Is SFS 01-00 "Claim To Salvation" a special for SFS Nova purposes?

[The Masked Ferret]

I need to know for my coming Con plans this year.... to see how I can get to the 10 Special requirement for the 5th Nova.

Thanks!

[Thurston Hillman]

Glen Parnell wrote:

I need to know for my coming Con plans this year.... to see how I can get to the 10 Special requirement for the 5th Nova.

Thanks!

Just keep in mind that we've not yet finalized the 5th nova rules for Starfinder yet. So there's currently no determination for what a "special" is in Starfinder and how/if those types of scenarios will factor into the 5th nova determination. :)

[The Masked Ferret]

Right.

:: Le Sigh::

[Hmm]

Thursty, I am hoping that 1-00 is a special, and not just because I will have run it for the third time this January. 1-00 was advertised as a Special at GenCon. Many GMs volunteered to run it specifically so that they could start accrueing their SFS specials early. If it gets retired from the Specials list, I hope it will be grandfathered as a special for runs that happened before that retirement.

Yes, I know that you have not even decided if there will be a specials requirement for 5 novas, but everyone is expecting that there will be one. Why? First off, if keeps GMs volunteering to run specials, which are historically hard to staff otherwise. Most multi-table specials are highly demanding of prep time. They require more maps, more stat blocks, more everything. By folding a specials requirement into the five nova, you're incentivizing GMs to run these specials.

Secondly, you're also incentivizing GMs to stretch themselves and become better GMs. In prepping for an MTS, you learn a lot of great skills. Just think about all that 1-99 taught:

Ship combat

Vehicle rules

Terrain rules

Different monsters

Crucial aspects of Starfinder Setting

Crucial Starfinder NPCs

Pacing, oh the relentless pacing...

Swift GM judgement calls

Advanced prepping techniques an organization

Handout, map and mini management

Understanding how success conditions change everything

Self-care -- food, water, cough drops and whatever else you need to do to keep going.

So many skills. You cannot run an MTS cold. It's really like doing an intensive course in making your GMing better! By requiring specials of GMs to get that coveted 5th nova, you are helping them learn to be better GMs along the way.

Hmm

[GM Wageslave]

Perhaps knocking down the requirement from 10 might be an idea, as there *aren't* that many Specials out there right now?