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After listening to the amazing Paizo keynote for GenCon2023, it has been confirmed that we are going to see the death of one of our core deities in real time. So, of course, I cannot help but speculate!

The existence of core deities in Starfinder gives them what I would consider to be plot armor, but given the announcement of Starfinder 2e coming in 2025, it is entirely possible that Paizo could pull a retcon.

The current core 20 that are shared in both games are:
-Sarenrae
-Iomedae
-Desna
-Abadar
-Pharasma
-Zon-Kuthon
-Cayden Cailean
-Calistria
-Asmodeus
-Lamashtu

Which is a lot but not all. We also know that Torag is gone, but that implies that he left voluntarily, rather than being killed. Also Rovagug is MIA since Golarion, its prison, has disappeared. So who are left?
-Erastil
-Shelyn
-Iori
-Gozreh
-Nethys
-Gorum
-Norgorber
-Urgathoa

To me, Shelyn has a compelling arc. We know that she is close to purifying the glaive in the Lost Omens setting, and in the Starfinder universe she is "travelling" but that could be easily retconned out. How tragic would it be to come so close to redeeming her beloved brother only to be struck down in the end?

I would personally love to see an arch where Norgorber is exposed and dismantled. Perhaps his 4 forms are exposed 1 by 1, until there is nothing left of him but an empty black cloak.

Nethys would be fascinating, and if paired with a Golden Road themed adventure would be amazing. For millenia, Nethys has balanced his impulses for creation and destruction, what if both forces are unleashed and end up with his non-existence?

Urgathoa, as the queen of undeath, who won her power through sheer force of will and refusal to bend, what an end to such a villain to be forced to embrace oblivion in the end?

Who is your pick? What arch do you want to see play out at your table?

I've having a really hard time figuring out how to potentially adjudicate this. If a PC or NPC is around other people, and wants to add poison somehow to a food or drink item, how would that play out? This only skill action I can identify as being close is Thievery - Palm an Object. This is closest in spirit to "Sleight of Hand." This is the skill I would most closely associate with that a person covertly poisoning something would be using. You hands move too fast and obfuscate what they are trying to do well enough that most people wouldn't notice anything strange is happening. Essentially, close up magic.

Is there a rule I am missing, or is this it?

Now that the player's guide is out, we know for certain how the gatewalker incident happens. Which makes me wonder...how is Kyonin affected??? I know that this isn't the focus of the AP itself, but if this is a planet-wide event, there's going to be a lot of fallout. How will the Kyonin elves investigate this issue?

From the section Time & The Calendar

"A more recent invention is Irrisen’s new Stasian calendar, which sets itself 2,700 years behind Absalom Reckoning for reasons that, though still unknown, may be tied to Queen Anastasia’s mysterious origins."

Is this a typo and they meant 2,800? For someone who knows a lot about Reign of Winter but hasn't read it, this has been nagging at me.

So if I'm playing a level 1 sorcerer, and I have the Produce Flame cantrip, and my cantrips are automatically heightened (as a 1st-level sorcerer, your cantrips are 1st-level spells), does that mean that I cast Produce Flame as a cantrip at first level dealing 2d4+Cha damage? And then at level 3 I would cast it, still as a cantrip, dealing 3d4+Cha damage, and so on?

Hi all! I converted the Ratfolk race from the Advanced Race Guide for 1e into 2e for one of my players. A lot of the verbiage is lifted directly from the original entry. I only did Level One Ancestry Feats, I'll add more if/when we get that far during our campaign. At first I thought ratfolk and wererats were the same thing, but I was way off! Now I'm kind of warming to the concept. Enjoy!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gBxvNL6BiTFquYiAEhd3zVSzeAMYhhOyEeulTE_ sYuk/edit?usp=sharing

To choose the Champion archetype you need to have a 14 Str and Cha. But you can be a Str or a Dex based Champion. Is this an oversight?

So I've been doing some research for a homebrew campaign set in Thuvia and I'm curious for some opinions.

It's a fact that the deserts of Rahadoum are encroaching onto civilization there. A lot of people see it as some sort of curse from the gods for abandoning them. Personally I was writing it off as an effect of the Eye of Abendego, basically it's pulling in water from Rahadoum to feed its perpetual storms. But maybe they're BOTH right.

When researching arcane vs divine spells, it's shocking how different they are in terms of conjuring water. Create Water is a divine cantrip which creates a gallon of water every six seconds! Meanwhile, as far as I can tell, an arcane caster has to be able to cast a third level spell to make any sort of water at all with Aqueous Orb. Looking over the bard list, they don't seem to have any water conjuration spells. There is a rare cantrip called Drench, but Pathfinder makes it very clear that this cantrip and many like it are essentially lost to time, you'd have to do a special quest to find one. A hydrokineticist can use the Create Water cantrip, but that's a rare class in general, rarer than a druid who can do the same thing.

Also, Create Water behaves a little differently than other creation subtype conjuration spells, in that it disappears after 24 hours. Why? Most created items are just real now, they're here and they're permanent. Sure, some things like Conjure Carriage disappear, but the spell makes it very clear that the carriage and its horses weren't real to begin with. So is the water created, or is it summoned? And if it's summoned, from where? And where does it go back to? Water is pretty hard to dissipate in real life, it takes a lot of energy to break the molecules apart, that's why its so effective and we use it so much.

Here's what I've come up with. Create Water either summons water from somewhere on the planet, or the environment, or the Plane of Water. Doesn't really matter. (I mean, it might matter with a sort of refrigerator effect, as in leaving your fridge open will eventually make your whole room WARMER instead of colder, but that's debatable.) Instead of going back to where the water was summoned from, it disperses in a wide area, over miles. So, with no divine casters around to conjure water, this natural hydration that Rahadoum was getting has been cut off. Then, the Eye of Abendego opens, accelerating a problem which has been going on for centuries. And now people start to notice this growing drought issue.

So that's as far as I've gotten. I'd love to know what people think, and the possible implications of this, if true. Cheers!

TL;DR Don't forsake the gods if you're thirsty!

Since the APs this year are War for the Crown and Return of the Runelords, it's unlikely that the Osiriani countdown clock will factor into the storylines this year. According to Echoes of Glory, War for the Crown begins in 4717, and we know that Return takes place before Jade Regent, so there's no reason to believe it's set in 4718 AR.

I hope these are intentional decisions by the team. From what I've gathered, the countdown clocks were introduced back in 2009, and could easily have been retconned out or the year changed. But they've doubled down on the concept, featuring details about the lore in Occult Mysteries.

Are you excited? Do you think this will be tackled in 2019? I know there isn't intended to be much overlap between Starfinder and Pathfinder, but considering we're talking about a potential alien invasion, I can't help but speculate.