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in our game last night, we had two players with characters with high numbers for charisma and are very good at sweet talking other characters. My character is a Vesk soldier who has been nicknamed Groo by the rest of the team, you can understand why, and if he ever figures it out, he will be annoyed. But last night both our normally James Bond smooth operators failed EVERY attempt at convincing they tried, while Groo succeeded!This was met with a whole lot of laughs as the night progressed, as this would normally never happen. I am sure things will be back to [ab]normal next game, but it was fun while it lasted!
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We're playing 2-13, which involves a lot of knowledge checks to recognize groups and symbols, know things, etc.
The character who succeeds at every knowledge roll I ask for? The dwarf. Who was just created. And who just emerged from a vault on Salvation's End. Who is apparently a very, very quick study.
Venture-Agent, Netherlands—Utrecht
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We're playing 2-13, which involves a lot of knowledge checks to recognize groups and symbols, know things, etc.
The character who succeeds at every knowledge roll I ask for? The dwarf. Who was just created. And who just emerged from a vault on Salvation's End. Who is apparently a very, very quick study.
A few people in my lodge have Dwarf hirelings from some boon or so. One guy hadn't named his Dwarf yet, but he kept acing all the skill checks we just failed at. He was nicknamed "Best Dwarf."
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Asked about accusations of the societies ruthlessness by a fellow "grandkid"
"If we were half as efficient as Datch says we are, Datch wouldn't be saying anything about our efficiency"
We aren't ruthless at all!
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The only reason I threw those mouses around the room is because the old mouse said it was okay. I still kinda felt bad about it. I hope everyone learned their lesson.
The lesson being, "don't be a mouse and challenge a vesk to a fair fight."
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My Icon Solarion who lives streams his adventures for loyal subscribers gets too close to a portal attempting to pull an elder God through into reality.
GM You look into horror and your mind reels, make a Will Save
"Oh no, my loyal subscribers - this has just been seen by 10s of people!"
Venture-Lieutenant, Netherlands—Leiden
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My Icon Solarion who lives streams his adventures for loyal subscribers gets too close to a portal attempting to pull an elder God through into reality.
GM You look into horror and your mind reels, make a Will Save
"Oh no, my loyal subscribers - this has just been seen by 10s of people!"
"So I hired the Starfinders to discreetly clean up my mess" - says like every third mission briefing.
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"So I hired the Starfinders to discreetly clean up my mess" - says like every third mission briefing.My Icon Solarion who lives streams his adventures for loyal subscribers gets too close to a portal attempting to pull an elder God through into reality.
GM You look into horror and your mind reels, make a Will Save
"Oh no, my loyal subscribers - this has just been seen by 10s of people!"
That's what Repeat Episodes or 'Best Of' Episodes are for!
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So the party comes across a swarm of sacred dog sized rats. A few MRE's later they're best friends.
Later on the place is going to explode (yeah yeah, it wasn't you. Again. How come every place you go explodes?) so the party runs out "get to the choppa" style. The venture captain swooping in heroically pulling a tokyo drift with the doors open, wind blowing in their hair lit by the light of the retro thrusters...
Gets unceremoniously trampled flat by 100s of rats fleeing an exploding base for the safety of the ship.
"HOW many notes in your personnel file do you have that say "I don't care if they followed you home you can't keep them" ? "
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Courtesy of PaizoCon:
By sheer chance, the party ends up with one extreme worrywart and one extreme optimist that bounce off each other for the duration of the scenario. Eventually though, the group comes across pretty obvious evidence that there's some eldritch god influence all over the region where a whole bunch of scientists are setting up a skywatching party. The optimist's job starts getting really hard :)
Worrywart: "Oh no, oh jeez, oh no. I became a Starfinder to prove the universe wasn't as scary of a place as I thought, and this is just. Super. Bad. Oh jeez."
Optimist: "Hey, think positive big guy! When we're all eaten by an elder god, just think - At least we'll have a great story to tell in the afterlife!"
Venture-Lieutenant, Tennessee—Cookeville
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Ran a few tables of a fun repeatable at Paizocon. End fight is really hard due to both fights being able to proc at the same time. My last table barely made it out, because the lvl 3 healer playing in the 5-6 tier didn't get bull rushed into a 100 ft pit due to Roll20 giving me 1s when I want to have fun.
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So the party comes across a swarm of sacred dog sized rats. A few MRE's later they're best friends.
Later on the place is going to explode (yeah yeah, it wasn't you. Again. How come every place you go explodes?) so the party runs out "get to the choppa" style. The venture captain swooping in heroically pulling a tokyo drift with the doors open, wind blowing in their hair lit by the light of the retro thrusters...
Gets unceremoniously trampled flat by 100s of rats fleeing an exploding base for the safety of the ship.
"HOW many notes in your personnel file do you have that say "I don't care if they followed you home you can't keep them" ? "
"It was a really cozy trip home! Just fuzzies in every cabin! I think the captain really appreciated the companionship.
Anyway, I found all the rats places to live in the sewer under the Lorespire Complex. Gronnigan told me that the rats that lived there before were sent to live on a farm on Castrovel, so there was plenty of room..."
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Party is trying to get on the good side of a recalcitrant AI that is tired of being trapped in a single computer. We offer to bring it with us on our adventures, but the only computer we have of sufficient tier to house the AI happens to be, well, storing a copy of Abysshead.
PC: Listen, AI, you're more than welcome to come with, but we gotta warn ya - transferring yourself to this computer may have some, ah, "unintended side effects," shall we say, on your code.
Bored AI: Ooooh, unintended side effects! That sounds fun! I like where you're going with this, but I still need some convincing.
GM: Ok, make your Diplomacy check.
*two more PCs succeed in assisting Diplomacy*
GM: Right, make your check. You have two Aids, plus Abysshead.
If that Society scenario playthrough were a podcast, "Two Aids Plus Abysshead" would be the title of the episode :D
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The party is fighting some sacred rat monsters
"Hey guys, could we try to NOT kill all of these guys? I'm a follower of Grandma, she might already be mad at me, and I don't want to go to hell. Or well. I DO want to go to hell but I want the good seats when I get there. Or something. Sunday school was really unclear about that part..."
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Power armored orc Knocks someone flat, and uses a dirty fighting feet to kick them when they try to get up knocking them out.
Ysoki "Sometimes you kick the can, and sometimes the can kicks you...'
The party is fighting some mooks who've made it clear they don't want to be taken alive or even only a little dead. So the orcs were KO'd in a cloud of acid and then run over with a forklift, austin powers style.
DM " on any other planet I'd be handing out infamy by the bucket. But on Apostae this is just Tuesday..."
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One low-level scenario I played recently had the starship tag, so the GM encouraged us to work out our starship combat roles before game started. My copaxi solarion is only trained in captain skills, and lacks the Dex to be any good at gunnery. They also turned out to the the only "face" in the group (ironic, given their biology!), so there was no debate on that role. Another PC was a half-orc merc soldier who, on hearing I was going to be the ship's captain, was more than happy to showily defer to my PC for the duration. I made sure to reward "my" trooper with regular encouragement, both on board the ship and off.
One of our missions required us to collect some ingredients in the wild to sabotage an enemy group's supplies. One of those items was secretions from a local species of frogs. None of the party was very good at the checks needed to catch them and collect the substance (grapple or Survival, IIRC?), but my PC has wildwise. (It seemed the logical next step for the copaxis' ability to rapidly learn new languages, and this was their first chance to use it.) I aced the Diplomacy check, and the frogs were suddenly VERY docile and helpful. My title of "Cap'n" was promptly expanded to "Cap'n Croaker."
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That moment when you’re reading the funniest moments thread for the first time... and the page you land on... the last two posts are about you...
Yeah I think i cant argue with either of them. Those were a frikkin hoot.
Pretty sure the ysoki called my power armor the bucket suit after the bucket comment. It was asburdly hilarious.
And if the captain is clearly defined, Kijon follows rank. He’s a Jarhead through and through.
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BBEG of the scenario makes powered armor orc across the room fighting minion make a will save. he fails gloriously...
"approach"
"dont have to ask me twice"
...powered armor orcs turn...described as... he turns and -runs- full speed through 3 minions aoo, through 30 feet of "laser net" into an active acid cloud and dead stops right in front of the BBEG whose back is against a wall in a corner... Powered Armor Orc turn ends regaining control and instantly forgets the roughly 30 stamina he lost from the laser net alone he starts grinning seeing where he is.
BBEG comments involving "regrets."
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Goblins ambush the PCs, who are bodyguarding a diplomat.
Vanguard walks up and sunders one of their junklasers. GM rules that it starts sparking and overloading.
Goblin takes a guarded step back and goes to throw the unstable gun at the vanguard.
Vanguard has reach with a whip, AoOs the goblin nonlethally and knocks them out.
Goblin drops the junklaser, which promptly explodes at their feet for 1 point of lethal damage, killing it. Whoops.
Diplomat golf claps.
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So I just run SFS session where players managed to skip all mercenary encounters until boss by pretending to be pizza delivery ._.
Stupidest guards ever indeed
Mercenaries are traditionally really bored. Meeting a celebrity often makes their day!
Meeting a celebrity who says that they are going to put them in their show? Instant encounter dodge.
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Showing up at a 'research facility' as an actual, no kidding, 'maintenance worker'. Rest of team is 'day help'.
Find the thing we're looking for, explore the whole place without triggering alarms... party wants to leave --
"But we're not done cleaning yet. We have to finish the job!"
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"So we were sent to infiltrate a facility and recover computer data and then we got to the computer and discovered -- none of us knew how to use a computer! Thank goodness the researchers that were there had their hearts melted by a crying skittermander because I was afraid we were going to have to shoot it out and that could have been messy."
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My witchwarper was on a star liner that was having engine trouble and we found out that some bad stuff was going down in the engineering section. We go wake up the (NPC) star liner Engineer to help us with this emergency, only it is super early in the morning and he doesn’t quite understand this is an emergency.
Me: “Someone did something to the engines, they could be set to overload or something, we need to get down there now!”
GM: The Engineer is like “Probably not, let me get some coffee first.”
Me: *Frustrated. Grabs a glass of water, hands him a glass of coffee via churn Liquid. “Now go!”
GM: The engineer stairs at you. “. . . How did you. . . “
Me: “GO!”
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Me playing operative in King Xeros of Star Azlant, level 5 operative in a tier 7-8 game:
okay, so I roll computers to trick attack the mook, and that's a 27 to trick
GM: you trick.
Me: Okay, so then I roll to hit and... That's a nat 20! Plus 8 to crit against flat-footed eac.
GM: wow, okay. Roll damage.
Me: so with a corona laser pistol, plus trick attack doubled, that's 4d4 + 6d8 +4. So let's see... I got 48, and he burns 1d4 on his turn.
GM: well, it's his turn next, roll fire damage.
Me: I got a 3.
GM: he's dead.
Party focuses big bad, I'm fighting mooks. One mook still standing. My turn.
Me: that's a 24 to trick, does that still trick?
GM: that tricks.
Me: rolling to hit... Another Nat 20, oh my God!
GM: JEEZus!
Me: rolling damage.... Oh wow that's a lot of 8s. 51 damage and 1d4 burn.
GM: g+~*%&mit Sean!
Similar to what happened to me.
I was GMing a game where there is a real complicated final boss fight. It involves a dude on a flying creature trying to knock PCs repelling by cliff into the water below, which triggers a countdown for bad stuff (that the PCs then have to disable). . . All in darkness. It is normally a pain to run.
Turn one the operative PC with dark vision Crits and kills the boss while repelling. The flying creature, without its master, flies off to take a nap. Without the countdown started, the PCs are free to take 20 on disabling the bad stuff. Almost hilariously Super anti-climactic.
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At PaizoCon, playing a scenario wherein usually helpful robots go rogue. PCs are lost, and don't yet realize that helper-bots are hostile. Our suli vanguard, who has Resist 5 vs Electricity and, ah, "not great" mental stats, is asking the robots for help.
Suli: "Hello, Rowbut! Can you tell us how to get to [destination]?"
Renegade Bot: DEPLOYING HELP
Suli: "Oh, uh, this must be some novel way to give information. Please try again, Rowbut!"
Renegade Bot: DEPLOYING HELP
Suli: "Do not worry Rowbut, you are doing your best. I will just wait here until you get it right."
Didn't really help that the party also had a Sylph, who also has Resist 5 vs Electricity :D
Sylph: "Hey, uh, Suli, I don't think it's trying to help us..."
Bot:
Sylph: Yeah, no, this is fine, but...we gotta get going.
P.S. Is there anything funnier than deliberately pronouncing "robot" as "ROW-but" :D
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We played Band on the Run on Monday after the con ended, and had some very entertaining moments.
Other song titles that we adults came up with were "Fight the Space Briscuit!" (featuring manic percussion on the jukebox, to a refrain of "drown out the corpy jingle!") and "Like a Shirren (Hosting for the Very First Time)."
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The party is under arrest in a karaoke bar.
The party makes a bluff check to get them arguing about who's in charge, then offers that the best way to settle it is with a sing off. They get placards (menus and chalk boards so they scan scribble scores to hold up)
The NPCs all have the same perform sing, and get a 10 20 and 15 on the die in that order.
The party then overscores the 15 and underscores the 20, causing them to fight each other with non lethal weaponry for two rounds. THEN the party hops into the fight....
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Good news: You bet the other party member a case of beer that messing with the time portal would NOT destroy the universe. And won.
Bad news: Being a ysoki, you are no longer old enough to have the beer after the time portal was done messing back.
Good news: You can probably scam Fitch for some cookies now. Like she'll notice one more in the line...
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This past weekend, I played a scenario with a social encounter set at a fancy gala, one of those scenes where you're trying to influence a few key NPCs. My copaxi solarian spent their time chatting up the singer who would be performing later--and rolled *very* well on their Profession (poet) skill to make an impression, artist to artist. The GM declared that not only did I get the influence points I needed, the NPC was rather smitten by my character, despite our very dissimilar species. So any time we had to interact with her later in the adventure, he added to me, "and you get a +2 for being her boyfriend now."
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This past weekend, I played a scenario with a social encounter set at a fancy gala, one of those scenes where you're trying to influence a few key NPCs. My copaxi solarian spent their time chatting up the singer who would be performing later--and rolled *very* well on their Profession (poet) skill to make an impression, artist to artist. The GM declared that not only did I get the influence points I needed, the NPC was rather smitten by my character, despite our very dissimilar species. So any time we had to interact with her later in the adventure, he added to me, "and you get a +2 for being her boyfriend now."
Any chance of your poetry becoming the lyrics to her next big hit?
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Phrases you don't often hear in other role playing game systems.
"I'm playing my vesk Luchador politician"
"You have successfully helped the infiltration robot live their dream of becoming the princess"
"Grenadicorn"
"You suplex the robot laser dragon through the glass... "
"Your standard ships robot raptor..."
"Here Rhoomba rhoomba rhoomba...."