Starfinder Alien Archive 2

Yay! More critters!

Nice! Rules for playing as the thralls of Hell from Embroi!

This is oddly one of the races I was most curious to play. Go figure.

Do we know the pagecount yet?

More races?! I hope!

Do we know the pagecount yet?

Seeing as its the same price as the last one I imagine page count would be similar sadly. Im all for more races and critters. Pack em in there!!

Will each alien still get a full two page spread?

Each alien does receive two full pages, but like before, many of those spreads will have two (sometimes more) stat blocks for various CRs. And because we don't need to re-explain NPC creation, we had room for more total aliens in this one!

Yay :D I like the two full pages format since it means creatures are actually detailed and its clearer what their place in the world is.

Will this bestiary have any CR 21-25 creatures?

!!! And ship sized creatures?

robust selection of template grafts

Love this ditty.

Also, will we see a large section of flora and flora generation rules some time? My players are real scavengers and DIYers.

McBugman, the description says "massive spacefaring organisms capable of battling starships"

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Thanks, my excited reading seems to impede it's only purpose of reading.

The cover looks like a Vracinea, will AP aliens be reprinted in this archive?

Thanks, I always did like Divs. Although they are not as alien as Proteans, they are preferred over Devils (bunch of Lawful ninnies if you ask me).

I guess they might reprint a few from Pathfinder, and maybe a few from the Adventure Path, but I hope they'll stick with mostly original creatures, at least until the third Archive.

If they do reprint a few Pathfinder Aliens, I would hope it was Dominion Creatures (Chyzaedu, Neh-Thalggu, Rhu-Chalik, Lunarma, Neshmaal, Yangethe, Yah-Thelgaad, Shipmind, Intellect Devourer/Egophage, Vespergaunt and Ugothokra) although there are several other Alien races which could be brought forth into Starfinder (all the creatures associated with the Old Cults, Several creatures From Bestiary 1-6, Distant Worlds, People of the Stars, Numeria, Land of the Fallen, and Iron Gods)

Let's start wondering about the description, shall we?

Want to play an intelligent, multi-legged centipede? An emotionless, mask-wearing mollusk? and Uplifted Bear?

Not gonna lie, I want to take that "uplifted bear" and make a character called "Yogi" or run around yelling "only you can prevent forest fires". Can't wait to see them.

Just in time for me to have birthday money to buy it with, although that means I have to wait 6 months (not including this month) and come back every weeks looking for possible questions that Jason or Owen might answer excitedly at 3 in the morning when the coffee pot has run out.

On that note, here's hoping for Mattresses! those of you familiar with towel wielding earthmen and editors from Betelgeuse might know what I mean.

An uplifted bear

Paizo knows what I like.

I guess they might reprint a few from Pathfinder, and maybe a few from the Adventure Path, but I hope they'll stick with mostly original creatures, at least until the third Archive.

If they do reprint a few Pathfinder Aliens, I would hope it was Dominion Creatures (Chyzaedu, Neh-Thalggu, Rhu-Chalik, Lunarma, Neshmaal, Yangethe, Yah-Thelgaad, Shipmind, Intellect Devourer/Egophage, Vespergaunt and Ugothokra) although there are several other Alien races which could be brought forth into Starfinder (all the creatures associated with the Old Cults, Several creatures From Bestiary 1-6, Distant Worlds, People of the Stars, Numeria, Land of the Fallen, and Iron Gods)

Please, Paizo, reprint mi-go for Starfinder! I want to be able to canonically make by players relive that terror!

I think we need to see Xenomorph or something similar.

Soooo............ Space Linnorms?

Soooo............ Space Linnorms?

Spinnorms?

Also, polymorphing rules? What is that about?

Ah not going to lie pretty excited for this, i do hope where going to have more low cr monsters tho

maybe we'll get some (insert favorite movie alien that needs a stand-in)

Removed a post and several replies to it. This is a discussion thread for Alien Archive 2, discussion of Pathfinder 2 does not belong in this thread.

To: the Office of Expectation Management

Will there be Ewoks?

The template grafts seem neat

Just thought of something. J, Q, X, and Z have a noticeable lack of Aberrations (alphabetically speaking... using both Pathfinder and Starfinder as reference).

wonders if the Mollusks in the description are the Embri. must dig through the rest of the Core rulebook for further speculations. after I hibernate. I've used up three of my brains already by staying awake this late.

Soooo............ Space Linnorms?

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssss

Just thought of something. J, Q, X, and Z have a noticeable lack of Aberrations (alphabetically speaking... using both Pathfinder and Starfinder as reference).

Scrabble discrimination against my people!

Please let there be a cat race in this one.... you have them in the lore of being in the veskarium. I really wanna see the cat race.

Speculation on possibilities taken from the pages of the Core Rulebook (take this with a grain of salt):

Edit: Sorry for the Length

The Sun:
Whale-like fire elementals
plasma oozes
Jungle box sentient plant monsters
the "deep cultures" of the sun

Aballon:
other Aballonian constructs

Castrovel:
Lashunta
other varieties of Formian
Sky Fishers (already in AP)

Akiton:
trash-eating Kheftaks (similar to Otyughs?)
tusk-winged Noraska
Ysoki
ghostly creatures called Khulan
winged creatures from Qidel

Diaspora:
"Diaspora Wyrms"
Twisted figures in yellow rags (from the House of the Void)

Eox:
Glass Serpents
Semi-intelligent grub-swarms
variety of undead
Elebrians (already in AP)

Triaxus:
(note to self, look at Pathfinder sources for ideas)

Liavara (and Moons):
Air Plants
Giant Bacteria
Keji Swarms
Tarenake
Predators (vampiric tentacles, magical fields, acid-coated web-nets. suggested to be separate beings)
Dreamers (variation of Barathu)
sentient arthropods
Philosopher worms
mortal incarnation of Hylax
Lights of Hallas (already in Alien Archives 1)

Bretheda (and moons):
Barathu (Alien Archives 1, although variations would be appreciated)
living tools/tailored viruses/semi-intelligent servitor races (created by Barathu)
Confluence
Kalo, Maraquoi, and Urogs (all in Alien Archives)

Apostae:
Ilee (survivals from a past age?)
Drow (Alien Archives)
Fleshwarps (augmentation sold by Drow)

Aucturn:
Great Old Ones (possibly itself, at some point)
Elder Mythos/Old Cults (Great Old Ones, Outer Gods, any number of spawned races, and races dedicated to the worship of the Great Old Ones)
Dominion of the Black
Nyarlathotep, incarnate as the Black Pharaoh
Carsai the King
inhabitants of the pre-gap warships/madness-inducing hulks in the atmosphere
Orocorans (Alien Archives 1/First Contact)
the Midwives
Aucturn's child, Great Old One

Arquand:
long-necked, six-legged antelopes
four-winged birds

Azlanti Star Empire:
inhabitants of Thenekral
17 officially designated "sentient alien species"
Neskinti
Vilderaro

Daegox 4:
the Daegox (possible name for the humanoid race that rules the Daegox Corporation and Daegox 4)

Daimalko:
Daimalkans
Empyreal Lord, Duellona
Colossi
Kaiju
Volkarians
Ykarthans
skinless, eyeless creatures

Embroi:
mask-faced Embri
Levaloch devils
Occhiorasoi (Malebranche)

Jedarat:
microbial mats

Lothun:
(Inhabitants not described in Core Rulebook)

Orikolai:
Hashukayaks
Hub Geese

Orry:
Orrians

Preluria:
Psychic Gas Oozes
Vorlath
Xystrian Brotherhood

Riven Shroud:
Aatevak
Qotraua
Xixinnt

Shadari Confederacy:
numerous races including:
Draeliks (Alien Archives 1)
Sceaduinar
Skrell
Balrodds
Aeon, The Unmaker

Tabori Cluster:
Unmentioned

Veskarium:
the Vesk
cave-dwelling snake-people
jackal-faced arthropods
stranger creatures
squid folk of Vesk-2
ant like beings of Vesk-5
feline humanoid barbarians of Vesk-6
pacifist Frost Behemoths of Vesk-7 and Vesk-8

Cult of the Devourer:
Atrocites (AP)

Dominion of the Black:
Infinity-Ceases-Now
The-Five-Who-Speak-As-One
The-Whispers-of-the-Void-Have-Eyes
Dominion Starships
Shipminds
dozens of races

Swarm:
Swarm
Shirren

The Unseen:
formless, ethereal refugees
shape-shifting drones of inter dimensional brood-mothers
manipulators of interstellar commerce clad in convincing skin suits
Reptoid
fungal parasites
Grays (Alien Archives 1)
(potentially aligned with Shadari,as reptoid opened a weapons vault to Shadari Pirates)

other races:
Androids
Kasathas

Uplifted bear? UPLIFTED BEAR?!?

Paizo, please take all of my money. Just, like, all of it. Right now.

One thing i hope they do that the first alieb archive did not is i hope they sepreat the player races and the monster races into sepreat chapters so there all together

ratcatbo, that would stifle the main purpose of the book, though. namely that DM/GM's are the intended users of the book, with players as a secondary market. if the races are separated from the other creatures, it would pose a significant problem in layout design, particularly in placement of redundant pages explaining why they changed the layout of their book series. besides, if the players use their knowledge of rules text in-game to kill a monster/NPC their character doesn't know about, you can just drop 6 great old ones on the party as "Divine Punishment for use of Metadata"

after flipping through Pact Worlds and some Pathfinder stuff. they've got about 4 or 5 Alien Archives worth of Aliens to choose from, not including AP Aliens. Congrats, Paizo, you are the masters of fluff books

Dearest dev staff, please can you clarify:

Are these uplifted bears bipedal humanoid aliens (a la how rats are to ysoki) or are these more just literally genetically modified super-intelligent bears (basically how morlamaws are just super-intelligent technicolor walruses)?

I think we need to see Xenomorph or something similar.

They already exist as the Hive in Horror Adventures. Port 'em over and off you go.

Uplifted Bears? From like Golarion? I honestly don't care I've been wanting to play a bear like race for forever now.

Uplifted Bears? From like Golarion? I honestly don't care I've been wanting to play a bear like race for forever now.

Like Dickson's Dilbians. Let's hope they're on the upper end of Medium (if not actually Large) and have kind of a boisterous bruiser vibe.

And, seriously: I'm looking forward to the dirindi, sazarons, and various Veskarium and Azlanti Star Empire subject species to the same degree that I was looking forward to the maraquoi. Or, to switch away from playables: more Castrovel critters and everything outside of the Pact system.

I would like more demons and devels can never have enouhg cyber demons

I'm excited for this, but I'm MOST excited for the Armory book. Why can it not just be July already?

You had me at uplifted bear.

Also, with D&D re-introducing the Giff, I feel Starfinder could use some interplanetary pachyderms. Could be rhinos (like the Judoon) or could be elephants, or hey maybe it could be hippos. Please consider.

We know that Starfinder and PF2 share a fair bit of design overlap. In light of some of the info coming out of this thread, do we think Starfinder polymorphing might be similar?

Will this reprint the Alien Archive sections from Dead Suns 1-6 (like the Pathfinder Bestiaries reprinted creatures from older AP volumes)?