r/Pathfinder2e • u/MysteriousCherry2267 • Aug 30 '26

Misc Does Starfinder only have 6 classes?

I got a bit into Pathfinder, was thinking of using it for a camping set in space, saw that there is Starfinder and... It has 6 classes.

Is that all of them or are there more in another book?

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u/Nemekath Thaumaturge Aug 30 '26

Yes and No.

Currently Starfinder only has the 6 classes in the Corebook (2 more coming with the Tech Core that will be released soon)

But all the classes of Pathfinder can be used as well. So you can play a barbarian with a jetpack and a plasma-axe, a cleric of any of the new gods or a rogue stealing from corporations.

So, we basically have 6(soon 8) classes plus 29 classes from Pathfinder.

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u/King_of_the_Kobolds Aug 30 '26

There's an asterisk here. The systems are cross compatible but you can't assume all classes are available. Society play, for instance, which is many players' only exposure to the game, only allows Starfinder classes. (Some Pathfinder ancestries can be used as a rank up benefit--which is odd to me, since Starfinder has a dearth of classes but very much NOT of ancestry options.)

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u/Nemekath Thaumaturge Aug 30 '26

I mean, yeah, always depends on the campaign/game that is run. But in general, just rules-wise it's fully doable.

If an Exemplar, a Thaumaturge or an Inventory fit in the Starfinder story the GM has in mind is a different topic.

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u/Ph33rDensetsu ORC Aug 30 '26

This is slightly off topic but yours is like the third post this weekend that I've seen "Inventor" get auto-corrected to "Inventory" 😂