This 224-page rulebook is packed full of playable alien ancestries for Starfinder Second Edition games, including 21 brand new options like the lucky blue worlanisi, sentient rollerball bantrid, or even a blazing miniature sun called a novian. In addition to this intergalactic cast of science-fantasy species are a host of stellar options for familiar ancestries, including Starfinder favorites like reptilian vesk and insectoid shirrens, and fantasy classics like gnomes, elves, and goblins in space! On top of that, the brand-new Gap-touched versatile heritage connects players to the history-breaking event at the heart of the Starfinder setting while giving them special abilities, and the xenometric android allows readers to create robotic versions of any Starfinder alien, not just humans!
As with all Starfinder Second Edition material, Starfinder Galactic Ancestries is fully compatible with Pathfinder Second Edition, allowing players and Game Masters to incorporate interstellar options into their favorite fantasy campaign! What exciting alien character are you going to play first?
Written by: Kate Baker, Rigby Bendele, Brent Bowser, Michael Bramnik, Jessica Catalan, John Compton, John Curtin, Anthony Dollinger, Ivis Flanagan, John Godek III, Thurston Hillman, Mike Kimmel, Dustin Knight, Derry Lutrell, Jenny Jarzabski, Linda Zayas-Palmer, Jessica Redekop, Tony Saunders, Abbey Schnell, and Sam Willis
Novian already?! They're really not messing around with that Cantina Feel. I look forward to playing a tiny ball of intsense light somehow holding a machine gun.
Gap-Touched versetile heritage is interesting. Do I have to be three hundred years old, or is it assumed I inherited my cosmic amnesia genes?
Twenty-one new ancestries is a very nice amount; I'm sure there will be something for everyone!
I'm excited to be getting xenometric androids, and so soon- it does a great job of opening up a lot of character concepts and I'm guessing it will help make PF2 ancestry imports a little more easy and natural. I like that xenometric android on astrazoan gets you what's essentially the opposite of the construct copycat heritage.
Expanded SF2 core options is nice, especially since it seemed like all the ancestries had a couple options cut for space.
Always more happy of having new ancestries in a corebook or extra designend book instead of having a ancestry as a extra in a adventurepath or module.
Starfinder 1e had about 130-ish playable species. The Starfinder devs have mentioned that in order to get back to that cantina feel while still supporting the longer, more in-depth ancestry mechanics of SF2, almost all of the Starfinder products will include at least one playable ancestry. With the existing twenty, the new twenty-one will bring the total to about a third of the way there, but the ones in other books are part of helping chip away at that difference as well.