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Has the designer spoken his mind on the issue on some blog or here in the forums?

Seems like an interesting issue to see what the Starfinder Development team thought and if the prices are some sort of misjudgement that is going to change in the next errata or something that was well thought.

More mid tier monsters and aliens. Most the book is playable races or high tier aliens in my opinion.

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CR 2-3-4

After all these are close to the levels we gonna see the most [imho].

These 3 CRs in numbers can provide challenge for 1 to 10!

I also need creatures like the Akashas, the Rivener and the Electrovites.

With some background but nothing more than smart beasts.

Some official conversions on the most demanding to convert monsters like
incorporeals or the outsiders would be nice too!

I don't disagree that Dex is on the high end and Charisma is on the low end, but classes are designed from the ground up around gaining resolve from their primary stat. If you change that design choice to help charisma then I'm concerned that you risk throwing out the baby with the bath water.

As an example, soldiers are expected to get hurt - it's pretty much in their job description. Because of that they have good access to resolve (in the form of a high str/dex) so they can reliably recover stamina with short rests. Perhaps because soldiers are expected to use their resolve on regaining stamina, there are relatively few Resolve spenders available for them and they come online relatively late - around level 7-9.

Technomancers get high amounts of Resolve but are less likely to spend them on stamina since they have a lot of resolve spenders available in the magic hack options. These Resolve spenders start showing up as early as level 5.

If we implement your houserule then the soldier and the technomancer can expect to lose roughly 50%* of the resolve they're gaining today. Envoys and Mystics would lose roughly 20%*. I suspect the reality would be that Mystics would get pressed into tank duty because they'd have much more resolve available to heal themselves back up that the soldier has.

As it stands right now it's broadly agreed on that Solarians have a small resolve shortfall compared to other classes. If we implement this houserule then the quality of life is slightly worse for Envoys Mystics and Solarians (1/4 level baseline means they take a net hit to their Resolve pool) and significantly worse for Mechanics, Operatives, Soldiers and Technomancers. In effect, I think we would be creating more problems than we are solving. :-/

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Hey nice constructive criticism there!

Still I see we can scavenge something out of it.

I ll check the math later but at the moment 1/3 would be nice.

I see your point with the mystic but I dont like the idea of prearranged roles. Maybe mystics will tank more. No problem there. Actual they got this imba 1st level spell that reflects all damage back to the attacker so I can see something nice brewing up here.

Any idea if the weapons generated are balanced at all?

Any chance to raise the curtain of the way they are generated?

Azih wrote:

I don't see why we can't have a starship with even a few hundred million people on it.

I still don't see why there's any particular need to do that. It's not a question of possibility: this is a setting with a sacred site of Sarenrae inside the sun, of course it's possible.

It's just that because you can doesn't necessarily mean you should. The analogy to national or civilizational capitals is false; that's not what Absalom is. It's not the Tokyo of the setting. It is the Babylon 5 of the setting and already ten times that scale. So why would it need to be larger yet? Just feels like a solution in search of a problem. Narratively speaking, any centre of population with more than a million people is surely large enough to tell most stories involving a "city."

Dont be so harsh. Some of us think that anything other than NY,London,Paris or Hong Kong is just not big enough to portrait cultural pluralism right!

What if Resolve was Charisma based for all characters?