Happy Cosmic Birthday!

I'm so excited about this! I'm sure it's going to be a perfectly normal birthday with nothing going on, right? RIGHT?!

Yay! Very excited to have something horrible crawl out of a birthday cake :D

Baby Vesk! is turning… Thirteen? Bit of a runt for her age but who am I to judge?

OMG the Space Gremlin is ADORABLE!

Will this adventure come with a player's guide? Don't know if Starfinder modules are the same structurally as Pathfinder

I am so excited for this! And I love the happy birthday image!

I'm sure it doesn't make sense for a playtest adventure but any info if starfinder 2e adventures in the future will receive Foundry virtual tabletop treatment similar to most of the newest pathfinder 2e adventures?

Baby Vesk! is turning… Thirteen? Bit of a runt for her age but who am I to judge?

Maybe instead of years the candles count the number of victories they had in the prior year?

This is not canon and is just meant as an amusing idea.

Will this adventure come with a player's guide? Don't know if Starfinder modules are the same structurally as Pathfinder

This is a standalone, and must like PF standalones, they don't usually have full players guides like APs do. That said, they are structurally similar usually, the only difference is we get less pagecount so our plots are more condensed, which is good for them, usually.

I'm sure it doesn't make sense for a playtest adventure but any info if starfinder 2e adventures in the future will receive Foundry virtual tabletop treatment similar to most of the newest pathfinder 2e adventures?

Well, on that topic, they've said that while A Cosmic Birthday and Empires Devoured are playtest adventures, they're also full, I'll-call-it "real" adventures they hope people continue to play long after playtesting has come and gone.

TheTownsend wrote:

Baby Vesk! is turning… Thirteen? Bit of a runt for her age but who am I to judge?

Maybe instead of years the candles count the number of victories they had in the prior year?

This is not canon and is just meant as an amusing idea.

"It is upon this day, young Sarangali, that we gather to note the anniversary of your birth, and to celebrate your many victories. From the tests you have conquered, to the foes crushed beneath your might upon the courts of dodgeball, your accomplishments are many and worthy of praise. Now, fetch the celebration doshco and slay this cake that we may feast!"

Do we know if a playtest pdf is on the way?

Do we know if a playtest pdf is on the way?

Originally I thought a PDF was coming out Aug 1st, but I'm not seeing that now, just the printed rulebook that you can order.

TheTownsend wrote:

Baby Vesk! is turning… Thirteen? Bit of a runt for her age but who am I to judge?

Maybe instead of years the candles count the number of victories they had in the prior year?

This is not canon and is just meant as an amusing idea.

What if canons had been used in all the victories? Could we then call it a canon victory cake?

Hyped to run this!

Driftbourne, your pun is appreciated, but you mean "Cannons".

Also, I love this head-canon. Vesk care less about age, but more about Victories for cake candles. But here's a follow-up: What counts as a Victory for a Vesk that young?

Do we know if a playtest pdf is on the way?

It is indeed! The Playtest PDF will be available to download for everyone Aug 1st!

Sunny bones just lookin at different Akitonian Solar wear, wondering if he should take a trip there, and trying to ignore the stares he gets as a skeleton.

Baby Vesk! is turning… Thirteen? Bit of a runt for her age but who am I to judge?

They just made a cake that looks like a human one, didn't know what the candles were meant to signifiy.

TheTownsend wrote:

Baby Vesk! is turning… Thirteen? Bit of a runt for her age but who am I to judge?

They just made a cake that looks like a human one, didn't know what the candles were meant to signifiy.

"The cake that human Timmy got only had seven candles. Our little one's lung capacity is far more impressive! She shall have thirteen candles!"

WatersLethe wrote:

TheTownsend wrote:

Baby Vesk! is turning… Thirteen? Bit of a runt for her age but who am I to judge?

They just made a cake that looks like a human one, didn't know what the candles were meant to signifiy.

"The cake that human Timmy got only had seven candles. Our little one's lung capacity is far more impressive! She shall have thirteen candles!"

Vesk Prime year = 0.538 Golarion/Absalom Station years? But then the StarfinderWiki entry for Vesk Prime says 1 Vesk Prime year = 3 Pact Standard years. And the StarfinderWiki entry for Vesk lists them maturing at about the same rate as Humans (although starting military training earlier).

"Congratulations on your conquest of the year gone by... and good luck 0n your assault upon the year to come."

Also, yay little Akiton! Hopefully it'll be the sort of interesting place inside a place full of little interesting bits and lovable characters that can be used as a touchpoint for campaigns to return to as their characters mature.

What do you go to little Akiton for? LIke what kind of cuisine is there, what kind of businesses are run out of homes, what do you go down to Little Akiton for?

TheTownsend wrote:

Baby Vesk! is turning… Thirteen? Bit of a runt for her age but who am I to judge?

Maybe instead of years the candles count the number of victories they had in the prior year?

This is not canon and is just meant as an amusing idea.

Too late! It's now firmly set in my headcanon, just like Absolom Station being an ever-expanding nonEuclidean space (station), with new areas and sectors being found all the time.

This thread made me smile.

Happy Birthday! :)

Just waiting when can mix and match pathfinder and starfinder characters..

Dustin Knight wrote:

TheTownsend wrote:

Baby Vesk! is turning… Thirteen? Bit of a runt for her age but who am I to judge?

Maybe instead of years the candles count the number of victories they had in the prior year?

This is not canon and is just meant as an amusing idea.

Too late! It's now firmly set in my headcanon, just like Absolom Station being an ever-expanding nonEuclidean space (station), with new areas and sectors being found all the time.

(And somewhere in the unexplored depths is a passage back to Lost Golarion...)

Absolom station being effectively an ever expanding non-euclidean space is, in fact, a major aspect of this adventure.

Golarian being somehow stuffed into the Ghost Levels is a pretty reasonable theory actually.

Absolom station being effectively an ever expanding non-euclidean space is, in fact, a major aspect of this adventure.

Golarian being somehow stuffed into the Ghost Levels is a pretty reasonable theory actually.

Oooh, here's an idea for the Gap conspiracy theorists to gnaw on: Someone used the Starstone to preserve Golarion within itself, similarly to how the Kryptonian city of Kandor was preserved in a jar in the Superman comics. This could possibly be the result of a Starstone test gone horribly wrong--or very right, because the alternative was the planet's annihilation? (Maybe Rovagug finally got loose?) Either way, the Gap was the fallout. And now, to restore Lost Golarion, some new aspiring god-hero will need to pass the Test of the Starstone. And naturally, just as in the original Absalom, the Test becomes more challenging with each attempt made, whether successful or not.

(Hmm. I think I may have the start of a 2E witchwarper concept there...)