Should I Return To Starfinder For Future Supplements?

I've been writing game supplements for a pretty long while now, and I've covered a lot of different games in my time. I've written things that can be used with Pathfinder, Dungeons and Dragons, Call of Cthulhu, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Vampire: The Masquerade, Changeling: The Lost, Mage: The Awakening, Geist: The Sin Eaters, Zweihander, Castles and Crusades, and probably one or two other systems if I really scrolled through my archive item-by-item.

However, it's been a while since I've done something specifically for Starfinder. And since I'm dipping a toe back into a lot of games and worlds I've taken a break from for a while, I thought that I'd see whether this is something you all would actually like to see me expand on!

Come weigh in, because your opinion makes a difference!

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My Starfinder Journey So Far

I'll be the first to admit, Starfinder is one of those games I return to occasionally rather than one of my mainstays. That said, my first ever sci-fi RPG supplement was 100 Characters You Might Meet In A Starport. It came out in the early part of 2019, and since then it's managed to hit Gold metal status on Drive Thru RPG. I didn't write anything else that was specifically Starfinder compatible until earlier this year, when 100 Station Security Officers dropped, to a pretty decent overall release.

It's still at Copper status, though, so grab a copy if you haven't!

Now, that's not to say in the 6 years between these two supplements that I didn't write any more sci fi stuff. In fact, folks familiar with my archive know that I've put out a pretty steady stream of sci fi supplements, with titles like 100 Sci Fi Mercenary Companies, 100 Knightly Orders For A Sci Fi Setting, and even the rather unusual 100 Sci Fi Bands for folks who want to know what artist is playing in this cantina in the midst of a hive of scum and villainy.

Now, there were a little over a dozen general use sci fi supplements between the two Starfinder compatible ones, and the reason for that is that it seems like most sci fi settings have their own species, their own timelines, and their own unique quirks to them, so it becomes difficult to make something that's still applicable to several different systems the way it is in fantasy games. After all, if you have an NPC list with elves, dwarves, and orcs in it, that will cover a rather large variety of different fantasy RPGs and settings... but unless you're making something specific to Star Trek, you can't really put in Klingons, and unless you're in the grim darkness of Warhammer 40K you can't have a list of tau and their allied species, and so on, and so forth.

However, there are only so many general use things you can make supplements about (especially when you don't want to duplicate what other writers have already done for your publisher). I've covered secret societies, knightly orders, bands, mercenary companies, gangs, cults... and while NPC lists and plot hooks are always something of a crowd pleaser, and I steered away from them specifically because I'd have to nail down the particulars of what universe these are meant to be used for.

And that's why I wanted to check-in with my regular readers this week. Because I've got plenty of ideas, but I want to test which direction the wind is blowing before I commit to something. And since I'm currently editing the audio drama for Showdown At Site 33 (the opening fiction for the security officers supplement mentioned above), I figured I'd ask folks before I get too far into other projects!

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