Starfinder Society Guide

Greetings, Starfinder!

Welcome to the Guide to Organized Play: Starfinder Society!

The Guide is the home for campaign rules specific to the Starfinder Society (SFS) organized play campaign. The Guide is available in the form of this website or as a single page. To print or get a PDF of the Guide, follow the link.

Both active Guides have the same structure following the reorganization of the Pathfinder Society Guide. The Guides each have the following sections:

• Core Guide: the rules everyone needs for PFS Organized Play
• Player Options and Tools: additional rules players can choose to use
• GM Options and Tools: additional rules GMs can choose to use
• Supplemental Materials: reference materials, including lists of current and retired Boons

Resources

• Pregenerated Characters

• Welcome to SFS Boon

• Character Options allowed for Starfinder Society play

• FAQ / Errata updates and revisions to Starfinder rulebooks

• Organized Play regions
  • contact a Regional Venture-Coordinator (RVC) for help finding games and more

Quick Links

• Single-page Guide
• Print or get a PDF

• Character Creation
• Supplemental Materials (boons, retired options, etc.)

• Completing Chronicles (for GMs post-adventure)

Recent changes

full change log

• 30 July 2024 — v7.02
  • Core Guide:
    • Renamed Guide to official title: Guide to Organized Play: Starfinder Society - First Edition
    • Key Terms: Added "What are Achievement Points (AcP)?" section
    • Filling Out a Chronicle: Added reminder PCs with uncleared permanent afflictions are reported as dead & retired from play
    • Dealing With Interruptions: Revised & clarified
  • Player Options and Tools: Clarified credit for Boon checkboxes for mid-sized adventures
  • Supplemental Materials: expanded and re-organized

• 4 June 2024 — v7.01
  • Core Guide:
    • Special Cases: Re-added and clarified text on partial credit when players leave a game
  • Supplemental Materials
    • Achievement Points Boon List: Added newly announced Boons (Finitrium Augmentations & First Ones Scholar)

Campaign Rules Outside the Guide

• Starfinder rules online - Free and officially licensed

• Starfinder FAQ & Errata - Clarifications and changes to published books

• Starfinder Society Character Options - What options from each book you can use & which books you need to own to use them

• Starfinder Society FAQ - Clarifications and rulings for the Starfinder Society campaign

• Paizo Organized Play policies - Community standards, event & retail support, playtesting

• Paizo Organized Play Accessory Perks & Promotional Boons - Small bonuses for related merch

See you in the Pact Worlds & beyond! Explore, Report, Cooperate!

SFS Guide Version 7.02
30 July 2024

Single Page Layout   ·   Change Log   ·   Quick Links

Welcome Kits

Organized Play Onboarding Tools & Resources

From your Onboarding Committee:

We are here to make it easier to start playing, running, or organizing Paizo Organized Play games.

Our goal is to provide streamlined tools or guidance for new players, new GMs, new Venture Officers with links to existing more in-depth materials. We are open to suggestions on what tools and information would be useful. We are, however, limited by our volunteer roles in what we can do and what is appropriate for us to develop. We have no influence on rules, world building, adventures, or other official Paizo material, nor anything on the Paizo website. Nor can we make changes to the Organized Play program.

The following are examples of the tools we intend to develop:
- a guide to making your first level 1 player character with the initial resource books
- a guide to factions for the Pathfinder second edition campaign
- a guide to initiating GMing for Paizo Organized Play
- a guide to starting an Organized Play lodge

If you have suggestions to update existing Onboarding Committee created tools or for what would help you or others start and enjoy playing, running, or organizing Paizo Organized Play games please contact us at pfsonboardingchair@gmail.com or fill out a request form.

Welcome Kits

Every great journey starts with the right gear.
This section offers starter kits and guidance for players, Game Masters, Venture-Officers, and lodges stepping into the world of Pathfinder and Starfinder Society Organized Play.
New resources will continue to be added as we move through our process of creation, review, testing, revision, accessibility checks, and final publication.

Pathfinder 2e Welcome Kit

VERSION 0.1
Date: 4/24/2025

Welcome Letter

Download a Welcome Letter from Alex Speidel, Convention and Organized Play Manager at Paizo

Starfinder 2e Welcome Kit

Coming Soon!

New Venture-Officer Welcome Kit

Coming Soon!

New Lodge Welcome Kit

Coming Soon!

Venture Officer Information

The information on this page is intended primarily for Venture Officers to be able to carry out their duties. Players and GMs are free to read this information, but it is in no way required or needed to enjoy the game.

Venture Officer Handbook

The VO Handbook will continue to be revised based on changes to requirements or requests for updates from the Venture-Officer Corps.