, and any Captain can technically fill in my seat, too. I don't mind one bit.
Heads up to everyone: I will be unavailable tomorrow and Sunday due to a company outing in the UTC+8 timezone. If my character's actions in combat can be delayed, please Delay them accordingly. I'll be back by Monday. Thank you!
Where are you in that time zone? I spend almost all of my time in Asia. I'd love to find in-person games, but haven't had much luck except in SG.
I know there’s some play over in the Tampa area and in Gainesville. There’s a small group up in Jax also. The Gainesville folks may be able to help most, tho
Happy Lunar New Year from Asia, though I expect no one else celebrates it, and even I won't be really celebrating since I have to fly all day today. But it's the thought that counts, right?
My apologies. My laptop died today. Won't power on. Posting from phone really isn't going to work. Please give me a couple days to see what I can do from the road about this. Sorry.
Ahhhh, which one to go to? I love my friends at Mox, but it would also be nice to see Hmm and Bret again. Wendy-Ann hosts great cons, and I had fun at PacificCon 2017 so I'm sure KublaCon would be great, too. I've never been to Manchester, though....
So many great choices of where to enjoy PaizoCon from!
I don't celebrate either one (nor really any holidays at all). I bid schedules to work them, letting a junior pilot have the chance of getting it when they might not have otherwise.
Xmas was a 3-day layover in Nanjing China. Not a particularly interesting, nor English-accessible city, and the Dangerous air-quality index levels didn't help.
The following week, I departed Alaska about 2 hours before midnight on New Years Eve and landed back in China in the wee hours of the 2nd, so 1 Jan never happened for me.
But I'm enjoying my 3 days off in Japan on my current trip and looking forward to 3 days in Hong Kong next week. Such is the life of a Nomad.
@chadius, would you mind sharing your prompts and settings for the AI portrait you made of Petal? I've been messing around with Stable Diffusion under Automatic 1111 doing character portraits for a couple of mine also, but her's is AMAZING!
@Nomadical - I'll allow Wildborn Magic & Wildborn Ancestry. Depending on the specifics you had in mind for her backstory, she could have come to the area with the eight (unnamed) elven adventurers that eventually formed the Silvermist Lodges, whether she was an adventurer or not at the time.
Thank you.
I think perhaps she's not among the original eight, but having heard of Willowshore's welcoming attitude toward elves from one of them who'd since departed the town, she headed that way to give it a shot and arrived about the time that the last of the Eight were leaving. Maybe some townsfolk don't realize or no longer remember that she's not one of the Eight and mistakenly refer to her that way, while others that she's corrected about it or who are close to her are aware, though in the end it really doesn't matter. She'll live in the eastern W5 zone, and she's friends (Close Ties) with You So-Jin from W4 who did the Reenactment last year, and now it's her turn.
GM Ladile wrote:
Read Psychometric Resonance is also allowed, because it can be a good way to slip extra backstory stuff into the game that characters might never learn otherwise. I do ask that, y'know, she doesn't do object reading for every single thing she picks up, though ;)
Noted. I wouldn't have used it that way, anyway. It's an Exploration activity requiring half-speed movement, so I think doing it in normal day-to-day life might be psychically overwhelming.
I also have Treat Wounds/Battle Med. I got Risky Surgery to help. I can take Stitch Flesh as well at lvl 2...
I'm actually glad you did this. I've been crafting a psychic as a backup, and with your rogue covering all those Medicine things, I think I'll switch to that one so we have a full caster. She'll go into the Ritualist archetype at 4th level.
@GM: I'd like to take Wildborn Magic as an ancestry feat on an Elf/Dhampir Psychic, leading to Wildborn Adept at 5th. Wildborn magic has an ethnicity requirement of "Mualijae ethnicity," which are one of the Mwangi elven communities.
If you're okay with that feat, I could spin the backstory that she was ostracized by her Mualijae elven community for being a dhampir two or three hundred years ago. She wandered the world (like some guy we know), and finally found peace in the sleepy little village of Willowshore where no one cares how she looks. So she's not originally from here, but everyone accepts her since she's been here so long.
Alternatively, you could simply waive the ethnicity requirement, and I'll build her as a life-long Tian elf resident of Willowshore.
Or just tell me to pound sand cause ethnicity requirements are there for balance reasons. You're the GM, and I respect your call.
Also, requesting access to the Uncommon skill feat Read Psychometric Resonance at 2nd level. It seems like it might fit a horror campaign, being from Dark Archive. AFAIK there's no Society access to it available.
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