Product– Starfinder Society Scenario #2-01: The First Cut

System– Starfinder 2nd Ed 

Producer– Paizo

Price– $5.99 here https://store.paizo.com/starfinder-society-scenario-2-01-the-first-cut/ ! 

TL; DR– A crazy good start to a new season.  97%

Basics: Ah, a nice normal day  WHAT IN THE SARENRAE!  Balls of blood appear around Absolom station and pop out monsters made out of blood that attack everyone.  Can you save them all?  

Mechanics or Crunch: This scenario is combat-heavy with a bit of skill-based challenges where you attempt to stop all the violence.  It’s combat heavy, so a social character will be a bit out of sorts.  So will exploration-based characters.  Skill characters will have things to do.  It’s not bad, but you can’t do everything in 3 hours.  4.5/5

Theme or Fluff– Bad stuff happens, and you stop it.  That’s the theme, and it does that well.  It’s a solid year intro adventure.  The story is light, but you are rushing between different issues to try to save as many people as possible.  That’s a fun ton of problems to solve.  5/5

Execution: There are new monsters and enough pictures in this one.  The monsters have pictures for you to include in the adventure, along with stats for them.  There is enough new here that you don’t have to consult too many outside sources to play this one.  It also reads quickly and requires only two maps to run.  Good old Paizo polish.  5/5

Summary: I like what’s here.  It can’t be everything to everyone, but it’s fun.  You kill bad things, save people, and stop the problems.  All in a day’s work for the Starfinders.  It’s also well written and well laid out, so you can read this fast and easily.  A good start to a new season.  97%