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.

 

[Belen]

I have played Warframe for years. It is a fun, solo or squad-based game of space ninjas. You can earn everything in game.

It is probably the best extraction shooter out there with a strong mythology based set sometime in the future after the Orokin fought a war against there creations, the Sentients. It is a slightly fallen solar system with competing factions vying for control.

The Tenno awaken into this environment. They pilot Warframe battlesuits and start with no memory of their past.

 

[Cynicide]

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!

Think of them as battle suits with different abilities (Classes). You connect to them via an ability called Transference and you can remote control them. There is a lot of history that you don't need to know up front that can be confusing.

In game you take missions against various factions which are provided to you via an overseer of sorts called The Lotus. Occasionally there is some kind of universe ending threat that must be stopped.

 

[kigmatzomat]

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!

What a Warframe is, is actually part of the story quests, so its a spoiler of sorts. The player characters start as semi-amnesiacs

Spoiler

Humanity was in a war against AI robots, and humanity was losing. The genetically engineered overlords of humanity, the Orokin, were massive jerks, and the AI wanted revenge. (Oro =gold, kin= family =~ Golden Family)
The Orokin tried making supersoldiers, but the enhancement process made them mentally unstable. But they were the best weapons the Orokin had so they cloned the mostly feral super soldiers, adding a kind of neural interface system that barely worked, and then dropping them in enemy territory in the hopes they'd do enough damage.

A "Tenno" is a survivor of a colony /escape ship, the Zarimon 10-0 (ten-oh). It suffered a failure in hyperspace and, rather than everyone dying like every other hyper failure, the ship limped back into human space with a number of children still alive, all infused with extradimensional energies.

Energy that lets them sync up with various technologies, including the neural interfaces.except for the kids it worked incredibly well, and their extradimensional energies made those cloned supersoldiers able to disrupt AI.

The tenno drove the AI back, then the Orokin were going to kill the tenno because of how powerful they were so the Tenno exterminated the Orokin, but the Tenno were lost in hyperspace for a century or two.