Starfinder 2026 Errata Suggestions

[moosher12]

This thread is for errata suggestions for the errata patch following the Starfinder 2025 Winter Errata Patch. The old thread can be found at SF2E 2025 Fall Errata Suggestions (NO PLAYTEST CONTENT).

This thread is for released content only, not for any content from playtest documents, such as the Tech Core playtest.

[moosher12]

Galaxy Guide pg. 123

For the Xenodruid Dedication's Planetary Reincarnation feat, the errata removed the ability to add Breath of Life to your primal spell list. This means that if you do not already know Breath of Life, the feat will become inert.

Solution is to either restore the ability to learn Breath of Life, or to make Breath of Life a requirement to learn the feat.

[moosher12]

Core Rulebook pg. 385-386

The Forge Drift Beacon ritual now includes too many Secondary checks after the errata. Recommended to reduce the Secondary Checks to Crafting or Technology Lore; Religion. Or some other combination of the three.

[Tempest_Knight]

The Errata needs errata... there is no Deadly Arms ability on page 105, presumably it is supposed to be Ready Arms

[moosher12]

Player Core pg. 129

The Sniper Operative enhanced exploit has a loophole (and turns out to have had the same loophole pre-errata). If in the event a Sniper weapon is released with a reload of 2 or more, the ability would allow you to fully reload the weapon as a free action. Reload-boosting abilities carefully use the term "Interact to Reload." to emphasize that they only donate one action. But the phrase Reload alone insinuates that the ability can donate two, or even 3 actions toward a reload in the event a Sniper weapon is released that trades off more potent power for a higher Reload cost.

Granted, this is a non-issue if it is a hard mandate that snipers will never have a reload higher than 1.

[Christopher#2411504]

There is a potentially unintended interaction between Size Up and Secondary Directive. Turn would go as follows:
1. Use a 2 Action Directive
2. Secondary Directive.
- subordinate Action uses 1 Action Get Em! on asset
- 1 Action Get Em! turns into 2 Action Get Em!
- you do a Strike and full 2 Action Get Em! benefits

Acquire Asset also seems to ingore the 1 hour Frequency of Seize Up!, by just setting the Asset without checking if it is possible.

[Christopher#2411504]

The Cantrip "Vague Idea" from Guilt of the Graveworld Players guide is effectively free to use during exploration, as the downside won't come up. And the effect is around a successfull Aid.

It needs a re-use limit as badly as Guidance did.

[BretI]

Enhance Weapon spell should give Tracking like Enhance Body does. Right now the target weapon does not give a bonus to DC for Area Fire like an Advanced weapon improvement would.

[moosher12]

BretI wrote:

Enhance Weapon spell should give Tracking like Enhance Body does. Right now the target weapon does not give a bonus to DC for Area Fire like an Advanced weapon improvement would.

Tracking is built into the spell. When a weapon is granted the Advanced, Elite, and Paragon descriptors, it automatically gains the appropriate Tracking trait. You cannot have, for example, an Advanced weapon, without its associated Tracking +1 trait. The description in the spell describes roughly what Tracking does, and the bonus to area attacks is implicit.

Now granted, adding a clarification would be useful, as it is not obvious. But the spell fortunately cannot deny the Tracking trait if it grants the Advanced, Elite, or Paragon trait. Else it would need to use language like, "It becomes an advanced weapon, except it only gains a +1 item bonus to attack rolls and increasing the number of weapon damage dice to two." for it to exclude the full benefits of tracking. By raw the rules are inclusive, and Paizo would need to phrase the text to be exclusive to not include the trait.