In 2008 I asked Anthony to make me a number of pictures of my people in slice of life pictures doing normal things I could use with skill descriptions in the rulebook. I got a lot of response to the … Continue reading →
Lets say you’re a game designer or adventure writer and you need to lookup the challenge DCs for multiple systems or you’re converting something from one system to another and you need to ensure the DCs aren’t too easy or … Continue reading →
Looking at Ultimate Wilderness feats through the SF design lens. This is mainly an evaluation of the feats in the book. Ambush Awareness, Animal Call, Animal Disguise, Animal Ferocity, Aquatic Combatant, Aquatic Spell, Arctic Adaptation, Beast Hunter, Beastmaster Ire, Beastmaster … Continue reading →
Pathfinder Feats through Starfinder Lens Acrobatic, would be superseded by Skill Synergy becoming class skills or insight bonuses and since Fly is part of Acrobatics now someone wanting to be really good at both might even take Skill Focus instead … Continue reading →
Starfinder has made a lot of changes from Pathfinder and its 3.x roots. I want to walk through these section by section for my own purposes when designing supplements for Starfinder. I hope that others find it useful as well. … Continue reading →
People on the Starfinder groups seem to either love or hate Starship combat and or Starships themselves. Some dislike the parallel starship economy separate from the character economy. Paizo says it’s to keep balance between the power of characters not … Continue reading →
It seems like every week there’s somebody new in the Starfinder Facebook group that just bought the Core Rule Book and wants to know what to do next. . Step One: What are our assets? You have the rules for … Continue reading →
This week I want to talk about Starship Gunnery, it hangs a lot of people up for a couple of reasons and we’ll talk about what those reasona are. I see this come up a lot in the forums, people … Continue reading →
This week I want to shamelessly steal a topic from Creighton Broadhurst where he wrote on Pathfinder Knowledge checks for Identifying Monsters. Some background In Pathfinder there was a system where you rolled knowledge to gain information on a creature … Continue reading →
This week we look at Starship combat. Step One you determine starting positions Step Two Assign Roles Step Three is the Engineering Phase If your ship isn’t damaged at the start, think about Diverting power to your engines or guns. The more guns … Continue reading →
