Starship Combat - Minor Crew Actions

[jozh]

Starfinder Core Rulebook, p. 326 wrote:

"You can take a minor crew action regardless of your current role, but only if no other action was performed this round for the role associated with that minor crew action. A minor crew action can be performed only once per round and doesn’t count as your action."

Can one character take both minor crew actions in a single round, assuming the "no other action for the role" criteria is met?

[Andrew Harasty]

Yes. That is how you can have a single pilot ship like a fighter.

[jozh]

That's how I interpret it, as well. This allows a single crew ... crewman to (for example) perform the Divert Power action to restore any lost shields during the Engineering phase, then reposition the ship with Glide during Helm phase, and fire with Snap Shot during Gunnery phase.

Thanks!

[KingOfAnything]

I read the quoted to mean that one character can only take one or the other minor action. But, I see how it could also be read as reminding you that you can't glide twice in a round or take two snap shots.

[BenignNeglect]

Interesting, I read that as an individual can only take one minor crew action a round.
So if your job was engineer and you performed the Divert Power action. That was your action for the turn. By the above quote, you can now perform one minor action (as long as another crew member has not performed an action in that phase) so you could either do Glide OR fire but not both.

[Porridge]

I also initially read it as only allowing one character to perform one minor crew action per turn. But I now see the other reading.

The passage seems ambiguous. A good FAQ candidate!

[whew]

I don't see anything that says a minor crew action just uses up a swift action or anything that in any way suggests that a character can take more than one minor crew action in a round.

[KingOfAnything]

I do lean toward the one-or-the-other interpretation.

Quote:

You can take a minor crew action regardless of your current role, but only if no other action was performed this round for the role associated with that minor crew action.

This limits you to only using each once. You can't use glide twice, because that would be two piloting actions.

Quote:

A minor crew action can be performed only once per round and doesn’t count as your action.

While ambiguous on its own, read in context with the previous sentence this most likely means that each character can only take one minor crew action per round.

[jozh]

I see what you're saying. To me, "A minor crew action can be performed only once per round" does not read the same as "You may only perform one minor crew action per round". /shrug