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[Tack]

Anyone discuss Starfinder yet?
We've got a group who're about to play a game of it and it'd be cool to chat about it.

[SOLDIER First]

Needs more Orcs. 2/10.

[Jimmy]

Yep. As above. Despite ostensibly occurring in the same universe as the Pathfinder lore, there's no dwarves, elves, halflings, gnomes, and yes, no orcs in sight. They're relegated to an appendix in the back of the book instead of appearing in the core races.

Do not want.

[NullForceOmega]

You need better players.

For us, it has been the DM having "real life intervenes" that keeps ruining our sessions. Even if the players want to, we cant without our DM.

From the looks of things though, one of our sessions will happen when I am visiting at a friends house. It will work, he might actually like listening in to the voip session.

They're pretty good players normally (one is my wife and the others are long-time friends), but life has been making things very difficult for everyone here lately.  The one who has been unavailable injured his knee and required surgery, and just yesterday had to go to the emergency room for a gall stone, this morning his gall bladder was removed (he's almost fifty), the other has been having extreme stress problems at work and is relocating for a better job.  It is unfortunate, but life trumps game, always.

[Trekkin]

Anyone discuss Starfinder yet?
We've got a group who're about to play a game of it and it'd be cool to chat about it.

Oh, endlessly and for years. It was just called Pathfinder back then.

[Tack]

I'd say the ruleset is different enough to make it worth the difference, call it 2e if you want.

[Trekkin]

I'd say the ruleset is different enough to make it worth the difference, call it 2e if you want.

Having skimmed it again, the only things that really stuck out to me a different are the themes and the new kinds of damage and hit points. Did I miss something?

[Jimmy]

Talking with a fellow Pathfinder player who also does a Starfinder game, he's reported that there's a few serious flaws in the mechanics. For example, the vehicle and tactical combat systems simply don't mesh. There's nothing in the rules about how you'd handle a small starship doing a strafing run across a land based group of enemies, for instance.

[MrWiggles]

Thats not surprising. D20 never done vehicles well. I'm not even sure what would be a good mechanic for that.

Its a stunt or maneuver, so it would need a Pilot DC check to do, probably 15. Then what? Treat it as a low damage, +0 area attack? Everyone in the effected area gets rolled against. Maybe make it a Ref Save and if you fail you take damage.

D20 Modern didnt have rules for drive bys. And d20 Stars Wars (any version) didnt have strafing rules that I can rule, and I dont recall any strafing rules in D20 Future.

If a d20 game where to have it'd probably be Spycraft. But I dont recall them.

[Kadzar]

Yeah, Stars Without Number is probably my favorite space game, and it also doesn't have rules for ship versus ground combat, though, after being mentioned on the Kickstarter, the creator said he'd at least include something for using bombs or heavy weaponry against starships.

[IcyTea31]

GM: "As you approach the temple of the goddess of beauty, you're greeted by a man and a woman. The man is wearing a breastplate over a very short-sleeved shirt that shows off his muscles, while the woman's breastplate actually has the shape of the breasts and other curves forged into it to make a rather sexist armour."
Me: "Do they look more like warriors standing guard or strippers?"
Player 2: "I...think they may be both. It's the goddess of beauty after all."
Player 3: "Stripper warriors...I have a new character concept."
Player 2: "Not new. Those are called barbarians."

[wierd]

... There's an oglaf for that, but forum rules prohibit posting. Just saying.

[SOLDIER First]

u can link to it if ur not a coward

[wierd]

Oh no. The Toad does not appreciate such things.   I CAN however, give you the name of the strip in question so you can look it up yourself.

"Battledress"

[SOLDIER First]

Seen it.