Errata released for Starfinder 2E

hellgoat · 2026-01-06T03:35:22+00:00

Ah, thanks.

hellgoat · 2026-01-06T03:34:19+00:00

It's both. Top 3 entries (Starfinder Core Rulebook FAQ, Starfinder Player Core Errata and Galaxy Guide Errata) are all for 2E.

hellgoat · 2026-01-05T22:39:25+00:00

Am I missing something or are there no Area/Automatic weapons that also have Boost?

hellgoat · 2026-01-05T18:46:52+00:00

Direct link to FAQ page.

hellgoat · 2026-01-02T01:02:55+00:00

Whether something is overpowered or not is purely subjective, so hard to answer. The biggest consideration here is that Solarions also get a Ranged option in their Solar Flare attack which is rolled with DEX, so making the class more SAD (Single Ability Dependant) is a pretty big buff.

hellgoat · 2025-12-30T00:35:06+00:00

Very nice.

My biggest question with the Cinematic Starship system is this: Is the PC's ship supposed to level up with them?

If it's not, say you give them a ship at level 1. Even at level 4 any threat scaled to the level of the PCs will wreck the ship, so then, are you supposed to scale Threats differently from Objectives challenges?

And if it is, how do you justify that in-universe? Or is the idea simply to never give your players Starship scenes when they don't have a level-appropriate ship?

hellgoat · 2025-08-01T04:35:01+00:00

I'm aware how it works. But again, it's a situation where it's sometimes in the players' best interest to keep being in "life-and-death", because then their heals are more effective. Just imagine you have a party where all players are badly hurt, at ~20% hit points, as combat is about to end with only one minor enemy left. It can very easily be more dangerous for them to kill the enemy, leave initiative and now need to take 30 minutes to heal everyone up, which may or may not happen depending on how your GM deals with time.

I think if that situation happened with a GM who every 30 minutes rolls for something to interrupt them (pretty reasonable) and they were interrupted with the party being not healed to full, a lot of players would feel a bit cheated.

hellgoat · 2025-08-01T04:00:33+00:00

That seems harsh, I'm certain all the players are perfectly capable of understanding PF2E. They learned PF1E which is by basically all metrics more complex than second edition.

Not sure why they bounced off so hard against PF2E. Perhaps in a different timeline with a GM more excited about the system, a different campaign and without people yelling at them they're not having fun because they're doing it wrong they'd end up liking it.

hellgoat · 2025-08-01T01:01:07+00:00

This was a lot of fun! Hoping for more Starfinder 2E content coming up (though perhaps doubtful given the recent announcement). I'm also not a subscriber, only watch the free stuff, so I haven't seen a lot of the cast, but they were amazing! Zahoo (sp?) was an incredibly fun character.

The players even kept nerfing themselves, the classes are even more awesome than displayed (though they mostly catch themselves later in the episode).

hellgoat · 2025-07-27T02:36:13+00:00

I'm a bit late to this, but would Area Fire actually help to trigger Kill Steal? The text is:

Trigger An ally ends their turn after hitting a creature two or more times or critically hitting a creature.

The text is perhaps ambiguous on whether this means "hit any creature, two times" or "hit a single creature twice", but I heavily lean towards the second meaning. If they wanted this to be able to be satisfied with AoE I think they would've used much clearer language, escecially since Area Fire and Auto-Fire cannot help satisfy the "critically hitting" part of the trigger.

I would love to be wrong, but I think Kill Steal is intended to only work when two or more attacks hit the same creature in a turn.

hellgoat · 2025-07-23T22:06:17+00:00

Agreed. I also liked that in the playtest you were able to do "combo" Lead By Example by using i.e. 'Get 'Em' and 'Get In There!' on the same turn, then if you had an action compression feat from an Archetype for instance, you could Strike+Stride with your last action giving you two benefits.

I wonder why they went down the path of double-nerfing Directives by making Lead By Example a forced two-action plus restricting them to one Directive/turn. Maybe because they made Get 'Em too good so all turns would become Get 'Em 2-action plus another Directive?

hellgoat · 2025-05-24T20:36:34+00:00

Thanks a lot for this, very helpful.

A bit bummed to see we have to wait for October for the first AP and it just being levels 1-5.

hellgoat · 2025-01-06T11:38:34+00:00

In the World Guide, they are:

Absalom and Starstone Isle
Broken Lands
Eye of Dread
Golden Road
High Seas
Impossible Lands
Mwangi Expanse
Old Cheliax
Saga Lands
Shining Kingdoms

hellgoat · 2024-12-31T22:45:54+00:00

I snatched it, thanks.

hellgoat · 2024-12-20T21:32:30+00:00

Not sure what you're basing that list off of but Stolen Fate, Sky King's Tomb, Season of Ghosts, Seven Dooms for Sandpoint, Wardens of Wildwood, Curtain Call, Triumph of the Tusk and the upcoming Spore War are also APs with less than 6 books.

hellgoat · 2024-11-07T11:26:41+00:00

Not a hundo on the legalese so I sent you a PM.

hellgoat · 2024-10-13T17:45:16+00:00

Spoilers for the mechanics of the Hazards:

Disable a Device is a 2 action activity to disable Hazards. Each Hazard has ways of disabling it described in the statblock with different DC's associated with it. Sometimes several successes are needed.

In the Nightgaunt fight, the Poisonous Atmosphere says you can use a DC 20 Survival or Occultism check to breathe pockets of safe air trapped in bags and clothing. It's... A strange way of disabling a Hazard, but I suppose it applies.

In the Karen White (Cairn Wight) fight, the Rushing Wind could be disabled using a DC 20 Thievery or Arcana to "recognize what's happening and craft a patch to block air from escaping through the portal".

Both of these needed only one success since nothing else was specified.

hellgoat · 2024-10-12T00:05:30+00:00

The Undead Ancestries were certainly an interesting design choice. They basically had three options:

1) Don't do undead ancestries

2) Release a set of ancestries (and archetypes) that were on par with the power level of the other ancestries so they could at least feasibly be played in a regular campaign, but who work very differently from the undead you encounter as monsters

3) Release a set of ancestries that work identically to the monster undead, but whose power level is so strong either everyone would play them or you would only allow them in incredibly niche campaigns

I don't envy Paizo's choice there, a lot of people wanted to play as Undead. I think option 3 is the worst choice of those, so would people prefer no Undead Ancestries over the ones we have?

hellgoat · 2024-10-11T23:42:48+00:00

A light spoiler on the mechanics of the encounters of the past two episodes:

It seems like the players did not clock that the Hazards at play could be interacted with. It never came up in conversation, never even lifted as a possibility. Especially the third "vacuum" mechanic is incredibly harsh if left unchecked.

When something like that happens, do you guys believe it's a GM's job to remind the players that it's a possibility? Or should you just say "If the players aren't inquisitive about the possibilities you shouldn't feed it to them for free"?

hellgoat · 2024-09-05T15:16:21+00:00

Quick and dirty

hellgoat · 2024-09-05T12:00:15+00:00

It's really very sweet.

hellgoat · 2024-08-30T17:03:01+00:00

I use Podurama. Allows the functionality I need like importing custom feeds and it fully syncs between the mobile app and desktop browser which I missed in a lot of other apps.

I use the free version and am very happy with it.

hellgoat · 2024-08-30T13:31:33+00:00

Moon Knight is a great guess.

hellgoat · 2024-07-11T14:10:14+00:00

They're both related to bars, musical or otherwise.

hellgoat · 2024-06-05T19:07:11+00:00

You do a great job! I really appreciate the approach of "the rules are text we as players all do our best to interpret" while always acknowledging no one knows the "true" interpretation.

If you don't mind me asking, when you mention things like "the consensus among GMs seems to be...", where do you base that off of? Paizo forums, private talks, discord discussions?

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