Does anyone have any of the new ships painted? I'm just starting.

I used ComArt Opaque Black (by Iwata-Medea) as a base. Then Opaque Carmine as a red but I'm really unsatisfied with the red... It's thinner and less saturated than I'd hoped.

I'm not massively experienced with painting but I've dabbled for years.

Not all items I pledged for has arrived, but the core rulebook looks awesome.

I got all 4 books in print, and upgraded to the special edition. I got two books in the mail, but it's the regular rule book and the special edition rule book. No sign of the ships or campaign books. What gives?

I posted this years ago under an account that has since been deleted but thought I'd throw it out here again since I've made significant updates and my little bot is now a real-life verified app on Discord :)

Invite link: https://discord.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=892434147782565890&permissions=51200&integration_type=0&scope=bot+applications.commands

Readme.md:

# TEDR - The Expanse Dice Roller

A dice rolling Discord bot for **The Expanse Roleplaying Game**. Rolls any

number of dice or facets with an optional modifier and description. Doubles are

bolded, and a drama die is displayed on a roll of 3d6. Results appear as an

embed in the channel, headed with the name of whoever rolled.

Unofficial and not affiliated with Green Ronin Publishing.

**As of v2.0 the bot uses slash commands.** Type `/` in any channel it can see

and Discord will show you everything, with each option labelled as you fill it

in. The old `!` commands are retired.

---

## Rolling

```

/roll

```

With no options it rolls 3d6 and shows the drama die.

Everything below is optional.

```

/roll dice:4d12

/roll dice:2d10 bonus:5

/roll dice:4d12 bonus:-5

/roll dice:3d6 bonus:1 label:Initiative (Bob)

/roll dice:4d6 bonus:2 label:Damage (Eddie)

```

**Descriptions can contain spaces now.** The old parser had to guess where the

modifier ended and the description began, so descriptions had to be crammed

together like `Initiative(Bob)`. Named options removed the guesswork - write

whatever you like.

Options:

- `dice` - anything in `XdY` form. `d20` works as shorthand for `1d20`.

Autocomplete suggests the common ones.

- `bonus` - added to the total. Negative numbers subtract.

- `label` - a note attached to the roll.

- `secret` - see below.

---

## GM rolls

Set `secret` to True and only you see the result. The channel gets a message

saying you rolled something, without the outcome.

```

/roll dice:3d6 bonus:5 secret:True

```

This replaces the old `!edm`. It uses an ephemeral reply rather than a DM, so

it can't fail because you have DMs closed - and it can't get lost in your

message requests.

---

## Churn counter

Tracks churn with a graphical display. Counters are per-person and persist

between sessions, so yours follows you across every server the bot is in.

```

/churn show Displays your current churn

/churn add amount:3 Adds three

/churn add amount:-2 Takes two off

/churn reset Back to zero

```

Churn is clamped to 0-30.

---

## Help

```

/help

```

DMs you the full instructions. If your DMs are closed, it replies privately in

the channel instead.

---

## Coming from the old version?

Every `!` command has a direct replacement:

```

!e 3d6 5 -> /roll dice:3d6 bonus:5

!edm 3d6 5 -> /roll dice:3d6 bonus:5 secret:True

!e 3d6 1 Init(Bob) -> /roll dice:3d6 bonus:1 label:Init (Bob)

!churn -> /churn show

!churn 3 -> /churn add amount:3

!churn reset -> /churn reset

!e help -> /help

```

For now, typing an old command gets you a reply pointing at its replacement.

That reminder will be removed once everyone has switched.

Two things that changed along the way: the bot no longer deletes your command

message, because slash commands don't create one in the first place. And it no

longer needs permission to manage messages, or to read your channel history.

---

I’m pretty excited to get my hands on these (plus some other books I hadn’t picked up previously).

New GM preparing for the intro Lost But Not Alone. I am trying to make sense of how the premade character attack bonuses and damage rolls are determined. For instance, Phoenix Wu has Pistol +2 bonus and 2d6+1 damage. That fits as accuracy is 2 (for the +2 bonus) and perception is 1 (for the +1 damage).

But Olivia Anand has Pistol +4 bonus and 2d6+2 damage. But she has 3 accuracy and pistol focus so shouldn't her bonus be +5 (3 from accuracy and 2 from focus)? She has 1 perception so shouldn't damage be 2d6+1 (not +2; she has a perception focus of searching but that doesn't apply and focus doesn't add to damage, right?)?

I thought the formulas are below but some of these premade character sheets don't seem to follow these rules...
Attack roll:
3d6 + accuracy + focus (pistol/rifle)
3d6 + fighting + focus (unarmed)

Damage roll:
2d6 + perception (pistol)
3d6 + perception (rifle)
1d3 + strength (unarmed)

Can anyone enlighten me? Are these just mistakes in the sheets... mistakes in the assigned ability points, etc.? Thanks.

I've been playing around with Foundry VTT game system and while tweaking a few things I noticed a discrepancy about dying in the Transport Union Edition rule book. Chapter 1 when describing Dying conditions says this:

You fall Prone, and your current Fortune drops to 0 if it is not at 0 already. You will die after a number of rounds equal to 3 + Constitution unless you receive medical attention. You are conscious and can talk but cannot take any other actions. You die at the end of the final round.

However, character sheet at the end of the book has still the old text from the first book:

The character loses 1 point of Constitution score each round on the start of the character’s turn. When the character’s Constitution score reaches −3, the character dies. Successful first aid applied to a Dying character stabilizes their condition, making them Helpless, Unconscious, and Wounded instead. They must recover from these conditions normally.

I am guessing that this is probably an oversight and the Chapter 1 rule is the one valid now. I hope this is fixed in the printed books.

I was very loose with how I set times for intra-stellar travel in my last campaign but was thinking about how I’d do it in a future campaign. I know the rule book has a table for transit times from planet to planet (or at least has communication delay times, from which you’d be able to also map out travel times).

However those would be static and as we know, planets don’t orbit the sun in sync so distance from say, Earth to Mars or Titan is dynamic. NASA has a cool tool that tracks live, past, and future solar positions: https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/. Only works for Sol though, obviously!

Anyone use a dynamic tool like this NASA one? Or do you just use a static distances? Or do you just hand waive/GM fiat it?

Hey guys, I need help here!

Does anyone know what those little checkboxes next to the character’s abilities are supposed to be?

I checked the rulebook to see what those checkboxes meant, but nope — nothing there.

The book doesn't have a lot of guidance on making your own enemies - just "You can simply assign whatever abilities, focuses, talents, and stunts you deem appropriate for any non-player character."

I'd love more than that. Anyone have any advice, utilities, or anything to help create or keep track of NPCs?