Hello All
Trying desperately not to write a novel here. I'm a long time GM very much cut my teeth with stuff like Shadowrun but I've run or played a bunch of stuff out there. My wife and I needed a new convention activity and tried Starfinder 2E at Gencon and thoroughly enjoyed it. I have also been looking for a new system to run for my home game now that summer is over and people's schedules normalize.
What I'd like to do: I'd like to help my home group make OrganizedPlay legal starfinder characters and run them through the first 4 or so modules of starfinder for them while we get our feet wet and then we'll make characters for a homebrew with some system knowledge under our belts and I can also drag them to cons with me. (muahaha)
As far as getting the adventures do I buy them from the paizo store? I see there are modules available for fantasy grounds (see below) but I only see the playtest modules there? I see the actual modules in the subscription but starting with number 2. I'm honestly confused by the subscription model is it just signing up to automatically buy modules and other material on release or is there a cost? Can I just register and report my "closed table" even though i'm not an OrganizedPlay agent or whatever? I don't have anything against my local OP branch, in fact I think I know some of them from various other circles but this is kind of a temporary thing and the whole point is to run it myself for the experience.
I have a crew of 4-5 players who are all semi local to me but since covid we've been doing our gaming online. We've been using roll20 but i've grown ambivalent on it and was looking at moving to fantasy grounds and wondered if anyone had experience with the starfinder module on there? How it is to integrate with either the OP stuff or a home campaign?
Last questions I hate character generation with a passion and my players mostly feel the same. I have no issue buying a copy of hero lab (and the book licenses) if that makes things slick but have been let down in the past. Anyone use Hero Lab for Starfinder 2E and recommend it or want to make a particularly impassioned case for a different tool?
