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My group is going to be playing SF2e shortly, and our GM asked us all to, really try, and dig into the setting lore, to make our characters fit in, and to hopefully give us all more investment in it all. So, my friend and I wrote our character backstories together, showing how we meet, and how my female Pahtra Operative, and his male Dragonkin Soldier, become bonded partners. It turned into a full-on 22 page short story. We're both pretty proud of it.
I thought it'd be fun to share it here, and to ask others to contribute similar character stories if they wish. Read it, don't read it. Offer critique's or share your own content, if you wish. Just please, keep it classy. Constructive criticism is welcome, abuse is not.
There are no sexy times happening, any violence avoids outright gore, and there are a couple of instances of mild swearing. We tried to keep it PG-13.
Go to The Terrible Twosome of Talon and Phang.
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Hello! I am the co-author for this story.
We did put in a fair amount of work on this and I am very much looking forward to cutting my teeth in SF2e. See you in the Drift adventurers.
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Haven't had time to read 22 pages yet, but will start off with a question and some resources that might help others new to Starfinder Lore.
What sources did you use for your Starfinder lore?
For Starfinder 1e lore The Maple Table has over 140 Starfinder videos.
A newer channel I really liks is Absalom Archives.. They have a series called "Starfinder Drift Lanes to Distant Worlds." which covers Starfinder Lore topics going all the way back to PF1e book Distance Worlds, through to the current time.
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I haven't written a long bio for any of my RPG characters in many a year, but I do enjoy delving into setting lore for details to keep my PCs from being just like every other member of their class or ancestry.
My favorite SF2 playtest character was directly inspired by some of the new lore for 2E. He was largely a beat-stick (close quarters) vesk soldier, but he was also a borai and a worshiper of Zon-Shelyn, which gave him a rather unique outlook on (un)life. (And a memorable look, too: a brawny corpse lustily singing in battle, accompanied by the buzzsaw of his whirling painglaive.) His somewhat fraught relationship with still-living vesk made things that much interesting when I chose to play him in Empires Devoured.
Driftbourne wrote: Haven't had time to read 22 pages yet, but will start off with a question and some resources that might help others new to Starfinder Lore.
What sources did you use for your Starfinder lore?
For Starfinder 1e lore The Maple Table has over 140 Starfinder videos.
A newer channel I really liks is Absalom Archives.. They have a series called "Starfinder Drift Lanes to Distant Worlds." which covers Starfinder Lore topics going all the way back to PF1e book Distance Worlds, through to the current time.
We really only used the two books out for SF2e so far. Player Core, and Galaxy Guide.
Obviously we invented some stuff, The Major, and The Triple H mercenary outfit. We also referenced the Absalom Marine Corps, and Absalom Military Intelligence, that aren't explicitly named in the books, but make sense to us (and I like calling the Intel division, AMI). We also invented the small moon, Karse, but the books do state that there are many a moon not mentioned therein.
Thematically, we added a little depth to the Dragonkin bond, but that was just to get more into the emotion of the characters.
We tried to stay within the published lore as much as possible, while still being true to what we wanted our characters to experience.
Tim Emrick wrote: I haven't written a long bio for any of my RPG characters in many a year, but I do enjoy delving into setting lore for details to keep my PCs from being just like every other member of their class or ancestry.
My favorite SF2 playtest character was directly inspired by some of the new lore for 2E. He was largely a beat-stick (close quarters) vesk soldier, but he was also a borai and a worshiper of Zon-Shelyn, which gave him a rather unique outlook on (un)life. (And a memorable look, too: a brawny corpse lustily singing in battle, accompanied by the buzzsaw of his whirling painglaive.) His somewhat fraught relationship with still-living vesk made things that much interesting when I chose to play him in Empires Devoured.
That sounds really cool Tim! Lots of opportunity for original interaction for the character. Creating unique gameplay experiences is always fun.
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Pathfinder Rulebook, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber
Pretty sure The Stewards are the military that oversees protecting Absolom Station.
Gamerskum wrote: Pretty sure The Stewards are the military that oversees protecting Absolom Station. Ok, thanks for the tip. An easy fix to replace our references to Absalom Marine Corp. and Military Intelligence with the Stewards. We missed them in our reading.
Pathfinder Rulebook, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber
I think the Pactwords as a whole are protected by the Stewards but maybe each planet and Absolom Station has a militia.
In PF1 it was ASS (Absalom Station Security). The Stewards are headquartered there, but they don’t patrol the station or do local law enforcement.
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