Starfinder RPG 2E: Starfinder Player Core Pocket Edition

Starfinder RPG, 2e: Starfinder Player Core, Pocket Edition

The Starfinder Player Core Pocket Edition is the definitive entry point for Starfinder Second Edition, with everything a player needs to learn how to play the game! Choose from 10 ancestries, six character classes, and hundreds of feats and spells to create unique characters ready to take on a ruthless galaxy awash with magic and opportunity. Starfinder Player Core Pocket Edition brings the Starfinder RPG into its new edition and is now 100% compatible with the acclaimed Second Edition of the hit Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Along with GM Core and Alien Core, these books provide a new foundation for the future of tabletop gaming! 

The pocket edition presents the same contents as the standard edition in a smaller sized softcover for a lower price and better portability.

Starfinder Player Core Pocket Edition includes: 

• Complete character creation rules, walking you through building a character by selecting your Ancestry, Background, and Class, with a focus on the envoy, mystic, operative, solarian, soldier, and witchwarper classes!
• Core ancestry options include android, barathu, human, kasatha, lashunta, pahtra, shirren, skittermander, vesk, and ysoki! 
• A vast catalogue of options allowing you to customize your character including versatile heritages, like the undead borai and Drift-touched prismeni, skills and feats, and hundreds of spells, ensuring that the character you build represents your hero not just in story, but in rules as well! 
• A primer on the Pact Worlds and wider galaxy, so your character can be a part of an exciting and diverse setting! 
• Rules and tools to advance your character through play, taking them from a fresh-faced adventurer ready to take on the world to a veteran hero, wielding powerful magic that can 

Sales Points

• Smaller size, lighter weight, and increased portability make Starfinder Pocket Editions an ideal choice for gamers on the go or on a budget. Perfect for convention and in-store play!
• The invaluable “must have” rules resource for all Starfinder Second Editon players!
• The cornerstone rulebook of the new Starfinder RPG offers players a new way to get in on the ground floor and retailers a new “evergreen” title tied into all subsequent Starfinder Second Edition releases.
• New streamlined presentation designed to be friendly to new players.
• Beautiful full-color illustrations on nearly every page. 
• Extensive marketing support throughout 2025 and beyond. 
• New rules sanctioned in Paizo’s international Starfinder Society Organized Play program, with monthly free-to-retailer adventures for tens of thousands of players worldwide.

Writers: Jessica Catalan, Thurston Hillman, Jenny Jarzabski, Mike Kimmel, Dustin Knight

Size: 8.4" x 6.5"

Page Count: 464

Format: Softcover, full color

Comparison Titles

• PZO12001-PE: Pathfinder RPG: Pathfinder Player Core Pocket Edition (P2) 978-1-64078-556-4
• PZO22001-HC: Starfinder RPG: Starfinder Player Core 978-1-64078-686-8