Starfinder Warframe--Powered By Starfinder--Coming To A Tabletop Near You!

In October 2025, a new tabletop RPG adventure called Warframe x Starfinder: Operation Orias will be launching. It's a collaboration between Paizo Publishing and video game developer Digital Extremes.

Warframe is a third-person shooter video game which first released in 2013. As members of an ancient warrior culture called the Tenno you wake after suspended animation to fight different factions using 'warframes', described as 'anthropomorphous biomechanical combat units'.

Starfinder, of course, is Paizo's sci-fantasy spin-off of Pathfinder.

If you're at Gen Con this year (July 31st-August 3rd), you can try the game out at Paizo's booth.

Prepare to reach far beyond the Origin System’s boundaries, Tenno! We’re happy to announce a collaboration with award-winning tabletop roleplaying game publisher Paizo to bring Warframe into the Starfinder Roleplaying Game this October.

Starfinder blends sci-fi and fantasy into a rich tabletop RPG experience and soon you’ll be able to guide your very own Tenno through its universe. This collaboration features cover and intro page artwork by Silvia Barreira Pedregal (Brighan) and an introduction by TheKengineer.

 

[sevenbastard]

Not familiar with Warframe, does it have Magic in the universe? Or is this going to be Magic free sci fi?

Good to see a collaboration.

 

[Corinnguard]

 

[Corinnguard]

'anthropomorphous biomechanical combat units'.

Constructs?

 

[Morrus]

Not familiar with Warframe, does it have Magic in the universe? Or is this going to be Magic free sci fi?

Haven't the foggiest!

 

[The_Warlock]

Warframe could be best summed up as....

High Speed, Low Drag, Remotely Psi-Operated Biomechanical Viral Infested Battle Armors originally made of real people, who are directed by the Eldritch Horror powered psychics who were (collectively) the last war crime of a genetically engineered human species who mostly solved their problems with war crimes. Warframes (and their operators) now fight against the various fascistic, capitalistic, bioweapon, and eldritch horror factions using their psychic kung fu + blue beam physics/impossible sci-magic powers.

PS: The psychics' greatest super power in the eyes of the Orokin (the humans who solved everything with war crimes) was empathy for the viral bioweapon twisted warframes.

 

[Morrus]

Warframe could be best summed up as....

High Speed, Low Drag, Remotely Psi-Operated Biomechanical Viral Infested Battle Armors originally made of real people, who are directed by the Eldritch Horror powered psychics who were (collectively) the last war crime of a genetically engineered human species who mostly solved their problems with war crimes. Warframes (and their operators) now fight against the various fascistic, capitalistic, bioweapon, and eldritch horror factions using their psychic kung fu + blue beam physics/impossible sci-magic powers.

PS: The psychics' greatest super power in the eyes of the Orokin (the humans who solved everything with war crimes) was empathy for the viral bioweapon twisted warframes.

I read the Wikipedia page and still don’t know what a warframe was, so thanks for that! Everything I could find seemed to assume ‘warframe’ is a commonly used word known to everybody!

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

WARFRAME Wiki

Greetings, Operators! Welcome to the WARFRAME Wiki, the official Tenno-made encyclopedia about the game WARFRAME. We hope to collate and collect data on everything WARFRAME-related: mechanic explanations; weapon, Warframe & pet statistics; and all the lore of the WARFRAME universe.

wiki.warframe.com

sci-fi shooter where the PCs wear a "living armour", like a bioconstruct symbiont.

 

[Cergorach]

"Wake up, Tenno. Wake up."

This collaboration adventure between Digital Extremes and Paizo puts players in the skin of iconic Warframe characters. Play as one of four unique protoframes in this standalone Starfinder Second Edition adventure—the Lotus needs you to rescue a spy from a Corpus research facility teeming with loyal crewmen and MOAs, escaped Infested experiments, and Grineer saboteurs! This PDF includes an adventure designed for 4-6 hours of play, four premade characters, a primer for Warframe's setting, and advice for customizing your game. Operation Orias takes place in Warframe's Origin System featuring characters, enemies, and equipment from the video game, adapted to the tabletop format using the Starfinder Second Edition rules engine. If you've ever wanted to play Warframe as a tabletop RPG, now's your chance!

Source: paizo.com - Starfinder x Warframe: Operation Orias

Looks like a $9.99 PDF adventure.

I'm extremely disappointed! I had hoped that Paizo would be making a pnp RPG based on the Warframe universe with the Starfinder rules set. And if possible, the (concept) art from Warframe. This just looks like a (cheap) cross promotion... I'll probably still get it, because it's better then nothing, but still...

 

[Belen]

Warframe could be best summed up as....

High Speed, Low Drag, Remotely Psi-Operated Biomechanical Viral Infested Battle Armors originally made of real people, who are directed by the Eldritch Horror powered psychics who were (collectively) the last war crime of a genetically engineered human species who mostly solved their problems with war crimes. Warframes (and their operators) now fight against the various fascistic, capitalistic, bioweapon, and eldritch horror factions using their psychic kung fu + blue beam physics/impossible sci-magic powers.

PS: The psychics' greatest super power in the eyes of the Orokin (the humans who solved everything with war crimes) was empathy for the viral bioweapon twisted warframes.

Or Space Ninjas.