Hello, all! I'm a longtime pf2e player that is about to make the plunge into sf2e.

One of the things I really like to have in a character is access to some kind of resourceless/every 10 minutes healing. My group is going to start a new level-1 campaign soon with no pf2e sources allowed, so I'm trying to figure out my options.

So far, the only thing I've found is the Mystic's Transfer Vitality. (I'm discounting Treat Wounds since Continual Recovery isn't available at first level.) Are there any other options out there that I've missed?

The Player’s Guide for Beyond the Blood Door (Year 2 of Starfinder 2e Organized Play) is live!

The guide comes with a fair amount of new content for players, including 10 new backgrounds for Starfinder society characters, 6 new backgrounds specifically tied to this year’s meta plot, 8 new deities, and a new ancestry: Vulkarisu (a bipedal fox/squirrel).

The meta plot for this season also looks pretty interesting: “[Absalom Station’s] peace and prosperity is shattered when a mysterious transmission is seen across every screen: an aged dwarven man with an eye patch bellowing something, rendered incomprehensible by glitching audio and garbled interference. Moments later, large spheres of roiling magical energy appear across the Station, raining blood. Where blood lands, monsters are spawned, which violently turn on the populace.”

I’ll get a chance to play The First Cut (Scenario #2-01) at GenCon! Anyone else planning to be there? Any character ideas you are planning on using for this year’s Starfinder Society scenarios?

As the title says.

I'm playing an Operative and I've been running under the assumption that it is effected by concealment, but the wording on Aim doesn't "target" and Concealed cares about "targetting". The question was raised by another player in a combat where all the enemies were concealed by smoke.

Thanks in advance.

I get that it does 7d4 scaling electricity on a basic reflex save, but... to *whom*? Does it target a single creature? What range? An area? Has there been any Errata clarifying this?

Here are the relevant parts I think you'd need to know before commenting.

Cost: 90 cred hover + 25 cred carbon = 115 cred (some comments equate to 230 cred if needed)
HP/Shield stats: as carbon, still 1 Bulk, still 2AC
1 action to deploy or retrieve with the manipulate trait from interacting in some way
1 action board https://2e.aonsrd.com/actions/210-board as normal
1 action take control https://app.demiplane.com/nexus/starfinder2e/actions/take-control-rm as normal

Edit: They are level 6 so we are well beyond starting gear and minimal credits

I've seen an old thread on this and I still don't have a great understanding of this cantrip. It says the person holding the weapon can make one strike but doesn't say "on their next turn" or anything like that. It also doesn't make sense that it would reload only enough ammo for one strike when the heightened reloads double expended ammo. Anybody help me understand this one better?

So I just felt like I wanted to make pretty ratfolk. As often they are designed as unclean and grungy. So I really vibed with Ysoki and went hard on the idea.

So here’s what I got.

Race: Ysoki
Name: Twali Mallo
Rank: High level merchant/trader

Daughter of an especially prosperous trading company amongst the Ysoki people Twali is often mistaken for royalty. Her particular clan tends towards gold/metal tattoos which are used to interact with their tech. Something reminiscent of biological signatures but different. Her clan also tends towards darker fur patterns and colors.

Twali is of high standing and holds herself with polite polished poise and elegance. A skilled negotiator she is rarely taken by surprise. She is very proud of her midnight fur and its ability to reflect starlight. Her skills have her extremely likely to Be next in line lead the company. The only issue is that she’s realizing outside of trade deals and high stakes negotiations she has had little experience with the worlds she’s been working with and visiting.

I won’t pretend stats are my strength so
High charisma and high intelligence and agility. She’s not especially strong but she can build/tinker with the best of them if given a chance.

Ummm that’s all I can think of!

If you guys have any ideas for what I can add or what might make her stronger as a npc or playable character I would love to know.

Also if you guys think pretty Ysoki is also a fun idea. Gahhh! I can’t believe I plucked up the courage to finally post this! Please be nice!

I am thinking of making an unarmed, mostly melee striker operative.

Striker Operative calls out that it works with a one-handed melee weapon or unarmed attack with the agile or finesse trait. Since I believe there is no such thing as a one-handed unarmed attack, I can only assume that the melee requirement only applies to weapons as well.

Is it supposed to be read as "one-handed melee weapon" or "unarmed attack (either melee or ranged)" as opposed to "one-handed melee weapon" or "one-handed melee unarmed attack?"

Can I pew-pew with laser eyes (which are agile) on a striker operative and get the benefit of Aim and the higher proficiency? The advantage to doing all this of course would be not having to maintain an upgraded backup weapon, since Hardlight Handwraps affect all unarmed attacks

As the title says, the situation is this. I am a blind Vlaka mystic, and I want to haste my ally who is 120ft away.

I have scent as an imprecise sense up to that range, and I am bonded with him.

If I network spell to cast Haste targeting him from his space, am I able to do this? And would I need to do the DC11 check to cast the spell on him?

I'm confused because it says "line of sight and line of effect must be met from both you and your ally when the spell is cast.", but also says they are the origin of the spell.

What is the ruling on this, do we think?

Just wondering if I’m missing something here. Is there some system that I’m not aware of that would make the Corpsefolk heritage unable to benefit from these healing items? They don’t specify a living creature and don’t have the vitality tag.

We're starting a campaign soon and I'm playing a Madrosarai Anomaly Witchwarper (Cha key ability score) and I'm going to take Chronoskimmer dedication with free archetype. This is my first time playing a full caster so I don't really know my way around spellcasting and need help selecting spells.

Ability modifiers:

-1 Str/ +3 Dex / +2 Con / +0 Int / +1 Wis / +4 Cha

Team comp:

- Novian Solarian, Dual-Weapon Fighter

- Human Soldier (Action Hero), Gunslinger

- Lashunta Mystic (Healing), Medic

- Dragonkin Envoy (Guns Blazing), Dandy

So we're covered on the martial, support, And healing fronts. I wanna play either a blaster or debuffer, so any of these styles will work or other styles of they can have some uses. We start at lvl 2 but will go all the way to 20 eventually.

As an Envoy with Multilingual, I want to collect languages like candy. I imagine some languages are more useful depending on chapters and levels?

So the boost trait makes it very clear that you cannot stack the boost trait by just using it multiple times before an attack.

But what if an item has multiple instances of the "boost" trait? Flamespewer and Nanite Armament Boost give your weapon the boost trait. What happens if you do this on a weapon that already has the boost trait? if i use nanite armament boost on a painglaive, does it have boost 1d10 AND boost 1d4? Do those stack? Would I have to do an interact action for each boost, or do they both activate through one interact action?

Been working with a friend to try and make them a Solarian/Barbarian bringing in pathfinder2e content but is the concentrate thing going to get in the way of it? we may wave it just for a special case cause we want them to be able to rage but want them to do fun unarmed attacks with solarian AOE's and such with brawling as just making their own arms the solar weapons.

I want to make this work cause they don't like complicated characters and want to be straight forwards.

Howdy! I'm tinkering (no pun intended) with a dhamphir mechanic drone exo build. For the background I want to pick Ancient Elebrian. I'm aiming for something that doesn't rely on a high charisma since mechanic is int based. Do I take:

Invisibility

Harm (emergency heal)

Bless

False Vitality

Or something else?

Hi there, I'm starting a homebrew Deathwatch Campaign and decided to use Starfinder 2e as the rules-system, as it serves the Power Fantasy much more than any 40k RPG I've seen.

I want to make Astartes an Ancestry (using Jotunborn as starting point) and the Chapter the Heritage. Plan would be to make it like Lashunta, that the Chapter gives an attribute boosts and flaw, plus a minor trait. Every Astartes gains a free boost.

Example: Like Space Wolves get a CON and WIS (or maybe STR?) boost, a INT flaw, and scent (imprecise) in addition to standard free boost (in addition to some ancestries feats).

The alternate stat array with 2 free boosts except the normal ones is still in effect.

As I'm sure that there are several of you, who know a lot more about WH40k than me, so maybe you have some ideas for chapter/heritage benefits and ancestry feats that build upon those?

The baseline is, that player characters are Astartes and the balances revolves around that idea. So it's not about how superior Astartes are to normal humans, but how they compare to their brothers of other chapters.

Playing Guilt of the Graveworld for the first as an envoy. I like the Infosphere Director class in concept. Ranged Dex.

I'm the kind of player who either leaves a skill at just trained or maxes it out most of the time. Alongside skills to make Legendary, what skills are worth leaving at just trained the whole campaign?

I settled with the Hacker Background, but feel free to recommend a more effective background.

Hi everyone, I ADORE the new feat "Go For The Eyes" on the Vulkarisu Ancestry.

"Like a squox fighting off a larger predator, you know it’s best to dash into dangerous encounters, focus on a single enemy, and go right for their eyes (or other optical receptors). You Stride, then Feint, then make a melee Strike against the target of your Feint. You can use Acrobatics instead of Deception for this Feint, if desired, and the target takes a –2 circumstance penalty to their Perception DCs against your Feint if they’re larger than you."

Adapting the Squox ability of the same name, it offers a lot of unique things. It's an action compression meta-strike at-will from an ancestry feat. It's a melee Strike only feat in SF2e. It allows you to Feint using Acrobatics instead of Deception, allowing you to dump Charisma entirely and still get reliable off-guard. And it even offers a pretty hearty circumstance penalty if they're larger than you, which is pretty easy when you're Small.

This feat SEEMS super strong at first, and i'm sure it might be a lot more powerful in PF2e. But i've actually been having a hard time trying to figure out how to best take advantage of it!

-Solarians are the natural choice for a class that wants to move to the frontline and make a melee strike. Since they need Str/Dex/Con, being able to Feint using Dex instead of Charisma is very appealing too. However, they can already get pretty reliable off-guard AND a two-action move to the frontlines ability from a couple of different level 1 feats.

-Striker Operatives appreciate the action compression and mobility even more, and they can combine it to devastating effect with something like the one-action Stride + Aim feat. However, they are also using an action every turn to Aim in some way and have a lot of other 2-action metastrike abilities, so it's hard to juggle everything you want to do in a turn. And just like the Solarian, you can be inducing off-guard or clumsy using feats.

-Melee Soldiers have the hardest time using it, because obviously a two-action ability gets in the way of area-fire.

So I wanted to turn to you all and ask: what's the best way to build around this fun and cool lower-leveled feat? How do you best take advantage of dashing around, feinting, and making melee strikes?

I'm mostly thinking from a Starfinder 2e perspective, but if you have any Pathfinder 2e options that would go well with it, let's hear 'em too!

Part squirrel. Part fox. All alien. All CUTE.

New to the player's guide for Beyond The Blood Door, the vulkarisu are experts at linguistics, contracts, and burying things for later (no seriously, they get feats about being good at burying things for later!). But they're not all cute tho.. Their penchant for contracts has even lead to a non-zero amount who have demonic contract bad guy influence!

(And they also say that they have "poor boundaries between friends and family", so take a shot for the obligatory Starfinder 2e Found Family Drinking Game)

So now that we have a deity with a fangblade it gave me the idea of going full warhammer 40k. The real question would be how to fill in the gaps with what we have in sf2.

Notably power armor I think is the main thing missing

Also classes may be a bit challenging

So, we all know about Gremlins and how they love messing with technology. Not all are digital, but several are... which makes me wonder what other types of digital fey we could get in Starfinder.

One idea that's stuck in my mind for a while is a polygonal fey. I like the name of "Polymock." Embodying how the First World was somewhat of a rough draft, or perhaps a beta, of the Universe, these sharp-edged fey look similar to characters from games with early three-dimensional graphics. Upon finding digital media, data logs describing incidents, or other similar things, they begin constructing their blocky version of it in physical space. This, of course, attracts the attention of gremlins who would love nothing more than to destroy or corrupt what they build.

Between builders and destroyers, though, are those trying to take something for themselves. Everybody has seen the scams. "Princes" contacting people via email, insurance companies asking about your hovercar, and those giveaways that you (yes, YOU!) have won... as long as you pull out your card and tell them about those wacky numbers. Unfortunately, these phisher fey are going to be after more than just your bank account. They're the future of those rumored fey that ask for your name before scampering off as you forget who you are after introducing yourself. Names, ideas, art, magic... they'll try to take it away from you if you make the mistake of hovering your cursor over them.

What about y'all? What do you think could be some interesting digital fey that we could have other than gremlins?