That Player's Guide sounds lovely.

I'm really glad to see a return to a pdf guide for organized play.

Amen to that. Having something to hand to new players and go, "Read this. It'll give you enough info to get started," is something I've been sorely missing. Having a couple of those printed out and bound will be really nice.

Hmm, how about Zobbleheads as the rank awards for GMing?

ZO!VAS

1. How do levels interact with being able to apply chronicle sheets? For example, when I play a level 5 pre-gen, which characters can I apply that chronicle to? When I run a level 3-4 adventure as a GM, which characters can I apply that chronicle to.

2. Will slow track still exist?

Hi all, I'm back from vacation!

1. If you were to play a 5th-level pregen, you could apply it to either a 1st-level character, earning credits as appropriate for a 1st-level character; a brand-new 5th-level character; or apply it to a character lower than 5th-level, making it the first chronicle that character would earn upon leveling up to 5th-level.

2. No.

"Your character also gets to keep any treasure they find along the way. "

Are we going to have to debate who gets what?

Sorry, I phrased this sentence very poorly when I wrote it. No.

What I think I was referring to when I wrote it a month ago was that sometimes, bespoke treasure you find along the way will be available on your chronicle sheet. Other treasure will be put through the space processor and turned into credits as you see in our current programs. Chronicle Sheets will not have items listed on them unless they are new content for that scenario. My apologies for any confusion on that front!

Will the ACP earned be going into a different pool from that of Starfinder 1.0 and Pathfinder 2.0, or will ACP be combined into one giant pool (which I would prefer)?

No, Achievement Points will still be separated by program. One of our overarching goals with the SFS2 launch is that we don't want new players to show up for their first table and sit next to Johnny Spacebucks who used his 2000 Pathfinder AcP to unlock a whole bunch of stuff that new player didn't even know existed yet. We want everybody to start on the same playing field and progress through the campaign together.

Also, I need to know where are the chronicles for the Playtest Adventures? I want to report them, but I didn't know we could.

You can download the Playtest Tracking Sheet here! (it was on the Starfinder Playtest landing page but seems to have been removed with the new Tech Playtest)

reevos wrote:

"Your character also gets to keep any treasure they find along the way. "

Are we going to have to debate who gets what?

Sorry, I phrased this sentence very poorly when I wrote it. No.

What I think I was referring to when I wrote it a month ago was that sometimes, bespoke treasure you find along the way will be available on your chronicle sheet. Other treasure will be put through the space processor and turned into credits as you see in our current programs. Chronicle Sheets will not have items listed on them unless they are new content for that scenario. My apologies for any confusion on that front!

While I'm sure this is disappointing to people, I'm kind of relieved. 2e organized play is already pretty generous with wealth, and letting people keep items they acquired during the adventure could get out of control, fast. It would also make creating a fresh higher level character kind of a trap as they're already generally at a wealth disadvantage compared to a character who has gone through the requisite scenarios.

Foozini wrote:

Will the ACP earned be going into a different pool from that of Starfinder 1.0 and Pathfinder 2.0, or will ACP be combined into one giant pool (which I would prefer)?

No, Achievement Points will still be separated by program. One of our overarching goals with the SFS2 launch is that we don't want new players to show up for their first table and sit next to Johnny Spacebucks who used his 2000 Pathfinder AcP to unlock a whole bunch of stuff that new player didn't even know existed yet. We want everybody to start on the same playing field and progress through the campaign together.

Related to this, can you tell us how much, if any, ACP will we start with? Are we looking at 80 similar to PFS2 and SFS1? Or will things be different, especially with SFS2e starting with ACP on day 1 unlike those systems did?

Alex Speidel wrote:

Foozini wrote:

Will the ACP earned be going into a different pool from that of Starfinder 1.0 and Pathfinder 2.0, or will ACP be combined into one giant pool (which I would prefer)?

No, Achievement Points will still be separated by program. One of our overarching goals with the SFS2 launch is that we don't want new players to show up for their first table and sit next to Johnny Spacebucks who used his 2000 Pathfinder AcP to unlock a whole bunch of stuff that new player didn't even know existed yet. We want everybody to start on the same playing field and progress through the campaign together.

Related to this, can you tell us how much, if any, ACP will we start with? Are we looking at 80 similar to PFS2 and SFS1? Or will things be different, especially with SFS2e starting with ACP on day 1 unlike those systems did?

We don't plan for players to start with any Achievement Points at launch. There will already be nearly a dozen ancestries, eight classes and several campaign-exclusive toys in the player's guide. We think that's plenty to launch a campaign!

Johnny Spacebucks who used his 2000 Pathfinder AcP to unlock a whole bunch of stuff

Well, that's my -2701's inspiration sorted XD

Squark wrote:

Alex Speidel wrote:

Foozini wrote:

Will the ACP earned be going into a different pool from that of Starfinder 1.0 and Pathfinder 2.0, or will ACP be combined into one giant pool (which I would prefer)?

No, Achievement Points will still be separated by program. One of our overarching goals with the SFS2 launch is that we don't want new players to show up for their first table and sit next to Johnny Spacebucks who used his 2000 Pathfinder AcP to unlock a whole bunch of stuff that new player didn't even know existed yet. We want everybody to start on the same playing field and progress through the campaign together.

Related to this, can you tell us how much, if any, ACP will we start with? Are we looking at 80 similar to PFS2 and SFS1? Or will things be different, especially with SFS2e starting with ACP on day 1 unlike those systems did?

We don't plan for players to start with any Achievement Points at launch. There will already be nearly a dozen ancestries, eight classes and several campaign-exclusive toys in the player's guide. We think that's plenty to launch a campaign!

The pedant in me would be remiss if I didn't point out that 19 we're looking at 19 launch Ancestries (10 in the player core, 6 from the Galaxy Guide, 2 in the SFS player's guide, and 1 in Murder in Metal City), actually.

math is hard

I have a question about legacy Ancestries- Will Assimilated Astrozoans* be able choose a legacy ancestry as the ancestry with which they've assimilated if they purchase the appropriate boon?

*Or any astrazoan with one or more of the many ancestry adopting feats.

I like what I see so far...no factions, ease of play and paperwork...for me and my group, vanities always made the event - housing, odd careers, the out of game "fluff" that keeps the story in your mind even after you left the table.

Going to politely mention a few things I suppose the development team did not think about.

1. Lack of Novas for GMs "to avoid GM Burnout" seems to already be a self-correcting problem. You see, getting the 5th Nova doesn't just require 150 tables. It also requires running 50 different scenarios (and there won't be 50 different scenarios for likely over 2 years). Additionally, it requires running 10 of the specific Nova scenarios, which are either multi-table specials or specifically chosen high level content. Since there is no high level content, and there is no multi-table special at least until next year, this is also impossible.

In short, GMs literally cannot burnout trying to race to the end, because there is not enough resources to reach the end. At best they can race to the middle. GM burnout is not a concern with the launch of a new system, because those GM novas are impossible to get at least for a couple of years.

However, if what we are doing now actually counts, then when there finally are enough different scenarios that it can be done, players are already a portion of the way there, so the "race" to get to the end isn't starting at ground zero.

In short, by giving GMs zero credit now, you actually create the situation of burn-out when the system goes live later. If you allowed us to get GM credit now, then when the 5th Nova becomes available, players don't burn-out trying to get there because they already have a year in as a head start.

2. Without Novas, the Hero Point system never offers us those extra Hero Points. Having GM Glyphs is frequently an important part of playing high level scenarios, being able to bring extra rerolls to the table. Starfinder is denied access to those, regardless of how many tables GMs have run.

3. Since boons are allegedly going to be "affordable" with a suggestion of 10% or less than the price in previous system, what the heck is a GM supposed to actually DO with the ACP? When the ACP is literally the only reward, it will be important to have something that we can spend it on. Otherwise we cap out early, and there is literally zero incentive to spending our money to buy scenarios that we then spend our time to prepare and run, all for the privilege of some unneeded ACP and the exact same chronicle that we could have got as a player, but without the chance to actually play our character.

Like many of the questionable decisions you've made about Starfinder 2E, I hope the neglect-the-GMs mission statement is one that you rethink sooner, rather than later.