For more than a few months now, my primary gaming group has been playing Starfinder Second Edition. Well, the playtest for it, anyway. At Gen Con this year, SF2e officially launched! While the Galaxy Guide was released a while back, the actual rules and player options were still being ironed out.
The Player Core is out now, and my group is loving it so far. During Gen Con, I was able to sit down with (well, stand beside) Jenny Jarzabski and Thurston Hillman and nerd out about the system that I've been so excited about for so long now.
Jenny and I talk about how the rules overlap between Pathfinder Second Edition and Starfinder Second are working, what they're doing with power creep, and I even got a chance to ask Jenny about an ability a player was using at my table that might make a good eratta at some point (spoiler: the witchwarper's quantum field is intended to be a spot they can see).
While Thurston and I talk about what he does as associate publisher at Paizo, as well as the cool stuff coming out soon like the Starfinder Iconics minis they're working on with Titan-Forge. The things were beautiful, and I am actually really sad that I didn't pick them up while I was there. Missed opportunity for sure.
After speaking with both of them and attending a “launch hype” panel, I am very excited for some of the new stuff coming out. Especially the Galactic Ancestries book and an adventure path that Jenny describes as having “Bucc-ee's in space,” and while I'm not a member of that particular cult, I think the idea is phenomenal and can't wait.
I'm pretty hyped about the upcoming Guilt of the Graveworld adventure path, too, and not only because features the over-the-top reality TV host Zo! in it (yes, his name has an exclamation point). I love the stories of the Corpse Fleet and Eox, the planet of the undead.
Whenever my party finishes up Empires Devoured in a couple months, they'll likely reset back down to level 1 to really start with the new content right as its coming out. It's gonna be great.
All that said, Paizo and Gen Con were just fantastic this year. It's one of the best times I've had at a con in longer than I can remember, and I wish I could go back sooner than next August.
If you'd like to listen to the interviews with Jenny and Thurston about Starfinder 2e, you can find them on my Substack below: