Just because the First World is infinite doesn't mean it doesn't also have planets and Space. The 'First World' version of an infinite void might be a little more...interesting than the Material Plane one.
Spellcasters: Hiding behind the warriors since...we don't actually know, because of the Gap.
What's the Break DC for a pulsecaster shaped like an umbrella? Idar is about ready to snap this thing over his knee.
Why is this a $27 PDF? That's the most expensive PDF I've seen It is a $27 PDF because it is a $40 book.
Items getting damaged by AoE spells if you roll a 1 on your saving throw. Yes, I totally want to stop the game, consult a bunch of charts, figure out exactly what the HP and hardness are of your magic hat, because rolling a 1 isn't bad enough.
Ring of Shooting Stars(50,000GP) I have always liked the idea but is so overpriced especially when you can get a ring of freedom of movement for 40,000GP.It's a historical holdover thing. The Ring of Shooting Stars was a lot more potent when originally designed, when say the average troll had 27 hp (6d8), not 63 (6*(d8+6)). At that point, the damage on the shooting stars and ball lightning abilities was significant... but they ported it directly, and now it's kind of a waste. There's a fair amount of stuff like that if you look. Related, burning hands and thus grim lantern doing 1d4 per level instead of, say 1d6.
The grim lantern is at an unfortunate intersection of 'what the rules say DCs are on items' and 'what a 3+/day command-word item' should cost. Compare against a 5th-level wand of burning hands, which costs 3,750 gp and has the same save DC, but will eventually run out and can only be used by spellcasters.
Page 42. "In addition, androids do not breathe or suffer the normal effects of being in a vacuum."
"Long rifle elegant weapon. Precise." Idar shrugs. "Subtle, not." And, of course, he still has a very sharp knife and some boom-booms. He stays close to Diamaante, upper arms out from show, lower arms inside his poncho near his other weapons. Not so much to keep them ready, but ot keep them from being disapppeared by those with 'light fingers' in the dense crowd. He does not dance.
What PC races are your personal most/least favorites? Do you have asimilar set of preferences for Starfinder, or is the game too young? Or just not your personal style?
In the Man-Kzin Wars series you learn that their females were turned into that - they no longer have enough intelligence to think of equality, much less actually try to fight for it. They are basically living incubators and nothing more.For my home game all I did was bring back the Drugar (the Dwarven version of the Drow) but I made them a male dominated version of the Drow because I felt the game needed a mirror of the same. ]Eh, I always felt that the "evil patriarchy" counterpart to the drows "evil matriarchy" was the orcs. I mean, if you look at the orc pantheon, only one of their 10 gods is a woman, and that's Dretha, who's pretty much the goddess of being "barefoot and pregnant" (or whatever you call the more barbaric orcish equivalent to that idea). Sure, she doesn't seem happy about it, but she still is. I doubt many drow men like being treated as second class either Just to double down on that, the Kzinti empire is literally called the Patriarchy, their monarch is 'The Patriarch', not 'King', 'Emperor', or similar. But, like Drow, and Orcs, the Kzinti are evil adversaries.
Based on discussion here, I've whipped together some acid-energy ray guns. The stats are a bit paint-by-numbers, but hey, the system is young.
Disruptor Pistol (Atomic, baryonic, molecular, nuclear)
Disruptor Rifle (Atomic, baryonic, molecular, nuclear)
Matter Disruption Excavator (Heavy, Light, Portable)
Disintegration Cutter (Industrial, Precision, Weaponized)
Advanced Melee Weapons
Disintegration Cutter, Industrial
Disintegration Cutter, Weaponized
Small Arms
Disruptor Pistol, Atomic
Disruptor Pistol, Nuclear
Disruptor Pistol, Baryonic
Longarms
Disruptor Rifle, Atomic
Disruptor Rifle, Nuclear
Disruptor Rifle, Baryonic
Matter Disruption Excavator, Portable
Heavy Weapons
Matter Disruption Excavator, Heavy
The Drow are Evil. The Drow are bad guys. Gender-based oppression is the kind of thing bad people do.
179. Your new implant also mines BitCoins.
I suspect something similar is happening with the Lashunta, the artist sees that the race as a whole is universally attractive so no matter what each individual is supposed to look like they end up being very close to the artists concept of beauty. This is all rampant speculation on my part however. I suspect this too. It doesn't help that the reference art pool is fairly shallow right now, and that the Lashunta iconic is Damaya.So if you use her as Lashunta reference art when sending an art order, even if your text says 'short and stocky because this is a different subrace', artists will frequently look at the reference art as much/more than the written art order.
There are red-skinned 'humans' on Akiton in both Pathfinder and Starfinder. Do they lay eggs?
Also, how smart/wise are they? Small children love to 'help' to, even when you'd rather they not.
158. Your new hand skinned in synthetic gecko-foot adhesive, handy for wall crawling. But now you can't turn it off.
Maybe we can talk about the book in this thread instead of arguing over the inherent fairness/unfairness of Paizo's shipping and fulfillment process? (For the record, I think that the system, while imperfect, is as fair as it can be given the constraints of physical reality.)
151) You just don't like it that much, and want your original bio-part back. Shame it's rotting in the bottom of a red 'Biohazard' bin.
143a) It will also do this automatically. You have discovered this feature no fewer than five times.
141) It lets you perceive space-time in more than three dimensions, and colors outside of the visible spectrum. Unfortunately, your brain can't handle the extra input, so all you get is a migraine.
105) A loud beeping noise whenever you move backwards.
104) Your new hand cannot activate touch screens.
101) Your cyberlimb contains an integrated Small Arm weapon. However, 50% of the time it extends a 'BANG!' flag instead. 101a) 1% of the time, it fires the BANG flag with great force, causing 1d4 damage to the target anyway.
31. Your new cybernetic eyes come with a mature content filter. 31a) This makes it difficult to shower.
87) It itches. 88) Your new cybereye allows you to see the subliminal messages embedded in everyday life, and the true faces of alien invaders hidden among us. Also you are out of gum. That seems related for some reason.
It's the end of an era.
80) Your new leg runs on an alcohol fuel cell. If you're sober enough to walk upright, you can't.
You're talking about the area of (American) Copyright law usually called 'Fair Use', which is a broad concept, and like 'Obscenity', it's an 'I know it when I see it' situation. It really is a grey area, with any solid definitions being provided mostly defined by precedent rather than statute. "What can I get away with' is counterbalanced by the IP holder wondering 'what can I successfully fight', and also the optics of who is being sued. There is no fast and clear answer. Lawyers earn their money for a reason.
36) It has a vibrate setting. You try not to think about this.
32) You keep getting comm calls for the previous owner. Some of them refuse to believe they have a wrong number.
More specifically, if the Weapon specialization granted by a class is supposed to count as a prerequisite for Versatile Specialization, then there is no reason for Weapon Specialization to exist as a feat, period. Any character with more than three levels in a single class qualifies for Versatile Specialization, which provides a strictly superior benefit to Weapon Specialization. Also, it pains me to type 'Versatile Specialization' and 'Versatile Focus' as they are oxymorons.
By my reading, the Versatile Specialization feat requires the Weapon Specialization feat (on page 163), not 'specialization with a weapon' (page 243). Compare, for instance, Longarm Proficiency, with requires 'Proficiency in small arms' not 'Small Arm Proficiency'
10) The clock is wrong and you can't figure out how to change it.
I did too.
6) You inherit the previous owner's browsing history.
1) Rovagug broke free and wrecked the universe. Starfinder actually happens in Universe 2.0, after the Gods built a new one. The Gap is actually the result of the Gods not making a perfect copy. Or more accurately, nothing before the Gap actually happened in this universe. The Gap having a slightly different duration and ending point is a result of the Gods having more/less knowledge about certain parts of space (for the start of the Gap) or being rebuilt at different times (for the end of the gap.) 2) Aroden actually did return, eventually. He raised the Starstone to orbit and created Absalom Station the same way he originally raised it from the sea and built the first Absalom. The Gap is because of history 'snapping back' when Aroden's return un-broke prophecy.
PathfinderWiki says the red-skinned Akitonians can interbreed with Golarian humans. Egg-laying didn't stop John Carter.
Popplers?
85) The ship is essentially stolen (see Farscape, et al.) No one cares when you're just buying supplies or getting docking permissions, but you can't run a title history.
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