No Modifiers To-Hit due to Size?

[Ithnaar]

The size chart on p.256 makes no mention of it being any harder to hit a diminutive creature nor easier to hit a gargantuan one. Nor is there any mention of it in the Combat Modifiers section. This is a pretty radical departure from Pathfinder.

Are we to assume that this is no longer "a thing", or are we to assume that those penalties are "baked in" to any applicable Starfinder stat block (meaning we have to take that into consideration when converting monsters from Pathfinder)?

[Myrryr]

Nope, they're just gone. Apparently shooting a fly out of the air is just as easy as shooting the broad side of a barn is now.

[Distant Scholar]

With the new NPC creation rules, I suspect it will depend more on the CR of the fly or barn in question than their size. :-)

[redpandamage]

the unchained monster rules build size into ac.

[spectrevk]

The section on damaging objects does include size in the formula for determining the AC of the object.

[Tobiathan]

yeah i've been trying to find something in which the ysoki's size comes in to play.

[IonutRO]

Most of the rules in the CRB have to do with PCs, if a GM wants monsters to be better at stealth due to small size or be harder to hit, he just makes it so.

[Vidmaster7]

Hmm Seems like an over simplification.

[Githzilla]

Vidmaster7 wrote:

Hmm Seems like an over simplification.

I think you hit on a key point - simplicity v. complexity. While I am eager to learn and play Starfinder I am also hoping it fosters a new appreciation of the complexity Pathfinder offers.