Thoughts on Starfinder?

[Beelzebub1111]

If you are looking at star wars stuff, I have to recommend d6 Star Wars. (REUP version is the most recent). It's, overall, a very basic system with depth of customizability. It really is the best for running games in the star wars universe.

If they want something more on a personal scale, I recommend Traveller. If I were to describe the vibes It's kind of like Firefly, traveling from world to world doing general heroics while trying to turn a profit and being the big damn heroes.

[DrMartin]

if they like star wars, and don´t like dnd, you could give Scum and Villainy a try. It does, in my opinion, Star Wars kind of shenanigans/storylines better than any of the licensed star wars rpgs. There´s plenty of people reviewing the game on youtuve to give you an idea, and the discord community of blades in the dark has a Scum and Villainy dedicated section.

Is a game built as a hack of blades in the dark, a far cry from dnd style games. Quicker conflict resolution, no separate system for combat, more player agency. As a GM you are expected to react more and prepare less.

And about Starfinder: if you enjoy Pathfinder-style game, is fine. It does require overspecializing, as some other mentioned already upthread. Worse offender of this in our games: the KAC+8 as the baseline for combat maneuvers. Means no trying fun stuff in combat except trading blows to deplete hp, unless you have invested every single character resource in a specific maneuver.