Starfinder Society Quest: Into the Unknown

Nice, the product page is there :D

Need to favorite this one so I don't lose sight of it.

So does this include the pregens, or do they come separately?

So does this include the pregens, or do they come separately?

Pregenerated characters for this adventure would be the seven iconic characters set to be released for use in Starfinder Society Roleplaying Guild as a whole. I anticipate the pregenerated characters will be a separate download on a Starfinder Society resources page, much as are the pregenerated characters for Pathfinder Society now.

Thanks John.

I have an event planned for that first weekend, so I am just making sure my ducks line up :)

Why have the Quests been taken off the Available list with a release date of August 17th and made unavailable?

Why have the Quests been taken off the Available list with a release date of August 17th and made unavailable?

Seconded. I'm tentatively planning to run these back home during Gencon, but if that's not in the cards, it would be great to know...

I guess that means that they won´t be available before august 17th?

Is there an ETA for the downloadable iconic Starfinder pregenerated characters?

I guess that means that they won´t be available before august 17th?

Is there an ETA for the downloadable iconic Starfinder pregenerated characters?

The pregenerated characters are in the later stages of production, so they should be showing up soon.

As for having these quests available earlier, the public release date is the date at which they're released to the public. Our digital-only products do not have an early PDF granted in the same way that physical subscription products do, and the only people who get early access to these adventures are the volunteer GMs who are preparing to run them at Gen Con. For all other intents and purposes, August 17th is the release date, so plan your events accordingly.

Marco Massoudi wrote:

I guess that means that they won´t be available before august 17th?

Is there an ETA for the downloadable iconic Starfinder pregenerated characters?

The pregenerated characters are in the later stages of production, so they should be showing up soon.

As for having these quests available earlier, the public release date is the date at which they're released to the public. Our digital-only products do not have an early PDF granted in the same way that physical subscription products do, and the only people who get early access to these adventures are the volunteer GMs who are preparing to run them at Gen Con. For all other intents and purposes, August 17th is the release date, so plan your events accordingly.

Thank you, John. Much appreciated! :-)

The pregenerated characters are in the later stages of production, so they should be showing up soon.

As for having these quests available earlier, the public release date is the date at which they're released to the public. Our digital-only products do not have an early PDF granted in the same way that physical subscription products do, and the only people who get early access to these adventures are the volunteer GMs who are preparing to run them at Gen Con. For all other intents and purposes, August 17th is the release date, so plan your events accordingly.

John:

Thank you for confirming that this will in fact be available on the 17th.

Can you tell me what the cost for this PDF is?

Can you tell me what the cost for this PDF is?

Normally Quests are free, although not sure if a pack of them would be charged for.

Personally I'd hope they would be free - This sounds like it would work well as a 'introducing people to Starfinder' product.

These Quests will be free! :)

Yay!

These Quests will be free! :)

Incredible! You guys and gals are the greatest!

FREE QUESTS? WUNDERBAR!

SWEET!!, can't wait to run this for some of the 40+ players in my SF Roll20 group!!

Bless you :)

Tom

Pregenerated characters for this adventure would be the seven iconic characters set to be released for use in Starfinder Society Roleplaying Guild as a whole. I anticipate the pregenerated characters will be a separate download on a Starfinder Society resources page, much as are the pregenerated characters for Pathfinder Society now.

The Starfinder pregenerated characters can be located here.

These Quests will be free! :)

You're giving away my hand-crafted, expertly-written quests for...FREE?

That's awesome! :-)

Checks to see if it's available.. it says today.. but it is today! :) ah well Ill check back

Maybe we have to wait for a different today?

Because I live overseas, the site has been telling me that the PDFs will be available "today" for approximately 36 hours now :)

I kicked it, should be ready for y'all now :)

YAY!

Thankies Chris!

Are these quests evergreen?

Are these quests evergreen?

Yes, it is tagged as replayable.

On that topic, I'm not entirely clear what is meant by this...

Into the Unknown can be replayed for credit, but the credit must be applied to a different 1st-level character each time. When a GM runs a quest, she also gets credit applied to a character. However, each time she runs one, she can check off any one of the quest boxes on her Chronicle sheet. In this way, a GM can continue to earn credit toward a character even if she runs the same quest several times for different groups.

What "quest boxes" is it talking about? There don't appear to be any boxes on the chronicle sheet for each quest completed, just for clues found. Is the idea that whenever you run a quest from this you can treat it as if your character that's getting GM credit has completed an arbitrary one of the quests (so you can always make progress to having done all of them, even if you ended up rerunning the same one for multiple different groups)?

Usually on the chronicle sheet each quest has a check box preceding it for the GM To check to show the character has played through that one. It's entirely possible the boxes went missing (I haven't downloaded it yet), but the idea is the same. In an effort to not penalize GMs at conventions (or the like) who run the same one over and over, every quest run counts as a quest of their choice for their GM chronicle.

Usually on the chronicle sheet each quest has a check box preceding it for the GM To check to show the character has played through that one. It's entirely possible the boxes went missing (I haven't downloaded it yet), but the idea is the same. In an effort to not penalize GMs at conventions (or the like) who run the same one over and over, every quest run counts as a quest of their choice for their GM chronicle.

Ok, that makes sense. Thanks.

Usually on the chronicle sheet each quest has a check box preceding it for the GM To check to show the character has played through that one. It's entirely possible the boxes went missing (I haven't downloaded it yet), but the idea is the same. In an effort to not penalize GMs at conventions (or the like) who run the same one over and over, every quest run counts as a quest of their choice for their GM chronicle.

The chronicle instruction says to circle the quests as and when, which might mean that it's a case of some standard text being copied in and not updated

Hey, all - first time running quests in the organized play format. Just to make sure I have it right, if a player runs a pregen through all 5 components of this quest, they'd end up with:

A) 2120 Credits, 5 XP, 7 Fame/Reputation, and two boons

or

B) 720 Credits, 1 XP, 2 Fame/Reputation, and two boons

Thanks!

Option B. They apply the credits/XP/Fame/Reputation of the highest amount completed. The listed amounts at lower quest completed levels are what they get if they choose to apply another chronicle sheet to the character before finishing them all (which prevents them from ever going back and playing more of the quests with the same character).

In area C should the party be heading north or south? I'm pretty sure it's meant to be north but my map doesn't have C1,2 or 3 marked anywhere.

Do you have to play pregens in these? Or can you bring your own character?

Do you have to play pregens in these? Or can you bring your own character?

You may bring your own.

Yes, it is tagged as replayable.

I keep hearing about scenarios being tagged as this or that, but _where_ are these tags displayed?

How are the crew numbers for the two NPC starships calculated? They seem a bit high for the intended player levels.

How are the crew numbers for the two NPC starships calculated? They seem a bit high for the intended player levels.

Starfinder NPCs aren't built by the same rules as PCs.

rooneg wrote:

Yes, it is tagged as replayable.

I keep hearing about scenarios being tagged as this or that, but _where_ are these tags displayed?

The front page, under the table of contents.

I don't know if there's a way to find the tags if you don't own the scenario.

doktorJung wrote:

rooneg wrote:

Yes, it is tagged as replayable.

I keep hearing about scenarios being tagged as this or that, but _where_ are these tags displayed?

The front page, under the table of contents.

I don't know if there's a way to find the tags if you don't own the scenario.

Could be something they put into the product descriptions (if there was a way to see which scenarios had which tag in a big list or searchable way that would be great), or people who have the scenario could add it to the related pages wiki.

Lord Fyre wrote:

How are the crew numbers for the two NPC starships calculated? They seem a bit high for the intended player levels.

Starfinder NPCs aren't built by the same rules as PCs.

I know. I meant that they seem too high for the intended challenge level; a recipe for a TPK.

I know this is picky, but, I have been playing with creating a Mystic character, and saw this with the pregens.

Nowhere in the character sheet, on the Mystic pregens, does it say what the connection is. It is easy to figure out because of two of his SA, but I was thinking that instead of just:

Male shirren priest mystic 1

that the connections is added like this:

Male shirren priest mystic(healer) 1

thanks for listening.

-- david

The front page, under the table of contents.

I don't know if there's a way to find the tags if you don't own the scenario.

Aha, thanks! And yes, showing tags somewhere in the description here or in a combined document would be nice.

Gorbacz wrote:

Lord Fyre wrote:

How are the crew numbers for the two NPC starships calculated? They seem a bit high for the intended player levels.

Starfinder NPCs aren't built by the same rules as PCs.

I know. I meant that they seem too high for the intended challenge level; a recipe for a TPK.

The PCs have a much faster and more maneuverable ship. It makes a HUGE difference.

Even the team I mistakenly did double damage to with the big gun on round 1 Was able to defeat the enemy through piloting properly.

Good to have some free Starfindin' Unknown Guild Questin' stuff out there. ;)

Expecting to run this a couple times I entered all the ships on the Starship Control sheet with extra GM notes. Can someone tell me where I got the math wrong for the first enemy ship? When I calculated the AC and TL out it came to AC: 10 TL: 10. +1 for Piloting but -1 for Large Size. But the scenario shows AC:11 and TL: 11. No armor or defensive systems listed.

The pilot has 2 ranks in Piloting (+2), and the ship is Large size (-1), so an AC & TL of 11 is correct.

The pilot has 2 ranks in Piloting (+2), and the ship is Large size (-1), so an AC & TL of 11 is correct.

Then shouldn't the Loreseeker's AC & TL be 12 not 13?

Iammars wrote:

The pilot has 2 ranks in Piloting (+2), and the ship is Large size (-1), so an AC & TL of 11 is correct.

Then shouldn't the Loreseeker's AC & TL be 12 not 13?

They didn't want to pre-figure it, because, while unlikely, it is possible that the party may be forced to use the Piloting skill untrained.

Will they fix the ship map to show where is C1, C2 and C3?