The mechanic gets a robot buddy and the technomage can summon a swarm of nanobots. But so far I haven't heard anything about a class feature where you have an organic buddy fight alongside you.
Can a dev confirm or deny that that will be coming soon or that it was removed entirely due to the rules nightmare that is companions in Pathfinder?
Check the mechanic preview and the iconic mechanic, there is info about drone pets.
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The mechanic and its drone replace the animal companion classes (druid, ranger, and to a lesser extent, paladin) from Pathfinder. As such there is no class with an organic companion in core Starfinder. That does not mean that there won't ever be an animal companion class in Starfinder, but we don't have plans to introduce one at this point.
The mechanic gets a robot buddy and the technomage can summon a swarm of nanobots. But so far I haven't heard anything about a class feature where you have an organic buddy fight alongside you.
Can a dev confirm or deny that that will be coming soon or that it was removed entirely due to the rules nightmare that is companions in Pathfinder?
Oh, I'll bet they can. Whether or not they will, on the other hand...
Oh, I'll bet they can. Whether or not they will, on the other hand...The mechanic gets a robot buddy and the technomage can summon a swarm of nanobots. But so far I haven't heard anything about a class feature where you have an organic buddy fight alongside you.
Can a dev confirm or deny that that will be coming soon or that it was removed entirely due to the rules nightmare that is companions in Pathfinder?
I think you been ninja'd
If there are new classes (or class features) in the future that grant a companion, they will almost surely use the Mechanic/drone action economy, where they share initiative and one takes a full round action and the other a standard action (player's choice). That would reduce the rules complexity a bit.
The mechanic and its drone replace the animal companion classes (druid, ranger, and to a lesser extent, paladin) from Pathfinder. As such there is no class with an organic companion in core Starfinder. That does not mean that there won't ever be an animal companion class in Starfinder, but we don't have plans to introduce one at this point.
I see. What about summoning? I'm mostly wondering how useful the Alien Archive would be to a player.
Alien Archive will contain new playable races too, so even without summoning it will be useful.
Alien Archive will contain new playable races too, so even without summoning it will be useful.
And equipment.
It is hard to play your captain K'rrrk if one cannot have some alien companions. Although I think the opening post is refering to another sort of alien companion.
Even if it doesn't make sense it will get us excited!
Do you not even have time to explain why you dont have time to explain right now as well?We'll likely talk about why players want to buy Alien Archive (and, folks? Players will want to buy Alien Archive) after we get the core rulebook in people's hands.
Some of it might not even make sense right now.
Crows "Space Bat" loves this idea.
Evolve reference.
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Do you not even have time to explain why you dont have time to explain right now as well?We'll likely talk about why players want to buy Alien Archive (and, folks? Players will want to buy Alien Archive) after we get the core rulebook in people's hands.
Some of it might not even make sense right now.
Sure. At least some of it may play with things in the core rulebook that we haven't gone over in any detail, and we don't want to try to explain those things well enough that our expansions of them in another book may make sense, when everyone likely to care about Alien Archive will be able to buy the core rulebook well before it comes out.
minidragons!
Do you not even have time to explain why you dont have time to explain right now as well?
And they are totally never answering about her either as they have stated that her story in Destiny is 'done' and has been 'finished adequately'. They are even eliminating references to 'The Darkness' from 2 since they never decided what it even was.
I wish I was making this up.
And I wish I knew what you were talking about.
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The mechanic and its drone replace the animal companion classes (druid, ranger, and to a lesser extent, paladin) from Pathfinder. As such there is no class with an organic companion in core Starfinder. That does not mean that there won't ever be an animal companion class in Starfinder, but we don't have plans to introduce one at this point.
I hope you introduce an option like this in the future. As fun as robots are, they are not very cuddly. Animal bonds have long been part of sci-fi. Minidragons, space cats, mini-aliens.... For now, if I want a friend that is not a robot, I have to be a shirren parent. I think that sf-nal familiars would be a great addition for future books.
You'd have a guaranteed sale from this gamer, certainly.
Hmm
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Sweet cover on Pirate of the Starstream.
@Lemartes Rick Hershey is amazing at all the arting he does and leads.
*EDIT* Just want to make it clear that Rick did not draw that cover but functioned as an Art Lead and found an appropriate image to buy for use.
Could an Archetype be used to add an animal companion option usable with any class? That would be nice to have.
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Could an Archetype be used to add an animal companion option usable with any class? That would be nice to have.
Xenotamer sounds like it could be a good archetype idea.
Seems plausible, though it would probably have to chop a lot from the base classes to keep it balanced. Might just be easier to create either a mechanic subclass or a new class similar to mechanic but based more around biology and organic life.
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The mechanic and its drone replace the animal companion classes (druid, ranger, and to a lesser extent, paladin) from Pathfinder. As such there is no class with an organic companion in core Starfinder. That does not mean that there won't ever be an animal companion class in Starfinder, but we don't have plans to introduce one at this point.I hope you introduce an option like this in the future. As fun as robots are, they are not very cuddly. Animal bonds have long been part of sci-fi. Minidragons, space cats, mini-aliens.... For now, if I want a friend that is not a robot, I have to be a shirren parent. I think that sf-nal familiars would be a great addition for future books.
You'd have a guaranteed sale from this gamer, certainly.
Hmm
While you wait for more options, i would make a cuddly robot. No reason it has to be a tin can.
While you wait for more options, i would make a cuddly robot. No reason it has to be a tin can.
The only thing I can imagine is a ro-bear berbil from Thundercats. Possibly Teddy Ruxpin, Rambo-style.
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The only thing I can imagine is a ro-bear berbil from Thundercats. Possibly Teddy Ruxpin, Rambo-style.
While you wait for more options, i would make a cuddly robot. No reason it has to be a tin can.
Daggits, from the original Battlestar Galactica.
Neither Daggits nor Ro-Bear Berbils are going to give me the same warm fuzzy feelings I got whenever I snuggled with my Panther Cleo... Just because they're warm(?) and fuzzy, doesn't mean that they know what its like to love me back. They might be able to approximate it, Maybe, but the Drones are just Robots with programmed intelligence (there's a reason its called AI).... *sulks*
(Yes I know how silly I sound >.> Cleo was based off my RL cat who snuggles with me all the time <.<)