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What Starfinder Exclusive Mechanics Do You Want To Return?

I've always liked the under-casting mechanic, where you can cast a spell you know at the level you know it or any lower level, but not at a higher level. Feels like a simpler and more flexible approach than signature spells. Of course, in Starfinder not that many spells are heightenable.

Another thing with 2e is that most of the math is all on the same scale. Skills, saves, attacks and even AC may not increase exactly the same, but they do all stay reasonably close. So I think a GM has a little more freedom when responding to players' off-the-wall ideas. For example, if the wizard wants to disable a hostile golem without destroying it, you might have them attempt one or two arcana or crafting checks versus the golem's reflex DC.