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So this isn't new infomation exactly, but the Paizo Live stream focused on the Starfinder Roadmap was just released to Youtube, and I've attempted to take some notes for your reading convience. There are many spellings of names that I was unsure of, but I hope I managed a fairly complete list of talking points and mentions.Starfinder Paizo Live 21/02/2025Playtest:Earlier announced intended playtest for early 2025 was shifted due to other product releasesThe new plan is for a Mechanic and Technomancer Playtest in the next few monthsPaizo has been playtesting the classes internally and have found them “fun and interesting to work on”.The Mechanic with the Turret up and seeing what the Turret could do was very fun.The unique things the Technomancer could do with Spell Cache, modifying spells, feels neat.Galaxy Guide.Setting’s Guide for the system.More than just a Lost Omen’s book.6 New Ancestries, and other rules for play included.Hell-Knight and Starfinder Society Archetypes included, as well as 4 others.The book is presented by themes instead of geographically, which Paizo feels is innovative.The themes are based around the kind of stories that Starfinder is good at telling. They are:DystopianHigh TechWar-TornFantasyInto the UnknownHorrorWeirdAlghollthu confirmed for Starfinder. Eochs and prophets of Kalistrade mentioned.Kalistrocrat Temple Ships are a thing.Little looks into Castrovel and Triaxus, and other places that are really fantasy forward or tech forward.The intent of releasing the Setting book first is to get people excited for the setting and providing a bridge between Pathfinder and Starfinder.The poster map is “the most gorgeous thing I have seen in ages, it is a very different way of representing the galaxy, one side represents the Pact Worlds, the other side represents the whole Galaxy, it’s presented in a very different way. We’re not showing it on screen but for me it’s one of the most exciting things in the book.”Alot of the things in the Galaxy Guide will get expanded on later, it can be treated like a dev roadmap of future releases because the devs intend to flesh out everything.Cover art features an “Illumantula” (best guess at spelling), a Lvl 25 creature. Player CoreCover art features the new Akashic DragonYou do not need a Pathfinder book to play Starfinder. Still contains everything you need, although some things will be very similar to bits of Player Core.Paizo still wants PF2e and SF2e to be compatible.Player Core contains 6 new classes, 10 ancestries, new skills, new feats, new spells, new backgrounds, new conditions and new versatile heritages. “It would not be a book that I (Thurston Hillman) if we didn’t include Jinsuls” Shows an art piece of Dae and Chk-Chk (the iconic Solarion and Mystic) fighting Jinsuls. They were Alien Archive 3 in SF1e, now in Player Core.GM Core.Cover Art features Ishmari Otheer (complete guess of spelling) the new leader of the Azlanti Star Empire.This is gonna have how to build creatures, how to build hazards, how to balance creatures if everyone has guns.Massive setting information, deep dives on each of the Pact WorldsNew rules that don’t exist in Pathfinder. For example Dynamic Hacking Rules. If you want to do more than a single check, or go into virtual reality, you can find the rules here.Paizo is still cooking on the tactical rules for Starship combat. They do want to get to the party having their beloved Starship that they build, and insert modules into, similar to 1e, but it’s not ready.Instead GM Core will have Cinematic Starship rules. These are rules for when you want to have a scene that requires a starship, and they work similar to complex Hazards. Rather than pulling out the tactical hexmap, you look at the scenario such as getting through an asteroid field, avoiding enemy fighters, dealing with “a space whale with a laser mounted to it” and this will give you rules for how to mechanically engage with those scenes in a quick, easy to grasp way. This is also good for moments when the party is dealing with a rented starship or provided ship that isn’t their own and just exists to get them from point a to point b.Alien Core.The Monster Core equivalentWill have all the Creatures for levels -1 to lvl 25.Because this is coming out a bit after the release of other books, anything published prior to Alien Core will include full statblocks for any creatures used.Adventures.Murder in Metal City. A Deluxe Starfinder lvl 1 Adventure in a box.This is not a beginner box.This is something Paizo is trying that’s a bit different.It’s a box set that includes a variety of handouts, tokens, cards, pregenerated characters, flipmats, a GM tracker for the murder mystery plot.Anyone who has tried to run a mystery adventure knows it can be alot to keep track of so Paizo wanted to make sure the GM was covered.Each Pre-Gen gets their own art and they are not the Iconics, they are designed for this adventure. Of course you can still create your own characters as normal.It is a 64 page adventure taking place entirely at 1st level. The idea is to cater for newer and casual players for whom leveling up can be a whole thing and tracking sheets and resources can be a thing, and so everything is as provided and simple as possible to get right into the game.That said, you will still need to purchase Player Core to play. This adventure does not come with explanations of all the rules like the Beginner Box. It is aimed at providing a strong narrative experience to new players rather than a teaching experience.Unique Playable Ancestry, the Kizar (spelling), a plant species from Castrovel that have migrated throughout the Galaxy.This adventure occurs in Striving, a Mega city on Aballon.Anacites, sentient self relocating machines left by the mysterious First Ones to labour and upgrade themselves forever, have built a wonderful metal city and in that city one of the Anacites has been shut down, or “murdered” in biological terms.Some of this Anacites old friends and colleagues band together to solve this murder.There should be time for Investigation and Social Encounters as well as combat, again different from a Society Module or Beginner Box.Starfinder Novel, Era of the EclipseThis book talks about the Gap.It was important for Paizo for this book to enrich the setting and give background that people want to see. Tircell the Android is the protagonist, waking up on Absalom Station the day after the Gap. The majority of the book takes place in the first few Days after the Gap.There are new HellKnight Orders in Starfinder 2e, and this book will explain where they came from.There is a big surprise reveal at the end.There will also be a secondary timeline plot where Dae and Chk Chk become Junior Starfinders while digging into the history of Tircell in the modern day.The Infinity DeckFrom Paizo Games, a brand new game that ties into Starfinder2eIt’s a Starfinder themed card deck with rules for several different games you can play using them.It is also an item you can find in universe in Starfinder, and use as prop in your games and play the Infinity Deck games in Universe. The deck comes from the Gap, people having cards and not remembering what they are for and just making up new games with them.Q&AQ: Are the Deluxe Adventurers going to be a new product line?A: We will see, depends on customer response.Q: Are there any more out there classes from 1e still to come back?A:We’re gonna hit the staples first, but absolutely we’re interested Q: Mech Rules?A: It’s only a matter of time. Tactical Starships first thoughQ: Will there be a Beginner’s Box?A: We aren’t announcing it here, but it would make senseQ: Will there be an Audio book for Era of the Eclipse?A: Yes.Q: Will Narrative Starship combat being the Default going forward?A: Default is a bit of a loaded term, the Cinematic Rules will be the default for while that exists, once Tactical Rules are where we’d like there might be a whole adventure path based around that, as for Starfinder Society, we’re not talking about that.Q: How did you adjust the game with range centric in mind?A: We went through alot of feedback, and we learnt a few things. Typically people would give us exact opposite feedback, often in a row. We made changes and adjusted things but we don’t want to go into too many specifics. Solar Shot for the Solarion we felt was lacking, and will now get more upgrades alongside Solarion’s other abilities. We haven’t done anything like add Dex to Damage on Guns however. All the classes have a fair number of new options available to them compared to the playtest, and many classes should now be easier to run.Q: Will there be a Gap 2.0 book?A: Maybe.One Last ThingWe haven’t forgotten Adventure Paths. We are sure you want to do something with all those 1st level characters. We have some Adventure Content and Plans we will be announcing in the future, where you will be exploring some of the settings darkest secrets. We will talk more about this in the future. Showed a picture of Zo!.
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