First, I want to make clear: This is NOT meant as a put down to the producers of "Neon Odyssey".

From what I have seen, it looks like a very interesting game and setting, and it has the honor of being the most heavily supported kickstarter for a TTRPG product ever (16 MILLION! 👀 )

I just watched a Youtube video by Bob Builder on the 'Kickstarter TTRPG Bubble': https://youtu.be/ntwwALztXbo

He mentions Neon Odyssey and its success. However, upon looking at it myself, it does seem to be doing a lot of the things that Starfinder (1E or 2E) does: A Space Fantasy/Opera setting using some variation of the D20 Rules system.

Again, I'm not saying its a 'copy' of Starfinder, but maybe a entry in a genre that's already a bit 'glutted'? Then again; there are far more "Tolkien-esque Fantasy" kickstarters out there than Sci-Fi/Space Opera ones, so.....

That being said, I have looked at 5E iterations of other properties, and liked them, like the various Unofficial 5E Dark Sun conversions, Star Wars, and Even Mass Effect (...cold 40 for Bioware, folks 😄 )

I'll probably pick up the core rulebook pdf at some point, just to give it a look see, even if I never intend on playing it (still got way too much SF1E stuff I haven't used to switch to any new system 😄 )

Just curious as to anyone else's opinions.

Just posting some new Barathu art here. It's for a Starfinder 2e Envoy, though I don't have the karma or account age to post in the SF2e reddit.

Commission was done by DamnoS, a great artist that does art on both characters and Mecha. His mecha art really shows off how shape work can pass along the intended vibe; please check him out!

https://vgen.co/Damno55

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Hey Everyone,
The website has been updated to version 165 with the following improvements and fixes:

Improvements

• Ability increases when leveling up no longer have ability scores selected by default and will mark the Creator > Abilities section as incomplete until all increases are chosen.
• Updated descriptions that refer to Universal Creature Rules to link to those rules on the Infosphere.

Hephaistos 2E

https://sf2e.hephaistos.online/

• Added archetypes, armor, shields, weapons, grenades and upgrades from Tech Core.
• Added and updated Animal Companions, Robot Companions, Customizations and Familiar abilities from Tech Core.
• Fixed skill modifiers for familiars being calculated incorrectly as 3 + level + spellcasting attribute modifier, of the larger of 3 + level or spellcasting attribute + level.
• Fixed innate spells granted by the Verdant Psychic Lashunta ancestry feat being shown as having -1 uses per day.

Hello,

I posted Fantasy World Generator here a few months ago. Most of what has come out since is sci-fi, so here’s what’s new.

Mystery: a crime set in a whole building, drawn floor by floor, with the clues and suspects pinned where they are. Sci-fi has twelve buildings, including a passenger liner, a research station, an orbital hotel, a mining outpost, an embassy, a generation ship’s deck and a salvage tug. You get a case file on everyone aboard, the night's events hour by hour, and a GM switch that shows who did it. Set the tone to "strange" and something nobody can explain gets in the case, with the truth kept for the GM.

Taverns & Hubs: cantinas, station lounges, orbital casinos, colony mess halls, spacer bars and dock dives. Each one comes with a floor plan, sub-decks and upper decks, and everyone inside.

Sci-fi in more tools: Random Places, Magic Items, Omens, Found Notes, Dungeon Rooms, Five Room Dungeon, Adventures and Factions now write sci-fi too, with more than 5,700 new lines. Every sci-fi table is now as big as its fantasy twin.

There’s also a Sector Survey that rolls a cluster of worlds with starports and trade codes, plus a cargo tool. Both use Traveller-style profiles, so they’re more flavour than stats here.

It’s still free, works offline, with no ads and no account. No AI was involved, every generation is an output of pre-written tables with procedural generation rules.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avaton.fantasynamegenerator

Hello there!

My name is David, I'm an experienced 3D Character Artist with over four years of experience creating characters and props for Miniatures, Games and animation!

I'm opening commissions for Miniatures, Minis-Parts or Cosplay!

If you wanna see more of my work, check out my portfolio here or Instagram

Feel free to reach out through DM or on Discord at dhantetnt.

Rates kick off at $15/h, though I'm open to negotiation based on the specific project!

First starfinder commission ever, despite being really into this game for ages ahaha! Guns are HARD.

Sharing an image made by a producer that goes by the name Chup@Cabra, with permission.

Note: This is NOT an AI image, but one produced using the 3d modelling program Daz Studio (with another such image I posted people were concerned it was an AI image).

The producer says this image was inspired by an image in the 1E core rulebook, page 159.

In this case he's using his rendition of a Nuar Soldier and an Android Operative (Bounty Hunter background, obviously 😄 )

Specifically I want to adapt the rust hag, which to me feels like a perfect fit for starfinder with it's myriad of interesting tech to rust.

Any help would be appreciated

Hey all!

It's bee about six months since we last posted, but Star Raiders Campaign 2 is now up to episode 40 and still going strong! We are starting to hit the end game, and like C1, we should be wrapping up in under 60 episodes.

We do play Starfinder 1st edition, but if you are a SF2E player, but I encourage you to give it a go anyway, as our biggest points of pride are our storytelling, table energy, and audio quality.

An overview of our show:

“Exploring the unknown is part of the job for the members of Drebin Industries' Xenomineral Scout Team. But deep in The Vast they encounter more than they bargained for, turning their galaxy upside down.”

We also have a PF2E podcast that releases fortnightly and is currently up to episode 26! Check out Of Moons and Men, which is a homebrewed story.

We have an excellent back catalog to listen to as well for free and even more on our Patreon. Feel free to check us out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or wherever you get your shows.

Website for more information on shows and the players: www.arcanefocusnetwork.com

Finally, for anyone interested, we've also been super busy doing live shows and we'll be doing a Halloween special in two weeks time!

Thanks for your time everyone!

Tom

I have made a full core rulebook conversion for starfinder to world of darkness 5th edition rules. Let me know if you wanna check it out

This might be a dumb question, but I was looking at making one for my current campaign (the GM has tasked me with helping make extra ship statblocks that he can use for encounters because he knows I love doing it).

Like many others, one of my favorite franchises is Star Wars, and I was looking at making several ships from there, and I was looking for inspiration/if it's even possible, because the ships in Starfinder definitely seem far smaller than their counterparts in other sci-fi for the purposes of balancing I'd assume (which makes sense).

I tried to Google it and look it up on the subreddit but found nothing, so now I'm mainly just curious. thank you!!

Title is question, right now I have the starter box, and some online pdfs I had received from humble bundle.

I have not used it yet, but I am eager to start, is it worth spending 200 for some hardcover books and pawns?

Also I have the swarm campaign, any other one you would recommend?

I picked up Mechageddon, the core rulebook and pact worlds but discovered the Daimalko species is printed in alien archives 2. So, back I go to the fall sale. While I’m there I think, “what if I just bought it all?” But there are a couple (armory/alien archives) that show as in stock then I can’t buy them. My question is, am I doing something wrong? I assume they are just out of stock, but if not they’re going in the cart.

I kitbashed this guy by head swapping a span Clan rat head (and tail) onto a Votaan mini i had from Warhammers Mini of the Month promotion a while back. I painted it up between stages of my main project and was very surprised to discover as I finished it today that it's very easily the best model I've ever painted.

He's doubling as the first member of my scavenger crew for Star Grave and an NPC model for a game of Starfinder im running in the future

Hi all. I'm a fairly new GM (only about a year) and I'm thinking of doing something unusual for Halloween. What if... While traveling my players discover a ship that was taken over by the corpse fleet. There will be a recruiter on board who will give them the option to join with all their "history" (stats and personality) or as an undead husk.

....I'm trying to figure out how to do this without it feeling dumb.

Thanks for all your ideas on this thread.

Starfinder 1e, I should mention.

Hi gang, I've been trying to find something concrete on whether the attacks you can do with shields and Solar Shields count as lethal damage or not.

RAW, it's stated that they allow you to perform attacks that count as an unarmed strike and not as an archaic weapon; unarmed strikes deal non-lethal damage unless you've taken the Improved Unarmed Strike feat or have a similar class ability. On the flip side, some shield special properties use vaguely allude to dealing lethal damage without explicitly stating so.

As such there's some ambiguity as to whether it deals lethal damage or not, and I'm wondering if it's been answered in a FAQ. Paizo's search is offline ATM else I'd use that, and internet search doesn't seem to give the results I'm looking for.

If you happen to know of something somewhere that clarifies this, a link would be much appreciated.

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Hey Everyone,
The website has been updated to version 164 with the following improvements and fixes:

Improvements

• Updated descriptions to add links to the Infosphere where ever conditions and combat maneuvers are referenced.

Hephaistos 2E

https://sf2e.hephaistos.online/

• Updated Mechanic and Technomancer classes from the playtest to Tech Core.
• Added ancestries, heritages, backgrounds, feats and spells from Tech Core.
• Added support for ancestries with multiple possible sizes.
• Fixed issue with the Battery and Chem Tank ammunition being incorrectly priced when buying.

The remaining content from Tech Core (Archetypes, Companions, Gear etc.) will come in the next release or two. Support for Tactical Starship Combat, including a Starship builder, is planned for the near-ish future.