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In another thread, we were told that the creators were interested in hearing what kinds of genres we'd like to see manifest in the setting. So, here is a place to describe areas, (these things being to starfinder what Geb or Thuvia are to Pathfinder) or elements (to StarFinder what Sarenrae or the Red Mantis Guild are to Pathfinder) you'd like to see!
The following is what I hope for. I may add more as more occurs to me:
Areas:
-A large area of space decimated by a long-ago war. A culture of salvaging and selling wreckage, as well as piracy and general space-rogueishness has formed among what are now the distant descendants of the survivors.
-A large interstellar power which is basically ethical in its conduct and basically prosperous in terms of its inhabitants. (There should be at least one.)
-A nation in which extreme body modification is so prominent that fewer than 1 in 1,000 lack very significant alterations.
Elements:
-A race of aberrations members of which find non-aberrations to be mind-shattering horrors.
-An order of monk-like laser-sword users who specifically use Ki, the same Ki that PF monks use.
-Some inherently finite resource to explain why any large nation which really should have a post-scarcity economy would ever feel the need to go to war. (You could do without it, but it would make things smoother.) Perhaps it is a mineral which damages Androids and must be mined, so as to justify the existence of slave labor.
-A good-aligned faction dedicated specifically to breaking the prime directive by swooping in and helping people by throwing technology at their problems.
-A general diversity of views on the prime directive. (The worst thing you could do would be some blanket clause that breaking it means jail forever or death.)
-A group of anti-magic extremists.
-A group of anti-technology extremists.
Suggestions for galactic polities: Three major powers or factions who are more or less balanced against one another. Plus lots of minor ones. The major powers/factions are NG, LE, and CE aligned. Most of the minor ones would probably be partially neutral although there could be many smaller LE and NE governments. All the evil factions and governments could overwhelm the good-aligned ones, if only they could all get along together and not backstab one another when it's no longer convenient for them to work together.
A least one are that believes in uplift. That it is their social duty to take race on the brink of full blown intelligence, and through genetic manipulation, magic etc.. brings them to "social adulthood".
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Some Variety of ways to access hidden content or disabling devices. with mechanical means mixing with Hacking, Esoteric, and even the old fashioned application of brute force. Each provoking different results, not all of them intentional.
Various cataclysmic events that could have changed the society of entire empires because of it. A once proud civilization forced into a nomadic existence because of their home systems destruction/consumption by their own sun.
The Various possible ethics of Alien Civilizations, with various acts considered extreme to wider galactic socieies, like slavery, uplifting, consumption of other species, consumption of each other, and the practices of war and raiding. How Might the Greys Science be seen by other species with similar interests.
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-Some inherently finite resource to explain why any large nation which really should have a post-scarcity economy would ever feel the need to go to war. (You could do without it, but it would make things smoother.) Perhaps it is a mineral which damages Androids and must be mined, so as to justify the existence of slave labor.
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Humans are perfectly capable of creating scarcity to increase their profits (even at the expense of most Humans) -- this happens on Earth today all the time.
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-Some inherently finite resource to explain why any large nation which really should have a post-scarcity economy would ever feel the need to go to war. (You could do without it, but it would make things smoother.) Perhaps it is a mineral which damages Androids and must be mined, so as to justify the existence of slave labor.
{. . .}Humans are perfectly capable of creating scarcity to increase their profits (even at the expense of most Humans) -- this happens on Earth today all the time.
Ah, but the concept of profit is only meaningful in the presence of at least one finite resource.
^Being able to enforce scarcity works well enough for this. Greed isn't just about how much wealth you get, but how much MORE wealth you get compared to everyone else.
I'd like to see a well done engineer-type class. Not an Eberron Artificer, or a Numerian Technomancer - a well thought out class that designs and creates new things. A class that can improve current campaign technology.
It would also be nice to have an expanded skill system, but then again I prefer skill-based games over level-based...
I'd like to see a well done engineer-type class. Not an Eberron Artificer, or a Numerian Technomancer - a well thought out class that designs and creates new things. A class that can improve current campaign technology.
It would also be nice to have an expanded skill system, but then again I prefer skill-based games over level-based...
This thread is asking for setting suggestions. There are a few threads for rules suggestions.
I would like a major faction of religious transhumanists, with a digital "heaven"
Advanced God-like aliens in Dyson Spheres
a society composed entirely of clones of a couple of people
Various cultures into augmenting their bodies with tech, both evil borgish beings and more general good guys
Human offshoots adapted for different extreme environmental situations
^Come to think of it, Kytons modify their bodies, and augmenting themselves with tech would not be a stretch for them, so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to see Kytons that act as hybrids of Borg and Greys.
^Come to think of it, Kytons modify their bodies, and augmenting themselves with tech would not be a stretch for them, so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to see Kytons that act as hybrids of Borg and Greys.
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Elves corrupted by the Dark Tapestry/Dominion of The Black/Mythos in general.