Starfinder Enhanced

Rulebook

Elanayas are hardy, charismatic humanoids with glittering skin who form permanent bonds with an elemental.

Holograms are AIs, stored in a spherical core, who interact with the physical world through a tangible hardlight body.

Born from the collapse of a dying star, novians are tiny, boastful balls of plasma who enjoy competition and confrontation.

Chatty and inventive, scuridays are fluffy fey raconteurs eager to explore the galaxy and acquire new tales.

From the vibrant nightlife of Absalom Station to the glitzy casinos of the Burning Archipelago, there are places throughout the galaxy where people gather to party and relax. But you know how much work goes into securing these venues. From fights on the dance floor to grifters trying to hustle, your job has been to protect patrons and hosts by any means necessary. You have sharp situational awareness and know how to defuse an escalating situation efficiently and quietly, even if it means leaving a few bruises.

The allure of interplanetary adventure can lead just about anybody to leave a sedentary life behind and travel into the stars. While some of these people have prior training, many others do not, including academics, vidgamers, and corporate suits. That’s where you come in! As a personal trainer, you know the value in maintaining good diet and exercise, especially in zero gravity environments where prolonged habitation can lead to muscular atrophy. Whether you travel within one solar system to visit clients on different worlds, or want to establish your own gym, your enthusiastic willingness to share your knowledge to better improve the fitness of those around you is palpable. While there may be other personal trainers in the galaxy, you hope that your physical fitness will give you a leg up on the competition.

Whether you are a rich kid doing it for kicks or a student of the streets doing it to survive, you’ve found that you have quite a bit of skill at nicking things from other people without them noticing. You are most comfortable when wandering through large crowds, as they have the most marks and rubes milling about—plus the tumult of moving people to give you the perfect cover. Even without the benefit of milling masses, you know how to hide in plain sight, and you are always on the lookout for the perfect diversion, whether a relatively harmless smoke grenade or a precariously balanced fruit cart. Your work is usually a solitary affair, but you certainly could use a team from time to time, whether as diversions from your true purpose or as backup when the pickings are slim. When you do agree to travel or work with others, you may be motivated by what treasures you can find to add to your collection.

In a galaxy filled with faster-than-light travel, virtual reality, and space stations housing millions, many people forget where their food comes from. Even those who exclusively dine on MREs and whatever comes out of their culinary synthesizers don’t stop and consider the inspiration behind their food-like cuisine. Even for cultures who travel the stars, livestock are a critical part of the economy and remain a key component of many products. As a rancher, you have first-hand experience raising, protecting, and perhaps even rendering domestic animals. You are aware of the symbiotic nature of life throughout the universe and want to experience that sublime relationship for yourself, rather than waiting for the proverbial space cows to come home.

Some people make their living working in a business suit, others in service positions helping those around them, all on a set schedule, knowing the pattern of their life will stay the same from day to day. You wanted more than that repetitive, safe schedule. You’ve sought your own fortune, or at least living, using your talents to hustle and amaze as a street performer, creating elaborate illusions and manipulations that appear to outsiders as complex magical abilities. From mind reading to levitation and making things disappear, you’ve learned the art of using distraction to make others think they saw one thing while another was happening before their eyes. Unfortunately for you, either through over-hustling or market saturation, your busking is not as profitable as it once was. But the show must go on and so you’ve decided to head out into space, finding new audiences to amaze and delight.

First-person shooters, dating simulators, platformers, puzzles, real-time strategy, sports, or massive multiplayer online role-playing games—you’ve mastered them all. You know the levels by heart, have memorized every cheat code, and can play some of the classics blindfolded. You’re proud of your achievements, but have chosen to leave the comforts of your local arcade and adventure into places you have never been, seeking out new experiences and new challenges among the stars.

You manifest an invisible and intangible sensor that hovers one foot above your head.

You become a conduit for all possible realities and timelines, enabling you to twist events with little warning.

You lend some of your magical power to an ally as they cast a spell with a casting time of 1 round or less.

You create a faint, multicolored aurora around the target, providing resistance against energy attacks.

You create a faint, multicolored aurora around the target, providing resistance against energy attacks.

You appear to teleport across the battlefield in short jumps, make attacks, and then teleport again.

You create and hurl a sphere of temporal distortion at a foe, disrupting their body and slowing their movements.

You fill the target’s mind with self-doubt, pernicious ruminations, and crushing inadequacy.

Rather than shaping your magical power into a specific spell, you exude raw magic as a destructive aura.

You dilate time and space around a creature, creating a set of confusing afterimages that make it difficult to pinpoint their exact movements.

You rapidly age a computer system, module, or construct, introducing errors, overloading systems, and degrading its software.

You rapidly rewind time for all creatures in the area to a moment before they were born, potentially erasing them from existence completely.

You rapidly rewind time for all creatures in the area to a moment before they were born, potentially erasing them from existence completely.

You wrap the target in a fearsome aura.

You create small glowing spheres that orbit your head.

You energize a small pile of junk.

You transform the ground or floor into a pool of lava about one foot deep.

You siphon part of your lifeforce into an unseen reservoir.

You instill intense feelings of uncertainty in a creature.

You siphon some of the healing energy that would otherwise affect the target.

You form a subtle mental link between yourself and the targets, enabling the targets to analyze and learn from your future errors.

You briefly split your personal timeline into three paths.

You draw insights from the target’s memories and emotions.

You implant a devastating trap into a computer, causing it to overload when operated.

You modify a comm unit, causing it to broadcast an electrical signal that creatures of a chosen type find unbearable.

You modify the wavelengths emitted by the target, transforming the device into a magical light source for the purpose of piercing supernatural darkness.

With a touch, you apply a voracious acid to the target, causing their body to decay, rust, or crumble rapidly.

You conjure haunting ghosts of a forgotten past into the area.

With a touch, you apply a voracious acid to the target, causing their body to decay, rust, or crumble rapidly.

Drawing upon your own magical essence, you create a Tiny magical spirit to assist you.

You paralyze the target’s heart, causing intense pain and weakness.

You paralyze the target’s heart, causing intense pain and weakness.

You create an imperceptible beacon marking your exact point in time and space at that instant.

You project a wave of temporal disruption that batters and disorients all creatures in the area.

You create a magical lure at the center of the affected area, which creatures in the area perceive as either a wondrous temptation or an imminent threat that must be deactivated.

You create three time bombs (each an explosive about the size of a datapad) that each instantly adhere to a floor, wall, or similar surface.

You push an object forward or backward through time.

You transfer crucial seconds from yourself to nearby creatures.

You partially untether an ally from the flow of time, enabling them to perform minor tasks with remarkable speed.

You transform the target, rapidly updating its components and mechanisms to modern design standards for the spell’s duration.

You create a faint vertical field that warps time and space.

You drain the moisture and vitality from your surroundings.

You can evade enemy attacks while flying, though it impacts your ability to aim.

Known online as “The AkBattPackHack”, this simple, quick, and dangerous trick went viral on social media during Drift Crisis (_Starfinder Drift Crisis_) riots on Akiton, where outgunned residents incapacitated an entire robotic security force within a few minutes.

You have practiced preventing an enemy from using a grenade by destroying and detonating it in their hand.

You’ve learned techniques that redirect your disrupted magical energy back to your enemies.

Seeing your allies hurt drives you to lash out at your foes.

When you scramble away from danger, you’re harder to hit.

Your knowledge of gymnastics tricks and martial arts techniques remove some of the disadvantages of charging your enemies.

You can imbue your attacks with a portion of your magic.

When foes attempt to resist your magic, you can redouble your efforts to break their defenses.

You are well trained at moving into potentially dangerous areas.

You can get extra oomph out of your powered weaponry, at great expense to the weapon.

With careful timing you can take maximum advantage of a coordinated assault on your foes.

When you realize you’ve put your foot in your mouth, you’re adept at quickly backpedaling and playing the fool to save your own skin.

The people within your organization respect and look up to you and prove to be a reliable source of intel.

You can bludgeon your foes and send them reeling.

You leverage physics to add a curve to your thrown grenades.

You are capable of incredible bursts of strength for a brief time.

You can leap down on your foes with increased ferocity, adding the force of your fall to your strike.

You deny multiple foes the advantage of their numbers.

You can knock your foe’s weapon aside when you seize an opening in their tactics.

You swiftly pursue fleeing foes.

Even in the most perilous conditions you can summon the resolve to complete your spells.

Your unflinching demeanor under threat makes some think twice.

Your spellcasting and your medical knowledge synergize.

When you take your time to complete a task, your careful attention yields greater results.

You know how to make a sudden entrance that puts your enemies on their back foot.

You drive your vehicles hard, making them deadlier to foes.

Your ability to overcome adversity is inspiring to your allies.

You can stop on a dime when a misstep leaves you open to attack.

Your blood or other vital fluids clot quickly, reducing the chance of ongoing danger.

Your focus on defense leaves no opening for your opponents as you fire on them.

While other gunners rely on hand-eye coordination, you use careful calculation and science to obliterate your foes.

You provide quick, expert care to save lives in the direst moments.

Your mind is a fortress. When others intrude, you can push them back with incredible force.

Your knowledge of the natural world makes you more appealing to all sorts of denizens of the untamed places.

You can damage your enemy’s weapons as they strike you, sometimes to terrifying effect.

When you fight dirty you fight really dirty. The explosive results speak for themselves.

In your most dire moments, you summon a primal desire to survive that pushes you beyond your limits.

By taking a moment to prepare before attempting to make an impression, you can help another creature look and feel more confident.

Your body responds more effectively to infection.

You can use your knowledge of a creature’s anatomy and biology to unnerve it.

When your target doesn’t know you’re armed, you can strike out before they even know what hit them.

Your anti-grenade reflexes are particularly sharp.

Your knowledge of your own biology gives you the ability to attempt a dramatic trick to survive a knockout blow.

When you counter a spell, you can claim some of its thaumaturgic energies to regain your own cast spells.

Drawing your weapon is pure reflex when you sense danger.

You are skilled in using rope and cable.

Your gaze alone serves as a challenge to combat.

When you provide tactical fire, you pin your foes down and seek opportunities to strike.

Your musical training and virtuosic reflexes allow you to get more sound out of your sonic and musical weaponry.

By taking a moment to calm your mind, your body is capable of greater feats than usual.

You’ve trained in how to take your foes alive.

Your enhanced metabolism processes toxins of all kinds more quickly than usual.

By shooting a thrown grenade out of mid-air, you detonate it before your enemies are ready for the blast.

You can use what you know about an incoming spell to increase your defenses against it.

You know how to take advantage of your foe’s distraction when casting spells.

You know techniques and materials that can turn excess foraged foodstuffs into preserved rations.

You gain additional stores of resolve when you can connect with nature.

When you see something demonstrated you can replicate it, even if you are not skilled in the task.

You have grown more verdant, and your flora-like qualities protect you against certain hazards.

You’ve specialized your studies to focus on how to take down dangerous creatures you may encounter.

The adrenal surge of your panic makes your spells more potent against those you fear.

You have trained in defensive fighting techniques that take advantage of your quick reflexes.

Your natural physicality causes animals to react to you more deferentially.

Your skills as a pilot make you confident and persuasive to others.

Multiple areas of study come easily to you, allowing you to become well versed in a variety of topics.

Your professional peers are more likely to extend favors and treat you with respect.

Your professionalism makes people happy to work with you, even outside of your professional capacity.

Your management skills make a team more effective when you’re all working together.

You can easily sever the magic sustaining your active spells.

You can exploit your opponent’s tells in the heat of battle to gain an edge in defeating them.

Your cultured manner of speaking means that those you coerce are sometimes even impressed by your sheer force of will.

You fix broken objects and artificial life forms with ease.

Your covering fire keeps foes from reacting to the battlefield freely, lest they catch a bullet from your suppressing fire.

You are practiced in converting your momentum into deadly efficiency.

With split second reactions you can avoid triggering hazards as you attempt to disarm them.

When you are focused on defense, nothing gets past you.

You can consume the latent magical charge of spell gems to fuel your own magical reservoir.

You are an avid student of starship design and function, and you have taught yourself to do a little bit of everything on a starship, to the benefit of your fellow crew.

You can summon the will to fight through your ailments and focus on the task at hand.

For better or worse, people tend to form their opinions of your very quickly.

You are especially resistant to effects that compel your actions or modify your internal state.

Your instincts make it nearly impossible to catch you off guard.

You can treat a disease and the symptoms well enough to keep your patient on their feet a little longer than usual.

You know one handy trick for stopping a spellcaster in their magical tracks.

Whether by deliberate study or random chance, you possess some small knowledge and mastery of chronomancy.

You do not simply don a disguise; you embody a character.

You use your close access to an enemy to try to topple them.

You have a boon companion that steels your courage and sharpens your mind with their mere presence.

You have a preternatural sense of danger and sometimes find your body reacting before your mind notices the risk.

Your body rejects negative effects so violently that even your foes are disgusted.

Your body and soul share a powerful connection that makes you particularly resilient against having your life snuffed out.

You can pinpoint and exploit a weak point on an item, making it trivial to destroy.

Your first attacks are sometimes simply opportunities to test your opponent’s defenses.

The weightlessness of space is home, and you move through it with ease.