Will Starfinder 2e have a setting line, similar to Pathfinder 2e's Lost Omens?
Yes, there will be setting books. No, they will not have a separate title like "Lost Omens".
Pathfinder had "Pathfinder Lost Omens: World Guide", while Starfinder has "Starfinder Galaxy Guide".
It's possible that will change, of course, but that's what we have to go on so far.
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I'm really excited about the "Starfinder Galaxy Guide" but I hope SF2e doesn't have a separate line of setting books like PF2e does, the extra cost of the Lost Omens setting PDFs is one reason I stopped buying PF2e books and switched to SF1e.
As much as I understand and sympathize with you, Driftbourne, I actually want them to do that.
...Mostly as I fear that otherwise it would raise the price of ALL Starfinder 2e books...
As for what this line would be called... I think ''Drifting Age'' might be interesting.
I don't know. I know the "Lost Omens" refers to The Age of Lost Omens (i.e. Pathfinders current age after prophecy broke). Not sure what the current Starfinder era is called.
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I'm really excited about the "Starfinder Galaxy Guide" but I hope SF2e doesn't have a separate line of setting books like PF2e does, the extra cost of the Lost Omens setting PDFs is one reason I stopped buying PF2e books and switched to SF1e.As much as I understand and sympathize with you, Driftbourne, I actually want them to do that.
...Mostly as I fear that otherwise it would raise the price of ALL Starfinder 2e books...
As for what this line would be called... I think ''Drifting Age'' might be interesting.
I don't know. I know the "Lost Omens" refers to The Age of Lost Omens (i.e. Pathfinders current age after prophecy broke). Not sure what the current Starfinder era is called.
Is the price difference of lost omen books meant to offset the cost of PF2e rule books?
It looks like the SF2e Player Core is $10 more than the PF2e Player Core, but we don't know the page count on the SF2e book yet. The other possibility is that we're starting to see the effects of the trade war, or other rising costs.
Maybe a PDF + eggs subscription might help :)
Not sure SF1e even has name for the current age.
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If they wanted to sell everything at the discounted rulebook prices, I think they'd have to either drop the quality or have a LOT more people buying. And I'm pretty sure that was true before new tariffs.
My rough understanding of the business model is that the rules are available online for free to get new people in, and as a result of license terms that shaped the business model. That means that rulebooks need to also be available at a discount (at least in PDF form) since otherwise people would just wait for the free rules. Paizo's money then needs to come from the non-rules part. That's also compounded by economies of scale. It's a lot easier to count on a bunch of people buying the book with a new class, so it's a bigger print run with lower marginal costs, while the art, writing, and layout costs (etc.) are spread out over many more people.
I don't know how that looks for Starfinder, but prices are going to be set by practical considerations rather than simply whether there's a line title or not.
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Shipping, printing, and labor costs were all up before the trade war, the problem with the trade war is it's driving up the cost of living in general, even if the price of Paizo products doesn't go up my disposable income is down. The other problem is costs raised by tariffs don't benefit the customer or Paizo.
I think part of why Starfinder might be different from the Pathfinder setting books is that Starfinder setting books don't go into the same level of detail as say The Mwangi Expanse which covers one area of one continent in 312 pages, whereas Pact worlds each planet has 10 pages. Likewise, the most detailed cities in Ports of Call got 10 pages vs Absalom, City of Lost Omens has 400 pages. I think this is from us jumping around quickly in starships so we don't spend enough time in one location to justify a deep dive into a single location, or needing to know what's in between locations to get to them.
If I remember correctly I think one of the developers had said that the events in Starfinder Socity were the driving factor in Starfinde's timeline lore.
I don't think the quality of Starfinder books has been affected, but if I remember correctly the volume of sales did affect the overall page count of books. But that could change with SF2e being compatible with PF2e It does look like Paizo is going all in with a big launch for SF2e, so should be interesting to see what happens, but so far to me everything looks great.