Molding Star Wars races into playable races for Starfinder


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This is my first thread. I hope this comes off as something a lot would like to join in on. The first alien I would like to tackle from the Star Wars universe was the Barabel. They are sort of like Vesk, but they are more primitive. I draw a lot of my inspiration from Vamp's homebrew's.

Barabel +2 Str, Con, -2Wis. HP:6

Our Scales are Strong: The Barabels are from a harsh feral world. Dangers abound on their planet has breed a race that can survive the unrelenting dangers. +1 to KAC and EAC.

Under the Red Sun: Barabels world is constantly bombarded by strong radiation from their red giant star. Barabels treat all levels of radiation as one level lower and ignore the lowest level of radiation completely.

Nocturnal: Barabel have low light vision, and dark vision, their evolution makes it harder for them to see during the day. - 2 to sight based perception checks in day light. -4 to sight based perception checks in bright light.

( hope this seems balanced and works, p.s. I know the Barabel can see in all lights, but this is all I could think of to balance them, would love to hear opinions and more star wars races for starfinder.)


The Next Race I would Like to tackle is the Arcona. They are the Triangular Head Shaped race with large eyes. They are known for become salt addicts.
I was wondering if I should take a page directly from the SWD20 system for their salt poisoning they would receive or create my own. I like what they have employed thought.
"When an Arcona Consumes Sodium Chloride he must make a DC22 Fort save or suffer from Salt Poisoning. If check is failed she takes 1d4 Temporary Con Damage and a -2 penalty to all attack rolls, skill checks, ability checks, and saving throws. After 24 hours she my make a will save of DC20 to resist the addiction. Failed roll can be re-rolled every 24 hours, the effects of Salt poisoning last for 1d3 days after addiction is broken. "
-this isn't an exact word for word quote from the SWD20 Ultimate Alien Antology book, but it's pretty close to what is stated in it.


KuroSapphire wrote:

This is my first thread. I hope this comes off as something a lot would like to join in on. The first alien I would like to tackle from the Star Wars universe was the Barabel. They are sort of like Vesk, but they are more primitive. I draw a lot of my inspiration from Vamp's homebrew's.

Barabel +2 Str, Con, -2Wis. HP:6

Our Scales are Strong: The Barabels are from a harsh feral world. Dangers abound on their planet has breed a race that can survive the unrelenting dangers. +1 to KAC and EAC.

Under the Red Sun: Barabels world is constantly bombarded by strong radiation from their red giant star. Barabels treat all levels of radiation as one level lower and ignore the lowest level of radiation completely.

Nocturnal: Barabel have low light vision, and dark vision, their evolution makes it harder for them to see during the day. - 2 to sight based perception checks in day light. -4 to sight based perception checks in bright light.

( hope this seems balanced and works, p.s. I know the Barabel can see in all lights, but this is all I could think of to balance them, would love to hear opinions and more star wars races for starfinder.)

For those that want a visual of a Barabel. An Edit that I might do to this race is make their racial stat block a net gain of 0 by making their wisdom -4 and adding one more AC to there total natural AC giving them a +2 natural Armor. I wonder if that sounds better than what i have?


Hey man. Just a suggestion: you might find more interest if you did this in the Homebrew forum. You're in the forum for talking about the Adventure Paths at the moment.

While I'm here, I do have some thoughts about the Barabels:

- Though I like the elegance of how you've done it, I think customarily for a Starfinder race you would list Low-Light Vision and Darkvision and Light Blindness all separately as traits.

- The Under the Red Sun power right now makes them outright immune to an entire category of class and monster abilities, which is possibly too strong (and although abilities that sweeping are not totally without precedent in Starfinder thus far, the precedents are radically-different outlier cases like SROs, which essentially are Droids). I'd consider making this trait a +2 on Fortitude saves against Low Radiation and +1 on Fortitude saves against Medium Radiation effects.

- Straight-up racial bonuses to armor class don't seem to be much of a thing in Starfinder, as none of the existing reptilian races (Vesk, Dragonkin, Ikeshti) have them, and I think the reasoning may be that scales alone aren't enough to make for a big boost to protection against the category of weapons in the game. (Maybe? That's a guess.) That said, I don't see anything inherently wrong with giving someone a racial bonus to armor class and it would make the Barabels stand out from the reptilian crop. I would only make the bonus to KAC though, personally, not to EAC, and I would keep it at the initial +1. This would be balanced with something like the existing Vesk "Armor Savant" trait.

- I would leave their Ability Score adjustments as-is, and generally would avoid making anyone's racial stat block a net gain of zero personally (there are dozens of playable aliens in Starfinder at this point and none of them pay such a steep price for their racial traits).

- You should probably specify their Size.

Happy creating! And again, I think you'll find more readers for a thread like this in the Homebrew forum.


I've been creating a bunch of Star Wars stuff on this thread (including species): Star Wars Starfinder .

Here is a direct link to the Species Doc. Feel free to take from it or make comments in the thread. And here is a link to the whole document Star Wars Starfinder if you are interested in playing in the Star Wars universe.


Imnotgoodwithnames wrote:

I've been creating a bunch of Star Wars stuff on this thread (including species): Star Wars Starfinder .

Here is a direct link to the Species Doc. Feel free to take from it or make comments in the thread. And here is a link to the whole document Star Wars Starfinder if you are interested in playing in the Star Wars universe.

I really love your ideas for giving star wars life of its own in a starfinder setting. I would like to see more races from the star wars universe. If you like we can collaborate on more races. I am new on trying to form new alien life that fits starfinder standards but I have a eye for what makes a race unique. I would love to see all sorts of alien races come into functionality.


I am up for collaborating on adding some more races. However, I am trying to make an all encompassing document at the moment and don't want to make it too large. Maybe it will have to be a separate race document.


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While I doubt I would ever fully adapt Star War species into Starfinder, I certainly do plan on using Star Wars miniatures. Trandoshans make decent stand-ins for Vesk, though they lack tails. Many other species work well too, and droids are especially suitable for just about any sci-fi setting.


Imnotgoodwithnames wrote:
I am up for collaborating on adding some more races. However, I am trying to make an all encompassing document at the moment and don't want to make it too large. Maybe it will have to be a separate race document.

A separate document sounds good. It could be a star wars bonus races document.

As for races to start putting work into I was thinking:

Aqualish
Arcona
Bith
Dug
Givin

I have the SWD20 Ultimate Alien Anthology. I will be using that pdf as a reference source.

If there is an easier way to talk to you please let me know.


KuroSapphire wrote:
Imnotgoodwithnames wrote:
I am up for collaborating on adding some more races. However, I am trying to make an all encompassing document at the moment and don't want to make it too large. Maybe it will have to be a separate race document.

A separate document sounds good. It could be a star wars bonus races document.

As for races to start putting work into I was thinking:

Aqualish
Arcona
Bith
Dug
Givin

I have the SWD20 Ultimate Alien Anthology. I will be using that pdf as a reference source.

If there is an easier way to talk to you please let me know.

Someone in the Starfinder Facebook group has done a 119 page PDF of Star Wars races for Starfinder if that helps. It is in the groups file section. Not sure if I am allowed to link to it here or not.

It is called Star Wars Races in Starfinder 1.2.pdf by Teemu Heinonen.


Gilfalas wrote:
KuroSapphire wrote:
Imnotgoodwithnames wrote:
I am up for collaborating on adding some more races. However, I am trying to make an all encompassing document at the moment and don't want to make it too large. Maybe it will have to be a separate race document.

A separate document sounds good. It could be a star wars bonus races document.

As for races to start putting work into I was thinking:

Aqualish
Arcona
Bith
Dug
Givin

I have the SWD20 Ultimate Alien Anthology. I will be using that pdf as a reference source.

If there is an easier way to talk to you please let me know.

Someone in the Starfinder Facebook group has done a 119 page PDF of Star Wars races for Starfinder if that helps. It is in the groups file section. Not sure if I am allowed to link to it here or not.

It is called Star Wars Races in Starfinder 1.2.pdf by Teemu Heinonen.

That does sound cool, thank you for the information. I would like to see them.


KuroSapphire wrote:
Gilfalas wrote:
KuroSapphire wrote:
Imnotgoodwithnames wrote:
I am up for collaborating on adding some more races. However, I am trying to make an all encompassing document at the moment and don't want to make it too large. Maybe it will have to be a separate race document.

A separate document sounds good. It could be a star wars bonus races document.

As for races to start putting work into I was thinking:

Aqualish
Arcona
Bith
Dug
Givin

I have the SWD20 Ultimate Alien Anthology. I will be using that pdf as a reference source.

If there is an easier way to talk to you please let me know.

Someone in the Starfinder Facebook group has done a 119 page PDF of Star Wars races for Starfinder if that helps. It is in the groups file section. Not sure if I am allowed to link to it here or not.

It is called Star Wars Races in Starfinder 1.2.pdf by Teemu Heinonen.

That does sound cool, thank you for the information. I would like to see them.

Wow that is an impressive amount of species. I can appreciate the extra amount of work to give the background details on all those species too. I do have a few constructive criticisms even though I know you are not the author.

  • Out of all those species no Mirialan? What's up with that?
  • They seem a little light on ability stats. Starfinder usually does two positive and one negative.
  • Also some of the species seem light on racial traits compared with other Starfinder races.

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