What Is The Gap? - Starfinder Lore

[@kapmando]

“Hey, if Starfinder is the future of Pathfinder, don’t we have to figure out what happens, and does that kinda render PC interaction meaningless?” “Oh. Um… Golarion vanishes.” “Okay but we have Gods and Divine intervention. High level spells give you ageless beings to question with a simple opposed charisma check.” “Everybody forgets and the Gods won’t say.” “Wouldn’t that make people paranoid of the gods or even blame them?” “…no?” Honestly I think a very fun game concept would be someone investigating the gap and them being blocked by acts of fate as Gods both good and evil, lawful and chaotic, interfere with them at every opportunity.

[@jadedoptimistt]

I could see it as an SCP style temporal cognitohazard. If you try to learn about it, and begin to succeed, your mind warps in some way to prevent or even undo the learning and stop you from realizing what it's doing to your brain

[@senint]

So the reasons for the Gap can be anything, what any GM wants it to be…? 🤔

[@6NecserHalo6]

@@senint Yes! In my setting the GAP lasted millenia and the gods disappear just a couple of centuries after it. Like a way to put more mistery into it.

[@chazzwozzio]

Caiden Caylen is one of the few who will talk about the gap but he is never happy doing so. He jokes a bit saying he must have been on a bender and blacked out but you can tell it scares the fuck outta him that he can't remember.

[@kitten_rose777]

@@jadedoptimistt If you check out the playest rulebook for Starfinder 2e, specifically the Witchwarper class write-up, this is basically what they went with.

[@t.t6294]

great video. really hoping Owlcat makes a Starfinder game next

[@Arrlong28563]

Greetings from Spain. I discovered Starfinder thanks to you and now some of the books are in Spanish. You are great.

[@TheMapleTable]

Gracias! I hope my videos can help

[@Norpfang]

Imagine being on your deathbed a day after the gap ended.

[@TheMapleTable]

What a terrible thought

[@oldcampaign]

I just started running a Starfinder game, and I got to admit, normally I'm a D&D 3.5 system guy, but I actually like Starfinder more than any D&D system. I've made my own universe based off our solar system, starting with "The Gap" being the moment worlds started mixing, combining magic and mundane world in ancient time. The new Precog class is a little difficult to work with, but I'm doing my best. Any advice on it?

[@TheMapleTable]

I haven't had a chance yet to add it to a game, I would suggest only making it an npc for now to get a feel for it?

[@oldcampaign]

@@TheMapleTable I got a player who wanted to be the test dummy for the Precog, and he chose the Gap subclass there. Kinda noticed it might be a bit OP, but they're only 2-3 players, so I should be able to adjust after a few sessions. I'll probably put it as an NPC to see how my Sunday players can deal with it. Thank you!

[@jarlupathingy7260]

Many things were lost in the Gap. Like my grandmas cookie recipe.

[@TheMapleTable]

Could you imagine being a galactic class chef and suddenly not know a single one of your recipes

[@jarlupathingy7260]

@@TheMapleTable Or an artist or author who was about to finish the masterpiece and then the Gap happened.

[@grinzler702]

Great video

[@TheMapleTable]

Thank you

[@JacksonOwex]

Some would say magic is just science/technology that we don't yet understand!!!

[@TheMapleTable]

I agree with statement

[@senint]

Wasn’t the third law of someone stating that? 🤔

[@Zeithri]

Kinda reminds me of that Star Trek TNG episode where they all wake up without any memory. And Worf thinks he's the captain :D

[@kailenmitchell8571]

Poor poor historians. They would loose most of their memories.

[@blackfistxu7953]

🙏🏾 Can’t wait for this to be made into a deep cRPG one day

[@Fstwist3393]

The idea of the Gap is very similar to the Warp from Warhammer 40k.. Maybe less demons but still very very cool

[@TheMapleTable]

never say never, inside the drift there are monsters too

[@Sandpointstation]

Love your videos. Keep them coming! Are you going to play sf2e or stick with sf1e.

[@TheMapleTable]

I always like to try the new thing, and after playing some pf2e I am fairly confident that I will enjoy it

[@MephiticMiasma]

This is sounding a lot like a Dragonbreak.

[@TheMapleTable]

I don't know what this game is

[@MephiticMiasma]

@@TheMapleTable Where were you when the Dragon broke? kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZqDMhqqgqblofKc

[@somerandomschmuck2547]

@@TheMapleTable I think they're referring to a concept from Elder scrolls, it’s related to the God/Divine of Dragon’s Akatosh, who is also the divine of time. A dragon break is, well the best way I could describe it from my own understanding is it’s a stable paradox. What exactly it does seems to very and there are different accounts about what happens in universe, but one thing that can happen is you get is completely contradictory events occurring at the same point in time but afterwards everything is completely fine. Best example I can think of is the Numidum (a Giant Dwemer Robot) which was effected by a Dragon Break. To make a long story short, it was destroyed, and because of its destruction several things happened, however, because it was in a Dragon Break. While it was destroyed, history says it was destroyed, people remember it being destroyed, and events played out in a certain way because it was destroyed, you can still find the thing walking around right as rain. To put it another way, it’s basically when someone manages to give the timeline a concussion, do whatever they want while it’s stumbling around trying to figure out which direction is up, and afterwards people just go back to their business.

[@The-Random-Hamlet]

Why didn't the elves go to college? Because they took a Gap year.

[@joaozorek5900]

Love your content, just please drop the creepy smile at the end of sentences. lol

[@TheMapleTable]

But thats my signature move...

[@joaozorek5900]

@@TheMapleTable Gotta smile to impress

[@TheLumpyShield]

@@TheMapleTable yeah plz stop it. I come here for knowledge and to learn something not to be creeped out. and sure, I could just listen to you like a podcast, but you also show pics that are helpful.

[@attackandsnack]

Like the content but the metal music was really distracting

[@TheMapleTable]

Thanks for the feedback

[@TheLumpyShield]

You're very knowledgeable, but it's super creepy that after you finish saying something you smile widely. Your creepy smile combined with your bright eyes is very unsettling. plz try not to do this so much.

[@TheMapleTable]

Sorry!

[@TheLumpyShield]

@@TheMapleTable It's ok, it's just hard to watch and pay attention to your lecture when your teeth are drawing my attention. You can be personable without having to smile all the time. Just be casual and friendly.