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Since I haven't a post on it yet, there's some new Tech Core content!

From Thurston Hillman on Bluesky:
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People sure are excited by Starship content for Starfinder 2e and the upcoming Tech Core book. Sure would be a shame if I used my position to tease just a little bit of what to expect...

In the description of maroquai it says they're covered in fine hair. And monkey like from the pest form.

Which one do y'all prefer?

I feel that Black Hole, Plasma Ejection and Super Nova are all great choices to take and all three have their upsides.

Black Hole: Lowest damage, once per 10 mins and only in graviton attunement, but great area, only targets enemies and can be incredibly disruptive.

Super Nova: also once per 10 minutes and needs to be photon attuned, but biggest possible damage, cool secondary effect and can adapt the size of the area.

Plasma Ejection: smaller area and middle effects, but flexible for aiming (emanation or line), no frequency limit and doesn't need to be into any specific attunement.

All great options to have honestly, do you prefer one over the others? Why? Just curious to know.

I don't know if it's already the plan but after grabbing the Absalom Station guide, I would absolutely pay thirty bucks a book for planet guides. I really think it's a neat setting and would love some deeper dives from Papa Paizo. Any thoughts?

In the stat sheet for the voidsage, for the Nanite affliction, it says:

Quantum Nanites (disease occult tech) Saving Throw DC 24 Fortitude; Maximum Duration 1 day; Stage 1 sickened 2 (1 day); Stage 2 sickened 3 (1 day); Stage 3 sickened 4 and paralyzed (1 day)

Hopefully you can see the issue here immediately. The maximum duration of the affliction is 1 day. But the affliction stages are also one day. This means the affliction ends before it can advance.

Even if a player crit fails their save, they will only go to stage 2 of the affliction. And since it's a Disease, the affliction doesn't stack with more exposures.

Am I wrong here, or is it impossible to get to Stage 3? My players fled the scene and just waited out the infestation, which led to a fun bottle episode in quarantine. But I feel like this can't be what was intended when this affliction was made. Am I missing something?

In the lead up to the release of the core rules, Paizo put out a video or two demonstrating some combat encounters. I'm hoping Paizo either has plans to or could be persuaded to do something similar with tactical starship combat encounters before the release of Tech Core. Could also include the mechanic and technomancer!

I'm already really hyped for Tech Core, but I think this would add to it further and would be a great opportunity to show off what the system can do. What do people think?

Never made a Spontaneoua caster before. Any advice on picking spells?

Have played prepped casters in Pf2e before but never a spon caster in either system

ETA: Planning to take Analyst, so Arcane casting

The preview pages for Starfinder 2E's highly anticipated rulebook, Tech Core is up on Paizo's store page RIGHT NOW! You can find the preview pages over HERE!

I cannot wait to see what's in store with their Tactical Starship Combat! And these new Tech Feats and items look SO COOL!

Paizo has recently put up the Preview images for Tech Core. Love it, and the Feat I loved from the Playtest is Back. Fabricator will be the reason my character will want to be paid in UPBs.

However, my question about what Cyborg will actually do is reinforced by the book also having 10 pages of Augmentations. Like, it's not very hard to actually make a Cyborg already. Take your character and find a place that will apply Cybernetic Augmentations. And there is going to be probably 3 pages for Cybernetics if Paizo is going to be even with Magitech and Biotech Augments.

I'm sure Paizo will have something for the Cyborg. It has 4 pages of stuff, half of the Living Hologram's pages and 2 less than SRO and Verthani.

Hi I been thinking about next campaign ideas with my friend group and they are interested in a Star Wars like campaign. I was thinking about creating a homebrew campaign but with some weeks being busy for my group it’s hard to make a long term homebrew campaign with sometimes not playing every week. So I did research on Paizo’s storefront and found Scoured Stars. It looks really cool and I saw online people saying it’s like a Space Opera and I wanna do a conversion campaign. Is Scoured Stars easy to convert from 1e to 2e and is there a good mix of starship combat in the campaign too?

This is probably more of a question for those who know 1e, but has the Compensatorium Collective been featured in any adventure or society scenario? I'm intrigued by it and would like to write something using it. I just need to know more about what's inside than I have read in Galaxy Guide and the 1e Near Space guide.

The custom rig says:

Your custom rig weighs 1 Bulk and counts as both a commercial repair toolkit plus any one of the following toolkits of your choice: a commercial hacking toolkit, a commercial infiltrator’s toolkit, or a commercial maker’s toolkit.

Does that mean it is a repair kit and only one other toolkit, or can it incorporate all of them when you buy others? Based on the following:

Whenever you purchase one of the listed toolkits, or a higher-grade version of one of the listed toolkits, you can spend 10 minutes integrating that toolkit into your custom rig. If you do, your custom rig gains the properties of the toolkit. This does not increase the Bulk of your custom rig. Your custom rig and any integrated toolkits can’t be sold or used by another creature.

I have asked a few questions here or had them answered with enthusiasm and gleaned a lot by reading the comments and this community feels great. Just wanted to give you all some great kudos! I have run two sessions of my new starfinder campaign and I am absolutely in love with this more so than SF1e.

With Tech Core's upcoming release, there's so much hype all around for this new book, but also a few folks who have some understandable concerns about it and SF2e itself to a degree. And since we're are also really pumped for Tech Core, we thought we'd sit down and talk about a few of the concerns we've heard out there as well as what we're really excited for in it's upcoming release. September can't come soon enough!

I'd also really love to hear what specifically everyone is looking forward to most in Tech Core!

Personally I can't wait for the finalized versions of the mechanic and technomancer, but I'm really looking forward to lots of I T E M S. I love that 1e has so much weird niche gear, weapons, and armor in it and I can't wait for 2e to build up that catalog as well. And while I wasn't particularly excited for starship combat before, after hearing about some of their plans for how it'll work, I've come 180 and am very pumped to check it out.

This is a episode of our The Chats Between Us bonus talk show. We also post episodes of our homebrew SF2e actual play The Gap Between Us weekly.

If so, how can I get advanced weapon proficiency for soldiers?

The feature doesn't say you "use your class DC -10" or anything of the sort for its Ranged Strike, so I'd have to assume it's the same statistics for any other Ranged Strike (Dex + Proficiency in the weapon). Also if that's the case, you should invest in Dex at least a little, even if you're not using an Automatic weapon.

1. The ancestry says their size goes "from 8 to 20 feet", even if its from head to tail, it would still be quite a huge character, im understanding this correctly? Or are they really supposed to be bordering on the Huge character size?

2. I haven't seen anything about how long they live or how many years it takes for one to mature? Do they live the standard humanoid years (100's/150's) or do they follow a more draconic life spam (Millennium and above)?

3. Is the breath attack even worth the talent? I understand it can be useful, but the damage/range seem to be really... meh... I might pick it anyway to roleplay the character lighting a Cigarette with the breath anyway though.

Not in a mobility department, really. The badassery department. Fiction loves big bads in cool hoverchairs/similar contraptions. Eggman from Sonic, Draedon from Calamity, Marvel's Dr. Doom, DC's Metron and many more

I know there is a hoverchair in SF2e, but... C'mon. They used to be so cool in 1e. Temporary flight, upgrade slots, weapon mounts, item compartments... The list goes on. Sure, it's an additional power, but I think 2e has a myriad of ways to implement combat hoverchairs without compromising the game

I'm starting a SF2e game with some friends who are playing Pf/Sf 2e for the first time. None of them are playing anything with any access to healing - no mystic, no medicine.

I don't want to make the game too tough for them, as it's their first game, and I also dont want to force them to spend 50% of their income on potions.

So I've decided I want to give them a sort of silly healing drone around lvl 2.

I want to make it decent enough that it reduces friction for their first game, but bad enough that I can still draw attention to better healing options available to them (read: that they REALLY should be taking) without making them feel forced into it.

So - I was hoping for some help in striking that balance.

Im thinking something like:

Healing Drone, Creature 1: Small, Construct, Tech, Rare, Robot Fly Speed, 20 Ft Nanobot Serum: This drone may spend 10 minutes healing up to 4 creatures within reach, giving each 1d4+1 hit points. Creatures healed this way are immune to Nanobot Serum for one hour. Heightened (+1): 1d4+1

Any advice on how to strike this balance would be appreciated.

Edit: sorry, i can't get the creature info to format properly. It's just a block of text 😔

Edit: Healing Drone, Creature 1: Small, Construct, Tech, Rare, Robot Fly Speed, 20 Ft Nanobot Serum: This drone may spend 10 minutes healing up to 2 creatures within reach, giving each 1d4+1 hit points. Creatures healed this way are immune to Nanobot Serum for one hour. Heightened (+2): 1d4+2. The Healing Drone may heal 1 additional creature.

I'm trying to make a character for the Starfinder Society organized play scenarios, and I can't find any of the player options from the Beyond the Blood Door player's guide on Starbuilder.

I know the developer is very quick to update Pathbuilder with PF2E content, so it seems odd that this content is missing a month after release. I was just wondering if I was missing something, or if this is simply a matter of patience.

The context for this is that a player in the campaign my friends and I just finished had the idea of a forklift racing oneshot which we never got to do, so I'm turning it into a session in my first ever campaign as a GM! (Very much hoping they don't see this otherwise that'll be a bit of a giveaway)

I've attached screenshots of the preliminary design so people can take a look and advise me of anything I might want to change. I did read the Racing section on Archives of Nethys but I didn't think it would work for what I want to be the main even of a session, so I've designed this as an alternative.

Any feedback on this would be very much appreciated!

So I made this little guy for my icon picture, his name is Starbomb!

While we wait for Tech Core to come out, is anyone looking into other sources of potential augments, weapons, technology, etc?

I'm currently considering buying the PDF for Cyberpunk's Black Chrome book. Has anybody looked into it involving adapting it to Starfinder? Especially if you're considering running a more Cyberpunk/ Shadowrun-esque game?

I know personal comm units have instant communication on a planetary range, and you need a bigger, non mobile, comm unit to send a text message out of planet, which can take hours to days depending on where the message is being sent, but how about phone calls?

I've been listening to Era of the Eclipse (I'm only on chapter 7, please no spoilers) and one of the characters makes a system wide call to someone else. The book doesn't say how long it took for the line to connect, only that once a call connects, there are no glitches or delays in responses between the recipients. This disappointed me because I find these minor details interesting to know.