With the new Starfinder playtest, one of the fun new additions to the system are shields (not like force field shields on ships, actual physical shields). Energy swords and a host of other strange melee weapons are common enough in the genre, but how many Sci-Fantasy settings actually use shields? […]
Made in 2801 by the Friendly Robot Company, robot Santa Claus brought season’s beatings to the Planet Express crew of Futurama for many a holiday season. It’s December 2nd and there’s no reason its brutal rampage has to stop just because Futurama is over, so why not bring ol’ bot […]
This will be my last year to enter the Here Be Monsters contest, generously run and officiated by the Sword for Hire crew in past years, and Sword for Hire veterans Jacob Michaels and Mike Welham along with guest judge Lyz Liddell this year (voting is still open – http://herebemonsters.opengamingnetwork.com/ […]
It’s been a bit, but I figured with the new movie out people might be interested in an adaptation of Venom and the Klyntar race for their Starfinder game. Just a light dive, as the full lore behind the symbiotes in Marvel is pretty eclectic, but I feel like we […]
The Drift is Starfinder’s answer to hyper drive, but it is more than just a way to cross incredibly vast distances at a swift rate. Discovered, or created, by the newly merged tri-part construct god Truine, the Drift is a bit of a planar junkyard in the cosmology of Starfinder. […]
Taking a break from flavor articles, I’ve been doing a fair amount of monster conversions from Pathfinder to Starfinder lately and thought people might like a quick walk through. Let’s take a look at a classic monster – the Manticore. The manticore is one of those odd, amalgam monsters from […]
This week, let’s take a look at the other major alien species of the Voltron series – the Galra. Galra are bigger and stronger than the average human, with a war-like culture that has only become more so under the rule of Zarkon. That said, they are surprisingly able to […]
One of the more interesting facets of the new Voltron series is the expanded delve into just what the Galra society is like. Yes, there is/was an emperor that ruled for thousands of years, but beyond that there is a whole culture that we only get bits and pieces of. […]
Unlike a lot of cartoons, it doesn’t take a lot to adapt the new Voltron cartoon to Starfinder. You already have a solid science fantasy setting with high technology and space magic, starship fights and super weapons. The lions of Voltron are high level magi-tech fighter-craft that can combine into […]
One of the more interesting twists in the PoE games is that for reasons known only to themselves the gods occasionally gift (or curse) a child to carry some small echo of their aspect. These strange offspring can arise in any race, and while they may somewhat resemble their parents, […]