Was not certain on the Scan. Believed maybe it would be a Momentum spend for more info, but that is good. I left a spot to allow for recommendations, so if Timor believes that is the way the go he can rec.


Question: Are ship roles in effect. I am not thinking they are since the none of the team is an actual Senior Staff

I'll be tracking momentum and threat in each of my updates per scene. I don't like having it in a separate thread because I will forget to update it and then I will feel obligated to run a full audit which means time spent book keeping instead of furthering the story.

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Ship roles are not in effect because, as you correctly surmised, you are not senior officers yet.

Also it is fine to be a bit disorgnized at first. It is your first away mission as a group after all.

But it's not perfect. My commanding officers will be disappointed. I kid, but I think Garity legitimately has a value related to that and the captain was quite explicit on the expectation of perfection.

The captain also said you wouldn't achieve his standards of perfection :P

  *Looks up at the ship*  Someone needs reminding that perfection, like life, is a journey and not a destination.

  ;)

Not quite how a focus works. It only increases the chance of getting 2 successes from one die.

You need to roll TN or less to get a success. A "1" is a critical and gives you two successes.

If you have a Focus that applies, you get a critical on a roll of your Discipline or less.

Example:

Cheng attacks a Romulan with his ushaan-tor. Daring 10 + Security 4 gives him a target number of 14. I decide to add Threat to buy 2 bonus d20s. This gives Universe 3 extra Threat, but I get to roll 4d20.

Say I roll 3, 5, 14, and 19. Normally, that would be 3 successes for 3 dice below 14 and no "1"s.

But, Cheng has the Focus Hand-to-Hand Combat. With his Security Discipline of 4, that turns the die that rolled a "3" into a critical giving him an additional success.

Thanks Cheng! Now I know!

@Laila - I'm pretty sure you're supposed to spend the momentum first and then roll the dice pool together however as this is our shake-down scene I'm willing to allow it this time.

   Learn something new every day, it seems. Well, looks like we'll be spending Momentum on most tasks ^1, then.

Remember that Focuses can help increases successes. Like if you have Computer as a focus. Great for sensors.

Yep, build your dice pool, then roll. The one exception is you can spend Determination to reroll your pool.

You start with 2d20 and get add up to 3d20 by spending Momentum, Threat, and Determination. There are a couple of Talents that give a bonus d20 or allow rerolling some or all of the pool under specific conditions.

If you Assist someone, you only roll 1d20. If you get any successes, they only count if the primary actor gets at least one success.

The ship or a shuttle can Assist on rolls that relate to their systems. They roll a single die and are considered to always have a Focus that applies.

One place I was a bit fuzzy was if you could have an assistant spending momentum to expand their dice pool as well. If you are both rolling can you both spend 3 momentum to each add 2d20 to each of your pools

Generally the Computer Focus doesn't apply to Sensor Scans. The Sensor Operations Focus applies to Sensor Scans. The Sciences Division book has a good list of Science and Medical Focuses. Science Focuses start on page 36.

Cheng has the Computers Focus and I wish it applied to Sensor Scans. It could be useful in a detailed analysis of the data from the scan, but that's up the the GM.

Thank you for your precision, but does not change my point about making sure you examine your Focuses.

No, it is a good point.

As per RAW



So the assistant can only roll 1d20 to help and cannot buy up more dice with momentum or threat.


Also important: TALENTS!!!

I'll work on getting talent descriptions added to character sheets but make sure to keep aware of them so you don't miss out on anything

Can I get a quick clarification on what you want T'Saen to be scanning for please?

Also, sorry if my rolls & responses are a bit brief; until I have a handle on the rules and how to maximize my abilities I'm kind of winging it here. :)

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

I believe Timor did Starfleet Signal. You can choose any other. I would recommend Alien Signal, but Garrity was not clear on which one.

Remember you can spend Momentum for extra dice. Also, you can spend momentum generated or otherwise after roll for additional information. This is usually done after Director gives result.

One thing I am wondering is if the Shuttle can do an assist for Laila, Timor and T'saen.

As long as the shuttle sensors are working, it can Assist. Assuming a standard Shuttlecraft, it has the following stats:

Systems
  Comms     07     Engines 05     Structure 05
  Computers 06     Sensors 05     Weapons   00

Departments
  Command 00     Security    01     Science  00
  Conn    01     Engineering 01     Medicine 00

Assisting the scan, it would be 1d20 with a TN of Sensors (05) + Science (00) or 5. So, not all that likely to provide a success.

   From what the Director has mentioned, and I might be incorrect ... but the ship/shuttle gives us no bonuses - something about being Ensigns/Young Officers/Cadets, etc. I might be wrong, but thought I heard something along those lines.

That was for ship roles. Which are positions held by senior staff.

I am trying out the style of putting heavy emphasis on traits. Let me know if that is appreciated or bothersome. I personally am liking it as a neat way to attach little reminders of bonuses and penalties.

Also let me know if you'd like me to attach the effects of the traits as well. Hopefully they are descriptive enough that it isn't necessary but as they accumulate I can see it getting confusing.

What is the difficulty of checking out the shuttle? Is that what our commander would like me to do next? I sort of jumped the gun last time, so I thought it would be better to ask this time.