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We've worked closely with the Pathfinder design team to make sure the envoy and commander have distinct class identities.

So... any chance we can get a really BIG gun with a professional bonus to diplomacy?

"This is my rotolaser, diplomacy."

"What's with the doshko?"

"That's for when diplomacy fails."

I'm so proud to be a part of this brave new edition in Starfinder!

Any gaps in the design of this book were entirely intentional!

Oooh, I spot a screedreep!

Get 'em!

Dustin Knight wrote:

That's...a secret.

(A hero point for anyone who gets that reference.)

Xellos from The Slayers?

+1 Hero Point!

Norgorber does hoard lot of secrets, so would his death reveal all secrets he was withholding?

That's...a secret.

(A hero point for anyone who gets that reference.)

Ooh I didn't know we'd be releasing the information like this; I love the idea of using this post in a home campaign if you wanted to play out a "Pharasma dies" campaign.

I'm so glad you enjoyed the rainbow wolf and it's pew-pew-awoo of sparkly doom.

I'm really touched seeing people have fun with the things our team has worked on; it's a dream come true and I can't wait to hear about more awesome adventures in the future!

In all seriousness, I wanted to make a creature that felt like an "alien wolf" without causing people to look at it and go "why wouldn't I just use the PF2 wolf?" I didn't want it to completely outshine the PF2 wolf, but, as you pointed out, it had to show off our game's new meta-assumptions about ranged combat.

And I agree that monster design is one of Second Edition's best features. Building and playing monsters is rewarding and fun, and the 3 action economy really shines when you are sitting behind the GM screen and realize: "Oh, wow, I have so many tactical options at my disposal even if my monster's don't have that many built in abilities!"

"Kiss It Better"

LOL. Perfect name.

I'm not 100% sure who wrote that one, but I can confirm both naming and reading some of the names of our feats and spells has been a blast.

Milo v3 wrote:

The vesk feats look very focused on one very particular style of character. I worry this is going to be abit too mono-culture and restrictive.

I might have to just allow all starfinder characters to be able to take human feats or something.

Reminder: This is a playtest, not a preview. Many things in PF2 playtests have had everything heavily rewritten because of feedback.

To be clear, this is a field test of a playtest. Anything we post in a field test may undergo substantial rewrites before the public playtest.

Such a great story! Can’t wait to run this for friends who don’t play society games !

And now you get to see it unfold with access to years of additional player options to boot!

New spell: Selective Invisibility, seems to work like Invisibility but you can leave a target in range that you can see who can see you. Attacking them doesn't break Invisibility, but attacking anyone else does. Honestly seems like a really cool no-save "duel" style spell. (Unfortunately, it only lasts for a minute like heightened Invisibility does, so unless it also heightens, it's just a spell rank discount.)

So funny story: my mystic in SF1 learned that spell exclusively so his brother could make sure he was still safe when he was running off to do "potentially dangerous things" alone. Also suffocating while invisible when no one else in the party can see or hear you is really scary!

Quick note that I'm loving these discussions! Everyone's words here are equal parts motivating and touching and I can't wait for everyone to get an opportunity to play a Mystic during the Playtest next Summer!

Standard disclaimer: Nothing I say here is canon, the opinion of anyone else on the team, or even my own finalized thoughts, but this is a transparent process so I'd love to share my thoughts concerning magic and technology. Starfinder exists in a time so far into the future that archaeologists are finding computer chips in the ruins of "lost civilizations". We've only had personal computers around for less than a century and have already incorporated plenty of "tech lingo" into our modern vernacular. Even if a Mystic is using magic similar to the magic used by spellcasters back in ancient Golarion, they exist in a world where communits and laser rifles are the equivalent of wood-pulp paper letters and automatic recurve crossbows.

Now nothing I post here in the forum is canon, and nothing in these field tests are finalized: But in my own head-canon I like to think that both Doomscroll and Motivating Ringtone could have been cast without the use of technology: magic that channels truths that cause a target to reel in terror, or that composes a melody so perfect for someone at just that time that they feel soothed. The problem is without the technology this magic isn't viable for an encounter. Especially if these truths/songs only affect the target at that moment: by the time you figured out how to sing that song or wrote down the news the moment may have already passed. Thus the technological item is a foci, but that doesn't mean the caster itself is a "technomancer" anymore than a Cleric using a weapon as a foci is a "magus".

In short: the mystic using technology inspired terminology and having access to spells that utilize technology does not mean it's taking the place of the technomancer!

(Now I await my GM to tease me as this entire post runs quite contrary to the beliefs of my own SF1 Mystic, Yoko, who used to argue day and night that true mystics have to be living anachronisms who wore silk robes, wielded a bow, and wrote everything down in ink and paper.)

New field test!

The vitality network and all the feats that interact with it are really interesting, since they're just not used for healing. The Memory Bank feat in particular is my favorite.

Also crossing my fingers for something (a Connection maybe?) that'll make it easier to heal for parties with mixed alive and undead (and constructs?) members.

Transfer Vitality does not have the vitality trait and works great for healing your undead and construct teammates.

Awesome stuff! While I haven't been able to keep on top of Infinite releases the last couple of months I did manage to snag Votefinder and hope to use it in my home game.

Thank you for continuing to support these awesome creators!

The foxhead medallion grants complete immunity to all magical effects, right?

Unfortunately it is also magical, so you become immune to that effect and the medallion no longer grants you protection. /s

Just here to say that everyone's enthusiasm is touching, inspiring, and motivating! Jenny has done great addressing the community here and I'm just posting this to say that I read these boards, discords, and other online communities and appreciate our fan's passion and opinions!

Amusingly, the community hasn't yet seen a single release from our current team in its StarFriends configuration other than the Field Test.

Yes, the Star Chamber is no more. StarFriends are at their battle stations.

This post made me tear up a little. I'm so happy right now.

Also StarFriends sounds like a US/EU 90s release of a super sentai live-action show spliced with scenes from a completely unrelated late-80s mecha anime and I'm totally on board with it.

CorvusMask wrote:

Driftbourne wrote:

BigNorseWolf wrote:

Come on hatching baby kaiju planet. Who doesn't want to see baby space godzila wearing absolom station as a hat?

Absolom station as a hat would hurt to wear due to the spike, but it might work well as a kaiju size birthday cake decoration.

Maybe its a kuthite and likes spikes in the head?

Maybe the kaiju is a mechanic, and the station is its exocortex, and the spike is how it plugs it in.

The fashion trends of planetary bodies and kaiju are surprisingly fickle and competitive. You'd be surprised how many fights start because a living world claimed to have started the "red frozen icecaps" trend eons after a lumbering death tortoise froze the lake of blood on his head by slowly rotating away from the nearest star.

I mean, we can only hope it's blood.

Karmagator wrote:

I think people are heavily overestimating how far along SF2 is in development.

My guess is at least 47 cups of coffee so far.

I can confirm at least 240 cups of coffee. There's some wiggle room there with some other work, but that's balanced out by how many hours I spend on the weekend randomly thinking about space.

I'm so excited! This book is going to be awesome!

Also shout out to Kent Hamilton; Every piece I see of his absolutely blows me away and he's such an incredibly skilled and imaginative illustrator!

I'm so excited for this!

I can't wait to hear about entire tables of Novian Starfinders causing mayhem across the Pact Worlds and beyond!

Those of us who are both GMs and publishers will also commission artwork for our PCs and use that in our products; Just make sure your players are okay with it before you invest!

Thank you for the bump, Mark! I help run the Infiknight discord where we have a slew of art and publishing resources available in our #links-and-resources tab, including a dropbox full of categorized Paizo artwork we scraped from the blog!

In all their enthusiasm, Peppermint the Skittermander's updates to our errata didn't properly display! Our awesome technomancer Andrew White has come to the rescue and everything should now be displaying properly, including:

• Page numbers have been added to all entries

• Character Operations Manual: Extend Runtime has been updated to properly reflect that the hack works with spells with a duration of 10/minutes level, not 10/minutes day.

• Tech Revolution: Mystic Smith has been updated to work with the new fusion seal rules. It takes far less time to install fusion seals and they begin functioning after 1 round (or immediately if you spend a Resolve Point).

• Galactic Magic: Fusion Specialist has been updated to work with the new fusion seal rules and functions after 1 round rather than the normal 10 minutes (or immediately if you spend a Resolve Point).

• Solar Strike: The Stellar Fire ability of the Deep Cultures Specialist archetype can now apply the flaming weapon fusion in 1 minute instead of 10 minutes.

I'm so excited for all of this!

Awesome! Always love seeing more support for Roll20!

Spectra blades are entirely my aesthetic. Thank you Paizo!

I came here to say something along these lines and I'm glad so many people agree!

Jason Bulmahn: Our level system does not go high enough for Gritty

Knowing where you are is not the only reason to hug the coast on a ship. Even modern ships in the Mediterranean tend to hug the coast, and they have satellite GPS. This is especially true for trade ships, who will want to fill their itinerary with as many ports as possible to get/unload trade goods, minimize hold room for fresh supplies, maintain crew morale, and establish contacts with businesses in as many ports as possible to keep the hold as full as possible between ports. There's also some coin to be made transporting people from port to port.

Dear Golarion's Finest,

I've recently purchased your newest guide, and I was quite impressed with the wide array of writers! How did you manage to get a Rakhasha and a former Assassin to write for your newest book?

Best,
-An inquistive reader.

*Innocent whistle noises*

Very cool! I didn't realize what an all-star writing cast this AP had!

Woot! Cards!

DATA! BASE! DATA! BASE! WE LIVING IN THE DATA! BASE! (Oooh Oooh Oooh!)

...I'm really excited for this release!

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What is up with the price on Dark Archive? It is more expensive than Book of the Dead, even though the page count is the same. Can someone explain?

I have no insider knowledge here but I assume it's inflation. Inner Sea World Guide was 49.99 back in 2011. There's been a 31.7% cumulative rate of inflation since then, so the fact that in 2022 they are finally raising their prices ~10% means they are still making less money per book. Since the PDFs cost the same, this is probably about the price of shipping and manufacturing which has gotten significantly more expensive for a cadre of complex reasons that are beyond the scope of the Paizo forums.

EDIT: Oh, I wrote that before I saw Erik Mona's post. Ninja'd!

I'm so proud to be recognized as worthy to be on a list with so many incredible authors! I can't wait to see and produce even more content!

I'm so excited about this! The Potfox looks adorable!

+10 points if Sakuachi is a Numerian kitsune! I'm allowed to dream!

To give you an idea, the count of Infinite products:

PF: 334 (PF1 94, PF2 288, numbers don't add up because some products are tagged as edition-agnostic)
SF: 82

That feels like a higher ratio of releases than official Starfinder to Pathfinder products, and many infinite products are intended as supplements to recent releases...

These illustrations are amazing!

Awesome post! Thank you so much for all these opportunities, paizo!

Thanks for posting this!

Thank you for taking the time to give us this platform. It means so much and I look forward to reading this blog every year!

Huge grats on everyone involved! So many campaign coins to people who you would have thought would have had them for a long, long time!

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I love that Dullahan are both an ancestry option as well as an archetype one, since that was a thing folks were asking for. I also liked that the ancestry feats were options a Dullahan archetype could take.

It was kind of strange that the ancestry feats got leveled up when taken as archetype feats though. I thought a class feat was supposed to be more valuable than an ancestry feat.

You are correct! I will take some time to consider lowering the prerequisites to merely one level higher, but at the time I felt like the sheer quantity of feat options by providing the archetype feats in an archetype on-top of many characters potentially taking the heritage and archetype together gave players enough options.

Honestly, it probably wouldn't be too broken to go ahead and take the feat only one level higher. I will consult with some of my play testers and see what they say.

I did a live-stream showing how the cards work you can watch right here.