The Ancestries are Nuts

[YoskiFan]

You guys must have a mandate to create totally bonkers ancestries. Cuz you got skeletons, you got animated fireballs, autistic lobsters, gremlins with six arms. Does Piazo have a 'must create the most off the wall races' mandate? I'm just impressed at all these utterly bananas races you guys make.

[Swiftpaws the Maned Wolf]

YoskiFan wrote:

You guys must have a mandate to create totally bonkers ancestries. Cuz you got skeletons, you got animated fireballs, autistic lobsters, gremlins with six arms. Does Piazo have a 'must create the most off the wall races' mandate? I'm just impressed at all these utterly bananas races you guys make.

I think this is the result of having gamers in charge of the company and not a bunch of corporate suits

[Maya Coleman]

Can confirm we are in fact nerds who enjoy making weird stuff because we like playing them too.

[Tim Emrick]

Well, you see, somebody named a section of the galaxy "Kazmurg's Absurdity," then they had to populate it appropriately. ;)

[YoskiFan]

Conrasu are by the most WEIRDEST playable race.

[TheTownsend]

YoskiFan wrote:

Conrasu are by the most WEIRDEST playable race.

In Pathfinder, absolutely, but I dare say Starfinder has set the goal to one up them, what with the tiny vainglorious suns-with-a-face and fire-breathing crabfolk and four-eyed stony land-squid.

[Glaukos]

I'm still waiting for the stellifera to be updated to SF2. Tiny psychic cuttlefish who use telekinesis to, in effect, make encounter suits out of water.

[Driftbourne]

YoskiFan wrote:

You guys must have a mandate to create totally bonkers ancestries. Cuz you got skeletons, you got animated fireballs, autistic lobsters, gremlins with six arms. Does Piazo have a 'must create the most off the wall races' mandate? I'm just impressed at all these utterly bananas races you guys make.

Welcome to the Cantina!

Starfinder 1e had over 140 playable species; with that many, if you don't get strange, it's hard to make that many ancestries stand out from each other.

[YoskiFan]

So many races to enjoy really fun dnd just doesn't go 'weird'

[Dragonchess Player]

Speaking of SF1e, the ilthisarians ("multiheaded, serpentlike humanoids with forked tails instead of legs") were published back in the first Starfinder AP.

"Weird" and "cantina feel" should be pretty central (IMO) to a science fantasy game like Starfinder.

[Phillip Gastone]

Can we get Small Fuzzy Blue Creatures from Alpha Centari?

[thaX]

one of my newest pfs characters is an awakened housecat named "Scamp" the is of the auegueoe... uh... dumb kitty! An ancestry with a lot of vowels. Humaniod forn has cat ears.

[Swiftpaws the Maned Wolf]

YoskiFan wrote:

So many races to enjoy really fun dnd just doesn't go 'weird'

They tried with savage species

[Maya Coleman]

YoskiFan wrote:

Conrasu are by the most WEIRDEST playable race.

And you're so welcome.

[Maya Coleman]

TheTownsend wrote:

YoskiFan wrote:

Conrasu are by the most WEIRDEST playable race.

In Pathfinder, absolutely, but I dare say Starfinder has set the goal to one up them, what with the tiny vainglorious suns-with-a-face and fire-breathing crabfolk and four-eyed stony land-squid.

Pathfinder: We love weird.

Starfinder: We ALSO love weird, AND we put the weird thing IN SPACE!

[Maya Coleman]

thaX wrote:

one of my newest pfs characters is an awakened housecat named "Scamp" the is of the auegueoe... uh... dumb kitty! An ancestry with a lot of vowels. Humaniod forn has cat ears.

Perfection in the form of a player character.

[ObsessiveCompulsiveWolf]

Wait…which ancestries are…nuts? Like sapient, sentient nuts? All you’d need is some seeds, raisins, a bit of honey and you could walk into a Muesli…Bar.

I’ma make a Cashew Luminary. Now that is nuts!

[Paul Watson]

ObsessiveCompulsiveWolf wrote:

Wait…which ancestries are…nuts? Like sapient, sentient nuts? All you’d need is some seeds, raisins, a bit of honey and you could walk into a Muesli…Bar.

I’ma make a Cashew Luminary. Now that is nuts!

*big puppy eyes at Paizo* Peanut leshy when?

[Maya Coleman]

Paul Watson wrote:

*big puppy eyes at Paizo* Peanut leshy when?

I need this very badly.

[Perpdepog]

ObsessiveCompulsiveWolf wrote:

Wait…which ancestries are…nuts? Like sapient, sentient nuts? All you’d need is some seeds, raisins, a bit of honey and you could walk into a Muesli…Bar.

I’ma make a Cashew Luminary. Now that is nuts!

A leguminary, if you will.

[Maya Coleman]

Perpdepog wrote:

A leguminary, if you will.

I CHOKED ON MY TEA /GEN

[Dr. Aspects]

No but leshies are crazy fun because I can play Sir Chip Spudley, Knight of Lastwall and champion of Iomedae as a real full fledged character and I just think that's neat

[FallenDabus]

Glaukos wrote:

I'm still waiting for the stellifera to be updated to SF2. Tiny psychic cuttlefish who use telekinesis to, in effect, make encounter suits out of water.

While I highly approve of all the Leshy talk, I must emphasize that this is the #1 species I want to see make the jump to Starfinder 2e.

[Maya Coleman]

I SHOWED THE TEAM LEGUMINARY, AND THEY LOVED IT SO BADLY!!!!

[Phillip Gastone]

I remember this from long, long time ago in the old D&D Basic,Advanced,Expert,Master,Immortal sets. There were hive mind swarms(Kinda like rat kings) that are thinking beings. So a swarm of rats who have higher IQ the more there are?(Can cause stealth problems if there are a lot of them.) smaller swarms can be split off but have less brain power.

[Maya Coleman]

I am committed to building my tree construct at some point. Thank you ancestries for being nuts.

[Dragonchess Player]

Maya Coleman wrote:

I am committed to building my tree construct at some point. Thank you ancestries for being nuts.

You can use the arboreal sapling and apply the construct companion adjustments...

Speaking of which, arboreal PCs when? Talking about nuts (or fruits, depending the tree type).

[Maya Coleman]

Dragonchess Player wrote:

You can use the arboreal sapling and apply the construct companion adjustments...

Speaking of which, arboreal PCs when? Talking about nuts (or fruits, depending the tree type).

Read my mind!

[Swiftpaws the Maned Wolf]

The vast majority of my characters on the pathbuilder app are awakened animals. I have normal animals, extinct animals, fantasy animals, so many fun concepts to work with

[Perpdepog]

FallenDabus wrote:

Glaukos wrote:

I'm still waiting for the stellifera to be updated to SF2. Tiny psychic cuttlefish who use telekinesis to, in effect, make encounter suits out of water.

While I highly approve of all the Leshy talk, I must emphasize that this is the #1 species I want to see make the jump to Starfinder 2e.

I'm really looking forward to them too. They're a really cool ancestry, and SF2 has likely got more levers and knobs that can be pulled and twisted to make their water body something that you can get fun uses out of that doesn't also arbitrarily make them the literal strongest ancestry in the game.

Philip Gastone wrote:

I remember this from long, long time ago in the old D&D Basic,Advanced,Expert,Master,Immortal sets. There were hive mind swarms(Kinda like rat kings) that are thinking beings. So a swarm of rats who have higher IQ the more there are?(Can cause stealth problems if there are a lot of them.) smaller swarms can be split off but have less brain power.

They're also in PF1; "hivemind swarm" showed up as a template in the final bestiary.

Maya Coleman wrote:

I CHOKED ON MY TEA /GEN

My work here, is done. :P

[OceanshieldwolPF 2.5]

Erhmagherd. What have I wrought?!? I feel stupid and contagious. I loathe leshies and luminaries are like kryptonite to my sensibilities. A leguminary would be…two bad tastes that taste worse together….;p

Sucks to be you, OSWPF…2.

[Maya Coleman]

Perpdepog wrote:

Maya Coleman wrote:

I CHOKED ON MY TEA /GEN

My work here, is done. :P

You did so well! I WILL NEVER FORGET THIS! /POS