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Sobokazhet wrote:

And that is acceptable for some.

Is it?

A 1st-level solarian with Strength 18 and Weapon Focus has an attack bonus of +6. With a tactical pike, they deal 1d8+5 damage in photon mode. Against an HP 17-18-ish enemy (e.g. a CR 1 akata), it will take them two regular hits to take down the enemy.

A 1st-level solarian with Strength 14 and Weapon Focus has an attack bonus of +4. With a tactical pike, they deal 1d8+3 damage in photon mode. Against an HP 17-18-ish enemy (e.g. a CR 1 akata), it will take them *three* regular hits to take down the enemy.

The former also has an attack bonus 2 higher than the latter, or 10% more overall chances of landing a hit.

In the case of the latter, I would say that the extra turn spent trying to take down the enemy is non-negligible, which could very well be *two* extra turns spent attempting to fell the opponent in the event that the character misses by only 1 or 2. Action economy is king, after all, and an enemy that stays up for one or two more rounds is an enemy that threatens the party for that much longer.

I would like to point out that this assumes that you're the only one hitting said enemy. Normally I wouldn't run off and split the group, fighting enemies one on one, I'd be working with my group to take down monsters. In your example, odds are no matter if you're the first or second solarion you used, that enemy will probably be dead in just one round if you have a competent party.

Actually it was 1003, at some point someone (probably me) miscounted. Oh, and CKent83, I removed the Executor from the list cause you had exactly one too many, and we already have the Executioner, which was pretty close. It got added to the list of extra bonus names off to the side.

SO, without further ado...
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I hereby present, for the first time ever, the completed list of 1000 ship names.

THE LIST

Heh. In the last 4 comments, I have been corrected in three different ways. Well played, Paizo community.

Tengu are a "Core" race in my pathfinder games and will absolutely be a "Core" race in my Starfinder games.
SM

you, sir, are my hero.

I didn't think anybody outside of Wikipedia actually knew what that stuff was.

It's used in most dictionaries, and it's basically required in order to attemd oxford. (that last part I made up)

At least they lent me some clothes for the photoshoot.

This avatar is so embarrassing. -_-

I have to ask... why is Iseph staring at you?

Owen K. C. Stephens wrote:

Quandary wrote:

Sounds like these guys are like alt-(Pathfinder)-Gnomes in a way...

Ysoki/Ratfolk, which previously existed in Golarion, treading more alt-D&D-Tinker-Gnome territory...

What is the difference between the treatment of the new "Starfinder Core" races and the old Pathfinder Core races?
"Core Races" in PRPG meant the PC stat races in Core Book.
Only now I hear all those races will also be included in Starfinder Core Rules.
Except amongst those, only Human has been described as a Core Starfinder Race.
Will a distinction between those two groups of PC Races be an ongoing thing, or is it just weirdness of Blog Previews?

There is a distinction.

Imagine if we had put fetchlings and tengu in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook.

... you should have put Tengu in the core rulebook...

...can we have Tengu in Starfinder?...

Quandary wrote:

Sounds like these guys are like alt-(Pathfinder)-Gnomes in a way...

Ysoki/Ratfolk, which previously existed in Golarion, treading more alt-D&D-Tinker-Gnome territory...

What is the difference between the treatment of the new "Starfinder Core" races and the old Pathfinder Core races?
"Core Races" in PRPG meant the PC stat races in Core Book.
Only now I hear all those races will also be included in Starfinder Core Rules.
Except amongst those, only Human has been described as a Core Starfinder Race.
Will a distinction between those two groups of PC Races be an ongoing thing, or is it just weirdness of Blog Previews?

There is a distinction.

Imagine if we had put fetchlings and tengu in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook.

... you should have put Tengu in the core rulebook...

I just had an amazingly terrible idea for my campaign. I'm making a Shirren priest (class probably a cleric or mystic) who leads a cult of followers who worship the Swarm and earnestly believe that the only way their species can survive is to re-merge with the Swarm. The members of said cult are all complete communists and use implants/stims to simulate a hivemind, with all members contributing to it. The party is hired by the priest (who never joined the hivemind so he could preach independently) to go blow up a rival cult (players don't know that priest is a cult leader yet). After they blow it up, when they ask why the priest wanted them to go kaboom, he basically says "Cause they were interfering with my church's ancestor worshipping. Hey, speaking of, we need some security at our next meeting cause the government is trying to dissipate us. Interested?" If the players are smart, "ancestor worship" might clue them in on the cult. Otherwise, if they are not dumb, the government intervention should tip them off of the less-than-legal stuff happening. Even if they are dumb, the actual being at the cult meeting should hopefully be obvious enough to reveal that they are a cult. It's up to the players how they proceed with this knowledge.

Ideas/critiques/questions anyone? I'm still relatively new to gm'ing, so my storylines right now aren't quite on par yet.

Lord Fyre wrote:

ulgulanoth wrote:

I wonder why Hobgoblins couldn't have just filled this role?

Probably because they wanted "new" races for Starfinder.

Indeed. That's probably the same reason why we have Ysoki and not Dwarfs, or Lashunta and not Elves.

WHOAH WHOAH WHOAH, HANG ON HERE. I take offence to this on behalf of the Ysoki. They compare better to gnomes than dwarves, they are an engineering tinker-ey race, and gnomes' physique is more similar due to the lack of brawn. Ysoki are like jawas: they build crap to sell and mess with, not to go to friggin war with it.

deadboy wrote:

Star flumphs would be BRILLIANT! A non-humanoid race is really what a sci-fi setting needs.

Dibs on getting to play a hooloovoo.

Tell you what: you can be a hooloovoo, and I'll take a mattress. Sound good?

How many are we at?

I counted 391, So the actual number is somewhere between 380 and 402, with a bell curve.

I guarantee that Hero Lab will develop and subsequently charge you for the Starfinder add on.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

So you are saying the book will be done and complete and copies will exist outside of Paizo HQ in some form... and if we just happened to get a team together with specific skills we might be able to intercept a copy from some publishing house out in... uh, where are your books printed at these days? Just curious, cause, you know, language skills might be important here. This reminds me, i need to pick up all my slightly darker black turtle necks from the dry cleaners... Thanks!

Speaking of, my balaclavas just came in yesterday, and my friend Jeff (who is a linguist :3) lives a few miles down. We're meeting for lunch tomorrow to discuss the armored truck, right?

I'm Hiding In Your Closet wrote:

No WARHAMMER 40K-style comic relief space-orcs.

I don't see wot yer mean when yer say komic relief, ya git. We orks will trash yer an' bash yer. We are as kunnin' an brutal as anyone else. Ya dang 'umiez are all 'da same.

'Alp! Me shoota went an' browk eetself ugen. Ah need anotha won!

I think I'm going to go with something simple using numeric designations for the gunships.

N2O5
O2F2
ClF3
Maybe C6N12H6O12

And their carrier, the No Unplanned Detonations.

I love chemistry :3

So here's my take on this.
[silliness]
Elves are actually FROM the time/universe of starfinder, and got tired of all the goodness-knows-what that was coming from the Guild Of Players And Starfinders Of The Galaxy Inc. Co. Corp. LLC. TM ® ©, as they are genetically modified humans who have extreme life-extension tech and magic. They were also very full of themselves, and thought themselves superior to normal humans for being genetically modified. So what they decided to do as a species is time travel back in time to medieval-ey times, with Golarion still around, and place themselves as superior to humans during this era to give themselves an even bigger distinct advantage in the current time. The reason that they didn't know that they were ALREADY part of the human's history was that all of golarion's history of elves got erased with golarion, and what little remained everyone assumed was referring to the drow. Thus, most elves left the time of starfinder and created their own little paradox in that all elves, if their ancestry is traced back far enough, just leads back to themselves, and they have also trapped themselves way back in time.
[/silliness]
So yeah. Paradox. Fun stuff.

Or, I dunno, you get mad enough and hulk out, but werewolf instead of hulk? would make for some cool roleplaying experiences, trying to keep calm in a firefight, and not wanting to be a beast and all that dramatic crap.

*Gm_Beernorg looks closely at the arcane text on the wall, trying it read it...*

GM_Beernorg is banned for blowing up my explosive runes intended for my GM, Michael.

I apologize for this half of the post, as it is more a request than a question. All I ask is that you make some form of Thri-Kreen available to play, and that you don't kill of the almighty Tengu race.

This half is my question: while I understand that this is early development and that you don't have plans for everything, are you at least OPEN to having a beta for the game?

"Ok. I prayed for healing for you."

"My spleen is still all over the cargo hold."

"Well, so as not to create paradoxes, prayers can only travel at the speed of light. By my calculations, we should be getting an answer in... well, never mind my calculations. You just lay there and let the healing power of the gods wash over you."

"Are you sure I can't just have a medpack? Even a suture or two would be--"

"--shush, shhhh... the gods... wait for it..."

"Hey, do you want to help me try out this laser cannon? It looks really cool!"

"Um, okaaay... so you can use laser swords but not cannons?"

"EXCUSE ME??? I am personally offended by your lack of respect for others, you selfish idiot."

"Okay, okay, sorry. But seriously, do you want to at least watch it blow something up?"

"I can't believe how INCONSIDERATE you are. I hope you're satisfied with yourself, you faithless dog."

"Geez, fine. I'll just go find Jake then."

"WHAT??? First you mock my religion, and now you're DUMPING ME?!?!"

"... I'm done."

Space Thri-kreen and space Tengus are all I ask for. I kinda get the feeling that one or both would be supplementary though, and not in the core book.