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Ring Side Report- RPG Review of Starfinder Society Intro: Year of Fortune’s Fall

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Product– Starfinder Society Intro: Year of Fortune’s Fall

System- Starfinder

Producer– Paizo

Price– $6 here https://paizo.com/products/btq02eg2?Starfinder-Society-Intro-Year-of-Fortunes-Fall  

TL; DR-Welcome to the sixth season! 90%

Basics– LET’S GO TO THE… museum?  The Starfinder society is partnering with many different groups to show off artifacts of the past.  What wonders will be shown, what friends will be made, and who might want to mess with this display?  

Mechanics or Crunch– Paizo has a solid adventure here, with a decent balance of talking and combat.  The flow is mostly talking for the first half and then combat for the second.  There are a lot of NPCs to sway, so combat might get a little bit left to the side as its really only two fights.  That said, it’s done well.  4.5/5

Theme or Fluff–  This is a one building adventure.  You really only spend time in one museum for the entire adventure, schmoozing with different people learning about things that  will happen later in the season’s adventures.  That is pretty standard for the first adventure in a Starfinder Society season.  My one issue is the adventure is pretty short.  Most of the time I run this it’s less than three hours for a five hour session.  The players have fun and the story is decent.  Overall, its a good addition to the first adventures of each season. 4.5/5

Execution– PDF? Yep.  Hyperlinked?  Yep. Solid Art?  Yep.  Good layout? Yep!  This is what I expect from a Paizo adventure.  Things are not perfect, as they give good pictures for everything except for one enemy type, so you will need your own picture.  It’s not bad by any means, but it’s one small thing.   4.5/5

Summary– This is a fun adventure.  It’s short and a little unbalanced in story tempo if you are a combat monster, but overall it’s a good one.  I had fun, and so did my players.  It’s not perfect, but definitely one that I will be gladly running for multiple groups this year!  90%

Ring Side Report-RPG Review of Starfinder Society Intro: Year of Redemption’s Rise

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Product-Starfinder Society Intro: Year of Redemption’s Rise

System- Starfinder

Producer– Paizo

Price– $5.99 here https://paizo.com/products/btq02c6r?Starfinder-Society-Intro-Year-of-Redemptions-Rise 

TL; DR– A simple, yet solid intro adventure. 93%

Basics–  STARFINDERS!  The society calls you to make friends?  Year of Redemption Rise is the latest intro module for the 5th year of Starfinder society.  Starfinders meet three new factions, learn the basics of these factions, and help each with a micro adventure.  It’s the standard fare for a faction introduction adventure, so let’s see how it stacks up.

Mechanics or Crunch–  This adventure is a solid balance of fights and fluff.  Players will talk with just as many NPCs as they shoot at.  The crunch here for both sections is well balanced and thought out.  It’s not reinventing the society’s basics, but it does a good job with the pieces it does have. 5/5

Theme or Fluff– What’s here is good, but there is not much here.  The major adventure beats are leading a tour group, clearing an abandoned house, clearing a greenhouse, and cooling a political discussion.  Nothing bad and it does set up for the future conflicts of tech vs. self sufficiency, but don’t expect some crazy inversion of the adventure template.  You meet new groups, make friends with them, and then finish pretty quickly.  Short, simple, and sweet. 4.5/5

Execution– Short, simple, and sweet is a good description of the execution of this book as well.  Good layout, good pictures, a map for those who don’t have the specific map for clearing the abandoned facility, and easy to master intro and outro pieces for GM in a hurry.  Six bucks is a bit steep for this, but that is my only complaint for this module. 4.5/5

Summary– This adventure reminds me of many of the other faction intro adventures.  Paizo does their execution well, but it’s a bit pricey.  The basic crunch in them all is well done and shows a mastery of the system.  And while the story is basic, it does a good job introducing new major characters to the players.  Overall is this is a solid adventure and introduction to the next year as the society heals its rifts and repairs who it is. 93%