Starfinder Scoured Stars Adventure Path

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.