Bringing a campaign together

[garhkal]

Sounds like anything that MIGHT challenge either of those 2 pcs, will be insta death for any one else.. powerarmor or not.
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[Bren]

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[garhkal]

Well lets see. Most Speeder mounted cannons do 4-5d with a +1 occasionally. Adding in the 2d scale diff that means they are around a light to medium repeater in damage.. Still easily shrugged off by 5d+ armor wearing coyonite, and that's not even taking into account the 2d bonus he gets to DODGE said shot.
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[vanir]

I use 2e for scaling and 2r&e for called hit locations if circumstantially appropriate.

Much more realistic action. We rely on armoured vehicles and organised formations a lot in our games, it's kind of dumb to have tanks that can be blown to bits by massed blaster pistols. I die cap them as per 2e, it works both ways, repulsortanks are scarier, do more damage, are harder to take down, very effective against infantry.

Speeder is die capped at 4 to hit, but Coynite is die capped at 5 to dodge (due to blast radius I assume), die cap to soak is 3. Even at a 4d blaster cannon that's going to hurt.

I also rule it circumstantially, so that if a speeder vehicle specifies its 4d weapon is a repeating blaster for anti-infantry use, I'll scale that weapon to character scale (particularly if pintle mounted and manned not remotely operated), a heavy repeater in this case using character scale at 8d. Makes more sense to me.

If a PC said, "I'm going to target that repulsortank's power exchangers (engine area or somesuch), with my blaster rifle and try to disable its drive," then if he makes the called hit location difficulty, with an aiming action, then we switch to 2r&e because it's still not easy, but you've got a much better chance of achieving damage, if you do any damage at all, it is to that specific system, if the dice gods are on your side and you score good damage you take out the entire drive or blow the vehicle up via chain reaction. Normal shots are capped though, armour resistance you understand, resisting small arms/smaller scale weaponry is kind of what dedicated glacis armouring is designed for.

Similarly, speeder mounted weaponry is by default blaster field-artillery and heavy support weapons. It's not just four guys with blaster pistols = 1 blaster cannon. That might work for some gaming styles but not ours. A blaster cannon is what you use, and go to all the hassle and inconvenience of using, because smaller arms on average won't do the same job, whether coordinated or not.

Massed rifles in war might do what a single MG can do, one is the substitute of the other but they just don't do what a pack howitzer or an antitank field gun can do.

[vanir]

Our party is meeting up on Ryloth after the current GM finishes our little adventure of helping them as reb-allied mercs against local slavers at a starport. Then I'll be taking them back up the Corellian Run hyperlane to where it intersects with the Triellus at Arkanis and head southwest into the Trailing Sectors and to Vergasso, with a stopover and some shore leave at Elshandru Pica.

We've finalised the PC party:
Bongo Vass, a sabre rake and jedi padawan, ex-tapani space
Xavier, a mandalorian near-human force user, ex-slave
Melton, a human disguise artist, ex-tapani space
Tillian Rhol, a human freighter captain, ex-minos cluster
Riko, a human slicer/forger
Erekan Moralina, lafrarian starfighter pilot, rebel ensign on special assignment
Arl Ekkar, a coynite warrior, ex-elrood sector
Kaz, a kasa horansi adventurer
Buji, a mashi horansi infiltrator/sniper
Happy, a meris medical technician, ex-elrood sector
Goodcat, a farghul adventurer

Our party fleet at this point (travel as a group):
modded YT-1300 with enforcement permits (Tillian's)
BTL-T2 Y-Wing trainer (Melton's)
Phoenix-Hawk light pinnace (Bongo's)
KSE custom "mercinary" starfighter (Erekan's)

we have a deal with an NPC group for part ownership in a CEC Corvette we operate as a mobile base and keep in reserve away from player activities, usually in another system as a meeting point.
We have a handful of other small craft available but can't crew them.

We also have a small squad of SpecForce recruits travelling with us for training and interview purposes, we're working presently in concert with, but not directly under the authority of the Rebel command. We're sort of being interviewed/reviewed for the possibility of establishing a local cell in our areas of operation and some PCs are interested in formally joining the Rebel military.

Once at Vergasso I'm going to give them an opportunity to unload some cargo and do personal stuff, have a bit of starport fun and then probably send them off on a raid against an Imperial transport fleet shipping minerals to Fondor from mid rim sectors.

I'm going to try to play up the need for obtaining hyperroute maps, local runs especially for avoiding Imperial patrols especially once you start getting near the major shipping lanes. I can also introduce interesting ports of call for the party this way, as they switch from one starchart to the next along a complicated journey.

From here I want to use the Lafrarian starfighter pilot (who is a rebel pilot-ensign), to introduce the party to a beefed up version of the Isis Coordinates adventure. It'll be tough enough.

I am interested in any feedback or ideas in how exactly to introduce the party to Isis, since they're not officially recruited yet so it's not just a matter of receiving orders, and the players may need convincing of why they should go here and do that.

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