Starfinder Player Core

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Preorder expected July 2025

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The Starfinder Player Core is the definitive entry point for Starfinder Second Edition, with everything a player needs to learn how to play the game! Choose from 10 ancestries, six character classes, and hundreds of feats and spells to create unique characters ready to take on a ruthless galaxy awash with magic and opportunity. Starfinder Player Core brings the Starfinder RPG into its new edition and is now 100% compatible with the acclaimed Second Edition of the hit Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Along with GM Core and Alien Core, these books provide a new foundation for the future of tabletop gaming!

Starfinder Player Core includes:

  • Complete character creation rules, walking you through building a character by selecting your Ancestry, Background, and Class, with a focus on the envoy, mystic, operative, solarian, soldier, and witchwarper classes!
  • Core ancestry options include android, barathu, human, kasatha, lashunta, pahtra, shirren, skittermander, vesk, and ysoki!
  • A vast catalogue of options allowing you to customize your character including versatile heritages, like the undead borai and Drift-touched prismeni, skills and feats, and hundreds of spells, ensuring that the character you build represents your hero not just in story, but in rules as well!
  • A primer on the Pact Worlds and wider galaxy, so your character can be a part of an exciting and diverse setting!
  • Rules and tools to advance your character through play, taking them from a fresh-faced adventurer ready to take on the world to a veteran hero, wielding powerful magic that can reshape reality.

Written by: Jessica Catalan, Thurston Hillman, Jenny Jarzabski, Mike Kimmel, and Dustin Knight.

ISBN-13: 978-1-64078-686-8


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Note: This product is part of the Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscription.

Product Availability

Preorder, expected approximately 31 Jul 2025

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Announced for August! Product images and descriptions are not final and are subject to change. :)


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Pathfinder Lost Omens, Rulebook, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber

First! This is so exciting! The playtest soldier in our group has been a lot of fun to watch.


very excited for this! everyone I've run through the playtest loved it

Radiant Oath

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I am VIBRATING with excitement!

Grand Lodge

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Super excited for this! Can't wait to see the final results of the playtest.


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I do find it kind of crazy that in July-August, though, Pathfinder is about to get eight new classes, around 10 new ancestries, some alternates for existing ancestries, and 2 heritages when you combine this release and Battlecry.

Dark Archive

"with a focus on the envoy, mystic, operative, solarian, soldier, and witchwarper classes"
Interesting phrasing. They've made it clear that technomancer and mechanic are coming after the others, but it sounds like they will be at least mentioned in the core or considered core classes


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An Android wrote:

"with a focus on the envoy, mystic, operative, solarian, soldier, and witchwarper classes"

Interesting phrasing. They've made it clear that technomancer and mechanic are coming after the others, but it sounds like they will be at least mentioned in the core or considered core classes

The rules walk you through making a character using the six classes as examples, but obviously the rules and examples are still relevant to future classes. That's my reading.


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QuidEst wrote:
An Android wrote:

"with a focus on the envoy, mystic, operative, solarian, soldier, and witchwarper classes"

Interesting phrasing. They've made it clear that technomancer and mechanic are coming after the others, but it sounds like they will be at least mentioned in the core or considered core classes
The rules walk you through making a character using the six classes as examples, but obviously the rules and examples are still relevant to future classes. That's my reading.

SF2e is PF2e compatible as well, though some of the rules to fully harmonize them will be released in the GM Core.


Pathfinder Adventure, Adventure Path, Lost Omens Subscriber

Is there any word on if a sketch cover is in the works? The retro gaming retailer cover is cool, but I've really liked the sketch variants so far.

Grand Archive

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gunslinger019 wrote:
Is there any word on if a sketch cover is in the works? The retro gaming retailer cover is cool, but I've really liked the sketch variants so far.

The Retro game look is the Starfinder "twist" they gave to it. It's the "Starfinder version" of Sketch covers. There's no Sketch cover announced for any Starfinder book.


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VerBeeker wrote:
I do find it kind of crazy that in July-August, though, Pathfinder is about to get eight new classes, around 10 new ancestries, some alternates for existing ancestries, and 2 heritages when you combine this release and Battlecry.

I find it just as crazy that in July-August, Starfinder is getting access to the entire Pathfinder 2e line of products. Space Bards!!!!

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Any word on Starfinder's GM Core?


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Lord Fyre wrote:
Any word on Starfinder's GM Core?

It was mentioned in a stream some of the Starfinder devs did recently. From what I recall, it’ll be out in September?

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mortalheraldnyx wrote:
Lord Fyre wrote:
Any word on Starfinder's GM Core?
It was mentioned in a stream some of the Starfinder devs did recently. From what I recall, it’ll be out in September?

The stream will be up on YouTube soon! I'll post a link when it is!

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Maya Coleman wrote:
mortalheraldnyx wrote:
It was mentioned in a stream some of the Starfinder devs did recently. From what I recall, it’ll be out in September?
The stream will be up on YouTube soon! I'll post a link when it is!

As promised, the stream was already up actually, and you can find it here!


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Starfinder Superscriber

I just want the other classes (mechanic and technomancer) as well as Shobhad ancestry as soon as we can.


I do like this cover!

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DJEternalDarkness wrote:
I just want the other classes (mechanic and technomancer) as well as Shobhad ancestry as soon as we can.

Be sure to check out our playtest again next month!


DJEternalDarkness wrote:
I just want the other classes (mechanic and technomancer) as well as Shobhad ancestry as soon as we can.

Shobhad definitely feel like the most glaring omission at the moment as least as far as the Pact Worlds goes.


Pathfinder Adventure, Adventure Path, Lost Omens, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber

Never played SF1e, but I'm very interested in jumping in with 2e.

Six classes for the Core book seems low though, how does that compare to what's in 1e?


Curmudgeonly wrote:

Never played SF1e, but I'm very interested in jumping in with 2e.

Six classes for the Core book seems low though, how does that compare to what's in 1e?

Technically Starfinder includes the classes in Pathfinder 2e as well. Give that fighter a Doshko.


Curmudgeonly wrote:

Never played SF1e, but I'm very interested in jumping in with 2e.

Six classes for the Core book seems low though, how does that compare to what's in 1e?

I'm fairly certain SF1 only had one more core class; Witchwarper wasn't core but Technomancer and Mechanic (gonna be playtested for 2e soon!) were. So it's like, slightly worse. And honestly it's comparable to PF2e Player Core, which I know is a false equivalent because the old CRB had like double SF2's launch classes, but like, still.

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