Starfinder Roleplaying Game: Beginner Box

Keep in mind that Starfinder 2e is in playtest until December 2024 and will be released in 2025. That said, this is a great system in itself and a wonderful introduction to it, including dice and a mini adventure to play with about four players and another to play solo. It's a good introduction.It's perfect if you are just jumping into ttrpgs and want to try out a clean, fairly straightforward system. Pathfinder 2e was a little steeper of a learning curve than the first edition and I'm suspecting the same will happen here.It's perfect if you want a fun system, don't care if you're on the latest, and want to have fun with it now. That's why I picked it up.

I love this game. It’s very well built and put together, and has gorgeous art. It’s great for beginners, and fun too for those of us with more experience gaming. Comes with six premade characters, and blank character sheets to generate others. Includes a set of black dice with white numbers, so they look good and are easy to read. Tons of cardboard pawns included too, and helpful cards listing action options during combat. Overall, this is a fantastic game, and the Beginner Box is a great bargain.

Starfinder Beginner Box set is chock full of good stuff.First for the players, unlike some Beginner Sets (cough, cough, D&D), this actually has both pre-generated characters AND a booklet to help you create your own characters if you want, albeit with limited advancement rules present (pretty sure you can go to level 3 or 4 before you'll want to get the Core Rulebook). There are six well designed mini-booklets, one for each pre-gen PC, that has a little blurb about the history of the character, as well as sidebars on the left and right of the 2-page character sheet design (which on a non-pregen would be the front and the back), which explains what each section of the character sheet is for and why that character has those specific things selected or written. Then it also has several pre-printed blank character sheets in case you want to dive in to the 64-page Player's Guide and create a character from scratch. On top of that, it has a "What you can do on your turn" list of actions card for each player to keep handy.For the Game Master, there is another 64-page booklet that starts off with an annotated min-adventure similar to the one in Pathfinder Basic Set (very similar to, as in, this boss is "steel talon" not "black talon"). At each scene it explains how the GM would handle that type of scenario (such as, neutral NPC reactions, stealth, combat, skill checks, traps, and more). After that, the rest of the booklet is a little bit about the Pact Worlds setting, and a lot of advice for new GM's on how to create and run adventures, how to award experience, a mini-bestiary, and some "treasures" that aren't listed in the gear pages of the player's book, and etc.There's also a set of 6 polyhedral dice, and a pretty decent sized collection of cardboard pawns and bases which can be used to represent the player-character races and classes as well as the aliens and monsters from the bestiary. And lastly, there's a battle mat of 1" square grids that acts as the map for the pack-in adventure and on the back is a blank one that could be used for basically anything if you have dry-erase markers.That's a lot of value, really, and it all fits nicely in one box along with your own pencils and extra dice if desired, and you got yourself a nice easy to run as a one-shot to teach people how to RPG or how to specifically Starfinder. Not too shabby! Well played, Paizo. Well played.

If just getting into starfinder, avoid the core rulebook and buy this instead. It's cheaper, has everything you need for a slightly simplified lvl 1-4 journey. It has a starter campaign, monster list, simple armory, spell lists, character sheets, DM guide book separate from the hero manual. In contrast, the core rulebook has player info only and is more expensive. Once I knew the players were into the game (and got to level 4) I bought the core manual. I don't regret it. The stuff in this pack will still be useful once we hit level 5, with action reference cards and the DM manual has easy refs for diy monsters.

Excellent boxed starter set. Components are top notched. I would have given a 5 rating except some of the pawns have printing outside of the actual pawns.