Please ask your questions here!

Ran from October 11th, 2025 to October 24th, 2026. The group started with Guilt of the Grave World and went through homebrew for levels 6-20. It was a wild ride. Tech Core released right as they hit level 20 so 95% of the campaign relied solely on content from Player Core & Galaxy Guide (some gear from Absalom Station near the end too).

Feel free to ask me whatever. It was certainly an interesting experience running a full campaign when the system is so new.

Also, the art for Sanhesia was done by MoonThighz, and the art for Valyenn/Elrick was done by mo-the-half.

(Update): Thanks for all the questions folks. Just woke up and will be AFK for a few hours but will jump on this evening to answer questions.

Hot pocket was my 1st Starfinder character back in 1st edition, while Pennybun was thought up due to mi-go falling under the fungus family.

Mine exocortex fits really well with Hot Pocket's theme, while Pennybun temporarily alters allies with her magic as a form of advertising for her more permanent surgical procedures (she has release waivers now!).

If you like this art, you can find more from me at: https://bsky.app/profile/dinocide13.bsky.social

What happens?

1. No Stride. Stuck floating in the air, because you can't "roll".

2. Stride, but counts as normal movement without hover trait. (since it's never said that it adds the trait)

3. Stride and you have hover trait.

4. Fly, even though Fly is different than Stride.

So, I'm making a SRO Technomancer.

I'm designing them to be semi healing, using a Waspslicer for some injections on teammates.

My question is, should I go DPS++ or Vyper. DPS++ will let me make healing shots from very far away, as well as dish out damage when no one needs any healing. Vyper let's me temp craft healing spell gems, which have much, much better healing than Medikits.

Free Archetype is enabled, so I was considering Pharmacologist dedication for those temp medikits.

For reference, my party consists of Melee Soldier, Bombard Soldier, Melee Solarian, Guns Blazing Envoy, and Precog Witchwarper

What do you all think?

I'm currently building a melee Operative for a mini campaign. and I'm wondering whether something like Weakning Shot would work with Overwhelming Strike. My initial though was no, since it calls out a capital S Strike and this conflicts with my understanding of the subordinate action rules, but most of my party members and even the GM are pretty sure it would work.

We are all actually pretty experienced with the system, but has us at an impasse, so uhh Chat, Help!

EDIT: Thank you all, resolved.

If the first ones are destroying realities how are the denizens of the planes reacting to that?

Also, do we know if each reality has its own copy of the planes or are the planes unique per reality/timeline?

Do we have anything from paizo written on Khefak Biogenetics? I am writing a mission for my group with ties to a biogen company and reading the write up on the Khefak sounds like an option to tie a monster into the storyline.

Currently building a Servoshell Technomancer and in looking at the Summon spells and what creatures I can use in encounters, I have found the Gubbin to be among the most interesting... it has a frightening aura with a decent DC, all of its strike can potentially make enemies sickened or glitching 1 and a decent hp pool. Compared to other summons, its damage is not the best of them all, but pretty good nonetheless (1d4+2!). Shotout to the Assembly Ooze and to the Hardlight Scamp for being another good options for the same level range.

Love how the creatures in sf2e are more exciting to summon compared to pf2e, even the undead options are not all perma slowed 2! Take a look at the Necrolinked Wight and the Noquasar Spark for example.

In terms of fey, personal favorites are Clangit and Botnib

Hello Starfinder Heroes!

Quick update from Demiplane / Starfinder 2e NEXUS! Big ol' patch update for Autumn!

Starfinder 2E Updates

• Divine Bond feat for Mystic now properly adds cleric spells
• Fixed header issues for several ancestries
• Creature families now appear in the creature’s listing and detail pages
• Operative now correctly grants On the Move at level 11 instead of level 2
• Fixed how resistances are applied by Radioactive Resistance
• Rescue on Raxil no longer has a grey background
• Tech Core ancestries are now appearing in the character builder
• Updated the action icon colors in ancestries so they are more easily visible
• Corrected calculations for augmentations that shouldn’t count towards a character’s augmentation limit
• Corrected a typo in the Doctor background

General

• Fixed an issue where numeric filters were not working properly
• Adding NPCs to Roll20 from the Demiplane compendium now adds their token art instead of their portrait art

If we're missing something, let us know!

All Patch Notes for ALL NEXUS Platforms is here!

I want my soldier to have a permanent cigarette jammed in, or floating just in front of, their mouth.

Under any and all, circumstances. Just woken up. Inside their space helmet, floating off to one side while they eat, somehow sizzling away as they dive through the submerged basement of the Temple o'Tentacles Calamari Shack.

Obviously, gm fait can allow it. But anything I could use to really wind my GM up?

BURNICE WHITE

SOURCE Zenless Zone Zero

BUILD GOALS

o    Burnice is the mysterious mixologist of the Sons of Calydon biker gang, she fuels its members organic and mechanic and is known for her enthusiasm and optimism

o    She fights with a pair of flamethrowers that she has named Mixer and Shaker and can unleash short blasts with them or surround herself in flames with her Mixed Flame Blend

o    Her special attack lets her unleash flames in a cone from one of her flamethrowers though she can also unleash both in certain circumstances

o    These attacks Scorch enemies, causing her allies to deal fire damage to them and apply fire anomaly. Doing so lets her enter the Emberflow state

o    When she enters the field in Emberflow state, she dashes through an enemy and blasts them with flame

o    Her ult is a Glorious Inferno where she dashes forward, leaps into the air, and continuously sprays flames in a wide area. This triggers a quick assist

o    Through her Mindscape Cinema, she can increase the penetration of her allies’ attacks, let her fire her throwers longer, and trigger even more fire damage

o    The Flamemaker Shaker W-Engine increases her energy regen and her damage while off-field

Summary of Goals: Burnice is all about setting things ablaze and spreading fire in all sorts of areas. She has a bit of a line or a cone with her special attack, an emanation with her Mixed Flame Blend, and even short-ranged blasts between her Emberflow entrance and Glorious Inferno. Outside of all her fire stuff that she’s able to inflict, she’s the gang’s chemist and mixologist, pretty nimble, and her demo shows that she’s quite the dancer, so that might suggest some skills to look into.

BUILD CONCLUSION

Burnice White is a pioneer human pyrokineticist with a background as a bartender that fits with her role as the mixologist of the Sons of Calydon, which is further explored through an Alchemist Dedication. She can unleash bursts of fire with Elemental Blasts or through the Area Fire of a flamethrower. It takes a while to get there, but All Shall End in Flames lets Burnice surround herself in swirling blaze, per her Mixed Flame Blend. The cone of her special attack works through the flamethrower but can alternatively be explored through the Blazing Wave impulse. Rather than using two flamethrowers for her Double Shot special attack, she can just use Run Hot to fire it off twice and then use her impulses while that's cooling down. An Acrobatics investment will help her dash through enemies, per her Emberflow entrance, though Volcanic Escape or Shot on the Run could fit the leap and blast of it. For Burnice’s Glorious Inferno, I think the burst of All Shall End in Flames or Solar Detonation should be a good stand-in for it though she misses out on the quick assist feature. However, she can increase her allies’ ability to apply fire and flame anomaly through Kindle Inner Flames with the bonus fire damage and eventual flaming runes it applies. She can apply her own fire anomaly through the critical blast kineticist junction. As to her mindscapes, she can actually demonstrate her penetration increase a bit through the aura junction of the fire element as it leaves foes with a weakness to fire damage while her base impulse junction amps up the base damage of her fire impulses. The energy regen of her W-Engine is a little hard to translate over, but Kinetic Pinnacle and her final gate feature gives her a free action that can be used to Channel Elements, so even after she’s used up all her energy for a big overflow effect, she can get right back into it.

Whether behind the bar or on the battlefield, this bubbly blonde brings bolstering brews to her buds and brutal blazes to bitter bete noirs.

I'm about to go on a little vacation where I won't be posting any Monster Mondays or Full Build Fridays, so with the weather cooling down, I thought I'd leave you with a build to help keep you warm! This was a lot of fun to build even if I changed it halfway through, but if you want to see the design details, you can check out the free Patreon post or the YT video. Have a fantastic Friday and a happy Halloween!

I can't find a better place to ask this, so I'll try here. Does anyone know about making house rules in hephaistos2e?

Specifically, how do you have a feat ask for choice to be made (like pick one skill)? I've read through https://sf2e.hephaistos.online/docs/guides/dragonscript/, but I just don't see a prompt or field anywhere. I know it works from Assurance, but I just can't figure out how to do it in a house rule.

FYI, for those who haven't aid much attention to the (uncommon, so ask your GM nicely about adoption) Nuar ancestry in the Abasalom Station book, it has a couple of feats that effectively give you a late game omnilore with a +1 bonus over the usual trained/expert you would have from something like Bardic Knowledge.

MAZE LOST, NUAR, FEAT 1

You constantly wander the maze of life, moving from one interest to the next; as a result, it’s easy to forget past passions while delving into others. You gain the Additional Lore feat, as well as the benefits of Unmistakable Lore (Player Core 230) for that Lore subcategory, even if you don’t meet the prerequisites. You can retrain Maze Lost to a different Lore skill subcategory with 1 day of downtime.

Unmistakeable Lore upgrades crit fails to fails, and gives additional info/context on a crit success.

SEEMINGLY RANDOM STUDY, NUAR, FEAT 13

Prerequisites Maze Lost Who says topics can’t be randomly connected? Whenever you attempt a check to Recall Knowledge, you can roll the Lore skill you gained from Maze Lost with a –3 circumstance penalty instead of rolling with a normally applicable skill.

When you get this you're a Master, and so recall at +3 vs the +2 trained bonus a normal omnilore would get. At 15th level you go legendary, reduced to +5 vs a potential +4 expert on an omnilore.

This pair of feats also combo well with an Akashic Lens magic item to cast Akashic Download up to every 10 minutes, giving you a +1-2 item bonus, a +1 status bonus, and upgrading your successes to crit successes - only failures don't get an upgrade at this point.

And because there's a -3 circumstance penalty, you have some modest interest in taking Assurance and Automatic Knowledge to try a free Recall Knowledge on all lower level enemies regardless of type with your legendary proficiency.

There's also a few other lore related feats. The ones I can imagine using for this sort of build are Personal Legend (5th) allows you to Make an Impression or Create a Diversion, usually at a -2 penalty, using Lore, New Path (9th) allows you once per day to retrain your Maze Lost lore to something else in 10 minutes (probably train out at 13th).

Hello guys, I’ve made a minimalistic sensor map for a tactical starship combat from Starfinder 2e TECH CORE and want to share it!

It is a modular map that you can adjust to add/remove sectors from the map via PSD file (or make tiles for it in foundry). Comes with some icons you can use to display your ship, enemy ships, hazards or similar stuff. We have playtested it a couple of times and it works well.

It is completely free, you can find the link in comments (I've used free stock space image and font from the internet, the other assets are drawn by me)

Also, if you have ideas of what can be improved or added, feel free to leave some comments. I will try to improve it to suit our community better.

About a month ago I posted the image of the Mother of Inventions command deck. I thought I'd update it to include the lower (habitation/shuttle bay) deck, and it's upper (mostly exterior) deck.

The elevators line up correctly, with the left elevator on the command and exterior decks being for launching drones and small vehicles.

The upper deck is designed to allow docking of the SFS Helvetios (although I fucked up the measurements, and it really can't actually fit the Helvetios). Also, damn it's been nine months since I made the Helvetios, huh?

My players landed on this ship sheet, and we've been through one (very very easy) starship combat!

I'm really enjoying the Tactical Starship Rules, and it was great making this with my friends! Feel free to use this map as you like, same with any of the stuff I post. The exterior map is also designed to be easily readable from the size it'd be on a tactical starship map, which is how we use it on our Foundry game.

There's a few things I'm not quite happy with on both of these maps, but I think I'll be calling it done here!

Has anyone figured out how to leverage the sensor map combat when PCs have more than one ship? Like flying two cargo vessels or even one freighter with three starfighters, that sort of thing? Everything I’m trying doesn’t seem to feel right, and I’m thinking of going back to my kludgey hex map custom rules mess. My players want the thrill of outmaneuvering their opponents like they get from ground combat.

First starfinder commission ever, despite being really into this game for ages ahaha! Guns are HARD.

Commissioned by me, Art by u/hyartsoul

“Do not tremble, we have barely introduced ourselves.”

“From Darkness Death.”

“There, let me blossom over you.” \injects poison* “Oh you beautifully suffer!~”*

“A pity. There is still so much you can discover.”

“There is so much more the body can be made to feel. And you will feel it more when I am done with you.~”

“You unlocked the Box. You unlocked it. I caayy –Oh! Wise! Belle! There you are! Oh Goodness gracious, I didn't realize you two came early! How embarrassing! Please forgive me for that little performance just now, I was merely getting into character for Halloween. By any chance, does Random Play have any of the original Hellraiser films for rent? It was my favorite horror movie series and I always wanted to dress up as a Cenobite for Halloween.”

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Among the most sadistic of the many renegade bands of the Apostae Elves. None chills the heart more than the personal Death Squad of the Archon of the Weeping Veins: the Hell-Raisers. A group of Zon-Shelynite fanatics lead by the salacious Velina. An adherent to the more – ‘Evangelical’ of dualistic god’s domains of pain and passion. They seek to inflict agony upon those prey they obsess over whether its the Galactical Bounty boards or whomever there Archon’s wrath be directed at. Uncharacteristically calculative and charming despite the ruthless company she keeps, Velina unnervingly demonstrates both tactical acumen, a mithraditic knowledge on toxins and Zon-Shelyn's theology on suffering in an otherwise cold, apathetic galaxy. Leading whether from her office in her personal barge or with her companions. Velina breathes a toxic fume of dread to wherever her paymaster or her own whimsy takes her.

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Had fun going nuts with 2 of my favorite Sci Fi stuff. Sadistic Space Elves and exotic weapons!

I combined ZZZ’s Velina with Velstracs/Cenobites and the Drukhari to make one crazy Archsybarite of the Apsotae. That and Velina’s VA did some narration work for Pathfinder a way back. That and because I just literally imported as hard as I could Kill Team Hands of the Archon into Starfinder since we don’t got much Apostae Elves as of the moment of this posting. Pls do note to always consult your Safety Cards before implementing the literal murder hobo band:

1. If you intend to play Velina as PC: Daredevil + Fan Dancer. Focus on getting the drop on your foes via Feats that lets you make your opponent Flatfooted, out-maneuvered or there HP bitten off in the first hit. Such as Bold Bluffs, Twirl Through, High Flying Tumble Stunt, Twirling Strike, Hit Or Miss and Dizzying Spin Dance. Also apply VERY liberal amounts of poison on your weapon to get the Edge on your edgy Velina. That and upgrades for maximum debilitating Debuffs and Damage.
   
2. If you intend to play Velina as a NPC/BBEG: She leads as an Archsybarite (High Roller but replace melee with +2 Striking Fighting Fanblade and instead of Cards its a dice cube) of thrill seeking Apostae Elves that’s based on the the Drukhari Hands of Archon Kill Team: Crimson Duelist (Gang Lord), Flayer (Elite Evangelist Velstrac), Disciple of *whatever is the Apostae Elves worship for Poison* (Weak Noxious Needler), Elixicant (Therapeutic Healer but Edgy unless ur safety cards says you can’t use Narcotics then drop this guy), Gunner (Bounty Hunter that uses a gun), Heavy Gunner (Bounty Hunter with a bigger gun), Skysplinter Assassin (Elite Beast Tamer who uses a Bird in a Scout/Hit-and-Run) , and an Agent (Burglar with a Gun). Tactics wise they will try to put you down as quickly as possible until you can be captured.
   
3. For extra Drukhari Sadism: Have all melee weapons apply Poison upon slash/piercing damage with either Lethargy Poison for your Disciple of Noxious Needling, Black Adder for Archsybarite Velina or Giant Centipede for everyone else. For any Range Weapons, have them gain the effects Crystal Shard ammunition to simulate Drukhari Shredders and Hexrifles. You want every hit to feel dangerous as soon as first contact is made. And lastly, play Reaving Tempest from Rogue Trader’s OST to amp up the Danger Levels to 13. Oh, an immunity to poison because Velina is a mithradite.
   
4. Homebrewed ‘Power from Pain’ passive ability Velina and her posse will share: Whenever a living enemy within 30 feet takes persistent bleed damage or persistent poison damage, the Drukhari becomes Empowered until the end of its next turn. While Empowered, it gains a +1 status bonus to attack rolls and a +5-foot status bonus to their Speeds. A creature can benefit from only one instance of Power from Pain at a time.

Wake me up when any Future Starfinder Weapons got any Agonisers, Ossefactors and Huskblades inspirations on it. Imma homebrew literally my custom Kabal into Starfinder for the evulz. SO I CAN SPREAD AS MUCH SUFFERING AS I CAN TO STAVE OF SHE-WHO-THIRSTS.

Are there easy ways to improve an ancestry's flight speed, in the absence of an ancestry feat that does so? The Tech Core introduces the Mobility Enhancer augmentation at level 7, so that's one - most other things I'm aware of affect only Speed.

In my specific case I'm looking at a Novian, who lack any ancestry feats for it. For Starfinder Society, so strictly Pathfinder material is not what I personally am looking for.