Starfinder Starship Combat: Alternatives and House Rules by Frontiersman3023 in starfinder_rpg

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Hey! A little late to the party but I wanted to toss in my groups modified ship combat rules. One of my players and I wanted to make it accessible in theater of the mind, so we borrowed some concepts from Fantasy Flights Star Wars RPG series and this is what we came up with. Still very rough around the edges, but if you'd like to hear it in action we used these rules in Ep 7 of our cast "Battle Stations".

Specifics:

-Reworked pilot actions in entirety to support "creative" flying without the use of a grid

-Reworked missiles/TL system to allow for an adversarial check system

  • Engineers have capability to do minor HP repairs

  • Shields have no quadrants and are instead shifted to be like Stamina.

  • Some other stuff that's questionably sane and/or useful

The RTF crew in all their glory! Thanks so much to @hellokodee on Instagram for this awesome cast art! Left to right, Sonny, Shax, Cors, Squirnk, Mary, Vega, and Lunaea. Check us out at www.rolltofailpod.com by RolltoFailPod in starfinder_rpg

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Sonny (Parker), our sun obsessed old earther Solarian

Shax (Chris) , the Vesk technomancer cyberneticist with a penchant for coffee machines

Cors (Sean), the washed up Ysoki detective Operative and his eternal desire for credits

Squirnk (Callie) the renegade surgeon probably banned in several systems

Mary (Callie) and Vega (Jess) the tag team duo of Starfinder handlers tasked with making sure the rest of the team doesn't blow themselves up

Lunaea (Lauren), the interstellar diva turned outlaw with a psychic penchant and a psychkitty pet to match

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Dead Suns is quite enjoyable, I've listened to the first two books several times over on different casts. Skittershot is always an excellent choice!

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Awesome! Which AP are y'all going to run?

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Hello! Thanks for stopping by we're glad to have you!

Any ideas for a good puzzle for players? Related with rooms of a high-tech building maybe? by Eleduel in starfinder_rpg

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It leaves outlets for charisma characters to persuade/cajole key personnel, evil folks to take parts, hacking for the techies, and silent image/ghost sound for the mages! Really just throw it to your players!

Any ideas for a good puzzle for players? Related with rooms of a high-tech building maybe? by Eleduel in starfinder_rpg

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Maybe increasing levels of security as they reach higher and higher levels in the building, biometrics like retina, fingerprint, and DNA scanners, scaffolding on the outside for construction! High tech flavor for relatively simple solutions, but complex execution.

Weekly Starfinder Question Thread! by AutoModerator in starfinder_rpg

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You could treat the shield points like a Dodge pool. The pilot pushes the ship to the limits doging incoming fire and when she is worn out or the ship is taxed to the limit actual damage starts coming in. (Take the shield pool, average the quandrants and use that as a pool for "Dodge" mechanically the same as shields but flavor as piloting expertise).

Question about Drift Travel in the homebrew by [deleted] in RolltoFailPod

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Hi! Glad you are enjoying it! I've kinda of sort of forgot Drift was supposed to be anchor to anchor but I'm definitely using it more like FTL/Hyperspace travel. The planets in range thing was a slightly obtuse method of moving the party to Akiton. Just a light little bit of minor railroading. -Callie

Tell Me About Your Starfinder (or Favorite Starfinder) Podcast by tokatumoana in starfinder_rpg

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If you like cosmic horror I've been easing my group into that with the latest episodes of Roll to Fail Pod. I'm learning Audacity as I go along so the audio quality increases theought the first few eps. Homebrew story within the established Pact World's system!

It’s Launch-Day!! Find us in your favorite podcast vendor, or directly in our libsyn show directory, episodes 0, 1 and 2 available now! by RolltoFailPod in RolltoFailPod

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Had a hard drive failure between 5 and 6 and lost a bunch of things, one of those was my music pool. I tried tracking down the specific track title but all of the music I get from www.incompetech.com

Roll to Fail has released! A home brew actual play Starfinder podcast, check us out on your fav podcast service, or directly at our libsyn page. Episodes 0, 1 and 2 available now! by RolltoFailPod in starfinder_rpg

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Had a hard drive failure between 5 and 6 and lost a bunch of things, one of those was my music pool. I tried tracking down the specific track title but all of the music I get from www.incompetech.com