Abadar makes everything work!
Yeah, none of this is stuff that a DM couldn't put in if they felt like putting the work in, though I'd also stress that players should be forewarned that such realistic elements will be in play.
Also worth considering that law enforcement & border checks & the like are fallible things. They're an added layer of difficulty & inconvenience - one that paizo has chosen not to use word count to address - but they don't make much of anything in Starfinder impossible.
So I just got the second book and the first thing I noticed is apparently you can just buy all the dead bodies left after a horrific event such as an explosion on a passenger transport ship. Lol... That's weird.
Eox has to get new citizens somehow.
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So I just got the second book and the first thing I noticed is apparently you can just buy all the dead bodies left after a horrific event such as an explosion on a passenger transport ship. Lol... That's weird.Eox has to get new citizens somehow.
Seems like the families of the victims might not be cool with someone buying their loved one for parts.
It's Eox. Who do you think put them in the bin?
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Seems like the families of the victims might not be cool with someone buying their loved one for parts.
If they took out a corpse lease, guaranteeing their body parts to a broker for instant credits, their families don’t have much to say about it. I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to dispute a modern probate, but even today, signed agreements about what one wishes to do with their remains are hard to overturn. See Starfinder Armory for more info about corpse leases in the necrograft section.
Eox. Where parts is parts. - Official Motto of Necromanpower temp hiring services.
That just shows that Dead Suns 1 (and the other books) are not well thought out either ("no, we must walk through the jungle" or "board the gigantic ship"....)
It's canon.
Your opinions aren't outside of your own game. (Nor are mine outside mine.)
If you don't like it, change it in your game.
Enough said.
So I just got the second book and the first thing I noticed is apparently you can just buy all the dead bodies left after a horrific event such as an explosion on a passenger transport ship. Lol... That's weird.Eox has to get new citizens somehow.
And food.
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I never had any issues with the "walk through the jungle" part- it's explicitly a nature reserve thats acknowledged a very tenuous treaty on the planet. Are the rules harsh, draconian and needlessly inflexible? Sure. Because that was what agreed at the treaty, and as important as your goals there might be, they're not gonna break them for your sake.
Honestly, the only story part of Dead Suns that didn't vibe with me was Book 6, but honestly I've never had a Paizo AP stay on rails long enough for Book 6 to be a source of maps and Stat blocks anyway...
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In dead suns 2 the journal you were following explicitly used landmarks you could only see from the ground. Is it a terrible way to navigate? Yes. Have people used it before? Oh yeah. I've seen surveys done that way before.
I plan on adding a chapter to the story in between book 1 and 2 where the crew gets the Oliphaunt squibbed. Tarika has been working behind the scenes while the crew steals the ship, and after Sinjin betrays the crew, she calls in some favors with someone that can give the crew a safe spot to lay low and squib the ship, new transponders, paint job, etc. The crew will also get some false IDs so they can travel around the galaxy more safely. They'll still have to watch out for Eline's assassins, etc. and Sinjin's Golden League though.