7 Reasons To Try Starfinder

[@yarnameloc]

Love Starfinder. It is a bit crunchy but you can take inspiration from star wars, mech warrior, blade runner, robo cop, guardians of the galaxy, firefly, dune, the expanse, x-com, predator, the aliens franchise, just to name a few. The galaxy is your oyster. Please give it a try and tailor it to suit your needs and taste. Not many content creators providing Starfinder content on a regular basis. I so appreciate the Maple Table for providing content. Thanks Boss.

[@TheMapleTable]

I aim to please

[@zacheryeckard3051]

@@TheMapleTable I'd say you succeed!

[@alanthomasgramont]

I think the adventure paths are a bit to "silly", The authors of the game are more into wacky than down and dirty, it seems. Is there an adventure path that is more list hard sci-fi without the silly?

[@wizzolizzo1064]

I LOVE STARFINDER SO MUCH!

[@TheMapleTable]

And I love you random citizen

[@D3vious113]

I'm running Attack of the Swarm later today and man it's chunky but it's so much fun. The versatility with classes and customization in general is so wild. One of my players is an astrozoan witchwarper who decided he wanted to basically be an isekai protagonist small catboy with zero combat potential. He has so far lived up to that, all within the rules, no homebrew. This game is insane and I love it.

[@TheMapleTable]

Its really wild

[@Dro250]

How do you build characters in this thing? I have dropped like $150 bucks in hero lab and I’m totally lost 😢

[@TheMapleTable]

@@Dro250 i have a video on it but I would also try out hephaistos... Its free and a decent way to wrap your head around your character

[@justinjacobs1501]

@The Maple Table I second this! Hephaistos is almost as good as DnD Beyond, but it's free, which makes it even better.

[@justinjacobs1501]

Just played our second session of Starfinder yesterday, and I'm having a lot of fun with a Half-orc punk rocking soldier wielding weaponized musical equipment. They are built around applying debuffs while also dealing damage, helping the party hit more and get hit less. It's extremely fun.

[@TheMapleTable]

Theres a special satisfaction from being a good support

[@DeadpoolAli]

This is my favorite setting and hits all my buttons of sci-fi and fantasy beautifully blended!

[@TheMapleTable]

It's so good!

[@jusquanorthwind1016]

Just got my core book two weeks ago and my alien archive last week, I’m currently working on the start of the campaign. My group wanted to try something new at least coming out of the issues with the whole OGL debacle. We’ve got too much into 3.5 d&d to stop entirely but starfinder being similar, led me and another of my group to figure it’d be relatively easy to shift into it for our group as a whole. Looking forward to running, and playing as one of the other members of the group really wants to run the system too, but since I bought the books I’m gonna be running first to get my money out of em xD

[@TheMapleTable]

if you are familiar with 3.5 then starfinder shouldn't be to much a leap for you or your group.

[@jusquanorthwind1016]

@@TheMapleTable exactly! I already have the baseline for some npcs and a beginner story to get them into a game, and help us all learn differences to the rules together, since I’m the one with the books I’m letting the group taking some turns borrowing my core book to look at things for their characters until we can get another core book or two, archive of Nethys is a godsend because I can use that to work on my notes for running while they have the book!

[@SneakyNinjaDog]

I really love that you went to the trouble and put the names of the artist with each illustration. Good work!

[@TheMapleTable]

Thank you so much 😀you are the first person I can remember who has commented on that specifically.

[@dubbellak]

Currently i'm playing both a Pathfinder and a Starfinder campaign and although the system of Pathfinder is a bit better i have a soft spot for the lore and the setting of Starfinder. The armor upgrades, the graphs, the cool weapons... it really kicks ass!

[@TheMapleTable]

I love it, haven't been able to dive into pathfinder yet but I want to

[@DeadpoolAli]

Word really looking forward to learning more about the armor upgrades and grafts

[@davidshebesh5323]

I would love to play a session . Kinda like the envoy or operative class. Think it would be kinda cool to play a bounty hunter or Merc.

[@demiwolf4life13]

Great video timing, I just started looking into starfinder as a spring break game with my kids to diversify from D&D so information like this is helpful.

[@TheMapleTable]

Glad I could help

[@bryce1197]

Been trying to get into Starfinder for months and have been watching these videos for awhile; the system seems super fun but damn is it taking me awhile to grasp everything. At least it's a fun kind of learning. Hopefully my group feels the same haha.

[@TheMapleTable]

I enjoy learning new things but I even get a bit loose with the rules

[@zacheryeckard3051]

There's a character building tool, Hephaistos or something like that, that makes the "how do build character" part way easier.

[@bryce1197]

@@zacheryeckard3051 Yeah Hephaistos and Archive of Nethys have been amazing tools to consolidate data; it's definitely made things easier for me.

[@bryce1197]

@@TheMapleTable Personally I agree. At least with my group I tend to focus more on fun than ensuring all rules are being followed. That said, curious if there's any specific rules you tend to be a bit more loose with? Or homebrew in/out entirely?

[@zacheryeckard3051]

@@bryce1197 Cover and shooting through a crowd can be fiddly. Might be worth streamlining somehow.

Starfinder is great. I GMed around five scenarios and everyone of the was a blast!

[@adriandavis3931]

Found your channel recently, loving it. You've been very helpful in giving me the information needed to look into Paizo's Starfinder RPG. I've purchased almost all of the Starfinder books and am looking at beginning my first game in about two weeks. Thank you for covering all the products and giving advice to new Starfinder players/game masters... I've shared your channel with my family and friends. Keep up the great work.

[@TheMapleTable]

That's awesome! Thanks for sharing and welcome to the table

[@xer0vi]

Been wanting to get into and run Starfinder. The more I keep researching about it the more I'm loving it. Your videos have helped. Trying to convince my players to play it will be fun. A few of them don't care for space stuff. But some of them do. I will be buying the core rulebooks and alien archives soon. I did get the book talking about mechs cause I love mechs. After DMing 5E and doing a lot of medieval fantasy..I'm ready to go into space.

[@TheMapleTable]

I love this setting, for me its a perfect blend of science and fantasy in space.

[@thiagoflores01]

Starfinder is awesome, my favorite TTRPG at this moment!

[@TheMapleTable]

Totally my favorite

[@thiagoflores01]

@@TheMapleTable 🙌🙌🙌🙌🍻

[@braddalrymple8615]

I've watched a few of your videos now I'll probably watch a bunch more over the coming weeks I have a 5E game wrapping up and we had planned to start another 5E game but we're also going to branch out and do some one shots and star finder is definitely the most exciting one. I have had a blast building characters learning about feats and rules and I hope it will continue to be awesome

[@TheMapleTable]

Its never a dull moment

[@allisoncampbell1631]

played for the first time this past weekend and really enjoyed it

[@TheMapleTable]

I love this system and im glad you enjoyed it!

[@robfrydryck127]

Holding off for Starfinder 2e. Sooo excited

[@dangerchris1915]

I support you and the things you say.

[@TheMapleTable]

Thanks for saying so!

[@swordhunter12]

Really, any game where you can play a locust-man Jedi who fights a Drow imperium with his Gundam, has to be doing something right.

[@Trashloot]

I love PF2E and i was always interested in PF1E but never dared to enter a game which so many books. I found my way in to PF1E by playing Kingmaker. Can someone please tell me if Starfinder has the same absurd number scaling as kingmaker and wrath of the righteous has ? I don't want to fight things with 90 AC where i have to stack 10 buffs to hit them.

[@alanthomasgramont]

How about a video with your top 5 best Starfinder starting locations other than Absolom station, including who for lore and what cool adventures could take place there.

[@TheMapleTable]

Sure I can do something like that

[@Dhyfis]

So far my main experience with Starfinder has been jury rigging stuff back toPathfinder 1e to make a campaign similar in premise to the Star Ocean series. I do hope to either run a full Starfinder campaign or get to play in one

[@TheMapleTable]

I hope you do too but please feel free to join my discord server where people can use my LFG for various games.

[@10Boxing]

I tried to buy this at my friendly local game store but they were sold out of the beginner box. :(

[@TheMapleTable]

Awe! Sorry to hear that

[@10Boxing]

Great video though. I found your channel awhile back while researching starfinder. I do feel like I need to give it a try once; does it have any of the same level of support on foundry or does any particular VTT work best?

[@TheMapleTable]

@@10Boxing I beleive foundy or fantasy grounds have decent support for it, Roll20 i find is clunky but works.

[@michaelkirchner339]

RIP Ajani. Lost but not forgotten.

[@imangriebeler3643]

Starfinder is amazing. I just want to play more.

[@TheMapleTable]

me too!

[@crazytanto8426]

I really like your deep dive videos, and I hope you delve into more specifics on Pathfinder. Like ancestry and classes

[@TheMapleTable]

It was always hard to get a pathfinder group that issue has been resolved

[@rommdan2716]

Great! You can change a fantasy/science fiction game that uses a d20 for a science fiction/fantasy game that uses a d20!

[@dancave6431]

The system is really good although there are a few things that I wish they would change. Replacing weapons frequently rather than investing in them like you can in Pathfinder 2e is a bit disappointing. If you are used to ditching weapons then it’s not an issue, if you want to build a legendary weapons that grows with you then the base game doesn’t support that. In general we run shorter sessions so I mod the combat NPCs to hit harder with less health. Which is working and makes the combat grind less, making my PCs feel more heroic. Early session combat before then was leaving my party feeling very inept and unthreatened before this. If you are coming from High Fantasy you need to talk to your players about their exploration aspirations as well. Most games will include a Starship at some point and at that point a wanderlust crew can and will effectively go anywhere! If you are the GM there are a number of free resources to help with this but the scope can be very daunting or liberating depending on how prepared you are.

[@TheMapleTable]

its not perfect by any means, it has quirks but I do love it.

[@dancave6431]

@@TheMapleTable whoops, didn’t want this to come off as negative. There are loads of things to LOVE about it and it has such a greater range of stories that can be told. It’s also easier to lampoon/critique modern culture in your games if that’s your thing. A great deal of tropes and culture references are easier fits in this setting which resonate more with players. I find the RP opportunities much better because players can visualise technology challenges better than medieval/high fantasy solutions.

[@TheMapleTable]

@@dancave6431 no offense taken :P

[@johnharrison2086]

More people should play Starfinder

[@TheMapleTable]

Indeed

[@zacharyhawley1693]

A single planet holds endless possibilities. So a galaxy or more holds infinite potential. Currently my party got sling shotted into a minor galaxy. It's been great they've found a friendly hive mind and everything.

[@TheMapleTable]

Then layer in alternate dimensions and realities... It gets crazy

[@zacharyhawley1693]

@@TheMapleTable oh gotcha there. Turns out the material plane is an infinite one that contains universes and their alternates that live and die in an endless dance. Creation never stopped.

[@Iymarra]

Whilst not 'player adventures' let me suggest 'Lancer' for sheer player options.

[@TheMapleTable]

I can look into it

[@Iymarra]

@@TheMapleTable Brilliant! PDF minus GM/NPC creation stuff is free from them. It's like, what if Battletech but *every mech and character can be awesome and cool.* Splits into narrative play and then combat missions, in and out of mech. Highly recommended. Fairly optimistic setting, too. Post-scarcity society but colonial diaspora is a big thing, so only core worlds are Haves, and a lot of the outer areas are Have-Nots. Central authority working to right the wrongs of old admins and free enslaved peoples, etc, but messages take time to travel and could have been sent tens of years ago.

[@JimboTauJones]

Wooooo!

[@TheMapleTable]

Oh yeah

[@greghodges2116]

Starfinder feels like Star Wars with elements of Warhammer 40K and Star Trek

[@greghodges2116]

And Shadowrun!

[@TheMapleTable]

all of them were sources of inspiration.

[@nathanwood1561]

Rest In Peace Ajani. You will be missed.

[@TheMapleTable]

my favorite magic character

[@thomasarcher2108]

This system is amazing, anyone who has played 3.5 should have no trouble, i recommend the condition cards they are a godsend for giving your players

[@TheMapleTable]

Condition cards are great, the rule cards are also awesome

[@SheenaTigerspielt]

I would have called the Mystic the Starfinder version of a cleric and the likes while the Technomancer is the version of the classical mage.

[@TarikZeraoui]

They are not, that's the mistake a lot of new Starfinder players make and get dissapointed with those classes, specially the technomancer.

[@GoliathcraftLP]

I gotta give starfinder another try at some point. The last time I played the GM made the game feel horrible so after that game fell apart I stopped trying to play. Then again that GM also made PF2e miserable, my favorite system so far. Maybe I'll be more happy behind the GM screen the next time around when I take another peak at Starfinder

[@TheMapleTable]

Its a wonderful system even though there are some bad GMs out there

[@thefenrisianssweatshop]

Soooo it’s got big robots, what’s basically the immaterium, annnnnd the machine God…. 🧐 I could run with this….

[@TheMapleTable]

its fantastic

[@thorinbane]

Really want to but tired of d20 systems that are laden with magic that can't be removed from the system.

[@RadeFoxxy]

I wanted to love Starfinder, but all the Gods, and ubiquitous ultra-high magic levels make the setting not really sci-fi at all. Def a High Magic Space Opera Fantasy, not Sci-Fi per se.

[@TheMapleTable]

Tech Revolution really goes hard on the sci part of this.

[@manarayofhope2374]

I,m more of shadow run kinda guy also mage is kinda a untapped market just saying.

[@TheMapleTable]

I do have videos on both :D just not a lot of them at the moment.

[@manarayofhope2374]

@@TheMapleTable I know you do I have watched them all all the shadow run and most of the world of darkness stuff

[@dahakacher]

I love Starfinder too much, but I'm terribly upset, because paizo are still working with russians(

[@CristianzenV]

Do you think a 9-year-old kid with no experience could learn how to play a simple class like the soldier?

[@TheMapleTable]

Probably, you might have to simplify some rules but i would always simplify things for kids

[@bumblebot2458]

So surprisingly enough, I managed to teach my little brother (who's 12 going on 13) how to make a character for this system, and he's managed to grasp the rules fairly well. Granted not perfectly, him and the rest of my group are moving from D&D 5e which has similarities and differences between, but having a fresh slate like you're saying this kid does may also help. Just be aware that you're gonna need to teach them several things. A few things I'd recommend are as follows. 1.) Use the Hephaistos Starfinder character sheet. It has all the content, you can make 60 characters with it at base, and uses drop-down menus for choices. It also has quick rules descriptions for stuff if you click around the finished sheet, so while the structural parts of combat you'll need to teach, guiding them to parts of the sheet will provide some help. 2.) Start them out with a base or familiar concept. There are a lot of Soldier esque characters in Sci Fi, so think about what they'll want and go from there. Do they like Star Wars? Have them play a Battle Droid esque character with the SRO race, or maybe a Chewbacca like character with the Uplifted Bear race. Maybe they like something like Halo, say a Spartan like Master Chief? Have them play a Human or Human Adjacent race like Android or Aasimar. Keeping a simple concept and then building that concept with them will really help them out. Just don't put them through overchoice (i.e. so many choices that it just gets overwhelming). 3.) For GMing and Player resources needs, use the Archives of Nethys wiki. It has a comprehensive wiki for Pathfinder 1e, Pathfinder 2e, and yes, Starfinder. Just search up the name in Google and you'll be able to find it. Don't recommend it for Pathfinder 1e (there's another wiki I like more as it has the third party content as well), but it's amazing for Starfinder.

[@CristianzenV]

@@bumblebot2458 thank you very much for your very detailed answer!

[@zacheryeckard3051]

The Basic Rules are a great middleground. Soldier isn't really simple, so much as the complexity is something you can choose, because you get so many feats and alternate features.