Starfinder—What We've Revealed So Far

Wish that I could be involved with this playtest... It all sounds so awesome!

Hmm

I'm happy the Kasatha are getting some more love. I really wish there was more support for them in Pathfinder. :)

Will there be any rules/guidelines for making your own multiverses?

I wish there was more support for a lot races.

There's still plenty of magic in the setting, but technology has become a dominant force. For instance, if you're playing an Iomedaean crusader, you might wear holy powered armor and carry a plasma cannon carved with magical runes.

H E L L Y E S

I see people asking for goblins, or magic, or anything and everything dirivative of pathfinder. I hope it's something different. I hope it's not just pathfinder in space, but it seems like it will be. Absalom Station? Piazo, you have enough to creative minds to do better. How about something no one has seen before? Some will say that there are no new ideas. Look at Numenera, Night's Black Agents, and Fiasco. There are new ideas....I am afraid this won't be one of them.

You forgot to mention the thing you said in the podcast, about high-level barbarians allegedly getting gunned down by low-level soldiers, or is that still in the game?

The other question I have pertains to the artwork. Is it now in the capacity of magic or technology to blow holes in planets Akira-style? I am very, very intrigued.

I see people asking for goblins, or magic, or anything and everything dirivative of pathfinder. I hope it's something different. I hope it's not just pathfinder in space, but it seems like it will be. Absalom Station? Piazo, you have enough to creative minds to do better. How about something no one has seen before? Some will say that there are no new ideas. Look at Numenera, Night's Black Agents, and Fiasco. There are new ideas....I am afraid this won't be one of them.

Marc, I wouldn't assume this will be the case. They've revealed very little so far about the game and setting, and it makes sense to be that these early reveals will be about bridging the gap (no pun intended) between what's known (Pathfinder) and what's not (Starfinder). I'm expecting lots that's wild yahoo sci-fi ideas, but those make more sense to me as later marketing reveals, or things the APs will detail as they explore beyond the Golarion Solar System. There's an infinite universe out there, and further away from "home" the PCs get, the weirder things will likely be.

I'm sure there will still be goblins and kobolds and stuff in space, but I'm fully expecting Dominion of the Black, Dyson spheres, intra-dimensional beings, nano-verses, non-physical aliens who can manipulate energy and appear to be gods (I'm thinking Cayden Calian would be a good stand in for Apollo), and more.

Do we get to do what the illustration implies, and play a Kasatha Solarian slinging spells while wielding a BFG 9000?

Honestly I just hope we get more information maybe even monster stats for The Dominion of The Black.

Time jump in the future? careful about this one, and learn from certain past campaign settings' mistakes...

ascended AI deity

I FOUND IT!!!!!!

Question...

Can you run spaceship battles without minis? Any word on this?

That could be the AI deity or it could be something else entirely.

Time jump in the future? careful about this one, and learn from certain past campaign settings' mistakes...

Avoiding that is the Doylist reason for the whole "no-one remembers a whole bunch of the past" and why it's a thousand years from the Pathfinder present. In effect, Starfinder becomes a new setting with some of the same names.

ascended AI deity

I FOUND IT!!!!!!

My money's on the friendly AI from the IG AP.

Also, not sure if this has been put out there yet, but there needs to be either an archtype or prc to make a techomancer/necromancer. "You got robots in my undead!" "No. You got undead in my robots!". I know there are some techno undead in Iron Gods. Now we need the class to support them.

Burning Skeletons -> Plasma Zombies?

^Now you reminded me that T-600 and T-800 Terminators without their coverings look like beefy skeletons . . . .

It's kind of funny how when Call of Duty unveils a game taking place in outer space, the reveal trailer gets disliked into oblivion, but when Pathfinder announces a space game most of the fanbase is onboard. Apples and oranges, but it's still amusing.

Who knows, maybe I'll run a campaign where the PCs are a special forces squad hunting down fanatical separatists led by a guy who looks like Kit Harrington.

Oh, I didn't know that about the new CoD game, and, boy, does that trailer look awesome. How are there 3 million dislikes? Too bad it'll probably mostly be a multiplayer game.

Starfinder wrote:

ascended AI deity

Captain collateral damage wrote:

I FOUND IT!!!!!!

My money's on the friendly AI from the IG AP.

Our IG game was only on book 5 when they announced Starfinder (since then we've finished), so when I was going over all the stuff, our GM started minor panicking, worrying about spoilers, but was relieved with it didn't share anything beyond what we've been told so far lol.

And that's why the AI from IG isn't going to be the god; because they're not going to write the outcome of an AP you may not have played into the continuity.

I'm thinking Cayden Calian would be a good stand in for Apollo), and more.

So we'll have an adventure that starts with CC clamping his hand on a starship?

Starfinder wrote:

ascended AI deity

Captain collateral damage wrote:

I FOUND IT!!!!!!

My money's on the friendly AI from the IG AP.

I appreciate both of your speculations. :D

What does God need with a starship?

JoelF847 wrote:

I'm thinking Cayden Calian would be a good stand in for Apollo), and more.

So we'll have an adventure that starts with CC clamping his hand on a starship?

I'm ready to play or better yet run that adventure! Paizo, just publish it!

What does God need with a starship?

Maybe it looks cool.

What does God need with a starship?

For an AI god? I could see a sentient battleship as it's avatar. Just imagine a god that lands a battallion's worth of droid drones with each one functioning at the will of the ship in orbit. It's its own crusade :)

Kryzbyn wrote:

What does God need with a starship?

For an AI god? I could see a sentient battleship as it's avatar. Just imagine a god that lands a battallion's worth of droid drones with each one functioning at the will of the ship in orbit. It's its own crusade :)

Roger Roger.

What does God need with a starship?

"You...doubt me?"

Torbyne wrote:

Kryzbyn wrote:

What does God need with a starship?

For an AI god? I could see a sentient battleship as it's avatar. Just imagine a god that lands a battallion's worth of droid drones with each one functioning at the will of the ship in orbit. It's its own crusade :)

Roger Roger.

I was imagining a God a little more competent than that.

"Who is this creature?"

Are there feats related to starship piloting since pilot is a skill?

Kryzbyn wrote:

What does God need with a starship?

"You...doubt me?"

ZZZAPPP

Standing by with cash in hand. Guarantee that I'll be the first person to preorder. It'll be like when the ball drops for another year at my house. We'll have a party, we'll have posters that say: "Welcome to the world, Starfinder!" and stuff like that.

I'd love it if one of the new races was some kind of crustacean-like humanoid alien. I'd also love to have that one plant people race, though I forget what they are called. The reptile race from Bestiary 5 would be cool. And we need space whales. Space whales are a must.

Here are somethings space whale-ish:

http://www.blogcdn.com/wow.joystiq.com/media/2013/11/fungal-whale.jpg

http://pre15.deviantart.net/65b8/th/pre/i/2013/023/8/9/adrift_on_celestial_ seas__space_whale_project_by_image_six-d5silm0.jpg

Finally, why go with goblins when there are monkey goblins? They certainly seem more alien.

Hmmmm, I wonder how easy it will be to take the game's rules and what not but use our own solar system as the basis? Add in anthropomorphic animal races as something the people of Earth or some alien races is toying with, much like the Moreaus from d20 Modern, and go from there?

Finally, why go with goblins when there are monkey goblins? They certainly seem more alien.

Because Monkey Goblins was made when.. well.. Gip just not think goblin cousins should marry. No one could read family tree and we burned it cause it had writing and we needed to be releasing souls. >.>

That, and come now, we're such an erudite, educated species.

Think upon our poetic gifts!
Our vast body of artistic output!

All the fire!

I'd love it if one of the new races was some kind of crustacean-like humanoid alien.

Why not Zoidberg?

Is the system compatible enough with regular pathfinder that a game could conceivably jump back in forth between them via time travel?

Man I really hope that us Venture Agents get to participate in the closed play test! I am so very excited for this.

What does God need with a starship?

Shouldn't the question be why the setting's FTL is handed down from a deity instead of being pre-existing methods such as those used by the Divinity, the Dominion, and so forth? What does a starship need with a god? :)

Is the system compatible enough with regular pathfinder that a game could conceivably jump back in forth between them via time travel?

Nope. Or at least that's how they've explained it.

Can the Starfinder classes be ported to a Pathfinder game? Like, can I play a Solarion? A "mystical melee combatant harnessing the cycles of the stars" wouldn't be too out of place in a sword-and-sorcery game, especially with all the sun deities like Sarenrae.

Can the Starfinder classes be ported to a Pathfinder game? Like, can I play a Solarion? A "mystical melee combatant harnessing the cycles of the stars" wouldn't be too out of place in a sword-and-sorcery game, especially with all the sun deities like Sarenrae.

yeah whether or not will be the deal breaker for me.

Kryzbyn wrote:

What does God need with a starship?

Shouldn't the question be why the setting's FTL is handed down from a deity instead of being pre-existing methods such as those used by the Divinity, the Dominion, and so forth? What does a starship need with a god? :)

It's been awhile since I read Iron Gods, but my impression was that the Dominion doesn't have real FTL, which is part of why they wanted the Divinity. And Androffan society basically collapsed not long after Divinity crashed.

Although I would be shocked if some other races weren't out there who independently came up with the same/similar FTL tech or even better methods of travel

Can the Starfinder classes be ported to a Pathfinder game? Like, can I play a Solarion? A "mystical melee combatant harnessing the cycles of the stars" wouldn't be too out of place in a sword-and-sorcery game, especially with all the sun deities like Sarenrae.

Generally speaking, there is going to be compatibility but as much as you might like. For now the developers keep saying "Maybe."

So I have to ask, will there be character and starship miniatures produced for Starfinder?

Also, will there be a separate Starfinder Society Organized Campaign built to support the line?