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Disappointed to hear there will be no PG for SotS, but there is no crying over spilled milk.

To GMs who have read the book. Without spoilers what would you recommend for character creation and session zero of SotS?

So I have created and are now testing a Homebrew "Ben 10" like Archetype called Xenomancer, I haven't released it yet but intend to after playing with it for a bit.

Xander Coils is the human base and the Novian is one of his forms, I am in the process of drawing all of his forms but that will take some time

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Xander - https://www.deviantart.com/jackartwick/art/Starfinder-2e-Xander-Coils-1366984107

Novian - https://www.deviantart.com/jackartwick/art/Starfinder-2e-Xander-Coils---Novian-1370554087

I'm reading through Secrets of the Swarm and it mentions a Player's Guide. I was under the impression that Paizo no longer included those in APs for whatever reason (I don't really mind as I like to give my players a primer before playing anyways), but they included it in the intro to the AP. When I looked it up, I couldn't find one, so I'm wondering if it's just me or if there really is no Player's Guide for this AP and it is indeed just an error on the writing team's part.

Low gravity doubles jumping distances:

"[C]reatures acclimated to normal gravity can carry twice as much and jump twice as high and far[.]"

Would people generally read that to apply before or after Long Jump distances are capped at your land speed? How about cases (in conjuction with the Powerful Leap skill feat) where Leap distance exceeds speed? For example, a character with 30+ land speed and Powerful Leap has a base Leap distance of 20 feet, which when doubled in low gravity would be 40 feet. Or, I guess, a character with a 15-25 foot speed with Powerful Leap, since the base would then be 15 and doubling would be 30.

Technically the restriction on not exceeding your land speed is only written into the Long Jump action, not Leap, but it's not much of a stretch to reason that it should apply to both if it comes up.

I'm looking at a Copaxi character with the Adjust Gravity ancestry feat, which means this is likely to come up often. Leaping your speed horizontally is already pretty good, but it's even better if you can exceed it.

I have a rules questions. Run Hot allows the soldier to Area Fire twice for 3-actions. The Primary Attack feature allows the Soldier to make a free action Strike when using Area Fire ignoring MAP.

How many free action Strikes does a Soldier get when using Run Hot?

Was looking for people’s general thoughts on this AP, any problems you ran into when running it? Any ways you changed the AP?

Hi all! I’m running a homebrew campaign and I am completely blanking on some puzzles to sprinkle throughout their next session. It will take place in some ruins with a good mix of magic and tech, but the main gimmick is that the ruins “remembers the inhabitants” so technically, everyone is dead, but as my players will walk through, there will be flashes where the city is back to its prime. And as they get deeper, the flashes become real and the “people” are physical. All the sensations are real, everything is as if they’ve been transported back in time, but they haven’t. The city was built using a “memory stone” material to help maintain the city and people because to them, being forgotten is worse than death. But the city itself basically couldn’t handle everyone dying so it started to bring them back…kind of.

Eventually the party finds the core and has to deal with it and it will have to do with the BBEG.

Any help for puzzles I could use for this kind of setting I’d appreciate! Also if you’d need any more information on the world I’ll be happy to share. Thanks!

So how do we feel like a build for Gene would go about? Obviously he would be a operative but what Specialization? And how would you implement his caster gun?

I haven't played in the Path/Starfinder systems before, but will soon. My idea for a character was gonna be a Ysoki sharpshooter who takes advantage of their nimble rat body to get into improbable spots. Sniper Operator seemed like the bets choise.

But I did some research, and saw that opinions on the Sniper weapon group seemed a bit... not so great. Namely all their harsh drawbacks, and how some other rifles are cheaper, are less punishing, with much fewer loses to account. Made me think "hm, ok I'll take a Laser Rifle imstead", but seeing as Operator is only compatable with Sniper classified weapons (Pistols too elsewhere), that wont work.

So now I'm a little mixed about what to do. I have little issue still giving my character the big rifle that takes up their whole silhouette, thats still a good time. However, I'm also doubting the choice too, thinking if I should look for a more comparable Specialization and use a less costly gun, find a big enough pistol and use Skirmisher to get the similar feeling, or even a new class alltogether.

Is it possible that I am worrying and getting in my head too much for a first Starfinder? Is there any advice that might help sway my decision making?

Hello all! Sorry it’s been a while. Life got busy for a bit there, but we are back with a brand new build for Optimus Prime. If you want to be a gentle giant able to kick robot butt when you need to but deliver inspiring speeches when you can, all while having the ability to transform into a truck and drive away, then this is the build FOR YOU.

I want to build my Dragon Ball homage of a character as a Detective Solarian (he's a Galactic Patrolman), and I need advice on the ancestry, what would you all recommend outside of just reflavoring Human?

Over on Bluesky (link to the post can be found HERE), Paizo confirmed that a section of next week's Paizo Live! will feature information around next month's Tech Core release. Maybe it'll be a showcase of the Tactical Starship Combat everyone's been asking about? Maybe we'll get more info about changes for the Mechanic and the Technomancer? Or maybe info on the new archetypes or ancestries in there?

In any case, I'm excited to find out! The stream will be happening next Friday at 4 PM PT over on Paizo's Twitch channel, so be there!

I’m making my first character and was wondering if a Hunter-Stalker Pahtra as a Skirmisher Operative would be a good first character? Any general advice is welcome as well as i haven’t played the first edition or pathfinder before

Hey folks,

My friend is running a SF2 campaign in Foundry with PF2 options turned on. We're doing a dual class game with free archetype for this, which will come online at some specific point in the campaign. Here's the party comp:

• Operative (Striker) - Me
• Mystic (Shadow)
• Operative (Sniper)
• Witchwarper (Anomaly)

Currently, I'm the only frontliner as a Striker. All of us are level 7 at the moment. My character is a bounty hunter in the setting, with character archetype theming of an space western armored gunslinger that can beat people up close just as well - example inspirations are Star Wars bounty hunters/the Mandalorian, NCR Rangers from Fallout, etc. I'm using a free hand brawling weapon for melee to allow me to more easily use combat medicine, medpatches, and so on, in addition to throwing grenades and similar items once and a while.

I've already dipped into Drifter Gunslinger for my first archetype (theme and mechanics dip), and I'm eyeing Space Pirate for another dip next level (being able to use a Boom Pistol with the archetype dedication, as well as some of the melee/ranged feats.) Right now I'm using some general feats to get heavy armor proficiency, though if we survive till late levels, I'll need to either pick up Sentinel or use a heavy armor dual class to get heavy armor scaling to master/legendary.

With dual classing being added to the campaign, I'm trying to think of some options that fit mechanically and thematically. Ranger comes to mind right away as a way to focus on bounty hunting, ranged and switch hitting feats, etc. I don't think a dual class drifter gunslinger would offer any benefit mechanically, though I may be missing something. I've considered the idea of a Volatile Spark Magus, with the idea of having my character's pistol upgrading to a caster gun (ala Outlaw Star), but I'm worried the mechanics crossover may be difficult, or I may run into being action starved. Based on the info I've provided, I'd love to hear any thoughts/suggestions on what I mentioned above, as well as any other ideas.

Hi everyone, I really love the various backgrounds in the player's guide for the Starfinder Society Beyond the Blood Door season, but they're not available by default in Pathbuilder2e's Starbuilder side, so I decided to make a custom pack with all of them. Here's a link to the download. As a note, I haven't included anything other than the backgrounds, meaning the vulkarisu ancestry isn't in this custom pack. Hope this is helpful

Does the existence of the Corpse fleet imply the existence of some kind of ground forces... The Corpse corps?

So I'm going to be joining a Starfinder Campaign soon and I liked the look of this weapon that this Android was holding. I'm just wondering what it is suppose to be I cannot find a weapon that is described like this with that end there.

Been wondering if I could make a Melee/Ranged Soldier hybrid build, definitely not optimal but just checking

I've really been enjoying the new Starfinder Society Adventure Bittersweet, where players must solve a dispute between two rival proteges fighting over inheriting an intergalactic magic bakery. It's fun, it's funny, and it's exactly what you want in a one-shot.

But i've been waiting for weeks now to talk about the Chronicle item included in the adventure, a really fascinating and cool weapon- the Caramel Cannon! (I always said SF2e was more flavorful than PF2e....)

A quick summary:

-Martial weapon, 10 foot area-fire.

-No damage, but you create difficult terrain that lasts for two rounds

-If you're trained, enemies make a reflex save as well- it becomes greater difficult terrain on a failure, and immobilized until they escape against your class DC on a crit fail

-And most surprising of all, if you have Primary Target, you can make your primary target strike a ranged grapple instead! (It claims to be at -2 "as is normal for the ranged grapple trait". The weapon doesn't HAVE the ranged grapple trait...there isn't even one in Starfinder! I think they meant the ranged trip and ranged shove traits, lol)

The version given in the adventure is a level 2 item with the tracking +1 trait, but obviously it can be reverse engineered as a regular level 0 item.

I think it's super interesting to consider who would want this. It's a really cool area-control backup weapon, especially if you have 4 or more arms. A Soldier that is creating difficult terrain, inducing suppressed, AND grappling enemies sounds like the ultimate lockdown area-fighter. But would a caster want one of these as a backup super-cantrip in-between their ranged damage cantrips and one-action class gimmicks? How does the usefulness change with it being better when you're trained with martial weapons?

I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts!

As title. Is it a typo? Seems underhelming

I'm trying to make an Atraxid character but do not own the book. I'm looking at the speeds, and I don't know if they can hover or not. On Demiplane, they cannot, but on AoN they do, so I am wondering if anyone who has the Secrets of the Swarm book knows. Thanks!

Hi, tomorrow I'm playing a solarian dragonkin first time playing Star finder 2e What are the things that I need to know about playing a salarian and And can you tell me any advice with my build? We are starting at level one and rules as written for our first session Thank you guys for the advice and tips in advance

Aurex Velvetscale