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Should answer some questions folks are having!
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This excites me!
I've been GMing Doom Comes to Dustpawn, and as a result spent quite a bit of time reading up on the Golarian solar system. It made me want to take off in the Lirgen's Glory and go exploring it myself.
I am seriously hoping for both an organized play system and Pigs in Space! But I'll settle for looking over your first AP when it comes out!
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We’re definitely changing some rules to make things better fit a science fantasy game. In Pathfinder, magic is everything. In Starfinder, a lot of things people used to use magic for are now handled primarily by technology, resulting in an overall reduction in the focus on spellcasting, though it’s still very much a part of the game. You’ll see changes to the combat system to make it more suited to futuristic weapons and gear, changes to the economy, changes to things like skills, and certainly changes to the way some things are presented to try and make them easier to learn. You’ll also see new rules systems to handle things like starship battles. But the intention is to make the game backward compatible enough that you can still take a monster from a Pathfinder RPG Bestiary and use it in your Starfinder game with minimal conversion.
In the same way that Pathfinder was designed to accommodate a wide range of fantasy settings and stories, we’re hoping to do the same with Starfinder. One of the reasons faster-than-light travel is so crucial to this game is that, while we’ll be giving you a bunch of different worlds to adventure on in the “home” system, there are an uncounted number of unexplored worlds just a hyperspace jump away. So there’ll always be new worlds to visit and new cultures to encounter—that drive toward exploration is really built into the game’s core concept.
This was all I needed to know to make this an auto-subscribe.
Good read, but I'm not a fan of ENWorld. The comments there are best left un-read.Agreed. Not quite as bad as youtube comments, but still, not something I spend time on.
When I first started playing Pathfinder there was an active and ongoing thread there about how Pathfinder was going to fail hard and never make money that started before Pathfinder even came out. This was shortly before the Advanced Race Guide came out.
Should answer some questions folks are having!
It does indeed answer a few, but don't worry, we now have a new thread just for the SFDT to go take a look at all the questions it doesn't answer. ;)
Thanks for sharing the link.
Should answer some questions folks are having!
Very nice. Thank you for the heads up!