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I still need to pick my talents, Destiny, and record down my Force Points. Hrm.....

I've got a character background and stat block ready. The stats are in rough form and I'd need to properly format them all for pretty viewing, but here it is:

California Clarke

I'll write a physical description once the chief has finalized his tweaks to the armor system.

2: Because frankly, it's unnecessary to have three distinct levels of armor tracked and require their own g$$!++n feat to use. That's what bothers me - you're requiring a feat, a very limited resource, for a character to use a completely passive piece of hardware. As written, you can't even wrap a ballistic vest around your chest without taking a ridiculous penalty to attack and any skill listed with an armor class penalty. Hell, my leather duster weighs more and would be more encumbering!

Also, this is a d20-based roleplaying game. Are you going to tell the person who winds up playing an engineer "no, you just can't equip that" if they decide they need to get their Heavy Armor on? This isn't a video game, that s%~& won't fly.

3: Better too much than not enough, especially if someone wants to actually spend a Skill Focus on Knowledge. If it's just one, I'd never spend it, as a complete and utterly useless waste of a feat. If it applied to all Knowledge skills, though, it might be worth it.

Also, something else you might want to change:

This is Mass Effect. Everybody wears armor. Even cute little untrained girls like Liara get to wear Light Armor.

I think you should give everybody Armor Proficiency (Light) and do away with Armor Proficiency (Medium), leaving everyone either starting with Armor Proficiency (Heavy) - the Soldier - or only having to spend one feat to get it.

For the armors classified as medium currently, you could just let them qualify as Light, or make them Heavy.

[edit]Personally, I'd just do away with Armor Proficiency feats altogether. It's armor! You wear it! It protects you from bullets! Not much more to it than that. And they're not looking to hire folks who can't handle themselves in firefights - that's why even Engineers start with rifle proficiency here.

Got a question for you, chief: If someone takes Skill Focus (Knowledge,) will you let it apply to any Knowledge skill rolls they make, even on the Knowledges they haven't specifically trained in?

I think it seems reasonable because it enables a Mordin Solus-type character: Making Untrained checks, you may get a +5 bonus, but you're still capped at Common Knowledge. I mean, Mordin is unquestionably an extremely intelligent guy, but I doubt he's Trained in Sociology; he just hasn't had enough time in his short life to have become a master layer and criminologist. So while he can probably answer broad questions and generalities about legal systems the galaxy over, he's not going to be able to answer questions relating to the minutiae of legal systems of social justice the way an experienced prosecutor, legislator, or sociologist can.

It also lets him be aces at the Knowledge skills he has trained (Galactic Lore, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Technology,) with only one feat, letting him conserve the rest for the fine art of hurting things and breaking folks; and of course, fixing ailments.

If Asari don't need Amps, then it's definitely a retcon, as in ME1, Liara needed an Amp.

It's possible that Asari without an Amp are far more telekinetic than most other species without Amps, but they still need an Amplifier to do Jedi s+&~ like hurl shipping crates and Krogan around.

Um, I thought Asari did need Amplifiers?

Hrm... I was considering a Face/Pilot, actually. Heh... Hrm...

At this point, I have to wonder: is anyone planning a Face character - someone who does serious diplomatizing/intimidating/information gathering, and is anyone planning a Pilot?

Well, if someone else has taken the human tech idea... Hrm...

ShadowDragon8685 wrote:

Besides, I'm gonna have to punch Udina in the gut at some point or another. It would probably be best if he were a despised little toady rather than one of the few people in the Galaxy who could fire me (out of an airlock.)

You do know that if we make it much past ME2 time line wise Udina becomes councilor anyways right?

NO, I didn't! Arrrrrgh!

Well, I'm just gonna have to make sure he's a little too respirationally-challenged to do it this time around.

Yeah, I'm just thinking... Mass Effect is a pretty adult setting, not just in terms of the fact that there's an entire race of blue alien space babes who are out specifically to bone members of other races, but also in that there's blood and violence and death and backstabbing and betrayal and folk are gonna cuss a lot in an environment like that, and I don't like bowlderizing my cussin'.

Wow... It did the slangword for breasts, but not piss?

Either way, I'm starting to see a problem with these Paizo forums. We may need to rethink the venue, I think.

Uh... Wait... Hang on... Let me get my George Carlin on here here...

[Carlin] S!&@ piss f!*$ c!*~ c$#+&+@%!# m!*&~+&!%*!# t@*~. [/Carlin]

Anderson. Udina's the kind of a#$+~+! who would nix the project and then tell the Alliance to start working on their own all-human team of badasses instead.

Besides, I'm gonna have to punch Udina in the gut at some point or another. It would probably be best if he were a despised little toady rather than one of the few people in the Galaxy who could fire me (out of an airlock.)

So far, I've seen the following character ideas (and rough sheet drafts) thrown about.

TimFrie (Salarian Infiltrator, STG, Terminus systems background)
Sigz (Asari Adept)

I'm still thinking. There's so many possibilities. It hit me just now that a Drell would make a fantastic reporter - especially reporting on things where being caught with recording equipment (war corresponding, criminal behavior exposés,) gets you summarily killed.

Or maybe a Krogan accountant. Everybody loves to kill people, but somebody has to crunch the numbers and make sure the killing that's going on is bringing in more money than is going out the end of the barrels that are doing the killing, or else the killing will come to a big stop, real quick, and then you get killed*. :) (Plus, Krogan accountants seldom have difficulty being a little late on their loans. It's not easy to find legbreakers willing to go after a Krogan.)

Or there's some possibilities I could adept from that fic I mentioned writing: A human who survived a purge of 'illegal genetic augmentation experiments' carried out by none other than your friendly neighborhood bastard Saren Arterius who wound up in self-imposed exile in the Terminus systems and has been a constant voice of dissent to the way the Council does things who gets scooped up because she's more complex than simply being an antagonist and just too damn good at technical stuff to say no to. An Asari C-Sec Detective who's damn good at her job and lost her family in Sovereign's attack. Or a Quarian pilot who got tricked into slavery on her pilgrimage and hijacked the ship she was being held prisoner on to escape... Hrm... So many possibilities...

*I assume that this is being set up to have the same funding situation that Spectres have; IE, whatever money you can make from whatever devil's bargains you can strike?

I doubt that the Alliance is just going to hand out a new Normandy-class vessel to a bunch of random wankers that the Council might, might, consider making into Spectres if they do good.

Such a group would probably wind up with something like a secondhand Turian corvette or something, or maybe something seized from pirates or mercenaries.

Characters... Hrm.... Khalisah al-Jilani? :P

Conrad's not just a poseur, he's a full-blown tosser. But he's amusing and his heart's in the right place, even if his head is firmly lodged up somewhere north of his colon.

Hrm... There's a couple of characters from a bigass Mass Effect fanfic I was writing a while back I might consider bringing in, or at least a clone with the serial number filed off...

I have one big important question: What about the ship? We've gotta have a Cool Ship, right?

Reading the Campaign Info tab, I'm half-tempted to create Conrad Verner. :)

Heh... Hrm... Need to think on this one.....

The Google Docs thing might work fairly well, I think. As for the talents... Sounds like fun.

[e]Also, I'm guessing there's no way to get a custom Avatar on this forum? :(

How would one even use Google Docs for a PbP? Give everybody editing rights to the same 'story' page? Well... That could work, but it would be a bit confusing, I'd think, since you'd need to work extra-hard to differentiate your pieces from everyone else's.

If it's based on Star Wars' Saga Edition, getting proficiency in a weapon your class doesn't have as a base should be as simple as choosing a feat.

Alright, you twisted my arm. I assume that UltraFennec is AdamantGlassOrchird?

I wonder what to play... Hrm. Also, I haven't played ME3, much to my saddening. May I suggest a play-time somewhere between ME2 and ME3, or even concurrent with ME2?