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Close EncountersStrange aliens both friendly and fearsome fill this tome of creatures designed for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game! From the gravity-manipulating frujais and planet-killing novaspawn to space goblins and security robots, the creatures in this codex will challenge adventurers no matter what strange worlds they're exploring. What's more, player rules for a host of creatures let players not just fight aliens, but be them!Inside Starfinder Alien Archive, you'll find the following:Over 80 bizarre life-forms both classic and new, from the reptilian ikeshtis and energy-bodied hallajins to robotic anacites and supernatural entities from beyond the realms of mortals.Over 20 races with full player rules, letting you play everything from a winged dragonkin to a hyperevolved floating brain.New alien technology to help give your character an edge, including weapons, armor, magic items, and more.A robust NPC-creation system to let Game Masters build any aliens or creatures they can imagine.New rules for magical monster summoning, quick templates to modify creatures on the fly, and more! Written by John Compton, Adam Daigle, Crystal Frasier, Jason Keeley, Jonathan Keith, Steve Kenson, Amanda Hamon Kunz, Lyz Liddell, Rob McCreary, Mark Moreland, Joe Pasini, F. Wesley Schneider, Owen K.C. Stephens, James L. Sutter, Isabelle Thorne, and Josh Vogt.The pocket edition presents the same contents in a smaller sized softcover for a lower price and better portability.

Battles in outer space or on distant planets need aliens! Inside Starfinder Alien Core, you'll find over 200 creatures, including science fantasy favorites like robots, spacefaring fey, and all-new dragons; alien beasts from friendly spiderlike empathnids to fearsome plantlike predator ksariks; and unique monsters that threaten the galaxy of Starfinder, like jinsul troopers and vicious Swarm components. You'll also find legacy Pathfinder creatures with a scifi update, like nanite-infesed allgolthus, and Starfinder classics like akata and tashtarai. These creatures cover all levels of play, from scavenging sluglike diathas to powerful Drift-dwelling spectra.Starfinder Alien Core is the only book GMs need to add enemies and allies of all sorts to their Starfinder Second Edition game, providing enough aliens of all power levels and thematic niches to populate countless worlds. And since Starfinder Second Edition is fully compatible with Pathfinder Second Edition, every alien presented in this massive tome can pull double duty in Pathfinder campaigns with next to no adjustment.Starfinder Alien Core includes:Over 200 individual alien writeups, including common foes, like glitch-spawning gremlins, robots programmed for assassination, and mindless cybernetic zombies, to unique creatures that can threaten even the most experienced interstellar explorers, such as Akiton's dreaded illumantula and the giant Castrovelian ooze known as the Terror or Ukulam!Four science-fantasy dragons, giving a new spin to adventure fantasy's oldest foes, representing the four magical traditions. Whether it's the divine cosmic dragon or primal host dragon, these beasts are sure to make a memorable experience with every encounter!New additions to classic RPG creature families like angels, devils, trolls, and giant worms.Representative combatants from some of the Starfinder setting's most iconic organizations, including the Azlanti Star Empire's aeon guards, the imperious Hellknights, nature-loving Xenowardens, the undead crew of the infamous Corpse Fleet, and more!Simple creature adjustments that allow you to customize a monster, tuning its power level or theme with just a few simple alterations. Dial up the tech level of fantasy creatures or the magical nature of scientific anomalies and keep your players on their toes!Guidelines for reading and using alien statistics, ensuring you get the most out of a creature both in and out of combat.Lists of creatures sorted by both type and level, making it easy to find the alien you need when you need it.Hundreds of beautiful full-color creature illustrations!

The cantina is open!This 224-page rulebook is packed full of playable alien ancestries for Starfinder Second Edition games, including 21 brand new options like the lucky blue worlanisi, sentient rollerball bantrid, or even a blazing miniature sun called a novian. In addition to this intergalactic cast of science-fantasy species are a host of stellar options for familiar ancestries, including Starfinder favorites like reptilian vesk and insectoid shirrens, and fantasy classics like gnomes, elves, and goblins in space! On top of that, the brand-new Gap-touched versatile heritage connects players to the history-breaking event at the heart of the Starfinder setting while giving them special abilities, and the xenometric android allows readers to create robotic versions of any Starfinder alien, not just humans!As with all Starfinder Second Edition material, Starfinder Galactic Ancestries is fully compatible with Pathfinder Second Edition, allowing players and Game Masters to incorporate interstellar options into their favorite fantasy campaign! What exciting alien character are you going to play first?Written by Kate Baker, Rigby Bendele, Brent Bowser, Michael Bramnik, Jessica Catalan, John Compton, John Curtin, Anthony Dollinger, Ivis K. Flanagan, John Godek III, Thurston Hillman, Mike Kimmel, Dustin Knight, Derry Lutrell, Jenny Jarzabski, Linda Zayas-Palmer, Jessica Redekop, Tony Saunders, Abbey Schnell, and Sam W Tennyson.This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.