18:36, Today: Ylis zh'Kerja rolled 29 using 2d20 with rolls of 16,13.  Turbulence - Fitness TN 10.

I failed my Swaying in Time with the Other Actors test. What do I win?

A concussion and a director yelling at you. I kid.

Didn’t think we would have a redshirt death this quickly :P

kidding of course

*accidentally hits airlock button with elbow* WHOOSH!

Were phaser rifles authorized? I was thinking one for Timor and one for Ylis. Cheng is okay with phasers, but I know Timor is much better and I suspect Ylis is as well.

One thing to remember is that using a Phaser rifle generates the weapon's escalation value in threat when used. I am uncertain if the Captain authorized.

It does it when obtained and I would assume if I couldn't generate threat or momentum during that period, neither could anyone else. So, we might have lucked out on that one.

Thats a no on the rifles. Even if contact with romulans was confirmed the empire is not at war and that would represent a clear escalation.

Just waiting on T'saen for the big roll!

I'll get a post up shortly, please stand by!

So full disclosure I am still new to this system so if you see anything that looks off please feel free to bring it up!

I just got my copy of the rules in the mail and have only started diving in, so the same goes for me!

   Only the Basic Core Rules here, so you know as much as I do, GM! Guess this is a learning curve for a few of us.

Roleplaying 101: Never let the rules get in the way of a good story. :)

Seems like a few of us are fairly familiar with the rules. I have done a few Streams of it as a player, so feel mostly comfortable. The only thing I saw that has been a little off was a call for a singular Fitness roll. Normally, the rules call for a Attribute and Discipline to be rolled with a set difficulty number based on how challenging it was.

On that roll, I would of probably called for a Fit+Security with a difficulty of 1 maybe 2. Depending on the narration I might of spent threat to increase the complication range to add drama.

With that said; I thought what you did worked just as well. It did add drama without totally hurting any player. On average, rules wise you are doing great.

Just my two cents of which I have been told is sometimes worth less than 2 cents.

One thing I think would be helpful would be a Notice Thread with Momentum, threat, and any current complications. I saw this used to great effect by another ST on Rpol for STA.

I am still playing around with the OOC notes so bear with me on that.

I'll try and note advantages in Green and complications in red.

Also just as a refresher:

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Momentum: Gained by having extra successes. Can be spent as follows:
2M  to create an advantageous trait, remove a complication or create a complication for an adversary as appropriate to the task.

1+M - can repeatedly be used to add d20s to a task. (maximum of 5 total dice per roll). 1 die = 1M, 2 dice = 3M and 3 dice = 6M

2M+ - can increase difficulty of a task for an opponent

1+M - obtain additional information (max 3) from the output of a task.

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Focus - If a task is aligned with a focus that you have then each success counts as 2 successes for overcoming difficulty or generating momentum.

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Threat Basically momentum for the GM. Players can substitute adding Threat as opposed to spending momentum for adding d20s/difficulty before a roll.

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Determination Everyone starts with 1 pt of determination and can generate more by challenging their values. They can spend determination by performing a task that supports their value and can use it in the following ways:

- add a d20 that is automatically a '1' an thus generates 2 successes towards the task
- re-roll all their dice
-immediately perform a second task
-immediately create an advantage for the current scene.

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Finally you all have the directive of: Uphold the Prime Directive but beyond that you have not been given a specific mission or directive so no worries there.

Also I highly recommend coordinating before attempting tasks. This is the time in the show where the CO goes and says "You do this and you do that etc."

You are free to discuss the situation all you want in-game but you only get a single task (i.e. roll) to attempt before the story moves forward.

If discussing things in character takes too long feel free to do it here in the OOC threads for easier coordination.

Finally if you're taking too long I'll pick a task off my "obvious task" list appropriate for your character.

While I want to give you time to deliberate and plan I have also seen waaay too many games die because it is difficulty to get consensus on a plan online.

A suggestion to the players, and also would be helpful for me. I believe the players would have familiarity with each others discipline levels. I would love to see those placed in cast listing with possibly focuses. Anything else is great, but not as necessary.

This will help when assigning tasks.

I could see it being helpful and I think I still have a character sheet you can access in my description, but I'm thinking that much of that may be out of character knowledge for anyone who hasn't bothered to get to know others.

   I'd like to look after two things in my next post:

• - Make sure that Crewman Ylis zh'Kerja is all right - just a short RP will probably do it
• - Insight + Science/Engineering (difficulty 2) - decipher and understand the Partial Scan Garrity attempted during the descent with the much more powerful shuttle scanners I'd like to work on this one, I'm reasonably competent as a Science Officer as well as a Doctor, possibly assisting Lt. Garrity after he's made the appropriate speech. :)

  Well, that's my plan, at any rate.

   As for character sheets, just scrub out any personal details you don't want to be public knowledge.

   (Should the GM see fit to release the Character Sheets, that is.)
This message was last edited by the player at 17:20, Thu 18 Apr 2019.

For me as 2nd Officer; I will make an assumption I know the disciplines perhaps relevant focuses. Ones that SF would care about.

I am going to make a suggestion that you allow me to make command roll first and with that I am fairly certain I will generate momentum which can be used for other tasks. Will have another task in list. T'Saen determining shuttle damage.

Reason + Science to scan the area (difficulty 1) - please specify what you are looking for (e.g. alien signal, starfleet signal, mineral composition etc.) Timor

Insight + Science/Engineering (difficulty 2) - decipher and understand the Partial Scan Garrity attempted during the descent with the much more powerful shuttle scanners Abidool

Daring + Engineering (difficulty 1) - attempt repairs on Laila's faceplate Cheng

Presence + Command (difficulty 1) - give an inspirational speech to improve morale Garrity

The "scan the area" task  is repeateable with different people scanning for different things.

Also don't forget you can have people assist to add more successes to a roll.

Yeah, T'Saen might do a decent job scaning for something else. Then we could work on assessing damage and the like together, but as always, the choices are yours about what orders you want to give.

  Just a thought: Is it possible to have a Momentum/Threat Pool thread somewhere? Was thinking it might be nice to know if we have Momentum to borrow from, rather than scrolling back over and over.

  I'll get to an actual post before too much longer.