I am little curious as to why there is still such limited flow of information about the game. I understood get the book done. My understanding was the book is done. I would think there could be at least a blog about possible preview schedule other than races.
I think Starfinder will be a different enough game to where you would want to get as much preview information out as possible so customers can make an informed choice about buying it.
You could answer the repeated questions about does weapon damage scales. Are there going to be accuracy bonuses if you are proficient with weapon.
Give some other cool previews about cybernetics and power armor.
Is there any wrinkle to damage. You have the stamina hit point dynamic. Does anything happen when you take hit point damage? Then preview playtest would indicate no. However, that was awhile ago and was pretty vanilla. I do believe a condition was applied unbalanced to one of the PC. Is it possible to apply conditions in combat.
How does the attack action work. There is indication it is different.
What are some of the cool things classes can do. Can they use resolve to boost abilities or feats.
Give some more details on magic.
I think one of the advantages of giving extensive previews is your customers know what they are buying largely. You do not have to give everything away, but provide enough information to where your customers can make an educated purchase.
There are some benefits to this. Your customers know what they are buying and are happy. You also do not get customers buying the book then being disappointed in it because it is not what they are hoping for. Or if there is a blog or preview closer to release and the customer does not like what they see. Then you as Paizo avoids cancelled pre-orders.
I really do not believe you could give the customer too much information. That just makes for a happier customer. They are aware of what they are buying. Even if you gave 90 percent of the information on how weapon damage scales. Show exactly how damage works and critical hits work there would still be enough surprises.
As I have said before the more informed the customer has about Starfinder the happier they will be about the purchase. Also as I have said before Starfinder is different enough it is not simply Pathfinder.
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Just my two cents.
Dave2
I still little confused about the previews. I kind of get races. Not huge deal to me, but somewhat relevant. Starship combat get previewing this. A big part system. They also want sell minis for ships. I really liked what I saw. I do not get not having links to previews on their page, but said would not talk about that anymore. Moving on to the Iconic characters. To me I do not get that. I know it is marketing thing. I could care less. I have yet to buy a Pathfinder product related to iconic characters.
Starship combat demo was great. The system looks really good.
I would argue that personnel combat is a bigger part of the game and the demo at the beginning was much less informative and earlier on in the cycle. Things we know
Energy and Kinect armor class
Stamina, hit points, and resolve.
Attack actions seem to be different.
A mention that weapons damage may scale
There is allot unknowns. You may not be able to sell related side products with the personnel combat system, but if people do not like it could sink the game. There are still too many unknowns to say much about it.
So I might have done iconic characters last. You do a personnel combat demo and go through it how attack rolls work bonuses to hit come fro class and level? Does the equipment give bonus to hit. Does damage scale. You get people behind personnel combat system and starship combat you will create allot buzz.
Dave2