r/starfinder_rpg • • Aug 11 '25

Weekly Starfinder Question Thread

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r/starfinder_rpg • • 10h ago

Rules Spontaneous Crafting feat (Mechanic 1) = infinite commercial grenades

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r/starfinder_rpg • • 8h ago

Question Relativly new to Sf 2e and Pf2e and I wondered if anyone has any advice on adapting pre remaster monsters from PF2e into SF2e

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Specifically I want to adapt the rust hag, which to me feels like a perfect fit for starfinder with it's myriad of interesting tech to rust.

Any help would be appreciated


r/starfinder_rpg • • 13h ago

Discussion Anti-radiation meds & items

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r/starfinder_rpg • • 3d ago

Misc Star Raiders Campaign 2: A Starfinder Podcast

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Hey all!

It's bee about six months since we last posted, but Star Raiders Campaign 2 is now up to episode 40 and still going strong! We are starting to hit the end game, and like C1, we should be wrapping up in under 60 episodes.

We do play Starfinder 1st edition, but if you are a SF2E player, but I encourage you to give it a go anyway, as our biggest points of pride are our storytelling, table energy, and audio quality.

An overview of our show:

“Exploring the unknown is part of the job for the members of Drebin Industries' Xenomineral Scout Team. But deep in The Vast they encounter more than they bargained for, turning their galaxy upside down.”

We also have a PF2E podcast that releases fortnightly and is currently up to episode 26! Check out Of Moons and Men, which is a homebrewed story.

We have an excellent back catalog to listen to as well for free and even more on our Patreon. Feel free to check us out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or wherever you get your shows.

Website for more information on shows and the players: www.arcanefocusnetwork.com

Finally, for anyone interested, we've also been super busy doing live shows and we'll be doing a Halloween special in two weeks time!

Thanks for your time everyone!

Tom


r/starfinder_rpg • • 3d ago

Build New to Starfinder 2e and I need some advice on a concept.

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r/starfinder_rpg • • 4d ago

Homebrew Starfinder1E x World of Darkness conversion

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I have made a full core rulebook conversion for starfinder to world of darkness 5th edition rules. Let me know if you wanna check it out


r/starfinder_rpg • • 4d ago

GMing Help me worldbuild our Skyward Steel campaign

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r/starfinder_rpg • • 4d ago

Question Has anyone ever made a venator class SD in Starfinder?

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This might be a dumb question, but I was looking at making one for my current campaign (the GM has tasked me with helping make extra ship statblocks that he can use for encounters because he knows I love doing it).

Like many others, one of my favorite franchises is Star Wars, and I was looking at making several ships from there, and I was looking for inspiration/if it's even possible, because the ships in Starfinder definitely seem far smaller than their counterparts in other sci-fi for the purposes of balancing I'd assume (which makes sense).

I tried to Google it and look it up on the subreddit but found nothing, so now I'm mainly just curious. thank you!!


r/starfinder_rpg • • 5d ago

Question With 1st ed being sunset and fall sale, is it worth spending 200 for most of the material from 1st edition?

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Title is question, right now I have the starter box, and some online pdfs I had received from humble bundle.

I have not used it yet, but I am eager to start, is it worth spending 200 for some hardcover books and pawns?

Also I have the swarm campaign, any other one you would recommend?


r/starfinder_rpg • • 5d ago

Question Fall Sale Confusion

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I picked up Mechageddon, the core rulebook and pact worlds but discovered the Daimalko species is printed in alien archives 2. So, back I go to the fall sale. While I’m there I think, “what if I just bought it all?” But there are a couple (armory/alien archives) that show as in stock then I can’t buy them. My question is, am I doing something wrong? I assume they are just out of stock, but if not they’re going in the cart.


r/starfinder_rpg • • 7d ago

Artwork Ysoki Scavenger

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I kitbashed this guy by head swapping a span Clan rat head (and tail) onto a Votaan mini i had from Warhammers Mini of the Month promotion a while back. I painted it up between stages of my main project and was very surprised to discover as I finished it today that it's very easily the best model I've ever painted.

He's doubling as the first member of my scavenger crew for Star Grave and an NPC model for a game of Starfinder im running in the future


r/starfinder_rpg • • 7d ago

GMing Recruited by the corpse fleet

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Hi all. I'm a fairly new GM (only about a year) and I'm thinking of doing something unusual for Halloween. What if... While traveling my players discover a ship that was taken over by the corpse fleet. There will be a recruiter on board who will give them the option to join with all their "history" (stats and personality) or as an undead husk.

....I'm trying to figure out how to do this without it feeling dumb.

Thanks for all your ideas on this thread.


r/starfinder_rpg • • 7d ago

Question Do Solarian Solar Shields (and all shields, really) do lethal damage?

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Starfinder 1e, I should mention.

Hi gang, I've been trying to find something concrete on whether the attacks you can do with shields and Solar Shields count as lethal damage or not.

RAW, it's stated that they allow you to perform attacks that count as an unarmed strike and not as an archaic weapon; unarmed strikes deal non-lethal damage unless you've taken the Improved Unarmed Strike feat or have a similar class ability. On the flip side, some shield special properties use vaguely allude to dealing lethal damage without explicitly stating so.

As such there's some ambiguity as to whether it deals lethal damage or not, and I'm wondering if it's been answered in a FAQ. Paizo's search is offline ATM else I'd use that, and internet search doesn't seem to give the results I'm looking for.

If you happen to know of something somewhere that clarifies this, a link would be much appreciated.


r/starfinder_rpg • • 7d ago

Build Mechanic Mines feats

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r/starfinder_rpg • • 8d ago

Misc Dromada

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Do you want to know more about the tastiest Xeno this side of the pack worlds?


r/starfinder_rpg • • 8d ago

Resource Hephaistos - Online Character Creator v164

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Website: https://hephaistos.online/
Patreon | Ko-fi | Redbubble | Bluesky

Hey Everyone,
The website has been updated to version 164 with the following improvements and fixes:

Improvements

  • Updated descriptions to add links to the Infosphere where ever conditions and combat maneuvers are referenced.

Hephaistos 2E

https://sf2e.hephaistos.online/

  • Updated Mechanic and Technomancer classes from the playtest to Tech Core.
  • Added ancestries, heritages, backgrounds, feats and spells from Tech Core.
  • Added support for ancestries with multiple possible sizes.
  • Fixed issue with the Battery and Chem Tank ammunition being incorrectly priced when buying.

The remaining content from Tech Core (Archetypes, Companions, Gear etc.) will come in the next release or two. Support for Tactical Starship Combat, including a Starship builder, is planned for the near-ish future.


r/starfinder_rpg • • 8d ago

Artwork Dawn of Defiance Ch 4: Almas Academy Ground Floor + Domain of Evil Level 1

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r/starfinder_rpg • • 8d ago

Discussion Mechageddon! 2 years later, did you like It? What you didn't like? It Is balanced? What would you have likes to know before starting It?

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Hi all, i want to GM this AP for my group, i really like the idea of mechs and kaiju fight eachother. I have some doubts like, do player Need to have 1 mechs each? Or better have them pilot together a bigger One? And of course all the question in the title! Thank!


r/starfinder_rpg • • 9d ago

Discussion Foundry starfinder 2E Equipment missing from compendium?

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r/starfinder_rpg • • 11d ago

Saturn-class defense platform

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r/starfinder_rpg • • 11d ago

Discussion Manifold Mods combinations

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r/starfinder_rpg • • 11d ago

Build Best uses of Augmented Harmony (quickened augment activation) feat

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r/starfinder_rpg • • 12d ago

Discussion New Tech Core retraining options greatly speed it up

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Tech core introduced the mnemonic editor and the (uncommon) neurocam. The former is a consumable that lets you spend money to get 1 day (100cr), 1 week (400cr), or 1 month's (1000cr) of retraining during one night's sleep. The latter lets you record your brain state and revert any subsequent retraining to that recorded state.

This is extremely powerful for paying for new feats or spells in your repertoire. Need a condition removal spell, but your occult witchwarper doesn't have it? He can have it tomorrow morning, then use his neurocam (if allowed) to forget it in 10 minutes and get his old spell back.

There's also a Holo Den expansion bay for starships that among other things lets you retrain things that normally require a teacher without one.


r/starfinder_rpg • • 12d ago

Question SF1e books useful for SF2e

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The title says it all. What books from SF1e still provide good content for a SF2e Campaign ideas?