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Huh. Interesting. So the scenarios have access to new races? Thanks. Perhaps it was just luck of the draw for the scenarios we have chosen. Myself and the other who regularily GMs chooses based on what seems most fun. So if there are just scenario ones, that answers the concern in the origins of the post.

Thanks for that bit of info, will keep an eye out for them as we run more scenarios.

We are revamping how we are going to be running the local events with better schedule planning and making more use of social media for the provincial online organization.

As for online, it is just personal taste, but found I just didn't enjoy the online experience for tabletop. I just like being at the table with others. We have the players and at our bi weekly (every two week) game, we get from 6 to 14 regular peeps show up depending.

For what it's worth, the people on both the Starfinder and Starfinder Society design teams have said multiple times that they also have this as a goal, to offer a diverse array of playable options. You can read Thurston's comments on it from this old blog post: That Cantina Feel. Whether they're living up to that goal to your satisfaction is up to you to decide, but at least they have expressed that they also value that aspect of the Starfinder universe.

Personally, I've been playing SFS for about a year and I already have more race options available to me than time to play them all. In my opinion they've been quite liberal in opening races for play, though admittedly it is still mostly the core races that I see in actual games. I believe that over time it will start to feel much more like the cantina feel they're going for.

That is what I was sort of commenting on.

1. Regional Convention support. At least here it doesn't seem to be any. However there are semi annual gaming events, but we don't have the population to get hundreds of people else the closest large convention is probably 800km away. Too much for my wallet of a trip. But from the earlier post, it sounds like smaller gaming events can still arrange if enough people? Though I guess that is on the onus of the ventures.

2. Player focused boon: This is the one that I missed out on and seems to have only been the one over a year ago. Since I find myself gming lots, I also would have difficulty getting the games played.

Since that article was over a year old, it is why I came here asking. There was also that skittermander stuff, but I wasn't able to be part of that since the ones who were doing it again ran it all in another city versus the city we play.

Hence why was asking. From my information searching, there is absolutely nothing out there to get access to it. Is why I brought up at least gaining access to some from purchasing the game books or having more options available to those who cannot spend the money to make long trips and expensive admissions to conventions.

If they are liberal in opening races to play, then how are they opened? I have only found a couple options, and those are all expired?

What is this boon (RSP GM#2)? I have been GMing games for a while and not seen this nor can I find anything on it.

Oh, so even small events can organize it? Should chat with the co-ordinators more. Example was last year I ran one of the tables for 1-99 and we had more than 15 show for starfinder.

I did note there were the additional addendum stuff. It is an unusual opinion though. For pathfinder I have a preference for keeping thing simple core and traditional fantasy style. For Starfinder, the thought of a diverse group of aliens I considered one of the very attractive parts of the universe but almost locked out of it.

Good day all. From my searchings I don't think there will be a positive answer for this. I am a TTRPGer with decades of play but always homebrew. When I found out about starfinder last year, I loved the setting and concept that I finally decided to join up with official starfinder society. I do a fairbit of GMing now and picked up the books in part for running a campaign. However I was informed that absolutely no additional races have been allows.

Confirming with additional resources, it doesnt say anything race wise in the books are permitted for the pact worlds or alien archives 1&2.

I looked into boons, it appears the only one was a boon that ended last summer with the six games for one species, 12 for choice of others. Outside of that, it sounds like only rare official convention awards?

That seems pretty harsh unless I am missing something if only for the inaccessability of what conventions I know of, effectively knocking me out of ever being able to use these in play since society is my only as player and not GM starfinder.

Suggestion? I wonder why isnt a promo boon so owners/buyers of the book get a least one time boon to make use of, at minimum from a list, one of the species from said book? As it is those books seem to have a limited if any value for society play. Ideally, that boon could be only applied to one character at any time of playable races, so would need to retire or expire to make a new from that book. Just to prevent having it burned from a bad situation?