#AlienCore

3 months ago

Sidebar titled “Explosive Anatomy”: “Cloud ray digestion generates vast quantities of lighter-than-air gases and fluids, which are stored in specialized organs, creating a lifting effect that aids these creatures in flight. When threatened or hunting, a cloud ray can eject large-volume blasts of these stored gases, launching themselves through the air at tremendous speeds as if propelled by a rocket.” So yeah; “fart rocket”

Close shot of the creature’s stat block, showing the corresponding ability; it’s named “Natural Thruster”. So, again: “fart rocket”

Good lord, the level of restraint on the part of the writer(s) who composed this sidebar and named the corresponding ability! I mean, the implication is still obvious, but respect for the classiest description of a fart rocket I’ve ever seen.
#Starfinder #AlienCore

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3 months ago

Art and stat block for a Starfinder creature called an Atlapak. It’s a big, colorful crustacean with an oversized claw that can attack at range with a “sonic snap” or use an extra action for a stronger, more accurate “Cavitation Blast”. And it can fly. (Though it needs to be in dense atmosphere or underwater for maximum effectiveness). So yeah, big, potentially airborne Mantis Shrimp.

#PlanetAnimeKansasCity update: no games yet. Not unexpected; most people wanna take a turn through the show floor first. Biding time flipping through #Starfinder #AlienCore. Apparently they have giant, alien Mantis Shrimp. That can fly. Eat your heart out, @theoatmeal.bsky.social

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@solorunstudio.bsky.social

4 months ago

A sidebar from the Paradox 17 page, with a pair of SCP-style “researcher logs”: PROPOSAL: CONSENSUS REALITY “If we convince Paradox 17 that something false is true, will it become true? If, as we suspect, Paradox 17 is a form of wishcraft magic run amok or an unstable fragment of a progenitor Eldest, then in either case the result should”—[Transmission terminated at origin.] URGENT MEMO TO ALL RESEARCHERS: Until further notice, Paradox 17 is never to be defined in objective terms under any circumstances. Describe it only in indirect observations. No one is to hypothesize about Paradox 17’s nature or origins, in text or verbally.

Another fragment of “researcher notes” on the mystery creature: RECORDED CLOSE CONTACTS * An affected deep-cover spy left a note: “Dreaming?” [crossed out] Too long. Simulation? Something has to maintain it. Anything this complex requires heuristics and predictable patterns. Unexpected responses might throw it off… reveal another paradox.” * An affected Xenowarden called arresting agents “a sign my conscious life is plagued with anxieties about authority.” * An affected security guard, sole survivor of a starship that Paradox 17 boarded, killed a recon team. All their recorders caught was, “Has my whole life been a dream? If one of you would just surprise me, maybe I’d finally wake up.”

An “illustration” of Paradox 17, showing a “used-future” desktop covered in loose pages with scrawled notes and rough sketches of… something. A crumpled ball of paper suggests the artist is struggling with their depiction, and the four coffee cups suggest they’ve been at it a while. A rack of data drives sits at the back of the desk, adorned with doodled sticky notes, while a stack of notebooks and a much neater written page sit to one side. No sign of the creature itself—a wise precaution!

*Flipping through the #Starfinder #AlienCore*
“‘Paradox-17’? Sounds like either a robot or a job for the SCP Foundation”
*flips to entry*
“SCP Foundation. DEFINITELY SCP Foundation!”
In lieu of presenting its stats, I’ll just indirectly give you its lore. Trust me, it’s for your own good!

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Solo Run Studio

4 months ago

Starfinder 2E - Alien Core and Killer A.I. - Solo Run Studio This week Alien Core is out! In celebration, we take a deep dive into my personal fav, the Malevolent AI.

This week Alien Core is out! In celebration, we take a deep dive into my personal fav, the Malevolent A.I.

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#Paizo #Starfinder2E #StarfinderSecondEdition #AlienCore #MalevolentAI #Braniac #Ultron #Hal3000 #GLADOS #SHODAN #Sovereign #Wintermute #GhostInTheShell

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4 months ago

The contents of the box from the previous post: the first and second volumes of the Revenge Of the Runelords Adventure Path, a pair of piratey Flip-Mats, and the crown jewels; Pathfinder’s Monster Core 2 and Starfinder’s Alien Core. It’s all *very* pretty.

So beautiful… they should have sent a poet…
#Starfinder #AlienCore #Pathfinder #MonsterCore2 #RevengeOfTheRunelords #LordOfTheTrinityStar #HailXanderghul

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4 months ago

Ever wanted to run a dragon that you know your #pathfinder2e / #Starfinder2e players will fight and won’t try to seduce? Try the new host dragon in #AlienCore. Riddled with insects! Art by #Paizo, image posted by @phoebebane.bsky.social

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4 months ago

Looking through the #Starfinder2e #AlienCore and hey! There are some NPC statblocks here too, like the Azlanti guard troopers. Could be reskinned to be any military, really. Thanks #paizo

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4 months ago

Looking through #AlienCore, I want to remind everyone that #Starfinder2e has the most 80s monster ever: Laser Wolves. Laser-shooting wolves! And they are comparable with #Pathfinder2e ! (This is the old image, I don’t have a clean new artwork for them ATM)

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4 months ago

Looking through #Starfinder2e ‘s #AlienCore. The stats for the laser-eyes dragon (on the front of Player Core) are fun and thematic!

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4 months ago

Bwa ha ha ha ha! They shipped! I get to read the pdfs of the double-feature Monster Mash!
#Pathfinder #MonsterCore2 #Starfinder #AlienCore

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