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Starfinder Player Core Retailer Cover

Starfinder Player Core Retailer Cover

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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!

This Retailer Cover Edition features a beautiful alternative cover image inspired by classic video games, and is offered exclusively to Paizo’s hobby retail partners and direct sale on paizo.com.

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: 978-1-64078-688-2


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Announced for August! Product images and descriptions are not final and are subject to change. :)
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WOW. I LOVE how these look! I might have to just buy this from my FLGS instead of subscribing.

Love this cover!
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Does this come with PDF too?
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VinDcent83 wrote:

Does this come with PDF too?

The only way to get a PDF with a purchase is through the subscriptions. So no.

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VinDcent83 wrote:

Does this come with PDF too?

Elfteiroh is correct here! Without a Starfinder Roleplaying Game Ongoing Subscription, you'll need to purchase the PDF separately here!

Terevalis Unctio of House Mysti wrote:
Love this cover!

I'm not really a fan of the new Starfinder retail covers.

I've been enjoying picking up the alternate Pathfinder covers at my FLGS. The sketch art versions, which look great. But the Starfinder retail covers don’t feel like an upgrade. Even the retailer seemed confused about which one was supposed to be the special edition; I had to point it out for him.

The featured art is smaller and surrounded by a frame that doesn’t match the style of the artwork at all. Maybe if the metallic frame had a shiny or foil effect, it would feel more premium.

I like supporting my FLGS, and I’ve even bought Pathfinder books I would’ve skipped just to get the alternate cover. But with Starfinder, these new covers just don’t feel special. I’m not really drawn to them.
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Don Hastily wrote:
Terevalis Unctio of House Mysti wrote:
Love this cover!

I'm not really a fan of the new Starfinder retail covers.

I've been enjoying picking up the alternate Pathfinder covers at my FLGS. The sketch art versions, which look great. But the Starfinder retail covers don’t feel like an upgrade. Even the retailer seemed confused about which one was supposed to be the special edition; I had to point it out for him.

The featured art is smaller and surrounded by a frame that doesn’t match the style of the artwork at all. Maybe if the metallic frame had a shiny or foil effect, it would feel more premium.

I like supporting my FLGS, and I’ve even bought Pathfinder books I would’ve skipped just to get the alternate cover. But with Starfinder, these new covers just don’t feel special. I’m not really drawn to them.

Thank you for this note! I’ll pass it to the team!

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Pathfinder Maps, Pathfinder Accessories, Starfinder Accessories, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Maps, Starfinder Society Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber

…just want to mention I can understand how some people do not like this new version of the Retailer Incentive books, but I personally do like them.
I purchased the Galaxy Guide Retailer Incentive version in May; the StarFinder Player Core Retailer Incentive version on July 31; and I have a pre-order for the StarFinder GM Core Retail Incentive version.
I might not purchase the Alien Core Retailer Incentive version (I will instead probably purchase the Alien Core Pocket Edition).
These copies are in addition to my subscription for the Limited Edition (I will keep my Limited Edition copies at home & use the Retailer Editions at Society games at my FLGS).
I did not purchase the Sketch versions (of the PF2e books), but I know several people who did.
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MithraMax wrote:

…just want to mention I can understand how some people do not like this new version of the Retailer Incentive books, but I personally do like them.

I purchased the Galaxy Guide Retailer Incentive version in May; the StarFinder Player Core Retailer Incentive version on July 31; and I have a pre-order for the StarFinder GM Core Retail Incentive version.
I might not purchase the Alien Core Retailer Incentive version (I will instead probably purchase the Alien Core Pocket Edition).
These copies are in addition to my subscription for the Limited Edition (I will keep my Limited Edition copies at home & use the Retailer Editions at Society games at my FLGS).
I did not purchase the Sketch versions (of the PF2e books), but I know several people who did.

Thank you for this too! It’s good to have feedback from all aspects of the spectrum!

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Maya Coleman wrote:
Don Hastily wrote:
Terevalis Unctio of House Mysti wrote:
Love this cover!

I'm not really a fan of the new Starfinder retail covers.

I've been enjoying picking up the alternate Pathfinder covers at my FLGS. The sketch art versions, which look great. But the Starfinder retail covers don’t feel like an upgrade. Even the retailer seemed confused about which one was supposed to be the special edition; I had to point it out for him.

The featured art is smaller and surrounded by a frame that doesn’t match the style of the artwork at all. Maybe if the metallic frame had a shiny or foil effect, it would feel more premium.

I like supporting my FLGS, and I’ve even bought Pathfinder books I would’ve skipped just to get the alternate cover. But with Starfinder, these new covers just don’t feel special. I’m not really drawn to them.

Thank you for this note! I’ll pass it to the team!

Awesome! Thanks for listening

Wayfinders

I really like the PF2e remaster sketch covers, because the sketch art reminded me of art in the old original D&D books, although the remaster sketch covers are way better than the old art.

I felt the sketch covers worked great for PF2e, but wouldn't for SF2e, so glad to see that something else was chosen. When I first saw the retail covers for SF2e online, nothing really stood out for me; there's not a bold difference like the sketch covers have. But when I got the the local game store and had both side by side in my hands, the retail cover is the one that came home with me.
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