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Don't Trust Your TechnologyWith the threat of an alien contagion still looming, the heroes must infiltrate a high-security laboratory and rescue an important barathu official before they are infected. Unfortunately, the heroes' task is complicated by the return of an old enemy! Inside you'll find: "The Cradle Infestation," a Starfinder adventure for 9th-level characters, by Vanessa Hoskins. A look at the biology, culture, and recent history of the jellyfish-like barathus, by Lyz Liddell. A catalog of new and exciting biotechnology gear, by David N. Ross. An archive of alien creatures, including a radioactive golem and a deadly agent of chaos, by Alexander Augunas, Anthony Bono, Vanessa Hoskins, and Jessica Ross. Statistics and deck plans for a crusading starship, by Vanessa Hoskins, plus a glimpse of a planet drained of color, by James Case.

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Blast off into Starfinder Second Edition with a star chart of the galaxy and a thrilling tour of adventuring locations across the vastness of interstellar space! The Starfinder Galaxy Guide is a primer designed for new and experienced players that explores popular types of science fantasy campaigns—galactic exploration, horror, war-torn space opera, and more—giving GMs and players tools for playing out those types of stories in their Starfinder game. The Galaxy Guide also introduces several powerful galactic factions as potential friends or foes, including AbadarCorp’s holy corporate empire, the infernal orders of the Hellknights, and the world-preserving Xenowardens. Each major faction includes a new archetype players can use to create a character with ties to that faction. The galactic tour ends with a database of playable alien ancestries including a telepathic mega-brain with an atrophied body (contemplative), a friendly shapeshifter with a secretly bizarre true form (astrazoan), and more! The Starfinder Galaxy Guide includes:• A double-sided map featuring the Starfinder galaxy and the Pact Worlds system.• Six new playable alien ancestries: astrazoan, contemplative, dragonkin, kalo, sarcesian, and vlaka.• Six new archetypes related to powerful galactic factions.• Exciting new lore introducing new gods, current events, and important hotspots in the Starfinder setting!  

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Close EncountersStrange aliens both friendly and fearsome fill this tome of creatures designed for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game! From the gravity-manipulating frujais and planet-killing novaspawn to space goblins and security robots, the creatures in this codex will challenge adventurers no matter what strange worlds they're exploring. What's more, player rules for a host of creatures let players not just fight aliens, but be them!Inside Starfinder Alien Archive, you'll find the following:•Over 80 bizarre life-forms both classic and new, from the reptilian ikeshtis and energy-bodied hallajins to robotic anacites and supernatural entities from beyond the realms of mortals.•Over 20 races with full player rules, letting you play everything from a winged dragonkin to a hyperevolved floating brain.•New alien technology to help give your character an edge, including weapons, armor, magic items, and more.•A robust NPC-creation system to let Game Masters build any aliens or creatures they can imagine.•New rules for magical monster summoning, quick templates to modify creatures on the fly, and more!

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The Pact Worlds are the beating heart of the Starfinder campaign setting, a solar system full of citizens both familiar and bizarre. From the cosmopolitan corridors of Absalom Station to the carnivorous jungles of Castrovel or the floating cloud-cities of the gas giant Bretheda, this hardcover rulebook is your guide to Starfinder's core worlds and civilizations, and the perfect place to launch any adventure. Inside, you'll find: - In-depth gazetteers of the system's 14 major worlds, from high-tech Verces and the draconic empires of Triaxus to the necromantic wastleands of Eox or magical bubble cities floating on the surface of the sun. Each gazetteer features a detailed world map, residents and cultures, settlements and adventure locations, a unique theme to customize characters from that world, and more. - New playable alien races, from undead Eoxians to Castrovellian plant-people. - New starships, from the living vessels of the Xenowardens to sinister Hellknight dreadnoughts. - A codex of themed NPC stat blocks to help Game Masters create vivid encounters. - New archetypes for every class, including the Star Knight, Skyfire Centurion, and Divine Champion. - Tons of new weapons, armors, spells, feats, magic items, technological gadgets, and more to help outfit your adventurers. The pocket edition presents the same contents in a smaller sized softcover for a lower price and better portability.

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Special Edition: This limited edition deluxe hardcover is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark. The cantina is open! This 224-page rulebook is packed full of playable alien ancestries for Starfinder Second Edition games, including 21 brand new options like the lucky blue worlanisi, sentient rollerball bantrid, or even a blazing miniature sun called a novian. In addition to this intergalactic cast of science-fantasy species are a host of stellar options for familiar ancestries, including Starfinder favorites like reptilian vesk and insectoid shirrens, and fantasy classics like gnomes, elves, and goblins in space! On top of that, the brand-new Gap-touched versatile heritage connects players to the history-breaking event at the heart of the Starfinder setting while giving them special abilities, and the xenometric android allows readers to create robotic versions of any Starfinder alien, not just humans! As with all Starfinder Second Edition material, Starfinder Galactic Ancestries is fully compatible with Pathfinder Second Edition, allowing players and Game Masters to incorporate interstellar options into their favorite fantasy campaign! What exciting alien character are you going to play first? Written by: Kate Baker, Rigby Bendele, Brent Bowser, Michael Bramnik, Jessica Catalan, John Compton, John Curtin, Anthony Dollinger, Ivis K. Flanagan, John Godek III, Thurston Hillman, Mike Kimmel, Dustin Knight, Derry Lutrell, Jenny Jarzabski, Linda Zayas-Palmer, Jessica Redekop, Tony Saunders, Abbey Schnell, and Sam W Tennyson

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  Battles in outer space or on distant planets need aliens! Inside Starfinder Alien Core, you'll find over 200 creatures, including science fantasy favorites like robots, spacefaring fey, and all-new dragons; alien beasts from friendly spiderlike empathnids to fearsome plantlike predator ksariks; and unique monsters that threaten the galaxy of Starfinder, like jinsul troopers and vicious Swarm subspecies. You'll also find legacy Pathfinder creatures with a scifi update, like nanite-infused algollthus, and Starfinder classics like akatas and laser wolves. These creatures cover all levels of play, from scavenging sluglike diathas to powerful Drift-dwelling spectra. Starfinder Alien Core is the only book GMs need to add enemies and allies of all sorts to their Starfinder Second Edition game, providing enough aliens of all power levels and thematic niches to populate countless worlds. And since Starfinder Second Edition is fully compatible with Pathfinder Second Edition, every alien presented in this massive tome can pull double duty in Pathfinder campaigns with next to no adjustment. Contents:- Over 200 individual alien writeups, including common foes, like glitch-spawning gremlins, robots programmed for assassination, and mindless cybernetic zombies, to unique creatures that can threaten even the most experienced interstellar explorers, such as Akiton’s dreaded illumantula and the giant Castrovelian ooze known as the Terror or Ukulam!- Four science-fantasy dragons, giving a new spin to adventure fantasy’s oldest foes, representing the four magical traditions. Whether it’s the divine cosmic dragon or primal host dragon, these beasts are sure to make a memorable experience with every encounter!- New additions to classic RPG creature families like angels, devils, trolls, and giant worms.- Representative combatants from some of the Starfinder setting’s most iconic organizations, including the Azlanti Star Empire’s Aeon Guards, the imperious Hellknights, nature-loving Xenowardens, the undead crew of the infamous Corpse Fleet, and more!- Simple creature adjustments that allow you to customize a monster, tuning its power level or theme with just a few simple alterations. Dial up the tech level of fantasy creatures or the magical nature of scientific anomalies and keep your players on their toes!- Guidelines for reading and using alien statistics, ensuring you get the most out of a creature both in and out of combat.- Lists of creatures sorted by both type and level, making it easy to find the alien you need when you need it.- Hundreds of beautiful full-color creature illustrations! The pocket edition presents the same contents as the standard edition in a smaller sized softcover for a lower price and better portability.

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Embark on thrilling adventures across the galaxy with our new Starfinder Masterclass miniatures!

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  Retailer Edition: This limited edition retailer edition features a retro game packaging variant of the main Starfinder Galactic Ancestries cover illustration.  The cantina is open! This 224-page rulebook is packed full of playable alien ancestries for Starfinder Second Edition games, including 21 brand new options like the lucky blue worlanisi, sentient rollerball bantrid, or even a blazing miniature sun called a novian. In addition to this intergalactic cast of science-fantasy species are a host of stellar options for familiar ancestries, including Starfinder favorites like reptilian vesk and insectoid shirrens, and fantasy classics like gnomes, elves, and goblins in space! On top of that, the brand-new Gap-touched versatile heritage connects players to the history-breaking event at the heart of the Starfinder setting while giving them special abilities, and the xenometric android allows readers to create robotic versions of any Starfinder alien, not just humans! As with all Starfinder Second Edition material, Starfinder Galactic Ancestries is fully compatible with Pathfinder Second Edition, allowing players and Game Masters to incorporate interstellar options into their favorite fantasy campaign! What exciting alien character are you going to play first? Written by: Kate Baker, Rigby Bendele, Brent Bowser, Michael Bramnik, Jessica Catalan, John Compton, John Curtin, Anthony Dollinger, Ivis K. Flanagan, John Godek III, Thurston Hillman, Mike Kimmel, Dustin Knight, Derry Lutrell, Jenny Jarzabski, Linda Zayas-Palmer, Jessica Redekop, Tony Saunders, Abbey Schnell, and Sam W Tennyson

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Unravel the eldritch mysteries of the galaxy! The new Galactic Magic hardcover rulebook for the Starfinder Roleplaying Game adds magical flair to any hero with a wealth of fantastical magic-infused character options for starfarers of any class! More than 100 spells, a host of powerful rituals, and an array of magic gear, hybrid items, and artifacts give you the edge to survive in a weird universe with lurking dangers at the end of every jump. The brand-new precog class allows you to see and change the future, relying on predictive prerolls to navigate clutch situations and quick reflexes to manipulate combat. Study arcana among the stars with a host of new magical organizations and spellcasting schools or petition higher powers using new faith-based options tied to the galaxy's gods and philosophies. Whatever your path to magical might, Galactic Magic is your guide!  

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The Higher You Fly...The farther you fall. The White Glove Affair left you richer than the bank of abadar, but that made you a target. Your enemies - Golden League crime boss Lord Sinjin and EJ Corp EVP Eline Reisora - decided their mutual hatred of you was stronger than their own competing interests. Now you're trapped on Absalom Stations with no ship, no hope, and no friends...unless you can prove them both wrong. This volume continues the Fly Free or Die Adventure Path and includes: "Crash & Burn," a Starfinder adventure for 9th-level characters, by Christopher Wasko. Two side jobs, short adventures that can be played in one session, by Kim Frandsen. An in-depth look at some of the galaxy's biggest corporations, by Dave Nelson. An examination of unions, with teamwork-focused character options, by Violet Hargrave. An archive of alien creatures, including the tripodal kaa-leki; liquid arsenate ooze; and the genereaver, a corporate vat-grown assassin; by Anne Toole and Christopher Wasko. Statistics and deck plans for a junk starship that has collected a century of dust in a ysoki garage, by Christopher Wasko, as well as a folio on the planet Hawanna, all that remains of a titanic life form, by Anne Toole.

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Rebels in the Sun A cry for help from deep within the sun leads the heroes to dive in once more. Forces loyal to efreet from the Plane of Fire have conquered the deep-sun settlement of a peaceful species, threatening to destroy their way of life. The heroes must infiltrate the occupied city, find allies within, and defeat the fiery oppressors. The group acts as a strike team, assisting the rebels, taking out high-value targets, and helping to restore order. But even if they accomplish these missions, the heroes still have to face the enemy commanders - including a mighty solar dragon - and the discovery that this attack is merely a beachhead for a larger invasion that threatens the Pact Worlds' power on the sun! This volume of Starfinder Adventure Path continues the Dawn of Flame Adventure Path and includes: "Solar Strike," a Starfinder adventure for 9th-level characters, by Mark Moreland. A gazetteer of Kahlannal, a deep-sun city built by a new species, the anassanois, by Mark Moreland. A survey of beings native to the interior of other stars in the galaxy, by Kate Baker. An archive of creatures, from the telepathic anassanois to enormous giants and the colossal Daimalkan xaxmellia, by Tracy Barnett, Eleanor Ferron, David P. Gregoire, Mark Moreland, Owen K.C. Stephens, and James L. Sutter. Deck plans and statistics for an anassanoi starship that is an amalgam of smaller vehicles, by Mark Moreland, and a planet of corporate intrigue, by Tracy Barnett.

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