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Apart from the vesk/android stuff I've put into the Field Test #3 thread, here's some info about SF2 that was given in the livestream:
- Over the coming weeks and months, they are looking to get together more livestreams and liveplay to show us what they are working on directly
- In March, we'll get the Envoy Field Test
- SF2 won't have stamina as the norm
- Technomancer is still a thing, but they can't tell us anything at this time
- They won't make too many changes to the setting due to the edition change. Most will be due to the several year time difference the base setting has experienced and to introduce some more nuance to some things. For example, not all vesk are battle-thirsty conquerors.
- There is in fact a current version of an ancestry with a 5ft base speed. SO that's a thing. Presumably Stellifera?
- Spell traditions are very adventageous for character design and necessary for compatibility, so that's what they went with. However, spell traditions don't really dictate how you cast spells, so there is still a lot of space for how you flavour your character.
- Means to allow for adventuring in space/vacuum/etc will be available to characters from level 1
- The playtest will focus on the rules. The setting will get its day in a major way when the game actually comes out.
- On the topic of compatibility, it was reiterated that the goal is for the rules to work together, which will happen. 110% compatibility on that front, apparently :P. But whether the options are actually balanced in the other system, that's gonna vary a lot and isn't an integral part of compatibility. SF2 will be its own system with its own internal dynamics. If you want to cross the streams, then the finer adjustments will be up to your table. [Which imo is the only way to really do this, so that's fine with me].
- The actual playtest will go all the way to level 20
- Augmentations will be a thing
Thanks for the recap! Regarding the spell traditions point, did they imply they're not adding new traditions?
Thanks for the recap! Regarding the spell traditions point, did they imply they're not adding new traditions?
My pleasure ^^. That part - here if you want to watch the exact segment - wasn't touched on sufficiently to say one way or the other.
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Denny's in Space...
The one place you can to get a full ysoki-style breakfast with your grandma and then come back at midnight to see a drunk vesk puke in the lap of his pahtra buddy.
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Denny's in Space...The one place you can to get a full ysoki-style breakfast with your grandma and then come back at midnight to see a drunk vesk puke in the lap of his pahtra buddy.
And really, at the end of the localized solar cycle, isn't that all what we're searching for in this wide galaxy?
- There is in fact a current version of an ancestry with a 5ft base speed. SO that's a thing. Presumably Stellifera?
Barathu. They're 0 base speed in SF1. First new edition buff spotted!
I'm excited for the Envoy field test - and it seems like the class field tests are coming every two months or so? I hope that might mean we get a Solarian field test in May-ish.
It's certainly possible. But on the other hand, it was explicitly pointed out on the Discord that they haven't announced any field tests besides the Envoy/Skill one. So we shouldn't get our hopes up too much.