Starfinder Society: Beyond the Blood Door | Paizo Blog
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Some interesting content for those who are curious about theories regarding The Gap...maybe some Torag insight!
so I'm joining my first starfinder 2e game i have played pathfinder 2e for some time so i know the basics, the game is gonna have the free archetype variant rule.
I'm considering a Inventor but I'm not sure what might pair good with it for the free archetype.
my general idea is weapon innovation mele/range combo to have a verity in combat, unless any one here gives me some better advice to stick to only one thing.
To elaborate, I'm not asking about mechanics. You create/manifest your weapons when you use the Attune action. It's just that shrimple.
I'm asking what shape does it take for you, how does your solarian form it?
Do they use a focusing hilt to do a legally distinct lightsabre? Does the weapon appear fully formed and entirely out of solar energy? Is there some other focus that your character uses for it? (Even as I'm writing this, now I'm getting ideas for gloves as a focus to go full Black Silence with the idea.)
Asking because I'm building a new Orocoran Solarian for a new table and trying to think of ideas. That, and Page 6 of Galactic Ancestries has an Orocoran with what appears to be a hardlight scope on their arm and though that'd make for a sick visual style for the Solar Flare.
Art by Mibelart
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“Five-six-seven– Eight!” *hits bad guy*
“You are a bit too early…” *Creature makes reacts* “There you are!”
“Shoot me again! You almost had me!”
“Well if I do die, I like to do it gun out, naked, on fire and my Mortuary Check wired to my sister Heryati.”
“Right! A little, a little more to the r-right…” *BANG* “Gotcha.”
“My Seeing-Eyes is just weird like that—people call it ‘weak’ since it can only see about five or ten seconds into the future. Yet it's perhaps the most exhilarating thing you can feel. When everything seems to just slow down when a gun’s pointed at you, but it doesn’t, you just start seeing more… how it goes, how it ends, all the little ways it could all fall apart. I get a few futures—some bad, some great—and if you stay with it for a second, you can feel all of them at once. I just pick the futures I like.”
“Free Flatline! Come and get your free flatlines on me!” *fanfire’s revolver*
“After it all, I crash down to feel something else, yes? For me – it always lands early. The laughing, the drinking, the taste of the peppers hitting your tongue before you actually taste them, and the way the night ends. I’ve already been there ahead of time. Five seconds doesn’t sound so much to you, but when you can’t turn it off – EVER – it slowly kills you.”
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(This lore specific to my Novel im working so forgive me if it got a lot of Proper Nouns. Sorry if it sounds info dumpy. Feel free to ask me any questions about the way I write my Lore for my tentative Sci-Fi/Fantasy Space Opera. I could use the test in the waters just to improve my world-building for my Novel.)
Each of the Dschinn Corpo-Feudal Houses have their own Esovitic Practitioners Youth Programs for each of the Galactically recognized Disciplines of Esovis Powers. The anarcho-capitalist Dschinn does not just raise these children, but also cultivate these potentially gifted assets early. Perhaps most prized of these sprightly candidates are those of the Discipline of Clair-Augury; the Ability to See-into-the-Future.
Typically, the median range for a Clair-Augur’s ability to peer into the many possible futures ahead are days to weeks. Whilst exceptionally gifted (and exceptionally prized) ones can see across months. They are groomed to become future Marketing Forecasters, Financial Analysts and Strategic Executives. Able to guide their Houses into continuous prosperity across the ever dynamic Milky Way…
Balada of House Senjata however, her powers are considered – way farther below the Median. With her Clair-Augury abilities only able to peer through a measly five-to-fifteen seconds. A very negligible puncture by institutional standards. Terrible for market forecasting, useless for strategic advisory, and deemed ‘economically unviable’, she was scheduled to be written-off from Senjata’s Youth Cultivator Program.
That decision was reversed during a mass shooting incident. A Kasveth kill team known infamously as the Sure Shots—raided their training facility, their reputation built on practiced execution and near-perfect marksmanship of their missions. Where the Program’s prized long-range Augurs faltered—overloaded by branching outcomes and distant projections—Balada founded a strange sort of clarity. She moved before each shot was fired, not merely dodging the bullets fired at her but rhyming herself into the tune of the only viable future within the limited window her Clair-Augury had foreseen. Bullets passed through spaces she had already danced away and her assailants fell before their aim completed. She rescued her instructor, secured critical training data that the Kasveth were after and stalled the Kasveth until local security arrived to neutralize them.
Executive Analysis from House Senjata concluded that Balada had not failed in her respective Discipline. Rather, her close-minded masters had initially – ‘misassigned’ her. Her Clair-Augury, though not suited for prediction at long-term scale as originally intended, was better used within faster-paced horizons. And so the Dschinn, as natural as their species' natural affinity for their utter lack of compunction, has done something unprecedented: Reclassification.
Not as an armchair forecaster as original doctrine intended. But as a Field-Agent, specifically as one of House Senjata’s Bail Bondsman (more colloquially known as a ‘Bounty Hunter’. Though you are subject to a lecture if you insist she’s to be titled the latter over the former.). Balada’s limited see-through window translated with alarming efficiency into immediate engagements, specifically Gunfights.
In such cases, she seems to thrive in a dance-like musical around hordes of partnered-up assailants. Testimonies from witnesses during her famous attack on the Silver Tiger Casino in the Thai-Myanmar-Laos Golden Triangle describe her adversaries, no matter how severe the odds be collapsed into montages of an already-resolved outcome: she stepped where the bullet would not be, fired where targets peek out of cover, and baited reactions she had already seen fail. Her movements were as danciful, as if she was unnervingly having fun in high-intensity gunfights. That it was only a competition of how many she will slay or what whose prescient death would perish the most elegantly.
Almost as if she had practiced a bullet-riddled choreography over and over with her supposed ‘dance partners’ flatlined on the floor and her non-chalantly stretching her arms after ‘such a thrilling workout.’
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Remastered my sexy Alien Psychic Bullet Dancer that I am working on for my Novel (no title yet). My main method of writing my main characters for my Sci-Fi/Fantasy Space Opera is imagining my Novel Characters as if they were Paizo-Finder characters and then build their archetypes into my writing.
And yes you read it right. Balada is the kind of person who will raid a Triad Casino IN EARTH filled with armed guards by going ‘Fuck it, Front door!’. My Novel is a Post-First Contact story to sum it all up.
Psychic Infinite Eye with Bullet Dancer on. Yes I know that's illegal. But the Dschinn in my setting do illegal shit for giggles and profit. Sue me, my Kasveth Lawyer (read: Hitman at my beck and call) will gladly ‘defend’ me. Just go focusing more on the ability to dodge or avoid damage over better odds in hitting Strikes. Remember to do the Pistol Twirl Elastico so you can make your opponents asses eat the grasses.
In my setting, I imagined the Dschinn to be a bit of a fusion of the Lashunta and Demonic Influenced Nephilim. Though in my novel, the Combined Dschinn Syndicates are more like a fusion between Cyberpunk 2077 and the Warhammer 40k Drukhari. They are considered the richest race of folks in the Milky Way by their sheer competitive tenacity that their race as a whole exhibits. Since the Dschinn are an allegory for – VERY unrestrained Capitalism. Like ‘send a Death Squad to murder your competition’s interns before they get enough acclimated experience.’ unrestrained. Dschinn put the cut-throat in the ‘cutthroat competition’. ;)
Roleplaying her at least how I wrote her might sound super counterintuitive. You want her to… ‘Negotiate’ LOWER Pay in favor of making sure the Patron/Client hire’s ONLY her and her teammates for the mission. She’s a bit of a smurf. Especially when she took that one Job in Thailand that involved flushing an entire Casino’s server off an embarrassing crashout. Balada straight up threatened the client to give her a lower pay on the condition NOBODY else takes her job. That and she’s a Hedonist. Work Hard, Play Hard so much it makes a Bard look celibate.
That and anyone who can guess the IRL Athlete I based Balada off gets a free cookie!
Hint:
La mano arriba, cintura sola
Da media vuelta, danza kuduro
No te canse' ahora, que esto solo empieza
Mueve la cabeza, danza kuduro
La mano arriba, cintura sola
Da media vuelta, danza kuduro
No te canse' ahora, que esto solo empieza
Mueve la cabeza, danza kuduro
Was thinking Trok Soldier but I dont really know how to effectively build a Soldier at all
For those who dont know Eliksni (aka the Fallen) are insect-like aliens with 4 arms from Destiny, wanted to build one, but im still learning Starfinder, does the race have decent synergy?
Like, don't get me wrong, Paizo has always had a sense of whimsy in its products. But 2e feels like it's dialed up the cartooniness in a way I can't fully pin down. (Official artwork above)
Anyone else feel like that?
I'm looking for some JRPGs and Tactical RPGs to play to get more into the mindset of starfinder, have played fallout, outer worlds for the "humour" kind of vibe, but was wanting to see if there are more rpgs games in that same vibe of space opera.
There are a lot of kill the dragon, use your sword kind of jrpg, but I have seen so few of space vibes rpgs, I know there's a starfinder CRPG coming, so excited for that, but looking for suggestions of rpg games to prepare for my next campaign that will be set in starfinder 2e.
Cosmic Star Heroine on the image.
Source: https://paizo.com/threads/rzs82ny4?Tales-of-the-Vast-FoundryVTT-module#2
Well, this is disappointing. I already told my online friends that I'd run it, thinking Foundry will make it easy, but nooooo. Sigh. Hopefully they'll at least release an art pack or something, save us some time building everything up.
I ordered a heroforge mini for my character a while back and it came in! It actually came a bit ago and I've used it for a few sessions but I'm pretty happy with it! I think i did pretty well using their character creator to get pretty close to what I was envisioning. Now here's hoping he survives the campaign.
Title. Ran into this issue in a SF Society session earlier, where my husband's PC is a plated vesk. Per the heritage description, they count as exposed, and can't equip armor upgrades in it (from what I can tell, the usual way to get basic environmental protections.)
---Your scales count as medium armor in the plate armor group. They grant a +3 item bonus to AC, have a Dex cap of +1, a check penalty of –2, and a Strength threshold of +3, and have the comfort and exposed traits. This item bonus increases to +4 at 5th level. You can wear a flight suit, but you can't wear other armor. You can etch armor runes onto your scales, but you can't install armor upgrades.
The commercial flight suit has no upgrade slots (I'm aware the tactical one has a single upgrade slot, but we're level one), and he can't wear other armor. What are the options for him to get basic environmental protections before level five? Or is this just an insane oversight? (Most of the table have only played like, two sessions of sf2e so it's entirely possible that all of us are just missing something obvious.)
Change "Before you make an area attack with a weapon (such as from the Area-Fire or Auto-Fire actions,[...]" to "Before making an area attack with an area weapon (such as from the Area-Fire or Auto-Fire actions, with a weapon that has either the Area or Automatic trait),[...]"
As grenades themselves don't have the Area(Burst) trait, but rather give you a special single-action with that trait, they are exempted from Primary Target but still included in Suppressing Fire. Grenades are Thrown, Consumable weapons that give access to a special version of the Area-Fire action.
This would, to me, as a soldier player, satisfyingly clarify Rules As Written that grenades are not included in primary target. I get they were not intended to be included in the first place but the language was just vague enough that i got my hopes up in the first place.
As of this writing the Primary Target feature does not require the weapon you are area attacking with to itself have the area or automatic trait. I get the intention with the current balancing of grenades that they were not to be included, because at higher levels you'd be competing with blaster casters for direct damage. However, intentions aside, someone missed that the current wording of primary target did not actually exclude grenades. (unless they meant that a special Area-Fire action did not count as Area-Fire because it's not the standard Area-Fire in which case.... why?)
It's fine, we're all fallible, people miss things, it's fixable, and should be included in the errata and not the faq. FAQ might clarify intention, errata actually fixes the rules.
Browsing through Galactic Ancestries, I see feats that put Pf2 ancestries to shame.
There are other ancestry feats in Sf2 that do things like "grapple all enemies in your reach" which is better than many class feats!
The group quasi-healer, and cackling action hero soldier (the biggest laser cannon I could afford, and back up bone sceptre and neural whip. )
Xenoandroid/Oroccoran with serum crafting background - a vending machine low on Absalom Station, with various Gap corrupted directives, and a lump of arctunite lodged in its head.
A stupid simple character. Stl intended for 3d ptinting. I expect to have fun!
