Awakened Aliens

[Milo v3]

I feel like there is going to be a lot of potenital with the Awakened Animal ancestry in Starfinder, given how I imagine custom alien animals are going to be a lot more readily accepted in this game compared to PF where earth animals would be the assumption.

"Ah yes, I am playing an awakened Scaled-Gorrila from the planet Mordex."

[TheTownsend]

That's actually such a fun convergence of sci-fi and fantasy. Freaky many-limbed tentacle monster that grazes on the blue algae of a distant moon? It can think now because a druid in power armor fed it some enchanted berries, and it would like to weild a flamethrower.

[moosher12]

Highkey wanna play an Awakened Defrex Barbarian raised by Vesk. Shame I'm forever GM when it comes to Paizo games lmao

Awakened Bears are already an established thing in 1E

[Curious_Corvids]

New designated 'I found a very cool piece of character art but none of the ancestries really fit it'-option.

[Torradin341]

Top of my list is the Surviving Specimen (IYKYK), but I'd want to wait for the Biohacker for that one, personally.

[Wendy_Go]

Yaoguai also seems good for aliens. Obviously most of the lore would be scrapped, but an awakened energy cloud / computer program / mold colony that decided to take humanoid form is a solid a sci-fi trope. The "Born of Item" heritage seems especially appropriate for awakened machinery.

[Christopher#2411504]

Awakened Animal, Beaatkin, Yaoguai. I call those "Fallback Ancestries". They are what you pick if you don't have a more fitting Ancestry.

They are quite useful, but can be somewhat limiting as they only cover more general abilities.

[moosher12]

Loosely related if a poppet is an awakened toy, but imagine being a Muppet in Starfinder. Now add a machine gun

[Justnobodyfqwl]

moosher12 wrote:

Loosely related if a poppet is an awakened toy, but imagine being a Muppet in Starfinder. Now add a machine gun

I've been sitting on a Poppet Soldier concept, a "Captain Veskarium" action figure "with real planet-conquering action!". It gained sentience during the Newborn's awakening, and is now trying to carve out the first conquered playplace for the New Toy Vesk Empire.

[Driftbourne]

Justnobodyfqwl wrote:

moosher12 wrote:

Loosely related if a poppet is an awakened toy, but imagine being a Muppet in Starfinder. Now add a machine gun

I've been sitting on a Poppet Soldier concept, a "Captain Veskarium" action figure "with real planet-conquering action!". It gained sentience during the Newborn's awakening, and is now trying to carve out the first conquered playplace for the New Toy Vesk Empire.

Poppet(Muppet) barbarian with performance (drummer), and we have Animal in Starfinder.

I also love the idea of Captain Veskarium" awaken action figure.

[Zoken44]

SRO (If and when we get it) kind of falls into this category as it is explicitly just a normal robot that gained sapience.

[Christopher#2411504]

moosher12 wrote:

Loosely related if a poppet is an awakened toy, but imagine being a Muppet in Starfinder. Now add a machine gun

The Tsukomogami Poppet also makes a very good Small robot, until we get SRO and similar ancestries:

"While most poppets are made of stuffing, cloth, or soft metals, some tsukumogami are made of other materials, changing the poppet weakness to fire. If your body is primarily wood or cloth, you have the normal poppet weakness to fire. If your body is primarily metal, you're instead weak to electricity; if its primarily ceramic, you're instead weak to cold."

[Perses13]

Great, now I want to play an Awakened Tyrannosaur in the Starfinder equivalent of an F15.

[Zoken44]

Someone loves Calvin and Hobbes!

[Xenocrat]

Zoken44 wrote:

SRO (If and when we get it) kind of falls into this category as it is explicitly just a normal robot that gained sapience.

Someone with the GMCore pdf last night said on a discord it references SROs and Verthani forthcoming in Tech Core.

[Christopher#2411504]

Perses13 wrote:

Great, now I want to play an Awakened Tyrannosaur in the Starfinder equivalent of an F15.

T-Rex is so last millenium. Try Thrunesaurus Rex.

[Zoken44]

Wouldn't that simply be a Nephilim awakened T-Rex?

[Dr. Tindertwig Aubergine]

Driftbourne wrote:

Poppet(Muppet) barbarian with performance (drummer), and we have Animal in Starfinder.

He's still only 1st level, but I have a PFS2 poppet inventor based on Dr. Bunsen Honeydew. He'd probably work just as well as a mechanic in SF2.

"Hi-ho! Dr. Tindertwig Aubergine here at Poppet Labs, where the future is being crafted today! With me today is my faithful assistant, Beaky." (A clockwork owlbear lumbers into frame.)

Roll Taldor Lore or Pathfinder Society Lore to understand why Beaky is an owlbear. ;-)