solamon77
Explorer
My player and I are at a disagreement on how the significant threat clause works for the solarian's Stellar Abillity. It reads as follows:
There needs to be some risk to you for your stellar mode to activate,so
you must be facing a significant enemy (see page 242). If there's
any doubt about whether you're in combat or able to access your
stellar mode. the GM decides. This also means that your stellar
mode might end before what was previously a dangerous battle
is over.
The way I read it is that as a DM, I should decide whether the combat they are in counts as a significant threat. Not ALL combat would count as significant. If it doesn't count, he can't activate his Stellar Mode abilities. For instance, he is facing 3 scrub enemies that have no realistic chance of killing him, he couldn't activate his Stellar Mode. However, if in a later round, the combat was joined by a powerful enemy, suddenly the combat would now pose a significant threat, and thus trigger his ability. I'm basing my interpretation the following passage from pg242 of the Starfinder Core Rulebook:
Significant Enemies
The GM can and should declare that an ineffectual foe is not
enough of a threat to count as an enemy for effects that grant
you a benefit when you do something to an enemy or have an
enemy do something to you.
His interpretation is that he can activate it in any and all combat situations. That the fact that he's under fire, regardless of how much potential damage an enemy can do, would count as a threat.
Which one of us (or any of us) is correct?
There needs to be some risk to you for your stellar mode to activate,so
you must be facing a significant enemy (see page 242). If there's
any doubt about whether you're in combat or able to access your
stellar mode. the GM decides. This also means that your stellar
mode might end before what was previously a dangerous battle
is over.
The way I read it is that as a DM, I should decide whether the combat they are in counts as a significant threat. Not ALL combat would count as significant. If it doesn't count, he can't activate his Stellar Mode abilities. For instance, he is facing 3 scrub enemies that have no realistic chance of killing him, he couldn't activate his Stellar Mode. However, if in a later round, the combat was joined by a powerful enemy, suddenly the combat would now pose a significant threat, and thus trigger his ability. I'm basing my interpretation the following passage from pg242 of the Starfinder Core Rulebook:
Significant Enemies
The GM can and should declare that an ineffectual foe is not
enough of a threat to count as an enemy for effects that grant
you a benefit when you do something to an enemy or have an
enemy do something to you.
His interpretation is that he can activate it in any and all combat situations. That the fact that he's under fire, regardless of how much potential damage an enemy can do, would count as a threat.
Which one of us (or any of us) is correct?
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