Paizo Announces Starfinder 2nd Edition

As part of the keynote presentation for Gen Con 2023, Paizo announced Starfinder 2nd Edition.

A new edition is coming for Starfinder, making it fully compatible with Pathfinder 2nd Edition and the Remaster Project. The new edition will be published under the ORC License and implements the three-action economy.

“With the finalization of the ORC License, and considering that Starfinder 1st Edition has been evolving since its release in 2017, we felt now was a perfect time to bring the system into the future,” says Starfinder’s Managing Creative Director, Thurston Hillman.

Taking the lessons of Pathfinder’s latest edition and everything they have learned since Starfinder began, Paizo is looking forward to making the next version of Starfinder better. This will be the most open playtest Paizo has ever launched, with deeper looks into the development process.

The roundtable discussion with the Starfinder team highlighted some key elements of the upcoming playtest and new edition:

• Pathfinder 2nd Edition and Starfinder 2nd Edition rulesets will be completely cross-compatible provided your GM allows it. That includes classes, creatures, and more.
• The first four classes announced for the playtest are:
• Mystic, represented by the iconic shirren mystic Chk Chk
• Soldier, represented by the returning iconic vesk soldier Obozaya.
• Envoy, represented by the returning iconic human envoy Navasi
• Solarion, represented by a new iconic pahtra solarian, openining up the feline pahtra as a core ancestry.
• As part of the ‘open playtest’ model, the Starfinder team will be keeping players updated and involved with “Field Tests”- the first of which release today alongside the announcement at stafinderplaytest.com. The first Field Test includes the Soldier Class from levels 1 to 5, new equipment, and new creatures like the Computer Glitch Gremlin and Laser Wolf.

The Starfinder Playtest Rulebook will be available in summer 2024 as a softcover rulebook. Base system rules will not be a part of the playtest as Starfinder 2nd Edition will be using the Pathfinder 2nd Edition ruleset. The playtest will focus on the core elements of gameplay, including new classes, a scaling equipment system, new skills, and more.

 

[Nikosandros]

I've just received this email from Paizo. The link in the email doesn't seem to be yet active.

 

[Nikosandros]

The link is now live.

 

[Reynard]

IN!

 

[mewzard]

Taking your Pathfinder game into Space is a rather interesting thought, if your GM allows for it.

 

[Reynard]

I wonder if this is going to tank Starfinder Enhanced sales.

 

[Reynard]

I wonder if the ultimate plan is to make Starfinder a setting book for use with the Pathfinder Remastered Core Rule Books.

 

[Nikosandros]

I wonder if this is going to tank Starfinder Enhanced sales.

I would naively think so, but I haven't followed Starfinder recently.

 

[Nikosandros]

Taking your Pathfinder game into Space is a rather interesting thought, if your GM allows for it.

Yes, on that note, I think that it is a smart idea to make the new edition fully compatible with PF.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I am not too surprised, and a little sad because there is a lot of titles haven't translated by Devir Iberia. I bought the Core-book, the pact worlds and the first alien files. I don't feel like to await more years to buy an updated version of PC races and classes.

Seriously, in the future Starfinder could become a serious rival for Star War, Star Trek, Babylon 5 and other sci-fi/space fantasy franchises.

I hope Ummites, Pleyadians and other members of the Galactic Federation to be hired as cultural consultants. And if somebody asks about the project "Blue Beam" here I have said nothing.