History TabletopGame / Starfinder

* SequelDifficultyDrop: In a similar vein to TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons 5e, the mechanics of Starfinder have been severely streamlined when compared to Pathfinder. To name a few ways: the number of base classes has been reduced from twenty to seven, feat trees are now virtually nonexistent, level 1 stats are capped at 18, and a number of skills and bonus types have been melded together.
** Weapon enhancements are also far less potent in Starfinder, with most of them only activating on a critical hit. And even then, an attack can only activate one critical hit effect at a time.

** The Gap means that there are thousands, possibly millions, of inhabited worlds whose history stops less than 500 years in the past. Every civilized world is filled with remnants of the pre-Gap world and mysteries that arose during the Gap. Heck, Entire civilizations may have risen and fallen during the Gap, and while their records may have vanished, the ruins they left behind have not. This means that adventurers will never be short on things to do.

* CreditChip: Most people load the credits they need for daily use onto "credsticks", which also allow the PC's to continue the long-standing tradition of [[MoneySpiders looting the bodies]].

* {{Expy}} the Vesk are highly similar to the Trandoshans from ''Franchise/StarWars'', both being highly [[BloodKnight warlike]] LizardPeople.

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: As mentioned below, the Azlanti race has largely come to believe that they're TheUbermensch due to getting a larger stat boost than any other race in the game.

* TheReptilians: The Vesk. The traditional reptilian shapeshifting {{Chessmaster}} type appears as well in the form of the Reptoids.

!!Starfinder contains examples of:

** Aucturn, based on Pluto also: more specifically, based on [[CthulhuMythos Yuggoth]], as the residence of and gateway for ...[[EldritchAbomination unpleasant things]].

** The maraquoi of the Brethedan moon of Marata have seven sexes, all of which are necessary for reproduction.

* NoodleIncident: The Gap (when Golarion mysteriously disappeared). While some creature who lived before the Gap are still alive, there seems to be a multiverse-wide amnesia about what happened.

* DisintegratorRay: The cult of the Devourer uses these, which use d20s for damage, making their damage highly variable.

* EasilyConqueredWorld {{Justified}}. The Vesk landed on the Skittermander homeworld prepared to engage in a brutal and long military conflict. Much to their surprise, the Skittermanders helped them conquer their own planet as it is implied they are genetically predisposed to help ANY sentient species. Comically, many Skittermanders later became administrators for the Vesk empire because that is a job most Vesk hate, leading to a “who conquered whom?” situation.

* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: The Lashunta, as always, though it now applies to both sexes, and both castes (the [[TheBigGuy korasha]] are [[{{Hunk}} more]] [[AmazonianBeauty muscular]], while the [[TheSmartGuy damara]] are [[{{Bishonen}} more]] [[{{Bishoujo}} lithe]]).

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The Azlanti Empire hold a dim (read: subjugating) view of any race besides their own, though not without reason: [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration mechanically]], the Azlanti race gets a +2 bonus to ''every'' stat, while most races get +2 to two of them and -1 to a third to offset it.

** Notably, the only minor deity in ''Pathfinder'' that becomes a main deity in her own right in ''Starfinder'' is Besmara, thanks to her importance among the Free Captains and other space pirates. In addition, and somewhat frighteningly, the [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Outer God Nyarlathotep]] is now important enough to be a main deity. Finally, two other obscure deities, the construct goddess Brigh and the Iron Goddess Casandalee, were combined into facets of the new main god Triune.

* EasilyConqueredWorld {{Justified}} The Vesk landed on the Skittermander homeworld prepared to engage in a brutal and long military conflict. Much to their surprise, the Skittermanders helped them conquer their own planet as it is implied they are genetically predisposed to help ANY sentient species. Comically, many Skittermanders later became administrators for the Vesk empire because that is a job most Vesk hate, leading to a “who conquered whom?” situation.

** Akiton, based on Mars: fourth planet from the sun; covered in red, windswept deserts; once a lush and vibrant world, but has slowly decayed for centuries
** Liavara, based on Saturn: an orange-ish gas giant with massive rings and dozens of small moons
** Apostae, based on Pluto: a tiny planet with a highly angled orbit, likely not a true planet
* ProgressivelyPrettier: The korasha lashuntas (who were always male at the time) were portrayed as ugly and brutish in ''Pathfinder'', but are considered attractive in ''Starfinder''. Inverted by the shobhads, who were formerly human-like but are now [[DependingOnTheArtist more commonly portrayed as]] hideous monsters with cylinder-shaped skulls, inhuman mouths, and massive tusks that would put any orc to shame—all-in-all, looking far more like the [[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars Tharks]] that inspired them.

** Angels and demons equipped with power armor and laser rifles
** [[TheFairFolk Fey creatures]] that are the embodiment of nuclear radiation, asteroids, and the vacuum of space.