A complete Starfinder campaign debuts in hardcover!
With most of the Starfinder Society’s agents trapped behind an impenetrable force field, it’s up to a new generation of heroes to step forward and uncover the mystery of this interstellar prison—the mystery of the Scoured Stars! Unravel the threat of the merciless alien jinsuls while rebuilding an interplanetary adventuring guild and dealing with the emerging threat of a slumbering god—all in a day’s work for a Starfinder!
This expansive 256-page hardcover campaign weaves together twelve popular scenarios from Paizo’s enormous Starfinder Society organized play campaign, remastering and optimizing them for at-home play in the form of an exciting cosmos-spanning complete campaign from levels 1 to 15. The perfect introduction to the Starfinder RPG, and Starfinder’s biggest adventure to date!
Written by: Eleanor Ferron, Vanessa Hoskins, Thurston Hillman, Jenny Jarzabski, Mikko Kallio, Cole Kronewitter, Lyz Liddell, Shahreena Shahrani, Christopher Wasko, Nicholas Wasko, and Larry Wilhelm.
ISBN-13: 978-1-64078-524-3
The Scoured Stars Adventure Path is sanctioned for use in Starfinder Society Organized Play. The rules for running this Adventure Path and Chronicle sheets are available as a free download (5.4 MB PDF).
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This hardcover AP is an excellent repackaging of the Season 1 Org Play meta-plot scenarios. I have played or GM'd through all of them, and found myself reminiscing while reading through the updated versions. You can tell it was a labour of love by the Paizo team to go back and revisit these old favourites, and give them a new coat of paint, tighten up bits that weren't quite there the first time, or expand and clarify parts with the benefit of a few more years of experience and world-building.
As an adventure, the first half of the Scoured Stars is about unraveling the mystery of how most of the Society became trapped within the eponymous Scoured Stars system. Then, there's an exciting midway event the change the status quo, and finally the back half of the adventure deals with racing to understand and counter a new threat to galactic peace. It's very "space opera," and has everything from space fleet battles, exploring ancient ruins of forgotten civilizations, and forging alliances with strange new friends. There are lots of exciting "set piece" encounters, like fighting enemies while on the external hull of starships that are themselves engaged in battle, and snagging a camping sniper's perch to rain fire on an angry storm demon.
Highly recommend grabbing this for groups that never played the Season 1 adventure; it's an excellent on-boarding point to first edition Starfinder. It maybe has less value for a group that's already experienced that storyline, but even so there's enough new art, lore, and worldbuilding that it's worth reading for serious Starfinder aficionados.
Its pretty much as advertised, its collection of Scoured Stars metaplot main scenarios adjusted level wise as milestone 1-15 adventure (and content wise with some encounters swapped or changed, some minor plot holes tweaked and some retcons and clarifications.)
There are some minor errors/confusions (I know ports of call said Thyr are from Bastiar-7 and so does this book, but this book also calls Bastiar-7 both ice giant and gas giant (with "icy rings of Bastiar-7" fitting ice giant better in my head at least) and description of "ice giant" Bastiar-8 fits with how Bastiar star's description says it has gas giant with three dozen moons with Bastiar-8 having most moons with missions in it. So either Thyr are from ice giant of Bastiar-7 or they are actually from Bastiar-8?) and with retcon of matoh being from scoured stars I'm curious which planet they are from. (all planet get briefly mentioned at least once besides Agillae-3, which I think I heard from forums is underwater planet, so I forget when that tidbit was originally revealed or if it was changed)
Clarifications I'm hyped for include Ailuros' title as herald and what happened to figures impaled on Jinsul Wargod ship ;D So lovely to see extra space being used to clarify things.
The book also sets up new jinsul bad guys for Starfinder 2e and does lot of hints about future plotlines, with mentions of Apostae Assignment and retcon about fifth mysterious shapeshifter civilization from scoured star that has resemblance to astrazoans. Overall I really got what I wanted from book :D Its really delicious to also get Starfinder Society history mini article, this really did good for SFS & metaplot lore in general
This is not an AP or a series of AP. It is a series of short adventures which barely have any connective tissue between them. There's no separate map file for the PDF (because it uses maps 90% pulled from flipmats you can buy separately). It even shows its age by showing Izalguun as new, exotic species despite the fact they've been represented in SF since Alien Archive 3. Adventure #12 has a "paratrooper strike" and says that the characters just get parachutes. I guess nobody told them that they've had drop pods as an item since Starship Operations Manual.
Quite frankly, Society scenarios are skeletons, frameworks that the GM is responsible for adding detail into, and these bare bones adventures do not dissuade me of that opinion.
If you play Society and missed this or are nostalgic about having played it, then buy it. If you're not a Society player, there are much better options available from Paizo than this compilation. Given the assurances we were given that this would not simply be a reprint compilation, I feel bait & switched.
Regarding VTT, do you plan to offer a foundry VTT (or other VTT) for Scoured stars, like those awesome starfinder society scenarios modules I have been using ?
This product is not currently on our Foundry list, but, as always, let us know if there are people who wish to see it. Thank you.
I clearly and deeply wish to see it on your Foundry list !!
With most of the Starfinder Society’s agents trapped by an impenetrable force field in a distant star system, it’s up to a new generation of heroes to step forward and uncover the mystery within the Scoured Stars. Facing the merciless Jinsul Hierocracy while rebuilding an interplanetary adventuring guild and dealing with the emerging threat of a slumbering deity—it’s all in a day’s work for a Starfinder!
This expansive 260-page hardcover weaves together 12 popular scenarios from Paizo’s enormous Starfinder Society Organized Play campaign, remastering and optimizing them for at-home play in the form of cosmos-spanning adventures from levels 1 to 15. This is the perfect introduction to the Starfinder RPG and its setting, as well as Starfinder’s biggest adventure to date!"
I'd like to see this on Roll20 myself :) Just caught up with the monthly stream and its looking good on the changes and rewrites mentioned.
One question I had was there any updates to the maps or it it still the originals from each original PFS scenarios?
Thanks
Tom
I've not done a page by page product comparison, but I think I heard them say they inserted some existing Starfinder Flip-Mats into the AP where they could, as an upgrade.
Hi there, I was wondering how many of use would purchase VTT modules for this iconic AP and I thought that providing Paizo some insight could provide some decision making elements.
So if you could vote on the Frameadate poll
Any chance there is a player's guide for this? I am very familiar with the story arc but my players are not.
The book has some spoiler-free information about the state of the Starfinder Society in 317 AG that would be extremely useful as a primer, as well as a section on things to know and/or avoid in character creation (like certain species, you know the ones). I don't believe we plan to publish a separate Player's Guide for download but I reserve the right to be wrong!
Got my download, the last section is an adventure toolbox with pages on the Jinsul Hierocracy, the Kreiholm Freehold, an equipment section, and player handouts.
Pathfinder Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Society Subscriber
So just received my Pre-order PDFs, and the interactive maps are only included in the file per chapter version, and half the maps are just blank, is this a known issue?
Regarding VTT, do you plan to offer a foundry VTT (or other VTT) for Scoured stars, like those awesome starfinder society scenarios modules I have been using ?
This product is not currently on our Foundry list, but, as always, let us know if there are people who wish to see it. Thank you.
I would definitely like this on Foundry and know a number of others who would too.
Add my name to the list of people who would LOVE this to be on your Foundry list
So just received my Pre-order PDFs, and the interactive maps are only included in the file per chapter version, and half the maps are just blank, is this a known issue?
Has this been fixed yet Aaron and if not like it seems to be so far any ETA on this please?
Do the maps listed have names or anything to maybe find something close on a flip map or other maps?
One of my groups just now asked if I have this yet to run....... GULP!!
Tom
I acquired the print version this past week, and have started reading through it in preparation for running it for my home group whenever we can fit it into the schedule. I've played all of the original adventures, and a couple of our other players have played most of them, but we certainly didn't play them in any kind of coherent order. (1-99 was my third SFS scenario ever.)
I haven't yet compared the maps in every adventure with the original scenarios (that's coming eventually), but there have been a few map changes here and there. It looks like most of the changes involve substituting newer flip-mats or flip-tile sets for maps that originally used map packs that are now long out of print (like Starship Decks, which saw heavy use in 1-99). Every map that uses a flip-mat or flip-tiles has a note with that map's product name (much like how they're labeled in SFS & PFS scenarios). And there are still a number of maps that were unique to the original scenarios, which have been reprinted with few if any changes.
As far as I can tell so far, there is only one jinsul-related Society adventure which was not included in the AP: 1-23 Return to Sender, which chronologically comes right after The Scoured Stars Invasion.
I do very much appreciate the Developer Sidebars throughout the AP. Some note connections to other scenarios (like Return to Sender, and the S1 Historia arc) that GMs can use to expand their campaign. Others point out changes that were made, such as one of the Commencement missions being replaced, and the reasons for them.
Finally, I just have to say that final adventure promises to be very exciting! I played the original at the highest subtier (11-12), but the AP version has been rewritten for levels 13-14, so that very last boss-fight promises to be even more dangerous and epic.
Thanks Tim, still waiting to see when Paizo will fix the PDF maps as I play on Roll20 instead of face to face, like many do these days for various VTT's.
I have run a smattering of these myself and hoping its pieced to gether pretty well, mixed reviews so far but we will see as everyones tastes differ, and then some for us Forum goers here, LOL
I've only run a couple of them before (1-01 and a low-level table of 1-99) but enjoyed playing pretty much all of them. My group is looking forward to it, and a couple of them already have ideas for interestingly weird PCs.
The part of this AP that concerns me the most is starship combat, particularly at the higher levels. Half of the adventures in this AP have at least one starship combat. My group are not huge fans of that subsystem, so I'm going to see if they're up for trying out the narrative starship combat rules from Enhanced.
The PDF for this product is not helpful. Page 2 is in a format that makes reading it a pain. I am trying to prep, but I have to fight with zoom to read it, and there is no reason that this needed to be a part of the file, a Jpeg that was not connected would have been fine.