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Preview: Starfinder: Angels of the Drift #5

Starfinder: Angels of the Drift #5 preview. A bold crew of adventurers has raced across the galaxy to stop a catastrophic war for faster-than-light technology #comics #comicbooks #starfinder

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Preview: Starfinder: Angels of the Drift #2

Starfinder: Angels of the Drift #2 preview. Our heroes limp through the Drift, discovering strange new settlements and denizens as they navigate the treacherous dimension #starfinder #comics

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Starfinder Comic Coming from Dynamite Entertainment

Paizo’s Pathfinder is getting a new comic series and now Dynamite Entertainment has announced another collaboration with the roleplaying company for a Starfinder comic series. Starfinder: Angels of the Drift hails from writer James L. Sutter, who was Paizo’s Creative Director for Starfinder, and artist Edu Menna. 

As an added bonus for Starfinder players, each issue will also contain extra content for the tabletop game. The full series will feature playable character stats for the heroes, new character options, new playable species, and more. All the new content is sanctioned by the Starfinder Society.

Like any tabletop RPG, Starfinder: Angels of the Drift needs a colorful cast of characters. “Navasi is a human woman and reformed pirate, serving as the group's fast-talking, plan-crafting de facto captain. The hulking, reptilian Obozaya is the main muscle. Ciravel is a precog elf who uses a hoverchair. The hot headed mechanic Quig comes along with a pet robot, and a deadly flamethrower. Last but certainly not least is Keskodai, an insectoid medic... and priest of a death goddess. This squad will all be pulled together as a disaster in the hyperspace dimension known as the Drift has completely thrown off the galaxy's ability to travel between worlds safely. It all goes south from there!” (Dynamite Entertainment)

Starfinder: Angels of the Drift #1 goes on sale in June 2023. The comic features covers by Edu Menna, Richard Pace (whose covers across the series will connect to form a larger image), and Biagio d’Alessandro. The Starfinder comic and the Pathfinder comic, Pathfinder: Wake the Dead, will alternate publication months for 2023.

(Image via Dynamite Entertainment - Edu Menna’s Cover of Starfinder: Angels of the Drift)

[ritunn]

Daikitsu, Lady of Foxes

Daikitsu got revealed with official art at PaizoCon yesterday and they/she/Daikitsu can be whatever gender she wants cause she's the kitsune deity, is absolutely perfect and quite literally the best deity in all of Golarion and beyond. Sure Desna is great, Pharasma is a queen, Aroden can die in a hole, and Irez is my favorite TCG lover, but Daikitsu? A true legend that has style and loves foxes, what can I say except they're literally the best and very gender.

She's also going to be featured in some Starfinder lore in the Drift Angels comic in the content back end with a sentient squox species who venerate her or so I hear. So, she's really living her best life out there.

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Dynamite Entertainment Comics for December 20th, 2023 - https://thegaminggang.com/comic-books/dynamite-entertainment-comics-for-december-20th-2023/...

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Starfinder: Angels Of The Drift #3 (@DynamiteComics) New Comics https://www.comicbookaddicts.com/2023/10/starfinder-angels-of-the-drift-3-dynamitecomics-new-comics/

[starlightcleric]

Starfinder campaign update:

TL;DR The party fought ghost dwarf Macbeth in the quest to get their Android Envoy a date.

So the last few sessions were mostly combat, but they did take down the Underspike Syndicate, the gang responsible for the attempted kidnapping of the lead singer of Strawberry Machine Cake, learned that SMC’s record label may have been behind the attempted kidnapping, and successfully matched the fingerprints of the bassist to fingerprints found on a credstick in Doctor Poison’s safe.

So this session they confronted the bassist, leading to the reveal that she poisoned herself to throw off suspicion from her role in the kidnapping and that she had been approached by their producer, Oron Claye, who promised her they could make a lot of money by setting up this kidnapping. So now she’s under house arrest while the players travel to Castrovel to investigate Claye and POP/STAR.

But that’s not the important part.

To prevent Ophelia from flirting with criminals, everyone else decided they needed to get her a date, and so tracked down an underground Shakespeare performance of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

(Relevant sidenote: Shakespeare is a dragon from ancient Golarion who was a very prolific author and playwright who hoarded literature and copywrites. While he is assumed to be dead with the disappearance of Golarion, everyone is too afraid of him to declare his works in the public domain so all performances of his works are technically copywrite violation.)

So they go to this play, also bringing Cherry’s cop boy-toy (to the copywrite violation), where, in conversation with some other patrons, Ophelia and another man wind up saying ‘Macbeth’ in a theater. Not long after, it’s announced that Gertrude will be played by an understudy due to a backstage accident. Other small things go wrong during the performance, culminating in a stage light falling onto the stage. After a chase through the rafters, the ghost of Macbeth materialized on the stage and began terrorizing the theater.

After everyone failed their mysticism checks on ghosts, they called Spig back on the ship (her player is out while in Peru), who made her checks to tell them that in order to reverse the Dwarven play curse, the culprits must go outside the theater and turn around three times while reciting the final soliloquy of Midsummer Night’s Dream. While this was happening, Clockwork face tanked the ghost.

After successfully banishing the ghost, Ophelia got a date with the actor playing Guildenstern just in time for the party to leave Absalom Station for Castrovel the next morning.

[delightfullyquirkydoodles]

Is there anything you wanna share about Penelope? I'd be delighted to learn anything you're in the mood to talk about in regards to her

Oh god, yes, please let me talk about Penelope. She’s been on my mind lately and I’ve been itching for the chance to ramble about her.

(Under a cut, of course. I don’t want to clog up people’s dashboards with my lengthy posts.)

Okay, so, Penelope was the third character I ever made for D&D Fifth Edition, after Cai (elf cleric) and Aurin (tiefling bard), respectively. 

She’s an artificer, which means that I’ve had to redo her character sheet several times, since artificers aren’t. Y’know. A base game class and their kit keeps getting revised. Hopefully I won’t have to tweak her again, since the artificer rules that appear in Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything are supposed to be the final version, but you never know.

Backstory wise, she’s lonely-rich-kid-turned-mad-scientist! Her parents were minor nobility who decided to have a child for Clout™, only to her off to their servants once it was no longer fashionable to bring her to galas. As a result, Penelope grew up with only her family’s staff for company. Now, this wasn’t necessarily a bad thing -- Alfred, her goliath valet (and a friend’s D&D character), became both her teacher, bodyguard and best friend as a result -- but it also wasn’t a good thing, if you catch my drift. Though she learned a lot about history, philosophy and (mostly importantly) science, she didn’t have many opportunities to practice etiquette. Or interact with people her own age. Or, uh, anyone who wasn’t being paid to spoil her, basically. So it’s not really a surprise that she became... a strange young lady, to put it mildly.

She was really interested in mechanical engineering for a while (she built her clockwork owl familiar when she was only fourteen), but eventually shifted her focus to biochemistry, figuring that it would be more interesting for her to study the bodies of living things rather than build bodies for artificial creatures. Somewhere down the line, she developed the theory that the origin of magic was tied to some biochemical reaction within the bodies of otherworldly creatures. Determined to prove this theory, she packed up her chemistry set and set out to do some field research. (By that, I mean finding monsters -- everything from beholders to illithids to angels -- and cutting them up to see where their magic comes from and maybe harness some for herself. Alfred usually tags along, just to make sure she doesn’t get killed. Or, uh, kill anyone she’s not supposed to.)

She also works part time at a prestigious college, though it’s very rare to actually find her on campus (she keeps odd office hours and takes lengthy sabbaticals). Not that her colleagues mind. Most of them don’t like her very much. She has a slightly better relationship with her students, though some still spread rumors that she’s involved in... unethical experiments. No one can prove anything, though. No one alive, anyway.

TL;DR, she’s an extremely wealthy, socially inept alchemist who believes that magic is a chemical process and is willing to dissect god to prove that theory. 

I initially based her on Patricia Tannis from the Borderlands series, but somewhere along the way, bits of Yzma from the Emperor’s New Groove started creeping in. (I blame Alfred’s player, honestly. He gave me a Kronk-like bodyguard to interact with.) 

She also has a probably-non-canon descendant named Petunia living in the far future. (By descendant, I mean the descendant of a clone she created, because she was in no way interested in having children the conventional way. Not that the players in my Starfinder campaign, where she was an NPC, ever found this out.)

[arcangels-comic]

Omg I just realized you play starfinder holy cow. Ive seen your walk cycle animation and thought it reminded me of something and then I saw starfinder in the tags and I'm just HHH and I also play a from I joly shit!

yesss starfinder is so fun! I play as the little ysoki in our campaign :D It was so fun to design a lil rodent character haha

For clarification, in our Arc Angels comic, we’re changing some things around- for example, the drift is now the arc, ysoki are now rhodda, etc. Hopefully everything will still be pretty clear in the comic!

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Preview: Starfinder: Angels of the Drift #3

Starfinder: Angels of the Drift #3 preview. Our unlucky heroes find themselves on the wrong end of a pending execution! Can Navasi concoct a plan to save them all? #comics #comicbooks

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Preview: Starfinder: Angels of the Drift #1

Starfinder: Angels of the Drift #1 preview. A bold crew of adventurers must race to an isolated world to stop a catastrophic war for faster-than-light technology! #starfinder #comics

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Preview: Starfinder: Angels of the Drift #4

Starfinder: Angels of the Drift #4 preview. A bold crew of adventurers must race to an isolated world to stop a catastrophic war for faster-than-light technology! #comics #comicbooks

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Preview: Starfinder: Angels of the Drift #4

Starfinder: Angels of the Drift #4 preview. Includes playable character stats and new story-based character options — including a new playable species — all officially sanctioned by the #Starfinder Society! #ttrpg #comics

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Preview: Starfinder: Angels of the Drift #3

Starfinder: Angels of the Drift #3 preview. Our unlucky heroes find themselves on the wrong end of a pending execution! Can Navasi concoct a plan to save them all? #starfinder #comics #comicbooks #ttrpg

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Preview: Starfinder: Angels of the Drift #2

Starfinder: Angels of the Drift #2 preview. Our heroes limp through the Drift, discovering strange new settlements and denizens as they navigate the treacherous dimension #comics #comicbooks

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Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week. 9 new comics to check out! #comics #comicbooks

Wednesdays (and Tuesdays) are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in Each week our contributors choose what they can’t wait to read this week or just sounds interesting. In other words, this is what we’re looking forward to and think you should be taking a look at! Find out what…