Pathfinder Lost Omens, Rulebook Subscriber; Starfinder Superscriber. Organized Play Member. 119 posts. 4 reviews. No lists. No wishlists. 9 Organized Play characters.
I’m disappointed with this. It’s just the 4 page default sheet cut up, rearranged, and stretched out into 7 pages, with an additional page for inventory. The spell page is legitimately worse, because it’s the same page, but now broken up by lines to use the space less well. The Ancestry and General Feats page doesn’t give you anymore room for bonus feats or Free Archetype or Ancestral Paragon feats. The space for character art is fine, it’s bigger, but is frustratingly cut into by the background being printed at full saturation, as seen in the sample image. Bizarrely, this is the only page printed like this. All other pages have a muted background.
I can’t help but compare it to its 1e counterpart. 1e took a 2 page default character sheet and gave you a 16 page character folio, giving you so much room to write things down. It added pages of player reference to the folder cover, whereas this one only gives you art of the Iconics. It had an entire page for augments and upgrades, a page for character backgrounds including family members and history. A place to record your base and sketch it out on a grid, record your faction relationships. A place to record achievements, notable NPCs. An entire page for your campaign log, a whole page for notes and SFS info. There was a Drone page and a Starship page, and yes I know those rules aren’t out yet, but animal companions are a thing and so are familiars (there’s an entire sidebar about them on page 202!).
I can’t recommend this product for $15. It doesn’t give enough to justify it. For $10, the pdf could be worth it if you’re looking for more room to write and more space to record your inventory. If you’re planning on printing a lot of these. I just. Cannot wrap my head around what happened with this, when they already had a blueprint for what it could (should) be.
Also, the product description is just wrong.
"Room to chronicle your character's achievements, goals, and history." This doesn't exist. I mean, technically you could put it in the "notes" section, but there are no specific spaces for these things.
"Quick reference charts to character advancement." There are precisely 0 charts in this product.
"A diagram to help fill every item slot, including augmentations!" There are no diagrams either. There's space to fill item slots and augmentations, but this bullet point is misleading.
I'm absolutely enthralled with this deck. Not only does it do a fantastic job of generating interesting worlds, but you also have instructions on how to create whole systems, moons for the planets, settlements on either, NPCs and PCs. The deck does everything it says in the description and more. Easily one of my favorite ancillary products for any rpg.
For the physical product, this is largely a waste of money. You get the class specific sheets, which is cool, but the other three sheets - the item/character details sheet, the spell sheet, and the companion sheet - only have one copy each in this pack. The entire pack is only good for one character. And since they changed the layout for the item/character details sheet, you either have to print the pages from the free downloadable sheets (which don't give you much room for items, or character details, and double up on things from the class sheet), photocopy extra copies of the ones provided, or buy the pdf to print out copies. For $15, I feel a bit ripped off.
Give me a first edition/Starfinder style character folio any day over this. At least I'll have room for everything.
Edit 2020/08/28 - Additionally, the folder is pretty much exactly 8 1/2" x 11", so it doesn't fit normal papers (like chronicle sheets) that well. A single sheet of paper can be put in mostly okay, but once your printed sheets start stacking up, it gets really hard to put them in without stressing the "spine" of the folder.
