Kobolds in space! With just those three words we already have a mental picture full of industrious little dragonkin eagerly tinkering with high tech, dragon themed devices while dealing with a species wide inferiority complex. Thanks to the Starfinder Alien Character Deck we already have the basic write up for […]
We live in something of a SciFi/SciFantasy golden age right now, in terms of media. So many shows and franchises are out that I literally cannot stay current on all of them. It’s the best of problems to have, and I’m definitely not complaining. But what if you want to […]
The second (and probably last ☹ ) season of Pacific Rim: The Black came out recently. Unlike Gen: Lock, I felt like this follow up season was very strong. They had to move a little fast to wrap up all the loose ends they wanted to close, but it still […]
One of the formative movies of my youth was the story of a programmer getting hijacked into an emergent AI’s dreamscape, forced to fight in a rebellion against digital constructs in service to this AI and overthrow it. That movie is, of course, TRON. It is by no means the […]
Have a great holiday everyone. Catch you next weekend!
There are a lot of TTRPGs that focus on a specific kind of story and setting. If you want a Grimdark futuristic war story there is a very singular game system expressly for that, whereas if you would rather play plucky cybernetically enhanced criminals taking on megacorps for fun and […]
In general, I don’t much care for April Fools as a holiday. The origin is dubious, and the celebration of it is so often mean spirited. Pranks, in general, have never appealed to me. I do like something silly and fun though, so in that vein I thought I’d go […]
Even in a Sci-Fi or Sci-Fantasy setting, the image of the melee warrior of some kind of semi-mystical tradition channeling a power through their attacks is an iconic one. Call it the Force, Psionics, Ki, or any number of other names, the idea of the spell slinging swordsman is one […]
A recent conversation about the end of Dead Suns got me thinking about campaign climaxes and memorable encounters. Boss battles, if you will. So much of Starfinder, and many other TTRPGs, is combat encounters, how do you make what is essentially yet another combat stand out as a both a […]
Short post this week as it’s my birthday weekend. Perhaps in celebration, Paizo announced the authors on volume 5 of Horizons of the Vast. Lots of great authors on this one, and also me! If you are looking to start a new AP in Starfinder, and you liked the kingdom […]