Davvy's Guide to Starfinder

There are stars everywhere. You don't need a book to find them.
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[@fatcoyote2]

One thing about Starfinder I truly appreciate: meet ups. How many games of fantasy where everyone meets up in a tavern/pub? Most of them. Places I've had meetings in Starfinder: - Strip club - Parking lot of space Walmart at three in the morning - On the internet during a scheduled Zoom call - Waiting area of a checkpoint where our respective transports were getting inspected - Various apartments - Space Bar Mitzvah

[@chaoticzer0688]

All of these sound like absolutely amazing places to meet your homies at 😂😂

[@wee3ist]

Space Bar Mitsva sounds so funny

[@Sbevewagon4493]

I thought those were places you’ve met up to play starfinder and it just kept getting funnier

[@user-qy8kk8yx4q]

the space bar mitzvah is so funny to me, becuse as a jaew i could just *see* us getting into space. we will survive until the heat death of the fucking universe, frankly.

[@edgytheedgehog8618]

I mean, you can meet up at those places in medieval fantasy too. Just the medieval fantasy equivalent. I've seen (or done) 5e meetups in a train, the middle of the road, a ship, an AIRship, even a damn canoe, and wizard college. Stuff like prison and brothels can work too.

[@Zedrinbot]

One thing great about Starfinder, race templates aren't super dense, so it's actually really easy to adapt exotic races as a player character. Many aliens, if they have any form of civilization or intelligence, also have player options on their stat blocks, even. Since it's very technology-driven, your innate racial powers won't surpass your class and equipment, even they would in a more medieval RPG. They have stat blocks to play a floating brain, what's basically a tentacle monster, a dragonkin, or even a giant crystalline slug. And it makes it look pretty simple to homebrew aliens to play as too.

[@yourface2464]

Hell yeah! Urog or bust!

[@reaganeidemiller7132]

The starfinder races are a bit ridiculous. There are like 60 of them now, and I've banned quite a few for being too out of place (some don't have hands, or are large sized, or both, which makes it really difficult to play the game when they can't pick things up)

[@Zedrinbot]

@@reaganeidemiller7132 Yeah, they always need to be suitable for the setting, but still, the stat blocks being slimmer by comparison to the things your class and equipment gives you makes it easier to draft up homebrew.

[@HandyTammy548]

@@reaganeidemiller7132 Officially(unless otherwise noted) all playable races have at least two limbs/appendages that act as arms/hands. Like a Bantrid's head tentacles count as hands or an Urog's mantis-like arms. But I've definitely banned large size races to non-experienced players, I've had too many people block hallways or dying from friendly fire because they're so damn big. I think tweaking map sizes or try to keep fights in open areas might be the best way around large pcs. Plus some large races are just made broken like the Trox or Megalonyxa.

[@reaganeidemiller7132]

@@HandyTammy548 there's also that one race that's part of an evil hivemind, I banned it

[@GameWithTom1]

Starfinder was my first post-5e ttrpg. Totally agree with the Chappster here. Great system, love the universe it’s set in and definitely worth a slot in the rotation

[@grizzlyowlbear3538]

I call him the Chappsmeister

[@nicholaspayne198]

Please do more of Starfinder. For the brief time that I played it it was great. I was a Mechanic, stuck on a prison/mining moon. My friends and I started a jailbreak, caused havoc and got loose. The best part (for me) was that the ships to gtfo were all mechanically and digitally locked but, being a big brain Mechanic, I hacked the ship and manually unlocked the door and kick started the engine. Then we were free. Good times.

[@cdunlaply]

Not gonna lie, emma's background jokes give me life.

[@snakegodgodofsnakes1818]

The “I also had a hard time transitioning” made my day

[@zoneri]

Makes the videos a must watch rather than just a must listen

[@matthew_thefallen]

@@cdunlaply what? Who?

[@McFatson]

Hey, good video. Loved the editing. Two rules corrections, if I may: - Spending Resolve to restore Stamina is meant to be done out of combat over a 10 minute rest. - Character creation is VERY much balanced around point buy for ability scores, with rolling being an optional roll for legacy's sake. Thanks for showing SF some love!

[@megaflash335]

There is also the choice to spend a resolve point to stabilize yourself in combat. You can then spend another resolve point next turn to get up at 1 HP.

[@thechubbyatheist9913]

My group is getting ready for our first Starfinder game and as a DM the massive shift in setting was actually a huge spark for creativity.

[@Skulltar69]

Again i suggest playing regular Pathfinder with just a space theme to it. Tonnes more content with a much less clunky system.

[@premenband]

Ah ah ah, not a DM a SL, a Star Lord

[@KensanOni]

You might want to check out the d20 Star Wars game, which is where Piazo lifted the HP/Stamina rules from.

[@worthasandwich]

Star Wars Revised was my first system and I love it dearly. It had so many cool mechanics that made so much sense for Star Wars that I have not seen elsewhere.

[@MackDnD]

Saga edition? That one was dope

[@KensanOni]

@@MackDnD Never played the Saga Edition. Hear lots of good things about it, though.

[@jacobdagun3670]

I swear he already talked about it...

[@binturongjustice]

@@jacobdagun3670 he did

[@miguelbencomo431]

It'd be cool if you did Mutants and Masterminds next,

[@trappyboi8678]

Too complex

[@damiank5412]

I'd love that so much

[@ninjabluefyre3815]

Please, I wanna make a full character so bad.

[@ChibiKami]

@@trappyboi8678 pic a template and reference a relevant power guide and you'll have your first character inside of an hour

[@leopardeye1654]

Putting a pathfinder full caster in starfinder. It would be kind of like being the caster servant from the fate series. Less powerful of course but I like the idea of being a bearer of lost knowledge.

[@CCartman69]

Sounds like a terrible idea, but most great stories start off that way, so let us know how it goes!

[@kittyshippercavegirl]

Rule Breaker in more ways than one.... lol

[@FanOfMostEverything]

"What do you mean, _seventh_ level spells?"

[@grayfulbester]

sounds like playing Medea or another of the really ancient casters, you could go full into the concept and play some sort of caster Gilgamesh, literally the oldest human around with knowledge so obscure it sounds like legends.

[@jacobjensen7704]

@@grayfulbester So Fate Grand Order Gilgamesh?

[@jasonfrancese8359]

2:50 Agents of SHIELD reference? Hell yeah brother!

[@PantheraLeo04]

That was a great show

[@jordandinelt76]

Thank u for pushing enough people to this game to get something going on roll20 I REALLY. Want this game to be main stream.

[@cyberslayer9098]

Seeing rimshot written is way funnier than actually hearing one

[@bionicdragon5]

Probably because it has "rim" in it.

[@kingsadvisor18]

What about a Davvy's guide to setting? Everyone points out DnD is fantasy Europe but the rules and bestiary allows for an amazingly diverse setting. Right now I'm DMing a Pirates of the Caribbean themed game. And I didn't even have to make everyone multi class into Swashbuckler Rogue.

[@uglyweirdo1389]

Orc. Ork. Legally distinct.

[@yumnits2946]

Hopefully this will lead to new Starfinder players on Roll20 lol

[@dakotadawn5789]

Sadly there are only like 3 listings

[@senint]

Aye, agreed

[@AmericanMaking]

More Starfinder Videos Please!! I'm not gonna have much luck convincing my D&D group to transition to Starfinder but I soooo want to.

[@DStrormer]

Never realized Starfinder was so different from base Pathfinder 1e. Gonna have to check that out. Also, continuing to beg you to cover Green Ronin's AGE system in one of these. It really deserves more love, whether you're playing Dragon AGE or one of the various other options.

[@geoffreyperrin4347]

Honestly, aside from City of Mist or Monster of the Week, Starfinder is the game I want to branch out of D&D to the most. I have the core rulebook and alien archive 1 (I'm typically the DM), but don't want to buy more until I know a group will play with me

[@jhinpotion9230]

City of Mist rocks, dude. From your comment, I'm not sure if you've played/ran it or not, but if you haven't, make it your mission.

[@Skulltar69]

Dude just play Pathfinder and give it a Space theme, you get way more content with much less of a clunky system. Or if that fails, play with the Spheres of power and might add on rule set

[@fruscht]

I like Davvy's pace, one of the few channels I don't need to listen on 1.25x or 1.5x speed.

[@Yurt_enthusiast7]

You must've a busy schedule

[@KlausWonderstrap]

THANK YOU FOR THIS!! Starfinder doesn't get nearly as much love as it should!

[@tiazoh]

My first and only Starfinder game I was level 1 in a level 6 party. It was in a hobby shop. The only things I did that mattered was almost die twice (eating up healing spells), succeed in a history check, and use a fire extinguisher on a fire elemental.

[@ASquared544]

Huh, this video really simplified what Starfinder is as a system for me. I honestly thought it was more complicated at a first glance. If you don’t mind Davvy, I would appreciate if you did one of these videos for a Powered by the Apocalypse system, or just Powered By the Apocalypse as a whole. I’d like to know more about the systems as they seem pretty simple but I have no idea where to start with them.

[@rfc1526]

I would love more Starfinder videos Davvy. Witchwarper and Mechanic are my favorite classes lol.

[@bobalmond8257]

Another game I can’t find anyone to play with. Ha great as usual

[@TheDizzieC]

I've been waiting for this. I want to play but my local group literally will not play anything but DnD and Magic.

[@madmanwithaplan1826]

Love starfinder especially as a setting its great one of the only games where not only arent the undead strictly evil they're also mostly functional members of society. really threw my players through a loop when they boarded the ship of a missing skeletal musician and found the entire place reconfigured like a social event with tons of dance halls a banquet of very poisonous food for most lifeforms and some way too helpful undead servants. nonething in the place had more than like 3 hp. but nothing was really trying to kill them. just hurt them by accidents standing in the wrong place in a swing dancehall of skeletons. bumping into oozes in a zero G dance room eating bad food. so they just played along till the end. it was a dangerous social dungeon in space and i cannot think of anywhere else thats possible. I really enjoyed the video and i look forward to the next one. I'm really hoping at some point he covers Through the Breach. IMO one of the best rpgs out there and if anyone reading this wants to know more let me know

[@buttercup9709]

One thing I really appreciate with starfinder is the space combat. it's personally one of the best aspects of the game for me, biased as I am through my many years of playing tabletop war games with my dad I immediately took to the space combat like a duck to water, so as soon as I was done playing the pregenned solarian kasatha I had I immediately made a mechanic ace pilot so I could fly the ship!

[@mmpatitucci]

Thanks for the video. This will be our group's first crack at Starfinder, after decades of D&D and Pathfinder. I'm looking forward to a new system, but I'm glad we don't have to figure out a new system from scratch.

[@DixonAsses]

Love Starfinder. It’s character creation feels so much more in depth. There’s just so much MORE of everything. The setting makes almost anything possible.

[@cleo3228]

1:25 hehe, mood.

[@AnotherNightOwl1127]

My Eberron game is taking a pause at the moment for my buddy's game, so I'm about to go take a look at this

[@darienb1127]

Starfinder is a game that i've been interested for a while. if what you say about it being an in between of Pathfinder and 5e, I actually might check this out. also good to know i can still be a spellcaster in this system. space magic is awesome, and no one me otherwise.

[@thegooddinggleberry]

Even when things go wrong, like a player dropping off, you can act like any cool scfi thing(space cult sacrifice or they were a double agent working for evil galactic industrial syndicate) happened to their character and will just add to the tension in the game. This game is mad fun. The races are Awsome.

[@darienb1127]

@@thegooddinggleberry i'm down for new races and such, but honestly, the thought of space elves, dwarves and other stuff actually sounds really cool. hell, if you have ever heard of Deep Rock Galactic, that's basically space dwarves.

[@Tanglangfa]

Starfinder is what got me into Pathfinder 2.

[@DycuswasHere]

I love this game! Everything about it just pushed the right buttons! From how HP and AC work to all the gizmos and weapons! Now to find a party that actually wants to play it...

[@stephaniejenkins7822]

I wish I'd found this video before I started playing Starfinder back in the beginning of the year... Still, this was super helpful and a lot of fun to watch! 😁

[@thedigodragon]

I ran a cyberpunk campaign using the Starfinder system and it worked out beautifully.

[@LarsaXL]

I didn't expect to be, but yeah I'm sold. Will definitely check this one out. I'm always a fan of a simple system. Going "Hmm, it doesn't have what I want, so I'll homebrew it." Is a lot better than going through hundreds of pages in search for that feat that is almost what you want.

[@RenonUthZhakrin]

I was never sold on starfinder, but my group pulled together a twitch stream I was wrapped up into and am shocked at how much I fell in love with it.

[@zoushaomenohu]

AH GAD I FRIGGIN' LURVE STAHFINDAH!!!

[@tatlxtael2303]

Oh man perfect timing I’ve been wanting to see more about starfinder lately

[@cjcjcj1909]

Friendship ended with Starfinder, now Traveller is my best friend

[@johnwalborn6050]

At long last, I have found the answer to the eternal question of "What sort of action is required to get jiggy widdit?" 🤣🤣🤣

[@justinjacobs1501]

Running a half-orc shock and awe soldier who specializes in weaponizing punk rock and raging against the machine. It's basically like if the bard got angry and decided to make their lute send out sonic booms that can kill.

[@bekkaanneee]

i have 22 hours to learn starfinder well enough to run a one shot for work- i haven’t played og pathfinder in years, but someone’s gotta take the nerds to space. this was quite helpful, thank you!

[@qdaniele97]

To be fair, even WH40K started out as something along that line 😁 "Wait... What if we took our fantasy game world and moved it thousands of years into the future?" "Cool... I bet our egiptian themed undeads would look sick as creepy ancient robots..." "...hear this out: Orcs and goblins sprout form the ground of infected planets like mushrooms..."

[@duttdits]

I ran a 3 session starfinder game once for some friends. God we loved it. A nice refreshing break from d&d. Ship combat felt a bit clunky though. Maybe that was just my unfamiliarity

[@danepatterson8107]

You tell a good story quickly. I appreciate that.

[@prof.loophole9708]

Somethings about Starfinder I didn't like as someone who read it but does not have really any play time with (so you know take with salt ) was the jedi class, vehicles/ship combat, and general lack of direction for DMs on what the players are. These are all things that might have been cleared up in official campaigns, extra books or even just errata, but as someone who read the books as they came out I was lost

[@PayneBone]

most of the legacy races seem out of place but after playing DRG, teh dwarves feel right at home in space. ROCK AND STONE, an

[@imwhatthekidscallcringy3858]

Wow that art is so beautiful

[@MrEcae]

Awesome video! Been playing starfinder recently with my D&D group and we've been having a blast exploring all the fun sci fi stuff in the system. We're also planning to try out Changeling: the Lost soon, though there isnt a lot of good content about the system on youtube. Would you consider doing one of these guide for CtL? I think it would help a lot of people explore a really cool system :)

[@omikun17]

Robot Technomancer sounds dope as fuck and I want to play one now.

[@haichie1341]

I'm going to start a starfinder campaign soon!! Aaaa I'm so excited

[@mortdigo]

Do more starfinder vids please lol. It's a desert out there when it comes to STARFINDER instructional videos and you did such a great job with this one.

[@JamesTillmanjimthegray]

Love that you did a starfinder one

[@lemonicity4834]

Dav man, dav man dav man

[@anonymouskitten4715]

I kinda want this series back…

[@patrickh8109]

I always wanted to run the Planet Death campaign. Your charecters are contestants on a reality tv show where they have to escape a planet before it gets blown up.

[@Ryu_D]

Thank you for the episode.

[@georgiilogashenko781]

I still have fond memories of Star Wars Table top we have played. Armorer guardian subclass was hella tanky and fun.

[@coolio3267]

So, um mutants and masterminds

[@chaerodactyl]

oh wow consider me hooked, I wanna have high fantasy-sci fi adventures thanks for doing this, Davvy!

[@ctmcreature]

"Who wants Orcs or Elves in Space?" *Glances over to the 100+ Blood Axe Orks on my shelf* Well of course i know him, he is me!

[@RecklessFables]

The one innovation starfinder brought was a system where you have helped points and stamina points. It is easy to regain stamina with short rests. Health points are much harder to heal

[@RecklessFables]

Pretty much everything else was not much of an improvement

[@AndrianX]

This video is so good for a introduction to Starfinder! :D

[@TheValiantBob]

I love Starfinder, but sometimes I feel like the gear system both works for and against it. On one hand you have TONS of customization options between weapon types, weapon mods, armor mods, cybernetics, etc.. That is awesome and I absolutely LOVE it for that! But on the other hand, gear level kinda ends up a LOT more important than character level. Sure as your character level goes up you'll get more abilities and stats, but without high level gear you'll do no damage or have terrible AC regardless of your stats or class powers or feats. So sometimes it can almost feel like your actual character is less important than your collection of loot. The insane level of customization with the gear can also cause a bit of feature shock due to the sheer volume of stuff you can buy. Especially if you're a new player and don't know what you need or what is worth the credits, since unlike 5th Edition D&D, Starfinder does not have starting equipment for each class you're just given a pool of credits at creation and told to go nuts. That said, the game itself is actually tons of fun, and I really recommend the system for people looking for a new setting for their campaigns!

[@lemonicity4834]

dav man chap man

[@DarkestWine]

I just started a game of starfinder! Absolutely love it! My character is a human soldier named bird boy, who's like Robin if Batman was as abusive as Rick from Rick and Morty

[@ThatGuy-st2ow]

Finally I love starfinder i love it more than d&d

[@rowanl3059]

I’ve been waiting for you to cover this!!!!

[@josephbyler6666]

You should definitely do the 40k RPG's next :) I really like seeing you branch out into non-d&d stuff. Please keep making these videos :)

[@senint]

Starfinder is currently in my personal top 3 of favorite TTRPGs, and would like to find more players for it. 👍

[@zoneri]

Ooooo weapon love for the martial classes, NICE

[@rowanl3059]

Id love to see more starfinder content from you!!!!

[@rpgmaster8964]

Learning about the simplicity of this system makes me wanna run some games in it so bad.

[@reaganeidemiller7132]

1:25 ha mood tbh

[@tobz3229]

4:16 ENTRAPTAAAAAA

[@IanAnimatesBagels]

Davvy has the best editor, hands down. She edited 7 whole minutes of sci-fi jokes, while I can't find a single picture that isn't somehow related to Star Wars. not to mention the mad respect for another trans gal like myself.

[@kaleocardoza8486]

Thank you!

[@mr.makepeace3465]

I want more Starfinder!

[@TheUnluckyEverydude]

I feel like this video is about to blow up.

[@Ogrimmygrimgrim]

I can't wait for Pathfinder 2

[@SpitfiretheCat16]

_raises hand_ But sir, I don't like space.

[@excalibasterdx6476]

Thanks davvy some of my friends have starfinder books and play it and a watch a couple games of starfinder from taking20 and xp3. So with this video I going to full on try starfinder.

[@lenodas3567]

When my friends and I played Starfinder, we always just thought of the stamina points as a personal shield generator instead. Not that it's important or anything, just felt a bit more fitting to us

[@procrastinatinggamer]

Awesome video Davvy, though a part of me is worried that someone is going to see this video, look up the game on the Archives of Nethys (which really should've gotten a mention - having the whole game's mechanics available for free officially can really help sell people on a system), see the starship combat rules and think "Man, I can see why Davvy never mentioned these in the video." I don't think the starship combat rules are that bad, though I have yet to actually play Starfinder (all the people I know interested in RPGs are in America or Europe and I'm down in Australia so all the issues with game scheduling just get even worse due to timezones) so I could be wrong. I do know they've been a bit contentious at times, though I think new crew roles added in the Starship Operations Manual went some way to alleviating that. And now the obligatory video request. :P Exalted 3e or Through The Breach 2e. Moreso the latter because I'm curious how you'll find using a deck of poker cards shared between all the players (and each player having their own separate hand of cards from a different deck to substitute in for the card they just flipped) as a replacement for dice.

[@timothysatyr6674]

This makes me think of TSRs Alternity

[@kendalldrury8156]

Loooove Starfinder

[@flooferderp2918]

"Awkward time transitioning" YUP YUP *YEUP*. Hehehe

[@Danmarinja]

I tried to watch this with subtitles and… oh my god that was an experience. Those subtitles couldn’t keep up at all.

[@toastertech1181]

fun fact, reason why i first picked starfinder was cause i didn't get into any only war games at the time.. i got hooked on it a bit, so far been apart of 3 different games all quite interesting c: and the system is for some strange reason simpler than 5e but at the same time being more complex

[@agustinvenegas5238]

huh, i might obsess over this now then

[@SonicArrow451]

@5:33 Hah! Sacrifices! My homebrew dnd setting has elves who live on the moon through magi-tech. I’d kill for more people willing to play sci-fi settings than cookie cutter fantasy.

[@sir_ridley388]

As a human fighter main I can't wait to be a human soldier IIIIIIIN SPAAAAAAACE. I'll let you all be Ysoki solarians or Lashunta technomancers

[@noahhager1187]

oh I want to play this so badly

[@Dave_Caraxes]

i love starfinder

[@pimpa1]

As someone who just recently finished playing a year long campaign as an operative, here´s my 2 cents. But first, let me get this out of the away: if you want to play D&D/Pathfinder in space that´s exactlly the game for you. Also, the lore is great. If not, here´s my criticisms: - The starship system is boring, seems like an afterthought (even considering the Starship Operations Manual) - Firearms are not taken seriously, they feel like high-tech bows. As a standard rule, you can make only one shot per turn, even with automatic rifles. Sure you can use some other maneuvers as a full action, but they are rarely a good option - Grenade damage is way too low. Sniper rifles are barely useless - As an operative, you have a lot of options in combat, but just one really matters: trick attack. It´s very similar to the sneak attack in 5e, except you don´t have to meet specific conditions to be able to use it... so why not use it all the time? As a house rule, we tried to fix this by making it consume 1 resolve point to execute, so dual attacks and triple attacks would a lot more useful - The bonuses go way too high. If you ever played D&D 3.5 you know this is a problem in mid-high levels as low level enemies pose little to no threat after your AC goes up beyond 25 or something. - Enemy saving throws are way too high in later game. Most of the time our technomancer tried to use a spell that could be resisted by a saving throw, she would fail as the monster just had to roll something around 3-7 on the D20. If you´re looking for something more sci-fi, I highly recommend Traveller 2e by Mangoose. There´s also the Alien RPG that seems pretty fun. If you want to play Star Wars, just go to the Star Wars RPG already.

[@DHTheAlaskan]

I actually never got to try Starfinder, it looks like a lot of fun

[@eleutheros7216]

Do it! My groups' best campaign so far is a Starfinder's one, I didn't believe in it at first but boi do I like this system now :D

[@prtwriter4660]

It is 👍

[@Skulltar69]

Hey Davvy you should do a video on the Pathfinder add on Spheres of Power and might.