Starfinder from Paizo The start of support

  

Starfinder from Paizo

So it looks like Paizo is going to do a Science Fantasy setting / core rule set titled Starfinder. Not going live until August 2017, so in the meantime I will dust off some info that I have done in the past and as time goes along I will migrate my works closer and closer. As always I will not follow entirely within the setting, always more homebrewed, so off to start some translating from my old stuff to the new stuff.

Pulled from the initial communication are the following character ideas/concepts

Android Assassin

Ratfolk Mechanic

Spellhacking Lashunta Technomancer 

 Human Pilot

Power-Armored Marine

Of course we have no information at this time about what the final product will look like, what it will have for actual mechanics, etc.. So this is total speculation and a buildup to making product for the new game and setting line. 

To start off I am going to pull in other old 3PP material and update with things like CMB/CMD and how they do skills and work up some alien races.  I am going to use my T.E.S. (The End Space) as the starting point, with the world of Vermeil in the same system in this port over.

The End Space dates back to before 2000 and originally in a totally different system (Hero System 4^th Edition) so all that is coming in from there is Fluff and the crunch will be all brand new.

The original Vermeil writing dates back to 2009 (collected and originally started in 2005). So lots of changes will be present in the Crunch portions of those elements.

So following posts will focus on developing a space station and several worlds around it as well as pointing to existing materials and new aliens, monsters, items, etc. for use in your gaming.

My Inspirations and Resources (Initial Listing): This will expand as time and creating continues:

Babylon 5

Star Trek (Especially Deep Space 9 for the station elements)

DAW Books and covers (especially the 70s ones)

David Bowie songs and videos

Spelljammer

WARs Setting and d20 RPG

Shadowrun

Etherscope

d20 Modern (New skills mostly to pull in)

Pathfinder RPG Technology Guide

Pathfinder RPG Distant Worlds
Pathfinder RPG People of the Stars
Pathfinder RPG Numeria, Land of Fallen Stars

Links:
http://paizo.com/starfinder/

http://paizo.com/image/content/Starfinder/20160528-Station.jpg

http://paizo.com/products/btpy86j8?Pathfinder-Chronicles-Guide-to-Absalom

http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/

http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/openGameLicense.html

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20/article/srdarchive

While watching Frozen for the first time

While watching Frozen for the first time

So on the Disney Freeform channel I got to see the network premiere of the movie Frozen. Having no girls to take to this sort of movie, this was my first viewing of it. Of course as it came on I started taking some notes on occupations and characters I would see, the original intention being to use in Fantasy Setting for NPC ideas. Instead it turned into taking notes to use for an impromptu setting idea.

So this is not very detailed, would take a GM a bit of work to pull it all together in your Fantasy System of choice, but feel free to riff off these lists and ideas.

Occupations and Characters (Just some of them as watching it)

Maybe a new setting or concept based just on these

The wife did say this is pretty stereotypically Disney, pretty formulaic

They did give the best lines to the snowman overall

It was not a bad little movie. At least the Female Heroine saved herself instead of someone saving her instead, giving redemption to her sister instead of relying on some outside male figure

Ice Carver / Ice Block Maker

Snowman

Snow Creating Magic User

Sister

Parents

Royalty

Trolls that can turn into Rocks / Boulders

Staff Members

Pictures that can be talked to

Sailors Lost at Sea

Those that shroud the Dead’s Portraits

Clergy

Vocalists

Afflicted with a Curse

Townsfolk

Suits of Armor

Princess

Prince

Commoners

Dancers

Dressmakers

Peacocks

Frozen Ice Sculpture Creature

Spell Frozen Steps

Ice Block Salesman

Wolves

Reindeer

Spell Run over Snow like the Wind

Winter Wonderland

Spell Impaling Ice

A Castle Made of Ice

Snow Golem Guardian with pure ice claws (elemental golem, snow and ice, regen in cold)

Love is a powerful and strange force

Spell Freeze the Heart (Death unless unfrozen by love)

The traitorous individual from another kingdom

The Reindeer King

Large round Snowman (Single ball of snow with eyes and ice arms)

The Snow Queen

A Fantasy setting

A small city far into the mountains on a fjord

Fishing is a major enterprise

Logging and Ice Block Carving (Winter) as well as major exports

There is a small castle ruled by two sisters who are reclusive

One is rumored to be a Sorceress made of Ice, the other one the public face to the dual rulers

There are several nearby kingdoms they trade with

Adventure locations

The Castle in the City

The nearby woods (wolves are common there in large packs that attack)

The Ice Castle far into the mountain (Where it never melts even in the height of summer) Snowflake Themed

The Stone Circle (portal to Faerie Lands), location of the Rock Trolls (Rock Elementals)

Sudden Snowstorms that sweep down from The Mountain

Ice Carvers Camp

Loggers Camp

Trading Post half way up to The Mountain

The Northern Lights (Another realm that can be travelled to only at night in the cold), composed of cold, light, faerie fire like landscape

The eternally iced in Wooden sailing ships, Galleon styled ships eternally frozen in place as shipwrecks

The courtyard eternally covered in ice even in the height of summer