Hellknights Evolved For Starfinder

[@MrSteveK1138]

In the chaos of space, the Hellknights represent two ultimate goals: the establishment of Law, and the establishment of Order. These are their stories...

[@TheMapleTable]

This made me laugh much harder then it should have.

[@benjaminlampp6605]

Bom bom!

[@toastertech1181]

would pay to see this series

[@Pierre2079-g1u]

Great video, I recently started DMing in starfinder (with a pre-written adventure) and your content helped me greatly.

[@TheMapleTable]

Im glad to hear that, hope your players are also loving the adventure

[@Zeromegas]

The Judges of Judge Dreed with Black Knights and Tarkisis Knights throw into the mix

[@TheMapleTable]

Yup pretty much got it

[@archmageeldran2567]

Liked the video and I will admit while I do love the Hellknights I am going to admit that they are something I am apprehensive about using them in games (if I ever do a non AP game or play one) is that both how little we know of the characters of the group and also the hierarchy. While we knew the Pathfinder hierarchy it seems to be different in Starfinder as the Lictors who were the leaders of the order in Pathfinder seem to be lower ranked now if the hellknight armour rankings are to be believed. The other reason is the lack of information on the current orders modus operandi because while we have pathfinder related information on the old orders the new ones lack detail. The Starfinder operation manual gave information on the order of the Eclipse and the tech book that is coming out this year will likely cover the order of the furnace I do wish there was a book in the style of Near Space that covered the base factions that appear in the core rulebook in detail.

[@TheMapleTable]

i do believe it is a faction that definitely needs to be fleshed out for the new setting, but that also means no matter what you decide to do with them in your game your not wrong :D

[@ethanking9003]

You’re about to hit 1k subs!!!!!!!!!!! So happy to see this channel keep growing

[@TheMapleTable]

Its been a painful day of refreshing and checking lol

[@MrFahqup]

I'm on a maple table marathon. Good stuff as always. This video has me wanting to shoe horn some hell knights into this 1 shot I'm working on. Maybe right at the end for intrigue.

[@TheMapleTable]

Hell Knights are always good for mystery

[@jamesengland9582]

Hell yess brother great video

[@BeardClipper]

As always another fantastic interesting video :) congratulations on your 1k and onwards to more growth :) I love your content mate and know you'll just get more and more successful!

[@TheMapleTable]

Thanks for the support and helping me get to 1k!

[@gamingstuff1922]

Hey youre at 1k subs good for you! glad Game On sent me over a few months ago to help you hit that goal.

[@TheMapleTable]

Glad my content could keep you around! thank you for your support over these few months!

[@gamingstuff1922]

@@TheMapleTable :D

[@wizzolizzo1064]

Seeing an old video of Starfinder: HELL YEAH!!, GOTTA PULL OUT THE POPCORN FOR THIS!!

[@TheMapleTable]

Very very old :p

[@wizzolizzo1064]

@@TheMapleTable but still very much appreciated

[@aaronlirette1336]

The Hellknights are the primary antagonists in my game, "The Fugitives". What's wild is that there is an Android, Order of the Chain, an enemy named P3@C3...I use a picture that you used but isn't a traditional Hellknight pic.

[@TheMapleTable]

The one in my thumbnail is from an official Paizo source :p i thought it was different from what others had used so I ran with it.

[@aaronlirette1336]

@@TheMapleTable 3:58

[@TheMapleTable]

@@aaronlirette1336 i really liked that one too

[@aaronlirette1336]

@@TheMapleTable it was definitely a great minds think alike moment for me. I squeed and my wife was very confused.

[@TheMapleTable]

@@aaronlirette1336 mine is always confused when i get going about starfinder, werewolf... *insert rpg here*

[@mkdh2298]

Hell yes, very nice info. Now I just need a way to include the Hellknights in my campaign...

[@TheMapleTable]

Just have them show up, that would be probably the best way and most terrifying way to do it.

[@mkdh2298]

@@TheMapleTable Right, that would scare the HELL out of them.

[@OverboardDM]

Hell in space. Badass flame boys are everywhere. 🔥 😈

[@TheMapleTable]

They are pretty cool, i enjoy them

[@lazerninga]

So Hell Knight ships are like Nightcrawler from X-Men, they teleport through Hell. That’s badass.

[@TheMapleTable]

its so cool, and hell has multiple levels in it as its a separate plane of existence.

[@Qardo]

Well, if I dragged my Greyhawk character through some Portal Magic BS and end up in Starfinder. I wonder if he would make a good Hell Knight? He was a Cleric of Saint Cuthbert. He was an Undead Slayer and Balancer of the Scales. Wielder of Cuthbert's Cudgel and High Judge of the Order. Even built a Temple on the grounds of a little shrine he rebuilt between Greyhawk and Divers. Typing this all out. I may just make my own faction in Starfinders. I do not see anything stopping me from doing so. And old school Priest in transported. Either out of time or literally taken to another plane of existence. His righteous fury and faith will not stop him. To either return home or accept that his God wanted him there. To that he brings word of the Balancer of the Scales. The Lawbringer. The Cudgel to this wild Universe. Oh yeah. Hell Knights may get along with him. At least some.

[@gameon_ct]

The question is: does it have some weird pillar that makes drift space not work? Cuz I'm pretty sure a special someone is a Hellknight.

[@TheMapleTable]

I promise the character and video are not related :p

[@gameon_ct]

@@TheMapleTable *cautiously looks at you with side eye*

[@ChadTheThirdUK]

Another Starfinder video, another like from me and another comment - Just like the simulations :D I'd love to hear your views on Starfinder in comparison to D&D. I only ask this because I find the lore SOOOOOOOO fascinating but the crunch SOOOOOOOOO off putting. So much so that I worry it holds back what would otherwise be a super popular and loved franchise/universe.

[@TheMapleTable]

I could do a comparison to dnd, for what i know of dnd anyway. Personally im drawn to a little crunch, because it allows rule bending and so on. I'd have to think about how to position this but... Its a good idea

[@windermelon9567]

The main differences you'll find are that players are presented with more throughout leveling, there aren't hard caps on any stats, and proficiency bonus is instead divided into base attack bonus and skill ranks. As well as multiple forms of ac.

[@jonathanosborne4817]

My wife in Pathfinder played one bad ass Judge Dredd inspired Hellknight! Now that we are running a Starfinder one I was thinking of incorporating her character as an NPC whom is somehow still alive albeit perhaps Darth Vader like... More machine than woman. They are a party of scoundrels... 😂 It would be such a treat.

[@TheMapleTable]

IK love it when you can bring back characters like that and blow the minds of your players.

[@jonathanosborne4817]

@@TheMapleTable blow her mind yes! TERRIFY the other players when they realise whom the big bad Hellknight is! 😈

[@jarlupathingy7260]

Seems to be a lack of lawyers and bureaucrats in the order should have someone to do the paperwork and contracts

[@GoblinLord]

That lost planet sounds oddly familiar... wonder if that's on purpose

[@jrock-hk7rm]

As far as I've read, Society play restricts PCs from being Hell Knights. Probably bc it may break some scenarios and/or Society does not want law-crazed fanatics amoung their ranks. I could see the conflict between peaceful encounters SFS mandates and Hell Knight violent motivations to keep law and order.

[@TheMapleTable]

I would be hesitant to let a PC be a hell knight in my games too. At least untill a little more is known about them.

[@millerdiamond708]

hellknights aka house Harkonnen in Starfinder

[@Kholan95]

Very Warhammer 40,000 but not the faction you might think based on the aesthetic choices lol

[@Sedthecursed]

Hellknights : Black Templars dressed as Dark Eldars.

[@jamesengland9582]

Can I have a human operative hell knight

[@jamesengland9582]

What about a human operative hell knight woohoo

[@MisterZimbabwe]

So Hellknights are basically a collection of Judge Dredds who literally worship the concept of laws and rules. God, Hellknights would make for not the best and the worst GMs. They'd always know all the rules of all the books from memory and would never pull any bullshit GM fiats or fudge their dice rolls. On the other hand any player who tries to do anything outside the proscribed rules immediately gets stabbed IRL.

[@MisterZimbabwe]

*both, not "not", God damn autocorrect

[@TheMapleTable]

yea you pretty much got it there

[@benjaminlampp6605]

It's interesting how fantasy games often depict Hell as the epitome of Law and Order.... Almost like they are trying to send a message....... ANARCHY NOW!!!! I hope a Hellknight doesn't see this comment.

[@TheMapleTable]

I would say hell has a good military hierarchy what with all the levels.

[@benjaminlampp6605]

@@TheMapleTable it does make sense in a world where there is a clear ruler of Hell that the only way to keep all the evil in check would be to enforce a strict, no hold barred law system. What I think is most interesting about the Hellknights is that they don't do this to seek power or out of a sense of morality. They seek law and order simply for the sake of law and order itself.

[@TheMapleTable]

@@benjaminlampp6605 and this is what makes them so terrifying in my eyes