Starfinder Ports of Call

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Ooh, I'd buy this for the Drifter's End chapter alone.

Four new player character species, including giants, sentient oozelike selamids, the gaseous thyrs, and the reptilian xulgaths of Lost Golarion.

Interesting how selamids are getting a reprint. I suppose it's safe to assume the other Dead Suns species aren't going to be updated in the combined version?

Also, playable giants? I'm very interested to see how those work but it's definitely a niche that isn't being served.

>An overview and poster-sized map of the Starfinder galaxy.

PRAISE ABADAR.

a score of new side job adventures

Very excited for this part, but I can attest that all of this book is great and I can't wait!

Oh hey, it's my first Starfinder writing credit!

Is the Cargo sub-system going to be the one from Fly Free Or Die? Or is this something new?

My gut tells me (i.e. if precedent holds) it'll be the Galactic Trade rules from Fly Free or Die, possibly revised and/or expanded to a slight degree.

My gut tells me (i.e. if precedent holds) it'll be the Galactic Trade rules from Fly Free or Die, possibly revised and/or expanded to a slight degree.

Tondro said that the original design doc was a lot longer than what the page count in FFoD allowed for. If it's an expanded reprint I'll certainly be happy because I love the system and would love to see more done with it.

I wasn't expecting xulgaths or giants :D

Super hyped for map finally!

Wow, four new species to play with. And the best for me, the whole map of the galaxy!! At least :) Can't wait for the book.

Just a simple question, is the map going to be present inside the book with a bit of explanation of the different regions/empires/factions?? That would be awasome.

Oh this is an instant buy for me.

So, obviously I'm super thrilled we're going to be getting a galaxy map for Starfinder (like, super thrilled), but, guilty admission, possibly my most favorite thing announced just now for this book is playable Xulgaths. I've been playing a shapeshifting Astrazoan who switches between alternate identities, the most frequent of which being this undead xulgath named Father Eroboam. I've had so much fun with this character, and getting a little rules and lore guidance for them is going to be so nice! Never expected these little buddies to get the spotlight like this, or even make an appearance.

I seriously can't wait to get my hands on this book. Drift Crisis has been an absolute blast so far, and we're still on book one! Quality of Starfinder books lately feels like it's hitting renaissance! I only wish I was GMing so I could read the APs all the way through myself. Seriously, thanks for the awesome toys, Starfinder devs! You people are the best.

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Four new player character species, including giants, sentient oozelike selamids, the gaseous thyrs, and the reptilian xulgaths of Lost Golarion.

Interesting how selamids are getting a reprint. I suppose it's safe to assume the other Dead Suns species aren't going to be updated in the combined version?

Also, playable giants? I'm very interested to see how those work but it's definitely a niche that isn't being served.

Sidenote, I suspect this is because they figured out they should introduce/detail ooze species then realized they could expand on species that already exists in starfinder

>An overview and poster-sized map of the Starfinder galaxy.

PRAISE ABADAR.

Now that's what I'm talking about! :D

John Mangrum wrote:

My gut tells me (i.e. if precedent holds) it'll be the Galactic Trade rules from Fly Free or Die, possibly revised and/or expanded to a slight degree.

Tondro said that the original design doc was a lot longer than what the page count in FFoD allowed for. If it's an expanded reprint I'll certainly be happy because I love the system and would love to see more done with it.

Ug. I was hoping for a slightly more realistic cargo system. Starfinder cargo capacity is hilariously tiny; the largest crb starfinder freighter would have trouble filling an average Target. Any Amazon warehouse probably does more business in a single day than an entire colony freighter.

Pretty small annoyance, all things considered, but it takes me out of the game every time I come across it.

There are 4 new freighters in Drift Crisis.

The tanker and haulers, correct?

So, have you seen a 40' fuel tanker truck or railcar?

That has an equal cargo capacity as one of the tankers starships. Heck, let's be generous and assume a tanker can haul double that, that one of these 40' tank cars is equal to a single cargo hold. But going off the capacity of cargo holds as described in the CRB, you aren't fitting much more than that.

It's a game, not a simulator, so this is definitely not something I would want them to prioritize over game mechanics, but like I said it takes me out of the game every time I think about it.

Edit: All that would take to make me happy is some descriptive text that bays get bigger as your ship does, so the capacity of a large bay is twice that of a small bay, or something like that. No real need to put rules text on it, but adding something to this chart would be a good place to do so:

Starship Scale

I can think of many ships that don't have more room for cargo just because they have a higher tonnage.

Going to be a hoot when this comes out and my poor lost Drift Crisis group pops into one of these planets!!

Can't wait, Ha Ha Ha

Tom

"And after I made all those Path--er--Starfinders do all that cover work to obscure my true home world evillaugh.exe: NOT FOUND!Majesticevilpose: NOT FOUND!"

Maybe I missed it, but will there be info on creating your own port-of-call?

Doesn't sound like it; that would be more in Galactic Exploration Manual's wheelhouse.

PZO7121 Starfinder Ports of Call has been finalized!

Back cover text:

AT HOME IN THE STARS

Every galactic adventurer needs a place to call home—even if only until their starship is fueled for the next journey. Explore 10 major port cities full of adventure and intrigue, from Drifter’s End on Absalom Station, to the chasm city of Precipice on distant Apostae, to the theme park planet of Golarion World. Learn about smaller ports as well, like the collection of warships known as Bastion that protects against the Swarm or the starship port of Skydock on Verces. Along with all this, Ports of Call also features:
— A map of Desna’s path, the Starfinder Galaxy.
— Loads of player options, including four new species.
— Expanded downtime rules, new starship options, a cargo subsystem, new NPCs, side job adventures, and much more!

Maybe I missed it, but will there be info on creating your own port-of-call?

In addition to the settlement design guidelines on pages 405–407 of the Core Rulebook, this book explores four different roles a settlement might take for your campaign: Gateway, Destination, Resource, and Base.

— A map of Desna’s path, the Starfinder Galaxy.

Will there be a removable fold-out map of the galaxy we can put up???

Nevermind, a poster-sized map is in the copy. I'm a bonehead.

— A map of Desna’s path, the Starfinder Galaxy.

Oooh, is this the first time we've gotten confirmation of what the galaxy is commonly called? Desna's Path - good to know!

I'm curious if this book also talks about Drift Courier Network, because that is other thing of Drift Crisis conclusions articles from the book I want to come true :'D Because it really is silly how hard it is to send communications to nearby worlds

I'm curious if this book also talks about Drift Courier Network, because that is other thing of Drift Crisis conclusions articles from the book I want to come true :'D Because it really is silly how hard it is to send communications to nearby worlds

Well, know I know my Skittermander Freight Pilot (who definitely is not basically a sentient mullet hairdo revhead) has lots of work! Hooray for all the freight pilots hauling snail mail!

I'm curious if this book also talks about Drift Courier Network, because that is other thing of Drift Crisis conclusions articles from the book I want to come true :'D Because it really is silly how hard it is to send communications to nearby worlds

Although the Drif Crisis book has a tone of options and homebrew advice for running the drift crisis storyline however you like. I'd likely assume anything in the Drift Crisis book that got a stat block is true.

It was their stated intent that drift lanes are how things shake out.

Drone Courier Network was basically just "they set up automated tiny starship drones with signal ultra engine to send messages faster than random large amount of days" which is just thing that would make sense even without drift crisis x'D

Very excited to be getting a map! Any word on if it will also be available for purchase in the store separately in physical and/or PDF format?

I think I shall be getting this. For idea mining. :)

The tanker and haulers, correct?

So, have you seen a 40' fuel tanker truck or railcar?

That has an equal cargo capacity as one of the tankers starships. Heck, let's be generous and assume a tanker can haul double that, that one of these 40' tank cars is equal to a single cargo hold. But going off the capacity of cargo holds as described in the CRB, you aren't fitting much more than that.

It's a game, not a simulator, so this is definitely not something I would want them to prioritize over game mechanics, but like I said it takes me out of the game every time I think about it.

Edit: All that would take to make me happy is some descriptive text that bays get bigger as your ship does, so the capacity of a large bay is twice that of a small bay, or something like that. No real need to put rules text on it, but adding something to this chart would be a good place to do so:

Starship Scale

I decided that the starship system just did not work as written. It is fine for the small, adventurer sized ships but totally fails once you start getting into the bigger warships or freight haulers. I have not quantified it yet, but my solution was to look at the function of a ship, and it has the capacity needed to do that job. So a heavy freighter (size large) has a cargo hold able to hold the equivalent of 80 to 100 of the 40' shipping containers, and it also has 8 expansion bays so it can be customized. The carrier (size gargantuan) has a flight wing with 4 or 5 squadrons of size tiny craft, plus a pair of shuttles along with the crews necessary to maintain all of them and a flight deck crew to launch and recovery them, and then it has 10 bays for customization. And every ship size huge or larger has 1 or more small craft for moving people and cargo from planet surface to orbit.

But that's just me applying my real world experience to a fantasy game.

HYYYYYYYYPE!

A galaxy map?! FINALLY!

I've been waiting eagerly (and impatiently) for that one.

Very exciting. Might be my first Starfinder product besides Humble stuffs

Will we be able to buy the galaxy map as a separate physical thing?

Will we be able to buy the galaxy map as a separate physical thing?

Not currently. The poster-sized map of the Starfinder galaxy comes in the book and as a separate PDF if you buy the digital version.

It's a game, not a simulator, so this is definitely not something I would want them to prioritize over game mechanics, but like I said it takes me out of the game every time I think about it.

I crunched the math on the cargo space on the ships and converted it back to ISO container sizes and yeah even the biggest ship is super small, we're talking a couple of moving vans worth of cargo space.

What was more concerning was that the largest ships jumping into the drift have about a 30% chance of becoming ghost ships as there isn't sufficient room for the required foodstuffs to sustain the crew, most will have starved to death during the trip. This is assuming you used all available cargo space for sustainment and nothing else.

The way around this was to use cargo space to hold shuttle bays, as a shuttle bay can fit shuttles that have their own cargo bays... cargo-ception.

Now the ONLY reason I care is because in SFS they give us these tiiiiiiiiny ships that can't fit our equipment.

Finally got my PDF and am excited to read through it! However, I’m worrying if my phone downloaded it weird because in the first 2 or 3 pages I’ve already seen 4 words missing letters. Anybody else or just me?

“Books like starfinde”, “This book explores four diffe ent”, “Reasons why traffi” “Almost definitel” .

I can’t download into my pic until midnight when I’m home but I just wanted to make sure it wasn’t just me.

Finally got my PDF and am excited to read through it! However, I’m worrying if my phone downloaded it weird because in the first 2 or 3 pages I’ve already seen 4 words missing letters. Anybody else or just me?

“Books like starfinde”, “This book explores four diffe ent”, “Reasons why traffi” “Almost definitel” .

I can’t download into my pic until midnight when I’m home but I just wanted to make sure it wasn’t just me.

There are a couple of references to "Starÿ nder" in the backmatter too. Did the PDF get hit with some sort of character encoding issue?

Anybody else or just me?

Nope. Same issue.

Regardless of the typos, I hope the writers check the comments. I’m loving what I see, whether it’s the cool new archetypes, the silly sodas, the nanites ability to devour people, there’s so much,

But I truly want to thank the writer who came up with the best spell in XFinder history. Capricious cats, which lets you summon invulnerable cats to sit on people and purr, or just annoyingly get in the way of enemies. It brought me a lot of laughs and my wife and I are obviously going to flavor it as our cats.

I must undergo the Test of the Starstone Burger now.

Same thing on my pdf for me page 5 I'm missing W's and the Y's on some words

Regardless of the typos, I hope the writers check the comments. I’m loving what I see, whether it’s the cool new archetypes, the silly sodas, the nanites ability to devour people, there’s so much,

But I truly want to thank the writer who came up with the best spell in XFinder history. Capricious cats, which lets you summon invulnerable cats to sit on people and purr, or just annoyingly get in the way of enemies. It brought me a lot of laughs and my wife and I are obviously going to flavor it as our cats.

O.O

This is pretty cool book :O Let's see if I can find energy to restart reviewing

I'm bit sad though spelleater cloud isn't on map because it sounds like cool location and I'm curious of its relative location xD