Hello, Starfinders!
Welcome back to our Starfinder Society rollout! Last week, Alex and I announced Starfinder Society Second Edition. This week, I’m here to discuss the adventures you’ll play as a member of the Starfinder Society: Starfinder Society Scenarios!
What is a Starfinder Society Scenario?
Starfinder Society Scenarios are one-shot adventures designed to be played in the Starfinder Society Organized Play Program. Each scenario is 2–3 hours in length and can be played by groups of 4–6 characters within a specified two-level range. As self-contained adventures, each scenario has problems to solve, villains to combat, challenges to overcome, and a clear ending. Many Starfinder Society Scenarios are also interconnected and form a larger story. While some of these stories are small and span two to three scenarios, others are the focus of many more. The “largest” story of each season is often referred to as the metaplot.
Scenario Cadence
Starfinder Society Second Edition launches at GenCon 2025 (July 31–August 3). The launch scenarios and adventures will be available on paizo.com on August 1, and organizers may begin scheduling events as soon as the convention ends on August 3. During this first month, we’re releasing four Starfinder Society Scenarios plus a special launch adventure—for more information on this launch adventure, be sure to drop by and read the Organized Play blog on May 8, 2025. Every month afterwards, we’re releasing two Starfinder Society Scenarios, for a total of 26 scenarios during our first year of the campaign!
Scenario Presentation
Starfinder Society Scenarios are Starfinder adventures.
In the past, we created a lot of additions and exceptions for Starfinder Society Scenarios which resulted in scenarios including information, rules, and deviations that other Starfinder adventures did not have. These deviations increased the barrier to entry for people interested in participating in Starfinder Society Organized Play and increased the time staff had to pour into each scenario. Going forward, we’re avoiding unnecessary deviations whenever possible and leading with simplicity and synchronicity. If you know how to read and run a Starfinder adventure, you’ll be able to read and run anyStarfinder adventure, from the shortest Starfinder Society Scenario to the longest Starfinder Adventure Path. This change frees us up to create more adventures and more content for Starfinder Society.
Of course, some deviation is required! For example, GMs can easily adjust the difficulty of a scenario to be easier or harder using the Adjusting Difficulty sidebars found throughout Starfinder Society Scenarios. This empowers GMs to accommodate and adapt to tables of varying sizes, levels, and experience—a necessity for Organized Play!
(To preemptively answer a question many fans of Pathfinder Society Second Edition are likely to ask: Starfinder Society Scenarios in Second Edition do not include appendices, challenge points, treasure bundles, or scenario tags.)
Scenario Levels
Each Starfinder Society Scenario is designed for a specific two-level range. During the first year of Starfinder Society Second Edition, you can expect a lot of scenarios to be level 1–2 adventures or, later in the year, level 3–4 adventures. If your character is either of a scenario’s listed levels, you can play the scenario with that character! If you don’t have a character of the appropriate level, you can still play if you use a newly created character or a pregenerated character. (Yes, you read that right! More on that next week!). You can play every Starfinder Society Scenario as many times as you like, earning full rewards for playing, so long as you play with a different character each time. GMs can also assign credit to a new character each time they run a scenario.
You’re always welcome to play a Starfinder Society game!
What’s Next?
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be unveiling more information about the Starfinder Society Organized Play program, focusing on a different aspect of the program in each blog. You can follow along with our schedule below:
- April 9 - Welcome to Starfinder Society
- April 22 - Character Creation
- April 29 - Adventure Rewards
- May 6 - Year 1 Storyline
Venture-Captain Arvin, illustration by Rodrigo Gallo
Until next time—Explore! Report! Cooperate!
We’ll see you in the stars!
Jessica Catalan
Starfinder Society DeveloperAlex Speidel
Organized Play Coordinator
Starfinder Society 2.0: Scenario Structure
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
