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Owlcat hiring to develop a turn-based sci-fi RPG

LannTheStupid

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Translation: "Owlcat Games (the creators of Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous) are looking for a Lead / Senior 3D Environment Artist for a new unannounced project (a turn-based CRPG in SciFi setting)."
 

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looks like they are developing a Starfinder CRPG.

Isn't star-finder a mess or has it gotten better/more clarified?

Though I suppose if true it'll be the closest thing to a new Spelljammer game I'm ever going to get.
It was a mess last time I checked. (I wanted to say hot garbage, but that's probably too harsh). It's been a while since I did check though. I don't know if they've since patched it with a Starfinder 1.5 version, I never bothered with it again. And its problems make it uniquely unsuited to a videogame adaptation ala Kingmaker. Pathfinder proper is mechanically sound but has a crappy worldbuilding and story writing. Owlcat was able to improve on those issues while adapting the mechanics largely faithfully. But Starfinder has issues with its mechanics too. I hope to god it's not Starfinder they're developing, or that they got the ok to make a not-faithful adaptation if it is.
 

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looks like they are developing a Starfinder CRPG.

Isn't star-finder a mess or has it gotten better/more clarified?

Though I suppose if true it'll be the closest thing to a new Spelljammer game I'm ever going to get.
It was a mess last time I checked. (I wanted to say hot garbage, but that's probably too harsh). It's been a while since I did check though. I don't know if they've since patched it with a Starfinder 1.5 version, I never bothered with it again. And its problems make it uniquely unsuited to a videogame adaptation ala Kingmaker. Pathfinder proper is mechanically sound but has a crappy worldbuilding and story writing. Owlcat was able to improve on those issues while adapting the mechanics largely faithfully. But Starfinder has issues with its mechanics too. I hope to god it's not Starfinder they're developing, or that they got the ok to make a not-faithful adaptation if it is.

Yeah, Starfinder is garbage and doesn't have any classic APs. It tries to do an all class features are taken as talents (like d20 Moderns base classes or PF's magus arcana) but they all suck so horribly most characters are stuck shooting. They managed to make equipment progression worse than WBL, which is impressive, by making it so you flat out can't buy anything too high level with arbitrary handwave (you get better permits/connections, just ignore the aliens whose entire thing is being unscrupulous arms dealers).
 

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TB scifi RPG is incline. I have faith Owlcat will be able to make it fun, even if whatever underlying rules system they use need to be tweaked.
 

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I do hope Owlcat break off from Pathfinder, now that they've gotten a solid reputation. Make new cool stuff! Make Noonverse RPG!
 

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I'll give Owlcat my permission to start doing something different from Pathfinder: Kingmaker clones only after they have already adapted every single Pathfinder module in existence. Everything, even "We Be Goblins!".

We waited so long for a faithful Pathfinder adaptation, now they have to give us the full package.
 

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Actually, a game in one of the worlds of Russian sci-fi writers would be good. There is no ready-to-use game system, though, so they will have to improvise.
 

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Kingmaker works because it's based on an already established RPG system. Seeing what Owlcat did with their own spin on the kingdom management card-based system, I think they really should stick to Pathfinder rules.
 

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Some say Outer worlds is sci-fi post-Solzhenitsyn-Huxley's game. Can russians do it better?
I hate to break it to you, but Solzhenitsyn was, indeed, Russian. Also, Russian sci-fi in the 90's was at least as good as American, and for me, as a Russian, much better. After all, American mentality is really alien.
What was there in good Russian sci-fi recently? The last thing I distinctly remember reading is Lukyanenko's Rough Draft, and then it's a dark haze of numerous popadntsy novels.
 

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Most likely 40k imo. It's a very famous setting that you can use almost for free.

Starfinder is another option but the system is a mess and not very popular even among Paizo fans.
 

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