I don't want to tell Paizo how to do their job, but I think that this license needs its own Orc ORC mascot. I would love to see some original art for the license of like a green-skinned hero writing a contract.
Written by the fantastic Hilary Moon Murphy! Congrats HMM, we at Cosmic Crit can't wait to see this one, it sounds awesome!
I'm fighting between the conflicting urges of "this seems really cool" and "I'm already way behind on like three actual play TTRPG podcasts" GM of Cosmic Crit here...if you listen to one playthrough of Starfinder APs it should be us. We've got the most episodes out there, have played to most APs and have a huge online discord community to commiserate with!
This is so cool... Alexa, play Strawberry Machine Cake
whoa, Busy month for Starfinder Wednesday, I like it!
You are a kinder GM than I. I would have had a Swarm Fleetfury swoop in and slag their vehicle after 10 minutes to add some Acid damage on top of the forced march... There are no short cuts in this Shirren's army!
In this corner, coming in at 5'1, 220 pounds, hailing from Akiton. His fists are categorized as deadly weapons on 5 planets. You know him as the Castrovel Crusher, the Lashunta Liquidator, the Valiant Vanguard, its VELLORO! Lets get ready to rummmmmmmble!
Hey quick little errata I noticed the other day. The bug snare item on page 44 should be a level 2 item, not a level 10 item. It is priced appropriately for level 2, so you might be able to pick one up during the adventure if you save your credits! That's a 2 in binary, adding more fuel to the theory that you are, in fact, an Android.
So the Player's Guide in this AP volume is a set up for the Suskillon Defense Force, the main military org. that is taking on the Swarm in this AP. It is similar to other Player Guides in that it is all info that you can give to your players to inform them on making characters that fit well in the AP. There are also player options and equipment that is geared for taking on the Swarm. You do not have to use it at all, but I tried to work in some possible backgrounds for how different Character Themes would fit into the picture of this adventure. Let Paizo know if you like this style of backup material by writing a review, positive or negative, once you read this book!
Is it known if this will be available for purchase at Gencon?The street date is 28 August, so most likely not. I did get to see a copy of AP Volume 19 at GenCon though and the layout is awesome inside! Really creepy motif that I hope you all enjoy, though it gives me the willies. Would love to hear what people think once it ships out in a week or so.
The stream went great! Awesome job Payton, welcome to the team and thanks for answering the questions Mark
Hey there, this is Patrick the author here. The planet that "Fate of the Fifth" takes place on is called "Suskillon" and it is a far-off colony that has been under its own governance for over a century. I imagined Australia while I was writing it, as it has these huge cities but also large tracts of unspoiled wilderness between them. The description of 'marauding bikers' is funny because that makes me think of Mad Max. I purposefully did not rewatch Starship Troopers while writing, but to be honest I have that movie like laser etched into my brain, so I hope some of the action percolated into this AP for you all and your friends to play in August!
Just saw this thread, and I am the author of this section of the AP volume on Sarenrae and am pretty sure this was just a header-error marking the longarm as one-handed. I wanted to make some weapons that weren't currently in Starfinder that felt Sun-worship-worthy, and I hope you all enjoy them!
Hey Katina, thanks so much for doing this. We will make sure to watch Sunday and cheer you all on!
Hi Paizo forums, This is Patrick the GM of the Cosmic Crit podcast. We just finished up season 1 of our show, and the Dead Suns AP and today are starting our season 2! If you stayed away because of Dead Suns spoilers, there is not a better time to join the Crittermander fanbase with our new Episode #1: . --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cosmic Crit Season 2: Against the Aeon Throne! Episode 75: THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can find us wherever you get your podcasts, as well as on our website on www.CosmicCrit.com or on our youtube channel. If you are looking to connect with other fans of our podcast then join our discord or tune into the stream Go to "Shooting the Crit" our unofficial fan chat show on twitch at 10:30 PM EST. Blah blah blah Patreon. Yada Yada March Fan Challenge. Thanks for everyone that has supported us to get to this point. I mention it in this weeks intro, but the Paizo community and employees have been extremely welcoming and open to us these last few years. We absolutely love Starfinder, and want to try and do this awesome game justice, and we hope you all love our 2nd Season where we try to do just that!
Paging JJJ. I am making a circle in the ground and burning candles. Please return to us and share your Crits!
I own these for Pathfinder and they are really nice to have the appropriate cards ready and set aside, especially for combat, spell casting and skill rules checks. I can't tell you how many times we have stalled on a question and found an answer in the deck faster than online.
The entire setup for this screams Starship Troopers in the best way possible. I wonder which military group the party is assumed to a part of when this starts? Skyfire Legion I'm hoping. Oh Hey, I wrote this Volume. The in-house nickname for "Attack of the Swarm!" I was told was "Swarmship Troopers"
That's the line to Shell Beach. SHUT IT DOWN!
Hi everyone, my name is Patrick and I am the GM on the Cosmic Crit podcast. We have had a great time playing through the Dead Suns AP this last year, and we wanted to share our love of the game with our fans, and hopefully introduce some new players to Starfinder via streaming on twitch. This year we are doing another fundraiser for Paizo's Extra Life charity super team. You can join us tomorrow, November 3rd from 10:00 AM to about 8:00 PM PST as we stream character creation, play the SFS scenario "Live Exploration Extreme!" and then have a movie watch along! Follow our twitch channel here and join up tomorrow in the chat! If you enjoy our podcast or the stream, or just care to help out, we would thank you for any and all donations that you wish to give us. Thanks to everyone that comes out and we here on the pod hope you all have a great game and fun-filled weekend!
WhiteWeasel, I love this, but you have a higher opinion of us than you should if you think we would be able to use and/or explain this, haha. I am having trouble pronouncing it let alone using it in a sentence. Thanks for the submission though, and everyone else here!
Hi WhiteWeasel, we got your submission as we check here too (and I think we put up a reddit post as well). Just a reminder to everyone that there are 5 more days to make up a monster. We will make up some art for the grand prize winner and fight it on the show, which will be a ton of fun
Holy jeez WhiteWeasel and JJJ, these are both really amazing, I would love to GM and fight to fight either of those.
I love bulk. Don't kill bulk. Bookeeping is so much easier with it. Gotta say as a Pathfinder player and Starfinder GM that bulk is pretty ingenious. I honestly don't want to add up the individually weight of 50 items, I like saying "these 6 things are one bulk, these thirty are all 'light' so thats another 3, boom, done. I can still carry 3 more Laser Rifle sized/weighted items if need be.
Oh boy, I can't wait to get this one during a 1-on-1 Gladitorial combat in front of a huge crowd where both combatants fail and take like a 30 break and are like *Pant*Pant* "Just give me a minute" *CoughCough*
Hi Starfinder Messageboard, We're Cosmic Crit, a Starfinder Actual Play Podcast, and we are playing through Dead Suns and if you've listened to us we
When you roll a Natural 1 we want their to be consequences for Melee, Ranged and Spell casting that rolls a d20. Submit one of each critical failures and we will compile them all into a large list and make an online generator and release it in March. We will also award our three favorite submissions with $10 in Paizo PDFS, and enter everyone that helps out into a drawing for more prizes. Enter as many times as you'd like. More rules and explanation about the challenge can be found here. Here is an example of a submission: MELEE: "Overextended" You miss and your weapon leaves you open to a counter attack. You gain the flat-footed condition until you take a move action to steady yourself. RANGED: "Discharge" A piece of flak, debris or energy escapes your weapon in such a way that you are thrown off and gain the Off-Target condition until the end of the fight SPELLS: "Discombobulated" The Magic backfires in a way that you must make a Willpower save equal to 10 + the Spells level or it hits and effects you. * * * * * You can submit by posting them below, e-mailing us at CosmicCrit@gmail.com, or by shooting them to us on our Twitter or Facebook pages. Thanks in advance, we can't wait to see what everyone comes up with to use on our show, and have a great month!
I cannot contain my excitement! I really think that the genre opens itself up to shorter stories, and there are so many to tell I am excited that it's going once per month. Awesome news.
I really appreciate Rob's answer to that question, as I got book three this week and immediately searched it top to bottom about his ties to the Corpse Fleet. It seems very confusing but the info that I have to go on is: -Eskolar seems to be seeking Diplomatic Immunity
In my mind, and more than likely how I will be representing it in story is that Nor is trying to turn an agent himself for Eox, without going through the Stewards (as is required under Eoxian law), perhaps he has Diplomatic Immunity for such sensitive intelligence work? If the C.F. wants to recapture (as opposed to kill Eskolar) then she has information more than likely important to both parties neither has. Perhaps access codes/coordinates for derelict Eoxian ships in a hidden cache in the Diaspora? I love a good mystery, and open ended questions like that one, and the end fate of the Hardscrabble/Astral Extractions litigation I enjoy as a GM.
Hi Pathfinder & Starfinder fans We are Cosmic Crit, an actual play show running through the Dead Suns Adventure Path for the Starfinder Roleplaying Game. About 2 months ago we launched our show, and we wanted to thank everyone for your support and listening, and invite people to catch up if you haven't heard of us yet. Our show is dedicated to highlighting the best parts of the Dead Suns AP, and to mix in a lot of character backstory, side quest story telling, and fleshing out the living Starfinder universe. That being said we are dedicated to trying to get the rules right, and make our show explanatory for people trying to learn how to play the game for the first time. We run the show pretty clean, and have made up a few inventive Starfinder curse words to replace our salty language when the dice don't go our way. So expect to hear "Pronk!" said a lot, in a variety of ways. We have ten episodes up that you can listen to right now on our website, or you candownload them through iTunes or wherever you listen to podcasts. Episode 1: Space Hooligans.
If you already enjoy our show and want to show your support we are raising money for the charity Extra Life to support Paizo's drive, and you can donate here by joining our team, another team, or making your own. All donations go to hospitals in the Children's Miracle Network of Hospitals and help pay for treatment, surgeries and other expenses. Thanks for checking us out, we really appreciate all the feedback we have gotten so far. If you want to e-mail with a question or comment hit us up here at CosmicCrit@gmail.com.
I'm the Game Master on the 'Cosmic Crit' podcast, and our challenge to our listeners this month, and for anyone here on the Paizo boards, is to create Commercials you might hear/see on Absalom Station. If you write up a script for us to use on the show, or record your own and send it to us at CosmicCrit@gmail.com, we are going to pick our favorites and send you a PDF of the Starfinder CRB or the Alien Archive when it comes out on the 17th. Some more details on the challenge can be found here on our website. Feel free to write up a submission and leave it below too. We are taking them all month long for a fun bonus episode we are doing to raise money and support Paizo's Extra Life campaign. Take a look and join our team or donate to Team Paizo today. Thanks in advance if you submit. We've had some great ones already written up and can't wait to see some more
A new episode of the podcast is out today, Episode 3: Gobstopped. We go off the AP beaten trail a little more in this episode, and meet some NPCs that I (the GM) are very excited to see in reoccurring spots on the podcast.
This last Monday when the Moon eclipsed the Sun we released the first episodes of our new Starfinder Roleplaying Game Actual Play Podcast . We wanted to come back to the Paizo boards and let you know a little bit about the podcast, the game and why we love Starfinder so much.
We fell in love with the idea of converting our Monday night game group to Starfinder, and recording our experiences with the game, back in May. We've been hard at work reading all the setting tidbits, crafting characters, and writing back stories since then. While we are playing the , our game is going to have a lot of character story mixed in alongside side-quests and extra elements. Even if you have played or watched Dead Suns already, there'll be something cool and new to check out in Cosmic Crit. We will be releasing a new episode every Monday, and we are going to keep the show clean. While we are cursing on the podcast, it will be along the lines of "Frak" or "Goblin Spit". While a little violent, the show should be something that we think anyone can take a listen to. If you want to follow us online you can take a look at our website, our facebook page, twitter or instagram. We love feedback and chat online all the time.
I am really excited that we get to announce "Cosmic Crit". My friends and I are going to make a podcast that we want to hear, playing the Strfinder Roleplaying Game as an Actual Play show. We plan on recording right after the game comes out and releasing the following week, with new episode each week after that. If you want to find us online to tell us what a terrible idea this all is, or chat about why you're excited about Starfinder do so here: Website: www.CosmicCrit.com.
We talked about out show on The Drift podcast this week, and had him on our host podcast. We also made a quick RSS feed introduction to the show thats 8 minutes if you want an idea about what the show will be about: Cosmic Crit, Episode 0: Introducing Cosmic Crit. The Drift: A Starfinder Podcast, Episode 7, "Crossover with The More You Nerd Podcast". The More You Nerd: Episode 262 "Drifting Into Starfinder with Jason Sansbury". If you're interested in Actual Play podcasts we would love to hear from you before we even sit down to play. Tell us about what you like to hear in gaming podcasts. We are excited to blast off (certainly not the worst pun I will use on the show) into Starfinder Roleplaying Game in August. Thanks for reading, and we will see you next month.
Hi Everyone, I have gone through about 7 sessions so far of Iron Fang Invasion (started playing the week it came out on Roll20) and have gathered a great group to play with. So far this has been one of my favorite APs to run, its straight forward, but as a GM there are enough story lines and things to have a very fun and flavorful campaign. Having 20-30 refugee NPCs seems daunting at first, but populating the band of Phaender survivors and roleplaying their bonds forming with the PC's seems like it will be very rewarding down the line. So far my game groups consists currently of a Half-Orc Paladin, a human Warlock, a Dwarf Inquisitor of the Green Faith, and half-elf Druid and Bard (if any of you happen to be reading this, wtf are you doing here, spoilers are ahead!). Escaping Phaender took two games, and they have been knocking out events in part 2, random encounters, and protecting the NPCs with aplomb so far. We are almost down with the Troglodyte cave, and I am hoping to finish book one in 2 or 3 more sessions. I thought I'd share my answers to some thoughts in the thread so far: "For the Trog cave, I am inclined to have the Trogs kidnap some of the refugees for sacrifice, and the PCs then have to go down to rescue them." This is a good for a few of the encounters in this game. If you want to up the menace level bring the fight to the PC's or the refugees of Phaender. My party will not for the life of them go to the Wolf Lair, so the mite raiding party is coming to their camp. You can do this with a few of the enemies in part 2. "Third part doesn't sit right with me. I know that troglodytes (which I often accidentally call trogdolytes---which sounds like trog-delights---much to everyone's amusement) are usually chaotic evil, but just going in and killing sentient beings to steal their shelter doesn't sit right with me. I know the players don't HAVE to, but the alternative is no shelter. I think if I were to run it, I'd put more troglodyte encounters in part 2. That way it looks like, "Huh, the troglodytes are a threat to us. We better root them out at the source. And oh, hey, these caves might make for decent shelter."" I think that if you want to let your PC's have their cake and eat it too, make two sects or social ranks of Troglodytes. Maybe Ressh and Sesslok are evil warriors caste, and many of the other Troglodytes under Ighiz are enslaved or somehow oppressed. The evil trogs were the ones that sacrificed the Elf, whereas the other Trogs could do nothing but watch the sick ceremony. This allows your PC's to kill some and spare others. If afterwards they want to share the caves with the erstwhile slaves then they can, or maybe the slaves decide to leave on their own. My PC's are going full Paragon in this section, and so are stabilizing fallen Troglodytes, and are going to reason with Ighiz. I am going to make it a hard Diplomacy check like is suggested in the book, but even if they make friends with Ighiz the Caves are still not in the PC's hands. If they are able to open the Excavator door this will cause another Trog priestess to usurp Ighiz as a false prophet, and take control, leading her people away from the caverns that Ighiz despoiled thus leaving it open for the PCs. Maybe Ighiz will take Handiss and some others and attack the PC's at some point, who knows, but leaving characters open is a great possibility for some revenge plot lines later on.
This is a great suggestion and one that I put in place. Pick a day of the Golarion calendar your festival began in Phaender as 'Day 0', and then mark future evens on it, and use it to keep track of the story so far. We're on day 10 so far Also, I made up an entire page for NPCs in order to keep track of their names, class levels and relationships to each other and the PCs. Aubrin has a crush on the warlock that tends her wounds, a commoner boy wants to squire for the Paladin, and Lirosa and Taidel have befriended our half-elf Bard One question, I have been wondering about is for the majority of this first adventure and maybe the second as well, how are you going to handle loot and equipment? After a while, I had Jett set up a barter/trading post for the Refugee encampment, buying items from PC's for store credit and the like. I am making the encampment function as a Village with a higher chance to find many items. My reasoning is that the refugees got a lot of loot out of Phaender while they escaped, and also can scavenge stuff as they explore the forest, so they have the capability to restock a store. Meanwhile the party can find a good deal of magical loot, don't forget to throw some random encounters in. Use NPC's to brew potions and craft armor, that's what a lot of the NPCs are their for. How are you handling all the potential encounters in Part 2, roll for them or something else? Also trying to figure out when to start up the Militia system for them. Any pointers would be grand. It was said before that they pick a cardinal direction, and I make them make a Survival check to find hints of what lays ahead, like Wolf tracks to the north or the clearing with the cabin to the east. I think the militia should start right away, with Kining Blondebeard or Aubrin leading combat training for the refugees, but have them come together as a unit towards the end of the adventure. From then on out if you throw a random encounter at the refugee's camp sites you can have play around with militia combat in book 2 ambush Scarvinious while he is out patrolling. Assuming they kill the bugbear and his bugbear guards, What do you think will happen to camp redjaw with out their military commander? I think this is fine, but I believe it says he would retreat if he was ambushed to the safety of the hobgoblin camp. This would either make attacking the camp a little harder or the next time he comes out he brings nearly everyone with him to hunt the PC's down. If they can kill Scarvinious, I would make another hobgoblin Sargent take up the banner, and either attack the PC's at their home, or defensively hold the camp, and await reinforcements. Regardless, you should try and force the PC's that the camp has to be shut down. I hope some of these thoughts we helpful, I'm very excited to start book 2 as it looks harrowing and fun, but if you haven't read book three that's when things really start looking fun in Longshadow. |
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