Review: Starfinder Second Edition Player Core

While this book is not structured in the best possible way to teach a newbie how to play Starfinder Second Edition, the fact of the matter is that this is a reference book. One might use it one time to learn how to play or, perhaps more likely, one will learn from YouTube videos, a Beginner’s Box product or being taught by friends around the table.

As a reference book, the Player Core is very well organized. It has the most likely stuff that the player would look up (character creation) up front. Based on how I’ve consulted the Player books for Tales of the Valiant and D&D, this is the most likely use for the book.

As with any TTRPG manual/reference book I would recommend skimming it at least once. Then as the player and/or GM gains more experience they can come back and re-read various sections to better understand the concepts after having seen them in action.

Finally, compared to other TTRPG books, Paizo uses nice, thick paper. I had to keep checking the page numbers because I was sure I had some pages stuck together because they were so thick compared to other publishers.

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