This week on The Drift, we are joined by Skid Maher, cast member on The Glass Cannon Podcast, and creator of amazing characters like Gelaborus Finn, Nestor Coyne, Pembroke the Pensive, and Jane Low.

Skid comes on The Drift to talk about his experiences with Starfinder at GenCon, as well as the process of Starfinder character creation. There are some great tips for us all as we are creating characters for our Starfinder games.

As always, thanks to Andrew Danielson, our audio engineer who edits the show and who created our theme song that we all know and love. You can learn more about Andrew’s work at www.danielsonsound.com.

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Starfinder has launched! Join us as the crew from NerdsOnEarth.com discuss all of our thoughts on the core rulebook and our experience as we have prepared for our first playing experience together.

Don’t have the Starfinder materials yet, you can find all of those available at Paizo directly, including the awesome and affordable PDF for $9.95

And you can follow us here at the Drift on Twitter at @OutinTheDrift

Our theme song was made by our awesome sound engineer Andrew Danielson and you can find out more about his work at danielsonsound.com

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This week’s episode of The Drift, we were honored to be joined by Owen KC Stephens, who was recently named the Starfinder Design Lead at Paizo. We talk about his work on Starfinder, what he learned during the play tests and his career in roleplaying games.

You can follow Owen on Twitter at Twitter.com/Owen_Stephens and on his blog at https://owenkcstephens.com/

Wheel of Time roleplaying game

Thieves World

Everquest Roleplaying Game

And Starfinder is launching tomorrow at GenCon! Look forward to more updates from The Drift as we play the game, learn the new system and have fun around the table!

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Thanks to Thurston Hillman for being our guest. You can follow him on Twitter at @OnCallGM

You can learn more about the Starfinder Society here

Pathfinder Society

Warhammer 40k

The Year of the Scoured Stars

Skalcon, which is in Minneapolis on September 15-17, 2017

Nerding out on the Pathfinder Adventure Path War for the Crown! Thurston is writing chapter 1, and it is due to release in February 2018.

New edition of Warhammer 40k which is reviewed here by Geek and Sundry.

 

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It’s episode 7 of The Drift, a Starfinder podcast. Episode 7 features a crossover with The More You Nerd Podcast.

The More You Nerd podcast

TheMoreYouNerd on Twitter

Episode 262 in which Jason appears as a guest

Episode 220 on Stranger Things

D&D 3.5 Edition

Monte Cook and Numera

Paizo.com/blog

Starfinder Reddit

Google doc with all the Starfinder collected by Variel! (Thanks Variel!)

Starfinder RPG Discord channel

Starfinder Society Play Discord channel

Roll20 is one way to play RPGs with others without being physically present

Fantasy Grounds is another.

Find a local gaming shop!

Cosmic Crit’s Website: http://www.CosmicCrit.com/

Cosmic Crit’s Twitter: @CosmicCrit

Cosmic Crit’s Email: [email protected]

Cosmic Crit’s iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cosmic-crit/id1260099852

Cosmic Crit’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CosmicCrit/

What we have been nerding out on recommendations:

James S. A. Corey’s Expanse series

Game of Thrones, season 7

 

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Paizo.com’s Free Roleplaying Game Day offering: First Contact available as a pdf.

Starfinder Wallpapers!

Starfinder Subscriptions are available to start for Starfinder characteristics.

Character development and improvement in Starfinder is discussed. (@EarthNerdClave discusses this in-depth.) Some posts that Paizo has done on character creation. 1. Archetypes (Paizo post: http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5ljvs?Starfinder-Archetypes) 2. Character themes (Paizo post: http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5ljvk?Starfinder-Character-Themes) 3. Guns! (Paizo post: http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5ljwd?Bringing-Out-the-Big-Guns-in-Starfinder) 4. Cybernetics (Paizo post: http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5ljwx?Cybernetics-and-Augmentations) The Drift Episode 2 was all about races and classes in Starfinder. HeroLab integration at launch. Ninja Division is making Starfinder miniatures! Paizo on Twitter The Massive by Brian Woods The latest Pathfinder Tales And if you haven’t checked us out, please visit NerdsOnEarth.com! And for all your audio needs, please connect with our amazing audio engineer Andrew Danielson at danielsonsound.com!

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This week, we are grateful to be joined by Amanda Hamon Kunz, Development Coordinator at Paizo for Pathfinder RPG and Starfinder RPG.

We hear some of the behind the scenes on the development of Starfinder, some of the rules and mechanics changes, and hear more about Amanda’s journey from RPG fan to working in the industry.

We also talk about an essay Amanda wrote for the Kobold Press’ Guide to Game Mastering on inclusion that is really great and that all Game Masters should check out.

You can follow Amanda on twitter at @AmandaHamon

For more information on our amazing sound engineer Andrew Danielson, you can check out danielsonsound.com.

And the Drift is presented by NerdsonEarth.com, the best place on Earth for nerds!

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This week on the Drift, we get to hear from @GamingSteve, who had the fortune of being at PaizoCon, getting some time with the Core Rulebook and being a part of a Starfinder session. Listen this week as he shares with us all the things he learned!

PaizoCon 2018 is scheduled for May 25-28 in Seattle.

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This is The Drift, a Starfinder Podcast presented by Nerds on Earth. In this episode 3 our host Jason Sansbury is joined by guest Skid Maher of the Glass Cannon Podcast in order to talk old school science fiction RPGs.

Notes for The Drift, Episode 3

Show notes:
Welcome to Skid Maher from the Glass Cannon Podcast! (You can learn about the GCP here and on their Patreon!)
First Edition Dungeons and Dragons (The Red Box!)
Robotech Role Playing Game
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness
TMNT on Oprah
Beyond the Supernatural
Palladium Games
Rifts
Traveller
Hero Lab
@EarthNerdClave looks at if Traveller was a major influence on Firefly/Serenity
Frank Herbert’s Dune and the Dune Saga
Paizo Starfinder test play on YouTube
The Sword Warp Riders – 2010 Heavy Metal Album that Skid would use for his first Starfinder campaign
Harle
Skid’s currently nerding out on:
The Expanse
One Punch Man
Attack on Titan

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Episode 2 of The Drift, where @EarthNerdJason and @EarthNerdAdkins discuss what we know about the races and classes of Starfinder.

Some of the fodder for discussion:

The Iconics of Starfinder at release

Game Informer look at Starfinder Iconics

Starfinder: The Shirren Race

Starfinder: The Vesk Race

The Drift is a podcast from NerdsOnEarth.com and you can follow The Drift on twitter at @outinthedrift

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This is The Drift, a Starfinder Podcast presented by Nerds on Earth. In this episode 1 our host Jason Sansbury is joined by Rob McCreary, Senior Developer at Paizo and the author of the first installment of the upcoming Starfinder Adventure Path.

Notes for The Drift, Episode 0

Show notes for The Drift Episode 1: Interview with Rob McCreary

Senior Developer at Paizo: Rob McCreary

Iron Gods Adventure Path

Distant Worlds Campaign Setting

People of the Stars Player Companion

Paizo message boards

Paizo blog

Humble Bundle Live Test Play

Starfinder Adventure Path: Incident at Absalom Station

June 17, 2017: Free RPG Day

Starfinder Organized Play

The Expanse novel series 

The Expanse television show

Local game shop locator from Paizo.com

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