Paizo's big April rulebook, Starfinder Galactic Ancestries, has landed in game stores and on the Paizo web shop, handing Starfinder Second Edition players 21 brand-new alien ancestries plus fresh options for the existing line-up. It's a 224-page hardcover at $69.95 in the US and roughly £54 in UK shops. Better yet, it's sanctioned for Paizo's Organised Play programme from day one, so the new ancestries are Society-legal immediately.
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See how it worksThe pitch is "play something weirder than a human." You can now roll up an Entu Colony (a hive mind of sentient fungi living as one character), a lucky blue worlanisi who tips the dice in their favour, a bantrid who rolls around on a single bio-mechanical wheel, or a novian (essentially a tiny walking sun). Classic Starfinder favourites like the reptilian vesk and insectoid shirrens pick up new options too, and the book lets you take Pathfinder 2E staples like gnomes, elves and goblins into space without conversion headaches.
Two bits of design stand out. The Gap-touched versatile heritage ties characters directly into the setting's central mystery (the Gap being the missing century of galactic history that defines Starfinder's lore) and gives you reality-bending abilities to match. The xenometric android heritage, meanwhile, lets you build a robotic version of any species in the book, not just humans, opening up combinations like a machine-built novian or a synthetic shirren.
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Set up your group for freeStarfinder's second edition launched at Gen Con 2025 to a strong reception, with reviewers praising its cleaner chassis and its seamless fit with Pathfinder 2E content. Galactic Ancestries is the first post-launch book dedicated purely to character options, which is where a lot of players who held off at launch tend to get pulled in.
A good excuse to rally your regular table for a new campaign.
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