A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for levels 1-2.
All Starfinders complete their training by conferring with Guidance—a network of uploaded personalities embodying paragons from the Starfinder Society's history. Before receiving the blessing of Guidance, the PCs must meet with and assist critical missions on behalf of key leaders of the Society's leading factions. With the events of the Scoured Stars Incident still fresh in everyone's memory, there's plenty that needs doing to set the Society back on track.
The Commencement is a replayable scenario designed to help introduce players to the factions of the Starfinder Society and areas of importance on Absalom Station.
Written by Eleanor Ferron.
Scenario Tags: Repeatable
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This scenario is a great way to meet four of the faction leaders.
Our dice were not playing really nice during combats, but we had a lot of fun nonetheless.
I want to particularly point out that Eleanor Ferron has made some excellent pictures to go along with several NPCs (technically fanart as they're not comissioned by Paizo), which we used to give it just that extra touch during play.
That said, the lack of space combat makes me not give it 5 stars, due my expectation of to it being such an integral part of Starfinder.
Spoiler:
The vehicle race was interesting, but I feel it should have been a spacerace
This was a good scenario (and funny). It's not as much of an overview of SF as Into the Unknown, but it is decently basic and throws much more RP into each scenario, which is a good thing.
I'm not really dinging it for the lack of starships, but there is no starship combat.
The vehicle piloting (racing speeders) is where it loses a star. It was a cool idea in theory, and I can see why they did what they did, but it was confusing and frustrating. We took half the slot for the race scenario and the other three missions in the final half.
Frustrating Part:
Your group's best pilot and gunner get to participate in the speeder you built, everyone else gets to play the pre-made competitors' speeders. So you either risk losing the mission by doing well or cheese out and let your actual racer win while dogpiling Ratrod.