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This has come up a few times in other places, but I thought posting here was the best way to bring this to the attention of decision makers. According to the rules set out in the Character Options page, Players do not have access to options from Pathfinder sources unless specifically called out. That's fine. I have major concerns about Fighters and Barbarians in Society Play until a lot of Solarian's issues are adressed, anyway. But there's four items we really need right now: Fundamental Armor and Weapon Runes.
Why? Because right now there are at least 3 character options that can't be upgraded via the normal method - The Plated Vesk Heritage, the Petrified Khizar heritage, and the Golarion Survivor Human Heritage. The natural armor of the former two and the archaic weapon of the latter need runes to function as they level up.
This is still a stop gap issue as these options will be significantly weaker than regular options in the long run unless they can somehow get access to property runes, but there are already level 2 Golarion Survivor humans who can't get a +1 rune for their weapon, and that's a serious problem.
On a related note, the Petrified Khizar Heritage also needs a passage mentioning that you can still wear a space suit to gain evironmental protections, or such Khizars will be confined to the spaceship in many adventures.
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I want my Space Samurai Golarian Survivor human with his ancient katana from Golarian that's got the crest of Ameiko's family on it.
Venture-Agent, Minnesota—Minneapolis
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Another option is in Starfinder GM Core, pg 252
By spending an additional week and paying half the base Price of the equipment, you could install the technology required to apply upgrades, integrate tech like comm units and environmental protections into armor, and add upgrade slots to shields and weapons. In the case of armor, you can even allow players to pay only half the base price by giving the armor the exposed trait, denying themselves the benefits of environmental protections. The end result would be a commercial grade piece of equipment with the tech trait and one upgrade slot.
Basically use modern materials and processes to make archaic weapons.
This would only handle being able to use the ancient weapons. It doesn’t handle the Plated Vesk nor Petrified Khizar who need armor runes.
Hopefully the tech book with Mechanic and Technomancer will have more ways to deal with this.
