I recently watched Roosterteeth’s Gen:Lock series, which even though I’m not a giant mecha fan, I can recommend as a solid SciFi show. The Battle Tapes soundtrack is awesome. Lots of interesting concepts, but one that immediately caught my eye was the way the Union forces used militarized nanotech to […]
Every GM has had that moment: how do you bring together the lashunta space guitar playing pilot, the android freedom fighter, the skittermander necromancer with ties to the Old Ones, and the pahtra infosphere star envoy, and somehow get them all motivated to adventure together. It’s a classic TTRPG problem, […]
Back this week after Valentines and a Snowpocalypse! Watching the new Mortal Kombat trailer, I was struck by a contrast – other game systems have low level spells that allow the caster to do a base line of damage and minorly reposition their target, but Starfinder just has some low […]
In SciFi stories, shows, movies, and other media, just how alien the ‘aliens’ turn out to be is often on a sliding scale of alien-ness. Sometimes they just have a different forehead (you know what shows I’m talking about) and sometimes they are so alien they are incomprehensible. Usually they […]
One idea that shows up in a lot of speculative fiction is the idea of Humanity transcending a single biology, through a variety of different technologies. In this concept, the human form is mutable and individuals can shape their body to conform to an environment, or even just a personal […]
Do you have a group of players that ALL want to play icons? Have you always been curious about that ‘All Bard’ party meme that comes around every now and then? As a kid did you watch a lot of Hanna Barbara cartoons, Monkeys episodes, or always wanted to be […]
During my holidays break I’ve been thinking about some different play styles you can bring to Starfinder, either in sessions or entire campaigns. I’m going to be exploring these over the next few weeks, and the first one I’ll talk about is The Doldrums. Originally something experienced by sailors in […]
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When it comes to current SciFi television/streaming shows, The Mandalorian gets most of the buzz, and rightly so. It’s a great show. That said, I quite enjoyed season 1 of Raised By Wolves this year. All kinds of strange tech, alien remnants, as well as cultural and religious conflict. Perhaps […]
I’ve had this come up a couple times in campaigns I’m running – the players are in a city of some kind and wandering through neighborhoods. Not only do I need to differentiate them from each other in purpose (this is a strip mall, this area is a residential, or […]