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High-Tech, High-Octane, High-Excitement!

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

With Starfinder Galaxy Guide’s release right around the corner, we’re looking forward to seeing the adventures you all embark on in Desna’s Path! Whether you’re planning a fantasy, horror, dystopian, or weird campaign, Galaxy Guide has locations laid out for every adventure!

As a special sneak peak, we’re excited to share the opening spread of one of these genre-based chapters: High-Tech Adventures!

An interior page spread of Starfinder High Tech Adventures


High-Tech Adventures put technology and magitech at the center! These adventures can be set in technologically advanced cities or space stations—like Absalom Station—or on planets like Aballon, where everything you see is a machine.

Characters in high-tech adventures, whether player characters or NPCs, may have a higher likelihood of being androids or having a variety of cybernetic enhancements and augmentations. Classes like the technomancer and mechanic (from our currently-running Tech Class Playtest) are spectacularly well-suited for high-tech adventures, but there’s more than enough space in the augmented reality court for operatives, witchwarpers, soldiers—or maybe even a rogue or ranger, transported from Golarion and left in awe of the technology around them!

As you’re building a high-tech adventure, campaign, or character, here are some questions to ask:

  • How does technology improve lives for people in this world? Conversely, how is technology making lives difficult?
  • Are the player characters working with or against the technology? Is it a tool in their arsenal or an impediment in their way?
  • Is a new (or newly rediscovered) piece of technology changing the world—for better or worse?
  • What happens when technology that everyone relies on goes awry?

Install your cybernetics, hack into the mainframe, and get ready for high tech adventures and so much more, coming in Starfinder Galaxy Guide!

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Second Seekers (Jadnura)
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Just got mine today! I like all the included adventure hooks. Lots of cool character options as well!
Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber

So excited to get my hands on this later!
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God I love a lore book, and I love breaking it down by genre. Sound like this will be a great source of inspiration whether you're actually playing in the Starfinder Universe or a homebrew setting!

I'll eventually be doing a homebrew sf2e game in the golarian system so I can't wait to sift through the galaxy guide to help write plot!
Envoy's Alliance
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How about an ecletic crew trying to escape the Azlanti Empire, stealing a starship, and running afoul of all manner of things as they try to find their way to the Pact Worlds, along with the reality that the Pact worlds, while better than the ASE is not the Utopia they had heard and imagined it to be.
Scarab Sages

Loving the Galaxy Guide!
Wayfinders

What's the name of the pink face holding a knife in its mouth? Is this the iconic space pirate?

I'm super looking forward to the PDF release of this; gonna grab it right when it drops!

Oh, so this book isn't meant to be a primer on the setting but more focused on adventure hooks?
Milo v3 wrote:
Oh, so this book isn't meant to be a primer on the setting but more focused on adventure hooks?

I think it's probably a bit of both. It sounds like the content is split up into the genres of game you can run with.

Envoy's Alliance
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Getting the PDF when it's available next week (or maybe a couple days later) but... what are the contemplative like? I watched Phoebe Bane's over view of the Astrozoans, the Vlaka, and the Dragon-Kin (by the way... am I the only one who got Dragons from Rick and Morty vibes there?). What are the contemplatives like?

Are you just looking for a description of the contemplatives as a species? The 1e race page is here.
Wayfinders

The contemplative feats in the Galaxy Guide are worthy of much contemplation, the flavor is spot on.
Envoy's Alliance
Pathfinder Rulebook Subscriber

Yes it is. Got the PDF like planned. Very focused on their ego
Paizo Employee Community & Social Media Specialist
Zoken44 wrote:
Yes it is. Got the PDF like planned. Very focused on their ego

Glad you found what you were looking for, Zoken! Are you going to incorporate them into your next adventure?

Envoy's Alliance
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all depends on if I can get my friends to try
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Zoken44 wrote:
all depends on if I can get my friends to try

Here's hoping!

I'm liking the Kazmurg's Absurdity. Certainly a lovely spot to crash land who knows how many homebrew races. I just need it for the one, so I can connected that one race to the rest of my homebrew races with dirft lanes.

Just gotta be careful about when Paizo eventually invades that entire region of space with an inevitable Adventure Path. Even if it doesn't involve EITHER of the galaxy ending plot hooks they have in that book for that region, it will still disrupt all by the most head in the sand civilization when they do do something there.
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I'm very much enjoying the Galaxy Guide so far, but have one major quibble: It badly needs an index! It's going to be hard to look up info on a specific world unless you can memorize what's in each genre category.

Yeah, I was wondering about the lack of index. Are Starfinder 2E books not going to have an index? Because a lack of index can get confusing especially when dealing with traits, as some traits, such as the incapacitation trait, don't even have their definitions in the main book, but are solely defined in the index. Will the Player Core, GM Core, and Alien Core have indexes?
Benjamin_Mahir wrote:

I'm liking the Kazmurg's Absurdity. Certainly a lovely spot to crash land who knows how many homebrew races. I just need it for the one, so I can connected that one race to the rest of my homebrew races with dirft lanes.

Just gotta be careful about when Paizo eventually invades that entire region of space with an inevitable Adventure Path. Even if it doesn't involve EITHER of the galaxy ending plot hooks they have in that book for that region, it will still disrupt all by the most head in the sand civilization when they do do something there.

Honestly I think due to the nature of the absurdity even if they stage adventure paths in there the way navigation works it will open up more travel too/from it but anything not mapped is still basically inaccessible until people find bread crumbs to lead them. Given the way it works I don't think it is even really possible to fully explore the absurdity.

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Tim Emrick wrote:
I'm very much enjoying the Galaxy Guide so far, but have one major quibble: It badly needs an index! It's going to be hard to look up info on a specific world unless you can memorize what's in each genre category.

This is good feedback! Thank you!!

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