101 Starfinder character concepts


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Radiant Oath

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126) A noble-hearted, if somewhat naive korasha lashunta Soldier with the Phrenic Adept archetype who got her start as a cop on Absalom station, where her fearless pursuit of justice and growing psychic powers brought her to the attention of the Stewards. She struggles with some of the subtler tasks of her new job, but is very good at what she calls "beat stick diplomacy." When her words can't subdue a criminal, her shock truncheon and her psychic powers pick up the slack!


127) Android Mystic Priest or Android Technomancer Priest that believes it to be their duty to do as Triune did: gift the galaxy with new discoveries and scientific breakthroughs. As part of paying tribute/homage to Triune, they leave Drift beacons in the Vast and research new technology to share with the good people of the galaxy.

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128) A young Spacefarer human Solarian with the Forerunner archetype, who studied at the Cosmonastery of the Empty Orbit before joining the Starfinder Society. They struggled as a student and were barely able to conjure their stellar mote, and felt ashamed in the presence of more enlightened peers. As they journey with the Society for a time, their Solarian powers finally blossom, which they combine with their skill as an explorer to become a powerful and well-respected hero.


129) Damaya lashunta icon envoy, she's a recently hired anthropology professor at a temple-university of Yaraesa. Along with her faithful android xenoseeker explorer operative assistant, she travels about the galaxy studying native cultures and getting into shenanigans.

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130) Human icon Solarion who goes by the name of Starlight Rose, always followed by his trusty cam-drone. He is a "hero for justice and freedom, whose love and protection reaches wherever starlight shines." Either completely crazy or just an incredibly committed character actor, SR never drops the act, and behaves as an incredibly flamboyant and outrageous superhero trope, oftentimes calling on the "love and hope" of his fans to help him "defeat evil wherever it hides." Though his antics and cam-recordings are over-the-top and ridiculous, he does legitimately seem to be sincere, and goes from world to world helping anyone in need, spreading a message of love and hope wherever he goes.

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halfling solarian
feels that he must stand up for the little guy so with the power of stars and singularities and a trusted rifle , he heads into the deep beyond to make his mark


132) Vesk Solarian seeking further enlightenment after realizing the errors and atrocities he committed during the Veskarium Silent War


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133) Human Envoy. A human HR director working in the Veskarium who misfiles some transfer paperwork and ends up assigned to a front line combat unit.


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134) Captain Blackfoot, halfling envoy phrenic adept outlaw space pirate. He wears an eye patch and has a bonsai dwarf migo that sits on his shoulder. Uses intimidation and phrenic choking to keep the scallywag crew of his in line.


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Tyinyk wrote:
Lord Mhoram wrote:
Ectar wrote:

Ripped straight from another thread:

58. Mechanic with a hover drone. Travel blogger. Drone has a camera and the mechanic documents new/exciting destinations.
Funded through Patreon and ad revenue.

I was going the other direction - the guy goes on missions, and has a reality show of his life. Less Travel, more action - sorta like Xcrawl. :)

I was going to say this one, but got beaten to it, it seems. Ah well, I'll do it anyways.

A Solarion whose stage name is "Jimmy Starrdust" who has a reality TV show, deliberately making things more dangerous for the party in the name of ratings

I had much the same idea, but a Shirren Idol who is well known for doing let's play videos on the infosphere of choice heavy vidgames. As his ratings started to dip, he gets inspired to go on actual adventures and record them...Makes constant game references, talks to the audience, etc. The rest of the party the whole time is unclear if he is playing it up, or he actually believes this is all just another game.


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135) An android mechanic who tweaked a discarded lovebot into his combat drone.
She is programmed to love him, which is great for defensive skills, but that also makes her very jealous and violent at times. He claims to be quite bothered by her affections and refers to that as a "bug" he's working on. Unofficially, he developed feelings for the drone that he cannot quite explain and he's very troubled about it.


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136-137: A vesk soldier and ysoki operative team. You may at first think they dislike each other from their constant bickering and insulting each other but instead they are the best of friends who love the bickering.

138: A Shirren who finds mammals icky but thinks insectoid life is cute.

139: a contemplative soldier who thinks war can be waged in a logical manner. Perfersd indirect combat means like thrown grenades, drones, mortars, and artillary. He treats it as a math exercise in culculating enemy locations and subtracting enemies.

140: A gravity solarian who sees the potential in study of neutron stars. He calls his armor neutronium armor, his black hole ability magnetar's pull, his solar blasts as pulsar attacks, etc.

141: A fuzzy sluglike entity on the frozen side of Verces who knows the history of pre-gap golarion and guards the worlds history. However the species lacks hands and vocal cords, is blind, deaf, and communicate by scent. The history is written in scent markings on the wall.

142: A bounty hunter envoy who tries to talk criminals into surrendering.

143: an icon actress who treats gender as fashion and changes it regularly.

144: A host of the show TRAPMASTER who sets up elaborate traps and films people trying to overcome them. He tends to love live shows and if a party member films one he may both set them into a trap filled lair of death, yet fanboyishly cheer whenever he escapes.

145: A operative who specializes in robbing space ships. he has a small craft launched from a stealthed ship. The craft is small enough to look like debris on radar, he has a device to synch to a ships shields and pass through them, his ship magneticly adheres to the other ship, makes an airtight seal, and the pilot cuts a hole and sneaks into the ship.

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146.) A NG Xenowarden Mystic who goes by the name of Highbough, allied to the Knights of Golarion to smite demons and heal the galaxy, in emulation of an ancient pre-Gap hero who did the same for Golarion.

(Yes, that pre-Gap hero is a Pathfinder character of mine, for Wrath of the Righteous, specifically. DON'T JUDGE ME! :P)


147.) Android Xenoseeker Xenodruid looking for natural non-organic life.
148.)Shirren Priest (something) of Yasera. uses FOR SCIENCE! as justification for basically anything.


149. A Shirren conspiracy theorist who believes the swarm set them free on purpose to gather intel and will one day make them return to the collective.

150. An explorer who uses an old planar drive to find systems without drift beacons then set up new ones.


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73. An Ysoki Mercenary/Mechanic tank. The Ysoki is the tank, not the drone. The little fuzzball is a daredevil to the point of insanity (complete with maniacal laughing) and his speech patterns are suitably rapid and eccentrically murderous to match. The drone carries around heavy weapons for fire support and is named CUDLS.

Ooooo, like a ratfolk version of Leona and Bonaparte from Dominion? Neato!


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151) A mechanic (any race) with an exocortex (aka Dr. Bunsen Honeydew) that keeps convincing the fleshy mechanic (aka Beaker) to perform risky, poorly considered/researched, and often dangerous actions.


152.) A Human Icon Technomancer whose Spell Cache is a boombox.


Nice, Ventnor. How 'bout:

153. As an NPC encounter, A Space Goblin Heavy Metal Band! Their electric guitars look suspiciously like the swords they used to brandish in the days of Yore.

And now we return to character concepts already in progress:

154. A Shirren who has rejoined the hive mind...except they've attached themselves to a particularly grumpy Vesk who does not enjoy having telepathic conversations or having a "bug" follow it around, but ultimately puts up with it (lots of heavy sighs). Eventually they make a great team, with the Vesk adding that the Shirren would, "probably make a pretty good Vesk one day." And the Shirren responding, "But I am already a Vesk!"

(More heavy sighs)


155. Half Elf raised by Androids who know everything about elven culture and nothing about human culture.


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Ambrosia Slaad wrote:
The Great Potato wrote:
73. An Ysoki Mercenary/Mechanic tank. The Ysoki is the tank, not the drone. The little fuzzball is a daredevil to the point of insanity (complete with maniacal laughing) and his speech patterns are suitably rapid and eccentrically murderous to match. The drone carries around heavy weapons for fire support and is named CUDLS.
Ooooo, like a ratfolk version of Leona and Bonaparte from Dominion? Neato!

hugs, marries Amby when she isn't looking 11

Scarab Sages

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156. Android soldier from Aballon that fights using a starknife with the returning fusion. Keeps saying he 'fights for the users'

Scarab Sages

On a more serious note, I've been playing with the concept of a Vesk outcast. Some kid who was forced into the military even though he has no aptitude for it. He eventually decides to break with tradition and just quits it, making his (or her) way to the pact worlds.


VampByDay wrote:
On a more serious note, I've been playing with the concept of a Vesk outcast. Some kid who was forced into the military even though he has no aptitude for it. He eventually decides to break with tradition and just quits it, making his (or her) way to the pact worlds.

In a similar vein to that, one of the characters I've built so far (been doing a lot of theory building, have yet to play annoyingly) is a Vesk Healer Mystic, she's far more comfortable fixing people than taking them apart. Left the Veskarium because she just felt completely out of place in a society ruled by violence.

Scarab Sages

I came up with an idea for a character, but I'm not sure if the timeline matches up.

I was thinking of a spacefarer soldier Shirren. A colony planner, his colony was hit hard by the swarm and had to learn fast how to protect his colonists. A kind of jaded old soldier, he isn't as hooked on choice anymore because his biggest choice-what he wanted to do with his life- was taken from him by the swarm. He wanted be a colony planner, but he was forced to be a soldier. With a bit of Survivors guilt, and a lot of bad memories from the fighting, he just can't go back to his former life.


160.) A vesk technomancer who focuses on traditional vesk martial arts, and utilizes them in concert with touch and short-range spells. Her friends call her the punch-mage.


Freehold DM wrote:
Ambrosia Slaad wrote:
The Great Potato wrote:
73. An Ysoki Mercenary/Mechanic tank. The Ysoki is the tank, not the drone. The little fuzzball is a daredevil to the point of insanity (complete with maniacal laughing) and his speech patterns are suitably rapid and eccentrically murderous to match. The drone carries around heavy weapons for fire support and is named CUDLS.
Ooooo, like a ratfolk version of Leona and Bonaparte from Dominion? Neato!
hugs, marries Amby when she isn't looking 11

(I named my current vehicle, a first-gen Suzuki SX4, Bonaparte.)

Radiant Oath

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161. A relentlessly cheerful skittermander envoy who does his best to bring out the best in his friends, through both his envoy talents and motivational speaking skills. He's inadvertently become the core of his party, but prefers being thought of as the group's mascot than as their leader.

162. A verthani Solarian with the Priest theme acting as a God-Vessel of Sarenrae, seeing the balance of photonic and gravitonic power as reflective of her homeworld. She goes so far as to reflect this duality on her own skin, changing the markings on one half of her skin to bright colors and the other to pure black, with her devotional burned in the middle.

163. A mysterious kalo operative who, filled with grief and rage at the murder of his parents, trained to become a vigilante hero, protecting the innocent and terrifying criminals. His helmet that allows him to breathe in non-aquatic environments, coupled with his wing-like fins have caused some to mistake him for a bat.

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164. Vesk icon. Mystic of Damoritosh with Overlord connection. Sobak "The Conquerer" is the host of a popular vid-series involving him discovering new areas and cultures and 'conquering' them. While it is not advertised as such, he is often actually taking over certain prominent figures and leaders in the communities and actually conquering them. Exploring the culture and flesh... I mean local cuisine... promotes tourism and commerce in the area, and the action in his show brings the adrenaline junkies. Usually the natives of these areas do not even realize they have been conquered, and in his downtime Sobak will go and help 'guide' the native leaders on the new lifestyle of his colonies. Of course, for his guidance he accepts a generous monetary donation from each of the colonies.


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165. An android mechanic with a god complex a drone that he refers to as hid child. Basically Ultron.

166. An outlaw soldier with no charisma who accidentally started a rebellion and has been branded as the face of an uprising. Think Jane from Firefly.

167. A human or shirren xenoseeker envoy who wants to tally up sexual exploits with as many sentient alien races as possible.

168. An android that's had its memory wiped and reset too many times. Think of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse.

169. (Similar to #69) An android cyborg mechanic that uses human body parts because he believes they're superior to robot limbs.

170. Mechanic that dresses and acts like a space pirate with a flying drone (parrot) .

171. A shirren (any class) outlaw who is on the run for seducing a princess of another, very different, race.

172. A mechanic with an exocortex that belonged to their dead spouse and has a memory imprint of them.

173. Mechanic scholar who is a biochemist for a huge organization; when he discoveres they're making powerful bio/chemical weapons, he is forced to continue working. He stows away on the ship, which is how he becomes a player.

174. A shirren who suffers from incredible loneliness after being separated from the hive mind. He now overcompensates to make new friends.

175. Android mystic priest who preaches that everyone should ascend to the superior android race. Become a cyborg, get an exocortex, etc.

176. An icon who films his adventures for his hit show: Mythbuster.


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177. Android Ace Pilot mechanic who is trans-vehicle. He uses his stealth Droid to drive a custom built exploration buggy. He thinks of himself more as the car and thinks of his actual body as 'the mechanic'.


178. “If Max Renn from Videodrome met Shannon from Drive and they had a Ysoki love child.” Outlaw Ysoki mechanic with delusions of showbiz acumen.


179. Neutral evil ysoki scholar technomancer. They love taking things apart to see how they tick. The reason that they are evil is that their field expertise is (insert race here) biology...


180. Android Mechanic whose tinkering results in its soul getting trapped in the body of its drone and vice versa.


181. A Skittermander whose last request from his dying Vesk commander was "take this package to Absalon station and deliver it to ARRRRGH!" He is fairly sure the Aaaargh was just the sound she made in pain as the shot killed her, but still he has his orders. He plans to go to Absalon station. See if anyone named Aaaaarrrrgh exists who needs a package, and if not find the proper recipient.


I can't wait to kill 166.

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182. A Vesk satirist who was made famous by his “Cat LOL” memes about the feline barbarians of Vesk-6.

183. A Shirren who has fallen on hard times due to a lack of demand for an “exo-courtesan.”

184. This is the origin story for my -701
A human woman awoke, restrained by a dental recliner and draped in surgical towels. Somewhere in the distance was a high pitch akin to a kitchen timer when tea was ready. Two hooded physicians stood over her. One had a thumb floating over a checkbox on a tablet.
“Do you recall your history?”
Poo6ah noticed that his other thumb flinched as it hovered over a red-glowing cancel button.
Poo6ah thought for a beat and then replied smugly “I do. I was and still am a renowned neuropsychologist.”
Together, the two physicians sighed in relief.
“And your name?” he asked.
“Dr. Anafin Chymerelli.” And just to be safe, P006ah threw in a furrowed brow and a sideways smirk. She had caught on that to not give the exact answers that they wanted would certainly mean a system reboot, or worse a scrapping. And the exact wrong answer was pronounced ‘Pookah.’, which was her pre-‘upgraded’ designation.
The two physicians nodded at each other.
“Perfect.” said the chattier of the two physicians. “Now, please sit up”.
P006ah’s restraints retreated back into the recliner and then it in turn transformed into an upright chair. As the woman peaked to her extreme right the side of eye revealed that she was actually an android wrapped in the synthetic hide of a human.
Chatty pointed to his assistant. “Could you please take his gun and shoot him in the head.
P006ah’s eyes quickly scanned the other physician who happened to also be wearing a holstered revolver. A brief micro-expression from the assistance’s hips seemed to invite her to unholster it. So she did. Quickly, she put the barrel to his eye socket and pulled the trigger.
“Click, click, click, click, click, click.”
The two physicians stood silently in shock, then cheered and high-fived each other.
The assistant cried out “The subroutine worked!” P006ah just emoted a sublime smile.
After the celebrations settled down, P006ah replied “What would you like me to do next?
Chatty peaked “Oh Yeah. Go return to your routine. You’ll be activated in time.
P006ah nodded, got dressed in her corporate finery, grabbed her satchel and left the clinic… and hasn’t been seen since.

And here’s some of my favorite ideas as played by other players:

184. Dr. Zoon is a Lashunta who lives on Eox. He’s made a sustainable income as an interplanetary “Corpse Courier”, “in-the-name-of-science”, of course.

185. Jik Jik is a ysoki acrobat who prefers to wear long floppy ears over his own as well as to spool his ratlike tail in a round fluffy bag. He is a professional cosplayer.

186. As an android with full body subdermal implants, Bill is capable of projecting advertisements and corporate logos. He’s paid commissions by the number of eyes he turns his way. I think his last name was Mr. Board. He assisted in intimidating somebody by streaming a gory commercial for a flamethrower.


Wrikreechee operative "doctor" named "John". Is a terrible doctor, is very good at distractions.

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