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I'm running this as a Play by Post, just got to the bumper sleds, and have a few questions on how they work.
What happens if someone reaches the end of the map on the track in a bumper cart? We just set up for a practice round, and I told my players that if they whet off the map on the tracks, they could choose to come back on the next track over to either side. If that seems to take too long, I figured I could have Daskar Kopalake have someone fix the track, making it so you bounce back at the edge of the map. Just right now, I realised that maybe pushing someone off the map is how they fall off the track, which is my next question.
How does someone fall off the track? Getting pushed off the map on the track could be one way, or pushing someone at a T intersection seems like the most obvious way.
I have PC playing a Dragon Kin that was joking his cart is practically a truck, and the other players are joking they hope it doesn't hit like a truck. So I made it hit like a truck.
For Large PCs, I increased all the DCs to SLIDE by 2 and had all but a crit fail get moved up one degree of success, with both crit success and crit fail requiring a reflex save to not fall off the track, for both the target and the slider.
Then, for anyone sliding into a large PC I decreased the degree of success by 1 degree wiht a natural crit fail requiring a reflex save to stay on track.
Depending on how that goes, I might just use that for the practice round.
The bumper carts look fun. I'm curious how others are handling them?
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With the SF2e scenarios being 2-3 hours long, I like to find ways to make them run longer if needed. I came across this line in the scenario and decided to expand on it
"He’s (Daskar) a bit of a foodie, enthusiastic about festival foods and the cuisines of the home planets of his guests."
This is what I added.
Forgetting why you are here, Daskar Kopalake picks up a menu and almost gets as excited as a shirren at the choices.
"I'm very fortunate to have a developed palate and nose that can handle almost all the alien foods I've encountered wandering the stars. Tell you what, I'll buy you lunch if you can name a food I haven't tried."
You can ask a question at any time to try to get Daskar Kopalake back to talking about why you are here without a skill or lore check. But doing so with a Diplomacy or Society check can get Daskar to answer the question without getting distracted by talking about food.
You can make up any crazy food that your character has tried. Roll any skill or lore check you can think of related to that food. Examples, it could be military lore for a rare field rations, or Life science for something you grew in a lab and ate.
You can roll a Decption check to make up a food that doesn't exist at all.
3 successes for the party of any type gets Daskar Kopalake's mind off of food."
As the PCs ask a question or succeed at coming up with food, Daskar hasn't tried before. Daskar gives the answers on page 4.
My PCs didn't get to 3 successes before getting all the questions answered. So I had Daskar keep talking about food, which I did by having the PCs do a Will or Fortitude save to not fall asleep. When 2 of the PCS fell asleep, it led to Daskar showing them to their lodging.
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I'm running this live next weekend, so I have been looking for parade float miniatures. I ended up going to a Dollar Store.
found a garden decoration that was the right size. It's a fake rock with a flower and a butterfly. I figured the flower would match the one in the garlands, and fit with the rekindling being a kind of spring season. The purple butterfly I figured, would represent Desna.
Since I'm playing on the Daskar, it's a foodie thing, I found a cookie monster toy driving a car as the other parade float, and to play into the foodie theme even more, I'm using cookies for hero points...
Cookie Monster works great with the t-shirt barrage. I can just say he throws them, and the flower has a center dot that could be a t-shirt cannon.
I'm courious what others have been using for parade float miniatures.
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I haven't run this yet, but will be in a few weeks. When I run PFS and SFS, I typically use a combination of PF/SF pawns and LEGO (both minifigures and brick-built monsters), depending on how good of a match I can get with either method, space required to transport, and how much time and inspiration I have to build minis.
At the moment, my minis for this scenario include tiny brick-built plasma penguins (replacing the motley bunch of LEGO birds I originally pulled from my collection) for the first fight, and SF1 vlaka pawns for the second. I made float tokens by printing smaller copies of the art and attaching them to card stock to make fold-up minis. Those pawns fold flat, so easily fit into a pocket in the binder with the scenario. If I have enough time and inspiration before game, I may try building LEGO models for the floats, but those would take up a lot more space in my gaming bag.
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I had too much fun running this today.
I packed all my books in a large grocery freezer bag with penguins on it to foreshadow the plasma penguins.
When the PCs arrived at Lojok and heard the story about the festival for Sota rekindling, one of the players randomly started to play K-pop demon hunters "Soda Pop." Which is when I pointed out that the hero points I brought were "Golden" Oreos.
For the 3 obstacles, I used the flip side of the map used for the bumper cars. I used huge pawn bases for the crowds and had them blocking 2 of the intersections. That seemed to work well. In general, I've started trying to add more visuals to chases, obstacles, and patrols.
The Cookie Monster parade float died in the most spectacular way. The PCs got a few crits on it and suppressed Cooking Monster. So I kept it alive so it could do a final stride + trample, which, with the seprassive fire, stopped Cooking Monster right in front of the party. At that point, I let the previous round's damage apply, and the Cookie crumbled. The PF2e GM walked by around then and saw the craziness going on, and commented they would have to try Starfinder soon, so big win for Cookie Monster.
The T-shirt barrage was a big hit, it got the whole table laughing.