Summer 2024 Starfinder FAQ and Errata Update

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I must admit... I have never considered how a living hologram might store items up until now. This might haunt me for a bit.

>Clarification that you cannot use lethal grenades and missiles non-lethally

I love this community.

>Clarification that you cannot use lethal grenades and missiles non-lethally

I love this community.

Paizo's silence on this question has been the reason i've never been able to play starfinder. :P

HolyFlamingo! wrote:

>Clarification that you cannot use lethal grenades and missiles non-lethally

I love this community.

Paizo's silence on this question has been the reason i've never been able to play starfinder. :P

I love that the fact that this rule exists means someone tried to do some straight-up shenanigans to make it work. I salute you, unnamed group!

Why are there so many weird errata for grenades? Like Im only saying this because why was their an FAQ about reusing grenades?

Why are there so many weird errata for grenades? Like Im only saying this because why was their an FAQ about reusing grenades?

My guess is because of wanting to keep the game balance around the cost of consumables. There are a few types of grenades I can see players asking about reusing. (I neither confirm nor deny that I am one of those players.)

Holo grenade, creates a preprogrammed illusion no larger than the blast radius. The illusion functions as if you had cast a holographic image with a level, caster level, and duration according to the grenade’s type. In theory, it could be reprogrammed and recharged or have a battery replaced to be used again.

Dye Grenade, similar to real-life paint grenades used in airsoft combat that can be refilled with paint and reused.

eh, weird clarification considering you can still use a disintegrator rifle to deal nonlethal damage but go off I guess

Why are there so many weird errata for grenades? Like Im only saying this because why was their an FAQ about reusing grenades?

Oh! Oh! I know this one!

At launch, there were a lot of complaints around how expensive grenades were for how little damage they did. There were a number of people rationalizing the prohibitive cost as intentional because there teeeeechnically wasn’t anywhere in the CRB that said grenades were consumed after use, so oooobviously you were meant to just pick them up and reuse them after battle. It was a stretch, for sure. Eventually, errata got added to clarify that they are actually consumed on use. Prices came down eventually, too. I think twice, actually? IIRC, I believe they dropped something like 55% around the time that Armory came out, and maybe even further later on, but I can’t recall exactly.

BotBrain wrote:

HolyFlamingo! wrote:

>Clarification that you cannot use lethal grenades and missiles non-lethally

I love this community.

Paizo's silence on this question has been the reason i've never been able to play starfinder. :P

I love that the fact that this rule exists means someone tried to do some straight-up shenanigans to make it work. I salute you, unnamed group!

I already know there was an argument about what parts of someone's anatomy you can explode without killing them.

Much appreciated errata!

MadScientistWorking wrote:

Why are there so many weird errata for grenades? Like Im only saying this because why was their an FAQ about reusing grenades?

Oh! Oh! I know this one!

At launch, there were a lot of complaints around how expensive grenades were for how little damage they did. There were a number of people rationalizing the prohibitive cost as intentional because there teeeeechnically wasn’t anywhere in the CRB that said grenades were consumed after use, so oooobviously you were meant to just pick them up and reuse them after battle. It was a stretch, for sure. Eventually, errata got added to clarify that they are actually consumed on use. Prices came down eventually, too. I think twice, actually? IIRC, I believe they dropped something like 55% around the time that Armory came out, and maybe even further later on, but I can’t recall exactly.

This is the answer, but I don't think prices dropped all that much.

criticalham wrote:

MadScientistWorking wrote:

Why are there so many weird errata for grenades? Like Im only saying this because why was their an FAQ about reusing grenades?

Oh! Oh! I know this one!

At launch, there were a lot of complaints around how expensive grenades were for how little damage they did. There were a number of people rationalizing the prohibitive cost as intentional because there teeeeechnically wasn’t anywhere in the CRB that said grenades were consumed after use, so oooobviously you were meant to just pick them up and reuse them after battle. It was a stretch, for sure. Eventually, errata got added to clarify that they are actually consumed on use. Prices came down eventually, too. I think twice, actually? IIRC, I believe they dropped something like 55% around the time that Armory came out, and maybe even further later on, but I can’t recall exactly.

This is the answer, but I don't think prices dropped all that much.

Huh, you're right. I could have sworn the prices dropped, but that must have just been wishful thinking and/or me conflating errata with some homebrew that I played with. Or maybe... hopefully... a prophetic dream? Double-checked my old launch books, and the prices are the same as what's up on AoN.

EDIT: Oh! Some of the grenades changed, but not all. Shock Grenade Mk1 changed from 130 credits to 50 credits, Stickybomb went from 170 down to 80, etc... but Frag Grenade Mk1 (the first one I checked) was unchanged. So yeah, a pretty big price drop on some of them.

BotBrain wrote:

HolyFlamingo! wrote:

>Clarification that you cannot use lethal grenades and missiles non-lethally

I love this community.

Paizo's silence on this question has been the reason i've never been able to play starfinder. :P

I love that the fact that this rule exists means someone tried to do some straight-up shenanigans to make it work. I salute you, unnamed group!

But of course you can use a grenade for nonlethal damage, you just don't pull the pin before you throw it at someone's head.

But of course you can use a grenade for nonlethal damage, you just don't pull the pin before you throw it at someone's head.

"I took out 14 Swarm reavers with that grenade. And THEN it exploded! "

Pagan priest wrote:

But of course you can use a grenade for nonlethal damage, you just don't pull the pin before you throw it at someone's head.

"I took out 14 Swarm reavers with that grenade. And THEN it exploded! "

Tie a rope around it and use it like a flail!

Overly Veskly Vesk wrote:

Pagan priest wrote:

But of course you can use a grenade for nonlethal damage, you just don't pull the pin before you throw it at someone's head.

"I took out 14 Swarm reavers with that grenade. And THEN it exploded! "

Tie a rope around it and use it like a flail!

Insert a very specific Nathan Fillion meme GIF here.... lol.