Lauren's entire bell shivers in empathetic pain at the blow that just knocked Diedre down. "Is you..." she begins to ask just as the Captain reports her status. As Diedre runs off, she thinks to herself about all the nights she spent not going to the gym and how she realizes that's a mistake. She tries to follow.
Lauren gets caught in a section of trees and is forced to go around to catch back up to the question. Her bell is heaving with exertion, and she's panting, "အားကစားရုံ," over and over again as she runs.
All the Kobolds I've met would take huge issue with comparisons to either Ysoki or Ikeshti. Kobolds are dragons....Dragons. There is no comparing them to anything except Dragons. If you can't see that, they'd happily pour some alchemist's fire down your throat to enlighten you.
Thank you again, Joe, for the answers we seek.
I already said this, but I can not wait for this book. It is all hype over here. Hurry up shipping email.
So....Kobolds?Kobolds.Kobolds.Kobolds. Yup, Kobolds. Also, Grippli (Seriously, they're canonically from another planet. Why aren't they in the game yet? Planet of the Frogs!) I don't think they're official pathfinder races and I'm suspecting there's some sort of legal reason, but I also miss the races from the Psionics handbooks. Half-Giants in particular. We got sexy dromites (lashunta) already, though, I guess.
While it doesn't appear to have made it live to the actual site, yet, Joe Pasini has answered this, here. For question 3: Powered armor must be upgraded level by level as detailed in Starfinder Armory; this does indeed become prohibitively expensive. While I personally disagree with this ruling and would be happy to provide mathematical models to show why, I really really really appreciate that they took the time to answer this question. I'm putting this here in case anyone does a search for this particular thread later. I'll be updating the cookiemaker sheet in the next release to reflect the FAQ'ed formulae.
Strange, ancient ruins that predate ijtikri culture dot the scattered islands of Vesk-2 and are an enduring mystery on the planet, hinting at the possibility of another sapient species that inhabited the world in the distant past. Please let this be Grippli and be detailed in the book...
YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!! Thank you, Joe and the team, so much for your diligent work on this. Regular updates to the FAQ really really help in the online region of Organized Play.
I really appreciate the FAQ on this. Thank you.
Lauren lets go of Diedre as she staggers up. "What does positions of suns matters?" Lauren questions, as she focuses her mind on the bindings of force and pain. Two small stinglets of force lance out and strike at Twonas En.
"Is four. Do they not teaches mathematics on this planet?" Lauren says, in response.
"Do you need a skittermander" is spoken with the exact same tone and subtext as "Bless your heart".
Realizing that she wouldn't actually know the difference and feeling especially adventurous, Lauren flaps her feeder tentacles and bobs her bell in a kind of shrugging motion as she sits down.
Those hobkins gremlins can die in a fire.
I've yet to see anyone suggest a way to fairly incorporate a mecha into the rules that either isn't a high level item (a la the existing huge and larger power armor) or isn't completely broken. I really don't think you can do a mecha of that type that both works for a first level character (without breaking the game entirely) and also feels like what people are asking for.
We've gone over this several times already in this thread and rehashing that would just be tedious. I'm not convinced that it forbids it, and you are, and neither of us has convinced the other. I think that's enough to conclude that it doesn't "clearly" forbid it :) This is why we need a FAQ, and I encourage everyone to click the FAQ button if they haven't already. If the AR team has access to discussions that could get a developer to FAQ this, I would further recommend you exercise those and implore them to FAQ this. I'm convinced the text does clearly forbid it, so I'm not going to allow it in any of the SFS games I run. If you, and others, are convinced the text doesn't, you're going to allow it in the SFS games you run. A player that plays in both of our games is going to have a drastically different experience. That isn't healthy for OP in general, and makes GM's that honestly feel like they're playing fairly and by the rules look like the 'bad guys' taking away players toys. That isn't fun for anyone. If it's allowed, it needs to be clearly and emphatically allowed.
This sheet, is an automated sheet that keeps track of, I believe, all the stuff you mention, except for the spell descriptions. It also automates much of the character creation and level up process. It's, unfortunately, not very printer or mobile friendly, but it's one of the better free resources out there.
Goblin stow-a-ways, hiding in the bowels of the ship, mess up the Drift engine mid mission. Unfortunately, it happens at precisely the same time as a Drift 'mishap' so now you have to find the goblins, convince them to give you back the part they found, and repair the ship, all while an army of wraiths from the shadow plane attempts to board the ship.
Lauren begins looking at the personal files.
I did a couple comparison charts and at a handful of levels, Shield beats Weapon for raw damage ((assuming the 1.5x specialization and Soulfire)). If it targets EAC, it's definitely going to be better than weapon. EDIT: assuming you optimize both for damage
Well, I think the following 'order' works really well as a semi-coherent plot with a lot of crossover and the bulk of the better storylines. If I were using SFS scenarios to build a coherent home game, this is probably the track I'd run them through. 1st Level
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"May be she has message for why she leaves..." Lauren says to her self as she peruses Doctor Solstarni's email.
What you are arguing is that environmental seals shut off certain abilities despte having no game effects for doing so because SCIENCE! in a system where SCIENCE! has been hyper drived into the sun on the wings of literal angels. What I'm arguing is that we all make an attempt to 'play fair' and take the good with the bad rather than try to one up the developers or each other when we roleplay. If the rules say, or even imply, that a thing works (whether it's because of MAGIC! or SCIENCE! or because the game developers say so) we accept that as a part of the game and play accordingly. ie I'll never argue about how Force Field armor upgrades work because the rules say they work how they work, even though it makes no sense. If the rules don't say a thing works, then it doesn't. Especially if doing so makes the universe less internally consistent. Even if we want it to. Even if it makes some characters more difficult to play than others. Even if it makes some ability or another effectively useless. Part of the fun of the game is in overcoming challenges presented to the character. Ignoring that makes the game less fun (for me). I'm perfectly happy to play in a game where creatures that evolved/were created to be underwater hunters are better hunters underwater than on land. That kind of character diversity makes the game better (in my opinion) not worse. I've said my piece, though. So I'm out. I'll continue running and playing the game the way I am and you can continue running and playing the game the way you are and we can just accept that that's different and that's fine until there's an official ruling that corrects one or both of us. All it takes is one line "Characters that have special senses are in no way hampered by environmental protections on armor." (or something similar) and I'll be perfectly happy to change the way I run/play.
I disagree. I think the burden of proof lies on wanting to have your cake and eat it too. If you as a player say, "I close my eyes to avoid the medusa's gaze attack." Then you are protected but you also can't see the mephit about to shoot your friend. If you as a player say, "I turn on my environmental protections to avoid the toxic atmosphere." Then you are protected but you also can't smell the bantrid assassin sneaking up behind you. If you want both, you need to show a rule that says you can have both.
It gets too weird doing it the other way, how are you using blindsense scent or sound if your armor works like it's in a vacuum? I don't. I've always, as a player, assumed that my characters that had that stuff couldn't use it if I had environmental protections on or are in an environment where that otherwise doesn't make any sense (like hearing in a vacuum). I've always, as a GM, ruled that you can have your environmental protections on, or you can use scent (or several other 'blindsenses' that rely on exposure to the atomosphere), but not both. That's a tradeoff for being safe from dangerous gasses. If there's some rule or FAQ or dev post where it explicitly (or even implicitly) states that scent works in environmental protections or you can somehow hear in a vacuum with armor, I've honestly missed it, and would appreciate the heads up where that's explained. I don't see it in the rules for environmental protections on armor, nor on the rules for the blindsense or blindsight special abilities.
That'd be weird. There's a lot of stuff that is lethal long before you can smell it. Not to mention stuff that is lethal that has no smell or taste at all. I mean, I know it could all just be 'magic' but it'd be really weird for it to let anything through, especially if it's supposed to stand up to a vacuum test.
I just did a test build for a combo Soldier 3/Shield Solarian 2 with max Charisma and a starting 13 in Strength (so you can get Power Armor prof at 5 and use that for Strength). At level 5 I come up with 25 average (min 21/max 29) damage, assuming a level 5 crystal and maxing Charisma and taking melee striker and photon mode. A power-larian (solar weapon + power armor prof) at the same level is looking at 21 average damage. It looks to be pretty weak before that, but if you can GM-Baby your way through the lower levels, or are playing a game that starts at level 5 or higher, it might just work out.
I've updated the cookiemaker autosheet with the missing books since August. Full details of the update can be found on the Changes TAB and on reddit here. Have fun out there, kids.
The next update to the cookiemaker sheet will have these options, because they're awesome.
Lauren's mind reals as she heads to the office. She vows to spend the next trip through space watching tri-vids to catch up on her idioms.
This is one of my favorite backmatter articles. I miss my psionics and I've about given up on the Dreamscarred kickstarter. I have a mystic GM baby that I've yet to play at 3rd level, I may just switch him to this connection if it becomes society legal.
The actual text... A shakalta must multiclass into two classes, one for each soul. The shakalta must alternate between the two classes whenever they gain a new level. A shakalta can never have more than one level of difference between these two classes. A shakalta who uses a mnemonic editor must still follow these restrictions. It's two classes, period. One for each soul. They must alternate between these two classes. They can't pick a 3rd or a 4th. They can't dip.
The ectoplasmic barrage spell fills the 'niche' for Mystics a lot of people complain about. It's a KAC targetting attack spell from 1-6 with 2 targets. It does full damage to incorporeal. All levels have the knockdown crit effect (which I personally hate, but whatevs). The level 1 version does 2d6 damage. It scales from that to 15d6 for the highest level version. The top two also auto-entangle on hit. Ectoplasmic eruption is basically a weak fireball that does bludgeoning and entangles on failed save. If an incorporeal creature is entangled, they can't move through objects.
Small arms have the problem of being hampered by Operatives. In order for anyone else to be able to use them well, you have to give them things that Operatives can't take advantage of. Until such things are out there, and there are enough of them to warrant it, anyone other than an operative not using at least a longarm is shooting themselves in the foot. I agree that that's a problem, even post COM, because there's an expected trope of people walking around with nothing but 'a good blaster on their side'.
My personal head canon is that the starfinder universe is a simulation and that the GAP was caused by a faulty garbage collection that erased memory that was supposed to be still in use. It's nice that the Anacites, at least, agree with me. |
