But they also included some great themes that fit into the science element — Roboticist, Cyberborn, etc. Yet even in Pact Worlds that is thought of as stricly a setting book, I was pleasantly surprised there were so many player customization options, faction NPCs, and even playable races. It was pretty great mashing up setting, starships, themes, etc.
Well played, Paizo. I like the idea of them being discoverable as you read through the book, but I would have preferred a section on new themes all in one place. What about the starships? Clave : Totally. But I must admit that I went full year-old boy and drooled over the starship pictures though. There were some pretty neat designs. Starfinder Armory is a must-have companion volume to the Starfinder Core Rulebook.
With this galactic inventory of inventive gadgets and gear, you'll always have exactly what you need to explore new worlds and wonders!
The galaxy hosts a staggering array of aliens, both bloodcurdling and benevolent. Starfinder Alien Archive presents a sampling of such aliens, designed both for Game Masters to use in crafting challenging encounters and adventures and for players to use in creating and customizing the perfect characters.
It contains 80 creatures and races for the Starfinder Roleplaying Game. From the gravity-manipulating frujais and planet-killing novaspawn to space goblins and security robots, the creatures in this codex will challenge adventurers no matter what strange worlds they're exploring. What's more, player rules for a host of creatures let players not just fight aliens, but be them! Inside Starfinder Alien Archive , you'll find the following: Over 80 bizarre life-forms both classic and new, from the reptilian ikeshtis and energy-bodied hallajins to roboticanacites and supernatural entities from beyond the realms of mortals.
Over 20 races with full player rules, letting you play everything from a winged dragonkin to a hyperevolved floating brain. On her back is a holoprojector that creates a colorful banner in the air, announcing to her foes across the battlefield exactly what she has in store for them. Like all of the shirren, he carries his young child in a hardened carafe on his belt.
In leaving his home planet he broke the many shared, telepathic connections with his friends and family. The Core Rulebook comes with seven races in total, as well as seven different classes like soldier, technomancer, mystic and operative to choose from.
Thankfully, the book is more like a menu than a manual and meals are served a la carte thanks to a helpful index and color-coded sections. You only really need to read the sections that apply to you the player, your race and your role. Experienced GMs will use this to their advantage, and start their groups out with sample characters based on the Iconics before branching off and making the game their own. Aside from the Iconic characters and the exotic races, what makes Starfinder so special are the options for space-based combat.
The core conceit is that every party of three to six players will have their own starship. Battles, fought on a hex-based map, are surprisingly complex affairs with barrel rolls, evasions and other elaborate three-dimensional maneuvers. The system scales well, and takes into account small one-man fighters as well as capital ships.
That got old quickly, however. Spending too much time in space combat with a large group of players at the table is likely to drag a bit, especially when only a few characters get to make meaningful actions every round. It will be up to GMs to encourage role-playing to fill these gaps, and to the players themselves to make their own fun during encounters that may have a tendency to drag.
But once on the ground the game felt like a well-tuned dbased experience, which it is. Ranges were such that the game is unlikely to feel like a miniatures wargame, and work to keep encounters fast and lethal. My character, Quig, had a hand-made drone named Scout that he could use to fly ahead of the group. Outfitted with an integrated pistol, it even made for a decent weapons platform. Our play session only lasted a few hours, but I was left with the impression of a game that can easily transform into anything that the players want it to be.
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