13 hours ago, EliasWindrider said:

Ok, what book is the biofeedback regulator in?

Now we need a side story write up.

The Biofeedback System is from FaD p. 200.

On 8/2/2019 at 6:05 PM, Bellona said:

@RandiQuade

Please check out this draft version to see if I got the details right. (If we do it this way, you'll have to put up with UK spelling. )

http://www.mediafire.com/file/loa5lql1noyduea/Randi_%28draft_version%29.pdf/file

All that's missing is the Morality, Motivation(s), physical description, and Background (as in Beginnings, Attitude Towards the Force, and Reason for Adventure). For ease of addressing you, please let me know which is the character's name and which is the player's name (you can use your forum handle for that if you want to do so, like I did for Mireska's sheet).

Since there was no mention of crafting, I just put in a basic (Ilum crystal) lightsabre with the attachments that you mentioned.

The 10 xp from the Morality 50 option don't seem to have been spent.

And there's another 10 xp unspent from the 900 xp awarded "later" by our GM (from the 2x 5 xp shaved off the costs of the basic Foresee and Move powers, due to having been trained by a Temple mentor).

You also need to sort out the character's backstory and side-story stuff, but that should preferably be in a separate document which can be updated as the campaign develops. You can see various examples in the OOC thread. (Vandarl's character story is actually written in the post.)

E.T.A. Also, two talents from the Sage spececialization (Consular career) each require the choice of a skill - Smooth Talker (one of Charm, Coercion, Negotiation, Deception) and Knowledge Specialization (one Knowledge skill).

@RandiQuade

please copy the above link into this

post, and put your backstory sidestory there too. @Bellona , I'm not sure if you're aware of this yet but mediafire allows you to replace a file with another one with an identical name so that the old and new versions have the same like (replacing the file on mediafire does NOT break links). That will make it easier for you to help RandiQuade update her character sheet.

@vandarl @Bellona @Demon4x4 @AnomalousAuthor @MrTInce @RandiQuade

I would like to start the campaign tomorrow... so get your backstory and side story write ups as well.as any character/gear updates/links to them posted in the OOC thread as soon as possible.

Try to make at least 1 and no more than 3 ic thread posts a day. If you make at least one ic post (describing your characters actions/behavior) in a week you'll get 5 xp on the following Monday. You can spend the xp immediately, or save it up, waiting until just before you need a rank in a skill to put xp in it will be allowed for the battles of genosis and christophsis (it's a burn in/get used to how your character plays in this campaign period)

I'll get on it.

6 hours ago, EliasWindrider said:

@vandarl @Bellona @Demon4x4 @AnomalousAuthor @MrTInce @RandiQuade

I would like to start the campaign tomorrow... so get your backstory and side story write ups as well.as any character/gear updates/links to them posted in the OOC thread as soon as possible.

Try to make at least 1 and no more than 3 ic thread posts a day. If you make at least one ic post (describing your characters actions/behavior) in a week you'll get 5 xp on the following Monday. You can spend the xp immediately, or save it up, waiting until just before you need a rank in a skill to put xp in it will be allowed for the battles of genosis and christophsis (it's a burn in/get used to how your character plays in this campaign period)

Do you want anything else from me?

Same question from me re Mireska.

(Just got a new character idea over the weekend if Mireska meets a sudden end: a Steel Hand Adept/Colossus/Martial Artist by the name of Barda Magna. )

Hopefully RandiQuade will supply me soon with the extra information needed for their character sheet.

39 minutes ago, Bellona said:

Same question from me re Mireska.

(Just got a new character idea over the weekend if Mireska meets a sudden end: a Steel Hand Adept/Colossus/Martial Artist by the name of Barda Magna. )

Hopefully RandiQuade will supply me soon with the extra information needed for their character sheet.

Dang it you stole my back up concept!

9 hours ago, MrTInce said:

Do you want anything else from me?

Can you copy paste the background from char sheet into post.

5 hours ago, Bellona said:

Same question from me re Mireska.

You got a great write up, but pleas copy paste the text into the post.... the point of having it there in the OCC thread is a convient to access repository of the relevant plot info that I can work with/into-the campaign. And I'm going to be doing most of this from my phone so I can't have side by side windows.

Done. I've put the wall of text behind a spoiler - if that's problematic for you, please let me know and I'll "de-spoiler" it.

I've been putting in extra time at work this week because my intern leaves next week, helping him to put the finishing touches on/polish some research and prep for his end of summer presentation. I'll post in the ic thread this weekend if not before. So those who haven't yet, i.e. @Demon4x4 and @RandiQuade , please "finish" editing your post in the ooc thread ASAP.

@Bellona @MrTInce @vandarl

You get 5xp for having 1 IC post last week, you can spend it immediately or save it (for this and the next battle I'll also let you spend the xp just before making a check to tune the character to the campaign)

Because I started the campaign on Saturday (as in you only had 2 days to post), @AnomalousAuthor @Demon4x4 @RandiQuade can earn 10 xp instead of the normal 5xp this week by posting TWICE this week.

Some thoughts about the suggested post-Geonosis limited re-spec in the OOC thread ...

I suspect that part of my problem with Mireska (apart from being a system noob) is that I'm trying to cover too many concepts with her. Right now she is aiming for three different things (super-healer, Force wizard, and - admittedly lagging behind - sabre-monkey-to-be). I was probably too distracted to focus her build properly, due to the nifty new material in RotSep and CotR.

Now I'm thinking about dropping the sabre-monkey concept completely (she'll still have a lightsabre and swing it if necessary, but I'll save the Knight/Ataru stuff for another character), in favour of focusing more on the super-healer/Force wizard aspects. That means looking for more Force Rating ... and changing her career from Jedi to Consular.

I'm looking at a Healer/Sage/Doctor combo with a side of CW AU Padawan (early FR +1, extra class skills, some lightsabre crafting help), and later the Niman tree. That would punch up her Force Rating from 3 to 5, with the possibility of getting it to 6 once the Niman tree is opened. Force powers would still include the same heavy investment in the Heal tree, plus Enhance and some others.

Would this be acceptable to our GM and the rest of the group?

5 hours ago, Bellona said:

Some thoughts about the suggested post-Geonosis limited re-spec in the OOC thread ...

I suspect that part of my problem with Mireska (apart from being a system noob) is that I'm trying to cover too many concepts with her. Right now she is aiming for three different things (super-healer, Force wizard, and - admittedly lagging behind - sabre-monkey-to-be). I was probably too distracted to focus her build properly, due to the nifty new material in RotSep and CotR.

Now I'm thinking about dropping the sabre-monkey concept completely (she'll still have a lightsabre and swing it if necessary, but I'll save the Knight/Ataru stuff for another character), in favour of focusing more on the super-healer/Force wizard aspects. That means looking for more Force Rating ... and changing her career from Jedi to Consular.

I'm looking at a Healer/Sage/Doctor combo with a side of CW AU Padawan (early FR +1, extra class skills, some lightsabre crafting help), and later the Niman tree. That would punch up her Force Rating from 3 to 5, with the possibility of getting it to 6 once the Niman tree is opened. Force powers would still include the same heavy investment in the Heal tree, plus Enhance and some others.

Would this be acceptable to our GM and the rest of the group?

As long as Elias has no complaints it sounds fine to me. As long as you enjoy your character that is what is importance. Having a higher force rating is handy from a mechanics point of view and I can see that boosting mine would be good as well, but sometimes the build to success is half the fun.

Narrowing your focus a bit will definitely make it simpler to improve.

I am considering pulling out of Niman Discipline and going with Padawan to get that Force rating myself.

The is a rule in cotr (ahead of specs iirc, something like the quick path to power is the name of it) that jedi knights/generals can spend 30 of their *STARTING* xp (basically losing one attribute increase) so that knight/general can be starting specs. It's a way to get fr 3 from just taking knight (and buying down to the fr) and it would give you enough lightsaber that you could "get by" without another saber spec.

Hmmm, that might be an interesting option. I will have to look it over. It could be pretty helpful to have that boost from 3 to 4.

6 hours ago, Bellona said:

Some thoughts about the suggested post-Geonosis limited re-spec in the OOC thread ...

I suspect that part of my problem with Mireska (apart from being a system noob) is that I'm trying to cover too many concepts with her. Right now she is aiming for three different things (super-healer, Force wizard, and - admittedly lagging behind - sabre-monkey-to-be). I was probably too distracted to focus her build properly, due to the nifty new material in RotSep and CotR.

Now I'm thinking about dropping the sabre-monkey concept completely (she'll still have a lightsabre and swing it if necessary, but I'll save the Knight/Ataru stuff for another character), in favour of focusing more on the super-healer/Force wizard aspects. That means looking for more Force Rating ... and changing her career from Jedi to Consular.

I'm looking at a Healer/Sage/Doctor combo with a side of CW AU Padawan (early FR +1, extra class skills, some lightsabre crafting help), and later the Niman tree. That would punch up her Force Rating from 3 to 5, with the possibility of getting it to 6 once the Niman tree is opened. Force powers would still include the same heavy investment in the Heal tree, plus Enhance and some others.

Would this be acceptable to our GM and the rest of the group?

30 minutes ago, vandarl said:

As long as Elias has no complaints it sounds fine to me . As long as you enjoy your character that is what is importance . Having a higher force rating is handy from a mechanics point of view and I can see that boosting mine would be good as well, but sometimes the build to success is half the fun.

Narrowing your focus a bit will definitely make it simpler to improve.

I am considering pulling out of Niman Discipline and going with Padawan to get that Force rating myself.

@vandarl is correct about the most important feature of a character.

So i have no objection.

@Bellona @MrTInce @RandiQuade @vandarl are currently slated to get 5 xp tomorrow and @AnomalousAuthor will get 10 xp tomorrow.

@RandiQuade can make another IC post today to increase hers to 10 xp. If @Demon4x4 make 2 ic posts today then he could get 10 xp tomorrow.

Question to the department of expectations management: do we figure on the current speed of posting remaining the same?

(I'm not thinking of bailing or anything like that, just curious. This is my first PbFP, after all.)

7 hours ago, Bellona said:

Question to the department of expectations management: do we figure on the current speed of posting remaining the same?

(I'm not thinking of bailing or anything like that, just curious. This is my first PbFP, after all.)

This week is probably about average, from past experience things can bog down a lot or speed up a little. Most of my posts will be Thursday night to Sunday night.

Will you be letting us know when we can equip the clones with the DC-15A Blaster Carbines instead of the DC-15 Blaster Rifles? And - if we get that far - Phase II Clone Trooper Armour instead of Phase I?

For that matter, will our poor minions get the chance to acquire attachments to their gear, and improve the mods on them? Or do they remain average faceless minions forever?

3 hours ago, Bellona said:

Will you please let us know when the clones move from the DC-15 Blaster Rifles to the DC-15A Blaster Carbines? And - if we get that far - from Phase I to Phase II Clone Trooper Armour?

For that matter, will our poor minions get the chance to acquire attachments to their gear, and improve the mods on them? Or do they remain faceless average minions forever?

If you want the DC-15a you can have them for the battle of christophsis. Phase 2 armor prototype run can happen maybe 5 battles in. Gear upgrades in general will have to be figured out.

Hey all, this is judgement free... no offense in any direction (I promise not to take offense, and let's all try to only give *constructive* criticism) ... but let's do a scrum sprint review type thing (so we can try to correct things to increase everyone's enjoyment)

What went well?

what didn't?

What could we do differently in the future to improve?

And @Demon4x4 's non participation is due to technical difficulties so there wasn't much to be done about it.

What went well? Good set up and going straight into combat helped I think.

what didn't? It was a bit hard to visualise at times the number of threats.

What could we do differently in the future to improve? This might be quite hard but maybe a map in combat.

Your consistency and frequency is really good so thank you for that.