Starship Race to the Ghost Mire

[dmchucky69]

So I'm reading the Starship Chase Rules in SOM, and I am a bit confused as to using them for a race with the Wintermourn.

Do I have both ships do the Obstacles and Chase Actions checks? And the winner is the one with more successes?

Or does only the Oliphant make the checks and they win if the overall Chase Outcomes result in a Success?

Also, what are the DCs for Chase actions? Based on APL?

[Bowlingconspiracy]

I will probably be running this with my group next session.
From my understanding only the PCs will attempt both checks. The wintermourn crews' actions seem to be accounted for with the obstacles listed.
So each of the 6 rounds would run as follows:
1. PCs solve the obstacle with the listed check and DC in the AP.
2. PCs select a chase action. The DCs are for a CR3 encounter. I can't see anywhere that says when to use the "average" or "hard" DC so I guess which you pick depends on how challenging you want to make it for your PCs. I will pick hard for my players as they have been doing really well so far. So in my game the PC action checks will be DC19 for this encounter. I guess there's also nothing stopping you from mixing up the DCs based on how the PCs describe their actions; alternating between DC 14 and DC19 depending on what they decide to do each round.

I would be interested to hear how it goes for you!

Table 2-3 of the SOM will allow you to determine success or failure at the end of the chase.

[dmchucky69]

Bowlingconspiracy wrote:

I will probably be running this with my group next session.

From my understanding only the PCs will attempt both checks. The wintermourn crews' actions seem to be accounted for with the obstacles listed.
So each of the 6 rounds would run as follows:
1. PCs solve the obstacle with the listed check and DC in the AP.
2. PCs select a chase action. The DCs are for a CR3 encounter. I can't see anywhere that says when to use the "average" or "hard" DC so I guess which you pick depends on how challenging you want to make it for your PCs. I will pick hard for my players as they have been doing really well so far. So in my game the PC action checks will be DC19 for this encounter. I guess there's also nothing stopping you from mixing up the DCs based on how the PCs describe their actions; alternating between DC 14 and DC19 depending on what they decide to do each round.

I would be interested to hear how it goes for you!

Table 2-3 of the SOM will allow you to determine success or failure at the end of the chase.

Thanks for the response. That absolutely helps.

Our game will be starting with this chase in two weeks so I will let you know!

Using Foundry for this campaign and loving it!