Damien Mammoliti is a renowned cartographer and illustrator specializing in science-fantasy settings. He has significantly contributed to the Starfinder role-playing game by creating detailed Flip-Mats that enhance gameplay. Notable works include the "Urban Sprawl Flip-Mat," depicting futuristic cityscapes, and the "Living Starships Flip-Mat," featuring plant-based and bio-engineered starships.

Damien Mammoliti

Czepeku creates high-quality sci-fi maps, many of which are perfect for Starfinder campaigns. They offer both free and paid content through their Patreon, including starships, space stations, and alien environments.

Czepeku

Remko Troost, also known as Okmer, is a concept artist and illustrator renowned for his work on the Assassin's Creed series. He has created cover and interior art for multiple Starfinder publications, including the Core Rulebook and Alien Archive series.

Remko Troost

Graey Erb

Graey Erb is an illustrator and concept artist who has contributed to Starfinder with character illustrations and concept art, enriching the game's diverse universe.

Pixoloid Studios is a collective of artists who have worked on various Starfinder projects, providing illustrations that expand the game's visual world with characters, vehicles, props, and environments.

Pixoloid Studios

Jason Juta is an illustrator and concept artist whose work includes character illustrations and concept art for Starfinder, contributing to the game's rich visual storytelling.

Jason Juta

Starfinder is a science-fantasy tabletop roleplaying game of starships and space magic based on the rules of Pathfinder 1st Edition. Players take on the role of fantastical adventurers to sail the stars, take on jobs, fight monsters, and explore alien planets.

A Starfinder character is a combination of a species, which might be a human, an alien being or a fantasy creature like an elf or dwarf; a class, an archetype like the hardy Soldier, space wizard Mystic, or stellar-powered Solarian; and a character concept detailing their personality and backstory. Players assign values to their character’s core attributes and ranks to their skills to shape what they specialize in, and choose abilities and gear to complement them. Starfinder and other games from its publisher, Paizo, are famous for the degree of character customization available to players.

Obviously this will vary from table to table, but here are some good places to start! If your game is played in person, most likely you will want to get a set of dice, something to write with, and paper to take notes. 
If your game is hosted online instead, you will probably need to make accounts on a few sites for things like character sheets, access to the Virtual Tabletop for maps and tokens, and sites like Discord or Zoom for video/voice calls during the session. 
You won't always need to have the rulebooks to start, but if you want to read through them to make sure you know all the rules, this might also be a good option.

What supplies do I need to play Starfinder?

Knowing every rule of the game may be helpful to some, but many players will learn the game as they play! If you want to read the rules ahead of time you absolutely can, but if you are a hands-on learner you can also just start playing, and if there is something you don’t understand never be afraid to ask questions, because everyone starts somewhere!

Do I need to know all the rules before I can play Starfinder?

While Starfinder will involve some level of basic math, particularly if you are totaling up dice rolls or skill modifiers on your character sheet, you don’t need to be a mathematician to enjoy the game. The books provide tables and simple tools to make the math as simple as possible, and if you are playing online, many Virtual Table Tops will take care of all the math for you, right on your character sheet, so you can focus on playing!

Do I need to be good at math to play Starfinder?

Starfinder’s core mechanic is rolling a 20-sided die, adding any bonuses or modifiers from a character’s skills, and comparing the result to a target number to determine if a given action succeeds or fails. A character’s abilities come from a combination of their ancestry, class, attributes, and training, all of which players can fully customize from a sprawling selection of options. Starfinder also contains robust rules for fighting monsters and other adversaries, shipbuilding, ship combat, spacefaring adventure, and landing planetside to explore alien locales.

How to play Starfinder

Gather a crew of expert spacefarers, with a diverse set of origins and skills, get a ship and fly the stars! Starfinder is a tabletop roleplaying game, or TTRPG, of heroic science-fantasy adventure. Players take on the roles of fantasy creatures familiar or alien, and adopt one of over a dozen character classes with various skills and powers, from the battle-hardened Soldier and savvy Mechanic, to the space-wizard Mystic and stellar-powered Solarian! One player, the Game Master (GM) plays as the rest of the vast universe, including the player characters’ allies and opposition, and presents scenarios and obstacles for them to overcome. 

The players decide on a course of action using their characters’ skills, magic spells, or equipment—the only limit on what they can attempt is their imagination! Often, they’ll need to roll dice to find out whether they succeed or fail. But no matter what, the players’ choices result in a unique story of which they are both author and audience. For this reason, TTRPGs are often considered games of collaborative storytelling.
