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I would like to see a frontier exploration path, really use the old Star Trek mission statement "to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before."
Cross that with a bit of space western like Firefly/Serenity and I'd be all over it.
Instead of calling them Adventure Paths, perhaps Hyperlane Campaigns or Hyperspace Excursions.
I would like to see for the first adventure path something like a scavenger hunt. The adventure would give a nice overview of the possibilities of the setting. Secret asteroid bases, ancient ruins on a far off planet, space bazzars and abandoned freighters to name a few possible locations. Encounters should also highlight some of the iconic races for the setting
That in short would be my idea.
Instead of using a static setting, how about the setting evolves naturally over the course of the initial 4-6 Hyperlane Campaigns?
Alternatively, building the setting one SFHC at a time. Regions 1-4 over the first 2 years' of Hyperlane Campaigns. Then fill in with intervening or overlapping events via easter egg stuff during the first 4 SFHCs.
This would require a MCU style development process instead of the process being used for Pathfinder. The only requirement in advance is the "public knowledge timeline" bringing Pathfinder Golarion to where Starfinder Golarion kicks off.
Deliberate design taking RotRL to CotCT to Shattered Star (SFHC 1's first follow-up is SFHC 5 with part 3 being SFHC 9).
Every 12th or 13th SFHC is a grand conclusion, wrapping up a block of in-game time before launching the next. Could be rough go to develop, but it'd sure change things up from current standards.
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You know what I would really want is a section in an AP where we as PC's play defense. We always play as the aggressors I want to have a section where it's reversed. Maybe after we get a ship and modify it and add our little touches (you know as you do) we get attacked by space pirates and we have to stop them from reaching the bridge and the engine room, or maybe the vault because we have Mcguffin of supreme temptation.
I second that!
You know what I would really want is a section in an AP where we as PC's play defense. We always play as the aggressors I want to have a section where it's reversed. Maybe after we get a ship and modify it and add our little touches (you know as you do) we get attacked by space pirates and we have to stop them from reaching the bridge and the engine room, or maybe the vault because we have Mcguffin of supreme temptation.
Well, considering that this already happened in previews pathfinder adventure paths, I'm sure we will have to defend the bridge, stop the enemies from taking the station, protect a weapon until it's ready to fire, or even protect a place until the shields are back... Something along these lines.
I might be rambling but just like-Really don't just make it Pathfinder In Space! Don't do what you guys did with the high level Demons on the Moon Module. Take full advantage, make it your own and tell a great story that cannot be told on Golarion.
Space Pirates
Asteroid ColoniesVarious Technological Levels (PL 1 - 9)
Space Organizations
More Robots
Interstellar Travel
Parallel Universes
Post Apocalyptic Worlds (Worlds disintegrating at your feet)
Alien Deities and Alien Ruins
Outer Dragons
Black Holes - Filled with Night Shades.
A Living Planet (Genius Loci)
Space Factories
Cars, Motorcycles, Mecha!!!
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I want a horror excursion into Aucturn. I WANT THINGS TO GET FREAKY.
An adventure-path tour of the Golar star system's planets might be nice.
From PbPs I have followed(*), I could have sworn Giantslayer had a PC defense of Trunau in Book 1 . . . .
(*)Unfortunately way behind now.
I hope the first adventure mostly takes place on/around Absalom Station so everyone can get familiar with what I assume will be a central feature of the universe.
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Let's see...
A Kingmaker-style colony-building adventure on some resource-rich planet.
A Space Cowboy adventure involving taking down a gang of smugglers
An investigation into the vaults beneath Apostae and what lingers there
A Shadowrun-style adventure where you battle a shady corporation or three
A long-run conflict with the Dark Tapestry, climaxing on Aucturn
A planetary war for control, in the style of James Cameron's Avatar
All-out intergalactic war between Andoran and Cheliax over control of a planetary system
A Dune-style inhospitable planet that contains an incredibly valuable resource
A machine uprising in the style of the Terminator movies
And finally
One where we figure out what happened to Golarion and Rovagug.
Let's see...
A Kingmaker-style colony-building adventure on some resource-rich planet.
A Dune-style inhospitable planet that contains an incredibly valuable resource
A planetary war for control, in the style of James Cameron's Avatar
These can all be friends!
Nobody mentioned alien invasion yet? (Note: Several very different styles are available for this, so this might eventually be more than 1 AP.)
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I'd want some intrigue stuff! A planetary governor & his court are all secretly being controlled/manipulated by alien powers. Negotiating a truce between two civilizations that have been fighting for generations. Maybe some megacorporations playing dirty with one another in the ruthless pursuit of wealth on a galactic scale.
Problem is, I've already sunk a lot of money and time into systems like Warhammer 40k (esp Only War & Dark Heresy) and Mass Effect so Starfinder would *really* need to grab me for me to commit. There's not much in the way of space-fantasy that I can't do in either ME or WH40k.
Wait, there's a Mass Effect TTRPG? Where can I get this?